Vinyl obsession, priced up and picked apart.
We Buy Records turns the everyday business of buying, selling, and obsessing over vinyl into brisk conversational comedy. Paul Field and Tim Scullion move from weather grumbles and shop anecdotes to Discogs oddities, coloured reissues, Bowie arguments, game soundtracks, and listener mail.
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We Buy Records is built from the small frictions and strange pleasures of record collecting. It has the feel of a conversation behind the counter, not a polished music-magazine panel. Paul Field and Tim Scullion start with housekeeping, weather, missed recording gaps, or a daft holiday anecdote, then slide into the serious business of vinyl nonsense. The seriousness is part of the joke. A single reissue can bring up pressing, sleeve choices, muddy mastering, retail pricing, and the suspicion that nostalgia is being asked to do too much work. The show is especially good at treating tiny collector details as if they matter, because in this world they do. A £15 seven-inch is not just a product. It is a moral test. Recent conversations have moved through David Bowie, Tin Machine, Madonna anniversary editions, Ultravox compilations, The Divine Comedy, Depeche Mode pricing, video-game soundtracks, Pac-Man Fever, Earthworm Jim, Wipeout, and the ongoing hazards of Discogs. Listener mail matters here as well. A note about the joy of a £5 gamble can become a broader argument about discovery, disappointment, algorithms, and why cheap records still have a magic that expensive records often lack. The show can be warm, particularly when remembering long-time listener Vince Williams or thanking supporters. It is also reliably skeptical. Hype gets prodded, press-release claims get checked, and expensive formats are rarely allowed to pass without a sigh. What keeps it from becoming sour is the obvious affection underneath. These are conversations by people who still chase records, still notice sound quality, still know the names lodged in old pop memory, and still find comedy in the gap between collector romance and shop-floor reality. It is funny because it is specific. It is useful because the complaints come from experience. And it remains loose enough that the detours often become the best part.
Made for: For crate-diggers, record-shop regulars, Discogs watchers, reissue skeptics, and music fans who enjoy collector talk with jokes still attached. Best for people who already know that format, price, condition, and pressing quality can all become arguments.
What sets it apart: It treats vinyl culture from the working end of the counter, where enthusiasm has to survive bad pressings, inflated prices, odd customers, and ridiculous listings. The comedy comes from detail, not distance.
We Buy Records is a podcast dedicated to vinyl record collecting (and sometimes selling). From cleaning tips to city buying reports interspersed with new vinyl reviews and vinyl stupidity. If you're a crate-digger, this is the show for you....Tim runs a record shop with his partner in East Sussex. When not hunting for records he enjoys composing melancholy electronic music and watching reviews of obsolete technology on the internet.Paul has been collecting records for 30 years, mainly soundtracks, dance & electronica. He runs a small record shop in Serbia specialising in electronic and dance music.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Vinyl expertise becomes comedy through affectionate host friction, exacting release criticism and a keen eye for the absurdities of collecting.
We Buy Records turns the pleasures and irritations of collecting vinyl into an ongoing comic argument between Paul Field and Tim Scullion. Their conversational comedy runs on affectionate needling, self-mockery and the certainty that a dubious reissue deserves a proper…
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Milestone banter gives way to records and game-soundtrack chat.
The 75th episode starts with a familiar milestone check-in, including the long road to getting here and the reminder that the show began before lockdown. It then settles into records and game soundtracks, with Wipeout, Pac-Man Fever, and Earthworm Jim each getting their turn.
A dry Bowie debate that turns collector talk into something more thoughtful.
The episode spends a good stretch circling Bowie and Tin Machine, setting personal taste against album importance without making the point feel forced.
A festive records chat that prefers a dry jab to a shiny bow.
This Christmas special is a shop-counter chat that starts a little wobbly and stays pleasingly scruffy, with drinks, a dead screen, and the hosts easing into the season's usual record-nerd business.
Winter shop talk, pricey pressings, and enough record-nerd grit to keep collectors grinning.
This episode settles into the record-shop banter that the two hosts handle best, after opening on winter weather, a shop door debate, and heating misery.
A loose summer catch-up, with the Label Market talk and flipper grumbles carrying the episode.
Part 2 of the summer special feels a little loose at first, which makes sense once it becomes clear that Paul Field and Tim Scully had already spent the day together in person.
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Paul and Tim open with weather complaints and a bit of housekeeping.
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Paul Field and Tim Scullion open by comparing the weather in Belgrade and the UK.
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The hosts of We Buy Records chat about the weather, thank a supporter, and mention their coffee funding option.
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The hosts discuss their podcast's availability in new territories and share lighthearted banter about their recording setup and potential listeners.