C/D People trying to sell worthless beat up old vinyl at hip record stores

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You know, the guy comes in with a disgusting copy of "Frampton Comes Alive" and some turded up Genesis record. "I heard people are buying vinyl again." etc

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Classic unless its actually turded up.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

The stuff I always see it beat to shit. People acting shocked when they only get $2 for something, etc.

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Definately classic! That 'the guy' could very well be handing in all his krautrock records he either doesn't care about anymore, or bought on CD (new!), after which they're up for grabs in the used-bin!

― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Well you can't really blame those kind of people. Who needs a beat up version of Frampton Comes Alive? (I bought one because I never had it). So why not sell it for 20 cents?

I'm going to say Classic, because I like to laugh at all the copies of "Southside Johnny", "Phil Collins" and "Paul Simon" albums at Scotti's in Morristown, NJ.

P.S. Paul Simon albums are great.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

i'd still shell out mad clams for a trashed copy of the vashti album

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Southside Johnny's Hearts of Stone is really a great album!

Genesis had lots of good records too! It's true!

I heard good things about Frampton's Camel but I'm scared....but wasn't he in Humble Pie? They were pretty good from what I've heard.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

the best thing about people selling crappy records is you get to buy them for a dollar. i have a waterlogged copy of Joe Byrd & Field Hippies - American Metaphysical Circus that i got for 3$.

also, one man's trash another's treasure blah blah. a lot of what i'm buying right now (80s r'n'b) sits on shelves, but i fucking eat it up, and it's hardly more than a few bucks

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Always go to folk/blues record stores with a used vinyl section. they'll stuff anything that looks "disco" or "dance" in the "crap" section. I love stores like this.

Alternately, go to dance record stores with a used "miscellaneous rock" section, for the converse.

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, both types of store seem to know a good krautrock record when they see one. :(

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm not talking about buying crappy vinyl. I do that. I'm talking about people who bring in shite vinyl and expect to get sick bank and act offended when the dude won't buy it.

― no tech! (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

i once took in 150-odd mint 45s, nothing amazing but still decent stuff that i mostly had on cd as well. and was offered A$50 for them. i thought that was kinda pathetic. i didn't accept. but i've been lucky in the past with stuff i've sold as well.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

are you the guy Jack Black played in High Fidelity?

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm not talking about buying crappy vinyl. I do that. I'm talking about people who bring in shite vinyl and expect to get sick bank and act offended when the dude won't buy it.

This is hardly a new thing. It's been around for decades. Search: Bleeker Bob's

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Except it's not as much offense as "you know you'll never see that record again." fear tactics... or "fear" tactics. haha.

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

"Whipped Cream And Other Delights was a highly sought out album... i doubt you'll come across it again for less than $25"

― donut e- (donut), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

I heard good things about Frampton's Camel but I'm scared....but wasn't he in Humble Pie? They were pretty good from what I've heard.

Frampton's Camel was really up and down, mostly down. The best songs wound up beaten to death on Frampton Comes Alive. If you have to get one, go for "Frampton," which technically isn't Frampton's Camel but is the best of the period, mostly for "I'll Give You Money" which has one of the man's best riffs plus some of the sappy crap like "Show Me the Way" that went super platinum on the live set. Another of his good ones was on Humble Pie's "Rock On," the song being "Shine On." "Rock On" is superior to any Frampton's Camel record, as is "Humble Pie."

― George Smith, Thursday, 7 July 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

What's even funnier (and sadder) are the people who bring in a bunch of cassettes and argue with the person at the buy counter who is patiently trying to explain that there's not a big market for Anne Murray tapes.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 7 July 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I have near-perfect box sets of Elvis on vinyl - Elvis Elvis Elvis and Memories Of Elvis, pressed in the late 70's that the local used dealer wouldn't even touch. Well, y'see Elvis doesn't do too well around here. But he wasted no time latching onto a blistered copy of The Fugs It Crawled Into My Hand - Honestly.

I guess I'm not really surprised though.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 7 July 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

it's nice to know that this is a "phenomenon" with some universal resonance.

it's interesting to observe the differing amounts of patience and kindess with which record-store clerks handle this sort of thing.

the folks at dusty groove in chicago have to put up with this often.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

i find a lot of pathos in these scenarios sometimes. so much that i might cringe, even. people who look crestfallen that the store won't buy their lps.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Hands down why I could never work at a record store that deals with used material. That's half your job right there - telling that person that you're not going to buy back his Living Colour or 24-7 Spyz backcatalogue... even if you're working at a place like Twisted Village.

― donut e- (donut), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've never worked at a record store but I've overheard several such situations where the customer just really obviously needed some money and seemed quite desperate.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 7 July 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

they should have given plasma instead.

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

What's MVE exchange going to do with Plasma?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

"Classic" from my used rekkid store clerk days was when "The Sun", and it was ALWAYS, "The Sun", every single time, would run a feature on how your old records were a gold mine, and they'd always cite the wrong records as being valuable, like some commonplace sex pistols 7" was supposedly worth fifty quid, and the one that actually was worth money (I forget which one it actually was, it's a few years ago, and I never really cared that much in the first place) so you'd then get this parade of THICK CUNTZ coming into the shop w/attitude & a stack of common-as-muck punk 7"', inevitably ALL TOTALLY FUCKED to the point where some of them HAD BITS BROKEN OFF THEM. MY RECORDS ARE WORTH MONEY. GIVE ME MONEY. And they'd always get shitty w/you when you REFUSED TO BUY THEM AT ALL OR EVEN TAKE THEM FOR FREE and accuse you of trying to rip them off, like REFUSING To BuY SoMeTHiNG aT aLL iS "RiPPiNG SoMeoNe oFF"!!! The boss actually one HIT SOMEONE who got really obnoxious and abusive about this!

Man, FUCK "The Sun"!!!

Anytime we ever got someting actually valuable it was like soomeone bringing in a pile of clodagh rogers albums w/a copy of "Zweistein" in the middle, or people who were genuinely up against it, and they were all nice, & w/0 attitude!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

That said we weren't exactly a "hip" record store.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

This thread reminds of the two storage bins' worth of pre-recorded cassettes currently monopolizing my hall closet. Something tells me there's not much of a market for dog-eared Technotronic cassingles...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I adore my shitty vinyl copies of Punch The Clock, Hall & Oates' Big Bam Boom, Bad Girls, and Reckoning, so classic.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

"Whipped Cream And Other Delights was a highly sought out album... i doubt you'll come across it again for less than $25"
-- donut e- (do...), July 7th, 2005.

Donut be stealin' my jokes...

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 8 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

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