'I lost my life's collection of vinyl records'

How do you replace 1,600 LPs after a shipping mix-up results in US Customs destroying the whole lot? It takes a few generous friends, tenacious trawling of record shops, a research guru – and a whole lot of cash, writes Ed Vulliamy'But you can guarantee that my belongings will be delivered?" I asked, quivering – and I can still feel the nausea that came over me, even before the man at Yellow Moves of Hammersmith said: "No, I can't … I'm afraid your things have been destroyed by United Airl...

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