ILV clubhouse

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!!

Happy birthday Scott!

Please enjoy this picture from a 1981 college yearbook

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9d9lm7R711rcq6xho1_500.jpg

thanks, dudes! my pal josh from mystery train just stopped by and bought records and gave me a copy of the bob seger tribute tape he is putting out. its funny/cool. ron from sunburned, big blood, bob fay, and all kinds of people on it. some good western mass banjo bob seger covers on here.

and hey don't forget friday october 12th at my store bob fay/bunwinkies/bunnybrains.

and if you didn't get the bunwinkies album that came out on feeding tube last year get it! its the best. so pretty. and you need it if you are a supreme dicks completist.

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/12/79/1279364296-1.jpg

http://bunwinkies.bandcamp.com/album/map-of-our-new-constellations

so sad. i like how at the end of their video they leave the record store empty-handed.

http://getitonvinyl.com/

I might be moving to Baton Rouge, LA soon for work, anyone been in the area looking for records? Excited about eating in Louisiana, maybe digging will be decent.

I have a librarian friend there, not sure about the digging scene.

How much physical music (CDs, vinyl, minidiscs, cases ingles, whatever) have you bought so far this year?

needs more categories!

we bought a large collection at the store.
we paid more for it than i would have liked but it didn't want to watch all these records go out the door.

a lot of swedish & scandinavian prog, avant-garde, jazz, new wave etc.

the only record i'm allowing myself to buy from the collection is this one ---

http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/details/160840252203/ARCHIMEDES_BADKAR_II_SWEDEN_1976_2XVINYL_LP_ORG_ELECFOLKWORLD_MUSICMEGA_RARE

i'm not buying the samla mannas mamma record i used to have.

even though i like it more now. than i did then.

we got this one in too --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLVTOsd3jy4

hey if you happen to dig out Anna Sjδlv Tredje's Tussilago Fanfara lemme know, I really want that record.

will do! i don't think i saw that one, but i have not really thoroughly gone through everything yet.

this guy was a producer in sweden in the eighties... goran andersson. we have a lot of TWICE A MAN records..

oh man that is totally related stuff! see the review at the end of the Discogs listing here:

http://www.discogs.com/Anna-Sj%C3%A4lv-Tredje-Tussilago-Fanfara/release/309089

I am drinking whiskey w/a rock and listening to the new RANGDA record.

oh wow, we have cosmic overdose records too... so maybe that one is there.

i will put together a package of this stuff for you if you are interested, sleeve -- some of this stuff is in doubkes/triples..

I wish I had a bottle of whiskey tonight, can you believe I'm in a partially dry county, only beer and wine. You have to drive an hour to find decent liquor.