Wow. I've been waiting for this moment for so long I don't even know what to do with my life now. I guess I can give up. So long records, I don't need to collect you anymore. After all, how I can I go out and shop for records when THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO FIND!

My fucking holy grail of records is found. Shout to Gimme Gimme for the connection. I believe when I got it my reaction was basically the following:

(spoken to the record while pawing it)

"Oh my sweet God, precious fetish object I can't believe you are now finally in my arms. I'm not even going to LISTEN to you! Do you understand! You are going into a frame and up on my wall. [as if the record were a baby or a cat:] Yes you are. Yes you are!!!"

And so now it's a wrap on records. I had a pretty good run I guess. There's some obvious stuff I never got around to getting, but really I think I covered all the basics. I even for some reason got into a little reggae phase, even though I basically think reggae (that's right, ALL FORMS OF IT!) is basically inhuman screeching noise, but there are worst things than reggae. The bastard offspring of reggae, reggaeton for example. It's amazing, I think reggae reveals how truly racist I really am (but try to hide).

OK, gatefold 7" of Offspring's "Come out and Play," gatefold 12s of Poison's "Something to Believe In" and (for no discernible reason) Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" ... it's time for you to go into my "why in God's name did I buy you" pile.

Christ! Andy has a 12 of "Hunger Strike" and Lloyd has a 12 of "Mr Roboto" though, so I guess they both still win. Plus Kevin has a 12 of "Old Time Rock & Roll," which he will hold on to "just in case."