ILV clubhouse

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!

I would think most people who bring records into a store are hoping to trade or just unload them. But I guess most people don't understand stores just can't offer you market price on records, that you aren't ebay. I actually brought a bunch of rare disco 12"s into your store when I was in Brooklyn many years ago and was happy with my credit price.

scott did you ever know the psych guy Harry from south jersey?

i don't think so. my psych friend was dan who worked at the record exchange. still does too, i think. we were good pals when i lived there. the best psych collection i've ever seen in my life. and i didn't even see it all! he was also the best digger i ever knew. better than me. better than anyone i knew or know.

this guy came in with a big tub of records and i made him an offer and he said he would take half that because he "likes what i'm doing". !!! i like his attitude! i'm like a cultural/nostalgia charity case! and i'll take it. my kids eat tons of food.

totally had tons of smiths records and cocteau twins and tom waits and sex pistols too. like, 15 smiths albums/12 inches!

score!

Awesome.
Some friends of mine opened a store in town just a few weeks ago and the outpouring of appreciation from the community has been kind of embarrassing to them. I mean, we have been sorely lacking a decent record store for a while, but the guys say that people are acting like they've opened a volunteer fire station. I've been weeding my collection a little bit and bringing them stuff that I think will sell or maybe represents genres that they don't have much representation from.

wow scott, that's amazing! so refreshing!

<3 happy birthday scott <3

if i were in greenfield i'd stop by with a pie asap.

Happy Birthday Scott!!