discogs marketplace?

xp

lol

just as weird is all the customers complaining that he didn't say hello to or acknowledge them when they entered the store.

one star = I didn't get my belly rubbed and I didn't get any treats.

i also don't like it when people leave the records facing forward like that in the racks but i don't say anything i just put them back right. its also why i try to have really full - but not overstuffed i want people to be able to look - shelves so that they don't do that. so many people on that Yelp says that he yelled at them for leaving the records like that. ha!

my brother had this father and son team helping him at his store during the day and whenever anyone left the records like that they immediately ran over and put them back right. it was like a comedy routine! i got a kick out of that. they had to of scared people a time or two. they waited until the customer moved one rack over and then they would pounce.

I fix forward leaning stacks when i’m in a store. What kind of monster leaves it like that?!?

lots of people!

people who use the word "vinyls"

Nearly fuckin everybody, judging by the available evidence.

Nearly fuckin everybody, judging by the available evidence.

Worth saying twice.

The practice definitely predates the vinyls expression, ppl been leaving records slouched forward for decades.
TIL that Scott S has a brother with a record shop
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yah, he does. in hudson, new york. home of frank serpico and wreckless eric.

I've been there. I think I told him I knew you on the internet.

same!

I'm proud to say I've been to both shops. I missed the father and son act but did have a chat with Scott who encouraged me to post more. so, here ya go.

Wreckless Eric, alas, has moved back to the UK

I know that Scott will probably wipe the floor with us here, but what "famous" people (or at least people you've heard of before) have bought records from you on discogs?

For me so far...

Peanut Butter Wolf
Daniel "Billy" Bunter (uk hardcore/rave dj)
The guy who runs the My Analog Journal youtube account

pretty weak I know!

Mr Scruff

Plastic Crimewave bought a record from me once

more cool people in the store then online. i sold stuff for years on ebay and nobody well-known bought stuff. same with discogs mostly. other than henry rollins. but i think he buys from everyone eventually.

but in the store all kinds of cool cats. thurston obviously cuz he lived around here. marc ribot. terry adams. ian svenonious, the sassiest boy in america. penn gillette. mark robinson of unrest. michael hurley. most recently the beatnuts. even that guy from the mountain goats bought some records once. oh probably lots of people i'm forgetting.

i don't think dude from the pixies has come in? he lives near here. but its possible i just might not recognize him anymore. and lloyd cole lives nearby but i haven't seen him.

i do kinda live off the beaten path. Greenfield isn't exactly a tourist destination. it is nearby tourist destinations. like, you know, vermont.

sold some obscure electro to Aphex once on ebay, also some libraries to DJ QBert. this was like 20 years ago tho, hardly ever see libraries about these days.

J@mes Duval (known for a lot of Gregg Araki films and Independence Day) bought a Jazz Butcher CD from me on ebay. i thought it probably wasn't *that* particular JD, but actually --

https://www.facebook.com/jazz.butcher.official/posts/673220864363138/

iirc the communication w/him, that dude was EXTREMELY excited to get that CD

i've mentioned this before i think but one of my favorite customers for years was this guy who always wanted the weirdest records i had and he was always a treat to talk to. he knew about all kinds of cool stuff. i saw him at a friend's party one summer and then i went out front and i saw a car with a license plate that said ELFQST and i was like holy shit that is the coolest license and it turned out it was his and that he was one half of the duo that made my favorite sexy elf comic when i was a kid! i couldn't believe it. in the early 80s i actually had my dad take me all the way to a store in New Haven for an Elfquest signing. small world. i wasn't a real fantasy comic reader but i always loved her art and his writing and the elf cleavage. and they were totally DIY too until someone like Marvel licensed their stuff.

RICHARD PINI!!!

sold some obscure electro to Aphex once on ebay

how would you know though?

i sold some Tragically Hip cassettes to a Vincent Gallo.

Not on discogs but years ago I was cleaning house on some *R@RE 00P* japanese stuff that was collecting dust and the buyer asked where I lived and we started chatting and it turns out he lived around the corner from me so I ended up just dropping the records off at his house and after some chit-chat he casually mentions he is (or rather was, as this was a v. long time ago) the guitar tech for Sonic Youth and also Nils Cline/Wilco so he's always traveling around and seldom home. That was the only time I saw him and I lived in that neighborhood for a longggg time lol. Nevertheless he has some deep cut EYE 12"s, thanks m'bro!

lollin' @ "elf cleavage"

xp I think I may have met that guy! once in Portland OR when Metal Mountains was recording, he was the engineer.

(ian to thread)

Famous Discogs buyers I have had (more famous if you’re in the UK): Danny Baker, Ben Watt, Alexis Petridis, Ian Levine, Luke Unabomber, Boz Boorer, guy from The Allergies (buying his own record!), Psychemagik guy, err can’t think of any more.

knew you'd have some good 'uns mike!

A buddy of mine sold a cd to Michael Ontkean (Twin Peaks, Sheriff Truman) in Hawaii, via Ebay.

I sold a CD player cleaner to Gerard Butler when I worked at HMV Grafton Street.

I like to think that I’m the famous Discogs buyer people talk about. They’re cracking up. Holy shit you’ll never guess who just bought the worst 2 dollar hinrg record from me.

Brick and mortar wise I probably rang up Mike from Pearl Jam at some point but I have no idea what he looks like

i bought four records online! i got them in the mail! i'm gonna play them!

they are new. i can't remember the last time i bought a used record online. years ago. long before the pandemic. i only buy new. from labels. metal labels usually.
i do buy new stuff for the store sometimes and that kinda feels like record shopping. but every once in a while i just have to get a couple of things for myself.
these came speedy!

What'd you get? I just got a bunch of Niney the Observer stuff from Cherry Red.

I was today years old when I learned that he's called Niney because he lost a thumb.

I fix forward leaning stacks when i’m in a store. What kind of monster leaves it like that?!?

― Cow_Art, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 9:45 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lots of people!

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 9:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is like asking how you place a book back in a bookstore, etc.

people still place their coffee cups on the records while they look. right next to them. we make quick work of that. last week i just grabbed a cup and put it by the front door. we also have a no food/drink sign on our front door for that reason. but people don't read it. whole families with ice cream cones from the ice cream place down the street just looking at records with one hand and eating with their other hand. savages. i tell them to come back when they are done licking.

haha after working in a music store for seven years, I still straighten CD and vinyl racks as I browse

it just seems like basic common decency to leave things how you left them, even if you've never worked in a record store

the food and coffee shit is just unforgivable though

I worked at a library for four years, and we had signs asking people to please NOT reshelve their books. Leave them on the tables, leave them laying on the shelves.

If they put a book back in the wrong place it could take a very long time to find it again. We would also have shelf-reading time where we just read the numbers on the spine to make sure they were in proper order.

people who walk in with their beverages and treat stores like some cross between a museum and petting zoo

"What'd you get? I just got a bunch of Niney the Observer stuff from Cherry Red."

I was just listening to some Niney single comps on CD last week.

I bought noisy stuff. Full Of Hell. Scalp. I really like Full Of Hell. I bought the latest Gatecreeper album. It's great, but it almost feels like listening to Foo Fighters compared to the crap I've been listening to the last few weeks. That hardcore thread i started on ILM tells the tale. Just in...the mood, I guess? For abrasiveness. It's good to work to.

Bought from here: https://closedcasketactivities.com/

i had to stop myself. there was so much i wanted. but $25 bucks apiece adds up quick. i wanted the Full Of Hell/Nothing collab album and the Full Of Hell/Primitive Man collab too. but Youtube will have to suffice.

oh and i got a Vermin Womb LP too...

people still place their coffee cups on the records while they look. right next to them. we make quick work of that. last week i just grabbed a cup and put it by the front door. we also have a no food/drink sign on our front door for that reason. but people don't read it. whole families with ice cream cones from the ice cream place down the street just looking at records with one hand and eating with their other hand. savages. i tell them to come back when they are done licking.

― scott seward, Thursday, May 23, 2024 4:43 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i grabbed a coffee from catalpa once and brought it into the nearby record store - can't remember the name.

Catalpa has millennial coffee i don't want millennial coffee on my rekkerds! that acidic stuff. it will burn right thru them. the IPA of coffee.

From memory, as far as I have noticed the most famous people who have bought from me on Discogs in the past are fairly underground DJs like Move D, Jane Fitz and Damo B.

the Vermin Womb album sounds amazing by the way. could not have been an easy album to mix and master. so dense. but they did a really good job.