http://mvgazette.com/zoom.php?10624
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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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
bird dog is now worth money on vinyl?!
― back in gloom (electricsound), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yes! Pretty much all that Verlaines 'early' stuff goes for some quite crazy money
― Bill E, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
ching ching
― back in gloom (electricsound), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
I got a sealed Juvenilia for like eight bucks?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 13 January 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
good score! The 30 year anniversary celebrations have really ramped up the interest in Flying Nun vinyl down here
― Bill E, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/01/15/145119799/need-help-finding-a-local-record-store
― Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 15 January 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://newsok.com/article/3641185
Vinyl records, declared dead a quarter century ago, are making a comeback.
In an age when it's assumed compact discs will join the list of dead media, one-time vinyl record owners like J.D. M3rryweather are rebuilding collections. And the surge in interest is prompting music enthusiasts to recast themselves as record producers.
― Snop Snitchin, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/26/145918912/its-a-buyers-market-crate-digging-on-100-a-day?sc=fb&cc=fmp
tbh, i find this 'record collector as archaeologist' thing a bit tiring. also, 5 records for $100 is not a bargain.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, well, if you live in nyc i guess that is a bargain! what do i know.
sheesh, that was dumb. give me a hundred bucks around here and i will find you a nice haul of goodies.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
"No, I'd be forced to revisit those mid-'90s days when, as a broke college student, I'd spend the two hours between leaving my summer internship and catching the 9:07 train to New Haven trying to find a $20 bargain."
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
"bargain"
"The recession has wreaked havoc on serious record collectors and the dealers who service them, from those who invested a precious fortune in major-label, early-'90s rap 12"s to those who thought there would always be a market for European sound library albums."
this isn't really true and where was i when people were paying a precious fortune for major label early 90's rap????
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
maybe he means the days when people were paying a precious fortune for out of print rap CDs.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
i guess we just aren't "serious record collectors" like this guy is what do we know
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
also kinda lolling at his boxes of deep soul & funk 45s that he can't make his money back on--yo son, you overpaid!
yeah, that stuff is trash. throw it away.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm guessing he paid too much in general in the early 2000s or something.
i actually think its a good time to buy AND sell these days. physical storefronts are bumming, a lot of them anyway, but people are still buying a lot of records. hence, this thread.
and you know what kinds of records you can still make good money on? ALL KINDS OF RECORDS. 90's indie, punk and hardcore, psych, folk, classical, almost everything! doo wop and 50's and 60's teenpop continue their downward spiral.
promising development of the next 20 years? tons of dead baby boomers!
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
early 90's "random" rap - made famous by his "host" johan - prices up, up, and UP.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
going to look at supposedly 50,000 records tomorrow..
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
that's a bunch.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/10K.gif
― fitzroy institution (electricsound), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
50,000 records!!!
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
the guy used to work for CBS, i guess?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
we'll see.
nice.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
someone brought in a great stack of things yesterday! clean columbia late sixties promos.. joe byrd & the field hippes, jacob's creek, sagittarius, man, illinois speed press, a buncah weird things. i am getting into the solo record by BLAND SIMPSON, later of the Red Clay Ramblers. has that rural rock sound i go wild for.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
got a nice clean copy of "my gryphon is gone"
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
wowee, those are nice things. i love that one illinois speed press album. forget which one. don't know jacob's creek. mmm, i love minty 60's columbia vinyl.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
also, psych-wise, i see stuff i sold 5 or 10 years ago for 100+ going for 300 and 400 and i'm all like HUH!!?? druids of stonehenge going for 3oo or more? get out of town.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
then there is the sealed phenomena. if we all only knew to buy pearl jam records in bulk in the 90's and never open them. they were in chain store bargain bins by the score.
and the u.k./u.s. collector price gap has never been greater. in my experience. just saw 1st press mcdonald and giles go for 300 bucks. granted, pink island pressings have gone thru the roof in recent times - jethro tull 1st pressings going for $$$$$$$$! - but still, 300 versus, what, 10 bucks for a u.s. copy? you never would have seen that 10 or 15 years ago.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
i curse those pearl jam records, i remember seeing like 15 copies of binaural sitting there for 8 bucks a pop and thinking 'haha no one buys pearl jam vinyl anymore, do they?' well they sure do now, for $150+.
― omar little, Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
even that eddie vedder soundtrack to 'into the wild' from a couple years back was going for $200-300 on ebay (it's been reissued.) i guess the lesson is "buy pearl jam vinyl!"
― omar little, Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
"and never open it!"
not opening them is always a good idea. i did actually buy some dollar bin pearl jam in the 90's and sold them later unplayed for a tidy profit. that one with the crazy art postcards was everywhere unsold. it was actually a really cool package. don't know what it sounded like though.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
all those neil young dead man soundtracks that nobody wanted i saw in philly stores back then...
my number one example is always paul's boutique. strawberries store in philly had dozens of them for a dollar apiece! i bought one...
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Kate Bush's Aerial now sells for 150!! Waterloo had copies for 20.00 and I kept thinking I'll get eventually.
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
by not opening, are you talking about leaving the shrinkwrap on as well, because in my experience it eventually shrinks and warps the cover
― Chris S, Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
a sealed record will be fine if its stored properly. its when they are in less than ideal conditions - moisture, extreme heat or cold, stacked in a box the wrong way for decades - that you have problems.
but, yeah, sealed is sealed. unopened.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
its a risky thing to buy a 40+ year old sealed record. you have no idea where its been. could be completely warped. stuff from the 80s and 90's and beyond is usually fine.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
ah, yeah was prob the fluxuating temperatures of my California apartments over the years
― Chris S, Saturday, 28 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Thus, you're still going to shell out $700+ for a first-press mono issue of The Beatle's iconic Revolver on Parlophone (you know, the one with the alternate mix of "Tomorrow Never Knows"?). But the next time you stumble upon a copy of Edgar Broughton Band's amazing yet cultish Wasa Wasa with a slightly stained cover, you'll probably find it offered for a price not seen since 1995."
recent price for a nice 1st press u.k. revolver - $110
recent price for a nice 1st press u.k. wasa wasa - $108
― scott seward, Monday, 30 January 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
amazing yet cultish
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 30 January 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
that article is p corny but the guy who wrote it has put out a lotta good compilations over the years so I give him a pass
does kind of encapsulate a certain style of writing that made me stop buying Wax Poetics though
― dmr, Monday, 30 January 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link