Record Collector Confessions

Stay tuned at the end of this week's episode for a special treat to celebrate our 50th episode. After recording this week's episode, I realized that I failed to drill home an important point about audiophiledom. I think the main change in my thinking since I published my audiophile article (https://dgmono.com/2025/04/25/why-i-dont-call-myself-an-audiophile) is that I now I feel I understan...

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Jerome Sabbagh, "Heart" LP: https://www.analogtonefactory.com/heart Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

This episode contains a special listener confession from jazz collector and friend Donovan Le aka @imhardforhardbop. Donovan's IG: https://www.instagram.com/imhardforhardbop Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider dona...

New YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@romegabeats Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by clicking here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4VFU8XA8URC9A

This episode starts with a listener confession from a friend of the podcast, GST. From there, I give a budget update. Specifically, I address the idea of selling stuff just so I can buy more stuff, and working to break that cycle. From there, I discuss a bit of a branding crisis I'm currently having regarding all the different monikers I have for all my creative endeavors. Finally, I wrap by a...

I have a conversation with Bruce, who was known to many on Instagram as @wabisabiheadphones before shutting the project down recently. Bruce and I discuss mutual Cali friends, his upbringing in South Africa, meeting his wife in the UK and moving to California shortly after, befriending a hoarder who left his entire collection of 50,000 records to Bruce, PTSD, SSRIs, and the ways in which "sto...

The usual budget update, an update on my creative endeavors, then a little monologue on my thoughts about fame, celebritydom, and wealth; and coming to the more recent realization about how much my thoughts about them have affected my well-being and my life in general. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby re...

In this week's monologue, I talk about my recent obsession with hip hop 12-inch singles, and a general enthusiasm for classic hip hop production (that often samples jazz records). I also talk about my time being creative lately, and how I sometimes struggle to find the time and motivation to make music. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have...

In this week's monologue, I talk about some anxiety and intrusive thoughts I've been dealing with the past week or so. I also talk about being (way) over budget, amongst other things. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please...

I have a conversation with a good old friend of mine, Chris Reisman, owner of Hudson Valley Vinyl in Beacon, New York. Chris and I discuss our past as hip hop artists, samplers, maxing out credit cards to buy equipment, opening a record store, me getting mad at Chris for not selling me a jazz record, evolving taste in jazz, being opinionated, panic attacks, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and SSRIs,...

In this week's monologue, I talk a little about the budget, how I am getting back into making music, some of my current inspirations, and revisiting the worlds of "jazzy hip hop" and hip hop production. Yesterday's New Quintet Playlist Made by Me: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6zHgo5QH5n4nZblWIXp6bZ?si=84cfb470d53742b9 Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession E...

I kick things off this week with a just-in listener confession. I then talk about getting excited about a new piece of music equipment, and then once I got it, I quickly lost interest. This leads me to discuss creativity and the spontaneity it requires, and how difficult it becomes to find the time and motivation to be creative as I get older. I then return to the topic of the critical seller I de...

This week's DG Monologue is an extended Christmas special of sorts. I read two listener confessions, one about the London Jazz Collector website, the other about negotiating record prices online and in person. I also talk about having a hard time taking a joke, the social challenges that come along with high-functioning autism, one-sided verbosity, feelings of embarrassment and guilt centered...

I have a conversation with Joe Fello, a very good friend of mine who was recently diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 47. Joe and I both came up together in the Albany, New York hip hop scene during the 2000s. Later on, a small group of local friends coalesced that Joe and I are both still a part of to this day. Joe and I talk about the Albany hip hop scene, Covid, funny moments with friends referen...

I think I'm slowing down with buying vinyl, but ramping up with buying CDs. And now I'm starting to look at vintage iPods and vintage MacIntosh computers, ugh. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources online since 2013. If you have ever benefitted from my content, please consider donating by cl...

I have a conversation with Fredrik a.k.a. FW Rare Jazz Vinyl Collector. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Fredrik is a true OG of creating internet content on jazz collecting. We discuss growing up as a metal drummer, commenting on the Jazz Collector website in the late 2000s, buying rare first pressings from Music Matters owner Ron Rambach, and compulsively checking to make sure his equipment is se...

In this special bonus monologue, I talk about how I'm approaching online record shopping burnout, and how my OCD with online shopping is threatening to start causing me anxiety and mess with my sleep pattern. I also read a great in-depth listener confession. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: richdgmono@gmail.com I have been creating and sharing free hobby resources...

In this week's monologue, I give a budgeting update, which includes getting back to (trying to) stick to my $200 max per record, and I talk about how that decision has brought back a feeling of authenticity to collecting. I also give an update on my AM radio adventures, and I return to discussing my obsession with Blue Note Records, a topic I originally approaches in a confession video on YouT...