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78-rpm recordings from the American recording industry are becoming highly prized artifacts. The “good ones,” I mean. Rare blues, gospel and hillbilly recordings, printed on labels like Paramount, Black Patti and Gennett, have attained a mythical status and become the subjects of intense bidding wars among collectors. As you can imagine, many collectors have started to question the point of it all and wondering if there isn’t an area of 78-rpm collecting designed for the obsessive and dogmatic. Jonathan War
Steve Krakow’s apartment is the psychedelic mind of his alter ego, Plastic Crimewave, externalized. Every shelf and wall space has been filled with comic books, figurines, campy LP artwork and a wide variety of vintage, psychedelic ephemera. “It was probably my parents to blame.” He said, acknowledging our wandering eyes. “When I was young they never let me hang anything on my walls.” A library of LPs, 45s and tapes occupies one side of the apartment. Nestled back in the corner of the living room sat a func