OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

i just got home minutes ago from buying some records and I am female, but I'm pretty sure I have nothing to add to the discussion here.

i bought

OST Cat People (Moroder!)
OST Thief (Tangerine Dream!)
Salsa Boricua de Chicago comp (numero group, don't judge)
Best of Michi Sarmiento (soundways, again, where else am I going to get this stuff on vinyl?!)

Spent too much, but hey that's what we women do amirite

i was typing that as you were summoning the ladys of ilx

i just sold records to a very nice young woman. she wanted david bromberg records. and the orson welles war of the world radio broadcast. and the point by harry niiiiiiilllllllson.

"numero group, don't judge"

everyone loves numero group! or i do anyway. how can you not love them?

hey, i dunno! i love them too -- esp the cult cargo series, and esp anything salsa related -- i know that some people are crazy/snobby about it for some reason, but i guess it's like "hey a shelf-ful of numero releases doesn't make you a RECORD COLLECTOR, maaaan" thing? i dunno. either way, i am excited about this set. it's really beautiful, and the book is going to be so much fun to read as someone who lives in chicago, loves caribbean salsa, and knows/works with a bunch of clemente grads whose grandparents might have been involved in this scene. somewhere i posted a scan of a clemente yearbook i have stored away somewhere in my piles of crap.

michi sarmiento was sizzlin btw

"because girls get their hearts broken and make mix tapes about it, too."
lol
i think this book is a fine idea, sure
i'm already getting kind of tired of "nerd" being the new "hipster" tho

there was a time when nerd meant something, and we liked it

well, to be honest, i often pass on cool new reissues cuz i'm thrifty and i usually would rather get 5 or 10 old records for the price of one new reissue or new release. most of the numero stuff i have i got in trade when i lived on marthas vineyard. i rarely buy new stuff. i did get the recent german oak reissue and i did recently buy the deep wound comp on vinyl. some stuff is just essential to have for me.

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another glorious lady of ilx heard from!

i love when women shop in my store. i basically am all for more women making music and buying music and being obsessed by music cuz i dig women a lot. i prefer them in most cases to men.

http://www.317x.com/albums/j/jonahjones2/enlargement.jpg

haha yeah i was also about to say that the only reason i didn't shop in your store when there was because of tight schedule - i didn't want to get all absorbed in looking at records and not get to actually chat with you for a bit! another time obv!
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hahaaa awesome

more girls and vinyl for you

oh yeah no problem. i'm just glad you stopped by. it was nice to finally meet you in person. and i met jbr in person too this year! two of my very fave womynz.

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:)

i love when women shop in my store. i basically am all for more women making music and buying music and being obsessed by music cuz i dig women a lot. i prefer them in most cases to men.

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otm

yeah, men suck

sorry i left early herb i can't drink that many beers that early. had to go home and take a nap. plus, all that food...oof.

well you know i'm not "sorry" but it was nice to hang.

haha Lauren posted that Record Collecting for Girls book on Facebook with the caption MAKE HULK MAD

also check out the Tags Customers Associated With This Product for bonus lolz

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/04/new_app_vinyllove_makes_your_i.php

So dorky. And people of the world: no one really listens to vinyl because they like the clicks and pops. That shit's annoying.

the click and pop thing is one of my real hates about these articles. but i HAVE heard people say that they like this about vinyl. even on ilm. drives me up a wall.

number of times someone has said to me "i hear vinyl is coming back" in my store: 43939334484 times.

your surly record store guy stock answer should be: "i hear my fist in your face is coming back, too!"

it's kind of amazing that in 2011 vinyl is still HANDS DOWN better at letting you choose where in the song to begin listening than any music player, be it CD or iTunes or your iPod or what have you. (i believe this is sometimes called "random access".)

my wife had a modest collection of 200 records when i first met her (now it's grown to 210 imo!) and she sort of made me realize or at least notice that there are probably at least as many women as men in my circle who own a decent number of records but they tend to not talk about it, they just have them. it's the whole dude collector mentality and the drive to discuss our libraries.

the tags on that courtney smith book:

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^^here comes the poll!

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the tags on that courtney smith book

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^^pretty cold

that was my vote!

i can dig the nostalgic feeling of clicks and pops, it's like a warm blanket in front of a crackling fire.

but yeah, seriously, i've been on a cleaning binge lately after getting a bunch of free moldy records and have found that unless the records is truly scratched, most of the noise is dirt and grime and can be cleaned right away. since then, i've been turning shit into gold and rediscovering old cool records that were almost unlistenable but I kept around cuz they were so awesome. the bass & drums immediately pop out, even scratched records sound better in between the clicks. i use worn t-shirt rags, water & iso alcohol mix, wipe, dry

guys! Mavericks are defying the digital age!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/24/mavericks-defying-digital-age

Here's an app that lets you have the magic of 'vinyls' without all that annoying fuss and dirt!

http://gizmodo.com/#!5792791/vinyllove-for-ipad-re+creates-that-warm-vinyl-record-sound-for-your-mp3s

okay i admit i'm laughing that the woman artist in that guardian article has exactly 200 records!

and i will also admit that as soon as i see that picture of her with records scattered all over the floor and not in sleeves it reinforces my paranoid sexist fear that maria will not handle my records properly when she's at home and i'm not there. i'm horrible...

ugh i know! that picture is a promo-shot tragedy

but then i don't have plastic sleeves for most of my records (i do not have 200 records or anything tho) so i guess i am a heathen too

no i just meant paper sleeves. i hate seeing naked records on the floor in pictures.

oh i just mean the ones that go over the cardboard part! (i was being lolsarcastic on the internet)

naked records on the floor in pictures
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hahaa

My performance, Wind-Up, involves gramophone turntables and 78rpm records. I place electrical tape on the records to create an additional tactile layer. This creates unexpected percussive discordances, harmonies and locked grooves.

I'm always bewildered by the extraordinary sounds within these 80-year-old records.

she's like a li'l Christian Marclay

savagery.

I DON'T SEE HOW ANY OF THAT IS UNEXPECTED CUZ HEY LOOK YER PUTTING TAPE ON THE PLAYING SURFACE OF THE FUCKING RECORD.

it's like fish with chocolate-cheese sauce

mmmmmm "unexpected"

sometimes i like to melt up a couple of records and spread the resultant mess onto an intact record to create percussive discordances.