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I bought it for £5.

It could be worth £150 -£200.

I'm going to a record fair and you're coming with me so that you can hear some everyday natural English.

The problem is I've forgotten where it is so I'll have to ask for directions.

Those lads look like they might know a little about music so I'll ask them.

Excuse me, can you point me in the right direction of the record fair?

Sure, it's over there.

Cheers.

No problem.

Hi, I'm Steve.

Oh, this looks like the way.

And here we are at the record fair.

This is a temporary event where people come to buy and sell music records, or as some people call them, vinyl.

It's early doors so it's not exactly heaving.

Let's start at the far end and work our way back.

Just pass this man on the phone.

Excuse me.

Now, what are the flogging on this stall?

You can see a selection of sew -on patches.

I like these and as you can see they're all related to music.

Some are bands like

Led Zeppelin and others are record companies such as Sun Records.

Most if not all of these are what we'd call old school, in other words bands from a long time ago.

Next to these patches we have some metal badges with pins.

These are really nice and only four quid each so not pricey at all.

Now these are for putting around a can of drink.

They call them Cozies.

Again they all have band names on them.

I wasn't really expecting this.

CDs.

Some of them unused.

My last car didn't even come with a CD player, only a place to put in a flash drive with music on it.

Check out this label that tells us that this box is full of records in the music style of of ska, mod and punk.

This type of music was at its height of popularity in the 60s and 70s.

Next we have classic rock, so bands such as Deep Purple and Pink Floyd like this.

These bands were typically very loud.

Of course the most famous of all, the Beatles, who came from here in Liverpool.

Just a minute, they look like the lads who gave me directions earlier.

What was the first record you ever bought?

My first record I ever bought?

The Boomtown Rats.

You had great taste. And you?

My first record I ever bought was The Who, Who's Next.

How long have you been selling records?

At the fares?

About six months.

Yeah, about six months.

About six months at the fares.

Where'd you get them from to sell?

We buy collections of people that have inherited them or just clearing out the loft.

Or house clearances and stuff like that.

Have you ever found a hidden treasure amongst what you buy?

I'd say that

Beatles rubber sole, loud cut.

The Beatles loud cut.

I didn't realise it was that.

I bought it for £5.

It could be worth £150, £200 pounds so yeah

and also uh electric ladyland that's at ladyland yeah yeah

that's value of like four to five hundred pounds yeah jimmy and yeah that's that's a me personal collection

not for sale that got commandeered yeah i see you have some unusual records here

now i don't know my arse from my elbow

when it comes to jazz same here yeah so do you specialise in any particular genre?

We kind of do a mix of everything really, don't we?

Yeah, we try to cover everything.

But, I mean, mine sort of specialty really is like 60s and 70s, 70s prog.

He likes Pink Floyd.

Yeah, so all that sort of prog era I really like.

So I know quite a lot about that.

The rest of the stuff, it's just run of the mill.

Obviously, you know, soul and funk and disco and 12 inches, 7 inches, everything.

He sends the like different stuff to me so it works well.

Yeah.

Because I like ska and...

Yeah, and reggae and all that, don't you?

So between the two of us it works.

Some madness.

Madness, ska.

2 -2.

2 -2, yeah.

Do you sell any records by up -to -date bands?

We still stock it.

We still have bits of that, but it's not something that we sort of...

We're learning.

Yeah, it's a learning curve with that sort of stuff.

And new stuff like indie and the noughties era sort of thing.

I have to be honest with you.

I threw my record player away over 30 years ago.

And so coming here has really opened my eyes.

Oh yeah, it's coming back.

Yeah, yeah.

You find a lot of young ones, the parents, get the vinyl down out the loft and then they start playing it,

then they get interested in it and then they're like, I want to buy this because my dad listens to this.

And then the dad borrows them the records.

You get the bug.

Yeah.

Once you get the bug.

It's a generation thing.

And then when you say to the young ones, what's your go to?

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Well, my dad listens to, so I listen to that.

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Exactly.

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So it's just like following the same football team as your dad does.

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It rubs off on you, doesn't it?

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Yeah.

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If you could only ever listen to just one record that's here for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?

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It's got to be the Holly's greatest hit, doesn't it?

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Oh, yeah.

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The Holly's greatest hits.

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The Holly's greatest hits.

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Yeah.

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It's fabulous.

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Absolutely amazing.

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Fabulous record.

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But we're in Liverpool and they're from Manchester.

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It's not about where they're from.

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It's that album.

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I don't know what it is about that album.

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We don't stop playing it, do we?

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Thanks for your time.

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Welcome, no problem.

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What was your first record you ever bought?

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The first record I ever bought was Jethro Tull, Stand Up.

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Cool. And you?

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She's more into like reggae and stuff.

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I'm more of a rock person.

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The first single I ever bought was Roy Orbison, Pretty Woman.

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And I was only about 15 or 16.

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How do you replenish your stock?

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I'm retired now.

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It's just old stock that's been lying around the house.

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If you were going to a desert island and could only take one record with you, what one would you take?

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Ooh, that's a difficult one.

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Probably Genesis when Peter Gabriel was with them.

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They did something called Stagnation

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and I saw them do it live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester

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and I just thought it was just the best thing ever.

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So I'd take that with me, I think.

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What's the priciest record you've ever sold?

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A couple of hundred pounds.

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And what's the most expensive one you're selling today?

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Nothing too expensive today, probably £20.

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Do you ever sell records that have been autographed?

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Occasionally, but now that I'm retired, I mean, it's only in the last 12 months that I've had a bit of a renaissance.

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You know, probably after retirement, I didn't do anything for 10 years.

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So I've stopped buying records.

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Thanks for taking the time to talk to me today.

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Nice to meet you.

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Hi, I'm Steve.

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What's your name?

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My name's Cliff.

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Hi Cliff, where are you from?

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Liverpool.

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What's the very first record you ever bought?

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Oh, erm, Queen Boheme Rhapsody.

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And was that the first one you bought with your own pocket money?

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No, the first one was Billy Joel, erm, Uptime Girl.

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How long have you been selling records?

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Oh, 40 years.

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Let me just get a close -up of this.

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How much would something like this cost?

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That's like £45 in the shops.

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And how much would it have been originally?

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That is a reproduced one.

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So original one of filler in the shops and

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when it first being released would it be about four

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or five pounds initially being released

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but now to buy it now you're looking at 45 pounds

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so it's an investment so the records the older records are investments

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so if you get an old record and you can get a better investment.

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Especially more picture discs of the older groups.

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But records get scratched and damaged.

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You do, it's looking after them.

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You've got to look after them.

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Take care of them.

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If you don't, it's detrimental to the value.

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Yes.

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Obviously the worst condition is the less the value.

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What if the artist has signed it?

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That's a way for a lot, yeah.

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But then you have to prove that it's been signed by the artists.

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You have to be careful so there's a lot of items being signed

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which are not genuine i got offered a queen bohemian rhapsody reissue signed by freddie mercury

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that's clearly not a proper one because freddie mercury had died at

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that time and freddie mercury's signature is on that that record and the dearest record you have on sale today

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With me today probably would be Radiohead.

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That's here.

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That one there.

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How much is that going for?

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That would be £10 there in the shops.

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But I've got it priced.

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Wow, 35 quid is a bit steep.

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That's a triple LP, a Raziohead.

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What's the most you've ever sold one for?

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£250, that was a Rolling Stones one.

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All these are LPs.

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Don't you sell singles?

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I used to sell singles, but there are many more LPs.

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Have you ever unearthed any special finds?

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Well I found one in the charity shop for £2 and that was a Rolling Stones one as well.

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That was £108 I sold that one for.

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That was in the charity shop so I knew how much it was worth

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so I gave the charity shop more of a donation.

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Did your heart skip a beat?

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It did.

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When I was saying I went you can't have that for £2

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so I said I've got to buy that for £2 but I'll give donations.

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I gave a donation to the charity.

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Do you mainly sell middle of the road stuff?

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I do have a few bits of jazz stuff.

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Miles Davis is in there, so that's in there as well.

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I've got to admit, I'm clueless when it comes to music like this.

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Can you make a living, or is it pin money?

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It's one of them, you get profits and then that profit goes back onto more records,

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so you're selling your profit in a sense you don't really say much um of anything by way of profit

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so it's more of a hobby listen thanks very much for you i really appreciate it mate cheers

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tell us all about the first record you ever bought first record i ever bought uh

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I think it was Adam and the Ants, Ant Rap.

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So we were about 82.

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The first music I bought was The Jungle Book on cassette.

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I remember buying that from Woolworths in Bootle.

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I loved that.

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When I started doing this again, I found a copy of The Jungle Book on vinyl, so I've kept that back because it's nostalgia, really.

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Have you always been a record dealer?

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No, I've only started, well, about 12 months ago, uh i took redundancy from a job what job lecturer

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so i was lecturing i've gone i'm doing still doing a bit of part -time lecturing now

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but i'm kind of hedging my bets with doing a bit of i've opened a shop in rainford

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so sunflower records um so i've been doing that

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and i still do a bit of lecturing on the side as well really

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so but i'd rather do more of this than than

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that really so i've been starting i started doing record fairs about over a year

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or so ago i've got a website got

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and now got a shop really so it's all been quite quick really so could you make a living doing this

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at the moment no that's why i'm doing more teaching as much teaching really

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so it's balancing kind of the two really so yeah

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so eventually hopefully i'd like to kind of make more of a living from it

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but it's kind of you know just got early days really

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so before you acquired a shop where did you store all these records well

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that was the problem because this was all so this

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and more was in my front room uh

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so i've got a very forgiving wife um

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and i've obviously taken more stuff on since the the shops opened um

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so yeah so

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but basically the units i've got in rainford i saw it as a glorified storage unit um

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but obviously i open up it's a shop so people can come in and browse the racks really.

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Do you specialise in any particular genre?

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Manure stuff.

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I'm kind of into my indie alternative stuff, so I get quite a lot of indie stuff.

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I'm a big

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Beatles fan, big Bunnymen fan.

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The shop is inspired by my love of Tear for Fears, so Sunflower Records is my kind of...

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That's the inspiration for the name.

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So they've just brought out another version of The Seeds of Love that came out for an album day.

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I haven't got it in just yet, but I'll probably get that in as well.

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So yeah, and a big fan of Tears of Fears really.

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Have you anything here that is eye -wateringly expensive? On sale now?

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Probably Depeche Mode.

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It came out round about the time when vinyl was kind of quite rare, really.

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So a lot of their albums would have come out on CD so

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Songs of Faith and Devotion

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so there was kind of like a limited kind of run of vinyl then but now everything comes out on

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well Fontaine's DC just come out and they're releasing stuff on I've got the vinyl,

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bringing it out on cassette as well and also CD so it's coming up, everything's coming out now on different formats really

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Is there more of a market for vinyl than say CDs or cassettes?

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Well it's funny because the vinyl boom started earlier

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and then cds have come back in the last few years

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so people were getting rid of cds

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and now they're they're becoming uh a kind of a sought after item really

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so i think people are kind of reacting to kind of streaming really they'd rather have the physical product

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so someone i know set up a uh a cassette label in the late sort of 2010s

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and i thought i i can see vinyl coming back

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but i couldn't see cassettes coming back

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but cassettes are coming back in a big way most bands now release across all formats whether it's uh streaming vinyl

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cassettes or on cd really so it's there for everyone

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and also as well when they release stuff in the first week

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or so what they tend to do is bundle stuff

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so you're a big collector even if you're not listening

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because the cassette they'll say buy our bundle of this rec this this new record

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so you've got it all on different formats really so it's it's

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that that collector collecting side is coming more to the fore really

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so i'm flabbergasted as someone who got rid of their record

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player ages ago yeah as well as their cd player it's funny whenever you go to record fairs

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or you go to shops you can people who come in

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and maybe not buying a record they go through

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and go oh I had that on vinyl

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and I got rid of it so no one goes into Marks

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and Spencer's and says oh I had that pair of underpants

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and I got rid of them really

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so it is kind of uh yeah you get their life story with it it's like oh I had

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that I had that on my nan bought me that

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or whatever or loads of things like that really

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so yeah there is some I think you can't say

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that about streaming oh I downloaded

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that record back in the day there's no no stories with it really

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so I'm old enough to remember going to the local library to borrow records oh yes

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that yeah that remember that the library doing that yeah yeah

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because i because my use of cassettes back in the day was doing stuff like

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that was going the library getting the latest release recording it taking the record back

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and listening to it on the cassette for a while really so yeah if you enjoy learning english like this?

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Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Real British English Conversations - intermediate level”. Las palabras que más se repiten: record, bought, shop, vinyl. Este vídeo tiene 299 frases y 2797 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 18:54. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 148 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 46 de sus 299 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
vinyl sustantivo	/ˈvaɪ.nɪl/	vinilo
charity sustantivo	/ˈtʃæɹɪti/	entidad benéfica, organización caritativa
format sustantivo	/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/	formato
lecture sustantivo	/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/	aleccionamiento, lectivo
donation sustantivo	/doʊˈneɪʃən/	donación, donativo
label sustantivo	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	etiqueta, rótulo
progressive sustantivo	/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/	progresista, progresivo
jazz sustantivo	/d͡ʒæz/	jazz
patch sustantivo	/pæt͡ʃ/	parche, cureta
genre sustantivo	/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/	género
cheers	/t͡ʃɪəz/	salud, chinchín
fabulous adjetivo	/ˈfæbjʊləs/	fantástico, fabuloso
retire verbo	/ɹəˈtaɪɹ/	jubilar
mercury sustantivo	/ˈmɜɹkjəɹi/	mercurio, azogue
borrow verbo	/ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/	pedir prestado, tomar prestado

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
come out verbo	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	revelarse, salir a la luz
bring out verbo		realzar, resaltar
check out verbo		investigar, chequear
come up verbo		salir a relucir
go through verbo		atravesar
stand up verbo		levantarse, ponerse de pie

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

Where'd you get them from to sell?
It rubs off on you, doesn't it?
We don't stop playing it, do we?
What's the priciest record you've ever sold?
What's the very first record you ever bought?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúa	have you been selling · that's been lying · i've been doing
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	I've forgotten · have inherited · Have you ever found
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	have been autographed · being released · been signed
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	someone who got · people who come

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 82 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I've, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: donation /doʊˈneɪʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, flash /flæʃ/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, popularity /ˌpɑ.pjəˈlæɹ.ə.ti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skip /skɪp/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/, steep /stiːp/, specialty /ˈspɛʃ.əl.ti/, stall /stɔːl/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vinyl /ˈvaɪ.nɪl/, progressive /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/, everyday /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/, forgive /fɚˈɡɪv/, curve /kɚv/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: jazz /d͡ʒæz/, cheers /t͡ʃɪəz/, lads /lædz/, desert /ˈdɛz.ɚt/, collections /kəˈlɛkʃənz/

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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