Home Grown: “I try to buy records in every city I go to”

Because every record collection has a story.

Home Grown is our series profiling you lot and your excellent record collections. Taking our cue from the brilliant submissions to the #VFRecordCollections thread on Instagram, we want to share a little of your hard-earned love for vinyl with the world.

Each week, we’ll be profiling a different collector from around the world and finding out what makes them tick. Want in? Send us a pic of your collection and a few words about your collection to social@thevinylfactory.com.

Name: Frank Brunet

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Size of collection (approx.): More than 500 and counting!

How long have you been collecting for?

I’ve been a vinyl collector since 2013. I am a huge fan of music and I’ve been buying music since I was 12 (now 35) but in different formats. First there were CDs, my first was a single of ‘Nothing Else Matters’ by Metallica and from that point in my life, music changed the way I think about stuff. Then Napster and all the MP3s came. I was very proud of my Mp3 collection, every single song is still categorized – they have the name of the album, year, art cover in their right place.

Then came the streaming sources and that’s when I decided I needed to start buying records on vinyl. It was my tribute to music and musicians, they have make me feel lots of things through my life and having their record makes those feels more real and material, impossible to do that with streaming formats.

What part of your set-up are you most proud of?

My turntable and the bespoke furniture I made to house it in the living room.

What record(s) are you most proud of?

I try to buy records in every city I go to and a couple of years ago I was in Melbourne and got a Japanese first edition of the White Album by The Beatles, great find for me.

Also I am a huge fan of My Morning Jacket and Jim James and last year I got a signed record of his second solo album, my first signed vinyl!

What does your record collection mean to you?

Once I read that all good men should plant a tree, write a book and have a child. I would add collecting records to that. It is part of life. Records in your collection tells a lot of people’s taste, culture, experiences, etc, and that’s something I’m proud of myself at the moment.