ILV clubhouse

the problem is to run that gauntlet again
remove problem
remove gauntlet
remove run
remove is to
remove the
remove that
leave this
make this whatever

i am sitting in a clubhouse

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PLXUl2AlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

We've been separated
baby
far too long

very titanically

xp welllllllll shit. look who wants to start collecting records again.

i never collected records
i just listen to records

YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN

BOYS ARE BOYS AND GIRLS ARE CHOICE

this is exactly the traffic i was hoping for.

I dig Mirror Traffic

brb

i killed the thread with my indie rock BS

Saw a trailer for upcoming on TLC My Crazy Obsession, makes me look around at the piles and shelves of record with trepidation
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/my-crazy-obsession-my-crazy-obsession-sneak-peek.html

i never collected records
i just listen to records
words of wisdom

maria got a new record in the mail by a dude from hella and a dude from quasi. there's your indie rock for you. i was nice enough to put it on just now instead of my dumb thud rock.

well it would be THE dude from quasi. there were only two people in quasi. also i know he was in a band with elliot smith, right? see, i know something!

quasi-knowledge

that would be Sam Coomes from The Donner Party!

hey I brought some chips and salsa for the clubhouse

do you guys mind if i smoke

i'm making notes on disco 12"s. breakdown + or breakdown -. vocals: diva, male, female, falsetto, group, effeminate. female sex voice. Breakup, seduction, love, call to dance, carpe diem.

clavinet

anyone want some grapefruit

I've got whiskey and Tecate

still annoyed i forgot to listen to Leapday Night on Leapday night. and i've moved my Smog lps up to 'C' to be with the Bill Callahan records.

Ha I saw Bill Callahan play at small bar in Beaumont,TX. It was my second time seeing him, first time being in Austin in 97. I saw him standing over by the bar and saw my chance to talk to him. But when I tapped him on the shoulder I was suddenly star struck and blurted out, "You're Smog" and he said "Well I'm just Bill Callahan now, but yeah" I mumbled about seeing him at the Electric Lounge years ago and how I bought his first tapes through mail order in high school. He was a nice guy, but I totally clammed up for some reason. He ended the conversation by saying hope you enjoy the show, maybe get rid of those old tapes.

he seems like one of those 'disown-the-old-stuff' types. how was the show? i saw him when Apocalypse came out and he was fantastic, really intense. a good friend of mine worked w/ him recording in the old days, and has horror stories about working w/ him back then.

The first time I saw him, he kept his back towards the stage most of the night, but he music was really good! He played 'Stick In The Mud and Chosen One, along with Stranger. His voice was different then, and imo better. The beaumont show was good, but different, he played songs I didn't know, but they were good. He faced the crowd, but I was left with this weird feeling that smog had grown up now. His shyness and anger at the first show was really impressive and heartening, the recent show, he felt weathered and happier.

i'm drinking a gin & tonic and making a reggae mix on tape. maria is filling in for the reggae guy tomorrow on the umass radio station. she is lazy like a reggae guy. but i don't mind. i'm having fun.

Scott I finally have a nice copy of Vance Or Towers, almost completing the list you made on another thread. I only have Trefethen and Boxer to find. Never got around to telling how much fun I've had searching for the records on that list, Howard Werth & the Moonbeams was really nice, all the Danny o"Keefe and Tim Hollier. Oh and Mick Greenwood's Living Game really impressed me. So many great records I've found because of it. I would love a second list of similar odd and ends.

i don't even know what list that is!

seems like a good list though. oh wait i would say that...

i never ever see that vance or towers album. ever! which seems weird that i wouldn't come across one other copy of it. but i haven't. probably on ebay for a buck.

It's taken me almost a year to find it. I lost twice bidding on it. Found a wreaked copy that cleaned up nice, but the cover was laughable. But this week some guy posted a nice clean copy with a buy it now for fourteen dollars, I bought it 5 minutes after it was posted! The were the band on Carrie!!

annie and i got cheesesteaks, did laundry, watched the top chef finale, and now are watching the office.

i found one of those craig leon NOMMOS bootlegs at aquarius -- anyone need it?

i think we're moving to oakland.

overslept a little bit, getting ready to go to work, drinking day old coffee over ice.
think we're going to see RANGDA & Steve Gunn tonight at Zebulon even though it'll probably be super packed to the point of being uncomfortable.
got a sun ra bio yesterday for a couple bucks--also got the Calt Skip James bio early this week at a thrift store.

mornin club

over at that unfriendly board i learned of some Bill Fay reissues, including my favorite, From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock. keep meaning to check out Rangda, i fear it's too macho for me.

rangda is so good.

hey

Looks like rain here, good house cleaning day

unfriendly board?

the unfriendly board is waxidermy

hangover
coffee
eventually i will get Lower Dens record

sonny bottari was a let down, middling soulful rock, maybe 1 great song. bummed out

really really pretty in oakland today. annie's getting her bangs trimmed after work in SF, so imma go plunder amoeba, then meet her and some friends for dinner and a drink.

i started thinking yesterday about doing this records road-trip sometime this year. the plan is to rent a car/van, set out from SF/oakland, and head up to portland, stopping EVERYWHERE records might be for sale, in a crazed attempt to have tons of fun and find some finds. annie is in as long as we stop to eat. every night id do a little online sale, hawking the best of the day's finds, and mail them from the road. id stay out for a week total, maybe, crashing with friends along the way, and maybe popping for a hotel room once or twice if the finding is good.

doesnt this sound really fun?

that's basically been my life, it's so much fun. I haven't made any west coast trips, wish I could. I might be stuck working in Texas for the next few years which bums me out a little, I prefer being far away. The states up north are so easy to drive across, so on saturday and sunday, we could drive across Indiana into Kentucky or Illinois. Maryland was great too, cause in a few hours you could be in so many different states. In texas it takes hours to get out of Texas!

And so many other people are digging for records in Texas, last weekend we made a trip looking for records and so man places we stopped at, Antique stores or flea markets, we kept hearing the owners say, Ya know, just today someone else came by looking for records.

man, it sounds so fun. being in the bay area means you can kind of do this while stationary, since there's so many people w lots of records around here. but there's something to the romance of the road.

definitely!

great idea

69 just make sure you stop in Eugene :)

got a sun ra bio yesterday for a couple bucks--also got the Calt Skip James bio early this week at a thrift store.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, March 2, 2012 9:06 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

if this book is "Space Is The Place" then you are in for a treat.

yes, it is this book!

85 Electronic Music Vinyls

i guess nobody thought that was funny. i'm still allowed in the clubhouse though, right?

oh hell yeah.

as far as jokes go, you gotta make calls to make sales.

this is a gabba gabba hey space as far as im concerned

ok whew but i don't know what that means

so what's in store for the weekend? i'm going on a tour of modern architecture on the MIT campus (including the o.O Media Lab, not open to public) and continuing my addiction to Nurse Jackie.

I'm having a beer and waiting for ups to bring me my damn phone preamp.

who/what is nurse jackie?

phono preamp I mean

I'm DJ-ing a big party! 300 people or so. Tomorrow night. First time I've played out in a while, I've been nervously fussing with setlists.

xp: nurse jackie is a TV series about an ER nurse who's also a drug addict. Jackie is played by Edie Falco. it is great. we watch it on dvds from Netflix. my daughter (aged 21) was asking me about buying a turntable the other day, and i had to explain all about phono inputs/low-levels/need for preamp, what exactly STEREO means, wow such a big huge piece of my world is so ... esoteric and all but extinct. btw she's probably going to buy one of those cheesy USB type turntables anyway.

i need to sell a ton of records tomorrow. i sold a bunch today. my pal russell bought a bunch of 45s. i gave him s sweet deal. i bought so much stuff this month. too much stuff. but i can't help it. now i need people to buy buy buy. went to friends house tonight and had awesome tacos. steak grilled on the grill. steak tacos yum. wine. more wine. too many kids though. they kept jumping on me when i was chilling on the couch. damn kids.

I've looked everywhere and can't find the cord for my mixer. Also I had to give up on my Dad's old tube components, I have this newer amp that of course has no phono input. I order a preamp, paid extra for ups delivery, that was set to arrive Mar. 1st, It never showed up, so I waited all day today and it still hasn't arrived. I'm so disappointed! For weeks I've had to turn my volume all the way up to have any sound, and still it's quiet. Sorry to rant. I just want to listen to my record at full volume!

Scott I would buy record from you, but I bought too much last month and I think T is getting weary of my record buying.

yeah you gotta watch it. i gotta watch it! i find it hard to say no when people bring stuff into the store. good stuff. i'm good at saying no to crappy stuff.

scott do you sell on Discogs? someday i will make it out there.

i think it would be funny to buy records at Scott's store via Skype.

i do sell some pricy indie stuff on discogs. not much though. i have all that stuff in the store too and i price it way cheaper in the store than the price online. i definitely prefer to sell it in the store. discogs can be cool though. sold a broadcast 45 for 50 bucks and an 80's dance 12 inch for 50 last week. so, it pays to keep stuff on there forever.

oh hey just got a discogs invoice:

Order ID Item Buyer Fee
----------------------------------------------------------------
1168182-61 Christina Carter - Bastard Win $ 1.20
1168182-62 Mean Season - Grace $ 1.50
1168182-63 Jega - Phlax (12") $ 2.40
1168182-65 Modern Lovers* - Live At The L $ 2.70
------
Total: $ 7.80

discogs kinda great as far as not gouging you. ebay got like 600 bucks from me last month. and then they get paypal money, etc.

a weird batch of stuff:

http://www.discogs.com/seller/johndoejunior

wait, do i need that Mirror lp? I need to check, that's a sweet price regardless

I like selling on disocgs, just sold a Tom Tom Club 12" to a guy in Brazil. I wish there were a website for trading records.

me too. start listing here?

I would trade any of these records for the right record(s) http://www.discogs.com/seller/lolvalstein

hey cool clubhouse whats up

hi lamp!

going to go out thrifting soon, just finishing my coffee. expectations are low but there are 4 spots to hit easily within walking or bus loop of my home.
it's sunny!

I am not going thrifting but Monday is my day to dig in used bins, I usually hit two spots on the way to my radio show.

this thread makes me miss records. I have had to shift my attention lately.
There was a big documentary festival in Columbia last weekend. There was a movie called Searching for Sugarman, it is about Rodriguez.
I heard that it was really good, which is encouraging, seems like music docs can be lazy and bad a lot of times.

i got a cool glass vase at the thrift store and broke it on th way home :(

oof bud.

it's okay. i still got a weird bird painting and some stupid rock records to sell the the store. (ac/dc, anthrax, bruce)

and i am gonna go to 2 or 3 other spots after another cuppa cawfee and maybe some snacks

thrift scores for myself today--
grateful dead '75 boot 2xlp, TARKL sounds good! uh oh it's skipping.
2x williams gaddis hardcovers
a kinda marked up copy of 'blues people'

got some other books to trade to the bookstore, some more records to trade to the store--late horace silver, some graham nash, run dmc, etc.

which Anthrax did you get? I need Among The Living on vinyl

that is the one i got. it's VG+ iirc with a few scuff-type marks that may or may not sound, i haven't checked it yet.

which gaddis books?

agape agape and carpenter's gothic. gonna sell my carpenter's gothic paperback, may just sell agape agape instead of reading it. i have too many books.

agape agape is good!

they are all good!

i know we're talked about gaddis before, because i have complained abt not being able to wade through a frolic of his own.

yah we have. agape is rad though--probably my third favorite?

well i'll read it and then trade it to the bookstore.

i have too many books. i need to find a good bookstore that will give me trade credit or money. it's weird, i've lived here for 15+ years and I have regular sell/trade records places, but not books.

i almost never try to sell books for cash, it's just such a small return. but i like trading for stuff i want to read.

yeah, same here -- the place i thought would be really cool about giving me trade credit was quite stingy, and i just ended up donating most of the books i'd brought in to prison libraries.

^^ that's what I ended up doing as well, it is a good option

today I found the Smithsonian Anthology Of American Folk Music Vol. 1, never realized those were boxes and not gatefolds but it makes sense with the booklet. also some relatively cheap Joy Division reissue/upgrades.

i love giving good credit for cool books! cuz most people bring me stinky books.

<3 blues people!

a nice guy i like is moving and he gave me boxes of weird books for free and i got a cool hardcover dylan picture book by the guy who did the bringing it all back home cover. dylan hanging out in woodstock and recording and touring with his rock band. my fave dylan period, natch. it has a picture of what was gonna be the cover of tarantula but they didn't use it cuz they both thought it was too similar to the cover of BIABH. i listened to 2nd side of BIABH five times in a row this morning. top ten 2nd side of all time for me. top five even.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2xb76iGOM1qbeumgo1_500.jpg

i have that OJL record in the upper right!!!

Hey guys spent the afternoon with the midwife, she's nice and great, afterwards went searching for records and found Pete Jolly Trio and Friends's Little Bird! Also a odd maybe decent private press folkie lounge record.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr5ivc8q3a1qztkl8o1_500.jpg

Hey scott I really dig that record! Have you heard his second one?

yes i like that one too! glad you like it.

USPS broke a record i sent to a guy in washington state :(
it wasn't the most valuable item in the world, but it's a drag nonetheless.

hey ilv: i paid too much for for 'wed morning 3am' and 'heart food' but it was v v sunny and warm out today and i figure someone has to overpay for records

i am trying to convince the postdoc i share an office w/ the we should get a portable record player in here but he seems... unconvinced...

what is his postdoc in?

pollen!!!

i posted some more records on ebay after an afternoon of thrifting. aside from stuff listed i got a small stack of 3-6 dollar items i can sell to the store and for myself i got a lyrichord lp of african folk music with a bonket sleeve and an earl scruggs review lp.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/ooriono/m.html?item=251012337691&sspagename=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649&_trksid=p4340.l2562

i am trying to convince the postdoc i share an office w/ the we should get a portable record player in here but he seems... unconvinced...

It's really raining now! Still trying to solve my sound problem with recording vinyl. Anyone know a better free program for recording other than Audacity? Or do I just need to spend time figuring out the cleaning tools? I can't seem to remove the surface noise, noise removal just quiets the overall music, so I add the bass booster and it brings back the surface noise.

Hi there clubhouse, mind if i come in?

I was wondering if anyone here (Scott?) could tell me about this Morninglory lp i came across when pricing up some records for a fair. Its a great record - who were these guys and where were they from?

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f5b2f459628d9062793ca1412b283bc4/444024.jpg

is it two suns worth on fontana? i can't see the picture. i don't know much about the group. always liked the album though. "jelly gas flame" is a good one. kind of a minor west coast artifact, but well worth owning.

my pal vinylty is selling that right now.

this guy comes in my store twice a year with my wife and i'm kinda envious of his lifestyle. just goes up and down the east coast and into pennsylvania buying in stores and at shows and does like 3 or 4 big auctions a year. he has a dedicated following. he told me he has 3000 people on his email list that he contacts before he does an auction! he can get way above average prices for records just because people like buying from him. plus, i can't think of another ebay seller who mirrors my own listening tastes more exactly. its uncanny. most of what he sells is stuff i either own or would want to own.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/vinylty33.3/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

Thanks for the tip - i'll keep an eye out. Holy shit - he has some nice records. I'd be envious of his lifestyle if he was coming into my store with my wife!

Back to Morninglory though, this l.p is by a different band to the Jelly Gas Flame folks. Its called Growing - on Toya records - 1972.

oh even cooler. i love that label. i don't have that one though.

oh right not my wife his wife. need more coffee...

his wife is REALLY really patient.

this guy comes in my store twice a year with my wife and i'm kinda envious of his lifestyle.

As a typo, that's the talkover intro to an awesome fillum.

i even need coffee to remind myself that i'm drinking tea and not coffee.

2012 is my tea year. been drinking a ton of tea every day. i think i feel better! plus, much more economical. 15 bucks sets me up for the month.

someone should totally buy that Hot Dogs lp he's got up there -- only 5 bucks (pre snipes of course.) great, great record

I mentioned this before on ILV but I've bought from that dude a bunch of times. it *is* cool to buy a bunch of records at once, get a big package in the mail, and "save on shipping" and all of that, but yeah his auctions usually end way pricier than others. Plus, he makes it awful hard on a sniper like me because all of his auctions end within like seconds of each other! How does he do that? Is there some way to like batch upload a bunch of auctions at once?

on the other hand, he may be missing out on even higher prices precisely because he might be cutting on sniper types who want to bid on multiple auctions ending at the same time. unless, I guess, they use automated programs, which I gather are out there? I don't know, I do it all by hand. I'm old school. it keeps my hand-eye coordination sharp.

yeah you can have all your auctions go up at once. i think. i don't do it. he's a really nice guy. always buys a ton from me. his aesthetic is uncannily like my own. i actually get a kick out of seeing stuff he bought for a buck from me going for 10 bucks or more.

my beef with him is that he'll never sell me anything that he has in his car! car just loaded with boxes of treasure. my kind of treasure anyway.

haha i just came to this thread to talk about vinylty.

someone should buy this record--
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rio-Grande-Self-Titled-/400281407246?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d32a18f0e#ht_1993wt_1068

i have it already, and if it stays under 10 it's def worth it imo.

but yeah it's nuts. like $15 for a copy of jefferson airplane's "volunteers"

he comes into our shop a lot too.

so i finally flipped that VitaNova lp I scored last month in a bargain bin.

was wavering over the pros and cons of listing it on ebay - but in the end sold it locally, to collecting legend H@ns P0k0ra!

I spoke to him at the weekend at the local record fair, and he said was really interested but wanted to check the condition first. So he came over here yesterday, and we agreed on 700 euros. A bit less than the last ebay auction, but at least i didn't have to give a slice to BayPal or risk dodgy bidders, postal weirdness or chargebacks.

Plus it was nice to have a chat about records, collecting and all that kind of stuff.. I even showed a couple of records from my collection that he had never seen before - so got a bit of a buzz from that..

700 euros = 900 dollars in my digging fund for NYC/Boston in 3 weeks time!

good fundage!!!

another vinylty auction i've been digging on lately is this hard-to-google record by SIMPSON..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Simpson-Self-Titled-/400281445500?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d32a2247c#ht_1975wt_1068

nice work, Talcum!

Nice! poo is still champ though. get digging, dudes.

wow and you sold it to the acid king! didn't even see that. very cool. and yeah paybay would have taken a HUGE chunk of that. always go local when you can.

yeah.. i definitely made the right choice...

I just got an email from him a few minutes ago saying thanks for the record, and he also sent me some sound samples of records of records he thought i might like.. we talked a lot about Zamrock and other afro-psych stuff.. jesus this guy has OG's of everything! insane.. really nice guy..

yeah i can't even imagine his collection. bonkers.

i don't bid on vinylty's stuff cuz some is stuff i can't justify spending that much money on (for myself) and other records i would dig (that don't go for a ton) i figure i'll find eventually in a store around here. i mean its the kind of random stuff i buy when i go to my fave spots in western mass. really great place to be for me because there is so much of that stuff around. between turn it up in brattleboro and in the moment in brattleboro and turn it up in northampton and platterpus in easthampton and mystery train in amherst i have plenty of go to places for marginal rural rock/70's rock. god bless this place.

and then there is the stuff that just comes in my door...get good stuff that way too.

how is he getting $25 for that jesse winchester record

he's got the magic touch. people really like buying stuff from him. if you or me put that same record up nobody would even bid on it.

he sells almost EVERY record he puts up!

i mean how does he get 15 bucks for grand funk records!?

see, that jennifer warnes record, he might have bought that from me for 2 bucks.

i've actually won a few records from vinylty in the past for decent prices--People's Victory Orchestra for under $15, and this last batch got me a couple Yazoo titles that I need pretty cheap as well.

and by "pretty cheap" i mean $10-15 cheaper than I'd find 'em in a store in new york.

and i have a paypal balace from selling rockabilly 45s to europeans.

I've watching this guy's auction and wondering what the deal is. He has a copy of Ron Cornelius but I want a minty copy. I might get that Rio Grande and I kind of want that first Tom Waits.

That Ron Cornelius is a great record.

Found two copies in the wild in Vienna in the past year.. unfortunately not minty, but good enough for me..

Are the West LP's he's on any good?

I really love both West records! I think I like Bridges a little more, but the first one is great too. I've lost bidding on that record at least 5 times now! But I keep thinking I will get it for around 25 and it always sell just above my max bid.

The second has nice instrumental passages and has a little bit of a jazzy feel to it.

I like the West records but i'm not kerazzzy about 'em. There are some good songs though. Rural pop almost more than rural rock, but yer right about the instrumental passages on the seond record. they don't QUITE fit the mood, i feel, but they're fun. they were just a studio band yeah?

I think they were just studio guys, Ron Cornelius did a lot of studio work after West spilt up. Have you heard Link Wray's Be What You Want To? It's the only one I don't have.

i'm a big fan of the west records. mostly for that sweet production. you used to be able to get those for peanuts on ebay. nobody wanted them.

I didn't pay much for both of the West records, one I found in Houston at this great store called Black Dog where I've found a bunch of my favorite records. The other I won on ebay for 12.00.

that link wrecord is good imo! i like all his weird late stuff. i like the early instro/surf/punk kinda stuff too don'tgetmewrong, but i like SONGS.

Is that one along the same lines as his country-fried ones?

yep. i'm gonna put it on now!
jerry garcia plays steel on a chunk of tunes.
bromberg is there, peter kaukonen guests on the first track which i had never noticed til just now..

Yep I need that record

it's good music!

The self titled Link Wray is damn near a perfect record, it's like what the Stones were trying to make with Exile on Main St.

^^so true

they are both great!

can't they both be great?

great shack-ness on one. great basement-ness on the other. shacks and basements have different vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUsw5z66Jk

ahhh my boys.

Fuck yeah got a trip to my favorite used record shop in the region lined up for tomorrow with my favorite couple!
We'll probably get some BBQ, too. Love Saturdays!

xxp skot yes yes, i <3 that link wrecord, but i also love exile 4evr

Beans and Fatback is maybe both basementness and shackness?

I love Exile too

I like the idea that the Stones were "trying to do" something on that record, and yet somehow they fell short of the mark! lol

I kind of think the stones did fall a little short though, after listening to other records with the same vibe.

you don't want to get stormy going. could get ugly...

Similar vibes, not same

i found a bunch of fairport & related records today at housing works thrift store..
sandy denny - northstar, grassmen, ravens
ian matthews - later that same year (they had valley hi too but it was too beat up to buy)
albion band 'lark rise to candleford' (martin carthy, shirley collins etc.)
richard & linda thompson 'pour down like silver'
historia de la musica rock fairport edition
fairport live 87...

and some local rural/folk/country/rock record 'bright morning star' which is not that good. but i like a record on the same label, the pat decou & tex lamountain record.

and i got a dr. john 'autobiography'

i cannot imagine finding records like that at a thrift store. in ny, too, right?

yeah, in brooklyn. kinda surprising! they also had richard thompson's 'amnesia' and some steeleye span records and stuff. they were $2-3 tho, not $1. but still!

the lady said they were putting more/better records out in a couple of weeks for their spring preview event or something. so i'm gonna go that evening and see if there are any more cool uk folk rock titles.

jeez! the thrift stores around here: trashed Montovanis for DAYS. and, maybe a 'Rock of the Westies' if you're lucky.

i think i still have a copy of the cool karen silkwood tribute 45 that pat & tex put out. love the cover. they live/play around here.

bright morning star is something you see around here all the time.

i mean.. it's all very hit or miss. housing works does manage somehow to have better records, on average, than the salvation army, which has better records than the goodwill etc. i think you just have to get lucky. wait for the day some old hipsters kids donate his jazz records cuz they don't know what to do with em

the salvation army store here sends most of the records they get to the distribution spot in springfield. they never even hit the shelves. which sucks. i still find good stuff occasionally.

where do they go from springfield? salvation armies are definitely hit or miss. there is one super close to my apt and go there all the time, but it's probably less than 5% of the time i find something 'good.' but sometimes i find stuff worth selling. rarely.

well, you know, i found these 45s in january at the salvation army. so, it happens here.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/01/45s-i-bought-at-thrift-store-this.html

from springfield they just go to a bunch of salvation army stores all over the place. who knows. the store here just gets too much stuff to handle. guy who works there at night says they get TONS of records that they send to springfield.

and i found a minty copy of this last year. never been played. still in the shrink. i was sikkkkkked.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20071101/220166871052.jpg

found a townes van zandt promo there too. but its usually slim pickings.

dealer i know works in the back of the big store near northampton! fox guarding the henhouse. i don't think HE even finds that much there. i'm sure he gets enough to keep him happy though.

you know, a part-time dealer. not a full-time shark. he's a nice enough guy.

ha.
i was just gonna say, i wonder what getting a gig at a salvation army warehouse or donation center would be like..

Tx goodwills can be great if you hit them on a regular basis, salvation armies not so much. My best goodwill find was this record, which I wanted since I heard on wfmu, but never thought I would find it. It's like my exotica/lounge holy grail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-papp7Vbo

i was really happy when someone brought this into the store the other day in a box of records. great copy too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQc-WDMnow

Wow! That's another's one I keep in mind but never see. One day...

ian, funny that right after you posted that scruggs thing on youtube i pulled a copy of nashville's rock by earl scruggs out of a box in back. sounds cool. that's the record they were listening to in that youtube video. i'm guessing his boys played on it. produced by my fave bob johnston. speaking of West.

listening to in that OTHER youtube video. from that documentary.

saw Steve Reich last night. fantastic. he did a pre-concert talk first; turns out he's an extremely unpretentious affable guy, too. and 75 years old.

ps, thank you MIT, for bringing Terry Riley and Steve Reich to Cambridge in the last 6 mos.

Hey guys we're under a tornado watch here!

Had a good day at a small record fair in Norwich yesterday. Didn't sell too much but picked up a Mickey Newbury twofer & I Came to Hear the Music, Zen Arcade, upgraded my copy of Liege & Lief, found Compilation by The Clean for £4 and a crappy copy of NY's Freedom for £2.

I'd listened to the Groundhogs for the first time the night previous - mind blown. So i was on the lookout for Split. Couldnt see a copy for less than £20 so bought Hogwash for a fiver. I'm a cheapskate.

I never see Groundhogs records.

Split is an awesome record.. Managed to get that and "Thank Christ For The Bomb" in a trade a couple of months back after looking for them for ages..

ayo, just got 80 bucks for an empty cd case

nb: was signed by hunter s thompson

i have a signed thompson twins 12 inch. wonder what i could get for it?

Half-price on one that hasn't been scribbled on.

Just sold my first record to Japan and the guy kind of schooled me. He asked "Is this a Blue/white "New York, USA" blue Note labels and is Van Gelder and "Ear" stamped in dead wax? " I guess I need to look more closely at my records.

well was it?

Dexter Gordon's Go

the japanese have raised record collecting to a whole new level imo. sometimes i'll be looking up some obscure rural rock or ssw record and the only info on it will be all in japanese

Byw the way I have a Japanese Brigitte Fontaine, what do you do with the OBI? I was going to trow it away.

fold it and put it inside the jacket?

Does it boost the value of a record?

yes.

Better, put whole sleeve inside plastic protector.

hey whatsup guys, i lost my ipod this weekend so now i've just got my records to listen to. it's been pretty nice

every icloud has a shiny black lining..

anyone in the clubhouse?

yep listening to keith fullerton whitman, drinking a beer, thinking about what to make for dinner

SWEEEET

im playin donald byrd on my show right now. i dont know why, but i always kinda shrugged him off. but this ethiopian knights album is totally awesome.

hangin out killin the end of the workday.
drinkin some bourbon.
listening to sandy bull.

a dude i know just told me he's going to be putting out a ton of unreleased charlie tweddle recordings over the next few years. psyched. said he'd bring me a test pressing of the first volume.

fuck yeah! i wanna drink some bourbon tonight, too. my job tonight is to pack up all non-record media into boxes. that seems like a bourbon job.

Just put a pork loin in the oven to slowly cook in a fig walnut marinade. About to listen to records

awwww man, fig walnut glaze!
i'm reading this kinda dopey book about Blaze Foley, written by his ex-lover, and there is a part where Blaze is like "Let's plant some fig trees in the front yard, little onion--that's bible food!" made me lol

That's hilarious! We are planting a fig tree the day after our baby is born!

Fresh figs are good.

Been bummed cause I have no time to go digging for records, but watching lots of good stuff on ebay, Mike Fiems and Bunny Fitzgerald, and have you guys heard Thomas and Richard Frost self titled on Uni? Thinking bout getting it.

bunny fitzgerald! i have a copy of that record. thinking about selling it, but it's not in top shape (seam split on top, some scuffing & surface noise) so i may just hold onto it.

You have it??? How is it??

Thomas & Richard Frost is a nice mellow listen, kinda melancholy iirc. Don't own it--played for me by a friend sometimes a few yrs back.

Jacob: the bunny fitzgerald record has some cool 'psychy' weird beatnik-esque tracks and some pretty boring femme folk. only listened to it once or twice over the last few years, which is why i'm thinking of selling it. i'll re-listen tonight if I get a chance and give you a report! if you think it's something you really want we can probably work out a trade...

another record i'm thinking of selling in the same femme ssw/light-psych moves vein is the Sally Cowan LP, "Yankee Lady" which i've kept cuz of the joni mitchell & guy clark covers mainly.

I love their compilation of Rev-Ola but it's singles and a lost album, I think, but I heard their album is more folk-rock and less orchestrated popsike. And I'm totally down for that, trade or buy it now. The copy on ebay right now is sealed and I'm afraid it's going to leave my price range.

Gonna start my radio show with "little maggie" by Barefoot Jerry.

How do I listen?

I know that seems like something you would post in the radio thread, but Barefoot Jerry feels relevant to the clubhouse

oh you can listen live at kopn.org. There is a listen live link in the upper right hand corner.
I start at ten pm central. Gona play stuff I picked up last weekend in Columbia and Jefferson City. And other folk rock sounds. And psych.

Cool I'll tune in

Barefoot Jerry is very relevant round these parts

The pork loin was very good, with wild rice and green beans, now drinking high life on the back porch listening to Trip's good tunes.

I can also hear the wild dogs howling across the lake.

Dave Van Ronk And The Hudson Dusters works magic on that cover, not sure why I've never heard of them, and they have so many records out, which one should look for?

who? dave van ronk or the person he was covering?

dave van ronk covering joni mitchell, it was beautiful.

the hudson dusters album was a one-time thing, no? i've only seen the one album anyway. dave has lots of albums. i kinda have a problem with his voice and delivery, but that's a taste thing. or a preference thing or whatever.

jacob, i am totally willing to part with this bunny fitzgerald record. the cover is split entirely along the top and the spine is half split as well. record played well! some light scuffs but played quite clean for me. if you think you have anything i'd want that you'd want to trade..

imo the whole second side kinda sucks...?

Thanks for listening, Jacob! Dave generally does great Joni covers. There is a guy named "Pot" in the Hudson Dusters.
My favorite Van Ronk stuff I have heard is that Hudson Dusters one off and this one called Songs for Ag(e)ing Children.

hey y'all

Hi pete

Working on ripping record for my ILV mix and having a hard time removing the surface noise, any ideas?

ive never spent much time digitizing -- im definitely using tape for mine

maybe I should start hitting flea markets to looks for a tape deck. surface noise sounds better on tape anyway

i might try and make mine an ART PROJECT slash like

oops, like i might try and blend/crossfade/pastiche some shit

that's sounds cool!

Would you guys feel confident buying a record from Riga, Latvia? Had to look it up on a map.

ill buy from anywhere tbh

where did jaxon go? remember that guy? he was that other guy. and i wanted to know if he had that chris ducey album...

he hasnt been on at all in 2012. he told me at my birthday party that he was through :(

Through! oh no I like Jaxon

yeah, me too! ill see him pretty soon -- if you guys wanna make a "come back" card, i can give it to him.

It's Jacob, was just sitting on the back deck at a table with a large umbrella. A huge gust of wind came by and pushed the table over knocking my full cup of coffee into my computer. We'll see if it comes back to life, might be off line for a bit.

bummer

FUUUUUCK

beer and parmesan goldfish while we wait for the laundry to finish washing. then on to drying. then going to check out a couch for the new place. dudes, this might be our last time paying to do laundry!

im freakin out the squares: goldfish

um, which board is that on?

and, for sure ORIG

Wax1dermy estate sale thread makes me ill. These guys are the WORST.

i can't understand what they're talking about most of the time... bone/chud/raer/pina etc

oh and crust

chiming in late but adobe audition's noise redux algo is great for reducing surface noise. there can be artifacts but they're so quiet as to be inaudible at even relatively high volumes

I've settled to only looking on the sales forum on waxi. They take all the fun out of collecting records for me, this 400 boner, this only 60 turd, it's boring. There's never any discussion about sounds, movements, scenes, currents, only how much a record will bring. I'm happy old folks are getting hip to what records are worth, serves them right.

This is Jacob btw

Like the how estate sales thread is, WOE is me this!! lady actually wanted what the records are worth, oh no!

i can't understand what they're talking about most of the time... bone/chud/raer/pina etc

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/walk.gif

I mean to put the ! after me not after this, ruined that sentence

jacob--how's the computer??

Dead, won't come to life at all. I removed the back and gently blowed dried everything, but the wind blew almost a whole cup of black coffee in the keyboard. I don't have much hope. I heard mac might release a new 15in laptop with out a cd/dvd drive like the air soon.

and I can't log out on Tera's computer and then log in, my password doesn't work or something.

Didn't realized you have to remove the cookie. Anyway I can't afford a new computer until at least a month or two after the baby is born. Anyone had luck with spills and computers?

sorry to hear. do you have stuff backed up?

Mostly, I'll have to rescan a lot of records covers I was going to create listings for on discogs. Mostly just sux not having a computer.

aw man, that's awful. my computer died about a year ago--the screen pretty much broke off? i don't treat my hardware nearly as well as i should.. i got a new one eventually, but it's such a bummer feeling of weird disconnection.
best of luck to you, jacob! we'll talk about records soon; i have a copy of the bunny fitzgerald record if you want it, and a copy of the REPAIRS record which i think you'd like that i got for a buck.

wife & i are watching a simon & garfunkel thing we taped from VH1 abt the making of bridge over troubled water. it's actually really great. lots of great stories abt studio technique in the late sixties, vietnam etc. worth watching. called "the harmony game."

i digz repairs rekkerd.

skot are you in new york this week
do you want to drink a beer or eat a food

i am on a train in springfield mass right now.

my seat is now a hot spot.

i dunno what we are doing. going to bro and sis in laws house then going to nyu later for the opening thing at emp probably. after that i dunno.

i'm going to some lee ranaldo release party thing later, because there is free booze and i like lee, but perhaps we can get together some evening. if yer still here sunday it is my day off and we cld hit some record stores.

oh i see, no cash for records.
but beer!

yeah, sad. bought toooooo much stuff this past month. can't buy for me right now.

i need to sellsellsell.

the last time i was in new york was when i saw you and jon and everyone. 2007! i don't get out much...

wow that's almost 5 yrs!
i don't get outta the city much except to visit family.
helen wants to go to the montague book mill and see western mass friends some spring weekend; i made a point of telling her we needed to stop at your store when we do.

how long are you here? unfortunately i work til sunday. saturday night i'm playing records on EVR; you should stop by the studio if yer in the area and not busy.

we're leaving early sunday. we kinda have to for children reasons.

the book mill is rilly close to me. there are better used book stores though. but it is pretty there. and you can get a beer and buy a book and turn it up has a small store there where they don't have a ton of records but they do have tons of dollar folk a la rounder/june appal/fretless/etc.

i mean the book mill is cool. don't get me wrong. and big. for books i like its not always the best.

helen knows my brother, right? my bro is coming to the emp thing i think.

i love dollar folk revival records. best music.
what kind of books do you look for when you go looking for books?
what kind of books do you sell in the shop? i've been on a book buying jag for the last six months or so. stuff just keeps piling up and i can't help myself from buying books at the salvation army when i see them.

helen & pat (or roommate/helen's bandmate) both know your bro. i saw pat play with bunnybrains once.

oUr roommate's

's's

I wish there were still dollar bins on the West Coast! Almost all gone, even the thrifts are $2 now.

i keep thinking for some reason that helen knows my friend doug? from way back. doug has a hipster jewelery store in nyc called bess. the olson twins are big fans. i've known doug forever. since i was 14. i just remember he was pals with someone in TR...it's all a blur. of course she must know my brother. too bad you guys can't come to my thing friday. it starts at like 11 a.m.

i always imagine the west coast as having mountains of cheap records! i've never really gone record shopping tho. i went to amoeba in LA once but this was 6 yrs ago and it was the only store i went to while i was there.

xp
doug & his wife are two helen's oldest friends; think she met him working at kim's in the nineties. we dogsit for them sometimes! or we did last summer when they would go to jersey for the weekend. doug made our wedding rings!

i think bunnybrains even used to play shows with matt's old band before TR. can't remember the name. feels like a million years ago.

a million, 20, w/e

doug's a sweetie. i've known them forever. i mean i knew both doug and beth before they got together. i used to work with beth. and doug, like i said, i've known since i was a kid. haven't seen them in a long time. they used to live with whatshisface from matador. that's the last time i saw them. they had a kid then i think. or maybe we did.

they have three kids iir. a girl and two boys. so weird. okay i gotta go to work now. let's hang this week tho if possible. yer welome to come by for dinner & drinks & records any time

i have a turntable now

thumbs up

my mixer broke

ian what time is the EVR show, starts at 10 right? I might be in the village saturday, my friend Cathy is playing records at Hi Fi. maybe I'll swing by.

i bought it not so much for music use, going to build one of these

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6YDo3Q-J6FA/ThdY_8VVwzI/AAAAAAAAEE8/aGgP5v8ffko/s1600/dream.jpg

ooooh dream machine!

yeah! its been on my to-do list for years and i recently found instructions for 45rpm

my brother-in-law has the coolest records. in his apartment now. unesco and folkways up the butt.

one-string blues on takoma. never heard that one...

confession: one-string blues on takoma sounds so good i just impulse bought-it-now on ebay

always wanted to try the dream machine, I thought it only worked on 78. lemme know how it turns out!

lol i have that record and would have traded to you, pete!!
EVR is 8-10!

I think Trip Maker's tried to build it, can't remember

xpost cool that's better actually. maybe I'll drop in.

i wonder if i know your bro-in-law, scott. does he shop at my store?

always wanted to try the dream machine, I thought it only worked on 78. lemme know how it turns out!

someone re-designed it for use on 45 since 78 machines are harder to find: http://www.permuted.org.uk/dmpdown.htm i'll post pix when its done

i built a dreamachine on a 78 turntable years ago from the official TOPY instructions. it worked great - total kaleidescopic effects - and worked even better tripping with headphones blasting gamelan gong kebyar, Jajouka and Heathen Earth.

Hey guys, came up empty handed looking for records today, but venturing out tomorrow to better stops. Finally got Robert Byrne's Blame It On The Night, and gotta saw I love it. Really into late 70's AOR right now.

coming home empty-handed some days is really good for the soul ime

True, I even found a few interesting records I have already, but decided to leave them for someone else to find.

check it dudes!

http://www.discogs.com/Robbie-Basho-Twilight-Peaks/release/3451090

I wish there were still dollar bins on the West Coast! Almost all gone, even the thrifts are $2 now.

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Atomic Records in Burbank has a pretty choice .50 bin, and every once in a while when it gets overcrowded, they blow those records out for free.

Had a 78 rpm dream machine, never had much luck with it tbh.
But I could never do magic eye, either.

"i wonder if i know your bro-in-law, scott. does he shop at my store?"

nah, he's one of those manhattanites who never goes to brooklyn. he goes to academy here though sometimes. right before he went to bed he put on fraser & debolt. THAT's the kind of brother-in-law he is. so cool.

man, that fraser & debolt record is on my bedroom turntable RIGHT NOW. been listening to "waltze of the tennis playes" over and over the last few days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF83BdRnbco

CAN'T
GET
ENOUGH

incense, velvet, simplicity, religion
where on earth are you going?

Is it a smart idea to try selling records at this price stack in this undesirable way? I can't imagine these are NM or even EX?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-WHOLE-RECORD-STORE-INVENTORY-OVER-80-000-RECORDS-/370596957008?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item56494ccb50#ht_540wt_1126

chud o rama

These aren't 80,000 no name records either.

would be better if it was

but... Barry Manilow! Chicago!

inevitable waxi thread

I see records stacked like this in corners at flea markets in TX all the time, it's sad how records are treated at these places. Sometimes wish people would just throw them away. Found one of my holy grail xian records in a tall stack of records like those and not only was it wrapped like a bowl but it was stuck to the record under it.

I got the best records yesterday! I wasn't gonna buy any records or even LOOK for records but we were walking by a place yesterday and...

anyway, i loved what they had! i didn't even look through half the store. i can only imagine that there was a lot more i would have bought if i could have. i didn't want to lug a ton of records areound all day and i really can't spend anymore right now. everything was so cheap! i didn't pay more than 4.99 for anything. almost everything i gor was 2 or 3 bucks. it was right by NYU which is why i was in there. we basically stuck around the pop conference.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/03/nyc-record-shopping.html

4.99 is a great price for that Pillows/Prayers comp, and that's my favorite Nightingales record! what's the name of the store?

oh right duh. generation records. on thompson street. and apparently they have another store on bleeker. those would be my go-to places if i lived around there. one of these days i will get the academy stores. i promise.

i think i might actually have that one passage full-length. i know i had two of their albums and sold one. but it was such a perfect copy and it was, like, 3 bucks.

I hope you left some for me when i get there on Thursday Scott.... Generation is one of my spots on the list..

I already have that Tapes LP.. not as good as the first two, but still pretty good.

Scott so many of those records look right up my alley!

Those are amazing records, Scott! Like bands I didn't know existed.

file under "now that im reading the title correctly, i no longer want the record that much"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPmgrXqan0w

HEY Y'ALL I GOT A NEW JOB

working for a small robust startup company that is in the solar power industry (in addition to being a pastry chef I have an Electronics Technician degree which I will now actually use). It takes me 12 minutes to drive there, I could probably bike it in 25-30. and holy shit it's full time! Salary!

I'm already thinking about records to buy, of course. My local bartender's brother-in-law might sell me five boxes of "old sixties jazz and country" so I'm saving up for that. I asked him what kind of shape they were in and he said "well, I used to live in communal houses and some of them got kind of trashed... (pause)... so that's why I have three copies of some things, I had to get better ones".

hey guys

turntable help

Congrats, Sleeve, that sounds righteous. I just spent six amazing days in Albuquerque, NM, but I missed the ABQ Record Fair by just a few hours. Oh well, outta my budget and didn't feel like flying with a vinyl haul, anyway. I keep telling myself.

thanks TM

today I found the 2nd LP by The Selecter for a dollar even though my new job has seriously cut in to my Monday crate digging time.

Congrats Sleeve!! SOunds like a awesome job, someday I'd like to work on the green side of energy. Having money is nice.

YEESH: htXXXXXXXXtp://waxidermy.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41003

Do a lot of those guys have jobs or just flip records? btw if any one is in houston this weekend,
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you guys will never guess what i'm gonna do...

it involves ebay...

don't sell your whole store!

are you gonna try selling reggae records on ebay?

are you gonna sell books on ebay?

are you gonna buy records on ebay and sell them in your store?

okay, you'll never guess. here's my genius plan: i've been selling reggae for months on ebay. good reggae. collectable reggae. and while the fake bidding isn't epidemic, its an affront to my ideals of fair play and decorum. if i hadn't been watching my last big auction most of my stuff would have ended up being bid on and won by fakers. i was putting out fires left and right. taking bids away and blocking bidders. and they still managed to get to some of my auctions. now, most of the people who buy reggae from me are serious and they buy a lot of stuff. so, what i'm gonna do is this, have invitation-only reggae auctions. i'm gonna block the entire planet from bidding, and start my auctions. i will tell people if they are legit they can message me and i'll let them bid. if they smell funny to me, fuck 'em. plus, i sent out around 75 messages today to people who have bought from me in the past and told them i am starting auctions and that they are already cleared to bid when the auctions start. if i miss out on some last minute people, i don't really care. the people who are really looking for jah will be in there.

sounds fair to me

Why are so many people fake bidding on reggae records?

it's a thing...

see also: boogie, frenchmen

i sell a lot of reggae to france. lots of high-priced reggae. they are mostly fine.

okay, that ebay idea of mine was stupid. all i can really do is block locations i ship to. i can't stop people from bidding. and fake people don't care if you don't ship to where they live. cuz they were never gonna pay you in the first place. there's gotta be a way!

there must be an ebay computer program that blocks users with no feedback. or really low feedback. if they bid...

it's my life's work now.

holy f@$k!!! when did technics start costing almost a thousand dollars? when i bought mine back in 96 i paid $1200 for two. i was thinking about buying a new one but geez

fully-rehabbed used ones are around oakland for like $350

i have done so much rehab work on mine through out the years but now there is a low hum and too much static, and the other one just plays too low

you should just get a real turntable. do you deejay?

i mean nothing against technics. but you can get a really sweet audiophile-quality table for under a thousand bucks.

i used to dj but those days are long gone, what do yo recommend

oh where to start...

Music Hall MMF-5

you will think you have died and gone to heaven after using Technics for 15 years

there must be an ebay computer program that blocks users with no feedback. or really low feedback. if they bid...

it's my life's work now.

― scott seward, Monday, April 9, 2012 5:39 PM

pardon if you've tried this already but:

What are buyer requirements?

You can block buyers from bidding on or purchasing your items by specifying buyer requirements. You can block buyers who:
Don't have a PayPal account
Have unpaid items recorded on their account
Have a primary shipping address in countries you don’t ship to
Have reportedly violated eBay policies
Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify
Are currently winning or have bought 1-100 of your items in the last 10 days (you can specify the number)

To select buyer requirements for all your listings:
Go to My eBay.
Click the Account tab, and then click the Site Preferences link on the left.
In the Selling Preferences section, scroll to Buyer requirements, and then click the Show link.
Click the Edit link.
On the Buyer Requirements page, select your requirements.
Click the Submit button to save your requirements.

To specify buyer requirements for a specific listing, follow these steps:
In the Sell Your Item form, scroll to the Other things you'd like buyers to know section.
If the Buyer requirements option isn't displayed, click the Add or remove options link.
In the pop-up window, under Buyer requirements, select the Block certain eBay users from buying my items checkbox, and then click the Save button.
In the Sell Your Item form, click the Add buyer requirements or Change buyer requirements link.
Select the checkbox next to the requirements you want, and then click the Save button.

i do all that. i think. you can't actually block people with 0 or 5 or 10 feedback rating, i didn't think? you can block people with NEGATIVE feedback which is pointless because you can't leave negative feedback for people anymore.

i had a fake bidder attack some of my auctions yesterday and their account had been started...yesterday. they had no paper trail or violations or anything. they sign up and get an account to fuck with people and then they just abandon the account.

this makes it seem like you can block people with any amount of feedback:

"Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify"

which is news to me. but i'll check it out. it would basically solve all my problems.

yeah i checked. you can only block people with negative feedback.

this is why i thought i could do what i did. my buyers requirements state that i can block bidders who:

"Have a primary shipping address in countries that I don't ship to"

but now i know that's not true. because i tried it and it didn't work.

i dunno it says

You can block buyers who:
Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify

but i've never tried or had to do any of that

ebay seems weirdly stuck in the past sometimes. kinda cool in a way, same ugly layout but also could really use some basic things like the stuff you're talking about

"Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify"

the only options you can click are -1, -2, -3.

even if i could have blocked them the way i wanted to, its too confusing to real people. i'm just gonna do buy it nows from now on i think. seems safer. though i've heard of people fake buying a zillion buy it nows too. which is why a lot of reggae dealers end up giving up and selling elsewhere.

i still like doing auctions! hardly anyone ever does anymore. i think they are fun as long as you aren't selling reggae.

"Have a Feedback score lower than the number you specify"

the only options you can click are -1, -2, -3.

ok yeah that makes no sense

where else do people sell? i guess discogs has a marketplace. amazon?

here's the completed dreamachine btw

http://oi39.tinypic.com/2qvzczq.jpg

best night!

richard davis -- harvest (more amazing bill lee compositions)
don drummond -- greatest hits (thanks ian ca. 2006)
craig leon -- nommos
robbie basho -- song of the stallion
friends
beers
asparagus bread pudding (!)
strawberry lemonade cake + strawberry ice cream (!)
new 30 rock
oh shit forgot to watch the office
thunderstorm (!)
cighs and weedh
so fun!

right right, the thunderstorm was why we didnt watch the office.

and why 30 rock had such an open ending

sounds ill except for the asparagus bread pudding? i am skeptical.

gotta say dudes, record store day is a d-r-a-g.
so much stupid bullshit to deal with.

is it today?

no it's in 10 day or so... not this coming weekend, but next.
but there is a lot of preparation for it. ordering things, paying for things, receiving things, pricing things, finding room to display everything. and it all succcccccccckkkks.
and people are calling everyday asking about what we're getting. and the lines are gonna start early. and we're opening early (not my idea) and it succcccckkks.

in other news,
i am listening to helen's keiji haino records and that is awesome.

i tried to watch killing of a chinese bookie last night but i fell asleep...
someone brought in a bunch of highbrow/foreign/art stuff to academy so i am trying to learn about film. o_O

chinese bookie is good. watch it when you aren't tired.

anyway, now you know how people in real stores feel around christmastime.

yeah, i enjoyed the first hour and a half, but i got too cozy and napped.
will finish it later on. got some other cassavetes shit too. i think the only one of his i've seen before is husbands, which i liked a lot.

i hate christmas too fyi.

Man the asparagus bread pudding was srsly the best part. No one could stop eating it.

I am in a WEBINAR all day learning about cataloging sound recordings and scores. It is actually p awesome.
I just ordered some Pasolini films for my academic library! I like highbrow art films, even if I don't always get them or how to talk about them.

you can just look at them. and hear them.

you haven't lived until you've spent an entire (gorgeous, sunny) afternoon inside, putting together a bed from Ikea.

ikea kan kinda make you wanna die.

I love putting together furniture
I kinda feel that way about the store though, but that's also a lot of stores

you know what is sad? when you go to an estate sale and you dig through all a dude's crap and you know that you would really enjoy hanging out. but he's dead. and his kids don't even want to keep his electric vibraphone

ok granted it does take up a lot of room

oh hey scott, by the way i saw THE BIZARROS last week

I spent the gorgeous sunny afternoon wrestling with a 5.5 HP rototiller, it was muddy but I think I'll get it all done tomorrow.

First time I've tilled by machine in the 12 years I've lived here. We were breaking new ground for some roommates and tilling up spots we'd cleared for ourselves. Tomorrow I'm gonna work on the beds we already have and redo the new plots. The sun is supposed to stay until early on Monday.

My arms hurt and I'm gonna go listen to some early Clock DVA.

you know what is sad? when you go to an estate sale and you dig through all a dude's crap and you know that you would really enjoy hanging out. but he's dead. and his kids don't even want to keep his electric vibraphone

wow. that IS sad and poignant. i've actually been thinking about things like this recently... my kids won't want my records/jah wobble autograph/70s ludwig drum sets/first Orange Juice 45 w/ flexi etc. etc. etc.

also, i love the bizarros. are you saying you saw them live, or you saw the lp?

live, not sure how many of the members were original. they were all old guys though

where? where they good?

DC. they were really good, but Syracuse's THE PENETRATORS were even better. Penetrators had some Reagan babies as ringers though

new 2x4 expedit constructed, filled with extra crate material

congrats on yr baby jacob!!!

thanks man, its been a whirlwind past few days

man i cant wait to DJ for a new baby someday

i know! btw do you know any music with vibraphone or xylophone that is not jazz, maybe against a drone background or maybe avant spiritual new age?

any of these (esp the earlier ones): http://www.discogs.com/artist/Khan+Jamal
they're called jazz, but it's more like new (age) black music

the one w bill lewis is amazing. here's a blog link: http://destination-out.com/?p=1706

ever hear Javanese court gamelan? it's like bathing in a warm pool of metallophones against the droneiest avant spirtual new age background. so mellow and perfect for chillin' with a newborn.

Sundanese gamelan is good too. this is my favorite song of all-time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juE-LXj3BQE

oh yeah good call!!

gamelan rec otm.

congrats jacoB!!!!

but make sure to avoid balinese! not sure the little one is ready for the ketjak yet

will totally admit to playing cocteau twins for rufus when he was a baby. twee dad. he heard a ton of death metal too at the time, so, he got an earful.

my friend's daughter is 1; her favorite song is 'low rider' by war. whenever she hears the intro she starts dancing & grinning. so cute.

i went to see robert ashley & ensemble perform tonight. it was great. an augmented version of "Concrete" which I saw a few years ago. so great.

LOL/YEESH

i can't hang with that site. are you on that thread?

i'd sell clean PG for 20, i guess. seems reasonable. i never see clean copies either.

no way! im plsmith on there -- i try only to post in praise of people or records or purchase or sale of records!

waxidermy is so weird. just ppl arguing about selling records all day. do they even like music?
i price VG+ PG for about $15 usually, i could put $20 on a really nice copy.

start a thread on there for my record thing i wrote:

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-2011-emp-pop-conference-paper.html

i would be curious what scary rekkerd dudes thought of it. give you a clean copy of coda if you start one.

don't tell them you know me though. i want unvarnished comments.

and yeah, i could sell led zeppelin records all day long, and they usually don't make it past the new arrivals bin but i don't think that's a reason to price them higher, nor does the ever-flucating ebay sales price of records have much to do with my thought process when pricing out classic rock and other common, top 40, massively selling titles.

doneskaya

xp id like to challenge FLUCATING

lololol

"I traveled many many miles of that city by foot with my pack filled to overflowing with Latin Freestyle and electro 12 inches. Just as Walt Whitman had before me. "

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/28.gif

i definitely price floyd, zep, beatles, doors higher than when i opened my store. got sick of the flippers. buy out every beatles record i had and then some sad teenager would come in asking for beatles and i'd have to tell them to check ebay.

man i really wanna come visit yr store skot

not just to flip!

you don't live near me. ian lives pretty close and even travels to rhode island on occasion, but he refuses to come to my store.

he gets enough records though.

give me a link if you start a thread on the waxi board. i don't know how to find stuff there.

just bought some dead records. i won't go under ten bucks for clean dead records. not gonna happen. unless its dylan & the dead. or maybe goes to heaven.

i love the dead man
any boots?

i don't refuse to come to your store, it's just a lil difficult to find time. the only time i travel to RI is really for family occasions where i don't have enuff time to drive to greenfield.

wtf is "crust"? is that their term for common major-label stuff? also, "shredding"?

yeah, that crust thing threw me off. last i hear crust was a type of punkrok

from google search:

Surely this is the epitome of what our chums at Waxidermy call 'crust'? Major label product that sold bucketloads at the time and is easily found in various locations for not much money.

oh i posted the piece on the thread -- if no one bites in a couple days, ill try starting a separate one, scott!

oh okay got it tanks.

most of these guys dont wanna talk about it unless its for sale though :\

shreds=plays very good guitar?

btw, i am pretty sure i got 'vg but sound great' copies of the first six zep rekkerds for $1 each

i inherited all of my zep from my dad, he shreds!

I saw a nice used copy of Led Zep II in a store today for $17.95. Gatefold, etc. That's pretty much the norm around here, I'm moving more into random thrift scores cuz it is out of control in the regular stores.

does anyone know what those waxi dudes mean when they call a record NAGB

not a good buy?

good guess, it makes sense

the best thing about the waxi site is the bonerz thread, soe of the covers are really great.

^^ um, Not A Grippable Boner?

i'm all about the bonerz

nagb is not a good boner fwiw

took me forever to work out wtf PINA is

when ppl on waxidermy use the word "good" are they referring the musical quality or $$$?

in the context of "nagb" it just means inaccurate. as for anything else, well..

fascinating.

you did ask!

no i did! and i get it! but it doesn't help me understand the culture in the way i was hoping.

ah i see. tbh i do prefer the site when they talk about interesting things and tell cool stories, the whole fretting over the price of stuff is lame in the extreme

what's a "boner"?

From what I understand a boner is a record that looks promising, like a hand drawn cover of a bearded guy or a photo of a certain kind of guy or girl, but the music doesn't lived up to the covers promise.

http://waxidermy.com/features/stock-covers/
But I have a few of those records and I like the music, so a lot.

like this is supposed to be a boner, but it's one of my favorite records, really nice soft folk rock.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7084/7201283926_abd60cc580.jpg

this record is on the boner wall, but it is awesome--
http://waxidermy.com/images/jeremy.jpg

What's the music like, soft lonely folk??

no kinda tom waitsy lounge...

even better

yeah, i think it's right up your alley. if i ever see another one, it's yours.

went to DustyGroove last night, they suddenly got a ton of LPs from MEN of the 60's/70's that aren't receiving any hipster kisses. someone must have REALLY dug the stuff at some point and sold their collection. almost none of whom i'd heard of, but i know the ones I had heard of are up the Jacob/Skot/Ian alley. I wrote them down in my phone but got sick of writing after a while, so this is an almost complete list:

Lynn Blessing
Danny Brooks
Buzz Clifford
Danny Epps
Guy Fletcher
Scott Fagan
Gary Farr
Mike Hurst
Tim Hollier
Harry Goz
Gary Kuper
Wings Livinryte
Paul Siebel
Charles John Quarto
Patrick Sky
Tom Sullivan
Ian Tamblyn
Allan Thomas
Joel Vance
Tim Tutor
Tim Winters
Sammy Walker

i love that buzz clifford record on...dot? i think. so good. danny brooks on...warner brothers? has moments. i like scott fagan but he's not for everyone. gary farr is my hero. tim hollier is my hero. paul siebel is cool. charles john quarto is cool. patrick sly is cool. others i've heard but can't recall right now...

patrick sky that is.

gary farr and tim hollier not the easiest to find either. still need a copy of the first tim hollier. i'll probably never find one.

which ist he first hollier? harlequin or w/e?

i love paul siebel the most on that list. both rekkerds on elektra are amazing. pretty much agree with everything skot said.rekkerds.

here's my little review I wrote for the Gary Farr record I liked the most.
Gary Farr was a committed man. He sang with a committed voice and created a densely lyrical world. 'Addressed to The Censors of Love' was released in 1973 and recorded at Muscle Shoals with Jerry Wexler. After two previous albums of folk rock, this is where he sang like everything depended on it. Gary Farr's father was a boxer and I think he had a little of his father's fight in him. The music is blue eyed soul folk rock, sort of. I really can't describe it well enough. There's a bit of Dylan in Gary's delivery, but it's more a confrontation with Dylan than just mimicking. On 'White Bird' 'Rhythm King' and 'Cetain Lady' he croons and is in love as much as anybody, he can be beautifully sad. When he rocks, like on 'Breakfast Boo-Ga-Loo' or 'Faith What a Face' it's like poetry meeting pub rock. This record might confuse you on first listen as it did me, but keep listening, it will surprise you.

I need Strange Fruit by Gary Farr, I used to have mp3s on a computer that died.

Did Doug Dillard pass away??

yes :(

:-( indeed, only just got around to finally checking out the dillard & clark stuff in the last week. love his contributions to that first mike nesmith record too.

so, inspired by the American Power Pop poll on ILM, i went to my singles boxes. pulled out the two Chris Stamey 45s, and discovered that 'The Summer Sun' picture sleeve was signed on the back by Alex Chilton! how did i not know this, and ...cool!

great song too!

Hey guys I started a brawl, sort of Poll

http://calmintrees.blogspot.com/2012/05/money-records.html

this will be going on a HUUUUUUUGE sign by the front door of the store as soon as possible.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-doe-jr-used-records-books-faq.html

you should have a big-ass whiteboard to which you add all the stupid questions you get asked about records..

who are you on there jacob

lolvalstein is my waxi user name.

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42079

these ppl

this will be going on a HUUUUUUUGE sign by the front door of the store as soon as possible.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-doe-jr-used-records-books-faq.html

― scott seward, Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:06 PM

haha. what about "are you hiring?". i used to ask that one a lot in high school much to the clerk's annoyance.

wax thread looks parodical

all of them do!

sheesh.

they really don't

i am all for rich people spending too much money on records. at least if i'm selling them on ebay.

sayin

damn rich guys, always buying rares.

god i hate that term rares. like all rare records are one-in-the-same and of equal status as art because they are rare.

damn rich guys, always buying a nice car than me, nicer tv than me, nicer shoes than me.

got any rares

raers

DJ Grippin' Rarez

not to change the subject, but RIP Leo Dillon, whose album covers are pretty top notch, for the most part.
looky http://leo-and-diane-dillon.blogspot.com/search/label/Audio%20Recordings

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X0FO8YOWwBI/T1XiPApn7gI/AAAAAAAAAZk/RsJhypWDO_I/s640/Caedmon+1971.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g53bmXZceHw/Ttnrb7orKcI/AAAAAAAAAJk/fDVpLZQX38E/s1600/1961+Caedmon+Records.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fn99oebZRJQ/Tro4H4-0Y6I/AAAAAAAAAHM/XsYWs5rTCCY/s640/caedmon+goldilocks+1972.jpg

they are so of their time. in a good way. half of the children's books i read in the 70's looked like that stuff.

me too. i was born in 75, so this is the look of early childhood. it must have really stuck with me now that i think about it. i spent a lot of time browsing everything i could reach at the library.

xoxo to his wife diane too.

i like looking at the search keywords on my blog from time to time.

scott seward
"allen harris band" "oceans between us"
"atlee yeager" "plant me now and dig me later" blogspot
"welcome to miami motherfuckers" lyrics
architeuthis rex ‎– urania filestube
baker gurvitz army the collection
filthy fifty stoner
girl cast in the godsmack voodoo video with medussa head wear

hahahaha

http://i48.tinypic.com/2h4bzvm.jpg

i had this on cassette and stared at it A LOT

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/481277_10151582903632137_686202136_9974692_463165921_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542940_10151582903852137_686202136_9974693_97425964_n.jpg

is that like a comedown thing?

its for when i need to get right with god

god i love that rekkerd.

never heard it, so abashed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bx-_YgTucg

Happy Birthday, Jacob!

Thanks Scott, enjoying a glass of Old Overholt to celebrate my 36 years!

i am playing records at a gig tonight.
it always makes me nervous playing records in a bar cuz i have no idea what the quality of the set-up is gonna be like. even at the radio station i sometimes worry abt fucking up my records with worn out needles.

fuck RIP bob welch. "future games" all night.

i am playing records at a gig tonight.
it always makes me nervous playing records in a bar cuz i have no idea what the quality of the set-up is gonna be like. even at the radio station i sometimes worry abt fucking up my records with worn out needles.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:08 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't really play records out anymore but whenever i do my new, diva-ish request is just to have a solid, stable table, away from anywhere where people are standing. it is not even the idea that the equipment might be less than ideal, just that someone is going to spill drinks over all my recs. how did it go, anyhow?

oh, it hasn't happened yet. we'll see! i've played at this place before and the turntables have been a bit dodgy. this is zebulon fyi.

anyone interested in splitting a table at the WFMU show? (NYC Nov. 2, 3, 4) I was thinking about Sunday - price of one table is $144.50 if you pay before 25 June.

details:
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/LB/Mara12/2012_Record_Fair_packet.pdf

oh, it hasn't happened yet. we'll see! i've played at this place before and the turntables have been a bit dodgy. this is zebulon fyi.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 8 June 2012 01:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah. okay. hope you have enough light to see.

by the way, entering into a contract with someone from a semi-anonymous message board is always a good idea

maria got up really early to sell at the flea market.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/282911_10151032480340908_1927500133_n.jpg

entering into a contract? i... i don't know.

p.s. i would sell w you at the fair perhaps..

i dunno if J&R means anything to anyone outside of new york, but they're blowing out a ton of 70s/80s dead stock (sealed!) for $0.99. I bought about fifty records today. Tons of sealed late-era Waylon, Willie, Jerry Jeff. A couple latin records. Bluegrass records. A couple of those Golden Groups doo wop comps.

TWO copies of Angel Alley by Linda Cohen, friend of Skot.

We were driving around Del Rio just now and found two large flea markets and more resale shops that we'll have to visit once they are open. I'm excited about looking for records in west texas this summer, lots of sunday drives to different towns, and there's Mexico! I need to renew my passport.

my next door neighbor sold his house and is moving and i bought his records today and he had this and i have never seen it and it is bonkers end of the world apocalypse electronic audio play musique concrete private press dementia from 1973 that begins and ends with completely funky drumbeat funk band action. i take back anything bad i ever said about that guy.

http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20111025/230690320236.jpg

Hey Ian or Scott, have you guys heard or seen a record by a group called Snail self titled on Cream, or Lenny Zakatek's self titled? Very interested in hearing/finding these. I know there are copies on ebay, but that's no fun.

i have the snail record. or two snail records actually. i think they had two. jaxon likes snail. his mom knew a member of snail? i remember that from an ilm thread.

That's cool, Jaxon's cool.

I lost my wallet last night :(
Had no cash in it, but driver's license/atm card.
Cancelled card, no big deal, but getting a replacement license is gonna be a biiiiittttcch. AND I"m supposed to drive upstate this weekend to go to a wedding.

Fingers so crossed that it is at the car service lost & found.

oh wait, records, yeah...
i got my country 78rpm discography yesterday.

this-is-the-oldest-vinyl-album-in-the-history-of-the-world

http://gizmodo.com/5922410/this-is-the-oldest-vinyl-album-in-the-history-of-the-world

it's weird to me that they keep calling it an album.
that's technically incorrect innit?

okay.

so i try not to complain much about the customers at the record store, but one of my absolute pet peeves is ppl who don't know how to use a turntable just fucking with it without any care in the world. twice today i had to yell at people for just putting down the needle onto the slipmat without a record. what do they expect to happen? are they genuinely expecting to hear something? do people have no concept of taking care of a record needle? it's really infuriating. we spend hundreds of dollars a year replacing needles & headphones at the listening stations--when the needles get shot, people complain, but it's really frustrating to know the needles would need MUCH LESS REPLACING if people could just ASK FOR HELP and NOT BE STUPID.

It's forgivable if you're a toddler or something, but we're talking about 20 year old kids who do shit like this.

Animals.

truly the most disgusting savages.
if i go to a photocopy place, not knowing much about fancy photocopy machines, i'm just just gonna jam the parts together until they work. i would ask for assistance.

someone had this totally rad 60's-era scifi stereo they wanted to sell - big black bubble top and it was on a long stand and came with futuristic speakers and it was in really good shape and they wanted a hundred bucks for it and i was tempted but didn't buy it. kinda sad. then my friend X came in and she is a groovy artist and she is looking for a groovy stereo for her studio space and she totally would have bought it from me! argh! never seen one like it. usually only see stuff like that in fancy old fashion pictures of groovy scifi apartments. kinda like one of these:

http://modernicaprops.net/images/products/electronics/stereos/624.jpg

feel like a dope. i could have tested it out and everything. some fancy design store would sell stuff like that for $$$$. i mean it would have just looked good in the store even if X didn't buy it. oh well. i'm cheap unless we are talking records.

i mean they probably would have taken 75 for it. they were just dudes. big tattooed dudes. they just wanted to get rid of it. and X came in like ten minutes later! you win some you lose some...

can u run after them?

write a missed connection?

A friend of mine is St Louis is selling this thing, he says it all works. Not sure what he's asking
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/578758_441459372544218_1330101118_n.jpg

whoa! o_O

that some jetson shit

Hey Scott, I want to by Elmer Bernstein's Staccato OST, but I see there is a Capital mono with only 4 songs on each side that I think is broken up into 2 volumes and there's a stereo capital release and a 82 reissue. Should I fork out the money for the two volume mono sets, or the stereo, is there a difference? Btw this is for my wife who really digs the idea of owning this soundtrack.

putting momus records out cheap just to get them out of the store

where i'm at:

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-store-in-july.html

man, I wish I had a store just to have an excuse to buy art books. what's the deal with that huge pink & brown painting in jpg 21?

my friend lance did that. he's a great painter. some day he will get his due. i don't know when. he doesn't push his art. he just works steadily for decades. he'll let history sort it out.

http://lancevaughan.com/

he hasn't updated his website since 2007...

he is also responsible for my favorite website ever:

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

now kindertrauma THAT he updates. always so impressed by how hard he works on that.

bestfriendsforever since high school. sadly i haven't seen him in years cuz he refuses to ever leave philly and i never find time to go down to philly. philly always seems like that extra mile to me...

we are both lazy, basically.

Are there any labels or other places that do a subscription service where you receive surprise records in the mail on a semi-regular basis? I want something like that. Maybe one of the record store dudes here can do that for me.

there are still a couple of labels that do singles club type things, though that might not be what you mean

Hey guys tell me about Jimmie Spheeris, which records should I start with?

get them all. will set you back like five bucks.

I've decided to collect private lounge records!

do you have the endless knights record? they were from mass. their record is actually pretty good. loungey, but some trippy original tracks too.

We made another house call yesterday and bought stacks latin soul, R&B, and rockabilly 45's!! The nice man's Uncle used to Dj with Wolfman Jack!

saweeeeeeeeeet

I have a collection of thousands (around 10,000) of Vinyl records. Some aren't in the best of shape, some warp not scratches.Most of em are untouched still in cover.Some promo etc. They range from early 1980 hip-hop, R&B to 2006+Some Oldies also some ramdom genre's in there.

Asking $300 but make an offer.
The only catch is you must haul...

I am going to this storage unit in an hour to take a look.

went to the Idea Fire Company show last night, they were fantastic. matt krefting sat in. so great. they opened for Bill Orcutt/Chris Corsano Duo. broke my heart to see everybody rushing up to buy BO/CC/HPussy lps--cleaning him out i believe--while the entire Swill Radio catalog, displayed nearby, got no action at all. people.

so I bought 10,000 hip hop records for $200. good thing I have a basement. DJ pool stuff from late 90's to mid-2000's so far. mostly promo 12" singles. whole boxes of unopened Outkast and ATCQ 12"s, 30 count. madness. yesterday I sorted through the first pickup truck load. I think it'll take another 3 or 4 trips. jammed an Erykah Badu 12", a Kelis 2LP from '99, some clear vinyl BEP promo. I hope not too much of it will end up in the dump, I'd rather give it away.

jeeeeeeeze. any hip hop-centric stores nearby you could have come buy stuff from you?

not really, maybe Portland. I could definitely trade some stuff locally. my wife and I constructed this rough plan that has her retiring in around 9 years at which point I was planning on opening a store. so I decided to start buying collections, but didn't really expect this on my first time out. right now I'm just focused on getting them out of the stacked piles - lotsa bent covers, vinyl is fine so far. right now I'm temporarily re-stacking stuff to hopefully flatten some out and pulling the full LPs out from the sea of singles. there's also been a smattering of techno & dancehall.

wild... well have fun with it!!!

fun! and overwhelming.

put this up last night. probably not the kind of stuff anyone here needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wl6GOTVSo&feature=channel&list=UL

i'm really bad about dealing with people i know outside of ebay and the store anyway. which is why i'm not peddling my wares on here too often. i'm too forgetful/lazy unless record-selling is a part of my normal work day.

this fall i'm going to try and really work our website. with maria's help. post set sale stuff on the store site as it comes in and have a paypal link. i need to have stuff visible in-store/on-line.

diving back in to the sea of records... a lot of the boxes of promos are outside still, gonna pull like half a dozen from each and see if I can sell some at 10 for a dollar before I take them down to the basement, I do NOT want to take them back if they're just gonna end up in the dump anyway. I now own every Ghostface album, some are in even normal non-promo sleeves. Found a bunch of sleeveless white label techno 12" records, and some test pressing! Queen Latifah!

put stuff up on discogs. that's an easy way to sell unsellable 90s/2000s rap singles.

do you think people would buy lots of ten, like a variety pack? I could probably put those together with very little effort. what about boxes that have 30 of the same single in it? I guess I can try, I do have a Discogs account after all. selling them individually.... I dunno.

fortunately I inherited a bunch of larger shipping boxes for LP's along with all the rest of this.

on ebay people do lots of 100 12 inches all the time. people buy them. not for a ton, but they buy them. you don't have to list everything in the box. just name some artists and say mixed rap 12 inches. etc. or a lot of 20 or of 50 or whatever.

"starting bid: $0.01"

http://getitonvinyl.com/

this is war...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBQqpRUQw4&feature=plcp

apparently.

ugh, thanks for reminding me rent is due in two weeks..

guy was in my store yesterday and he said he was opening a small store in brooklyn and that he had 5000 records of his own he was going to sell and i said cool and then you're gonna buy records? and he said no. just gonna open a store and sell his records. and he said that he didn't want to do it for more than 4 years because its not what he really wants to do. i didn't really understand how he was gonna sell 5000 records for up to 4 years. he said he found a cheap spot to rent. cuz i asked him about that too. don't know why he just wouldn't do fmu and other shows or flea markets.

but anyway it just reminded me of when people come into my place and say "are these all yours???"

huh, i wonder who the guy was.
no name?

seems weird. all the good stuff will be gone in the first months!

he's gonna be in bushwick. he said mostly new wave and post-punk stuff. i didn't get his name.

interesting.
there's already a store kinda like that in bushwick! what do i know, maybe he will make it work but it seems like a losing proposition to me, unless he's only gonna be open a few days and keep his day job.

i was having a day yesterday where i was getting really frustrated with record ppl. then i realized i wasn't 'record people' i hated in particular it was just 'the public.' some people can be just so brutal sometimes. won't take no for an answerrrrr i am not going to give you $20 for your bag of beat up pop 45s dude i do not want them.

another guy brought in three big boxes of records, i pulled out what i could use (maybe 150-175 pieces) and offered him what i considered a reasonable amount -- but he passed on it and probably thinks i am just some jerk out to fuck him. but i'm not! i try to be fair at all times!

I would think most people who bring records into a store are hoping to trade or just unload them. But I guess most people don't understand stores just can't offer you market price on records, that you aren't ebay. I actually brought a bunch of rare disco 12"s into your store when I was in Brooklyn many years ago and was happy with my credit price.

scott did you ever know the psych guy Harry from south jersey?

i don't think so. my psych friend was dan who worked at the record exchange. still does too, i think. we were good pals when i lived there. the best psych collection i've ever seen in my life. and i didn't even see it all! he was also the best digger i ever knew. better than me. better than anyone i knew or know.

this guy came in with a big tub of records and i made him an offer and he said he would take half that because he "likes what i'm doing". !!! i like his attitude! i'm like a cultural/nostalgia charity case! and i'll take it. my kids eat tons of food.

totally had tons of smiths records and cocteau twins and tom waits and sex pistols too. like, 15 smiths albums/12 inches!

score!

Awesome.
Some friends of mine opened a store in town just a few weeks ago and the outpouring of appreciation from the community has been kind of embarrassing to them. I mean, we have been sorely lacking a decent record store for a while, but the guys say that people are acting like they've opened a volunteer fire station. I've been weeding my collection a little bit and bringing them stuff that I think will sell or maybe represents genres that they don't have much representation from.

wow scott, that's amazing! so refreshing!

<3 happy birthday scott <3

if i were in greenfield i'd stop by with a pie asap.

Happy Birthday Scott!!

Happy birthday Scott!

Please enjoy this picture from a 1981 college yearbook

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9d9lm7R711rcq6xho1_500.jpg

thanks, dudes! my pal josh from mystery train just stopped by and bought records and gave me a copy of the bob seger tribute tape he is putting out. its funny/cool. ron from sunburned, big blood, bob fay, and all kinds of people on it. some good western mass banjo bob seger covers on here.

and hey don't forget friday october 12th at my store bob fay/bunwinkies/bunnybrains.

and if you didn't get the bunwinkies album that came out on feeding tube last year get it! its the best. so pretty. and you need it if you are a supreme dicks completist.

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/12/79/1279364296-1.jpg

http://bunwinkies.bandcamp.com/album/map-of-our-new-constellations

so sad. i like how at the end of their video they leave the record store empty-handed.

http://getitonvinyl.com/

I might be moving to Baton Rouge, LA soon for work, anyone been in the area looking for records? Excited about eating in Louisiana, maybe digging will be decent.

I have a librarian friend there, not sure about the digging scene.

How much physical music (CDs, vinyl, minidiscs, cases ingles, whatever) have you bought so far this year?

needs more categories!

we bought a large collection at the store.
we paid more for it than i would have liked but it didn't want to watch all these records go out the door.

a lot of swedish & scandinavian prog, avant-garde, jazz, new wave etc.

the only record i'm allowing myself to buy from the collection is this one ---

http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/details/160840252203/ARCHIMEDES_BADKAR_II_SWEDEN_1976_2XVINYL_LP_ORG_ELECFOLKWORLD_MUSICMEGA_RARE

i'm not buying the samla mannas mamma record i used to have.

even though i like it more now. than i did then.

we got this one in too --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLVTOsd3jy4