rare, really??
ariel_calmer
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Anybody else tired of sellers hyping rarity when they don't know what they're talking about? My local store owner keeps saying how rare latin music is. dude I've never seen *a* person of latino descent in your store. You don't have a latin music section, unless you count some wack 50s exploito bullfight LPs mixed in with belly dancing in the world section. Up until a few years ago you threw out harlem river drive. There's a large latino community around me and Cotique and fania were big sellers but they might as well be underground private pressings! NEXT: white sellers telling me JBs are the rarest shit they've ever seen.
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Was Fania nationally distributed or was it an east coast thing?
haha....Young_Mackenstein:
Man I don't know if you've become a self-pardoy of yourself (like Reynaldo) or you're being serious.
You know I just like funnin' with the young kid. all fanny fun and games.
also another thing that throws people off. people see a canadian disco record floating around in st. louis (for exmpl) and think it is rare. in fact the record is entirely common and just didn't get midwestern distribution.
to me, 2,000 or less is rare.
K in Canada.
honesty makes the devil blush
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Definitely. S.O.U.L. or lyn collins actually sold pretty well, but they were so popular that most copies you find are beaters... not to mention it's just that good that 30 years later everybody wants it.
In that sense I specialize in some pretty worthless music.
It's good to be into music that nobody liked either then nor now, without having or taste.