ILV clubhouse

i mean.. it's all very hit or miss. housing works does manage somehow to have better records, on average, than the salvation army, which has better records than the goodwill etc. i think you just have to get lucky. wait for the day some old hipsters kids donate his jazz records cuz they don't know what to do with em

the salvation army store here sends most of the records they get to the distribution spot in springfield. they never even hit the shelves. which sucks. i still find good stuff occasionally.

where do they go from springfield? salvation armies are definitely hit or miss. there is one super close to my apt and go there all the time, but it's probably less than 5% of the time i find something 'good.' but sometimes i find stuff worth selling. rarely.

well, you know, i found these 45s in january at the salvation army. so, it happens here.

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/01/45s-i-bought-at-thrift-store-this.html

from springfield they just go to a bunch of salvation army stores all over the place. who knows. the store here just gets too much stuff to handle. guy who works there at night says they get TONS of records that they send to springfield.

and i found a minty copy of this last year. never been played. still in the shrink. i was sikkkkkked.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20071101/220166871052.jpg

found a townes van zandt promo there too. but its usually slim pickings.

dealer i know works in the back of the big store near northampton! fox guarding the henhouse. i don't think HE even finds that much there. i'm sure he gets enough to keep him happy though.

you know, a part-time dealer. not a full-time shark. he's a nice enough guy.

ha.
i was just gonna say, i wonder what getting a gig at a salvation army warehouse or donation center would be like..

Tx goodwills can be great if you hit them on a regular basis, salvation armies not so much. My best goodwill find was this record, which I wanted since I heard on wfmu, but never thought I would find it. It's like my exotica/lounge holy grail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-papp7Vbo

i was really happy when someone brought this into the store the other day in a box of records. great copy too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQc-WDMnow

Wow! That's another's one I keep in mind but never see. One day...

ian, funny that right after you posted that scruggs thing on youtube i pulled a copy of nashville's rock by earl scruggs out of a box in back. sounds cool. that's the record they were listening to in that youtube video. i'm guessing his boys played on it. produced by my fave bob johnston. speaking of West.

listening to in that OTHER youtube video. from that documentary.

saw Steve Reich last night. fantastic. he did a pre-concert talk first; turns out he's an extremely unpretentious affable guy, too. and 75 years old.

ps, thank you MIT, for bringing Terry Riley and Steve Reich to Cambridge in the last 6 mos.

Hey guys we're under a tornado watch here!

Had a good day at a small record fair in Norwich yesterday. Didn't sell too much but picked up a Mickey Newbury twofer & I Came to Hear the Music, Zen Arcade, upgraded my copy of Liege & Lief, found Compilation by The Clean for £4 and a crappy copy of NY's Freedom for £2.

I'd listened to the Groundhogs for the first time the night previous - mind blown. So i was on the lookout for Split. Couldnt see a copy for less than £20 so bought Hogwash for a fiver. I'm a cheapskate.

I never see Groundhogs records.

Split is an awesome record.. Managed to get that and "Thank Christ For The Bomb" in a trade a couple of months back after looking for them for ages..

ayo, just got 80 bucks for an empty cd case

nb: was signed by hunter s thompson

i have a signed thompson twins 12 inch. wonder what i could get for it?

Half-price on one that hasn't been scribbled on.

Just sold my first record to Japan and the guy kind of schooled me. He asked "Is this a Blue/white "New York, USA" blue Note labels and is Van Gelder and "Ear" stamped in dead wax? " I guess I need to look more closely at my records.

well was it?

Dexter Gordon's Go

the japanese have raised record collecting to a whole new level imo. sometimes i'll be looking up some obscure rural rock or ssw record and the only info on it will be all in japanese

Byw the way I have a Japanese Brigitte Fontaine, what do you do with the OBI? I was going to trow it away.

fold it and put it inside the jacket?

Does it boost the value of a record?

yes.

Better, put whole sleeve inside plastic protector.

hey whatsup guys, i lost my ipod this weekend so now i've just got my records to listen to. it's been pretty nice

every icloud has a shiny black lining..

anyone in the clubhouse?

yep listening to keith fullerton whitman, drinking a beer, thinking about what to make for dinner

SWEEEET

im playin donald byrd on my show right now. i dont know why, but i always kinda shrugged him off. but this ethiopian knights album is totally awesome.

hangin out killin the end of the workday.
drinkin some bourbon.
listening to sandy bull.

a dude i know just told me he's going to be putting out a ton of unreleased charlie tweddle recordings over the next few years. psyched. said he'd bring me a test pressing of the first volume.

fuck yeah! i wanna drink some bourbon tonight, too. my job tonight is to pack up all non-record media into boxes. that seems like a bourbon job.

Just put a pork loin in the oven to slowly cook in a fig walnut marinade. About to listen to records

awwww man, fig walnut glaze!
i'm reading this kinda dopey book about Blaze Foley, written by his ex-lover, and there is a part where Blaze is like "Let's plant some fig trees in the front yard, little onion--that's bible food!" made me lol

That's hilarious! We are planting a fig tree the day after our baby is born!

Fresh figs are good.

Been bummed cause I have no time to go digging for records, but watching lots of good stuff on ebay, Mike Fiems and Bunny Fitzgerald, and have you guys heard Thomas and Richard Frost self titled on Uni? Thinking bout getting it.

bunny fitzgerald! i have a copy of that record. thinking about selling it, but it's not in top shape (seam split on top, some scuffing & surface noise) so i may just hold onto it.

You have it??? How is it??

Thomas & Richard Frost is a nice mellow listen, kinda melancholy iirc. Don't own it--played for me by a friend sometimes a few yrs back.