Attn: fans of "VINYLZ R BACK!!!111" Bullshit Bingo
DocMcCoy
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DocMcCoy
"Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
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I don't dispute the sound quality, but I can afford decent buds and you can get rips that don't sound like they're being played down a Bakelite phone.
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Thanks for sharing the article. The sentiments it expressed only solidified why I remain a die-hard vinyl fan, the sound quality, tangibility of the record, and record covers/liner notes. I've been hooked on wax since 1974, so why change now? All my cats who abandoned vinyl (collectors in particular), including my late brother, have later regretted it.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
As someone who took a 3 year hiatus and just getting back into it, I was floored at how much the "scene" has changed and how many more "people" I have been rubbing elbows with at the record store. It used to be diggers and a few indie rock heads.... now it's a lot more common folk.
I'm also perplexed by the price of "new vinyl". Lots of remastered 180 gram re-issues for $30!? These used to be half the price in the mid to late 2000's.
It's nice to see you on the virtual premises. Funny you mention record stores, they used to be such a regular social hangout in addition to supplier of my product. In the 80s and 90s, the trip to the record store was a weekly event. I'd get put up on the new stuff out, and pick through the bins and/or stuff my dealer put back for me. Man, I miss the backroom status! I'd meet rap cats there, as my dude would play my instros over the sound system. It was nothing to step out the backdoor with the dealer for a minute, during lunch, and spark some lah too. Those were the days. I can't imagine the new crowd being down with such stuff, as record heads 'back then' seemed more counter-cultural than today's lot. We're weirdos (yeah, I admit it)!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Hey Stacks!
You still in NJ? The store I hit up on the regular is Double Decker in Allentown and his turnover is unreal. Go there on a Saturday and it is FILLED with people. It is kind of scary and exciting at the same time.
Oh yeah, I'm still in the Dirty Jerz, my man! I'll have to make a trip across the river some time, thanks for the tip. Is it the usual 'record dude' type of crowd I described? I remember it was pretty much hippies and weirdos, with a few b-boys mixed in, back in the 80s/90s. I kind of relished the countercultural element of the record store back then, among the regulars anyway.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Just got a tape deck at goodwill and a 10 pack of blank cassettes, its on!
Record stores/sections are weird now I agree. Lots of new people at all the spots all the time. Not the people you would expect either. I remember how loner-ish it used to be.
Raj - I live in Easton and haven't hit Double Decker yet, but there are two stores in town here, Used Grooves and Easton Exchange. Both are doing really well according to the owners I've been chatting with, worth dropping by if you're in this area.
I also dropped out of buying for 7-8 years while my kids were babies and have just been getting back into it in the last year. Honestly stores haven't changed all that much since I was hitting them hard in the 90's, the biggest difference I'm noticing is that things are pretty much the same price everywhere. Even if a shop specializes in indie rock or dance or something, they all price according to Discogs now so you are way less likely to find deals. The flip side is that stuff that I used to consider dollar bin fodder is being bought up like crazy by young kids. Classic rock stuff flies out the door as fast as they can get it in so if you have somewhere to get clean records cheap you can do well flipping them to shops. Or at least way better than you could 10 years ago.
Flicking through the racks of LP's his attention was caught by an album titled: "Wasps of the world and the sounds they make."
Intrigued, he asked the young sales assistant if he could listen to the album.
"Certainly sir", said the assistant, "just step into the booth , and put on the headphones and I will put the LP on for you."
So the World expert on Wasps and the sounds they make, stepped into the booth put on the headphones and listened to the LP.
Five minutes later he came out of the booth and announced "I am the World expert on Wasps and the sounds they make, but I don't recognise any of those."
"I'm very sorry sir", said the young sales assistant, "If you would care to step back into the booth again I'll play you another track".
So the world expert on Wasps and the sounds they make, re-entered the booth and put the headphones on. but five minutes later came out of the booth shaking his head "I don't understand it, I am the World expert on Wasps and the sounds they make, and yet I still can't recognise any of those."
"I really am sorry" said the young sales assistant, "Perhaps if you'd care to step back into the booth I could play you one more track."
Eager to salvage his reputation, the World expert on Wasps and the sounds they make went back into the booth only to emerge five minutes later in a state of considerable agitation . "I am the World expert on Wasps and the sounds they make, and yet I have recognised none of the Wasps on this LP."
"I really am terribly sorry" said the young assistant, blushing, "I've just realised I was playing you...
the BEE SIDE."
How can we, collectively, co-opt the zeitgeist to help benefit the long-term survival of Soul Strut?
About a year ago said dude caught on that vinyl is BACK and moved into a larger flashier location, traded in his hoody for a turtleneck and black framed glasses, burnt the sofa, and stopped trying to bed widows for records. He now has much much new vinyls, and lots of young customers who dig the new vinyls. He is happy I think, there's a buzz to the place now that there wasn't at the old place. But damn, it sucks. His New Arrivals now consists of 50% re-issues and any OG's are priced popsiked or worse, cuz he's just going through the old stock and is too busy keeping the new vinyls going to bother diggin. Guess I'll have to start making reg trip to MTL and TO again, hipsters killed my haunt.
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The angle that the author of this piece has missed, besides £6000 for GSTQ on A&M being a comparative steal, is; how come a record that's enjoyed cast-iron "holy grail" status amongst collectors for as long as it's existed can now be obtained for less than half of what it went for just over ten years ago, and five grand less than when it was last up for sale in public? I guess this is what happens when Discogs appears to be your sole research tool.
EDIT: OK, I've since had a bit of backstory on that Pistols single. It seems it belonged to a former A&M employee who was one of the people that received a copy as a gift when the company got shuttered in '99. According to my (pretty dependable) source, this person lost their job a couple of years ago and has struggled to find work since. So it's likely that some big-time collectro has snagged an almost certainly unplayed copy of one of the great White Whales of UK record collecting for a snip, and the poor sod who had to sell it will lose 20% of their six grand to the auctioneer as commission. Yes, they sold it via an auction house. Bummer.