“I was very meticulous,” he said.

At the time Burch would listen to records for hours in his room, and was just beginning to learn to play the guitar himself. The album wasn’t one of his favorites — he preferred the David Bowie records he got from Uncle Phil’s castoffs — but he remembers listening to the hit “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Burch went on to become a professional musician himself, playing in several bands in Champaign, Ill., and Chicago and releasing an album with Jay Bennett just after Bennett left the band Wilco.

Somewhere along the way, he got rid of the record.

“I think I sold or traded it sometime around college,” he said. “Like a lot of record people, I’m always culling to make room for new stuff.”

Today, Burch works at the Animal Protective Association Adoption Center in Brentwood, but continues to play music and, as he says, “spends way too much of my disposable income on records.”