Collecting Vinyl records - A Personal History

This is a very personal look at collecting vinyl records, with references to many artists, but with particular mention of:
The Shadows - Apache
The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do is Dream
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
Blondie
Squeeze
Toyah
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
The Fall
The Dead Kennedy's
The Buzzcocks
The Birthday Party
The Television Personalities,
The Barracudas
The Smiths
10,000 Maniacs
Family Fodder - My Baby Takes Valium
Animals and men - The Terraplane Fixation
The Wasps - Rubber Cars
The Instant Automatons - Peter Paints His Fence
The Mob - Witch Hunt by The Mob
Oxy and the Morons - Nice to be Back
The Cramps - Garbageman
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Television - Marquee Moon
The Gun Club
Bo Diddley
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Kraftwerk
The Cocteau Twins.
Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet and Force the Hand of Chance
The Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band - Keynsham
The Doors
The Velvet Undergound
Pulp - Little Girl With Blue Eyes
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
The Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
Sonic Youth - Sister and Daydream Nation
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Stars of the Lid - And their Refinement of the Decline
P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Farewell Poetry - Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite
Sinead O'Connor - How About I Be Me (and you be you)