WFMU Record Fair

i AM getting rid of the VAST majority of my cd collection. that includes like 50 discs of nz pop, like 3 linear feet of brazilian funk and soul cds, my whole holland/dozier/holland section, all my atom heart cds (ok, that's only like 10 of 'em) ... about a 1000 cds in every genre, b/c that's all i could rip to my hard drive so far!!! but i've been ripping the most interesting cds i have, first, at least.

I'll have a table against the back wall (the "R" section), come say hello if you're an ilm-er.

if'n you don't know who i am (and i don't know why you should) i used to be the wfmu music director before brian.

sorry for the promotional content. thanks douglas!!!

p.s.: cds i'm NOT getting rid of--all my gospel cds, every boredoms related cd i own, and the majority of my african cds. Look what happens when you age?

the fall - the domesday pay-off: triad-plus! (the slightly different u.s. version of bend sinister)

here's johnny: magic moments from the tonight show (casablanca records, 2 LPs, 1974, comes with a poster!)

let's clear the air: presented by con edison ("nuclear energy: is it the safe energy a growing world needs?" and other promotional propaganda; cover design is an idyllic 1970s blue sky with a bright white lightbulb in the bottom foreground)

linda ronstadt - get closer (one of her early '80s pop records; couple of jimmy webb covers on here)

signs of the zodiac: cancer (part of mort garson's awesomely stupid late '60s series of astrology-psych records... i almost got a non-garson astrology LP another seller had, but in the end i decided it wasn't worth paying $3 for).

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Well, I have that, too.

There were an unusual number of hot indie boys attending amid the geeks. At the other end of the spectrum, I saw someone answer his phone at the urinal.

I didn't see any!

fuck, i should have gone! but i dont have a record player even.

I snagged:
Socrates Drank the Comium LP
a Gene Clark LP
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come / Journey LP
Faith Healers Peel CD from Ben Goldberg
all kindsa weird $2-5 LPs from Thurston's table
Kildozer LP
Gerson King Vol 2, Michael Gibbs, Marcos Valle, David Toop electro comp CD s (thanks Robin).
new 3CD Kilt By Death scottish DIY-punk/post-punk comp and more in the bag. Spent not much, came away with lots.

New York Noise is doing a recap fair TV special & we're picking the videos, keep yer eyes peeled cable fans...

Chubby Checker self-titled on MFP, French import LP
Rocket From the Tombs - Life Stinks LP (w/single)
Pink Fairies - What A Bunch of Sweeties LP
Steve Miller - Abracadabra LP
Alan Parsons - Pyramid LP
Alan Parsons - Turn of a Friendly Card LP
John Cougar - self-titled LP
J.J. Cale - Shades LP
Laura Branigan - Branigan LP
Ramatam - self-titled LP
Tommy James - Cellophane Symphony LP
Comateens - Deal With It LP
Strangeways - Native Sons LP
Styx - 1 LP (reissue)
Thin Lizzy - Shades of a Blue Orphanage LP
Slipknot - Iowa LP

Rockets - The Best (import CD from Portugal -- thx, Robin)

ohhh is there a tracklisting for this anywhere on the internets

CD1:
Andy Cameron - I Want To Be a Punk Rocker
Valves - For Adolfs Olnly
Johnny & the Self Abusers - Saints and Sinners
Simple Minds - Picasso (demo)
Bee Bee Cee - You Gotta Know Girl
Drive - Jerkin
Jolt - You're Cold
PVC2 - Pain
Rezillos - It Gets Me (Peel version)
Alternators - Kid Don't Know
Visitors (Dundee) - Take It Or Leave It
Exile - The Real People
Restricted Code - Then There Was You (demo)
Skids - Reasons
Subs - Gimme Your Heart
Zones - Stuck With You
Cheetahs - Minefield
DNV - Death In Venice
Electric Personalities - Hot Spot
Electrix - Holland
Fun 4 - Singing In the Showers
Red Letters - Sacred Voices
Brills - Gang of One
Mental Errors - Irrelevance
Freeze - Paranoia
Fakes - Look Out
Flowers - After Dark
Fire Exit - Time Wall
Zips - I'm In Love
Scars - Adult/ery

CD2
Valves - It Don't Mean Nothing At All
TPI - She's Too Clever For Me
Josef K - Chance Meeting
Another Pretty Face - All the Boys Love Carrie
Metropak - You're a Rebel
Visitors (Edinburgh) - Moth
Orange Juice - Blue Boy (live)
Venigmas - Turn the Lights Out
35mm Dreams - More Than This
Alleged - Despair
AVO-8 - Gone Wrong
Aztec Camera - Real Tears (live)
Battery Boys - Cheap Local Talent
The Fegs - Mill Street Law and Order
Scrotum Poles - Helicopter Honeymoon
One Takes - Accident
Prats - Disco Pope
Defiant Pose - Fight
Scrotum Poles - Radio Tay
Squibs - Out on the Town
Thermometers - 20th Century Girl
Basic Unit - Ladder
Those Intrinsic Intellectuals - Radio Iceland
Crime Desk - Arms Race
Story So Far - Radiated
X-5 Discharge - Confessions
Those Intrinsic Intellectuals - Do the Executive
Urban Enemies - Who Do You Have?
TV21 - Playing With Fire

CD3
Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me
Restricted Code - First Night On
Beat Necessity - Just Fine
Delmontes - Ga Ga
Strutz - Break Point
Article 58 - Event To Come
Noise Annoys - Living (in the world Today)
End Result - Last Chance
Laughing Apple - I'm Okay
Exposure - Video Eyes
Commercials - Simon
Significant Zeros - Stiff Citizens
Neon Barbs - Break Your Chains
Victims of What? - Anybody's Baby
Boots For Dancing - Ooh Bop Sh'bam
Skroteez - Newtown
Alternative - Who's Sussed
External Menace - Someday
Threats - Go To Hell
Twisted Nerve - When I'm Alone
Wake - On Our Honeymoon
Pastels - Heavens Above
Wayward Skylabs - Refine People
Suede Crocodiles - Stop the Rain
Passionate Friends - What's the Odds
Buba and the Shop Assistants - Something To Do
Jesus and Mary Chain - Upside Down
Square Peg - Bad Connection

Forks, don't stalk! What shadowy cretin pointed me out?

Tokyo Rosemary, if yr standards are too high for Jake Gyllenhaal, I don't expect you would've seen any treats (many of them were with girls).

mr. tofu, you were so totally NOT there when i spent my $21 at robin's table.

Don't I know it.

http://wfmu.org/avlounge.html

http://www.wfmu.org/recfair/

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watch the fat, and a pound and half of

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thinly sliced

in my experience i've found that mercer place to be not worth my time. lots of garbage none too cheap with a sprinkling of good stuff (quite a few sealed NNCK pressings too) correctly priced. can never find any deals. i thinks its only worthwile if youre after folk/blues/soundtracks.

but anyway, talk about FMU some more. I'm not sure i'm gonna be able to go.

keith from nnck works there.

http://www.wfmu.org/recfair/rf_dlrlist.html

Also Kate/Twisted Village:
Ridin' Dirty. Fri/Sat

Mike of Troubleman:
Disco, Hardcore, Punk, Disco-Punk, all the stuff for the hipsters. The owner of Troubleman Records will be available for autographs. Friday only!

OTM!!

I did buy something off him though ... I think it was Show + AG Runaway Slave

I've only gone to the fair once, it was really hit-or-miss

but fun

The Fall
Comprehensive BBC Channel 4 documentary documents the three-decade history of Manchester's Fall, live footage, clips, interviews with Mark E. Smith and band members past and present. (60 min)
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