Here's some (five to be exact) interesting record collecting related articles that I've come across in the last few weeks.

• Every record collection has its roots in a moment of complicated joy. We hear a song, and it makes us happy. We want to hear it again; we want to feel the same feeling as the first time we heard it. The easy solution is to acquire a copy of the song, so we can bring back that feeling or something like that feeling whenever we want. (The feeling is never exactly the same. Sometimes it degrades, at one rate or another, over time and repeated experience. But sometimes it stays very similar.) Read the full article from Seattle Weekly.

• Pittsburgh Old Record Collectors Club (PORCC), a non-profit organization that supports the perpetuation of original doo-wop/rhythm and blues oldies music and record collecting through concerts and dances, sponsors performances by various doo-wop groups once a month. Read the full article from the Signal Item in Carnegie, PA, USA.
• “This is the vinyl resting place and I’m the vinyl keeper,” said Gary Saxon, owner of The Record Man. The Redwood City store boasts an impressive stock of records in various sizes. Even in the Bay Area, where music can be found everywhere from the bus to a coffee shop, this is one of a small number of the independent record stores left. Read the full article from San Mateo Daily.
• Sixty years ago, Disc Makers began pressing personal pizza-sized 78-rpm records in Philadelphia. Eleven years ago it moved to Route 130 to begin a period of rapid innovation and expansion. Today, its 400 employees create and package 40 million CDs and DVDs a year for singers, drummers, comedians, preachers, teachers, marketers and just about anybody who wants a cheap, easy way to distribute information or entertainment. Read the full article from the Courier Post Online.
• IT'S BEEN 40 YEARS since the cultural upheaval of the mid '60s, and in that time, historians, burnouts who were there, and obsessive record collectors have uncovered evidence that there were a thousand reasons why culture—specifically pop music culture—underwent such massive changes. Read the full article by Mike Nipper of the Portland Mercury.