Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

To be fair, texting is a crazy visceral experience and a perfect fit for Vinyl, the HBO show. As in, texting "CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW STUPID AND AWFUL THIS IS? :( :( :(" to friends.

is freakbeat in LA good? was tempted to check it out on a work trip to LA last weekend but it would have involved a cab where Amoeba was only a 90 minute walk.

― SCROTUS (stevie)

I also like it but likely wouldn't take a cab there. They occasionally have sales on everything (20% maybe?).

Is that a typo, or were you willing to walk an hour and a half to get to a record store (or anywhere, really)? Cause that's fucking crazy.

Oh shit we're calling people out for walking now? In LA?

Pretty sure you can stop at places along the way, you don't have to just walk for 90 minutes straight.

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haha americans always find it weird that British people walk everywhere

I don't have a driver's license, and I work in New York. I walk all the time. But saying "Yeah, let's go to the record store—it's only a 90-minute walk from here" is, I repeat, fucking crazy.

tbf hes from london.

I thought it was obvious they were from out of town

A 90 minute walk is a perfect cab distance.

I'm from the UK and think a 90-minute walk is *fucking insane*, sorry.

I mean, mayyyyyybe if you were having a leisurely stroll and there were loads of points where you would stop on the way. But then it would end up taking ~5 hours, and that reverts to being WTF.

"a person enjoyed a long walk - LET'S GET HIM"

Seriously, it's just wrong. Sorry stevie but you'll have to be exiled for your own good.

stevie where were you staying?

it's the 3 hours round trip total that's pretty brutal

going to another country and walking around a city is insane, get a cab and look up some postcards online later

Tbf,a 90 minute walk is pretty visceral and a perfect fit for vinyl, and takes the anxiety out of knowing where to walk next.

Problem with a 90 minute walk to Amoeba is you could walk back with a couple of 30 lb. carrier bags.

LA does have buses and trains, btw. I guess the LA basin to the SF Valley may be awkward.

Walking 90 minutes every day should be mandatory.

haha had no idea my trip to amoeba would be so *controversial! i had a saturday evening to kill and jetlag bad enough that i would have been terrible company for anyone i met up with, but i really wanted to go to a record shop, and i thought it would only take me 60 minutes tbh. i used to travel to LA a lot but I haven't been there for a couple of years now so actually it was kind of lovely to walk up the strip and revisit a lot of old haunts. the thing is i thought that as soon as you get to In'n'Out burger Amoeba's just a block or so along, but it's further and i was p fed up of walking by that point. the thing about walking in la is its only ever english people and homeless people who do it. i actually really enjoyed the walk overall, though i must admit i took a cab back as it was dark and i was tired. the next day the press agent and i walked another 90 minutes to the capitol building for the interview i had to do, and that was more fun because at least i had someone to talk with for the duration.

i picked up a nice copy of the third minnie riperton lp for $6, the second pointer sisters for $2, a killer mingus comp with all of black saint on it for $10, skies of america for $15 and a copy of the arthur russell comp with wild combination for my other half, so it was a successful trip imo. then i had a decent pizza from prova and fell asleep in my hotel room about 9pm.

and yeah if i was in nyc i would be totally fine with a four hour walk, that is a city made for wandering.

Walking 90 minutes every day should be mandatory.

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Sunday, February 21, 2016 3:37 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this.

the walk there would be no problem, i would only be worried about a 90 minute walk home while carrying records though i guess just make sure you bring an umbrella if it looks like rain

I'd be more worried about having 90 minutes to dwell on my amoeba purchases/non-purchases. Walk there sounds excellent, though.

I'd be more worried about having 90 minutes to dwell on my amoeba purchases/non-purchases. Walk there sounds excellent, though.

I cabbed it back but still had time to regret not picking up the acetate of an early Laff Records Richard Pryor LP

I for one applaud stevie's vinyl pedestrianism.

I walked a couple of times from Hammersmith to Rough Trade on Brick Lane and it took a couple of hours, and those were amazing, eye-opening afternoons that changed the way I viewed the city. So props Stevie

Yeah, I did a similar walk to Rough Trade in Notting Hill, left with a copy of Fiery Jack, the fall. Nowhere else seemed to have it.

if my only contribution to ilx is to promote walking as a pastime then all these years will not have been in vain

i would only be worried about a 90 minute walk home while carrying records though i guess just make sure you bring an umbrella if it looks like rain

you can get the bus back once you've got the records if they're too many to carry. lots of buses right across the road. plus Uber (cabs in LA are useless ime).

uber was startlingly cheap in LA compared to NYC.

i had a good experience at vacation vinyl on sunset. great selection of weird noise and metal, the dude was super super friendly to everyone.

i ubered. was considering a bus, which i'd used before, but was knackered and map-blind enough that i couldn't figure out what bus to catch. ideally wanted to catch a cab but there were none cruising the strip.

This has officially become the most boring thread in ILX history

idk surely devolving into friendly chatter is preferable to pointless bickering?

when I lived in LA I walked to amoeba from UCLA and then back again

it's nice except where sidewalks disappear in bel air

so have we confirmed that walking 90 minutes is a shady scam to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors?

I've done quite a few long walks along the Regent's Canal which were essentially winding detours to Honest Jon's and the general grubby wonder of Ladbroke Grove.

when i was a kid i would ride my bike pretty far to get to particular santa monica record stores. great ride, though -- the Strand!

i walked for miles and miles in philly for records. i didn't like taking buses. it was really the only exercise i got.

i had a really good bag at the time. could fit 30 records no problem.

yeah there were times when i bought too many things and riding home was less fun

thirty years ago a bicyclist would kick a record in the street

cannot wait until oculus rift allows us to take 90 minute walks to this thread

one time when i was 15 i walked a couple miles to my buddy's house to get like $15 he owed me and then walked a couple more miles back to the record store to purchase hatful of hollow and then walked maybe another mile back to my house to listen to it. was it 90 minutes? more? who knows!

How earnest were you on a scale of 1 - 10

maybe 6 but i was pretty young so let's say 7.5

did you sing "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" to your buddy when you got to his house