How could I have pulverised my treasured records?

Yesterday's must-have discs became today's embarrassments, so they had to go – violentlyIt was November 1977 and a mate and I took Tina Charles's 1975 disco hit I Love To Love into the garden, surrounded it with fireworks and laughed hysterically as it was, well, not exactly blown to smithereens, but rendered an unplayable, charred pile. Why were we doing this? Because fashions had changed: a once-treasured item was suddenly really embarrassing.Last Saturday's Record Store Day brought these m...

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