Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

"Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan"

it's funny, i found a pristine vinyl copy of Birds Of A Feather right around the time that it was reissued on CD and I definitely went crazy for it. The album as a whole is just so strange and entertaining. The sound, the song, their voices. One of my fave finds at the dumptique (the dump store here where everything is free).

anyway, i'm still listening to the stack of rekkerds i picked out last night to play:

Software - Digital-Dance:Magic Sounds From Percussion Island

Get Ready Rock Steady (Coxsone comp)

Henry Mancini - Charade Soundtrack

Al Melgard at the Chicago Stadium Organ

JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session

Klymaxx - Meeting In The Ladies Room

Ska Authentic Volume 2 Presenting the Skatalites

Ashish Khan - Young Master of the Sarod

there are days when i think i could seriously become one of those soundtrack people. i'm always so jealous of genre specialists. makes life so much easier.

JR. Walker and the All Stars - Soul Session

I believe this album was all early instrumentals recorded before Jr. made it to Motown and recorded "Shotgun." One look at the cover, featuring Jr. stripped down to his undershirt honking away on the sax sez it all. I don't think he was rockin' the T-shirt as a fashion statement, he was likely working up a serious sweat.

Anyway, this album is as raw as Motown ever got, right up there with the Contours' album.

Haha, re: pic. Someone didn't read the IKEA instructions properly, should be 90 degrees the other way. Ooops.

I need to ship 116 items. Purchase and print shipping labels through PayPal

-- ian, Monday, January 21, 2008 12:45 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

i'm guessing with the quantity you're sending out that printable address stickers are a must. and i'm also guessing that with exchange rates so bad, 2/3 of sales are going to Europe/Japan. but is there any way to automate the customs forms process? because doing 80 by hand would really suck.

we have a stamp for the address, but that's the best we got.
on all priority international packages (over 4 lbs) the forms are BIGGER and more irritating and on carbon paper. I ended up shipping mose approx 116 items in four 12" cubes, doubled boxes alternating with layers of packing peanuts. Total cost? About $400.

great new Vinyl Anachronist column:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/vinyl63.html

just picked these up at the used record store:

Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
Go Gos - Beauty and the Beat
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

" I'm currently seeing a very cute blonde woman who also happens to have a master's in American Literature and loves the Beatles and actually knows Big Star's story..."

Almost made me not want to go on reading that article, Sleeve! But, yeah, it's a good one, bragging aside.

also listened to some/all of today:

dylan - nashville skyline

dylan - john wesley harding

arthur lyman - leis of jazz

arthur lyman - hawaiian sunset vol.1

arthur lyman - hawaiian sunset vol.2

esquivel - infinity in sound (even in living stereo though, just wasn't feeling it today. haven't listened to esqy in years, that martin denny thread got me going.)

elmer bernstein - the silencers soundtrack

sylvia plath - plath reads plath

now playing: allman brothers - brothers and sisters (i could use a nicer copy)

today i've been listening to:
monoshock - walk to the fire
v/a - obsession (world psych/prog comp 2LP)
lee perry/upsetters - the quest
fahey - transfiguration of blind joe death
texas-mexican border music vol 13: norteno acordeon, part 3
raven reissue LP

listening to Donna Summer - The Wanderer which I picked up for a buck in RI over xmas. its ok

Got outbid on ebay for a Grief lp :(

listening to another white whale that just came in the mail today:

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notable recent pickups:
Pierre Henry - Variations for a door and a sigh
Archie Bell and the Drells - There's going to be a showdown

$56?!?!?
xp to 'skrit

i've seen it go as high as $75. a patient person could snag it for $15-$20 though, i'm sure. i just offloaded $450 of cruddy psych lps so i deserve a little treat.

i've seen it go over a hundred. i was gonna bid on it once a year or two ago and then i remembered that i'd never actually heard it.

what cruddy psych!?

i finally went stir crazy and broke down and went to record store. for the price of a 56 dollar Pythagoron album, i got:

new dead raven choir

john fogerty blue ridge rangers album

susan christie reissue

ian matthews - stealin' home

the hollies - moving finger

new riders - marin county line

times new viking matador single (OOP! Rare Freakbeat Fancy Dancer!)

but i didn't get the new times new viking album. i don't know why.

GIANT CRAB COMES FORTH type shit, i'm sure.
FEVER TREE ON UNI.

my wife told me to turn it off because it sounds like the emergency broadcast system, which is not entirely untrue.

scott the stuff i let go was more poppy psych and british invasion stuff. i don't care if something is mono or not so let the collectros battle it out.
savage resurrection was rad though. got em in a brooklyn heights basement a few months ago.

bad hippie stuff i have sold on the ebay for cash money:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2295/2237324787_30af6c30a0.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2188/2237326131_89f9ec0787.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2297/2237326279_09f21b64c6.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/2238117588_81a3075a49.jpg?v=0

actually good u.k. folk records that i found at the thrift store and sold to a very happy man in korea:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2029/2237327593_bc8d28a486.jpg?v=0

marginally good private press "spiritual" jazz album i had in not great condition that i was happy to sell AS IS to some dude in Italy:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/2238117666_02175861c1.jpg?v=0

and f.y.i. THIS is the foggy album you want to find at the thrift store:

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20050404/4716756434.jpg

That Pinkiny Canandy thing looks wild.

listening to these vinyl viands:

gene clark with the gosdin brothers
little kenny wilson & his band of renown "Flying Together" ('75 folk/pop/sike private, reminds me a lot of the Jimmy Campbell record. the jam on this one is "$2.50")
COB "Spirit of Love"

got a nice condition copy of The Essential Radio Birdman 2LP for only $10

and also Ennio Morricone - Film Music Vol. 1

<i>gene clark with the gosdin brothers </i>

i love this record so much : )

I was in the snobby record store the other day and dude was trying to hard-sell me on this jazz record. It was a reissue of someone like (but not) Johnny Hodges and it had Buddy Rich on drums, and he was all "Oh man, what's the price on that, $20? That must be a mistake because it's worth waaay more than that. See, it's a JAPANESE pressing. If you don't buy it I'm going to mark it up for sure. No? Worst mistake of your life, man."

wow, that dude sounds like a real winner.

further listening: royal trux "pound for pound" and jack rose "raag manifestos" (cuz i want to hear the track with ian nagoski.)

i'm thinking of selling me jack rose LPs. they're all going for like $75 on ebay right now!

aw, it actually looks like prices have gone down from about a month ago, except on sealed or test press copies :(

picked up some seven inches

bantam rooster
a-bones
68 comeback
hentchmen
ettes/fondas split

A-Bones! They live 'round the corner from me, and B1lly might join my buddy Mike & I for burgers this evening.

Now playing: Washington Phillips "What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?"

awesome!

also, which '68 comeback record did you get? some of those sell for moderate dough, these days.

i found the 7" for 'do the rub'/'cadillac man'. $2.99, i think?

i see a copy on ebay for the same price so i guess it's not too rare!

i'm djing some garage rock at a bar and i needed to stock up on some shit hence all the sftri-type acts. i might buy some more because i'd prefer to do all 45s.

Do the Rub really is great, though. One of my favorite '68 Comeback tracks.

I didn't say it was a nice dance...

yeah, i'm not sure which ones are the most desirable ones. i believe the ones with greg cartwright are the most desirable? you know, put oblivians in the listing and watch the price shoot up kinda thing...

xpxp

check if your local shop has the Romance Novels 45 on Hozac; it's great contemporary lo-fi garage punk. I have a moderate flirtation with that kind of stuff, cuz a couple of guys I work with are really into it.

i will check it out. amoeba's garage stuff mostly runs to the shittier end of sftri/estrus, but i did find all that stuff in there so maybe there's some hope. i totally regret not picking up some of that cartwright/oblivians-related vinyl when i had a chance to a few years ago, esp the compulsive gamblers stuff which is really hard to find now.

You liked the Romance Novels 45, Ian? Couldn't get into it, and I've liked just about everything else on the label. Especially Blank Dogs & Static Static.