ILV clubhouse

well I am back to report to the ILV clubhouse that you should not waste your time in any record store along the Southern Oregon I5 corridor (Ashland, Medford, Grant's Pass)). Unless you like $15 copies of Frampton Comes Alive, the 1st CSN, and Cat Mother/All Night Newsboys. No? How about some new Michael Hurley records for $30 each? I did see, weirdly, two sealed copies of the TFUL282 10" Admonishing The Bishops, but they were $13 and I already have it. There IS a decent record store in Bend, I bought the 1st Flying Lizards LP for 5 bucks and some good new/used things (Breeders "Pod" MLP, on the turntable now). The St Vinnie's were all closed for Memorial Day weekend, that is where the good stuff usually is. The Goodwills were awful. We came back a day early after drinking some kickass beer in Bend. Now I get to be lazy and listen to records all day until my radio show.

and so it begins. wish me luck. ebay is about to get a polka onslaught.

SHOW NO MERCSKI!

Polka!! Even I can't get too into that stuff. There are great polish fiddle records but the field is so daunting

i got hundreds and hundreds of vintage polka records. going up this week. yeesh. so much. cool covers though.

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hundreds and hundreds like that.

polka collectors of the world rejoice

its kinda like with the irish stuff. people flipped cuz i put stuff up that they never see. which seems weird to me cuz i always figure everyone has seen everything. but my pal marco who bought a lot of that stuff - and who has a huge irish collection and who has played with half of the people on the records i had - rushed right over to the store when he saw my stuff on ebay. and it wasn't THAT much stuff. had a nice woman drive to the store from cape cod who bought, like, 20 of the irish records on ebay and who bought 20 more of the ones that hadn't sold. she was so excited.

my secret weapon: maria's pals at the UMASS radio station who do the weekend polka shows. she's gonna tell them there when i have everything online and then they can tell their worldwide audience! and they really do have a worldwide audience. their audience is huuuuuuge for those two shows.

Those polka records look awesome!

you know what sells for money? polka 45s on Coral. i see them all the time! who knew? i've probably had dozens of them. sell them for a buck or put them by my door for free. i mean i don't know about specific titles, but i know i've had tons of minty coral polka 45s.

http://www.popsike.com/KENNY-BASS-Polka-Music-Coral-960667/151012009558.html

Strongly considering taking a trip to St Louis tonight to see Glenn Jones and Happy Daze (I guess they are local?) at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. Friday fatigue is an issue, though. We're not taking my car, though, so it's more possible I can make it. Hmmm.

having too many muscle spasms to consider a four hour round trip car ride tonight.
Oh well. Sorry, Glenn.

muscle relaxers + harold budd tonight, dude. be good to yourself.

has anyone tried using baking soda or kitty litter to get rid of a heavy mildew smell?

Hey guys look at what I found, someone has made a discography of radio station/homegrown compilations!
http://www.radiouseonly.com/album_master.htm
Does anyone else collect these? Anyone have any good ones?

great site. i could definitely help them out with track-listings. i collect them. i don't know how many i have. never counted. always been meaning to make a good soundcloud mix. this might inpire me to do it.

i don't collect the ones with actual well-known songs on them though. just the local band radio station comps. i love the hawaiian homegrown series.

the san diego homegrown ones have good stuff on them too.

Yeah it's the local acts I collect. I never knew there were so many! A lot of the ones I have found that are past 83 feature a lot of metal/hard rock. Were these essential in the birth of metal/glam rock?

There's a band called Listen on the San Diego ones that I like. Kind of pop prog. I think they're on II, III, and IV.

I bought one of the later ones when it came out, actually! They were put out by our KGB 101 FM and used to sell for a dollar and one cent.

KGB was the same station that had the Chicken. The San Diego Chicken. He used to be the KGB Chicken.

where is wombleton records again? L.A.? they are on my facebook and they posted a picture of records and what they sell for there and WOWEE 24 dollars for a normal copy of colour of spring and 14 dollars for a copy of boulders by roy wood. wowee. tha lynsey depaul love bomb album for 24 dollars!! wowee.

to be fair they are having a sale so love bomb would only cost you $17.60. woweeeee!!!

and if anyone here is friends with those dudes don't mind me. i figure rents are pretty high wherever they are, but i would still say wowee if i went in a store like that. been in new york stores like that.

ugh, wombleton. never been but the stories about that place are amazing.

i have a store etiquette question: (and i know how y'all feel about reissues but these are important to me for sentimental reasons so just disregard that -- this is more of a question about special orders than anything else)

i wanted my store to order some import reissues for me because (1) i wanted them to handle the shipping hassle and (2) tbh i thought it would be a more pleasant experience to have a human hand my records over to me rather than waiting for mr postman. the two dudes i talked with didn't know about the release, so i gave them the info and my deets. twice.

the last time i gave them my name/# was over two weeks ago. no one has called me. am i expecting too much from them or do you think it's reasonable to expect a person to call about a special order i have inquired about more than once?

(note: i gave up on waiting for them and just ordered the records myself --i'm not worried about that anymore, but i have residual bad feelings toward the store and i just want to know if i'm being petty or if this store just kinda sucks.)

i dont think you're being petty, but otoh, record store dudes can be pretty flakey in general and i wouldn't take it as a personal affront. they would probably flake out on anyone. in fact, as an attractive lady, you probably have a better-than-average chance of having your order filled.

yeah i mean, i'm not taking it personally like they deliberately are trying to deprive ME of my order or anything -- i just wondered if that was flakey behavior by industry standards. to me, it's pretty flakey. also i was clearly very serious/excited about it. whatever. i won't hold it against them or defame the business or kvetch to a manager. if they call me to tell me that my order has been placed/has arrived, i'll remind the guy that he told me that i "wasn't the only person interested in these records." they'll sell!

did they absolutely positively say they would order them for you and that they would call you when your order came in?

because "giving them the info" is unclear.

No -- they didn't know anything about the release at all and said they would call me when they knew more about it. And then no one ever called me.

It wasn't in their database, so they took my info and said they would call me.

by "giving them the info" i mean the label and details about the records being reissued

yeah, that's what i figured. they promptly forgot about it as soon as you left the store. you would have to say: can you order this for me? and they say yes or no and if they say yes you would probably still have to follow up. i know the type.

i know i hardly ever offer to buy stuff online for people. old stuff. i don't know why. its simple enough to do in most cases. i did get someone the first holly near album a week or two ago off of ebay. and the day after it showed up i got two copies of it in the store.

you are probably better off ordering stuff yourself though, sad to say. it ain't the old days.

i feel like i could make money ordering turntable needles/cartridges but i don't want to. i got enough to do.

i also hate buying new stuff online. so i know that feeling. i have called feeding tube a couple of times and asked ted to order me new pysch reissues. just felt like the thing to do. i could have done it myself.

we went across the street to the olde tyme department store to buy vacuum bags for a vacuum cleaner THAT THEY SELL. they were out. weeks went by. my carpet got dirtier. i ordered them on amazon and they came two days later. the store called me, like, a month later to say they had them. they should have just gone on amazon.

i guess i just thought it was kind of funny that i went through the store in order to have contact with a human and make it easier, but unfortunately that has meant three somewhat arduous phone calls spelling things in german and a trip across town to talk to someone in person and still yielded me (so far) 0 records.

yeah i guess it's not the old days anymore. oh well. i'm probably going to hug the mailman if i happen to be home when he delivers my package.

people tell me about how much trouble they have gone to and how many stores they have gone to to get a needle or a turntable or whatever and i always just tell them to buy one online. just get it over with. you know?

hey guys guess what?
i got a couple part time jobs!
i don't wanna make a big deal out of it,but i am really glad to be working again.
starting the 9th you'll find me at the record grouch in greenpoint on wednesdays.

other days of the week, schedule TBD, i will be working at craft beer & local cheese emporium "Eastern District" also in greenpoint.

awesome news, congrats! I actually have not been to Record Grouch yet, now I have a reason.

Great news, Record Grouch is a great name for a store.

that guy who owns that beer & cheese place came in my store. i think. there may be multiple beer & cheese emporiums. actually he might have come in with Matt K.

i really wish i had thought of record grouch now.

you could have such great t-shirts.

woah. i gotta hang out in the clubhouse more. so many things to catch up on.

ian, congrats on the gigs. will trade 78s for beer and cheese.:)

jacob, you should check out my buddy jason's mixes... dude has the deepest radio station comp collection i have ever seen. shit is intense. check these spots out for mixes and other stuff:
http://spaceprize.blogspot.com/
http://lamaraba.blogspot.com/

as for the special ordering discussion, it is definitely weak of them to not get back to you in any way but there are a LOT of considerations/questions that make this kinda stuff hard (especially if it's not a sole proprietor situation and the clerk needs somebody above him to do something to make it happen):

1. is any US distro importing the titles? if not, the store will likely be in the same situation as an individual and they might not be able to get the records any cheaper than you can yourself, especially if the label or distro across the pond doesn't have any other stuff of interest to the store.
2. cash flow. after paying rent/other bills the 1st of the month, a small shop might have to wait weeks before they feel comfortable placing an order with any distributor and they have to prioritize bigger distros with more stuff they want first... it's a lot easier/safer to plunk down $100 cash on some used records you know you can make $400-$500 on than it is to drop $100 on some new stuff that you <i>might</i> squeeze $150 out of 6 months from now when the final LP from the order finally sells.

none of which is to say that those guys are probably not that good at their jobs (and might not be paid enough to care about being good at their jobs) but i know that i never tell people that i definitely CAN get something for you, there's too many factors involved. but i do try my best to let people know one way or another as soon as possible...

xpost 2 scott -- makes total sense. dude who runs the shop is Chris, who is buddies with Kr3fting, Willie Lane, all those dudes. Used to be play in double leopards.

hey congrats ian. i sometimes browse at record grouch.