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# Relapse
- URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/relapse/
- Published: 2020-05-26T13:56:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-01T13:05:57.000Z
- Author: Matt
- Tags: Blog, Music

My name is Matt, and I’m a vinyl record addict.

Thats the first step, right?

I gave up a few years ago, seduced by access to all the music in the world - [just a click away,](http://spotify.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) I’m absolutely a user. My last.fm account tells me that I have listened to about 11000 tracks in the last year alone - thats a digital footprint.

When I moved to Ireland, I threw away a lot of records - but reserved about 1000 which I put into storage. A PVC heirloom. A time capsule. Streaming would do, I could listen to anything I wanted, whenever I wanted.

I lasted about a week - and then, exploring the city [I stumbled across a ‘secret’ record shop](https://www.dublintown.ie/business/the-secret-book-and-record-store/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk). A flip through the racks couldn’t hurt? No one ever relapses from ‘having a look’, do they?

Turns out they do - the first look in crates, turns into a trip around the various shops and sites that make up the vinyl scene in Dublin. There are some pretty good dealers here, and then online you can get *anything* you want.

It’s a very quick spiral back into addiction.

Turns out that the quick flip through the racks is a gateway drug to an *itch that cannot be scratched*. Not until you buy a new setup for listening to vinyl, and you start to feed your addiction again.

Now, the next step is to build my new ‘first 100 records’.

I have a way to go.