Dust and Grooves have posted a great profile on Jeff Ogiba - music obsessive, vinyl collector, and owner of Black Gold in Brooklyn.. one of the finest Record / Coffee / Antique Stores I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. It's always nice to read about someone's obsessive nature, and Ogiba's reasoning for his ever-growing collection, how he got there and he deals with it, is super positive:

I feel a real human connection to music. It's almost a religion to me. I feel that everything we experience and everything that is and ever was is made up of vibrations and the relationships among each other. Records are emotional vibrations on file. All music either has emotion within it or it evokes emotion as a result of the vibrations we receive and perceive. To me that is as ultimate as it can get next to loving or caring about a person or a pet. I love the hunt for records, I love the find, I love making them mine. I love putting on a rare punk single from 1977 and feeling convinced that I was old enough that have been there. I love putting on a psych LP from the late 60′s San Francisco scene and feeling atop a golden field without caring about the true troubles surrounding me in 2012. I love the excitement of an unpredictable be bop jazz ensemble session in an imaginary smoke-filled club. I love to escape. Sadly, the real world continues whether you chose to acknowledge or not. Just ask my landlord and the debt collectors!

Swing by the interview and be sure to listen to the accompanying mix that goes with it.. incredibly good.