by Jeff Tweedy
First published 2017
Eric Spitznagel faces a midlife crisis with his marriage crumbling and finances in ruins. The freelance journalist decides to track down the exact vinyl records he once owned and sold to make ends meet. He refuses copies or reissues. He wants his specific Bon Jovi album that survived a near-fatal car crash, where he wrote his first girlfriend's phone number. He needs back his KISS Alive II record that sparked fights with his brother. He must recover his Replacements Let It Be album that once hid his marijuana stash. Spitznagel launches a quixotic campaign through record stores, vinyl fairs, college radio stations, frantic eBay bidding wars, and dusty basements packed with albums. These hilarious memoirs follow a vinyl addict with Peter Pan syndrome as he attempts to reclaim a past embedded in the scratches and marks of his records, refusing to fade into the digital chaos of the new millennium.
Genres: addiction, memoir, music, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, nostalgic
Tropes: midlife-crisis, quixotic-quest
304 pages · Paperback · Contra