Thursday, April 15, 2010

NME gets behind Oxfam music drive

NME repository has hooked up with Oxfam to titillate music fans to donate unwanted albums to a charity.

Donors will embrace a giveaway duplicate of a repository in return.

"We want to get a mag out to as most people as we can - Oxfam is a good way to do which but it's a good cause as well," editor Krissi Murison said.

The music swap outlines a initial time a major publication has been since divided in a gift emporium as well as is expected to move in some-more than 12,000 donations.

Artists such as Jarvis Cocker as well as DJ Norman Cook have formerly backed Oxfam campaigns as well as are self confessed lovers of a gift store, finding singular gems for their own music collections.

One value not long ago detected in an Oxfam emporium in Glasgow was a sealed Michael Jackson sealed record.

OXFAM'S MOST DONATED ARTISTS BeatlesThe CureNew OrderThe SmithsLed Zeppelin

"Whoever it was haggled with a person during Oxfam as well as got it for £73," Murison told BBC 6 Music. "I would have put my hand over a signature as well as passed it off as a normal one."

According to Oxfam, around 1.8 million CDs as well as records are sole each year, all donated by a open with money being used to account projects across a world.

The swap starts on Friday during some-more than 150 Oxfam stores nationwide.

It additionally coincides with a new launch of a magazine.

Murison, who became editor in September, claims it has been well received so far. She said: "It's really repelled me, a biggest cynics out there have Twittered me to contend they really like it."





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