What Can't You Find On The Internet?

This reminds me of a briefly live website which took the famous photo of Bin Laden watching himself on TV and allowed the user to make any video play in the TV. Of course, I made Three 6 Mafia's "Bin Laden" play, much to my mirth.

i know there are a million of these threads, but what is the best thread on selling off your entire record collection? with all the issues involved, like how you'll make more money if you do it individually but of course the convenience of just getting rid of the whole damn thing at once and being done.

i sold mine whole hog to the local record store when i moved across the country. from prior experience i knew they paid the highest of any other store in the city but i still didn’t make much money. so unless you’re in a rush, i recommend not that

If you're somewhere where you can get a table at a local record show or trade meetup, I'd advise to do that, as you can name your price (and generally get it) and not have to worry about shipping materials (OTOH, your table fee may be as expensive, ymmv).

yeah, that's pretty much what i expect. it's funny, right now i'm going through the same exercise with my game shit - ps4, switch - and the "sell it to the record store" option feels very much like the "bring it gamestop option"

xp

xp but then, people won't buy all the records. so i'll have to do it again and again. also, my records aren't that great. i have some valuable ones, and for a while i owned every microphones doodad, but for the most part, it's just stuff i like to listen to and it's not worth much. but according to discogs, the median value is $23K. i know that's way overestimated, because that's if all my shit was in NM condition (it is, mostly - ironically, it's mainly the ones i bought used from record stores that beat up or have joy-killing skips all over them). and also, that's assuming you sell them all piecemeal, exhaustively, to a million different people, rather than just selling the damn thing and moving on with life.

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

so basically, i take 23K as my very max, highest effort, possible return. and i imagine if i brought it in to a chicago store, they'd give me $4K, and that's probably being optimistic

One thing about doing a show is at the end of the day, you could possibly sell off what didn't sell during the day to another dealer at a rate that could be better than what you'd get from a shop, but as always ymmv.

that's true! yeah, it would kind of be like doing a discogs kind of day, in person, and then selling off the lesser things for the ripoff rate at a store, or on ebay.

would it be weird to do an eBay lot and just list ALL of them?!

an eBay personal record!

fair sounds fun. as a side bonus you get to meet lots of cute record nerds

Cherry pick the valuable stuff, put that on ebay. Rest sell as a job lot, whether it’s too a dealer, craigslist or ebay.

^ ^ ^ This is what my professional record dealer friend would say, and what I was about to type— sell the valuable stuff on eBay or Discogs, and then sell the rest in genre lots or lots of your own choosing.

also, give us a heads up first!

i've done a fair amount of selling to the store recently - little batches of like 20 records or so at a time. i know i could make more on eBay but i'll never get around to it because all the logistical and dealing-with-customers hassles are just not for me. so i feel good getting SOME money. and in this case the amounts have never made me feel like i'm getting taken for a ride. (specifically talking about Brooklyn Record Exchange in East Williamsburg/Bushwick. i really like the vibes there and the main dude is knowledgeable. the most promising thing was that the stuff they sell is all reasonably priced and in good shape. i've never had a "WTF" moment looking at some beat up common record with a crazy price slapped on it - or for that matter, a "WTF" moment seeing something i sold them marked up to a degree that made me feel like i got taken advantage of.)

but uhhhh yeah there must be a thread about this, agreed! maybe also try This is the thread where we ask people to dig up things on ILX we can't find

thanks for all the advice!

also, give us a heads up first!

i will for sure! i will be pricing stuff at just slightly below the going price on discogs, depending on condition. my incentives are in opposite directions - i need as much $$ as i can because money is getting short for me. but the higher price i put on anything, the longer it will take to sell. so i'm hoping that just pricing them at just below whatever the going price is will help to speed things along.

i think that's sound! and you can always adjust prices down for stuff that's not moving, right?

The dinosaur vs robot FITE drawing that was once here

on no! FITE! oh NO!!

They aren't on this thread?

^^ that sounds a bit passive -aggressive - what I mean is I'm not sure if the two pics on this thread are the same thing, as its before my time?

i think the gifs were made from an original drawing of them both on the same page facing each other

Still, they will do! Thank you.

A 1962 article from the New York Times of “Phrases and words you might hear today in Harlem” which was apparently the first documented use of the term “woke” in its modern definition.

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

he's back, king of search...

(saw your dad's episode of blake's 7 yesterday btw alba, some nice shots of him on the liberator bridge)

> cents: dollars

not confusing at all

Thanks koogs.

not confusing at all

Listen to the Mickey Mouse here.

That article is fucking incredible and I can’t believe you lot found it so fast. I Googled my ass off!

Interesting to see which ones crossed over to the white world. My peers referred to cute girls as “foxes” at least through the 80s.

I laughed at Ralph Bunche as a verb, so specific!

That article is fucking incredible and I can’t believe you lot found it so fast. I Googled my ass off!

NYT subscription!

Yeah, I admit that I got the habit as a young kid and now I at least scroll through the Times every day, have had a digital subscription for 18 years.

I've asked here before, I think, but I wrote a track review for XLR8R.com in 2010 or so, and it was mentioned in this article about a decade ago. https://www.spin.com/2011/09/new-rave-generation/

Relevant quote from article:

"I remember the first review we had was on XLR8R," Diplo says of the single, "and it was like, 'This is the worst piece of shit I've ever heard in my life.'" He's close: The actual headline was "Tiësto and Diplo take huge crap in your ears," and the article went on to call the record "the aural equivalent of santorum….Be prepared to hear this playing at the next Lakers game."

The issue is that the original article that I wrote— "Tiësto and Diplo take huge crap in your ears"— seems to have been scrubbed from the internet, probably because XLR8R went in a very different direction after I left (one of the reasons I left in the first place!), and one of their sponsors probably demanded it. The article isn't in the archive of every other article I wrote for XLR8R, nor can I find it despite my efforts on Wayback. I've tried writing the magazine, seeing if I might even just access the text of it for my own records, but that has led nowhere. Of course, XLR8R was sold several times during the course of the great internet media comglomeration meltdown of the 2010s.

It was a really stinging piece, but it was accurate and I'm proud that I wrote it. I just want a copy of the text for posterity's sake.

quite a few energy fm 87.9 speedcore tapes from 94-96 era, used to have them but lost them in an hd crash, proper speedcore on the london pirates!

xpost been trying to find it and I think I found your blog linking to it, but not the actual article, and same luck on Wayback Machine :(. will try again later.

https://i.imgur.com/inTkYqL.png?1

what is ghost poop

i can relate

I used to have a subscription to XLR8R when it was in print in the late 90s early 00s.

Boring, I wrote for them at the end of their print era— 2009-2011. In 2011, they got rid of all staff writers and then the company was rapidly sold and sold again to other media companies. It was a great place to work while I was there, met all kinds of amazing people.

Thanks Neanderthal. It's really distressing to me that I can't find it.

I might finally look up my old editors to see whether *they* might have a copy of it somewhere. I've resisted doing so because I know that some of them did not depart amicably and i didn't want to bring up weird memories.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141117072740/http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2010/05/ti-sto-diplo-take-huge-crap-your

Is this it, or just part of it?

Tiësto & Diplo Take Huge Crap in Your Ears

Remember the YouTube video that was circulating a while back that featured a falsely subtitled interview with Tiësto? In the video, he claims that he starts making tracks by drinking Scotch and watching The Real World while his dog licks his anus, then he interprets those slurping sounds on his Casio. Though his many fans would like to believe otherwise, the Dutch producer's latest collaboration with Diplo is proof that whoever subtitled the video wasn't that far off—"C'Mon" is the aural equivalent of santorum, a called-in piece of disgusting trance chords, shitty electro bass, and kicks that a feral child could imitate in his sleep. Check it out on Beatport, or listen to a low bit-rate version of the whole track here. And be prepared to hear this playing at the next Lakers game.

omg that is hilarious

haha. "at my funeral, can you please read this?"

I feel like Parker/Stone stole the idea for the "You're Getting Old" episode of South Park from tabes's article.

you should demand residuals!

Boring, I wrote for them at the end of their print era— 2009-2011. In 2011, they got rid of all staff writers and then the company was rapidly sold and sold again to other media companies. It was a great place to work while I was there, met all kinds of amazing people.

Alba, bless you.

One of my proudest moments.

I guess I had a different link than that one, which is why I couldn't get it to work in wayback.

I went straight to Bing as I figured you’d flogged Google to death already. The Tim Pratt blogpost had the link

https://www.bing.com/search?q=diplo%20%22huge%20crap%20in%20your%20ears%22&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=diplo%20%22huge%20crap%20in%20your%20ears%22&sc=0-30&sk=&cvid=55FF0AED48E74D09A4CF9DC571B3473A

That is fantastic. Pitchfork wouldn’t publish that is a million years, the humorless bastards.

I cannot, for the life of me, find out how Bandcamp subscriptions work. Do I need to renew? Does it just turn over? Why isn't this made clear on any sites I've looked at, including the Bandcamp FAQs page?

when you subscribe you agree to it automatically renewing, which is why there's a cancel option if you want out