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feet up at annie's grandma's place after tight roast beef dinner w her uncles and aunts and cousins in pasadena. headin down towards temecula to see an oakland friend in her home town, then to palm springs for a couple nights, where ill be able to jam these records (and god please please please get a friend-of-friend discount so i can afford to buy records in january) at the LOL ace hotel.

all in all, including langer's pastrami and a chance to hang w the cutest lil kid of all, a pretty sick lil christmas.

silent night holy shit

oh ian btw -- we went to gimme gimme yesterday in LA and were chatting the guy there (not the guy i know, i guess it was the other/actual owner?), and dude puts on DRIFTIN WAY OF LIFE and annie and i cheered and stayed through ramblin scramblin. it was a kind of dark part of the long xmas shopping day yesterday, and JJW felt like divine intervention.

Laurie and I ate wild goose last night, so freaking good. we cooked two in red wine, our friends cooked the other two in white. Tons of good wine, side dishes, dessert. Happy holidays, y'all.

gimme gimme is a great place to score country rock records but sometimes his prices are wack. i like him a lot as a dude tho.
joe is moving out there next month.

i never noticed there was an open break on the charley d and milo record.

Last day at my gf's in Albuquerque and I really don't feel like going back home or to work. We spent Christmas eve in Santa Fe, went for a walk to find something to eat and it started snowing. It's been a lovely lovely week.

Funny Discogs dealers dissing each other in their listings..

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=2841306&ev=rb

love to see more of these if anyone's seen them...

haha that's pretty good.

omg thats so cute

tonight i played records in a bar for the first time in a few years.

got away with the following:
john hartford, john stewart, john fahey, hot tuna, norman blake, 15 minute farm band track, and PERHAPS most surprisingly, the neil young record w/ pearl jam.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!

lol I came here to post just that.
Happy birthday, dude. Hope you took the day off.

Howdy clubhouse! I have a question for you, two actually:

1) At some point I remember Scott mentioning some reissue label that is horrible and should never receive anyone's patronage. Does anyone know what I'm talking about or what it's called?

2) As I was idly searching yesterday, I saw that there is a reissue (ltd to 500, I think) of Affenstunde at my local store. It's $23.99. Is this too good to be true?

I called and had them put it on hold for me and I want it (real bad I want it) but I don't want to patronize this shitty label or be the kind of sucker who plunks down $23.99 for something shitty. I know you guys are probably gonna be like NO WAY because you think reissues are a waste of money but but but but

Should I buy it?

RADIOACTIVE/FALLOUT/PHOENIX

Thank you. So Klimt is ok?

Sorry for butting in! I WANT THIS REAL BAD.

pretty sure klimt pressings are bootlegs too. don't know anything about them really.

I'm not sure if Klimt records are boots or not. It wouldn't surprise me if they are. I think I am taking the day off, otherwise I could go to work and see if the packaging says anything along the lines of "Licensed from blah blah."

What should I look for? Asking these questions is so embarrassing!

just look to see if there's any small print on the back saying something like "Licensed from such and such corporation" or something. It won't necessarily be true, I guess, but I have no idea who owns the rights to the Popol Vuh catalog in France (where Klimt is from.)

Ok. Thank you! I will look for it. I appreciate the help. Spelling out the title over the phone so the person could look it up for me was about as much as I could handle. Most of the time I just want to browse, purchase, leave without having to ask any questions!

Thanks ILV clubhouse!

<3 took the day off yesterday and hit sacramento w mike mcg visiting from portland -- got some SICK records! ill post em as i listen to em

Update:
I looked for the licensing, didn't see anything, but was reassured by the clerk and bought it anyway. Listened to it immediately upon returning home, regret nothing.

At least I don't think I do? Listening to Affenstunde super loud on my record player while I got dinner together was extremely pleasant, and I wouldn't have had that experience otherwise. Now I can have it whenever I want...that's gotta be worth something even if the reissue label isn't totally legit? I'm not sure if it is or not, but I do appreciate your assistance, ILV.

i think almost everyone on this board has probably bought some 'grey area' reissue in their life at some point so don't sweat it, word?

i won this record in monthly 78 auction last night, along with a few others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xMJCc_iGek

klimt put out the henske/yester album just like radioactive did before them and i have a really hard time believing that a tiny no-name label in france with no website licensed that record from anyone. they put out lots of radioactive-y titles. josefus, moving sidewalks, demian. i could be wrong though. if i'm wrong someone right me. i have no idea who is behind the label.

the looking around i did proved mostly the same thing -- no website, no official presence aside from a ton of listings on forced exposure. i thought that was kinda weird as well.

i think the thing that disturbs me is that there's no website. why would they not want people to know who they are? but who would have the cojones to steal an album that well known? i mean, josephus is not popol vuh.

its also possible that they might license stuff close to home and not other stuff? i dunno. its all a mystery.

kicking around the idea of doing an all-45s set when I DJ this Friday. all my LPs are still boxed up from moving. it would be heavy on the indie rock (got most of my 7"s in the 90s) but the typical crowd that goes to HiFi might be more into that than what I usually play tbh.

trying to weigh "that would be the lazy way to do it" vs "fun change of pace"

playing 45s inna bar is so so so so much easier than playing lps.
thing with indie rock tho is that some of those things play at 33 and i would be nervous of starting on the wrong speed. /nervous nelly

haha I listened to one of my college radio sets recently on a tape I found and it had a fuckup like that on it (song started too slow, hit 45 and sped it up on air)

fuckin post-rock instrumentals man. luckily not a frequent problem for me in 2013.

I still make that mistake from time to time. I would really like to do an early-night bar gig one of these days, but I need too much gear - both of my old battered Geminis have given up and died.

xxxxpost: such a huge pet peeve of mine, not putting the speed on the label. what kind of way is that to treat your listener?

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omg august.gif

that is adorable!!

lolz.........

http://westernmass.craigslist.org/clt/3560931589.html

This is reflected in the skyrocketing value for vinyl records over the recent years.

:(

it's the little things dept.: a new shelf has opened up, getting stacks off the floor. yet another benefit of the empty nest.

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd412/flatofangles/DSC_0536_zpsac7cd2db.jpg

more exciting premiere: game of thrones s03 on 3/31 or mad men s06 on 4/7?

GAME OF HTRONES BRO.
i gave up on mad men halfway into season 3. soap opera snoozer, no matter how babely the cast.

agreed, although we made it thru S4 of MM.

im sayin both

fuuuuuuuuuuck dudes worst night weird run-in w our passive aggressive neighbors.

bluhhhhhhhhhh

in situations like these, i generally ask myself WWJJWD? and listen to five years gone.

what was the prob?!?! records too loud!?!