Do you actually believe in record karma?
the3rdstream
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or is the whole record game chaos?
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I wouldn't call that karma though.
some people have bragged that they were gonna be pulling raers right & left because their intent was pure - I call bullshit on that.
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me too. and i believe in bike karma, book karma and cruelty karma.
As I get older, the less I believe in karma. I know shyster dudes who have a lot of money and live kush lifestyles. And kind, righteous dudes who come up empty.
Still, believing is one thing. I'll always practice.
but they might be totally broke and in the gutter inside
I never fuck people over for records and I makes me believe that I will keep finding good shit. And I do.
Thats the difference between a healthy private mind garden and actual karma
They will rot in hell and / or die a horrible death. Otherwise imma be really pissed.
this is every collectro.
banished to the plane of the hungry ghosts, they keep tossing material objects into the abyss of their soul...
I think back to my disapointement when purchasing items and for that I will never lie in a trippy acid psych= crappy polish choir type way
Fine but I prefer to say Karma vs. I'm not a fucking underhanded asshole.
It just sounds better.
Because if you mean not fucking people over, that is a relative statement.
I will go further. The very definition of digging is screwing people over.
MarcoFunk and Reynaldo are gathering all the record karma in the universe by actually paying people more than their records are worth. As far as I can tell the only payback for their record karma is Strutter ridicule.
I mean shit like the example I posted in the DAKAR is lying thread.
I always try to establish prices when looking at collections in homes before I touch any records. If granny says $1 each and I pull a grip of blue notes, that is fine. But if someone is waiting to see what I pull and then tries to price them off ebay or some guide book I can usually politeley school them on condition and shit. I even took this one dude onto popsike one day.
But if paying less than market for records is bad Karma. I'm gonna come back as a pig's sphincter.
I have nothing but respect for Rey's highrollerness.
I can't even think about Marcofunk.
Not stealing records.
Not screwing someone over on a trade because they don't know the value of a record.
Not prying the last copy of a record off its creator, creator's mother, creator's children, etc.
Not lying about your reasons for wanting to source a record - ie, "I just collect this kind of stuff, nobody really cares except me, but yeah I need all 30 copies" or "I just really want to play it on my college radio show, how's $20 sound?" ( ) or "I sell records, usually $10 for a sealed LP, so yeah I could give you $5 per record for a few of them or $3 per record for the whole box."
Not selling a record to someone that has shit like invisible skips, surface noise, cue burn, or other invisible defects before giving them a chance to check it out first.
Wholesale dealers! Not lying to your buyer like "yeah, you're the first guy to go through this stuff, nobody's even seen it, shit I just got it fifteen minutes before you got here" or "everything's clean and I want to just get rid of it for cheap" (4 hours later, 'yeah this stack of VG records will be $10 a piece, man you should've seen the stuff so-and-so got here yesterday!')
Basically, not being a total bum in the record game will reap you rewards. Being shady gets around - this is a very, very small world.
About 6 months ago I gave up a contact for one mutha fuckin crazy record collection. I owed someone for something record biz related and I put the wheels in motion for him to get at it. Dude will probably make 100K off it. One of the craziest collections I've ever heard of for promo 12"s.
C'est La Vie
Sometimes life isn't all about coming out with all the records and money you can.
Also, record Karma should be here for people that can't be bothered to pay .25 to a buck for a record from a Goodwill/Salvation Army, so they rip it off. I'm not mad at your game... Just hope for your sake it never comes back to you 10X over.
Karma.
The exact moment when you find order in the record game chaos, that's when you become a true digger.
Define "hustle":
Dear Reynaldo. Let me start saying I'm your number 1 latinamerican fan. Now...
If SS was a theater and you were doing a stand up show, I'm sure the audience would go after one more of your money jokes. Plaese, find something new! You are going through a LAS-VEGAS-FAT-ELVIS phase.
dude has been dead in the toilet for at least a year now
"OK, its more about spending money
If you believe in karma, cool. If you dont, cool. However, when you find yourself doing 'the right thing' with the intent to get something in return later down the road (via karma) you are kidding yourself and making a mockery of the entire principal. Play nice because you want to place nice, not for what may come of your actions.