For the record

It’s the rare Japanese exports you want
The seldom heard b sides
The early tracks from the studio, before they were signed
The bootlegs from Afflecks Palace you spent your first wage packet on

Remember that gig in 1990
At the Apollo
Nine months earlier we were still in school

The dodgy fashions
The bad haircuts
Pissed up down the Ritz
The D.J at the boardwalk knows the record but he won’t play it

You could still buy real vinyl off the racks
That record got scratched - ruined now
Nothing but crap on top of the pops that week
Off to Stoke tomorrow to see some obscure band