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hey, nice job !

link ?

Well, it wasn't actually too confusing once I tried it. Just looked a little intimidating...

https://www.discogs.com/Swirlies-Error/release/15352879

starting to add stuff now (thanks to the bar code scanner, that is a great feature), are those condition/notes fields not outward facing? did I really just write a bunch of notes that nobody can see??

Yeah I have a little "price paid" column that is custom and just for me.

alright I'm finally done

https://www.discogs.com/user/JAMOOL/collection

Nice! What's the favorite in the collection?

frogbs we have a lot of overlap

sheesh, that's tough. I think Denki Groove's VOXXX may be it, that's a legitimately hard to find record from a group with basically zero presence in this country

from a personal standpoint maybe Datarock's Red? I saw them in 2009 and got right up front & the lead singer pulled me on up on stage for a couple tunes. bought the record and they all signed it. later got to party & smoke with them in some nightclub. unfortunately it doesn't play too well because my kids love it and have gotten fingerprints and scratches all over it

frogbs we have a lot of overlap

hit me up with some recs then :)

Hmm feeling a bit lonely as a music fan I think.

It's nice to feel like my passions are 100% due to my own explorations and not due to getting swept up in popular trends, but on the other hand I find chances to geek out with people over this stuff really hard to come by.

Obsessions:
- 80s-90s indie "pop perfection" (Sarah / Drive-in / Slumberland / Flying Nun)
- 90s American style indie rock (post-Sonic Youth / "bedroom" / shoegaze)
- Experimental / Ambient Balearic
- American Primitive

I've got to work really hard to gush about the little known Pam Berry side project 7" over here and the versatility of the Minecraft soundtracks as arguably legitimate ambient music outside gaming nerd context over there...

_frogbs we have a lot of overlap_


hit me up with some recs then :)

by recs I meant records. give me some of your records

lol

Oneida (krauty noisy post-Sonic Youth music, best before 2011)

Oof honey I just found some Oneida in the back of the fridge that we really need to toss

but yeah I do know of Field Music - not sure what I think of them yet. very clearly up my alley yet I've had trouble connecting with their music

Oneida I've heard one album by, remember liking it so I'll dig deeper

other two I've never heard of and will check out

thanks
-frogbgs

Psychic Paramount II is great, but i have to be in the right mood for it these days, one that i'm not in as often

can I just say that the wantlist is evil, one day you get a message saying that some store in Japan has 6 records you want and by the way if you order them all you'll save a bunch on shipping! long story short I've got a bunch of "never thought I'd own this" records coming to my house soon

its like that dollar-cost averaging thing crypto idiots do, the more I buy the less I've lost!!!

https://i.imgur.com/vQYL1yP.png

My problem is I get excited about discovering the low price/value of something I want, only to find out all the cheap copies are in Spain or Germany or whatever and shipping is $25 for the first LP. By the time you find a US seller down the list the price is 4x higher.

this from my wantlist made me laugh

8.80 USD
Media: P
Sleeve: NM or M-
LP: Cracked and broken ... COVER: In full shrink wrap, almost like new.

at least they're honest.

also i would assume it's a fairly in demand record if it's literally smashed and they're still trying to sell it. maybe someone has a cooy that's decent, but the cover is beat and they could use that to replace it?

its Thought For Food by The Books...20 bucks new. and the new cover is awful!

but yeah that's kind of a pet peeve of mine - finding something you really want at a good price and then having to read LP1 ONLY IN A BROWN PAPER BAG

just curious - if you bought something with this description, would you expect for the cover to be completely split down one side?

Media Condition: Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Good Plus (G+)
Some noise, mostly at beginning of side B, good fidelity. Priced accordingly. Ring wear on jacket, and edges. Inner sleeve included.

what about this one?

Media Condition: Very Good (VG)
Sleeve Condition: Good Plus (G+)
Some minor noise, plays well.

because i had my first ever bad discogs transaction a few weeks ago. besides some weird delays on their ends and no communication/responses whatsover from them, the main thing was that two of the records covers were completely split on the bottom side. i guess technically that falls under "G+" but it would be nice to call that out in the description?

rather than say anything negative, i have elected to just not leave any feedback. i am afraid they will send me more broken record covers in retaliation

but what's baffling is that they have a 100.0% rating across 450 ratings, which makes me think either i was insanely unlucky in my dealings with them, or that they beat up their downvoters

that sucks. hope it wasn't anything too expensive. I had something similar happen to me with a copy of Underworld's Oblivion With Bells - here was the description:

Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
clean discs. Sleeve is VG+ with slight edge wear along openings. Spine is excellent, and front/back panels are excellent.

in reality, the sleeve looked like it had water damage and there was some crackle & pop throughout, particularly on Side D (which is my favorite side). maybe a good cleaning will fix it but who knows. didn't wanna leave bad feedback though because it was appropriately priced for the condition it actually was in

yeah, the records in question were band on the run ($6 CA) and beatles '65 ($10 CA). and both of them do sound really nice!

that's a bummer, and it certainly would have been nice for them to mention it, but i think ultimately they're not wrong so :/

what might make you feel better is to buy a couple new white disco sleeves and store the LPs in there, with the record cover "displayed" in front inside of the clear outer sleeve (does that make sense?)

i do that with some of the flimsier brazilian / african record jackets i have and always find it makes for a nice crisp presentation in those cases where the original sleeve doesn't really "support" the LP y'know

yep, yeah that's what i'm doing! it's ultimately not that big of a deal, and i mainly just care about the LP quality, so i'm good there! i'm trying to pretend that i've always owned a sweet copy of both of those records, but recently, as i was carrying them down the stairs to show to my friend on my stoop ("hey check out this LP Band on the Run, as well as "Beatles '65!", i tripped and both of the bottom edges slipped as we tumbled down into the doorway. oh well, at least they still sound good!

behold neighbor, i am a proud owner of this wings record for many years, see how i hold it in my fing — d'oh!!!!

*glumly demotes sleeve condition to G+*

alright this Dead Skeletons album is pretty tight

They're great, they sure achieve their aim of making propulsive music to meditate to. Don't sleep on their singles, I wish they had something new!

The Psychic Paramount are great but Laddio Bollocko (feat drummer Blake Fleming) were the absolute tits and unfairly passed over at the time for bands like Don Cab.

oof, got another one

Comments: Vinyl looks great, only a few storage and shuffle marks, no effect on sound. Labels display very bright colours, almost as if unplayed. Sleeve in near mint condition, practically no wear except for the front lower left edge, barely noticeable.

the vinyl was visibly scuffed up and there was audible surface noise throughout the entire thing, especially on the second record. do I just not understand what "VG+" means? I get that when buying used online there's some inherent risk there but still obnoxious when it's a holy grail type record you have to import while the $4 VG copy of the first Starcastle record I got actually sounds pretty much perfect

nah that's total bullshit, blatant lazy overgrading. I'd return it.

was considering that but it was from the UK and I'm in the US...the shipping is half the cost

harsh. I'd ask for a partial refund, then.

you know what's strange about this, of all the records I've ever bought online I've only had 3 that were clearly worse than their marked condition and all 3 of them were Underworld records

Let u know how i get on with the pink Rez VG+ i just ordered, lol. Their fancy new lithograph print of the thing pushed me!

I don't sell much, but more than one feedback thanked me for "conservative grading". i understand VG+ to mean looking and or sounding just a little worse than right out of the shrinkwrap (i.e, NM).

I've never been clear on how pressings that might be noisy to begin with factor into it.

what record was it?

haha, I nearly bought the pink Rez 12" this morning too! I have the official Cowgirl / Rez 12" so don't really need the pink rez, but that print made me want it. I also need a new copy of the Dirty 12". My copy looks perfect but sounds horrible.

also, on the UW merch tangent, could they have worse merch? The absolutely garbage "graphic design" they've been using is worse than amateur. Such a shame considering their connection to Tomato. I'm stunned at how incredibly shit their merch has become. Anyway, the music is what matters.

i like the pink tee! 25 squids plus shipping to Canada tho.............nah

it's Barking, sucks because that one is super limited, one of those albums where most available copies are shrinkwrapped ones for 5x MSRP. I guess the good thing is it's one of those albums where you can live with some noise since it's not exactly a subtle record. the only track it really bothers me on is "Louisiana". idk maybe I'll take it to the cleaner and see if that helps

totally agreed on the UW merch thing, it's weird b/c they have so many cool sleeve designs, like the gatefold OWB is breathtaking. then on the other hand you have Drift with a very visible Photoshop fail on the cover, and the boxset itself which just omits the photo entirely. like LCD Soundsystem's American Dream even when the thing's in your hands you can't believe that's the actual art and not a placeholder

Only just got around to starting this. Fun. Frustrating.

https://www.discogs.com/user/carrosdd/collection

― cooldix, Monday, 27 April 2020 16:19 (six months ago) link

I was looking back and feel bad I overlooked this collection. Great stuff! Lots of taste overlap. Some things jump out as "ilxor albums" to certain degrees.

Brings to mind how a few years ago I tried to buy Blue Nile's Hats off of a friend's MOM of all people. Not that it's unthinkable but I sincerely doubt she'd thought about that album in 20 years until that point. It made no sense sitting there in that bin of theirs. An industry friend gave it to her, she said. Still wouldn't give it up! That album has never really grabbed me the way I was hoping it would, but I thought I might come around sometime and it is pretty collectable AND this copy was mint. Oh well.

I still don't "get" The Blue Nile but ofc I have Rooftops in my collection due to ILM, found it cheap sometime in the late 00s