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RUBEN: Artwork is an advantage of a vinyl record. The cover does something for me.
If you buy a record, first of all the band that made it is important...
A cover like this for example, appeals to the imagination.
It's great that it’s not a small CD, but a big vinyl record instead.
Or for example, 'Tres Hombres' by ZZ-Top that I brought.
I could’ve brought other records by ZZ-Top for the music but...
Here you go. Look. The extra value of records or double albums.
Now that’s what I call artwork.
PAUL: The first single I bought... I even had records of Conny Froboess.
That's a secret actually...
Although the cover was pretty, you know... with a cowboy hat.
I think that was the first time I got turned on. But that aside...
MARIO: Every Saturday morning, my friends and I would walk over there.
We would look through the window, at the records in the back of the shop.
Wow, They have the record of Deep Purple! Yes! ***...
We'd go inside and walk to the counter asking, 'Can we listen to this for a while?'
PAUL: Again!?
MARIO: The guy would put the record on for us, with a bored look.
We listened one by one... 'Amazing'! And we took turns on the headphones.
I counted my money... 'Damn, only 50 more BFranc and then I’ll have it!'
RUBEN: The advantage of record stores was, that the guys would get to know you after a while...
When you'd come in, they'd have a record ready. One that they thought you would like.
You'd get a record put in your hands, or he would put it on the turntable for me.
They knew what we liked.
It's a nice and very interactive way to learn about new music.
My son is 8 years old now and you’d think that with Nickelodeon...
... tablets and all those other flashy media he wouldn’t be interested in this anymore.
He was browsing through my records some day and he found this record.
He said: 'Wow, Batman!'
I said: 'Yes, that’s Batman’s music. Shall we put it on?'
Like I did at my grandmother's house, the ritual of putting a record on.
He sat down on his chair in front of the turntable, with the record in his hands.
He'd put on the record just like that, and remained seated like this during side A.
I went back to the kitchen to wash dishes and after half an hour he shouted...
...'DAD! It's finished! Turn it aroouuund!!'
I flipped the record, my son flipped the cover and that was it.
He still does it regularly. He searches through the records, looking for the Batman record.
The sound effects especially appeal to the imagination and of course there's the sound of the Batmobile.
It’s nice to see that playing a record and the ritual that goes with it is still alive.
Even for a boy who’s only 8 years old.
Do you remember that acoustic session we did abroad in the record store?
PAUL: Yes, we bought a lot over there. RUBEN: I think I bought up to a hundred records.
They were only one or two euros a piece.
There were all sorts of records, even this one I think.
I already had this on cd. 'Led Zeppelin II'.
But if you put the record on, you really notice the difference in sound.
This music is best listened to on vinyl.
MARIO: To stand in front of a crate...
Pul it out, look at it, put it aside. I love buying vinyl.
PAUL: We used to have typical pubs in Belgium where they only played vinyl.
I used to work in one of these pubs and I listened to the records while working.
This way I knew: 'I’m going to buy this one, not that one.'
If one side of the record was finished and the bartender was busy tapping beers...
All you heard was the sound of the needle for half an hour.
That was a lot of fun.
RUBEN: It was a good excuse to shout something.
ALL THREE: Hey! Record! Music!