wearing down old crusties, how to?
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I just won an LP from a local guy on the bay and went to pick it up tonight. Turns out he's a guy in his late 50s with a house full of records. He tells me he's mainly into japanese psych these days and has too many records to know what to do with, thus the ebay auctions. I mention I mainly am into soul 45s and he tells me he's got a basement full of them just sitting around waiting to be ebayed BUT... he wants to ebay his 20 million LPs first. Then he grabs a small, random stack of 45s on his mantle and like, the very first one is a local $200 soul funk rarity Judging by the way he reads the label its totally obvious that he's never even looked at it before, much less played it, much less enjoyed playing it. I offer him cash on the spot, I even tell him what it worth mint. but OF COURSE, if you've dealt with these guys you know that its just not in their blood to do that sort of thing. He's committed to putting it on ebay "someday". yeah, right. Same goes for all the other piles of records laying around his house. Basically I NEED to get into that basement or those 45s will never again see the light of day. Anyone got any tips on how to disarm a guy like this?
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But really maybe tell the guy how ebay isn't the place to sell those rare 45's. Get outraged and tell him "American music should stay in America, too many of those great obscure records end up overseas in the hands of god knows who"!!!
I said that once & it kinda of worked for me.
Duh, just go down to your local japanese psych store....
How deep?
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Damnit! I missed my 666th post
real talk.
Grippeurs never win and winners never gripp.
When I was in 8th grade, 2 of my friends broke into the garage of another friend of ours so that they could steal his older brother's best baseball cards. So not only did they break in the first time to grab the box from the rafters, they also broke in again that same night to return the box after they had purged it of all of its heat.
I was like damn, y'all did that? That's crazy.
Then shortly thereafter...
Shoot, how come y'all didn't get me in on it?
crusty dudes like this get off on record fiends gripping hard - it makes them feel special & thats more important than the $$$ or music.
I might have to get this tattooed above my dark side tramp stamp.
This guy waxes his torso except the line of stomach pubes, yet manages to make that line crooked?
thats some strange ish.
You're only half right. I grip. But I don't grip for gripping's sake.