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CaptainBeefart posted:Nice. I haven't listened to Mates Of State in a long time and kind of forgot about them. Gonna have to recheck them out. Yeah, I am pretty stoked to reconnect with these! Hopefully they aren't too beat up.
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Schremp Howard posted:Exactly this. I also love the people who use the ratings to say VG and then in the description put that it’s really like a V++++, practically near mint copy, EX-Mint. CPL593H posted:Please don't will this poo poo into existence. Already done did. https://better-records.com/collections/white-hot
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bigman.50grand posted:Already done did. White hot stampers are a whole other scam that is way more niche than the CGC or the video game one.
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spinst posted:Yeah, I am pretty stoked to reconnect with these! Hopefully they aren't too beat up. man I remember listening to them when Team Boo came out like...12 years ago? sometimes I miss the twee resurgence, sometimes I don't
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CPL593H posted:White hot stampers are a whole other scam that is way more niche than the CGC or the video game one. They are basically saying this in the FAQ. quote:Are Hot Stampers a good investment?
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Mister Kingdom posted:They are basically saying this in the FAQ. Wow, I never knew they outright tell you it's all bullshit. That makes it extra hilarious.
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I recently returned from Florida, visiting my family for the first time since before the pandemic. But more importantly it meant I got some solid time crate digging at my old hometown record store Bananas Music, which boasts 3.5 million records for sale. Note that quantity does not mean quality.  But with such pure volume it does mean much of it is priced to sell, with stuff marked for under five bucks that would probably go for $10 or $15 elsewhere. If you have the patience, you will be rewarded. However, my time was limited so I just grabbed whatever trash I could find. The end result: Holy gently caress I have too many records.  Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba This is one of those records that should be in my collection but for some reason never found its way there. It was in Banana's $1 section. German import version, kind of thrashed especially on side B, but worth the buck it cost me. Quincy Jones - Sounds... Eh, just an impulse buy when I was busy spending money on other things. Haven't worked my way to listening to it yet. Erroll Garner - Contrasts I have a slowly growing collection of Erroll. Love his style of piano playing, he beats on those keys like they owe him money. This is maybe around 1954? Features an early take of probably his most famous song, "Misty." Dave Brubeck Quartet - In Europe, Jazz Impressions of the USA, Time Out I was not planning on getting this much Brubeck on vacation. The first two came out of Bananas' $2.99 back room and I probably could have found nicer versions of each if I had more time to flip through their thousands of records back there, but eh, these are fine. Like Jazz Samba, Time Out is one of those "need a copy of this if you're a real jazz head" additions. I found it in an antique shop for five bucks. If it really grows on me, I'll go find one of the many contemporary reissues of it and upgrade. Sabu - Jungle Percussion and Sorcery! Ok, so both records are billed to Sabu, but it's actually two different people. The "real" Sabu did Sorcery! and is a percussionist who worked with the likes of Art Blakey and Horace Silver, among others. Two of my all-time favorite jazz albums feature him prominently: Drum Suite and Horace Silver Trio. The other "Sabu" is actually an African musician named Subri Moulin and Jungle Percussion is a repackaged "world music" album of tribal songs. The label no doubt rebranded him Sabu to confuse people into thinking he was the other guy. Still not a bad album, but accept no Sabu subtitutes.  I've been really accumulating a Herbie Hancock collection lately and Fat Albert Rotunda and Thrust were two holes that needed filling. They're early-70s funky Herbie, so both are top-tier poo poo. The two 45's came from the thrift shop I recently described as this: Ballz posted:
-Bob Crosby's Bobcats is some Fallout 3 Galaxy News Radio poo poo. I actually thought Bob would feature on this record (he sounds almost exactly like his more famous brother Bing) but no, it's just his backup band, the Bobcats. The record itself is from the early 50s, although the songs are older, maybe late 1930s to about 1940 or so. Some fun dixieland swing. Like I said, they'd be right at home on a Fallout radio station. -I bought the other record simply because the record label it's on: Charlie Parker Records. For some reason everyone suddenly has a hard-on for Bird and his old records are selling for big bucks these days. I figured 99 cents for this unknown single was worth it... and it is! The artist is Joe Carroll, who is a jazz singer and the songs here feature him scatting up a storm. Not my usual cup of tea, but I can handle it in small doses. The next group of photos is something my wife wanted, despite how she used to make fun of me for owning some 78 RPM shellac records. Well who's laughing now, bitch?!    (the answer is my wife is the one laughing because I was still the one that paid for this) I don't have my turntable with the needle that can handle 78s hooked up at the moment, but on visual inspection these records look to be in really good shape for their age. The album seems to be from around 1941. I'll take better pics and create a discogs entry one of these days, and probably also rip the audio. Maybe it'll be something patriotic to inspire our Ukranian brothers and sisters.  And speaking of shellac I picked this up at another antique store:  The RCA Victor base, I mean. I got that Ink Spots record for a buck at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore about three or four years ago. I've seen some weirdos try selling it for $100 on discogs lol Anyways that concludes my Florida adventure... except when I came back home I found these in the mail:  And also some Nujabes loving from Amazon.jp:  Still in transit: another VMP box and another box of records from Japan because that currency exchange rate is just too drat good right now. 
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Oh man I don't think I've ever listened to this many records in a day as I desperately try to clean out to make the garage sale deadline of next Friday. Much of this round was thrift store and bargain bin mistakes, and I found my first broken record today: the random Smothers Brothers album I had and wasn't enjoying anyways. Had no idea that their act was to have one be the smart one and the other be the dumb one. Speaking of, I listened to all the comedy records I own today which means I finally listened to the three Rusty Warren albums I have, and have owed Read After Burning (I think) a review of in this thread for like a year. For those not in the know Rusty Warren is a standup comedienne famous for being the first to have an act that discusses sex; the three albums are all from the very early 60s and she's been retroactively nicknamed "the mother of the sexual revolution." Still, they're an interesting time capsule, and of course dated in some ways, but on the whole are largely positive about sex. Heck I enjoyed them the most out of the comedy albums I listened to today. If nothing else I've learned the word "poontang" is much older than I thought it was. And since it's been a year since I posted about getting these, a bunch of vinyl rips have appeared on YouTube including for the ones I have which are titled Knockers Up!, Sin-sational, and Rusty Warren in Orbit. Or you can hunt down the Knockers Up song by itself; it came to be infamous and associated with Rusty herself as the "Knockers up girl." Worth a looksee for the historical aspect or if you're into old standup/musical comedy for some reason. Does anybody actually collect old comedy albums? I imagine most are pretty dated by now.
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I remember liking a couple of my dad’s Bill Cosby records as a kid, but… yeah… It was funny though me listening to them and him talking about he and his friends would die laughing and quote them to each other back and forth, which is basically what my friends and I were doing with Dane Cook, Mitch Hedberg at the time.
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Would Rusty Warren be an inspiration for the Marvelous Mrs. Maizel?
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Turbinosamente posted:Oh man I don't think I've ever listened to this many records in a day as I desperately try to clean out to make the garage sale deadline of next Friday.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Would Rusty Warren be an inspiration for the Marvelous Mrs. Maizel? According to google no, it's primarily Joan Rivers. I've never seen the show, does Mrs. Maizel get banned all over the place? Rusty Warren was deemed too offensive for TV and radio quite a bit, which probably hampered her fame somewhat. If Rusty was I don't think the show creators have said, or at least not in any article from 2 seconds of google. wa27 posted:You should post a flip-through vid of your garage sale bin. Good idea, I'll have to remember to do this when I finish.
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Turbinosamente posted:Does anybody actually collect old comedy albums? I imagine most are pretty dated by now. I don't necessarily collect them but I have some Carlin, Pryor, and Cheech and Chong. They all have some funny stuff but don't think I would sit listen to them straight through. I should probably incorporate them in my sets. The Lenny Bruce album I have is very dated though.
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sporklift posted:I don't necessarily collect them but I have some Carlin, Pryor, and Cheech and Chong. They all have some funny stuff but don't think I would sit listen to them straight through. I should probably incorporate them in my sets. The Lenny Bruce album I have is very dated though. I always wonder if I shouldn't have passed up a random Cheech and Chong album I found misplaced in a shop, but usually I don't go for the stoner humor. And apparently not so much the insult style either, Rappin Rodney was the other comedy album I listened to. Quite admirable at how he improvs and handled the heckling though, I can't think that fast. Somehow I've made it this far in collecting without winding up with a Carlin record either, dunno how I achieved that. I didn't actually listen to my Weird Al albums, I suppose he technically falls into this category, but you'll pry those out of my cold dead hands anyways.
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I wouldn’t say I collect comedy albums but I have a bunch of them. All the big Steve Martin and Cheech & Chong, a bunch of Bill Cosby, Carlin, Pat Cooper, Rickles, Redd Foxx
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I have some Jim Nabors albums, but they're singing, not stand up.  Turbinosamente posted:Speaking of, I listened to all the comedy records I own today which means I finally listened to the three Rusty Warren albums I have, and have owed Read After Burning (I think) a review of in this thread for like a year. For those not in the know Rusty Warren is a standup comedienne famous for being the first to have an act that discusses sex; the three albums are all from the very early 60s and she's been retroactively nicknamed "the mother of the sexual revolution."  That sounds loving amazing! Thank you, I'll check her out.Nihonniboku posted:Remember when they were on Drag Race? Shea in the Neutron Dance lipsync... 
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Read After Burning posted:I'm going there tomorrow.  NERD ALERT Headed to San Francisco to attend The Residents' full-scale production of God in Three Persons (their 1988 concept album about toxic masculinity, gender fluidity, televangelism and, of course, a bucket of guts). Rolled into the front row and a stage hand quickly swooped in and announced "Congratulations, you're in the splash zone! That means you're going to be part of the show!" and handed us fake money. During a song that's set up to feel like a tent revival, their dancer (Genderqueer porn star Jiz Lee) walked the stage collecting donations in their bucket, turned around, walked back the row giving all of us communion, touching the underside of our soft chins. They then scaled the stage and started chucking the money back at us and we all rushed to grab what we could, some bills now drenched in blood. Gonna put "has collaborated with The Residents" on my resume from now on.      The HEALERS strip was a poster stage prop the dancer tore strips from, then ran around the stage collecting all of them and this is the only one that got away. We're tearing it in half so we each get a piece because FRIENDSHIP. Okay enough of that bullshit (until the official 50th one-off show happens later this year  ), I got some records: I ended up getting Handsome Boy Modeling School over at Streetlight, my best friend got this stack entirely from Metavinyl:  Pretty dope weekend, not gonna lie. caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 04:11 on May 16, 2022 |
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Greetings, local goon! Shoot me a PM if you ever wanna go record-shopping together!
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That off-center label seller is a douche. There is no way they inspected that record. I would be wary of trying to play it as the jump to the label may snap your stylus tip off the arm if it catches the label. The only record that I'm aware of that you can play the label section of is Jack White's Lazaretto. It has a hidden track stamped into the label at 78rpm on side a and one at 45rpm stamped into the label on side B. It also has a hidden hologram, plays from the inside to the outside and ends in a locked groove, has a song with 2 converging intros depending on where you drop the stylus etc... https://youtu.be/59782bpPUgk I lucked into a copy from Amazon warehouse for $13 that actually ended up being sealed and mint rather than opened. Mainly bought it for the novelty but never got around to opening it. I will have to dig it out and see if my 6300 tonearm can reach the label.
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caligulamprey posted:Also I'm pretty sure I saw a combination Taco Bell and smoke shop which I can't stop thinking about. You fuckin rear end in a top hat i hate you that sounds awesome i'm so jealous but fucj yeah my man.
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Nihonniboku posted:Update on this. The negative reviews say that the seller is unresponsive to complaints. Sure enough, that is my experience. Discogs has a feature where you can click that the seller is not responding, and after 4 days discogs will disable their account. He replied just before the 4 days asking for a photo. I sent it to him, and again, silent treatment. It seems that he knows how to game the system, and does just enough to keep his account from being disabled. I have to wait another few days before I can again report him for being unresponsive. I wish you well in your quest to out-Fucker this twat. Please link to his store so we can all avoid this prick in the future.
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caligulamprey posted:I was just in and out over the weekend for a show, but it's shortly becoming a whole Home Away from Home situation. Also I'm pretty sure I saw a combination Taco Bell and smoke shop which I can't stop thinking about. Wow, jelly. I once had a copy of God in 3 Persons, could never figure out what the gently caress I was listening to, actually I probably still have it. On cassette, IIRC.
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Whichever one of you little shits put up that excellent Edith Piaf song, I can't get it out of my head now. I'm going to have to watch that Sparks movie, it seems to be making the rounds. Don't exactly understand why these guys have always been in the shadows all these years but then, I don't know anything else about them either. So thank you.
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petit choux posted:Whichever one of you little shits put up that excellent Edith Piaf song, I can't get it out of my head now. I'm going to have to watch that Sparks movie, it seems to be making the rounds. Don't exactly understand why these guys have always been in the shadows all these years but then, I don't know anything else about them either. So thank you. Ahahahahahaha one of us one of us one of us! If you need an instant Sparks fix I recommend tracking down the three CD version of their greatest hits album as it has the most stuff on it and is a good representation of their long career imho. Here's a quick Amazon link but I got mine from that huge ebay seller named importcds. I think it's the easiest way to get a physical copy of the song National Crime Awareness Week which is also one of my faves and sounds more Pet Shop Boys than PSB themselves. Also I did not bother with the offical soundtrack for the documentary because it had none of the songs I liked from it, ymmv on that one. Enjoy the movie!
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New album day! Halestorm's Back From The Dead and Tron Legacy. 
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my turn in the barrel posted:That off-center label seller is a douche. There is no way they inspected that record. I would be wary of trying to play it as the jump to the label may snap your stylus tip off the arm if it catches the label. One of the Dead Weather albums has that too. I think it was Sea of Cowards.
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marjorie posted:You have almost a million dollars worth of Legos but can't be bothered to sell it??? Sounds like if you made the effort you could just retire, yeesh. poo poo I meant low 5 digits lol
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In the UK celebrating completing my MSEE. Here's the haul I picked up in Glasgow.
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https://www.vinylmeplease.com/products/the-james-brand-vmp-knife?variant=39932430680154 Have we finally reached peak vinyl?
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Barry posted:https://www.vinylmeplease.com/products/the-james-brand-vmp-knife?variant=39932430680154 lol
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Shame on you if you don't use what people just assume is a coke nail.
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I use the chicken cutters in the kitchen while I’m cooking since I like listening to music while I do my thing
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All my nails are coke nails.bigman.50grand posted:Does it even come with a cocktail recipe and artwork inspired by the knife? 
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Barry posted:https://www.vinylmeplease.com/products/the-james-brand-vmp-knife?variant=39932430680154 You get much better dynamic range if you use this to open the shrink wrap instead of a two dollar utility knife.
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Crosspost from the metal thread, got these in the mail today. I also picked up Tron: Legacy, Therion's second, third and fourth albums that they finally rereleased (with the original cover art!) and ABBA: Gold over the past week.
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