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USPS broke a record i sent to a guy in washington state :(
it wasn't the most valuable item in the world, but it's a drag nonetheless.

hey ilv: i paid too much for for 'wed morning 3am' and 'heart food' but it was v v sunny and warm out today and i figure someone has to overpay for records

i am trying to convince the postdoc i share an office w/ the we should get a portable record player in here but he seems... unconvinced...

what is his postdoc in?

pollen!!!

i posted some more records on ebay after an afternoon of thrifting. aside from stuff listed i got a small stack of 3-6 dollar items i can sell to the store and for myself i got a lyrichord lp of african folk music with a bonket sleeve and an earl scruggs review lp.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/ooriono/m.html?item=251012337691&sspagename=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649&_trksid=p4340.l2562

i am trying to convince the postdoc i share an office w/ the we should get a portable record player in here but he seems... unconvinced...

It's really raining now! Still trying to solve my sound problem with recording vinyl. Anyone know a better free program for recording other than Audacity? Or do I just need to spend time figuring out the cleaning tools? I can't seem to remove the surface noise, noise removal just quiets the overall music, so I add the bass booster and it brings back the surface noise.

Hi there clubhouse, mind if i come in?

I was wondering if anyone here (Scott?) could tell me about this Morninglory lp i came across when pricing up some records for a fair. Its a great record - who were these guys and where were they from?

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/f5b2f459628d9062793ca1412b283bc4/444024.jpg

is it two suns worth on fontana? i can't see the picture. i don't know much about the group. always liked the album though. "jelly gas flame" is a good one. kind of a minor west coast artifact, but well worth owning.

my pal vinylty is selling that right now.

this guy comes in my store twice a year with my wife and i'm kinda envious of his lifestyle. just goes up and down the east coast and into pennsylvania buying in stores and at shows and does like 3 or 4 big auctions a year. he has a dedicated following. he told me he has 3000 people on his email list that he contacts before he does an auction! he can get way above average prices for records just because people like buying from him. plus, i can't think of another ebay seller who mirrors my own listening tastes more exactly. its uncanny. most of what he sells is stuff i either own or would want to own.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/vinylty33.3/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686

Thanks for the tip - i'll keep an eye out. Holy shit - he has some nice records. I'd be envious of his lifestyle if he was coming into my store with my wife!

Back to Morninglory though, this l.p is by a different band to the Jelly Gas Flame folks. Its called Growing - on Toya records - 1972.

oh even cooler. i love that label. i don't have that one though.

oh right not my wife his wife. need more coffee...

his wife is REALLY really patient.

this guy comes in my store twice a year with my wife and i'm kinda envious of his lifestyle.

As a typo, that's the talkover intro to an awesome fillum.

i even need coffee to remind myself that i'm drinking tea and not coffee.

2012 is my tea year. been drinking a ton of tea every day. i think i feel better! plus, much more economical. 15 bucks sets me up for the month.

someone should totally buy that Hot Dogs lp he's got up there -- only 5 bucks (pre snipes of course.) great, great record

I mentioned this before on ILV but I've bought from that dude a bunch of times. it *is* cool to buy a bunch of records at once, get a big package in the mail, and "save on shipping" and all of that, but yeah his auctions usually end way pricier than others. Plus, he makes it awful hard on a sniper like me because all of his auctions end within like seconds of each other! How does he do that? Is there some way to like batch upload a bunch of auctions at once?

on the other hand, he may be missing out on even higher prices precisely because he might be cutting on sniper types who want to bid on multiple auctions ending at the same time. unless, I guess, they use automated programs, which I gather are out there? I don't know, I do it all by hand. I'm old school. it keeps my hand-eye coordination sharp.

yeah you can have all your auctions go up at once. i think. i don't do it. he's a really nice guy. always buys a ton from me. his aesthetic is uncannily like my own. i actually get a kick out of seeing stuff he bought for a buck from me going for 10 bucks or more.

my beef with him is that he'll never sell me anything that he has in his car! car just loaded with boxes of treasure. my kind of treasure anyway.

haha i just came to this thread to talk about vinylty.

someone should buy this record--
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rio-Grande-Self-Titled-/400281407246?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d32a18f0e#ht_1993wt_1068

i have it already, and if it stays under 10 it's def worth it imo.

but yeah it's nuts. like $15 for a copy of jefferson airplane's "volunteers"

he comes into our shop a lot too.

so i finally flipped that VitaNova lp I scored last month in a bargain bin.

was wavering over the pros and cons of listing it on ebay - but in the end sold it locally, to collecting legend H@ns P0k0ra!

I spoke to him at the weekend at the local record fair, and he said was really interested but wanted to check the condition first. So he came over here yesterday, and we agreed on 700 euros. A bit less than the last ebay auction, but at least i didn't have to give a slice to BayPal or risk dodgy bidders, postal weirdness or chargebacks.

Plus it was nice to have a chat about records, collecting and all that kind of stuff.. I even showed a couple of records from my collection that he had never seen before - so got a bit of a buzz from that..

700 euros = 900 dollars in my digging fund for NYC/Boston in 3 weeks time!

good fundage!!!

another vinylty auction i've been digging on lately is this hard-to-google record by SIMPSON..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Simpson-Self-Titled-/400281445500?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d32a2247c#ht_1975wt_1068

nice work, Talcum!

Nice! poo is still champ though. get digging, dudes.

wow and you sold it to the acid king! didn't even see that. very cool. and yeah paybay would have taken a HUGE chunk of that. always go local when you can.

yeah.. i definitely made the right choice...

I just got an email from him a few minutes ago saying thanks for the record, and he also sent me some sound samples of records of records he thought i might like.. we talked a lot about Zamrock and other afro-psych stuff.. jesus this guy has OG's of everything! insane.. really nice guy..

yeah i can't even imagine his collection. bonkers.

i don't bid on vinylty's stuff cuz some is stuff i can't justify spending that much money on (for myself) and other records i would dig (that don't go for a ton) i figure i'll find eventually in a store around here. i mean its the kind of random stuff i buy when i go to my fave spots in western mass. really great place to be for me because there is so much of that stuff around. between turn it up in brattleboro and in the moment in brattleboro and turn it up in northampton and platterpus in easthampton and mystery train in amherst i have plenty of go to places for marginal rural rock/70's rock. god bless this place.

and then there is the stuff that just comes in my door...get good stuff that way too.

how is he getting $25 for that jesse winchester record

he's got the magic touch. people really like buying stuff from him. if you or me put that same record up nobody would even bid on it.

he sells almost EVERY record he puts up!

i mean how does he get 15 bucks for grand funk records!?

see, that jennifer warnes record, he might have bought that from me for 2 bucks.

i've actually won a few records from vinylty in the past for decent prices--People's Victory Orchestra for under $15, and this last batch got me a couple Yazoo titles that I need pretty cheap as well.

and by "pretty cheap" i mean $10-15 cheaper than I'd find 'em in a store in new york.

and i have a paypal balace from selling rockabilly 45s to europeans.

I've watching this guy's auction and wondering what the deal is. He has a copy of Ron Cornelius but I want a minty copy. I might get that Rio Grande and I kind of want that first Tom Waits.

That Ron Cornelius is a great record.

Found two copies in the wild in Vienna in the past year.. unfortunately not minty, but good enough for me..

Are the West LP's he's on any good?

I really love both West records! I think I like Bridges a little more, but the first one is great too. I've lost bidding on that record at least 5 times now! But I keep thinking I will get it for around 25 and it always sell just above my max bid.

The second has nice instrumental passages and has a little bit of a jazzy feel to it.

I like the West records but i'm not kerazzzy about 'em. There are some good songs though. Rural pop almost more than rural rock, but yer right about the instrumental passages on the seond record. they don't QUITE fit the mood, i feel, but they're fun. they were just a studio band yeah?

I think they were just studio guys, Ron Cornelius did a lot of studio work after West spilt up. Have you heard Link Wray's Be What You Want To? It's the only one I don't have.

i'm a big fan of the west records. mostly for that sweet production. you used to be able to get those for peanuts on ebay. nobody wanted them.