Thank You for Year Two! Another year has come and gone, and somehow this site is now officially two years old. When I launched it on January 1, 2024, I had no idea how much work, comfort, frustration, and joy it would bring into my life. But it truly has. I am grateful for everyone who reads, comments, shares, or simply spends time here with the music.
Last year I mentioned working on a podcast. I did record and experiment with it, but being a single host did not feel right. It needed another voice and another energy, and without that it just did not sound like what I wanted it to be. So for now it is paused, not abandoned.
This year I hope to finally open a simple way to support the site. Since I do not sell unofficial records or anything I write about here, I am thinking about stickers, shirts, or some kind of small merch for people who want to help keep things going. Nothing pushy. Just something honest and fun.
I also plan on working more on the TikTok this year. Hopefully that means more than just one post a week, and a chance to share more quick looks at records, thoughts, and strange vinyl moments.
Content wise, the plan remains the same. More Ozzy. More Black Sabbath. More Pink Floyd. More Zeppelin. More Morrissey. More rare pressings, strange variants, unexpected weirdness, and anything else that deserves attention. I still have a large pile of records waiting to be written about, and many more will certainly appear this year.
This is also the first year without Ozzy in the world, and that is still hard to accept. His music and spirit are tied to so much of what I do here. On the brighter side, Tony Iommi has promised us a solo album this year, and I am genuinely looking forward to that.
There were huge changes to importing into the United States this past year, and honestly it has been awful for collectors. Even though records aren’t affected like other products, some sellers just don’t want to ship to us anymore. I guess I can understand that. But the vinyl community is still here. People are adapting, finding ways to keep collecting, and refusing to quit. That gives me hope.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for caring about music and strange records and stories the way I do. Here is to another year of discoveries, questionable purchases, perfect pressings, bad pressings, and everything in between.
Happy New Year. Shine on.
-Indrid Cold