RAINCOAT MOVEMENT Any untoward movement under the raincoat will reserve in a severe beating aound the face, neck, and assey nipples. [/b]
Whoa, looks like I better gaurd my grill then! Hahaha, those were the two funniest posts I've read all day...
Congrats again, I can't wait for the store opening brah.
Dong-man is back in the house! Perhaps you can bring world famous rave DJ Scot Richardson to the store. OOOOH, for him we roll out read carpet. Extra points for Allen Sanctuary, I will take photo even if it scares the schoolchildren.
THIS JUST IN, GOOD RECORDS WILL BE THE EXCLUSIVE EAST COAST DISTRIBUTOR FOR DJ EROCK'S "WHAT IS IT?" RADIO SHOW. EROCK IS THE ONLY DJ ON SIRIUS RADIO PLAYING BAY AREA MATERIAL AND ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH HE WILL PROVIDE GOOD WITH A CD LOADED WITH NOTHING BUT THE NEWEST AND GREATEST BAY AREA EXCLUSIVES, AND BELIEVE ME, THE DUDE HAS URRYTHANG, WAY BEFORE ANYONE ELSE....
1. Are we going to see the well-paid playa suit & tie Jonny behind the counter, or are we going to see the change my approach/ stopped shaving close Jonny? (Big dudes and poptarts alike wanna know!)
2. Is GOOD RECORDS NYC going to have an employee computer with high speed internet?
The benefits for this would be 1) you could still punk dudes from 9-5 like the "old Jonny", 2) plenty of "yo I just sold ?eust a Michael Jackson Off The Wall sealed for $300!", 3) and if you step it up just a notch, and invest in one of those video webcam thingies, we could get some live "instore" action. The possibilities are endless for this. I'm seeing thread titles:
"Rape Donkeys Just Clowned That Kid From Scratch Academy Looking For Battle Records"
"UMAD Doesn't Look That Surly, Does He?"
"What's In The Only Known Copies Box?"
"DELAY JUST JACKED SOME DUDE IN THE GOOD PARKING LOT SPACE... LOOK!!!"
"VOTE FOR THE HOTTEST GOOD EMPLOYEE POLL" (pasue)
"Dude coulda just bought that from TSL for $5 cheaper, in top nick, mate!"
(I keed. But congratulations on turning the working week into the working 24-7.)
These are all great ideas, Bam. I will have the interweb but I am going to restrict it... no saltyrecordshopguyontheinternetalldaycommon...
Lord willing I will never shave except for like once a month. That shit hurts my face god
But you know I still rock the fly shit. Matter of fact, in that pic you grabbed I was sporting vintage Burberry button up and Lagerfeld jacket. When I dress, it's never nothing less than....
Promotional t-shirts; speaking of which, where's yourn?
Might I add that: we stock the Vanguard Squard record at the shop, so no more smart alecking!!!
Promotional t-shirts; speaking of which, where's yourn?
Might I add that: we stock the Vanguard Squard record at the shop, so no more smart alecking!!! (pay me)
Diggity don't play. I'll bring shirts by. (I need to holler at trades too. I went from hoarder to purger overnight last Saturday. Your Slightly Funky Off Condition Polka section just got LARGE!)
Thank you for the support, in all seriousness. It's good seeing people do what they want. Makes me want to hang myself less.
Where's the porn jpgs of the store all set-up? Or is it still getting fulleded?
179 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. F train to 2nd Ave station and you can't lose. Noon, or 1, if you believe RecordDealerTime, till whenever.
(please forgive our appearance. We are still under contstruction. But I had to turn away so many people Friday I decided to up the date and open as soon as we had bins for the records!)
Hope to see some of yall there.
Shouts out to DJ Coolhands, motherfucking Alien Iverson, Otis Funkmeyer, Resident Giant, THE DONGER, Lotusland Crew, Crazypoprock, and all that have dropped by recently.
FYI, I would have loved to come by and help last night like I offered, but I realized I had to help myself and put my second coat of paint in the kitchen, since it finally wasn't 100% humidity for once. I finally got my house chores done though, and I'll swing by after work!
I want to thank Otis Funkmeyer, Sweendoglongsicle, Emynd, THE DONGER, and other lurkers for swinging through and making the first day a success.
Our bins are not even stained yet, we have no front counter, our wall isn't done (hence the "Wall Records" are in boxes that can be perused if requested), there are record boxes and suplies everywhere, the floor is dusty, and only about 1/2 of the stock was set out... but we exceded our sales goal by a very comfortable margin.
We like to sit around all day, play records, shoot the shit, and look at the gorgeous women walking around the Lower East Village... it's a fun time... I wonder why people would hate on that...
But it somehow isn't surprising that some other stores are throwing our flyers away after our promo team leaves and why a dealer told me, "you know, there are some folks that don't want me to deal with you..." They'd rather it be a "best kept secret"... with your business, it won't be for long. Yall are the whole reason we do this.
Get you a crate, some crack and some house slippers, a newspaper, lookout boy, and get your chips up.
I mean, it's pretty regular that places will toss your flyers - I left lots of flyers around Table 50 one night and the barbacks were bagging them up! I actually managed to salvage 100 or so because they just left them in a stack. But they only allow flyers for their events. Two Boots Pizza cleared my flyers the same day I left them. Other record shops have been hella cool and actually given folks flyers. Some shops have been a little tight about it though, which I can't really understand...
My street teams have hit tons of record stores, "lifestyle" stores, relevant events, bar/club nights, shows, etc. I gave them lists of everything going down...
1. People buy all manner of records. There's no accounting for taste, or even any sort of consistency within the records bought by one person. For instance, a dude might cop Nancy Sinatra and Black Sabbath and seem equally juiced about both. This is fresh, buy what you feel, different strokes for different folks.
Addendum 1B: All manner of people buy records. Over the course of the day we encountered everyone from New York industry guys (big up Scrappy, long time no see), middle-aged dudes in short shorts, Japanse dudes with rap themed tshirts, gay dudes from the pacific northwest, and the always comical "weird old jazz dudes". I'm especially juiced about the weird old jazz dudes...particularly the guy with the splatterpainted glasses, he was boss.
Addendum 1C: Hipsters do not buy records. They tell their girlfriend or their slightly less cool friend Stavis to "like wait outside for a second while I check out the records" and then they literally make a lap around the store, pick up one record, put it back and jet.
2. Don't try and boost in Good records. The one dude who came in all day looking shady immediately drew the attention of the Dongman, myself, and Paychickens. We have boosted many records in our time and we will catch you and show you the Good Records Tazer.
3.There's some really good folks on here who came through and supported to the utmost. Special bigups to Sween and Otis Funkmeyer. You are very much appreciated.
4.I think I speak for myself, Paychunes, Dongman, and Sween when I extend a hearfelt "thanks" to the girl with no bra on and the short skirt, who came in, told us she "played all kinds of records" didn't look at ANYTHING, showed off her magnifcent self for a second and made an exit....you too are appreciated.
5. Also, the coked up girl who wanted to know if we had ever "REALLY seen Jurrasic Five, I mean REALLY", you're appreciated too.
6. Soulrez and Dante Ross were seperated at birth.
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Whoa, looks like I better gaurd my grill then! Hahaha, those were the two funniest posts I've read all day...
Congrats again, I can't wait for the store opening brah.
Dong-man is back in the house! Perhaps you can bring world famous rave DJ Scot Richardson to the store. OOOOH, for him we roll out read carpet. Extra points for Allen Sanctuary, I will take photo even if it scares the schoolchildren.
I will be in town sometime soon.
cheers!
1- can i smoke while browsing thru?
2- do you keep some backyard crates?
3- do you sell euro grooves and libs?
answer by pm if needed...i'll give you a visit in september man...
PS : if you need some euro hook-ups...pm too.
Hahahaha, I heard he used to be a big Goth head back in the day, now that MUST'VE been scary!
The Japanese girls didn't seem to care!
Jonny,
A few questions from concerned SoulStrutters:
1. Are we going to see the well-paid playa suit & tie Jonny behind the counter, or are we going to see the change my approach/ stopped shaving close Jonny? (Big dudes and poptarts alike wanna know!)
2. Is GOOD RECORDS NYC going to have an employee computer with high speed internet?
The benefits for this would be 1) you could still punk dudes from 9-5 like the "old Jonny", 2) plenty of "yo I just sold ?eust a Michael Jackson Off The Wall sealed for $300!", 3) and if you step it up just a notch, and invest in one of those video webcam thingies, we could get some live "instore" action. The possibilities are endless for this. I'm seeing thread titles:
LOTSPACE... LOOK!!!"(I keed. But congratulations on turning the working week into the working 24-7.)
Lord willing I will never shave except for like once a month. That shit hurts my face god
But you know I still rock the fly shit. Matter of fact, in that pic you grabbed I was sporting vintage Burberry button up and Lagerfeld jacket. When I dress, it's never nothing less than....
Promotional t-shirts; speaking of which, where's yourn?
Might I add that: we stock the Vanguard Squard record at the shop, so no more smart alecking!!!
(pay me)
Diggity don't play. I'll bring shirts by. (I need to holler at trades too. I went from hoarder to purger overnight last Saturday. Your Slightly Funky Off Condition Polka section just got LARGE!)
Thank you for the support, in all seriousness. It's good seeing people do what they want. Makes me want to hang myself less.
Where's the porn jpgs of the store all set-up? Or is it still getting fulleded?
-soon-to-be-frequent customer
Will be open tomorrow.
179 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B. F train to 2nd Ave station and you can't lose. Noon, or 1, if you believe RecordDealerTime, till whenever.
(please forgive our appearance. We are still under contstruction. But I had to turn away so many people Friday I decided to up the date and open as soon as we had bins for the records!)
Hope to see some of yall there.
Shouts out to DJ Coolhands, motherfucking Alien Iverson, Otis Funkmeyer, Resident Giant, THE DONGER, Lotusland Crew, Crazypoprock, and all that have dropped by recently.
Including David Mancuso
Stop on, stop on, stop on by...
FYI, I would have loved to come by and help last night like I offered, but I realized I had to help myself and put my second coat of paint in the kitchen, since it finally wasn't 100% humidity for once. I finally got my house chores done though, and I'll swing by after work!
offically ballin
you are trully living my dream.
and yes my dream is to open a record store.
Our bins are not even stained yet, we have no front counter, our wall isn't done (hence the "Wall Records" are in boxes that can be perused if requested), there are record boxes and suplies everywhere, the floor is dusty, and only about 1/2 of the stock was set out... but we exceded our sales goal by a very comfortable margin.
We like to sit around all day, play records, shoot the shit, and look at the gorgeous women walking around the Lower East Village... it's a fun time... I wonder why people would hate on that...
But it somehow isn't surprising that some other stores are throwing our flyers away after our promo team leaves and why a dealer told me, "you know, there are some folks that don't want me to deal with you..." They'd rather it be a "best kept secret"... with your business, it won't be for long. Yall are the whole reason we do this.
Get you a crate, some crack and some house slippers, a newspaper, lookout boy, and get your chips up.
that's real scumbag of them to throw out your flyers. That is unless you left them right at their stores or something, then sure they can toss it.
My street teams have hit tons of record stores, "lifestyle" stores, relevant events, bar/club nights, shows, etc. I gave them lists of everything going down...
btw here are pics from the gr store opening.
http://giantrobot.com/photogallery/32grnygrandopeneishi/index.html
cerebs cerebs (automator, adrian tomine, weeee)
Looking forward to seeing your spot looking grown and.........
Reading this gets me even more amped to check it out. Are there any opening day pics?
Peas
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AY YO!
Ref, can I get a call on this? That's a stretch, pat.
Haz, I'll take pics when the store's actually done. It's hella raw right now.
Illegal use of a NH, Ayyyoing team.
10 yards.
1. People buy all manner of records. There's no accounting for taste, or even any sort of consistency within the records bought by one person. For instance, a dude might cop Nancy Sinatra and Black Sabbath and seem equally juiced about both. This is fresh, buy what you feel, different strokes for different folks.
Addendum 1B: All manner of people buy records. Over the course of the day we encountered everyone from New York industry guys (big up Scrappy, long time no see), middle-aged dudes in short shorts, Japanse dudes with rap themed tshirts, gay dudes from the pacific northwest, and the always comical "weird old jazz dudes". I'm especially juiced about the weird old jazz dudes...particularly the guy with the splatterpainted glasses, he was boss.
Addendum 1C: Hipsters do not buy records. They tell their girlfriend or their slightly less cool friend Stavis to "like wait outside for a second while I check out the records" and then they literally make a lap around the store, pick up one record, put it back and jet.
2. Don't try and boost in Good records. The one dude who came in all day looking shady immediately drew the attention of the Dongman, myself, and Paychickens. We have boosted many records in our time and we will catch you and show you the Good Records Tazer.
3.There's some really good folks on here who came through and supported to the utmost. Special bigups to Sween and Otis Funkmeyer. You are very much appreciated.
4.I think I speak for myself, Paychunes, Dongman, and Sween when I extend a hearfelt "thanks" to the girl with no bra on and the short skirt, who came in, told us she "played all kinds of records" didn't look at ANYTHING, showed off her magnifcent self for a second and made an exit....you too are appreciated.
5. Also, the coked up girl who wanted to know if we had ever "REALLY seen Jurrasic Five, I mean REALLY", you're appreciated too.
6. Soulrez and Dante Ross were seperated at birth.
I'm gonna come through sometime this week or maybe next weekend.