Lady, if you have to ask . . .
― nickn, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
desiring "vinyls," without having ever been to a goodwill or a garage sale
The thing is, these records can be found in the used section of record stores, for decent prices (maybe not $1, but close to it, and they're likely to be in better condition). Surely people who want vinyl go to records stores, I mean, that's part of the cool "vinyl" experience.
― nickn, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
lol Chaki's video upthread cracking me up.
"why is Wham! dinner party music?" "I would go to that dinner party!" "I wouldn't"
where the fuck is this "store"?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Venice, Los Angeles.
― nickn, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
it's on Abbot Kinney st. in Venice Beach, CA which is like a super hip rich person's st. re: "btwn the sheets" #vibe it was like "this has a black guy on it!" i think herbie's thrust was in it which is honestly one of the best records of all time imo
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
she's an idiotactress
fixed
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
are Walter Murphy records, as seen in chaki's vid, a staple of dollar bins and thrift stores in the US? they are not in the UK (and not just because we don't call them "dollar bins" or "thrift stores") and I would, as they say, buy that for a dollar
(but probably not for $25, no matter how vibe-curated)
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
i'll bet you could find a walter murphy album at the charity shop or at the car boot sale if you looked hard enough.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
since we're talking discogs, the average price of that walter murphy album on that site is $2.58.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
average price of a u.k. copy on discogs is $6.18. (which isn't actually the average...it's just the only copy that has sold in recent memory...)
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
― nickn, Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:22 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
As I tried to say in my earlier post, the target demo here glazes over when they see these records in the wild or never sees them at all because they shop exclusively in the new section of a store or Urban Outfitters. It helps to have "cool people" "curate" these records for them to make them excited. Suddenly what would otherwise be an anonymous beat up old record in a bin is now special and personalized regardless of what the content is.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
did you guys know he did the theme to family guy
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I do now
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Chaki's "I wouldn't" comment cracked me up too
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
i found out when i watched yr video this morning!
― Twee Speech and Crepey Literalism (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't have thought there were enough people who "want to be into vinyl" without doing any of the things people into vinyl do to form a business model around. Good for the scammers, then.
My brother worked at Guitar Center for a long time, and he said there was a large portion of their clientele that seemed to want to have an electric guitar as a lifestyle accessory rather than any love of making music, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
― nickn, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
a large portion of their clientele that seemed to want to have an electric guitar as a lifestyle accessory
^^^ these guys keep guitar stores in business (as opposed to, say, drum stores). It's really weird the number of people I know who own guitar(s) and never, ever play them.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
it's the thought that counts.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
May also be a classic case of being unable to admit to yourself that you're not really going to pursue/fulfill that hobby, like the kid who guiltily keeps the abandoned ant farm and chemistry set under the bed.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Cory, what was in the "Between the Sheets" section? What was that vibe?― how's life, Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:48 AM (4 hours ago)
― how's life, Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:48 AM (4 hours ago)
it would be awesome if it was every record itt: samples/reworks the end part of "between the sheets"
― gr8080, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
i just wish i was this guy. how does he do it!!!!???
http://www.ebay.com/itm/YOUNG-RASCALS-ISLAND-OF-REAL-RARE-STILL-SEALED-ORIGINAL-1972-COLUMBIA-LP-/141661580481?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fbb02cc1
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
you open that record up and it's instantly a five dollar record!! at best.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
PLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-'60s to THE MID-'70s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE.
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
"what kind of condition is it in?" "well, it's almost unbelievable. definitely impeccable though..."
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
would pec
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile, he just sold a sealed copy of ragamuffin's fool by jackson heights for less than 20 bucks. that's a steal. i need that too...
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Whoa that dudes got a grip of red hot stampers
― Cory Sklar, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://spcasc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Woodpecker.jpg
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
how do sealed young rascals records go for 200 bucks (he sold more than one at that price!) and a white label promo of loaded goes for less than a hundred. it's a strange world we live in...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VELVET-UNDERGOUND-LOADED-ULTRA-RARE-ORIGINAL-71-COTILLION-WHITE-LABEL-PROMO-LP-/141661476323?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fbae95e3
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Because it wasn't kept in a "near-laboratory"
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
who even listens to the Young Rascals
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Old Rascals, for one.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
i actually listened to Groovin' today. i have the nicest copy. near mint! first pressing! like new! i was gonna put ten bucks on it but i thought that might be pushing things...
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
some laboratories have acid in them
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
or diseased monkeys!
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
diseased monkeys can be trusted not to open sealed copies of Young Rascals records.
― Evan, Thursday, 11 June 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
One of those later Rascals records has Alice Coltrane and other hip people on it. Not that one, though.
― Jim Gillette's unused octave (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 June 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
just heard a VINYL ME, PLEASE ad on Pandora. "music discovery for humans, by humans." VINYL ME, PLEASE is maybe the worst name for anything ever.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
but is MOVIE ME, PLEASE worse than Qwikster?
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
is MOZZARELLA STICKS ME, PLEASE worse than Applebee's?
kill me, please
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
but is that worse than ♥☮☯♫ PC MUSIC ♫☯☮♥ ☺☺☺ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°✌?
― mad maxwell's wasteland death suite (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 12 June 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
a guy who used to run a little record store in chicago closed his shop a few months ago. a few weeks ago he posted this to his store's old FB page:
To all the hipsters that get a hard-on when you find a shit record (or no record inside, or wrong LP) at a yard sale, or thrift store for $1.00, thanks for the support, Hope ALL your records are, or will be warped !
https://www.facebook.com/wilbillys
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 02:40 (eight years ago) link
how do sealed young rascals records go for 200 bucks (he sold more than one at that price!) and a white label promo of loaded goes for less than a hundred
My theory is that the typo in the listing title meant that it didn't show up in a lot of searches, so fewer people saw it and bid on it than would otherwise have done.
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
was this the one in roscoe village?
― gr8080, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
"To all the hipsters that get a hard-on when you find a shit record (or no record inside, or wrong LP) at a yard sale, or thrift store for $1.00, thanks for the support, Hope ALL your records are, or will be warped !"
He thinks $1 records found at yard sales and thrift shops helped kill his business?
― Evan, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
― gr8080, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 8:16 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, i think it went under a few names.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
but NOT hard boiled; the one after that.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
tone attorneys are basically fender and gibson's main audiences now, $5000 "relic'd" Strats made to look beat up with a belt sander in the factory, made in the USA (because no other countries can make good instruments) and at just MAYBE a better instrument to a fuckin $75 Craigslist Squier that someone dumped $200 in better hardware into
https://reverb.com/item/391129-2014-fender-custom-shop-54-stratocaster-relic-cimarron-red?_aid=pla&pla=1&gclid=CjwKEAjwqqmsBRDGy_3h_eS80jYSJACS95Cvl1DRecFDEt9yhwIovuQQuEo2JoDyuQRxnTg-HLMGjhoC16Xw_wcB
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
tone attorneys!
― goole, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link