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“This shelf tells a very particular story about someone who buys deep and stays curious across three hundred eighty artists and three hundred two labels. The heavy presence of the 1970s at one hundred seventy records anchors the whole setup, while the 2010s runner-up spot at one hundred forty-seven shows you kept buying new music while everyone else was just arguing online about old pressings. Look at the streaks. A nine-record run from Howlin Rain alongside an eight-record block of early Queens of the Stone Age means you don't just sample an artist and walk away — you dig in until the bins run dry. Then you throw in thirteen records of Various Artists bridging the Hard Core Logo Soundtrack to Italian crime scores just to keep the counter guys guessing. It's a working stack. It's got twenty records credited to Various and six deep from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. No fluff, no obvious corporate nostalgia tour padding. Just six hundred records doing what they were pressed to do.”