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hangover
coffee
eventually i will get Lower Dens record

sonny bottari was a let down, middling soulful rock, maybe 1 great song. bummed out

really really pretty in oakland today. annie's getting her bangs trimmed after work in SF, so imma go plunder amoeba, then meet her and some friends for dinner and a drink.

i started thinking yesterday about doing this records road-trip sometime this year. the plan is to rent a car/van, set out from SF/oakland, and head up to portland, stopping EVERYWHERE records might be for sale, in a crazed attempt to have tons of fun and find some finds. annie is in as long as we stop to eat. every night id do a little online sale, hawking the best of the day's finds, and mail them from the road. id stay out for a week total, maybe, crashing with friends along the way, and maybe popping for a hotel room once or twice if the finding is good.

doesnt this sound really fun?

that's basically been my life, it's so much fun. I haven't made any west coast trips, wish I could. I might be stuck working in Texas for the next few years which bums me out a little, I prefer being far away. The states up north are so easy to drive across, so on saturday and sunday, we could drive across Indiana into Kentucky or Illinois. Maryland was great too, cause in a few hours you could be in so many different states. In texas it takes hours to get out of Texas!

And so many other people are digging for records in Texas, last weekend we made a trip looking for records and so man places we stopped at, Antique stores or flea markets, we kept hearing the owners say, Ya know, just today someone else came by looking for records.

man, it sounds so fun. being in the bay area means you can kind of do this while stationary, since there's so many people w lots of records around here. but there's something to the romance of the road.

definitely!

great idea

69 just make sure you stop in Eugene :)

got a sun ra bio yesterday for a couple bucks--also got the Calt Skip James bio early this week at a thrift store.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, March 2, 2012 9:06 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

if this book is "Space Is The Place" then you are in for a treat.

yes, it is this book!

85 Electronic Music Vinyls

i guess nobody thought that was funny. i'm still allowed in the clubhouse though, right?

oh hell yeah.

as far as jokes go, you gotta make calls to make sales.

this is a gabba gabba hey space as far as im concerned

ok whew but i don't know what that means

so what's in store for the weekend? i'm going on a tour of modern architecture on the MIT campus (including the o.O Media Lab, not open to public) and continuing my addiction to Nurse Jackie.

I'm having a beer and waiting for ups to bring me my damn phone preamp.

who/what is nurse jackie?

phono preamp I mean

I'm DJ-ing a big party! 300 people or so. Tomorrow night. First time I've played out in a while, I've been nervously fussing with setlists.

xp: nurse jackie is a TV series about an ER nurse who's also a drug addict. Jackie is played by Edie Falco. it is great. we watch it on dvds from Netflix. my daughter (aged 21) was asking me about buying a turntable the other day, and i had to explain all about phono inputs/low-levels/need for preamp, what exactly STEREO means, wow such a big huge piece of my world is so ... esoteric and all but extinct. btw she's probably going to buy one of those cheesy USB type turntables anyway.

i need to sell a ton of records tomorrow. i sold a bunch today. my pal russell bought a bunch of 45s. i gave him s sweet deal. i bought so much stuff this month. too much stuff. but i can't help it. now i need people to buy buy buy. went to friends house tonight and had awesome tacos. steak grilled on the grill. steak tacos yum. wine. more wine. too many kids though. they kept jumping on me when i was chilling on the couch. damn kids.

I've looked everywhere and can't find the cord for my mixer. Also I had to give up on my Dad's old tube components, I have this newer amp that of course has no phono input. I order a preamp, paid extra for ups delivery, that was set to arrive Mar. 1st, It never showed up, so I waited all day today and it still hasn't arrived. I'm so disappointed! For weeks I've had to turn my volume all the way up to have any sound, and still it's quiet. Sorry to rant. I just want to listen to my record at full volume!

Scott I would buy record from you, but I bought too much last month and I think T is getting weary of my record buying.

yeah you gotta watch it. i gotta watch it! i find it hard to say no when people bring stuff into the store. good stuff. i'm good at saying no to crappy stuff.

scott do you sell on Discogs? someday i will make it out there.

i think it would be funny to buy records at Scott's store via Skype.

i do sell some pricy indie stuff on discogs. not much though. i have all that stuff in the store too and i price it way cheaper in the store than the price online. i definitely prefer to sell it in the store. discogs can be cool though. sold a broadcast 45 for 50 bucks and an 80's dance 12 inch for 50 last week. so, it pays to keep stuff on there forever.

oh hey just got a discogs invoice:

Order ID Item Buyer Fee
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1168182-61 Christina Carter - Bastard Win $ 1.20
1168182-62 Mean Season - Grace $ 1.50
1168182-63 Jega - Phlax (12") $ 2.40
1168182-65 Modern Lovers* - Live At The L $ 2.70
------
Total: $ 7.80

discogs kinda great as far as not gouging you. ebay got like 600 bucks from me last month. and then they get paypal money, etc.

a weird batch of stuff:

http://www.discogs.com/seller/johndoejunior

wait, do i need that Mirror lp? I need to check, that's a sweet price regardless

I like selling on disocgs, just sold a Tom Tom Club 12" to a guy in Brazil. I wish there were a website for trading records.

me too. start listing here?

I would trade any of these records for the right record(s) http://www.discogs.com/seller/lolvalstein

hey cool clubhouse whats up

hi lamp!

going to go out thrifting soon, just finishing my coffee. expectations are low but there are 4 spots to hit easily within walking or bus loop of my home.
it's sunny!

I am not going thrifting but Monday is my day to dig in used bins, I usually hit two spots on the way to my radio show.

this thread makes me miss records. I have had to shift my attention lately.
There was a big documentary festival in Columbia last weekend. There was a movie called Searching for Sugarman, it is about Rodriguez.
I heard that it was really good, which is encouraging, seems like music docs can be lazy and bad a lot of times.

i got a cool glass vase at the thrift store and broke it on th way home :(

oof bud.

it's okay. i still got a weird bird painting and some stupid rock records to sell the the store. (ac/dc, anthrax, bruce)

and i am gonna go to 2 or 3 other spots after another cuppa cawfee and maybe some snacks

thrift scores for myself today--
grateful dead '75 boot 2xlp, TARKL sounds good! uh oh it's skipping.
2x williams gaddis hardcovers
a kinda marked up copy of 'blues people'

got some other books to trade to the bookstore, some more records to trade to the store--late horace silver, some graham nash, run dmc, etc.

which Anthrax did you get? I need Among The Living on vinyl

that is the one i got. it's VG+ iirc with a few scuff-type marks that may or may not sound, i haven't checked it yet.

which gaddis books?

agape agape and carpenter's gothic. gonna sell my carpenter's gothic paperback, may just sell agape agape instead of reading it. i have too many books.

Happy New Year ILV! My vinyl new years resolution is to buy more clean exotica records.

hey neighbros!
i'm gonna keep buying 78s this year, but be more selective about what i buy. i have some stuff i want to get rid of too. gotta clean out the 78s. get rid of the junk.
records are cool. i'm playing records at a bar tmrw with my buddy keegan, so that will be fun.

Hey Guys, I actually had a cool ad on Facebook today, it was for this record! http://www.etsy.com/listing/167203609/travis-to-be-as-free-as-you-1975-vinyl?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_promoted&geo=global&utm_campaign=fbx_rr_vintage
I've never bought records from Esty but this record is well worth $18 for sure, nice soft rock rural harmonies with analog synths.

they sell records on Etsy now? wild.

Also what the fuck is www.shopgoodwill.com, when did that start??

anybody want 200,000 45s for $60K?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/5238084526.html

I laughed:

http://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2015/11/03/a-degree-in-record-collecting-could-you-pass-the-qualifying-paper/

never heard of these Bhutanese "record stamps" but they look very cool

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/