ILV clubhouse

truly the most disgusting savages.
if i go to a photocopy place, not knowing much about fancy photocopy machines, i'm just just gonna jam the parts together until they work. i would ask for assistance.

someone had this totally rad 60's-era scifi stereo they wanted to sell - big black bubble top and it was on a long stand and came with futuristic speakers and it was in really good shape and they wanted a hundred bucks for it and i was tempted but didn't buy it. kinda sad. then my friend X came in and she is a groovy artist and she is looking for a groovy stereo for her studio space and she totally would have bought it from me! argh! never seen one like it. usually only see stuff like that in fancy old fashion pictures of groovy scifi apartments. kinda like one of these:

http://modernicaprops.net/images/products/electronics/stereos/624.jpg

feel like a dope. i could have tested it out and everything. some fancy design store would sell stuff like that for $$$$. i mean it would have just looked good in the store even if X didn't buy it. oh well. i'm cheap unless we are talking records.

i mean they probably would have taken 75 for it. they were just dudes. big tattooed dudes. they just wanted to get rid of it. and X came in like ten minutes later! you win some you lose some...

can u run after them?

write a missed connection?

A friend of mine is St Louis is selling this thing, he says it all works. Not sure what he's asking
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/578758_441459372544218_1330101118_n.jpg

whoa! o_O

that some jetson shit

Hey Scott, I want to by Elmer Bernstein's Staccato OST, but I see there is a Capital mono with only 4 songs on each side that I think is broken up into 2 volumes and there's a stereo capital release and a 82 reissue. Should I fork out the money for the two volume mono sets, or the stereo, is there a difference? Btw this is for my wife who really digs the idea of owning this soundtrack.

putting momus records out cheap just to get them out of the store

where i'm at:

http://skotrok.blogspot.com/2012/07/my-store-in-july.html

man, I wish I had a store just to have an excuse to buy art books. what's the deal with that huge pink & brown painting in jpg 21?

my friend lance did that. he's a great painter. some day he will get his due. i don't know when. he doesn't push his art. he just works steadily for decades. he'll let history sort it out.

http://lancevaughan.com/

he hasn't updated his website since 2007...

he is also responsible for my favorite website ever:

http://www.kindertrauma.com/

now kindertrauma THAT he updates. always so impressed by how hard he works on that.

bestfriendsforever since high school. sadly i haven't seen him in years cuz he refuses to ever leave philly and i never find time to go down to philly. philly always seems like that extra mile to me...

we are both lazy, basically.

Are there any labels or other places that do a subscription service where you receive surprise records in the mail on a semi-regular basis? I want something like that. Maybe one of the record store dudes here can do that for me.

there are still a couple of labels that do singles club type things, though that might not be what you mean

Hey guys tell me about Jimmie Spheeris, which records should I start with?

get them all. will set you back like five bucks.

I've decided to collect private lounge records!

do you have the endless knights record? they were from mass. their record is actually pretty good. loungey, but some trippy original tracks too.

We made another house call yesterday and bought stacks latin soul, R&B, and rockabilly 45's!! The nice man's Uncle used to Dj with Wolfman Jack!

saweeeeeeeeeet

I have a collection of thousands (around 10,000) of Vinyl records. Some aren't in the best of shape, some warp not scratches.Most of em are untouched still in cover.Some promo etc. They range from early 1980 hip-hop, R&B to 2006+Some Oldies also some ramdom genre's in there.

Asking $300 but make an offer.
The only catch is you must haul...

I am going to this storage unit in an hour to take a look.

went to the Idea Fire Company show last night, they were fantastic. matt krefting sat in. so great. they opened for Bill Orcutt/Chris Corsano Duo. broke my heart to see everybody rushing up to buy BO/CC/HPussy lps--cleaning him out i believe--while the entire Swill Radio catalog, displayed nearby, got no action at all. people.

so I bought 10,000 hip hop records for $200. good thing I have a basement. DJ pool stuff from late 90's to mid-2000's so far. mostly promo 12" singles. whole boxes of unopened Outkast and ATCQ 12"s, 30 count. madness. yesterday I sorted through the first pickup truck load. I think it'll take another 3 or 4 trips. jammed an Erykah Badu 12", a Kelis 2LP from '99, some clear vinyl BEP promo. I hope not too much of it will end up in the dump, I'd rather give it away.

jeeeeeeeze. any hip hop-centric stores nearby you could have come buy stuff from you?

not really, maybe Portland. I could definitely trade some stuff locally. my wife and I constructed this rough plan that has her retiring in around 9 years at which point I was planning on opening a store. so I decided to start buying collections, but didn't really expect this on my first time out. right now I'm just focused on getting them out of the stacked piles - lotsa bent covers, vinyl is fine so far. right now I'm temporarily re-stacking stuff to hopefully flatten some out and pulling the full LPs out from the sea of singles. there's also been a smattering of techno & dancehall.

wild... well have fun with it!!!

fun! and overwhelming.

put this up last night. probably not the kind of stuff anyone here needs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wl6GOTVSo&feature=channel&list=UL

i'm really bad about dealing with people i know outside of ebay and the store anyway. which is why i'm not peddling my wares on here too often. i'm too forgetful/lazy unless record-selling is a part of my normal work day.

this fall i'm going to try and really work our website. with maria's help. post set sale stuff on the store site as it comes in and have a paypal link. i need to have stuff visible in-store/on-line.

diving back in to the sea of records... a lot of the boxes of promos are outside still, gonna pull like half a dozen from each and see if I can sell some at 10 for a dollar before I take them down to the basement, I do NOT want to take them back if they're just gonna end up in the dump anyway. I now own every Ghostface album, some are in even normal non-promo sleeves. Found a bunch of sleeveless white label techno 12" records, and some test pressing! Queen Latifah!

put stuff up on discogs. that's an easy way to sell unsellable 90s/2000s rap singles.

do you think people would buy lots of ten, like a variety pack? I could probably put those together with very little effort. what about boxes that have 30 of the same single in it? I guess I can try, I do have a Discogs account after all. selling them individually.... I dunno.

fortunately I inherited a bunch of larger shipping boxes for LP's along with all the rest of this.

on ebay people do lots of 100 12 inches all the time. people buy them. not for a ton, but they buy them. you don't have to list everything in the box. just name some artists and say mixed rap 12 inches. etc. or a lot of 20 or of 50 or whatever.

"starting bid: $0.01"

http://getitonvinyl.com/

this is war...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBQqpRUQw4&feature=plcp

apparently.

ugh, thanks for reminding me rent is due in two weeks..

guy was in my store yesterday and he said he was opening a small store in brooklyn and that he had 5000 records of his own he was going to sell and i said cool and then you're gonna buy records? and he said no. just gonna open a store and sell his records. and he said that he didn't want to do it for more than 4 years because its not what he really wants to do. i didn't really understand how he was gonna sell 5000 records for up to 4 years. he said he found a cheap spot to rent. cuz i asked him about that too. don't know why he just wouldn't do fmu and other shows or flea markets.

but anyway it just reminded me of when people come into my place and say "are these all yours???"

huh, i wonder who the guy was.
no name?

seems weird. all the good stuff will be gone in the first months!

he's gonna be in bushwick. he said mostly new wave and post-punk stuff. i didn't get his name.

interesting.
there's already a store kinda like that in bushwick! what do i know, maybe he will make it work but it seems like a losing proposition to me, unless he's only gonna be open a few days and keep his day job.

i was having a day yesterday where i was getting really frustrated with record ppl. then i realized i wasn't 'record people' i hated in particular it was just 'the public.' some people can be just so brutal sometimes. won't take no for an answerrrrr i am not going to give you $20 for your bag of beat up pop 45s dude i do not want them.

another guy brought in three big boxes of records, i pulled out what i could use (maybe 150-175 pieces) and offered him what i considered a reasonable amount -- but he passed on it and probably thinks i am just some jerk out to fuck him. but i'm not! i try to be fair at all times!