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Thirty-three and a third

Poet and novelist Simon Armitage takes £33.33 into the nation's record shops to find old gems - or weird rubbish
  • An inventive way to melt your mind

    OMM's resident poet Simon Armitage fails to spend his monthly budget of £33.33 in Dubai, but still has an idea for the Arab city ...

  • Arctic Monkeys box set

    I'll play this on my sounding board

    Simon Armitage blows his entire monthly budget of £33.33 on a boxed set - and introduces a group of schoolchildren to some very old technology

  • Call me the last of the big spenders

    Seeking to spend £33.33 of OMM's money on second-hand vinyl, Simon Armitage scours his home town - and ends up blowing his budget

  • Even cheltenham has its badlands

    Simon Armitage's monthly quest to spend £33.33 of OMM's money on vinyl leads him to the Cotswolds, where he finds some blood on Bogshed's tracks

  • For malc, wherever i may find him

    Each month, Simon Armitage gets to spend £33.33p of OMM's money feeding his old vinyl habit. Could part of his latest haul have once been yours?

  • A spot of anarchy by the seaside

    In which resident vinyl junkie Simon Armitage feeds his habit with £33.33 of OMM's money. This month, trawling a Cornish record fair ...

  • Groovy boy and his version of reality

    Simon Armitage's vinyl quest takes him from backslapping in a bar via a jazz temple in Hay-on-Wye to a meditation at a Salford church

  • It looked good but then I played it ...

    In the first of a regular series, poet and novelist Simon Armitage takes £33.33 into the nation's record shops to find old gems - or weird rubbish

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