Nick Hornby Quote
The best customers are the ones who just have to buy a record on a Saturday, even if there's nothing they really want; unless they go home clutching a flat, square carrier bag, they feel uncomfortable. You can spot the vinyl addicts because after a while they get fed up with the rack they are flicking through, march over to a completely different section of the shop, pull a sleeve out from the middle somewhere, and come over to the counter; this is because they have been making a list of possible purchases in their head (If I don't find anything in the next five minutes, that blues compilation I saw half an hour ago will have to do), and suddenly sicken themselves with the amount of time they have wasted looking for something they don't really want.
The best customers are the ones who just have to buy a record on a Saturday, even if there's nothing they really want; unless they go home clutching a flat, square carrier bag, they feel uncomfortable. You can spot the vinyl addicts because after a while they get fed up with the rack they are flicking through, march over to a completely different section of the shop, pull a sleeve out from the middle somewhere, and come over to the counter; this is because they have been making a list of possible purchases in their head (If I don't find anything in the next five minutes, that blues compilation I saw half an hour ago will have to do), and suddenly sicken themselves with the amount of time they have wasted looking for something they don't really want.
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