Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Yesterdays £1 charity shop pickup - and from the first note you can hear why Townshend named that song for him... 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Limited license to copy a CD single, granted by @remhq.bsky.social The 90s were weird. 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026#nowplaying It's odd how, just occasionally, an unfashionable genre crosses over. This is certainly good - Earth is exceptional. But weird how everyone says "Yay! Kamasi Washington!" for six months and then it's "Ok, that's enough jazz for this decade, back to your regular scheduled programming" 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026GSV "Never Talk About Goblins" (eccentric) @cultureshipnames.bsky.social 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Dear Alanis Morissette, Van Morrison and Morrissey.... Would it kill you to standardise on how many R's and S's you want? Thanks, Album alphabetisers of the world 000
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Found in the charity shop: lovely selection of second wave feminist / lesbian folk music - mostly collectives and self released. #fuckthepatriarchy 011
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Is it good? No. Is it signed: To Jacqui, Cheers! Dennis Waterman. Yes, yes it is. #nowplaying 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 02/01/2026I don't recall having bought more than one or two copies of Mojo magazine in my life, but I seem to have picked up some cover discs here and there. 020
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026#nowplaying while reading Bill Molkowski's book on Jaco 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Apologies for the lateness of the hour #vinylsanta but this is so much up my alley. I have a different Horslips album on CD and enjoyed it immensely and Queen mainly at Live Aid, who could say no. Thank you very much 0231
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 29/11/2025#nowplaying Found at the bottom of a plastic box filled with (mostly awful) records. £3 the lot. Nice box. 020
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 28/11/2025#nowplaying Excellent cheap chazza pickup. Exactly what you need, if you like Scotsmen singing about shagging. 020
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Bought this because I like both Tom Paulin (the poet) and Kurt Vonnegut. I should have bought it because I love early Belle And Sebastian and don't really care if another band lift their sound wholesale. 000
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Very much enjoying this targeted ad I got on Facebook. Nothing says "Christmas" like a poster of Slayer's "Seasons In The Abyss" 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025"Mind you, they did make some of their best music back then." "Rumors?" "No, no, no, it's all true." 000
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Would these songs still move you if you don't know they were Van Morrison songs? Probably not, but he does such a sell job on each one that it doesn't matter 000
Reposted by Gareth Owen Vinyl Santa @vinylsanta.bsky.social · 05/11/2025🔔🔔🔔 #VinylSanta applications for 2025 are now live. Please see rules, regulations and directions below. 🎅 65121
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Genuinely still laughing at @grantbrisbee.bsky.social's Scent Of A Woman joke from last week's Roundtable 000
Reposted by Gareth Owen Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Elbows up, Canada. 14735201713263
Reposted by Gareth Owen John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/03/2025On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit 1284379015160
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Took an out-grown kids bike to the tip, and in the shipping container these were just sitting there... 020
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Today I became the first person in history to buy a J.Cole CD and a Chas&Dave CD in the same transaction 000
Reposted by Gareth Owen Brighter Day Record Shop @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025We made it onto BBC Sounds! The adventure of finding Vancouver resident Valerie, the person behind a 50 year old Voice-O-Graph, which I found in a collection last month, is on BBC Sounds. Thanks to @avavsystems.bsky.social for his work digitally restoring the audio. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukReunited with message sent home 70 years ago - BBC SoundsThe disc was recorded in New York in 1955 and posted back to Welwyn Garden City. 58010
Reposted by Gareth Owen Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Every 50 year old should get a free head torch on the NHS. That's roughly the age it's fucking impossible to read anything in less than intense sunlight. 91012
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Bought a couple of dubstep LPs because they were stupid cheap. Assumed they'd be like Skrillex.... They're not. Apparently, I like dubstep now. #musicsky 020
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Dipped into the collectibles at Emmaus, and oh my is this with £5. Taking me right back... #musicsky 010
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025This is quite astonishingly good - the mix of melodicism and invention just perfect. #musicsky 110
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025One of my favourite pieces of musical criticism is the old joke "Wagner has some beautiful moments and some terrible quarter hours"... On an unrelated note I am currently listening to disc 2 of Cream's "Wheels Of Fire". #musicsky #classicrock 040
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 31/12/2024#NowPlaying Some amazing Hawkwind infused prog from the recent haul. #musicsky A guy I knew at university used to play this to people buying weed from him, presumably to test their dedication... 210
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024As someone with a strong 70s prog/rock/proto-metal leaning, have just hit the charity shop CD motherlode... 110
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Ok, chaos briefly on pause, time for some #vinylsanta time... 081
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Playing a previous years #vinylsanta in preparation for this year... Just one of the many astonishing records I've received over the duration 1230
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024To my #vinylsanta... I'll be getting to it real soon... Just got the kids to bed, and finishing wrapping my wife's actual present... 030
Gareth Owen @gwowen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Ok, who's up for some kick-ass Shropshire sheep farming music ... #musicsky #topicrecords 040
