Classic record store quotes
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Eastern European dude with heavy accent holding copy of Crusaders Ghetto Blaster. "I've never seen this in my life. I predict one day this will be worth lots of money"When dude came in he asked the clerk if the store would loan him some LP's so he could take them home and put them on cassette tape for his car. When the clerk suggested the library dude got aggrivated. 
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An older, slightly handicaped older man is mumbling something that doesnt make sense to the store owner
Customer: yeah, if you want that one, i think i can get it. I'll bring it in, yeah if you want it, i think i can get it, oh thats a classic....
Record Store owner: (rubs his brow, averts eye contact, looks down at the ground, makes a slight groaning noise, doesn't look at customer as he leaves, hands me my bag without even looking at me either.)
"once these records leave the store, I don't see them again..."
-e
"...and apparently that's why we found the suicide note inside the Raphael Ravenscroft LP."
Ugh I hate that store. Yah yah yah I know all about "the basement." I didn't have time or access to it and I was way too late to get any heat anyway. All I know now is that it is a depressing experience.
Skippy White had a store in New Orleans for a short while, prices were dirt cheap. In and out of business in 2 years.
from what i hear, at this point , even the basement has been raided, hence his remark... basically he got BURNED big time by collectors (your typical overseas vultures is my guess, you know who you are!) and now he feels like it's his duty/form of revenge/misguided attempt-at-looking-out-for-himself to charge you 10 bucks for Laura Lee 45's on Hot Wax... whatever, he can get buried with those 45's for all i care...
it's just a funny thing to say b/c it's so obvious it borders on stupid...once it leaves, you'll never see it? Gee, Skip do you want visiting rights?
Right next to Herb Albert & Brazil 66.
I've posted this before, but all I can think of now:
Woman with box of records to sell, "There are some John Denver's in there, and I know he is dead".
"oh, I knew it was there"
Now, I love Don Ho's music, don't get me wrong. But being asked for Hawaiian music and offering Don Ho as a suggestion is like being asked for some quality vocal jazz and you offer Norah Jones.
Anyway, I heard the Don Ho reference, stopped what I was doing and walked out.
And so on for 15 minutes.
If you are not aware, there are junk dealers who take beat up Elvis and Beatles 45s & lps and spray paint them gold frame them up and sell them as gold records.
Dan
And of course, I've never seen a Weiss single go for 2 (or close). Typical River. You always get the feeling he considers his customers to be enemies (and also pawns). Even more unbelievable, he told me something similar about "Big Leg Woman". I was going to pick up a copy for a friend in Spain, he told me he could get some outrageous amount for it. You can't help but to laugh at that guy.
"They still sell vinyl?"
Heard it a million times.
Mind you, not once when I worked in London. It's a totally different world over there. Even tons of women who weren't DJ's or collectors in anyway buying new records just to listen to. It was nice...
This was an exchange between me and you, Dennis.
I remember it vividly. KC, 1998 or so.
the people cleaned out houses. loads of junk there -- i ask about records -- old man points me to a ton of them. i start digging. i see a ton more boxes of 45s, lps, and 78s. i find a sun ra one from the 80s -- didn't look so hot, but it was sun ra nonetheless. some early kinks records, a seeds lp, etc.
anyhow, after an hour or so of digging old man tells me they are two bucks each. he noticed i pulled some out of "the back" in which he had to ask about from the owner -- some scraggly fat dude comes out in a black sabbath t-shirt and tells me "records aren't for sale."
i tell him that i was told they were for sale.
he then said "just look this stuff up on napster"
moron. good luck getting rid of the records. there were thousands of bad dollar classic rock -- mostly beat up. that made me steamed. i told him he lost out on some cash and that i was the only customer there the whole time and to have good luck in getting rid of them."
dude just looked at me all pissy.
that was such a waste of time.
Me: yes, will clean them.
RSO: what do you use for cleaning records?
Me: home made brew. Distilled water, isoprop., etc.
RSO: Nahhhhhhhhhh
Me: uh
RSO (puts secret agent face checking for hidden mics): I'll tell you my secret. I only use.....shampoo (puts expert face). It leaves records shining like they were new.
So now you know waht to do with your next garage sale raer. Thank me later.
FUCK.
This one I enjoy when you can clearly see that the pile of "off limits" records are all Poco, Crosby Still and Nash and Loggins and Messina rekkids.
"Hey, no problem."