discogs marketplace?

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.

I once asked someone to please not rest their coffee on top of the records and they said "oh, ok" then proceeded to put it INSIDE a half full bin and I said "Oh, wow please don't do that" and then they said "I guess I'll just leave" in a very offended way and I said nothing and they left.

sympathy to record store owners having to deal with these foul provocations

I take a few crates to a market stall sometimes and my least favourite is the Man Who Condition Checks but in the course of doing so puts his greasy fingers on the grooves rather than Obeying Correct Handling Procedure - like, holding the record between thumb and forefinger, absolute savagery

yeah there are those people who have to manhandle half the store and then leave. taking each and every record out and inspecting them like its their job in a factory. maybe they want to feel like they own them for a minute?

corey robin is a weirdo

I worked at A&B Sound, a record/electronics store and once sold an inkjet printer to Joey Shithead from DOA

haha when I worked at B&N people would spill like an entire latte on our CD racks and then come up to the register and be like "can I get a store credit for another latte?"

Hello, fellow A&B Sound alumnus/ex-inmate!

It's amazing how many ex-A&Bers I run into randomly haha I was a metrotown guy.

I would never take a coffee cup into a record store, WTF.

Even more irritating are the folks who bring plastic cups of beer in whenever there is a street festival or something similar

Whenever I see records leaning forward I always try to set them back, but my personal rule is to only try twice and if they insist on leaning forward I leave them.

hi enochroot, I did get your ILXmail but I was unable to translate that message to a FB profile, you can email me directly using sleeve (at) efn (dot) org

Discogs has acquired wantlister.com so at least the fucking wantlist emails will actually be useful now

I hadn’t heard of them, has anyone tried it… hope they have some good devs they can bring along!

yeah I've been using it for ages, they sent me an email saying since I was already using it on their site I'm on the early adoption list on Discogs so I've just copied the filters over, but I'm not sure when/if that switches over to my Discogs wantlist emails which I just delete without reading normally. and don't know when regular Discogs users can use it

basically it means you can specify things like country, minimum sleeve/media conditions, max price etc and you can configure that per artist/release or just for everything

it also filters out when sellers relist their whole inventory every day

that's the best feature of all. I've removed things I've wanted from my list just because I got sick of seeing the same overpriced copy appear every single day

Would be good if you could see what someone wanted to pay for something so you could adjust the price if it was worthwhile.

xp same

i tried wantlister but it wasn't able to do any of the things i wanted, and it was impossible to use, so i gave up. maybe this will be better though

it's definitely true that the discogs wantlist feature leaves a lot to be desired

it's basically the same as wantlister, but I thought it was pretty simple to use? not sure what the problem was

there was this whole interface where you had to basically manually enter each record you wanted to add to each grouping of filters as i recall? so it just ended up being like you would have to construct a new wantlist from scratch because you couldn't even use your existing wantlist to build new groupings. and the whole thing just struck me as naive, like "never see a record in less than VG+ condition" and it's like dude i'm collecting jamaican 7"s

you can add each record individually if you want to, but you can just leave that blank and it applies to everything

if you don't want to exclude VG or G+ just set it to that? or don't set it? not really understanding the problem here tbh

i actually corresponded with the guy who made wantlister and he told me that most ppl who use wantlister have less than 30 records in their list, and the majority of them simply want to set a minimum grade and country of seller and then essentially leave it as is until forever

which is a model that doesn't really work for the kind of collecting i do