"Get on the vinyl train and learn about this captivating hobby
Vinyl Record Collecting For Dummies teaches you how to start a collection, grow your collection, and make that collection sound excellent. You'll learn how to shop for new, used, and rare records, and how to select the turntable that's right for you. Learn how to determine a record's value, build your collection on a budget, and properly store and maintain your records. This handy Dummies guide also gives you the background knowledge you'll need to hold your own in conversations with vinyl enthusiasts—all about music genres, the pros and cons of vinyl types, how records are made, and even the history of record collecting itself. Now you can start collecting rare records, new releases, and everything in between.
● Learn the basics of buying records at record shops, secondhand stores, and online
● Determine the value of your collection and learn how to recognize great deals
● Select the turntable and sound system that are right for your needs
● Explore the history of recorded music and learn why people are going wild for vinyl"
"There's No Bones in Ice Cream by Sylvain Sylvain is the inside story of glam heroes the New York Dolls—outrageous, defiant, sleaze kings, transgender posers, drug casualties, and victims, not just of their own excess but of an unsympathetic music industry that simply didn't know how to process them.
Sylvain, one of only two surviving members of the original New York Dolls, offers a fly-on-the-wall, sincere and often hilarious account of the rise and fall of the Dolls, the group that flew so close to the sun that they exploded in a fireball that lit the touch paper under punk rock.
Though their brief, sensation-filled yet doomed career produced just two albums, the Dolls exerted an influence on rock that changed it forever. A cross between the Rolling Stones and the Sex Pistols, the Dolls became the link in the chain between them, offering a crash course in mischief, cross-dressing, and anarchy, but like unheralded prophets of Biblical times they were cast aside until the world finally caught up.
'Other people turned the New York Dolls into legends. We just went along for the ride.'"
"GOT A MESSAGE THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR?
IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO WRITE, PUBLISH & LAUNCH YOUR INSPIRATIONAL BEST-SELLER
'Dave Thompson’s Inspirational Book Writers delivered on every promise. Need a creative and nurturing space to write in? – done. Need support, encouragement, collaboration and challenge to turn your book from a mess of ideas into a finished book? – done. Need to know how to market and launch your book and become an Amazon Best Seller? – done. I always thought it would be hard to write and publish a book. It wasn’t. It was far easier than I imagined and it’s because Dave and his team make it that way.'
STACEY ASHLEY, Award Winning Leadership Coach, LinkedIn Top Voice & Amazon Best Selling Author of The New Leader
Dave Thompson is a 5 time best-selling author, entrepreneur and the founder of Inspirational Book Writers.
Dave’s WRITE – PUBLISH – LAUNCH system has been used by hundreds of authors to write their book in a week, publish a high quality book 6 weeks later and become an international Amazon best-seller. He shows entrepreneurs how to expand their reach, authority, influence and impact using a best-selling book.
Since 2014, Dave has been the go-to teacher for coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who want to unearth the power of their message to accelerate their personal and business evolution. He works with clients that know their inspirational book is the key to their next level of income, impact, authority, influence and impact."
"STOP LIVING A BORING LIFE AND START LIVING OUTRAGEOUSLY
Are you staring down the barrel of a job (or life path) that you know is going to suck?
When was the last time you felt fully alive and invigorated, enthusiastic about life?
If the sloth of mediocrity is infecting your life, you need this book.
From the jail of the lawyer cubicle, to the freedom of a location independent entrepreneur, for the first time ever, Dave reveals how:
-To quit the job you hate, and fly to Texas on 4 days notice to set a world record for eating chocolate biscuits while crowd-surfing.
-To shed society's expectations, and go find your outrageous path; even if no one around you understands.
-To never stop exploring, and find out what you are capable of; in whatever pursuit that stirs your soul.
-To be a high-achiever, crush your goals AND experience all the peace, beauty and fulfillment of being a human 'being' on this planet.
-To heal the past, let go of limiting stories and step forward into a bright, fun, exciting future.
Revealing insights and distinctions at every turn, Dave's hilarious story-telling style will entertain and inspire you to bring more outrageous into your life.
Read this book, and become the Samurai of your own life."
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