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out, they all sold… Meg Mac, Middle Kids,” he says. “Bit of Father John Misty as well.” FJM’s God’s Favorite Customer is one of the Music Advisor’s new faves too. “I was a massive fan of Pure Comedy last year,” he says. “Then this one came out and I was like ‘It’s too soon!’ But I dug into his lyrics, and I realised, nah, this is a damn fine album, too.” The recent offering from Mark Oliver Everett, AKA the project head of Eels, is also popular in the Jagoe family: “My son’s just turned five, and he loves the song Bone Dry [from Eels' The Deconstruction ]. He sings along to it, it’s so cute. We were listening to it [in the car] and I thought ‘Okay, I’m going to put that on in-store today.’” Jagoe’s vinyl collection began when he absorbed his parents’ cache, and then inherited the away during Jagoe’s high school years. “I used to wag school and just spend time with my friend’s mum, hanging out and listening to records,” he smiles. Needless to say, they’re very immaculately looked after; Jagoe recommends giving your LPs a once-over with a vinyl brush before you set them on your player (there are cleaning kits available in-store). “As long as you treat them well,” he says, “they’ll treat you well.” collections of two friends’ parents, when they passed

couple of even smaller cities an hour or so north of here, and people will travel down here to go to the JB. We’re quite a hub for a large area.” It’s also about, he reckons, a demographic that he himself fits into. “I think there’s a lot of young-ish people moving to Tasmania, from the mainland,” he says, citing the similar situations of the friends he’s created in the 10 years he’s lived across the Bass Strait. Those two things make for a customer base which likes its new release alternative vinyl. People often ask Jagoe to order in new LPs which have sold out. “When Vera Blue came

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L aunceston: meek, mild and suburban, just like the ‘lawn’ in its name? Cameron Jagoe describes his adopted home-city as “a really beautiful place, nature-wise,” but also says its unique placement might explain why Launceston JB customers have a distinctly alternative taste in music. “It’s a city, but we’re only about 100,000," he says. "There’s a

1. Gang Of Youths

Go Farther In Lightness

2. Courtney Barnett

Tell Me How You Really Feel

3. The Presets HI VIZ 4. Nirvana Nevermind 5. Queen Greatest Hits 6. Various

The Greatest Showman OST

7. Arctic Monkeys

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

8. CHVRCHES Love Is Dead 9. Pink Floyd P.U.L.S.E. 10. Various

Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix: Vol 1

Cameron Jagoe at JB Hi-Fi Launceston

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