Weird vinyl sub-collection fetishes

I'm sure that we all have these. My top ones are prob early stereo demo "Persuasive Percussion" deals and 50's personal motivation records (also the aforementioned super weird eastern block private press stuff).

on the motivational records tip Search: Paul J Meyer. spends most of his time inventing totally awesome words like "Onetracksmanship". Fuck a Tony Robbins, this guy is the REAL DEAL.

I saw a Billy Barty motivational record the other day. I think he did a bunch.

Private country & bluegrass.
Songs about food. (the village people's "food fight" for example.)

I think Billy Barty was a commencement speaker at some college in Utah back in the 90s.

labels I collect:
ESP Disk
Yazoo
County
Time-Lag
Eclipse (have fallen off a bit on this, unfortunately.)
Majora

used to be a siltbreeze obsessive, but many of their new releases are not up to my standards.

Time-Lag seems so hit and miss, but mileage always varies. Majora, YES!

the thing with time-lag, i think, is that even if i don't like a particular release it's pretty much guaranteed i'll be able to later sell it for at least as much as i paid.

i think i might have actually lost a few bucks on that patron saints record. sold it on ebay and hardly anyone wanted it.

You have to wait for it to go out of print first!

Nonesuch Explorer series
Virgin Prunes records
early Rough Trade singles

moog/synthesizer records
Nonesuch classical, avant-garde & Explorer
swankadelic 60's easy listening
exotica
Jackie Gleason
Double Live

on the moog/synth tip:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/80349953_1ff7d18ffe.jpg

is an all time classic. love it so much i have multiple safety copies.

Cramps records. even though the only one i really listen to (of the uh, three? four? that i have) is the robert ashley.

rarely play the nuova consonanza records i have; definitely the kind of thing where when i think about it i start to feel guilty for hoarding shit.

Cramps records. even though the only one i really listen to (of the uh, three? four? that i have) is the robert ashley.

― ian, Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:39 PM (1 hour ago) [IP: 71.247.55.90] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

talking abt the italian avant garde label btw & not the lux interior (rip) vehicle.

yeah i scratched my head there for a minute...

thought i might have missed out on a REALLY cool cramps record where they covered robert ashley.

also, what am i doing with all these chatham square recordsss? when am i gonna listen to richard landry???

they didn't put out that much stuff, did they?

they sell pretty good, don't they? or at least the glass stuff does.

yeah, they sell pretty well. the jon gibson records are $20 records, the landry is in the same ballpark. now of course i can't remember what the others i have are.. and no, it's not a huge discography, but the numbering is really weird and for a long time led me to believe they'd released more than they actually did.

according to what's listed on discogs, i'm missing a michael snow 2xLP and another richard landry record.

Only thing I really collect is Small Wonder records. I've got most of them now but the ones I'm missing tend to be the really expensive ones e.g. The Cure - Killing An Arab

Recently discovered I currently live just round the corner from where the Small Wonder shop was, but that's just a coincidence

where the fuck is pete on this board?

is he 69?

this is one of those dumb things that i always ask but who is bb now. you know, ben. cuz i don't see his name anymore.

i dunno if bb posts much anymore :(

pete is 69!

Philips Connoisseur Collection: big gatefold LPs with several pages of liner notes/lyrics with translations, and an embossed plastic stamp on the cover. These were international recordings, many of them French, that Philips repackaged for an American audience. Though not widely collected — I haven't even seen a webpage about the series — they are possibly the definition of coffee table LPs. Maybe they're too middlebrow-pretentious for most, but they did release some classic recordings (the Missa Luba for one).

yeah bb is still bb far as I know. I see him post stuff on facebook now and then, not much on ilx

I'll take the Chatham Square stuff from you Ian. I have the Jon Gibson, got it when Downtown Music Gallery came into a box of unplayed copies. Mikey IQ was working there then and emailed me about it. I was trying to collect the Obscure Records releases but some of them were too expensive for me.

Anyway, I'm generally not much of a collector, but I'm always attracted to Durrutti Column records, and minimalist/20th Century type stuff.

I've just discovered I Love Vinyl

Forced Exposure used to sell sealed copies of the Jon Gibson album (Two Pianos) for like five bucks for years ... it was a staple of their print catalog ... i guess it must not have been a big mover for CS originally

lil' petey is waylaid w/a lot of work and a broken wrist ;_;

also i don't know if he knows it exists

hey! here i am!

how is your wrist duder?

i dont know if these are WEIRD but

african highlife comps
ethnic folkways
every don cherry appearance on LP
mid-90's NC indie rock 7"s

maybe next is vanguard LP's?

im so over the cast. i may be getting a screw in my wrist next week, STAY TUNED!

when i worked at folkways (i now know that my intern buddy there is now the AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA blogger, cool), there were rumors of a HUGE VINYL SALE that had happened the year before, with tons of old FW stuff, ethnic, old, new, dyer-bennett, asch, etc., sold for $1 a piece. oh man, this is the source of a lot of time-travel pining these days...

i remember in philly the tower records there had tons and tons of folkways 10 inches for a dollar a piece. this was years ago. i always wondered where they got them all.

I got another LP for my STASH RECORDS collection yesterday. A nice copy of the "Straight & Gay" LP. Stash is the label behind such excellent comps as "Copulatin Blues" and "Reefer Songs." <3

all collecting hot jazz, blues &tc from the 20s-30s.

http://www.examiner.com/x-930-LA-Vinyl-Records-Examiner~y2009m3d24-Sex-drugs-and-blues-A-brief-appreciation-of-Stash-Records

i see those around SF -- ill keep my eyes open for u

<3 i think i have most of 'em at this point, but may be missinga few. there's an a capella gospel record (!) on stash that i need.

60s-70s non-English language pop / easy listening.

records that used to belong to people who i sort of knew who are now deceased

are u talking about dash snow

the really expensive ones e.g. The Cure - Killing An Arab

what does this tend to go for? I'd be interested in divesting myself of one