john doe jr. updates

sold a copy of new morning to a preppy-looking high school kid. VG/VG+. $4

lovely day outside. could be slow. hell, even i'd be outside if i wasn't working. that's how nice it is.

sporadic record-related updates as events occur.

last saturday a completely out of it middle-aged man got tazed outside my store at LEAST ten times. While standing and while on the ground. as he lay on the ground with handcuffs finally secured to his wrists he kept yelling: "white ni**er, white ni**er, white ni**er" over and over in his delirium. time it took for entire police force to show up: five minutes.

actually did look a little like this guy:

http://www.worldfamousinsf.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lester_bangs.jpg

had a nice visit from my brother's friend bob. formerly of se*a*oh. when i start having bands play here i'm gonna ask him to play. he's got good taste in records. or maybe it's just my kinda taste. bought a Gershwin boxed set and a Crow record and some other things.

now it's off to ebay to list some U2 rarities. LOVE selling stuff on ebay that i care nothing about!

man, people keep bringing me stuff. i can't keep up. it's nice, but i'm only one man. better sell some of this junk. lady had a whole truck full of records. so much crud though.

shows tonight:

Thursday July 16th

The Steamrollers
w/ The Andalusians (Washington,D.C.)
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (Montana)

@ The Sierra Grille
21+
$2
10pm

this thursday
july 16th
at the florence vfw (18 meadow street florence, ma)

Sightings
Fat Worm of Error
Coelom (Karl Bauer/Axolotl and Elaine Kahn from 50 Foot Women)
Kieran Lally

doors at 7 30
bands at 8 30

bought a couple of turntables off a guy. cheap. was just gonna sell them both, but since my turntable is in the store i don't have one at home and one of the ones i bought is a nice old philips 212 with a new needle. even came with a little phono-preamp. sounds great. sooooooo, i think i've found my home table.

oh neato, my buddy plays drums w/andalusians

skot what's yr ebay id?

i used to be skotrok, but i haven't used that in years. maria is all hooked up with paypal and all that, so i just use hers. plus, she gets all the money anyway. i don't ebay that much, but i will be more often in the future. got more time to do it now. so: Snackyfresh

cool. one more q, while i have you--what are the store's hours? i do attend to get out to western ma. at some point this summer/fall and would def stop by if i do.

i'm open noon to seven every day except sunday. on sunday i pray.

me too, me too.

sold some tomita today. some van halen. some cars. some cure. um, other stuff. cherry red punk comp. you know the one. punk sgt. pepper cover.

i cleaned and priced like a zillion records.

some "interesting" people coming in here today...

famous people or junkies?

just...odd...

every day i get one old dude who comes in and looks around and sez something like: "Records, huh?" "They still happening?"

or my fave: "people still buy records?"

i wanna say: nah, this is a museum. (and then charge them an entry fee.)

the worst are the guys who come in and like, just don't "get it." Like they ask "Why do people listen to records instead of CDs? You can't put a record on your ipod, blah blah blah." Or the guy who was like "I listened to the new Eminem record at my friends house on vinyl and I didn't think it sounded any better than a CD..."

i just assumed scott had been swamped by 78 collectors

small retail is full of these people yer talking about tho - about once a month i get a dude that will come in and pontificate about how amazing it is that we are still in business because you know guitar center is so hueg and super awesome and im always like "uh thanks?". that and the people that say things like "well why would anyone buy a guitar when you can just play guitar hero?" and i just sit in stony baffled silence.

or my fave: "people still buy records?"

I want to punch these people.

Reminds me of standing by the DJ booth and overhearing a person walk up and say to him, "So.......45s, huh?"

Skot, for the record I greatly enjoy this thread. Please kiu.

Ha, okay. Sloooow week though. Not a lot to report. I wish I could write in detail about the guy who wanted to talk all day with me about Sam Cooke, but this is a public forum. It'll have to wait for my memoir.

favorite customer comment about sam cooke was from a doo wop guy, while holding up a sam cooke 45, "why would anyone wanna listen to this? it's only one guy."

hahahaha. weird!

how could i just have, like, ten people in here at once and only make a dollar. oh well.

this is a weird thing to complain about, and i'm not really complaining, but this guy - very cool, nice guy, record collector - told me he had a big box of old heavy metal magazines that he would just give me for the store. i thought: cool! i used to dig heavy metal when i was a kid. what i think must have passed me by was how seriously tacky and embarrassing so many 90's heavy metal magazine covers are. So many sub-Olivia/Boris softcore pinup covers. oy vey. i mean, the mag was seriously raunchy in the 80's too (yes, i was a Den fan) but then at least you would have some weirder moebius covers or more sci-fi stuff in general. inside too, just sooooooo much comix porn. oh well. i'll put them in a dark corner somewhere. i mean, i want women to shop here. and gay women at that. i am in western mass after all.

got yr package scott, thanks man. I am going to make a poll to decide what I should listen to first.

ps ebay dem heavy metal mags

i don't think they really sell for much.

glad you got the package! sorry it took so long. um, it was random stuff i had around. i got a lot of random stuff.

since this is also the people watching thread i would like to introduce a little character known as "inner child."

inner child made his first appeerance in over a year today. Short man wit thinning, oversized t-shirt (often with wizard or dragon) & jean shorts, sandals. Incredibly whiney voice--he is identifiable over the phone, as sometimes before coming (from Jersey) he'll call to ask if we "have any rare psychedelic or progressive lps" on the wall. upon walking in he will study the wall intently, asking what each & every record is like and often taking them down to examine etc. today was a fun day cuz we have a whole section of the wall with a lot of mediocre-but-rare uk folk stuff, and some prog. so he was all excited to learn about that. luckily today k33gan got the task of helping him pull down records to look at (short man as i said before.)

he was just at the listening station with two 8-10" piles of records stacked one atop the other on the floor, in front of the other turntable. when asked to move them he became confused and sort of non-responsive, needed to be reminded a few times to put the records on the table. he is into talking to you about records too of course! "do you like german stuff?" "i like the really heavy and progressive stuff."

he once punched j0hn all3n cuz j0hn said "SRC sucks."

lol i meant to write "thinning hair" but his t-shirts are also heavily worn.

i know it's not cool to make fun of the developmentally disabled, but i can't help myself. this guy is so ridic.

i think he goes shopping with his dad. some older guy, who he calls Stu. post-shopping argument with Stu about how much money he is allowed to spend etc (after trading in a variety of mediocre psychedelic & prog records etc.) getting agitated because he has to put records back into their sleeves and "you don't want them to be out of their protective sleevse do you?!?!" (we keep wall records out of the jackets.)

also, i forgot the essential detail that he wears one of these:
[img src=http://www.divinetreasuresonline.com/zen/images/dragon_claw_with_orb_necklace%20JDCC.jpg]

i mean... http://www.divinetreasuresonline.com/zen/images/dragon_claw_with_orb_necklace%20JDCC.jpg

ha! hoo boy. all of a sudden i'm regretting that i post under my own name and everything. i feel like gossiping.

woman and her brother dumped four big boxes of records on me for free cuz they were getting rid of stuff from their grandfather's house. total city dump stuff as far as i'm concerned and i'm wondering why the hell i even agreed to take it when i pull out a prefectly nice copy of the Surfaris Play album on decca. In mono, even. yay! so, that alone is worth me having to haul everything else down to the basement. sounds great. I mean, it's probably only a 30-50 dollar record, but i'm always happy to see nice playable copies of records like that. it's the little things in life...

met a great guy who helps byron at yod. he put out the first die kreuzen single! i love people from ohio. and michigan.

:D

show this wednesday at the media mansion/toy prison:

Extreme Animals (return to western mass to jam a dream)
Fyoelk (netherlands finest!)
Horse Spirit Penetrates (wmass guitar / drums)
Sharkee Katz (w.mass comedy)
maybe one more.

opened the store today cuz i got work to do. gotta write. i don't expect to make much/any money. sunday is TRULY a day of rest around here. people don't even have yard sales on sunday. everyone sleeps, i guess. and reads the bible.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/3736376626_0de73f7a51.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3735583709_3ce460b7e4.jpg?v=0

just bought 6 boxes of records from a guy - very nice guy, indeed! - cuz he's moving and didn't want to move with his records. good stuff! including a minty original Druids Of Stonehenge on Uni that yours truly will be taking home with him.

haha until you posted those pictures i had not comprehended the thread title duh

thought you were just doing a rolling random customer thread

Yo tambien!

wow, druids album sounds beautiful. one of those records i've always wanted, but would never spend, like, a hundred dollars for. cuz i'm cheap. and i just rarely spend serious money for one album.

also got a minty mono copy of the rainy daze album on uni. now i have stereo and mono copies! i'm sick...

sold some Angel albums. sweet. i prefer Angel to Kiss. just so you know. i prefer Starz to Kiss too.

sold some jazz.

nice box of jazz that guy had! the guy i bought six boxes of records from. plus, lots of staples for the store. the dead. led zep. stuff like that. always good to have. and smiths vinyl! always good to have smiths vinyl. very easy to sell.

is "fe fi fo fum" on the rainy daze LP? I have that 45 and love it so.

I never see Smiths vinyl. if you have the 1st LP I would send you $ for it.

no, that song is only on the 45. they had a bunch of singles.

this is a great - and appears on a bunch of comps - album track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbbF95rzlas

x-post

so, the funny story: these two twitchy street kids - kids who hang out on main street all day - came in with a stack of records. crap. but i buy a scarface soundtrack and a bill cosby record from them. then they come in later and i buy some sealed easy listening stuff from them. i ask them were all this stuff is from and the one sez: uh, you know, at home in my closet. they leave. then later ANOTHER twitchy kid comes in with a stack and some of them are in plastic with sleeves. nice clean copy of the first leonard cohen album. sealed johnny mathis album. so, i give him like 7 bucks for some records and he says: hey, maybe you should know, when you leave you should check out the dumpster next to robertos. i say: huh? and he says that there are THOUSANDS of records in the dumpster. i thanked him - and i'll give him 20 bucks for the tip if i see him again - and i closed the shop and ran over there. man, there really were thouands of records in the dumpster. i spent an hour and a half there. got about two hundred records. had my friend maggie come down with her car to cart them to the store. she got, like, 50 records of her own. weird mix of stuff. looked like an old man owned them all. tons of classical, which i felt bad about leaving, but i really would have been there forever if i had gone through them all. lots of old country. some disco and r&b. lots of sealed capitol stuff from the 50's and 60's. sealed nancy wilson records. near mint happysad tim buckley, some rock. sealed charlie louvin record. i'll go through it all tomorrow. nice haul though. some decent jazz. i kinda want to go back, but i gotta let it go. i went through pretty much everything. i don't want to go crazy. feel bad about leaving stuff knowing it's just gonna get thrown out. maybe i'll check back in the morning. got some definite pricey stuff. paul & paula record. cool stuff.

that was nice of the kid to tell you - he could have just tried to sell it all to you instead

wow that's crazy--not only awes find for you but who the hell throws out thousands of records? doesn't volume alone indicate that they could be sold?

i mean, the mag was seriously raunchy in the 80's too (yes, i was a Den fan) but then at least you would have some weirder moebius covers or more sci-fi stuff in general. inside too, just sooooooo much comix porn. oh well. i'll put them in a dark corner somewhere. i mean, i want women to shop here. and gay women at that. i am in western mass after all.

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just sold a bunch of heavy metal magazines to a very cool lesbian. she was so happy that i had them.

who doesn't <3 teh boobses?

so true. i never should have doubted it.

nice review of the store! thanks blogger!

http://strangelightradio.com/blog/?p=121

and nice pictures too!

would browse

yeah you would

by the way, i have no problem with people thinking that my brother owns the store. he's a good crazy figurehead. and i wanted to bond via same name. i liked the idea of a hypothetical bunnybrains/dan/scott empire.

and if sumone hits their head on a Metal Box ill get blamed..great

so clean and well-lit!

Wanted:Someone to help design the website for records.

we have this blank slate:

http://www.johndoejunior.com/

but we haven't had time to do anything with it. we would like to put cool stuff on it at some point. um, we've been busy.

show tonight and then stuff coming up:

Redwing Blackbird (nh folk)
Dredd Foole (amazing vocal volcano folk)
Annika Dawn (prov ri folk jams)
Cotopaxi (our friends from the netherlands!)

show will start @ 8pm
King St. Manor
113 King St
northampton.

then wed @ the rendezvous
Phantom Brain Exchange
with
Daily Life (prov RI)
Schneiderman / Krespo Duo
Liz Tonne
ADDJ
lecture by lily sage
9pm

the FRIDAY NIGHT
@ the elevens

Eats Tapes (amazing homemade / vintage / amazing electronic jams)
MNDR
Golden Mold (fyoelk and me collab on heavy beats and burps)
Eric Hnatow (warbly electro jams)
dj set by tumble cat poof poofy poof!
9pm
21+
$5

dredd fule is pretty sweet.

i've never seen him! maria might go tonight. she likes him. i've never even heard much music by him. i know my brother has played shows with him.

I have the two Dredd Foole albs on Homestead .. never kept up after that but love him! Skot, if ya went lemme know how he was, never seen him live...

maria brought back these huuuuuuuuuuge old realistic 1210 speakers from florida (her grandmother is selling her house and pretty much everything had to go.) they are bigger than my kids. 120 watts. i put them right behind my tiny cd selection (mostly old metal promos that i sell for a dollar) in the store (the CDs are on the floor in a wooden rack type thing) and in front of my desk. anyone who wants to look at CDs on the floor is going to have to withstand some serious wattage. even with my receiver volume way down they are loud and clear. i'm passive aggressive when it comes to compact discs.

i swear every 2nd person who comes in here is named Dan. what's up with that?

sold a bunch of records today. i like that. and it rained all day too.

man i miss rain!

SF weather is weirder than i expected, and i expected weird!

it rained all summer here. a lot. the farmers aren't happy. they're never happy though.

here's the line-up for the show so far. this saturday from 4 to 8 at the energy park and then 8:30 to ? at john doe jr. records and books:

August 15th 2009 at the Energy Park and John Doe Jr. in Greenfield, MA
Bunny Brains, Crystalline Roses, Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth, Bryan Gillig, MV + EE, Sord, White Crime, Zebu!

remember, the next day is the big show at umass. be there or be beardless. bring a lawn chair and some herb and nothing but good vibes.

Sunday, August 16th.
Bands will begin playing at 2pm SHARP outside on the Library Lawn (inbetween the campus pond and the library) until 6pm and move into the Student Union Ballroom from 7pm to Midnight!

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Lightning Bolt!
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Noise Nomads!
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Mallory!
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Sylphid!
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Belltonesuicide!
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Invisible Circle!
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Id M Theftable!
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Brava Spectre!
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Sords!
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Problem With Dragons!
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Gastric Lavage!
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Cellura Peptid!
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White Crime!
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Able Archer!
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Untitled Original!
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Sisters and Brothers!
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Yak Snot!
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Relics!
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Behaviour!
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is that a band with no name between problems w dragons and gastric lavage?

no that is just space inbetween what i cut and pasted. i don't think i'll be going to the sunday thing actually. should be fun though.

Yak Snot. Cool name.

heres my guest gtrist for saturday http://www.digitalisindustries.com/digi046.html
and of course we will bring our BS and VD Travelling Hoochie Koochie Old Tree Spirit Medicine Wagon for the acoustic set

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

can't wait! it should be a fun day all around. i think you will really love flaming dragons of middle earth.

here's a teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3TWt-LAIQo

is 29mins 43 seconds really a teaser?

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs189.snc1/6340_137787765907_767115907_3304759_3294681_n.jpg

great time last night. bunnybrains were great in the park. as was creepy peepee. flaming dragons were awesome in the store. and so was everyone else. sorry to miss the big kids at the people's pint. but i hope to see them soon.

definitely made me excited to have more live music in the store in the future. and the music sounded really good, acoustics-wise.

some girl just walked by the store and yelled in: "Your music sucks!"

lol!

she just did it again!

it's the price she pays for walking up and down main street ALL DAY LONG.

what are you playing?

i think it was more of a general comment. i don't even think she could hear what i was playing at the time. i play some weird shit though. these kids who hang out on main street are some icp-looking dudes and dudettes. they're pretty hardcore. harmony korine would have a field day with them if he ever made gummo 2.

i don't know what kids today listen to. i think it's all pop-emo & lady gaga?? maybe limp bizkit is still popular, i dunno.

yeah, i have no idea. i gave in to my oldness. i don't follow pop anymore. mostly, cuz i just don't listen to the radio much at all. or watch mtv.

or that pitchform/ilm kinda indie stuff. clueless there too. i'm sure some of it is good.

i have zillions of rap singles from the 2000's in my store and the other day i made a mix tape of the instrumental versions on the 12 inches and it's, like, the coolest mix i've made in forever. i can't wait to make another one. i looked for the super minimal stuff with lots of cool strings and computer fx. southern stuff, mostly. stuff is seriously addictive.

pitchfork

UPDATES PLEASE??

ian looking out his record store window thinking there are other worlds than these

things are cool. definitely new people coming in and checking things out. it's not like i've done a ton of advertising, so it really is kind of a mix of word of mouth and people just stumbling in having no idea i was there. the regulars are pretty regular though. which is nice. slow sam cooke fan came in twice this week. he's an odd one. sort of an ed gein type, but nice enough. i don't know if i needed to hear the whole "new world order obama is trying to get rid of the internet and money and walmart is placing chips in all their merchandise to track customers" speech, but, what the hell, i'm not going anywhere.

the last week was way better than the week before too. august was the worst month by far. and i still did okay. i had two really deadly weeks though. that's when i hit ebay. i'm thinking next year that august might be a good time to go on a record-buying road trip/vacation. maria and i are heading down to hudson this weekend to pick up stuff at my brother's store. he's got so many records. it's scary. and i've got sooooo much stuff to put out before we go in order to make more room. i need more shelves. or something.

on friday around 6 pm spooky tree recording artist urthquake will be doing a special one time only 9/11 tribute at the store.

tonight, around the corner on chevalier street, urthquake and noise nomads will be performing along with other kool kats. be on the lookout for the upcoming urthquake/noise nomads split 7 inch on spooky tree. get them while supplies last.

also, don't miss the big show on monday in northampton at the elevens:

Social Junk (philly, awesome trash/thrash noise rock)
SQRM (wmass, insane guitar powered thrash, rules!)
Human Beast (providence, total performance art weirdness)
+ 1 (or more) more

oh man, Noise Nomads is such an amazing live experience. Assuming he's doing the same style of stuff he was doing in Providence circa 2002, I can't urge you enough to go check it out.

man, some dude came in and dropped a hundred bucks on 45s. do you know how hard that is to do in my store? all my 45s are a dollar to three dollars. had a serious stack. love him.

bought this nice woman's dead aunt's old collection of classical and world music records. lotsa gypsy music, but some african and indian stuff too. and lots of yiddish and russian 78s.

so, this kid danny who comes in and hangs out at the store - great guy - it turns out his dad is stephen bissette! omg, swamp thing genius! so cool. sadly, i don't think i followed his later independent stuff. he teaches in vermont.

soooo... what are you doing with those yiddish 78s? any hot klezmer or cantorial hits??

i'll check and see what i have. you know, it's a mere 2 hours from providence. day trip!

. Head northwest on N Main St toward Steeple St
207 ft
2. Take the 1st left onto Steeple St
0.1 mi
3. Turn right at Memorial Blvd
0.3 mi
4. Take the ramp onto I-95 N
0.5 mi
5. Take exit 23 to merge onto RI-146 N toward Woonsocket
10.7 mi
6. Slight left to stay on RI-146 N (signs for Worcester Ma)
Entering Massachusetts

5.5 mi
7. Continue on MA-146 N
18.0 mi
8. Take the ramp to Springfield/US-20/Boston/Massachusetts Turnpike/I-90
0.3 mi
9. Merge onto Rte-20 Conn
0.1 mi
10. Turn left to merge onto I-90 W/Massachusetts Turnpike W
Partial toll road

48.5 mi
11. Take exit 4 for I-91/US-5 toward Springfield/Holyoke
Partial toll road

0.2 mi
12. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for I-91 and merge onto I-91 N
31.9 mi
13. Take exit 26 for MA-2/MA-2A toward N Adams
0.3 mi
14. At the traffic circle, take the 1st exit onto Mohawk Trail
0.7 mi
15. Continue on Main St
0.3 mi

Main St
Greenfield, MA 01301

don't you go home occasionally?

went and looked at 10,000 records yesterday that some dude had in a storage unit. he wanted everything out for a hundred bucks. we passed. tooooooooo much crud. my back hurt just looking at it. i would have had to take 75% of it to the dump. hell, if HALF of it had looked decent i would have gone for it. and i might have actually done it if he had paid ME to take everything. cuz that was a serious fred sanford situation. still, i feel bad about leaving some of the decent stuff behind. even if most of the decent stuff was old oddball stuff that i would have a hard time selling. even those records deserve a good home.

I do go home occasionally. I was thinking about going home next week actually, definitely sometime before Thanksgiving if I can manage it.

Looking through thousands of shitty LPs is a really sad task. Too bad the guy wouldn't let you take what you wanted for the hundreds--surely he could find someone to take the remainder for free?

And if they were in storage space...oof, I don't want to think about shifting all those boxes.

i have a feeling he's gonna call me in a few days and ask me to take them all for free. but, you know, we'd have to rent a u-haul and that always cost money. taking stuff to the dump costs money...

i tried really hard to find, like, TWO big boxes of good stuff to justify my time and back pain. this stuff must havee belonged to a dealer at one point. all the good stuff was gone. this guy (who has the records now) used to work clearing houses and buildings. he thought he could eventually make money off of them, but he never got around to it. i tried to explain to the guy that it was like looking at a baseball card collection with all the rookie cards missing.

"soooo... what are you doing with those yiddish 78s? any hot klezmer or cantorial hits??"

dude, ian, i hate to tell you, but this guy just happened to be walking by the store and he pretty much wiped me out:

http://russian-records.com/

great guy, by the way. and his wife was quite lovely too.

woah, cool website.

i figured they were going to a good home and that i would even be able to listen to some someday online!

talk about the one perfect person to walk into the store for that stuff...

the russian stuff was cool. lots of soviet tractor anthems. but lots of old folk stuff too.

there is an international video festival happening all around me today till midnight. so i'm gonna stay open all night. got a 12 pack. might need some more cigarettes though. definitely need a coffee. it's been fun so far. bought some musty records off of a guy. dude had that whole body alcohol smell. some decent normal rock though. then my pal sasha dropped off some more records. some good punk. which is ALWAYS good to have. people will buy punk records they already have just cuz its such a novelty to see decent punk records in a record store. or at least around here anyway.

hanging out at work drinking beers is great. usually start around 8pm on nights when i work til 10.

i'm gonna have to close for a minute or two to get some grub and some cigarettes. i keep hoping some kind soul that i know will pop in so that i can make them do it.

be there in four hours dude, hang in there.

so, in the spirit of the video festival, i am cranking long psych noize jamz and playing brainwaves by uli lommel on one t.v. and playing 1986 footage of dance party u.s.a. on the other t.v. many befuddled families walking in wondering if i'm an installation.

little girl walking around holding her ears. lol.

cd i'm playing is a live one by Century Plants. i love it. where do they live? i want them to come play in the store.

in your honor i just got a six pack at the grocery store across the street--academy records drinking Sol atm.

i got chinese food! and cigarettes! i closed for ten minutes. i'm drinking harpoon ipa.

the food is reaLLY spicy.

that's good! most chinese food around here is total garbage and totally not spicy, regardless of any little red chili pepper symbol on the menu.

only guy in the store right now plays with the flaming dragons. best band in massachusetts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehT-vQx0Onw

no, their red chili pepper symbol means business. that's why i like them. totally hidden next to the cumberland farms store. nobody ever in there, but all their stuff is always so fresh and good.

i got triple delight szechuan style, but it's way more food than i needed. cuz i also got house special fried rice and that's probably ALL i needed. oh well. leftovers tomorrow.

that is dope imo.
i like fried eggs over fried rice in the mornings!

this tuesday in the store some jazz, jass, and noize:

Bromp Treb vs. No Sound
Old Man Lee faces off with the newlywed Mr. Neil Cloaca

Ethan Snyder/Peter Bonos Duo
That drummer from Whoarfrost and you know the rest

Dave Gross/Liz Tonne Duo
Greenfield's weirdest collaborators back by popular demand

BLV (Boston Lamb and Veal)
Featuring Joshua Jefferson, Andrew Eisenberg, and Jules Vasylenko

7 to 10 p.m. be there or be squARE.

don't forget this monday in northampton too (um, tomorrow):

God Willing (philly dark textural beautiful guitar drones)
Pygmy Shrews (ny spazz o'clock rock freak outs)
Earth Crown (bmore scuzz flotsam)
Bill Nace / Noise Nomads (wmass harsh and heavy)

oh man god willing is my friend ren from way back! haven't heard from him in yearrrrs.

I like this thread, I was in a local record shop the other day and a gentlemen came in (a bit worse for wear) trying to sell a VHS tape of a pay-per-view Guns n Roses concert from the early 90s.

i don't expect anyone to come in today. holidays around here are veddy veddy quiet. but i got rekkerds to clean and price and i want the store to look spiffy for the show tomorrow night.

"cd i'm playing is a live one by Century Plants. i love it. where do they live? i want them to come play in the store."

albany

tell them to come play at the store.

show tomorrow at the store should be hott.

also, come to the phantom brain exchange later this month:

Sord
Erin Schneider
video by Torsten Zenas Burns + Darrin Martin
lecture on OULIPO by Laura Deutsch

Wednesday, October 28th, 9pm, Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376

that show will also feature yours truly deejay skot on the ones and twos. you know you want to be there for that.

and whatever you do DO NOT SLEEP on the show of the month.

october 31

hope & olive and john doe junior present:

A Bunnybrains Halloween Spooktacular

BUNNYBRAINS

BROOK BATTEAU & THE COSMOLOGISTS

MILKY DEATH

HEAVY LIGHT

DJ STUDEBAKER HAWK & DJ SKOT

COSTUME CONTEST WITH CASH PRIZES!

5 DOLLAR COVER

FREE WITH A JACK-O-LANTERN

AND MANY MORE SURPRISES!!!

oh right, that will be at Hope & Olive Restaurant at 44 Hope Street, Greenfield MA.

fukkyeah

great show tonight at the store! lotsa fun and a good crowd.

check these guys out. this is from the other night at the store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuq6JfeMAo

here's the full line-up for tomorrow and sunday at the elevens in northampton. i'm gonna try and make the saturday show. maybe. i mean, i'm lame, but i'm gonna try.

Saturday Night:

STARTS AT 10pm SHARP!
-----------------------------
Parts and Labor
Bill Nace / Okyung Lee duo
Jake Meginsky / Vic Rawlings duo
Cellura Peptoid
SQRM
Keith Fullerton Whitman
DJ'ing by Black Sand: Jeremy Pisani and Conrad Capistran
Films / Projections by Ted Lee and Zach Ianazzi

Sunday Night:
Starts @ 8pm
------------------------------
Noise Nomads / Id M Theftable Duo
Fat Worm Of Error
Crespo / Schneiderman Duo
Matt Krefting
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Ducktails
Sam Gas Can
Video by Alexis Arcaro and Matthew Newman-Long
Readings by: Byron Coley and Ben Hersey

$6 each night
21+ (sorry!)

show tonight at the store:

Monday at John Doe, Jr.

Mr. Uterus & Friends, loops & whoops.

Northpoletapes, scrape, scrape, scrape.

D.B.Russell, yours truly.

FLAMING DRAGON OF MIDDLE EARTH!

also, bunnybrains halloween party at hope & olive was tons of fun! shout out to ilxor herb alpert for rockin' things as well with his lovely wife.

and don't forget the awesome show tomorrow night at elevens:

Tuesday November 3rd
EARLY SHOW
@ The Elevens

Chris Corsano / Mick Flower Duo (US/UK)
Ashtray Navigations (UK)
Jack Callahan (US / St. Louis)

21+
8pm
$7

brg30 is asleep in the rocking chair in the store. he looks like an angel!

lolo classic!!

her: what kind of books do you sell here?

me: what kind?

her: you buy the books, right? what is all this?

me: um, i don't know, it's an assortment...

her: i keep looking and expecting to see certain things that aren't there.

me: um...

her: between that and the music...

me: you don't know where you are?

her: i don't know what's going on.

me: you don't know where you are.

her: i keep thinking that i'll see something that i recognize. it's very strange.

me: that's fiction over there...

her: it definitely makes me curious!

was she carrying a log

LOL amazing convo

that's great!

shows coming up at the store:

Sunday November 15th

Slasher Risk
Heavy dual guitar mangling (NYC)
Grasshopper
Trumpet duo with electronics, peaking waves of pulsating electric mire (NYC)
Cave Bears
Making Loud
Gastric Lavage
Chris Dooley

Friday November 20th

White Limousine, Impatient Truck plus Special Guest
Chris Cooper, Jess Goddard & Joshua Vrysen
Rotten Apples
members of Dreamhouse & Exusamwa
Les Des Gustor
Pioneer Valley debut
Sord
Sharp songs ultra lo-fi piano and drums from Brattleboro

greenpoint took greenfield last night! if you get a chance to see slasher risk or grasshopper, i highly recommend them. great noise all around. they inaugurated my basement last night. sounds great down there too. great basement-y vibe. plus, you can get nice and loud and nobody is the wiser.

one of the guys from grasshopper also has the Baked Tapes label and he gave me a bunch of releases to sample and possibly put in my noize column. very nice people. not a lot of people to see them, sadly, but everyone had a great time anyway.

was really hoping slasher risk would play providence but I don't think they did

something so satisfying about selling molly hatchet records to guys who REALLY look like molly hatchet fans.

show tonight about a block from my store. be there or be square:

tonite
bank row studios
4 federal street
greenfield, MA

the warblers
manuel mota
mv & ee with the golden road (corsano/rongoose)
witch

7:30

didn't actually go see this. but i stayed open late and nice dudes from witch and chris c. came in and bought records.

:D

playing at the john doe mothership on dec. 12:

diane cluck
dec 12th
jean deux
339 warren st hudson ny 12534
8pm
5$
jeandeux.com

these guys who just came in must have been friends of ian's. they bought up all my jerry jeff walker records and the stanley brothers record on county that i had. and some other country stuff.

your buddy over at mystery train is selling a few nice-lookin yazoo recs on ebay this week!

he's really nice. i don't really know him but he sends people to my store all the time.

jerry jeff is gonna be as hip as townes & snock in a few years i bet.

(or at least, he should be.)

this guy came in and spent hours looking at records and then explained to me that he was going to start selling records on ebay and that's why he was buying records. he wanted to know everything i knew about selling on ebay. he said he didn't know much yet about record prices. he was gonna buy a lenny bruce album i had and he asked me if i had looked it up already. i said, um, yeah, probably. i wished him luck. he spent 65 bucks.

sheesh.

i mean, not that i would NEVER buy an underpriced record from a friend's store to flip, but that's just bad manners, right??

yeah, he was weird and kinda clueless. but also, you know, just guileless. i always figure whatever you do with stuff you buy is your own business, but he just seemed kinda nervous about the whole idea of selling records. it was weird. he had a friend who had made a lot of money apparently selling records. thus the interest.

it's official, Turn It Up is opening a store right near me here in greenfield. like, a block away. i think it will be good. plus, i'll have a place to browse in town! i am the only record guy here now. they sell records and lots of cds including new cds. which is cool too cuz the FYE store here blows. Turn It Up has a store in northampton and brattleboro and keene new hampshire. never been to the keene one. the brattleboro store is decent. i never go to the northampton one but i should cuz i know they get good stuff there. and chris cooper works there and he's a really nice guy/musician. oh and they have a small store at the montague book mill but i hear that might be closing. never found any good vinyl there. and raven books of northampton is opening a store in the same general spot here. they sell used books and remainders. and i think a coffee place is going in. and my friend maggie is opening a gourmet pizza place on the same block. greenfield is happening! i just had to move here to get the ball rolling. DEAD week this week. compared to last week which was a really decent week. so i've been ebaying to pass the time. got a bunch of stuff up.

i want to move to greenfield, will you take me? i'll babysit the boys so you & maria can go out on the town!

you should! get sick of crooklyn first though. you've got a pretty good spot there it seems.

just got back from the brain exchange. tonight was:

MPBE #25:
Form a Log. Dog Synth. Jackson Hoose.
videos by Rose Mackey.
lecture by Cloaca. vaporattack (dj).
Wednesday, January 27th at 9pm. $5 admission.
The Rendezvous. 78 Third St. Turners Falls, MA 01376

it was fun. dj vaporattack was noise nomads dude. he laid down the phat beats. didn't stay for jackson hoose sadly cuz got too tired. dog synth was from baltimore. dug his really dirty sweater. was hoping he would lay down some bmore club trax but alas it didn't happen. or maybe it happened after we left...

<3 noise nomads dude. jeff is his name, right? oldskool providence guy.

yes, jeff. he played lotsa noise and hardcore and field recordings and bob & doug mckenzie.

skot, you should turn Maria's back room into a head shop. keep ahead of the competition...

people in greenfield would love that! well, some of them would...

maggie was convincing me last night to close on mondays. so, i'd be open tuesday to saturday. she is all for the five day work week. i might go for it. i was telling her how i was doing ebay in the store this week and actually getting annoyed when people came in to bug me while i was working! ha! if i was closed monday i could go out and about thrifting/looking at records/ebaying/whatever...and sunday would be my day to hang with the family. makes sense. being open six days doesn't give me a lot of time to go anywhere or get stuff done. plus, i'm old and feeble.

and until ian moves to greenfield to help me out i am only a one man operation.

i'll do your ebay listings for two eggs in the morning, a sandwich at lunch & rufus's leftovers for dinner.

^^ dependent on how ian wants the eggs cooked, id say thats a pretty chill deal

got another one of those "do people listen to records i don't know anyone who listens to records they don't still make records do they" guys just now. he turned out to be okay though. i didn't have to hit him. and he bought a ten dollar r. crumb collection from me, so all is forgiven.

im shocked that someone buying an r.crumb collection would be shocked (or feign shock) at people being interested in records

yeah, it was weird. turned out to be a pretty nice guy. people are strange though.

guy came in asking for michael jackson and i handed him a copy of thriller and he said how much and i said oh six bucks is fine. he got really happy and said that newbury comics wanted 40 dollars for a copy. *sigh* IT'S OVER PEOPLE. RESUME SELLING MOST COMMON ALBUM IN THE WORLD FOR REASONABLE PRICE AGAIN. THANK YOU.

newbury comics sells used LPs?!

all the ones I've been to only sell new ones

just used CDs

prolly this

http://www.amazon.com/Thriller-Michael-Jackson/dp/B0011ETNXE

yeah. they were selling new Beatles and Stones albums for $35 last time I was in one

ah, okay, gotcha.

i never go to newbury. there is one in amherst. yeah, he must have meant the reissue vinyl. i guess? i didn't ask. still overpriced whatever the hell it is.

i should actually check out that store though and see what new vinyl they have.

wowee zowee this woman i know kinda (i bought some records off of her before) came in with a box of mostly crud and said that she had three more crates in her truck. i went out to look and it was like ian's wet dream. three boxes of old tyme fiddle and banjo stuff. get this though: 32 john fahey records! 32!

she was happy with the money i gave her but i didn't feel like it was enough so i told her if i put any of it up on ebay and got good money for it that i would give her a cut. cuz i'm cool like that. and i like her.

um, four copies of death chants? if you say so. just in case something happens to your backup copy and then something happens to that copy and then something happens to that copy. i guess.

holy shit! fahey madness

and if you are asking yourself: well, if you didn't think you gave her enough why didn't you give her more? well, cuz that's all i had on me to give. and my checking accounts are low at the moment.

lotsa yazoo and county stuff.

any interest in an ILX set sale?

scott, can i post a list of my desired County titles? i know the yazoos are more $$$ so imo you should got the ebay route, but there are some counties i need! i need the red fox chasers LP, and uh, volumnes 3 & 4 of charlie poole, i think. and uhh.. maybe some more.

yeah im not averse at all to ebay-like prices if the condition is good and i can combine shipping...

i can post which ones i got.

yeah i need to ebay the stuff worth ebaying but the twenty and under stuff i would sell you guys. if you wanted any of it.

sealed copy of georgia stomps on table of the elements. that's ebay bait.

awes thanks dude! link to yr ebay sales, too!

sometimes i feel funny about mixing ilx with my ebay...i don't know why. i am a good ebayer 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK and all that. its like family and money or family and business or something like that? i dunno. i'm a weirdo.

the sealed thing...it boggles my mind. i just sold a sealed carpenters record for 125 bucks...

yeah, i feel u abt ebay. it sounds like the same thinking that makes me not share which records im watching from friends i think could possibly be watching the same ones. easier if it's a FREE MARKET or something...

xpost lonely record dudes need virgin, unplayed vinyl

my kingdom for one xhuckx who can appreciate my dollar bins! i've got boxes of pristine 80's R&B and nobody even cares. so sad. are people like me so rare? if i have time i go thru everything in a store. unless its obvious that a store's dollar stuff is just the dregs of the earth. then i won't bother usually. i respect the dollar record. are my boxes totally crap free? no. sometimes i get lazy and throw some stuff in a box cuz its handy even if the condition is kinda poor.

having said that, i loved my store yesterday. i got to keep the door open cuzza the nice weather and lots of people stopped by and people brought me cool stuff and i sold cool stuff. it was nice.

oh and the other night was fun too. cool cats came and played some music. bob fay and his group with greg (from feathers) and others was really nice. whyte kastles! that's their name. greg and i talked records for a long time. he buys and sells. nice bunch of people in the store.

the band we had playing a couple of weeks ago from brooklyn were cool too. Father Figures. jazz horn stuff. i dug it.

crazy-ass old 45 collector here forever with a huge stack of stuff and i think he's gonna live here AND he's from boston and has a cab driver from boston here with him and the cab driver is getting antsy. cab driver apparently drives him around all over the place to buy 45s. i'm scared...

if he has money to pay the cab driver, he has money to pay you. so what's to worry about?

that's he's gonna hand me a hundred 45s and ask to pay a quarter a piece for them.

are you one of those guys who doesn't have price stickers on anything??

i have prices on everything. some people don't care about things like that.

a cab from BOSTON???? what's that gotta cost?!

yeah, i mean, if he's buying a lot of records and asks for an insane deal just politely tell him you're willing to give him a break (10%?) but need to pay yer rent. does he have the air of an insane man? (aside from taking a cab around to buy 45s.)

lol plugged into a generic taxi fare calculator it cost 335 bucks.

that wasn't actually THAT bad. he haggled. thing is, he took a lot of stuff that had been sitting here since i opened, so he kinda did me a favor. 50 cent and dollar stuff. i gave him a really good deal. he spent $155 bucks. he had, like, a dozen tapes (he collects tapes!) and i just gave them to him.

tbh riding in a cab chattin and listening to NPR from boston to record stores then back sounds like a kind of great day!

cab driver says he's a millionare who owns a lot of boston real estate. he NEVER sells records. so god only knows what kind of insane record fortress he has. this guy tj down the road with the insane jukebox 45 stash told me about him last year actually. he would come to tj's once a month by cab and load up. AND apparently tj sold all his 45s - has had hundreds of thousands of 45s - for a pittance. which i can understand. cuz you would have to have a tractor trailer truck to haul them away.

thinking of hitting brimfield in may. never been.

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hahahahahahaha!

i can't tell you how happy it makes me to sell classical vinyl! it doesn't happen often, but when it does it's so cool. i have good stuff too.

you mean real classical right, not like robert ashley and pauline oliveros recording themselves making eggs or something right

right! the real deal stuff. stuff that most people don't even bother trying to sell.

do you mean good stuff like rare stuff, or can you discern how good the recording/performance is? this sounds like an idiot question, but i am such a n00beroo when it comes to real-deal classical.

not rare, really, just super-clean euro pressings and boxes and the like.

show next friday night. poster should say john doe jr. but i didn't make it, yak snot made it. nice poster though!

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hey scott is Dan's place in Hudson appointment-only now? my wife is visiting there at the end of the month.

e-mail him if you are gonna be in hudson. he'll probably be around. inter-ilx e-mail should work.

i'm all for the wormtown fest being in town this weekend, but hippies are too cheap to buy records :(

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garaj mahal? gimme a break

great time last night. cake, beer, friends, family, niceness. ilv's own herb albert and mrs.herb albert brought the space jamz with their luverly duo and nina violet and sister rocked the house and acoustic bunnybrains brought the pitch dark terror.

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guy spent $150 on records and told me that he just wanted them for the covers to "wallpaper his music room". he let me keep the actual records. and took the covers. which, you know, will work out okay some day when i find a trashed copy of zeppelin 3 with a nice cover. but still...

jeeze, that's so weird!

o_O

"i'm looking for stuff by that 70's punk band from england who had a song like "transfusion" and they had a controversial name and the singer had schizophrenia and died..."

"um, joy division?"

"yeah, that's it!"

looooooool

i still need to make it over to your store one day. i'm in MA too, although probably relatively far away

the lead singer of FAT just came in my store! love fat. or at least the first album anyway. haven't heard the second album yet. he just came in for change for the parking meter, but by the time he left he told me he would bring me sealed fat albums and unreleased fat jams on tape! can't wait to hear that stuff. he was nice enough to give me a sealed copy of the 1st album reissue cd with bonus tracks and a solo album he made down south in the 90's. fat were huge around these parts in the 70's. glad he didn't go to the thai restaurant for change. i don't think they are fat fans. he was an amazing singer. probably still is. when we first moved here there was a story in the paper about a guy originally from here who died in florida and his dying wish was to have fat play at his funeral.

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FAT

PRETZEL WALRUS IS IN THE HOUSE.

WAAAAAAH tell him hi hi hi

I WILL.

gotta tell me what he buys too

he got a jade warrior album. american vertigo pressing. and, um, i forget already! nice to meet him! and his traveling companions too.

Scott - what are your hours tomorrow? Thought I'd swing bye on my roundabout route to my Uncle's in Amherst.

11 to 7.

feel kinda bad about pretzel walrus's timing. two days after he was here i rehauled the entire store and priced old stuff down and put out hundreds of new records.

you going to mystery train too? you gotta go there. and i'll understand if you spend all your money there. they rule.

I'll check it out - haven't been to Greenfield in at least 15 years.

the kids are rockin' this saturday nite at the store. come on by if you, um, move to the region before then.

brick mower:

http://www.myspace.com/brickmower

the young leaves:

http://www.myspace.com/brickmower

period girls:

http://www.myspace.com/periodgirls

and Snow White too. don't think they have a myspace. and Lord Jeff, i think too. it's hard to remember. i'm looking forward to Period Girls. they sound rad. i like that other people put together shows cuz its always a surprise!

the name PERIOD GIRLS is pretty good

EZ SNAPPIN IN THE HOUSE.

If you're anywhere in the neighborhood you need to go; Scott, Rufus and Maria are wonderful company and the store is a minor miracle filled with far too many legitimate treasures.

Great meeting everyone and I'll be up tomorrow night if I can.

got rid of my last box of free records. 20 boxes? in 2 weeks or so. maybe a little longer. glad i didn't have to go to the dump.

band played at the store a while back and wrote about it on their blog. description of me is pretty darn accurate! glad i make a nice first impression:

"John Doe Records Jr. is such a cool records shop too. If you can make it out to Greenfield, MA, stop here. It's almost like they don't know how good they got it there. "Oh, yeah. Here's a copy of 'Freedom of Choice.' Give me $3 for it. Oh yeah, and here's some Replacements records. Ehh, I'll take $4 for 'em," says the casual beer sippin' stoner dad. WHAT THE FUCK ."

uh oh herb albert is in the house. he's gonna clean me out of my boots randolph collection.

replacements records for $4 is quite a steal, I must say. those fly out of our shop at around $10.

i don't actually remember selling replacements records for four dollars, but if they say so.

beer sippin stoner dad musta been off his rocker.

dealer from NYC came in last week and bought, like, a hundred of my dollar records.

maria is making me do fmu record show this year. but only one day. saturday. what should i bring? i'm thinking i'll bring my entire latin section. which is only about a hundred plus records. but unless its funky nobody buys my other stuff.

is the wfmu show just the sound of a thousand people checking their blackberrys for record prices online now? kinda sad if thats true.

i think the wfmu record fair is probably a lot of ppl doing that combined with old smelly record dealers socializing with each other. i might try to go this year. i haven't been for a few years. i usually find one or two things i really want and then buy a bunch of crap just cuz ya know, it's there.

i can always find stuff anywhere so i'm guessing i would probably find lots of stuff. and i would probably see a lot of people i know.

since Skot's on siesta I wanted to give a shout-out to the amazing Wickermania WMass weirdo show at the store last Thurs. got to show my old buddy and fellow ILXer Snop Snitchin the vinyl Mecca where he picked up a phat stack, mostly using ILV as a catalog (like I get to do). dude scored the Rare Earth that was Tip of the Week a while back.

who r these idiots?

"I am both a musician & collector and I am always looking to add to my ever-growing LP collection.

Here's the deal...

I am looking to purchase your GOOD records... a few sides or an entire collection.

SO HERE IS WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR ((PLEASE READ CAREFULLY))

LPS IN VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT/MINT CONDITION. 1950'S THROUGH EARLY 70'S.
I AM NOT EVEN REMOTELY INTERESTED IN LPS FROM THE MID-70'S/80'S/ETC.

LP COVERS CAN NOT HAVE RING-WEAR, WRITING, TAPE/STICKERS, ETC. RECORDS CAN NOT HAVE HEAVY WEAR/SCRATCHES OR DAMAGE TO LABELS.

ALSO NO REISSUES/BAR-CODES/LATER PRESSINGS/ETC. I AM ONLY INTERESTED IN ORIGINAL PRESSINGS.

I WILL OFFER YOU MUCH BETTER PRICES THAN ANY LOCAL RECORD SHOP. I AM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR WITH NO OVER-HEAD/EXPENSES. I CAN NOT GIVE YOU BOOK VALUE BUT IT WILL BE MUCH BETTER THAN YOU WOULD COME CLOSE TO FROM ANY SHOP.

PLEASE BE AWARE: I ONLY PURCHASE WHAT I WANT SO PLEASE NO "AS A LOT SALE ONLY" OR "NO CHERRY-PICKING"
"CHERRY PICKING" IS EXACTLY WHAT I DO: I DON'T BUY CRAP.

HERE IS HOW I ROLL: CASH IN HAND. NO GAMES. I AM VERY REASONABLE & FAIR IN ALL MY DEALINGS. I DO BUSINESS THE WAY I WOULD LIKE TO BE DEALT WITH: FAIR & HONEST.

EMAIL WITH "RECORDS" IN SUBJECT TITLE. ALSO PLEASE INCLUDE A TELEPHONE CONTACT NUMBER W/BEST TIME TO REACH YOU. I DO ALL COMMUNICATION BY PHONE ONLY.

HERE'S A CHANCE TO EARN A LITTLE EXTRA COIN FOR YOUR HOLIDAY...

HOPE TO HEAR & HAVE A ROCKIN' DAY!

BEST :o) "

HAVE A ROCKIN' DAY!

sheesh, what a mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD9DMQmzzE8&feature=related

RUSH SIGNALS
YES DRAMA
that SIX ORGANS PSF THING ( prolly worth $$ at this point)
oh man that couch looks real real comfy, I am slightly drunk and need couch
yr store looks ruling, skot

i left that billy bang record at amoeba this weekend -- is it good?

glenn macdonald in the house!

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rrrrrrrrobyn in the house tonight!

Robyn is the best imo.

next time she goes to her priestess camp deal I think I might take up a bus up to Greenfield! To hang out! And to shop for records!

you know you really should.

i know! can i sleep in your basement

the bASEMENt is pretty cold this time of year.

i will bring a three-legged mutt to keep me warm.

dude ive said it before and i'll say it again you ever get tired of hanging in brooklyn western mass and surrounding area is the friggin beez neez. cool people cool food cool water. just me and rufus and cyrus and maria and all these mv and ee's and noise nomads rockin on the porch with good weed and cheep records. have i said enuff? i think i have.

a friend of mine who is a world-renowned artist has her studio around the corner and she got a turntable and she is really into getting records to play for when she paints. so she asked me to pick out records for her and she would give me a hundred bucks. she likes 70's rock and quirky stuff. she likes cool album covers. this is what i came up with. i wanted good art-making music. and i threw in some 80's stuff that might be conducive to creativity too.

died pretty - free dirt

doctors of madness - figments of emancipation

robert fripp - the league of gentlemen

7" up! singles only! uk 78-82 (post-punk/diy comp)

beaver & krause - all good men

curved air - air cut

deaf school - 2nd honeymoon/don't stop the world 2fer

the 012 - let's get professional

michael urbaniak's fusion featuring urszula dudziak - heritage

steve hillage - fish rising

the mothers of invention - weasels ripped my flesh

captain beefheart - the spotlight kid

philip glass - north star

yaz - you and me both

ray manzarek - carmina burana

10cc - bloody tourists

world party - private revolution

steely dan - countdown to ecstasy

suzi quatro - suzi...and other four letter words

tourists - should have been greatest hits

toyah - anthem

paul winter/winter consort - icarus

vangelis - opera sauvage

it's fun helping someone start a record collection! (she has been coming in and buying stuff almost every week since christmas. she picks records based on covers a lot.)

so good. fish rising!

could be close to 8k or more records. and i probably won't need 2 or 3k of those. (moved from the ILM Thread for Cassettes)

christ, what kind of stuff?? i gotta start making room now, been wanting to overhaul the vault for a while but have a hard time letting go, an injection like this is just what I need to force some tough love

um, lots of rock, but its all over the place. went there yesterday to check it out. boxes in the attic. boxes in the basement. boxes in the shed. great store stock stuff. i didn't even go through half of it. condition kinda all over the place, but i made a good deal for it all, and it will be worth my while. just gonna be hell dealing with it all. i'll close on monday so that i can sort and sift in the store. most of the stuff i'll want to keep will go in the basement. the rest i can let you go through and whatever is left i'll ask Big D (don't know if you know him. he works at the co-op.) to take. he loves taking my free boxes. he's got thousands of 45s at his place courtesy of me.

its a rag tag collection. not like some bagged and shelved pro collection. its from tag sales and flea markets and god knows where else. but i'm a rag tag kinda guy.

Store looks good. I like a record store diary. Wanted to ask you a question: I bought about 10 records recently from an expensive museum-y keep-it-on-the-shelf kind of place. The records all look real clean and unscuffed, but when I played them at home they sounded crackly and i felt a little robbed. Are there cleaning systems that are dishonest for a record store to use? Or might a record store use a shitty cleaning system without knowing it? On a different day at the same store I pulled out a twenty dollar copy of the first Mink Deville record and I looked at the price and was like, "Whatever, let me hear it." They didn't have a listening station but they could "put it on," and the guy was all smiley and said it sounds great but it was crackly too and I was thinking that these guys are kind of friendly smiley assholes.

Also, in reference to the above, I wouldn't think "omg so cheap" to six or eight dollar replacements records. Straight four in 2011 is cheap, though. Would expected records in Brooklyn to all be $1,000.

hmmm, i don't know. i would have to see and hear the records. its fairly common for a record to look great, but play with surface noise. i mean, it happens. i doubt they are cleaning their records dishonestly. i probably wouldn't shop much in a store that sold mink deville records for 20 dollars though.

Yeah, record shopping sucks in Orlando and I take a bite-the-bullet attitude sometimes when I get fed up with thrift store records or I want something I can't find at Florida's Dying, which is real small and stocked only with new stuff. I know Mink Deville is store stock territory, but I thought times could've changed and I was in impulse buy sacrifice mode. Didn't pay twenty bucks on that Cabret,ta though; bought Coup de Grace for eight and felt only mwinimal buyer's remorse. It had a NORMAL crackly sound that matched up with the way it looked.

Record shopping just sucks in general. I'm not at all finicky about sound quality but I always feel like I'm about to get ripped off, of I feel priced out of the competition to buy records I really want to listen to.

bam :(

especially this:

"Record shopping just sucks in general."

The bay area was cool because I'd go to an elephant sale and do three for ten on three records I was actually looking for. Don't get me wrong, this is my primary hobby and I've been unhealthily hemorrhageing money on records, lately, but I wish I had a good honest resource. Some of these guys running stores should be stuck at guitar center, if you ask me.

My favorite purchases lately have been from the two totally out of touch, out competed dudes who never rotate or discount their diseased old ass stock that nobody wants. I pretend I'm not spending what I am. Plus Florida has this serious brain drain problem, so the demographics of people getting rid of records is quite different. The retirees aren't a good source.

where's scott??

had a nice visit from ilxor Hadrian VIII. what a nice guy! we had a long chat.

hey scott, do you have any shows this week?

yeah this friday.

cool, i'm in way western mass for a job this week, I might be able to make it out

Jason Lescalleet/Greg Kelley Duo + Matt Krefting

Friday, August 17 at 8:00 PM

Location: John Doe, Jr. Used Books and Records
269 Main St., Greenfield MA

Scott, it was a pleasure to meet you on Saturday and pick up a few LPs. I will try to send other westbound pilgrims your way!

i love matt krefting. the first time i met him was circa 2004 in rural michigan. few hours north of madison in a town called soldier's grove. his band son of earth was playing and i was 'finding myself' on my first ever solo road trip. i ended up in a tent with him, aaron & john from son of earth, roger adultery & some of his band... drinking box wine and whiskey, waiting out the rain that started during Spires That In The Sunset Rise.

Last time I saw him, well, I was out of it and I felt bad for not being able to really hang.

dude, los. knowing yer taste from the lps you post, yer gonna plotz. set a hard limit or you'll end up buying 200 $1 records.

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