Christopher McCulloch Quotes

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

I like to buy records for people, make a present of the music.

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.

My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

I used to carry a bag of records down to my friend's house every Friday, and we'd sit down and play all the records I loved, and we'd look at the album covers.

I miss independent record stores very much.

Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.

I listen to a lot of Beatles. I have a very specific Beatles discography that I go to.

I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.

I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.

I'm the type, when I used to go to the record store I used to buy two or three copies of certain records so I've got a pretty large selection of a lot of 12 inches.

I have a beautiful collection of albums and try to frequent record stores.

I go to the local record store to buy my albums.

The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.

When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.

My brother gave me my first records when I was about 3 or 4 years old, because he bought a lot of records. And he was very nice because he gave me the records he thought I'd like more.

There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.

I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.