ILV clubhouse

i've noticed a shocking dearth of 'we buy records' signs around my neighborhood in brooklyn. i've been tempted many times to put one up at the grocery store and the few coffee shops with bulletin boards, but i really don't know if anything worthwhile would come of it?

he's got an eye though! most corporate behemoths don't. he has a good niche. which is why i'm jealous. cuz i could try and sell the same promo and get 5 bucks and he'll get 20. but he has built the audience. something i haven't taken the time to do. that's pretty crazy about putting up signs in different cities though. but i don't think its a bad thing really. and those records might be yours but do you advertise that you buy records?

oh, boy. here i go again...

no, i don't advertise that i buy records (though i have plenty of local friends that do).

i'll preface this rant by saying that i realize it's a bit irrational and that i may sound like a jealous hater (i probably am to some extent - i'd certainly rather be selling old records for a living than what i currently do).

but...

funkyou leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. i realize that we all try to buy records low and sell high, and that sometimes that involves withholding information from the owner of the records. i have no problem buying $100 from the goodwill, or from a store for $1, and i'm certainly not about to tell them they should price it higher (unless the store owner is a good friend). i do this even though the store might need the $100 a lot more than i do and i realize this is a moral grey area and my hands aren't 100% clean and glass houses and blah blah blah...

but the dude specifically posts signs in lower class black neighborhoods. and his postcard marketing campaign specifically mails out to zip codes with similar demographics. i've seen his signs in vallejo, west berkeley, west oakland, north oakland, and east oakland (but shockingly never in montclair or piedmont or marin county). maybe he's the most fair record buyer of all-time, maybe i'm just an asshole, but his entire business operation appears to be targeting an already marginalized subset of the population.

ppl have been going to 'marginalized' (read: black) neighborhood since the dawn of record collecting!

otoh, when ppl were buying old blues 78s for $1 or $0.50, no one would have known their value would skyrocket in the decades to come. which makes it easier to stomach for some people.

in non controversial news,
i have to do laundry today. i hate doing laundry. it's not so bad when you're doing it, but getting started sucks. and ending sucks. cuz then you have to make the bed and put stuff away.
while things are drying i'll probably go to the post office, even though i was hoping to get a few more payments and minimize trips.

i mean, i get that swindling poor people is the oldest trick in the record collecting/selling book, but it still bugs me.

and maybe he's not a swindler, maybe he's totally fair. i'll just go back to the position that his signs are an eyesore, and leave it at that.

there ya go. nobody likes an eyesore.

i just ripped the sheet taking it off the bed :\ bad husband.

sorry, guys. i didn't mean to get riled up in the clubhouse.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GEORGE-HARRISON-SCRAP-BOOK-By-A-Teenage-Girl-42-PAGES-The-Beatles-/161002563687?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item257c802867

just got invited to visit the home of world-renowned 78rpm collector and current yazoo head honcho Richard Nevins in a few weeks! A whole day of listening to some of the best records ever made!

I hate laundry

i did the laundry.
i really hate folding laundry. i never folded or put anything away until i got married and now it's compulsory.

if that guy is trolling black neighborhoods, where's all the funky stuff? just went and looked more closely at his listings and it is sir nose devoid of funk. looks like he raided my house! seriously you have no idea how many of those albums i've owned. hundreds of them. its eery. i even own the national ski patrol record he has up with the one cool popsike song on it! maybe he does separate funk and soul auctions. i haven't seen one of his big auctions in a long time.

he's got two different ebay handles. not sure how he decides what goes where, but this sure looks a lot more like his standard auctions:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/funkyousounds/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

aha, okay, definitely seen that name too. makes sense now. dude definitely gets some great stuff with those wide-ranging tentacles.

WHAT'S UP GUYS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6q0i4smVs

Laura Thompson 9 months ago
One of the members of The Red Fox Chasers was my paternal grandfather; the guitaris A.P. "Fonzie". He and his wife Effie Callaway had four children, Pauline, Ralph, Fred, and Ruth. All have passed but Ruth who remains in her hometown in North Carolina. There are many great memories of my grandfather, father, aunts, & unlce standing around the piano, while others played the guitar during family gatherings. My father Fred continued with music as a part of his life until his death in Sept, 2008.

i finally found the ralph mctell album i like! *Not Till Tomorrow* on Reprise. i think i've listened to 4 or 5 of his records before and they never did anything for me, but this one is a keeper. tony visconti on sitar probably did the trick.

I really dig Ralph McTell! Probably have like three of the early albs, Transatlantic stuff. Altho, I don't think I've ever seen a Warners LP, wow, guess I need to continue the investigation.

oh hey guys, just saw the Nez in concert. wow was that ever cool! only a couple National Band tracks ('Propinquity', 'Joanne', 'Silver Moon'), but lotsa laffs. Like spending the night by the fire wit granpa

he made time to give a special shout-out to Red Rhodes, which was sweet. Played one of his steel solos from the masters, nice

Nice, I love "Propinquity." Good to see you on here, Stormy.

was there am ILV thread where we discussed the quality of reissues? cuz I wanna bitch about 4 Men With Beards pressings.

ha, i was selling off some 4mwb at the local record store last week, and the guy mentioned their questionable pressing rep. the buckley/big star reissues i had sounded great to me, but ugh the fahey america pressing is bad and the anne briggs i have from them has an incredibly annoying electronically sounding glitch in a couple of places on one track (it being unaccompanied makes it even more glaring)

yeah I think word is getting out... my copy of Cluster's Sowiesoso has a dozen weird left-channel glitches in the first track. brand new. The first side is fine after that, but it's a deal breaker and the record store has graciously allowed me to return it for a full refund.

other ones I have heard complaints about are I Am The Cosmos and The Sky's Gone Out.

hey dudes
i'm in RI, going out almost every day to look for records.
dad has surgery tomorrow -- biopsy on a tumor inside his spinal cord. eek.. if all goes according to plan they should be starting radiation within a week or ten days after the results come in.

rhode island is weird.
i mowed a lawn today.
and put a down payment on a minivan.

skot, have you ever been to sunset records in somerset, ma? that's where i'm going today. i know it's not your side of mass.

<3 best wishes to your dad, buddy. stay busy and watch hella storage warz ok??

so much storage wars, and so many shows about regional burger styles.

i like food shows that showcase the food (high- or low-class, whatever), but i cant handle that EAT 100LBS OF BEEF CHALLENGE shit

i just posted a craigslist ad

http://providence.craigslist.org/wan/3803844228.html

^^this is what im planning to do every time i go north of santa rosa from now on

although i am, as of this morning, on a BUYING FREEZE

HAHAHAHAHAHA

http://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Suicide-Commandos-The-Commandos-Commit-Suicide-Dance-Concert/101175131?ev=bp_det

COME ON

Hey guys, it's been awhile, how is everyone? I've been finding amazing records in Oklahoma and buying records privately from people. Really excited about a few that I'll soon post about. Missed you guys

So i'm reading Scott's blog and just found out we have the same receiver

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fcwlV-k_gSs/Ty0wcAWMVvI/AAAAAAAAAYo/SqcCYzMBr6o/s400/skotrekerds%2B013.JPG

I feel a bit cooler now, I guess. Except mine doesn't have that fancy wood case around it, it's just woodgrained metal. Now i don't feel as cool anymore....

Anyway, give me a holler if you want to know how to change those teeny indicator lights for "phono" or "stereo" or the blue meter or radio dial backlight. Those little buggers are a bear to change and harder to find.

guys I just discovered a really *~~interesting~~* Instagram user after she liked one of my vinyl photos: heightfiveseven, look her up.

wau, interesting is the right word.

i bet she gets creepy messages daily. if not hourly.

heightfiveseven
@rawsoulrebel DUDE he wrote a banger for Bobbie Gentry too - "Rainmaker." Though I love it not so much for the lyrics/melody as the super duper drum breaks that somebody has yet to chop & loop

what are the odds this is some dude and his girlfriend is a model

I would say there's an 80% chance

actually, no, upon further reading i think this is a real woman. but it's hard to tell. what got me was the comment about "i HAD TO GET THE RIGHT BELT BUCKLE FOR THIS ONE" post. about buying belt buckles. women be shoppin.

I like the mf doom "mm food" photo

3 day weekend ahead, we are going crate digging/thrift store diving throughout central Oregon. Can't wait! We leave tomorrow, gonna hit Grant's Pass to the south (lots of rich CA retirees, the thrifts should be intersting) and then drive NE to Bend. No schedule at all beyond that...

awwwwwwesome. good luck!

sounds fun! the pnw is the best! why don't i live there?!