Rolling 2009 Vinyl Thead

so i put four michael jackson records up on ebay and made 75 bucks. i had them priced at five bucks apiece in the store. i would have sold six records and made even more but a friend of a friend called me up at the last minute and begged me for a copy of thriller and off the wall so i sold them to her for ten bucks total. cuz i'm nice like that.

AIGHT, won an auction for Two Sides - I ended up catching feelings and overspending a little bit in the name of GRAAAAH MY RECORD MYYYYYNE, but I'm rationalizing buyer's remorse away since (a) the price I ended up paying was more or less market value so it's not like I was getting ripped off or anything and (b) I figured I had a little extra spending capital since I absolutely robbed someone over that Left Banke LP.

other weekend purchases: Grace Jones, "Nightclubbing"; Willie Nelson, "Phases & Stages"; Marshall Crenshaw's first LP

crocodiles - summer of hate
mayyors - deads EP
v/a - the world is shaking: cubanismo from the congo

plus prowlin on a don cherry auction and waitin for the new captured trax bundle

looooove that world is shaking comp. hope u like. i also like the mayyors--is that the 12"? waiting on copies of those to arrive...

should i have bought this for 20 buxx at a store i was in yesterday?

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can't say i'm a fan, but only cuz i've never heard him that much. looked kinda neat. u.s. ampex pressing.

i am something of an ampex completist as well.

i browsed in three different places that had records yesterday and i couldn't find ANYTHING that i wanted. granted, one was a huge comix/anime/game store with a big used vinyl section and one was a depressing cd store with a fairly large used vinyl section. but one was an honest to gosh record store. i'm not THAT hard to please. so sad.

I went to a record store Saturday and was annoyed with the prices. The two stores I've been to here in Orlando (Park Ave and Rock n Roll Heaven) are too expensive. Everything was $10 this, $15 that, $20 this, $30 that. I saw a record I gave away - for good reason - selling for $20.

Eventually I settled on an Elliott Carter Nonesuch thing for $3 and Ricky Nelson's self-titled for $4 (or prices vice versa).

yeah mayyors 12" listening now so pwrfl

also love that lol coxhill cover

the cd store i wwas in was such a desolate pit. they actually had chain link fence inside the store and i definitely felt trapped. just a huge airless room devoid of any human touch. they might as well have been selling dollar socks and canadian pasta sauce. so sad. 95% of their vinyl should have been a dollar. trashed stevie wonder dollar records priced at $9.95. blahhhhhhh.....

i mean, i'm happy to just find ONE decent record. just one. i'll even overpay for it if it's something i actually want.

shut-outs are the worst.

anni3 and i are going to LA this weekend, and might have some time to bop to some rekkstores. besides fishin for bargains at amoeba, where should we go? we'll wanna hit ooga booga in chinatown, but thats a little too boutiquey to satisfy all my dollar-bin fantasies

we'll be basically between hollywood and south pasadena

went to a big flea market on sunday and that was kinda fun. not a ton of records, but i got a couple of things for the store. nice copy of birds of a feather by jack blanchard & misty morgan. some other stuff.

a fruitful weekend, after hitting up amoeba i stumbled upon a garage sale and picked up a few $1 records i probably should've already owned...

'smalltown supersound is on fire' comp
black meteoric star - dominatron/anthem 12"
jon hassell - earthquake island
'best of house music' comp on profile rec's
wet silk - jack's house trax 12" (picked up b/c of production by patrick adams, turns out it's annoying nursery-rhyme house)
fast eddie - yo yo get funky 12"
saint etienne - nothing can stop us 12"
visti + meyland - yes maam (all night long)
'africa: drum, chant + instrumental music' nonesuch explorer (insanely good)
'blue ribbon country vol. 2' comp
'deep voices- the second whale record' (whale soundzzz)
love - da capo
the temptations - power
the rolling stones - aftermath + get yer ya yas out
the grateful dead - anthem of the sun
sly + the family stone - greatest hits
xtc - black sea
jacques brel - vesoul 4
roxy music - avalon
laurie anderson - mister heartbreak

nice haul!

shit i forgot to snipe/bid on that don cherry and id have paid 10-15 more than it sold for

i had no idea i would be selling so many tapes. i mean, not, like, crazy amounts, but i sell about 20 a week. which is around 19 more than i thought i'd be selling every week. then again, i'm probably the only record store in the county that sells them. and it's hard to find cool tapes at thrift stores.

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Nice tape rack. Some great titles in there. I still buy tapes.

more tapes. i love tapes.

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lol here iz ian's new favorite band

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you guys all have this album? it will put yoo into a coma

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here iz your new xian boyfriend he is on a bummer trip

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whoa larkin rec looks GREAT.

will sonny sharrock's ASK THE AGES ever come out on LP? it is a little dumb for me to want that, since it was probably never even mastered for vinyl?

today: cecil barfield LP on Mississippi, Mayyors 12", and also enjoying a listen to the new Magik Markers LP.

what's the MM album like? more like BOSS or more unhinged noize?

BOSS is so good!

i've been playing this album a bunch. courtis/moore. dude from volcano the bear (who i've never actually heard)

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more like boss, a few tender piano moments. xp

and i love that record, scott! especially the first track. so pretty.

aaron moore is also in amolvacy, who released one of the best records in recent memory--HoHoKus.

too bad the new starving weirdos album isn't on vinyl. cuz bo'weavil makes such nice vinyl packages. that might be my fave album of the year. i did get a really cool starving weirdos 7 inch from abandon ship records.

abandon ship sent me another really good two-dudes-sitting-around-collaborating-on-a-split-lp album by steve gunn and shawn david mcmillan. you guys probably know who they are. the steve gunn side is really pretty guitar stuff.

BOSS is so good!

otm "more like BOSS" is what I was hoping ian would say

just wanna put in a good word for Volcano The Bear here!

i will investigate volcano the bear. might have thought they were one of those twee indie animal acts.

i'm having so much fun listening to so much noise! haven't listened to so much of it in years. come to think of it, i've probably never listened to it as much as i am now. maybe i'll burn out on it, but it feels like there is so much good stuff out there right now. and so much under the radar experimental/sound stuff. maybe there always is. not noise and not on vinyl, but i can't get over how much fun that kommissar hjuler & mama bar comp i got is. so invigorating. and it definitely makes ME want to experiment and do crazy stuff. (i wish you guys could have heard the radio show me and maria did for awhile on the island. all cut-up sound stuff and some of it was actually really good too. i need to collaborate with my own mama bar more in the near future.)

anyway, vinyl-wise, i'm listening to the very noisy Embarker album on Malleable Records. (philly label that is awesome)

LA pickups:

pavement -- crooked rain, crooked rain
carla bley -- escalator over a hill
dinosaur jr -- farm
redd kross -- born innocent
cecil taylor quintet -- looking ahead
iannis xenakis -- electro-acoustic music
codona 2 (w don cherry)
dead c -- secret earth

<3 carla bley <3

i rilly like that codona album. and the carla bley album. and the red kross album.

i am being outbid on a tower recordings record on ebay. i don't want to spend much more than i made dogsitting. a few hours to go...

i'm also gonna sell some books today. i know this is the vinyl thread and not the books about music thread, but at the bookstore near me they had a really cool looking book abt the AACM, so i might pick that up. that reminds me that i have a copy of the richard abrams "levels and degrees of light" lp at work that i need to bring home.

I picked up so many good records this weekend and it's got me really psyched (Savage Republic, Holger Czukay, Landscape, Beach Boys, Chameleons, Vanilla Fudge, and others I can't remember at work).

BUT...

I bought a used copy of Amon Duul II's "Yeti", in a plastic sleeve, taped up, with the 'ask clerk to see disc' sticker for $20, took it home, and it's just the standard reissue! Same thing with a similarly packaged copy of The Beach Boys' "Surf's Up" ($12)! I feel duped!
Pretty sure both of those reissues new are pretty close to what they were charging used. Anyone have this happen? I really couldn't tell through all the plastic and tape that they were just reissues. buyer beware I guess?

This was at Amoeba SF by the way

oh I also sold a bunch of garbage at Amoeba Berkeley which always feels good

new Idea Fire Company lp on Ultra Eczema is fantastic.

^^^ YES! great record.

hey, ian, do you have the BEAR album on verve? artie traum's old band with eric kaz? got that this weekend. i might actually keep it instead of selling it. first side is pretty cool anyway.

no! i don't! is it weird jazz rock? i hear a few of his later records (all on Rounder I think??) that weren't so hot.

got some good stuff to sell in the store. PRISTINE copy of young brigham by ramblin' jack. excellent oldtyme country record on REBEL records by curly ray cline. some other stuff.

man, i've definitely seen that record though, now that i google it. i wonder how i missed my man Artie. xp

REBEL RECORDS is/was run by David Freeman who also ran/runs County Records. Rebel put out those seldom scene records, which I like.