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
― herbal bert (herb albert), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
guys! Mavericks are defying the digital age!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/24/mavericks-defying-digital-age
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
okay i admit i'm laughing that the woman artist in that guardian article has exactly 200 records!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh i know! that picture is a promo-shot tragedy
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
no i just meant paper sleeves. i hate seeing naked records on the floor in pictures.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i just mean the ones that go over the cardboard part! (i was being lolsarcastic on the internet)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
naked records on the floor in picturesdisgusting (11)
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaa
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― herbal bert (herb albert), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
she's like a li'l Christian Marclay
― herbal bert (herb albert), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
savagery.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I DON'T SEE HOW ANY OF THAT IS UNEXPECTED CUZ HEY LOOK YER PUTTING TAPE ON THE PLAYING SURFACE OF THE FUCKING RECORD.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like fish with chocolate-cheese sauce
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
^^can i make this the new borad description
― final ritchie (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
What about all the flooring fans?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
byron c. famous owner of yodspace came in the store today and told me that he really liked my record paper that i wrote for the conference in la. that made me feel good. i thought he might dig it. he's my kinda guy. then he bought records. he's reading poetry tonight at the book mill with will oldham and being backed by ben chasney. how hip is that?
(kinda could pick his brain about records forever. how does he do it? its nuts. he remembers EVERYTHING. i can barely remember my phone number.)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
that is v hip
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 28 April 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
that's an underworld triple threat right there.
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 April 2011 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
people not buying records
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores
― jaxon, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i've spent plenty of time in at least 4 or 5 of those stores
― jaxon, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i posted that on here two weeks ago but i still love you.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ha. that's cool. i posted the same link about the ipad app that makes your mp3s sound like vinyl that sonofstan posted a day before him. no biggie. i've only got enough room in my brain to remember records and nothing else
― jaxon, Saturday, 30 April 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
what is your wife's birthday???!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 April 2011 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i posted the same link about the ipad app that makes your mp3s sound like vinyl that sonofstan posted a day before him. no biggie.
So you did. oops. Can I plead the same excuse?
― I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Saturday, 30 April 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
all is forgiven
― jaxon, Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/yy38/harveycanal/JudyBlume.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 April 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
wld read
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Judy blume is on the second raincoats record right?
― 69, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
my pal mike!
http://mvgazette.com/article.php?30490
http://mvgazette.com/zoom.php?10624
― scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
aw! cuetest!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i spent so much time in that store. i had nowhere else to go on that island! good thing me and him hit it off so well. other than beth parker and her lovely husband and some of maria's family upisland, mike is one of the only people i miss on that rock.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
he just seems to have that good-guy vibe to him!and that sign is rulin
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=26245521
― bamcquern, Friday, 12 August 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2011/08/10/vinylprojection-525x373.jpg
via fmu twitterpresumably re: the above
― sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Sunday, 21 August 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that yahoo link is possibly the most shrill and grating way to receive facts about something, holy shit
― Lil Boosie's on the Up (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 August 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i really hate the thing where the text zooming in is accompanied by a zooming in sound; the only thing worse is when the text does that flapping back and forth thing.
― sarahel, Monday, 22 August 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta put this here too, jesus this one really does have all the cliches possible
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/10/bjorks_biophilia_pushes_bounda.php
sarahel put this on another thread
― sleeve, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I am acutely aware that everything I have just said is horrifying and aggravating to a great many people.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Scott, i remember your MV store posts.. i always thought it was a crusty old timey collector store you frequented. i've only been to the island once in 1993 (a few years before he open his spot) but i distinctly remember as a teenager perusing a store with a wall of records in the ground floor and basement. edgartown too. is it still around or did this guy buy it and rebrand it? it was pretty close to the gingerbread illuminations houses.
― sanskrit, Thursday, 13 October 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
there were some other stores that have since closed. one guy had lots of records. forget the name of it. i barely even remember going there years ago. but i think that was in vineyard haven. there were two cd stores - in oak buffs and vineyard haven - that closed when i was living there and i never went to them because they were so terrible. between mike's store and the two thrift stores and the dump store and estate sales, i did okay.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Soundscan May Only Be Counting 15% of Vinyl Sales...
― Bill E, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/142/350cc97f75d84b28a0dac936092771a1/l.jpg
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmydCn_59g&feature=player_embedded
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
waxidermy is sending scouts LOLOL
― 69, Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
OMG people not only buy records, some of them are worth money!!$$$!!
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/194247/dunedin-sound-vinyl-still-groove
― Bill E, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link