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CPL593H posted:It occurred to me that I don't remember how to do any of that poo poo. It is like buying an avatar? Check ye messages! Edit: wow bad snype. Here is my dog tax. 
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CPL593H posted:Is a moving gang tag too much when you already have a moving avatar? Also how do you get a gang tag? So when I lived in Florida there was (still is) a record store called Bananas and it had a back room with literally thousands of unsorted used records for $2.99 each. A lot of it was the usual Goodwill-fare dreck, but circa 2013 and 2014, you could find solid classic albums there for cheap, like Huey Lewis, Tom Petty, Styx, etc. And there were always about a dozen copies of Songs in the Key of Life there. But for whatever reason I always said to myself, "I'll grab that Stevie Wonder next time." And then oops I moved out of state. I returned for a visit in late 2019 to find that while the back room was still there and packed with records, it was mostly bottom of the barrel dreck. All those classic albums were long gone -- either bought years ago or moved to the main part of the store with price tags $10 and up. Songs in the Key of Life was nowhere to be found. So in conclusion I am very jealous of you right now but my gang tag is keeping me mellow.
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Jan 28, 2021 06:23
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Ballz posted:So when I lived in Florida there was (still is) a record store called Bananas and it had a back room with literally thousands of unsorted used records for $2.99 each. A lot of it was the usual Goodwill-fare dreck, but circa 2013 and 2014, you could find solid classic albums there for cheap, like Huey Lewis, Tom Petty, Styx, etc. And there were always about a dozen copies of Songs in the Key of Life there. If it makes you feel better I am probably more jealous of the poster who found Dusty In Memphis in a thrift store than you are of me. On a related note, last time I was in there I found an Indian folk album and the soundtrack to a Satyajit Ray film which is apparently pretty valuable. I'm sure you'll find another copy of Songs in the Key of Life.
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Jan 28, 2021 06:31
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pwn posted:Check ye messages! Ah yes, Belle and Sebastian's notorious French LP. But seriously, you could imagine them putting out an album with that cover.
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Jan 28, 2021 14:23
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Cemetry Gator posted:Ah yes, Belle and Sebastian's notorious French LP. Too many colors. NOT a Belle and Sebastian album cover.
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Jan 28, 2021 15:03
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I don't have any pictures handy of the few somewhat ridiculous album covers in my collection, but I did somehow come into an Al Jolson album with the big yikes front and center on the cover. (it probably was in a big stack of stuff from a flea market or garage sale or estate sale.)
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Jan 28, 2021 15:59
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Jan 28, 2021 17:19
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Finally caught up with this thread. I'm in the process of organizing my collection and listing it on Discogs, wish I had gotten in the habit of doing so long ago when the amount of releases I had was much smaller. I keep telling myself it'll be worth the effort, especially if it prevents me from accidentally rebuying the same album again! At least I'm not alone in having done that. Content: I actually picked up this Meet the Residents reissue a while back after reading caligulamprey's thread about the band and its history. The King & Eye promo came from a used record store - was not expecting to find it amongst all the REO Speedwagon LPs! 
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Jan 28, 2021 17:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1uEy-n4IsU though I like her ex-husband's daughter more
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Jan 28, 2021 17:28
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obscure_reference posted:Finally caught up with this thread. I'm in the process of organizing my collection and listing it on Discogs, wish I had gotten in the habit of doing so long ago when the amount of releases I had was much smaller. I keep telling myself it'll be worth the effort, especially if it prevents me from accidentally rebuying the same album again! At least I'm not alone in having done that. LOL I still have The King and Eye on cassette somewhere.
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Jan 28, 2021 17:30
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Sounds like you guys all sell records on discogs. Is that much better than on ebay, money wise? I've always meant to sell some of mine but not really done much so far.
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Jan 28, 2021 17:35
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petit choux posted:Sounds like you guys all sell records on discogs. Is that much better than on ebay, money wise? I've always meant to sell some of mine but not really done much so far. Havent really tried selling records on ebay. Mostly out of laziness to take photos of the stuff im selling. i find it easier to grade on discogs and list any issues if there are any in the details. ebay takes a 9% cut and discogs takes an 8% cut though.
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Jan 28, 2021 17:37
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The better Mountain Goats record of 2020 Songs for Pierre Chuvin is getting a Vinyl/CD release
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Jan 28, 2021 18:04
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ahaha oh man, the live performances were fantastic, but I've neeeeeeever been able to sit through The King and Eye once. Even the synths sound tired and bored. The techno remix album, even less so.
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Jan 28, 2021 18:53
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caligulamprey posted:ahaha oh man, the live performances were fantastic, but I've neeeeeeever been able to sit through The King and Eye once. Even the synths sound tired and bored. The techno remix album, even less so. It's been asked before way, way back in this thread, but would there be any interest in a CD finds/collecting thread? Perhaps an "other dead/dying formats" thread in general, since record collecting feels like a distinct thing of its own?
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Jan 28, 2021 19:34
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obscure_reference posted:I can't help wondering if the techno remix album was partly a reaction to that remix of "A Little Less Conversation" that was all over the place in the early 2000s. Here ya go. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814175&pagenumber=5&perpage=40 and a tape thread as well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3920428&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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Jan 28, 2021 19:41
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I don't have anything old and weird like you guys post. This is what I've bought most recently though:
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Jan 28, 2021 23:14
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CPL593H posted:It's not there. No booklet either. But it's a good starter copy. The last time I went into a record store I was going to buy the album all fancy like with a couple other things but then I noticed that he had a first pressing of Alan Vega which is something I never thought I'd see in the wild, so I opted to get that instead and put the other things back. It's a beautiful NM copy that looks like it had never been played. You in the US? I happen to have an extra copy of the 7" that you can have for free if you want it. Shoot me a PM.
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Jan 28, 2021 23:24
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phosdex posted:I don't have anything old and weird like you guys post. This is what I've bought most recently though: You can't go wrong with Air. Moon Safari & Talkie Walkie are two of my favorite records.
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sporklift posted:Here ya go. RIP CD thread, drat. Unless that was the point you were trying to make? Maybe having a general dead physical music formats thread would gain better traction. That way the 8 track and reel to reel guys can get in on it! Additionally, I think I was possibly the jackass who asked about a CD thread but pussed out at actually making it.
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 although a dead format thread might fare better. Funnily enough you couldn't include vinyl, because it's the only physical format that isn't dead at this point.
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Jan 29, 2021 00:53
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beeker posted:You can't go wrong with Air. Moon Safari & Talkie Walkie are two of my favorite records. I've got mp3s of Moon Safari and 10000 Hz Legend, which I like. For whatever reason I've never listened beyond those 2 and Virgin Suicides. I should get around to listening to more.
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I don't have near as extensive a collection as most of y'all I'm sure but here's some stuff I think is neat most of this stuff is my wife's random buys  The gatefold art in Devin Townsend's Empath is beautiful    And the artwork and lyric insert from Gama Bomb's Sea Savage is awesome    
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Enos Cabell posted:
SACD, DVD Audio, MiniDisc, DAT, basically just a techmoan thread
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IS anyone else having trouble with imgur? Is it down says it's not down but I can't get on there at all.
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CPL593H posted:IS anyone else having trouble with imgur? Is it down says it's not down but I can't get on there at all. imgur was down earlier today, but it's working now for me.
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One of the weirder things I have in my collection is this: https://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie-Narrates-Prokofiev-Eugene-Ormandy-The-Philadelphia-Orchestra-Perform-Britten-Peter-And-T/release/1046310:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1040216-1433785831-1795.jpeg.jpg) David Bowie narrating "Peter and the Wolf" recorded in December of 1978 for his son Duncan Jones. It's actually quite a cute and fun recording. Bowie is really into it.
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Ballz posted:So when I lived in Florida there was (still is) a record store called Bananas and it had a back room with literally thousands of unsorted used records for $2.99 each. A lot of it was the usual Goodwill-fare dreck, but circa 2013 and 2014, you could find solid classic albums there for cheap, like Huey Lewis, Tom Petty, Styx, etc. And there were always about a dozen copies of Songs in the Key of Life there. You might want to try Clearwater Records next time. I was in Clearwater for a concert in late 2019 and didn't want to drive over to Bananas. I Googled nearby record stores and found this one. They had a similar unsorted back room with a pretty good collection. Even the main section was pretty agreeable. Picked up a nice copy of The Court of the Crimson King for something like $15.
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Hot Diggity! posted:One of the weirder things I have in my collection is this: https://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie-Narrates-Prokofiev-Eugene-Ormandy-The-Philadelphia-Orchestra-Perform-Britten-Peter-And-T/release/1046310 Bowie was not one to half-rear end a gig he chose to take, at least not until his late 80s glass-spider malaise
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Bowie was not one to half-rear end a gig he chose to take, at least not until his late 80s glass-spider malaise I heard him say about the Let's Dance era/tour he said "I had an audience of Phil Collins fans when I wanted an audience of Iggy Pop fans.". That sums up his all his 80s work after Scary Monsters. Speaking of which, how the gently caress did he go from Scary Monsters to Let's Dance? That kind of drop off is almost impressive.
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Jan 29, 2021 03:41
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I like Let’s Dance 😿 I’ll even go to bat for Tonight. But that’s it. I don’t really touch the late 80’s into the 90’s stuff.
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^^^ I also like Let's Dance and Tonight. The only album I really cold on is Never Let Me Down.CPL593H posted:I heard him say about the Let's Dance era/tour he said "I had an audience of Phil Collins fans when I wanted an audience of Iggy Pop fans.". That sums up his all his 80s work after Scary Monsters. Speaking of which, how the gently caress did he go from Scary Monsters to Let's Dance? That kind of drop off is almost impressive. I think it was part studio influence and part he was just creatively exhausted at that point so he was trying to go back to the familiar things that worked. His resurgence in the 90s is my favorite of his output though. Not a bad album from Outside to the end. And speaking of - re-release those goddamned albums already, Parlophone. I will give you so much money just so I don't have to pay $200 for outside.
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The only time I've been mad at Bowie is for making me watch Mr. Rice's Secret. Parents rented it being Bowie fans and he's barely in it. Not sure how he was convinced to be in that terrible film. My dad went upstairs pretty early on and I should have followed.
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Fors Yard posted:The only time I've been mad at Bowie is for making me watch Mr. Rice's Secret. Parents rented it being Bowie fans and he's barely in it. Not sure how he was convinced to be in that terrible film. My dad went upstairs pretty early on and I should have followed. So his secret was that he's barely in the movie?
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CPL593H posted:I heard him say about the Let's Dance era/tour he said "I had an audience of Phil Collins fans when I wanted an audience of Iggy Pop fans.". That sums up his all his 80s work after Scary Monsters. Speaking of which, how the gently caress did he go from Scary Monsters to Let's Dance? That kind of drop off is almost impressive. Velvet Goldmine was published
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CPL593H posted:I heard him say about the Let's Dance era/tour he said "I had an audience of Phil Collins fans when I wanted an audience of Iggy Pop fans.". That sums up his all his 80s work after Scary Monsters. Speaking of which, how the gently caress did he go from Scary Monsters to Let's Dance? That kind of drop off is almost impressive. That's a v good characterization of it. And maybe a scattering of Huey Louis fans.
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This bowie talk is making me think I need both a crystal japan single and god willing, a poster version of that single cover
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CPL593H posted:I heard him say about the Let's Dance era/tour he said "I had an audience of Phil Collins fans when I wanted an audience of Iggy Pop fans.". That sums up his all his 80s work after Scary Monsters. Speaking of which, how the gently caress did he go from Scary Monsters to Let's Dance? That kind of drop off is almost impressive. Let's Dance was Bowie going all out to make a hit pop record. It was something he wanted to do - make a record as a singer. He hooked up with Nile Rodgers because dude could produce a hit, and the two of them got on famously. Let's Dance was a pretty good album overall. Tonight, on the other hand, was one that just wasn't that passionate. Except for Loving the Alien and Blue Jean, the whole thing was very weak. Basically, it was an album he didn't put much effort into because everyone wanted a follow up to Let's Dance. Never Let Me Down is a weird one. Honestly, I think it's seriously underrated. There's a lot of great songs, I swear I will fight anyone who says "Time Will Crawl" isn't one of Bowie's best songs. There's a lot of good material, and there definitely is some dross. But for whatever reason, it is just really maligned. I have the boxset for that era, and one thing is you get a lot of Never Let Me Down, since you have the full album, the remixed version, the single edits, and the vinyl edits. If I had to rank them - Let's Dance would be an 8. Tonight would be a 3. And NLMD would be a 6. But that period gave us some of his finest work through the soundtracks. Absolute Beginners is one of his best songs, only surpassed by Magic Dance. And Underground. That's another good one. But yeah, Scary Monsters was very much an art record and Bowie coming off of a really hot run. Let's Dance wasn't an attempt to continue that, but to do something more mainstream, but still Bowie. Tonight is just cashing in, and NLMD is an underrated LP.
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