LPs

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I don't know how it started I suppose it was about the tenth grade I never bought much music I just listened to whatever was played But there was classic rock there on the radio and it was blowing my mind And it was all the records no one wanted now so they were easy to find So I started getting LPs They only cost a little. And these LPs Are all the ones I needed from the sixties With all the psychedelic art on all the great sleeves Much cooler and much cheaper than the CDs And that's the way I caught the disease I caught the disease for LPs There wasn't any internet, a lot of the times you just took a shot Pretty soon you figured out what records would be awesome or not If the year was from the sixties, it was probably good bang for your buck If the year was from the eighties, it was guaranteed to totally suck I started learning about the LPs At that time education just cost low fees Three dollars for this Dylan record, oh yes, please And The Cream, and Rolling Stones, and Arlo Guthrie A giant treasure trove all for pennies And that's how I caught the disease I caught the disease for LPs By 1994, I had completed all my Zeppelin and Floyd (Zeppelin and Floyd) I had all the early Traffic but their later stuff just made me annoyed (made me annoyed) You realize that the radio just scratches at the top of the dirt (top of the dirt) When four bucks can buy you Crown of Creation with the lyric insert So I had a lot of LPs My friends were mostly clueless, it was just me In an ocean of cheap vinyl like a black sea I hardly had an income but it was easy An awesome world awaited with a cheap key And sometimes in the garbage, they were just free And that's how I caught the disease I caught the disease for LPs And then the nineties ended and I wasn't no teenager no more (teenager no more) But I started getting shakes when I would pass any used record store (used record store) I got the finger muscles you develop when you flip through a stack (flip through a stack) Crate digging for the cheap and obscure and there was no turning back A total junkie for the LPs And nothing in the world was gonna help me You'd see me quit no sooner than see hell freeze And there was nothing like the thrill of getting lucky I'd be flying five sheets to the breeze 'Cause the world was still awash in LPs And I still had the disease for LPs Nowadays, that stuff is so expensive, I don't bother to try Everything's reissued and plus everything is priced really high The field is overcrowded, it's impossible to get a good fix So I walk right past the records and flip through all the used compact disks Yeah nowadays it's mostly CDs No wants to keep them so there's plenty Folk, and Punk, and Prog, Bluegrass and Rap, and Indie Bonus tracks and liner notes are just empty As long as I could still make a good discovery I still got that music hunger disease That disease I caught from LPs When they were dirt cheap in the 1990s Whatever people don't want that the time to get it Take a chance on something it might blow your mind And if it's cheap there's less chance you'll regret it No more frowning at my stacks, because of all the stupid albums I used to try Nowadays, looking back, I just regret the ones I didn't buy