The movie Ghost World tells us that people who are obsessed with old blues records are creeps, but also that old blues records are worth being obsessed with. There's a pivotal scene where Enid, the young protagonist, hears "Devil Got My Woman" by Skip James, and reacts to it in much the same way that I do.
"There are no other records like that." No, there really aren't.
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