You Ever Wake Up
behemoth
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really earlyget some coffee and breakfastgo digging all morningcome home depressed as shit smelling like rat turds and Barbara Streisandwishing you had slept in?
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Yeah, almost every time I take a day off of work. I tell myself I am going to stay home and relax and I end up running around looking for records all day.
What digger don't do this? I know one thing, I'm getting sick and tired of going thru piles of Time Life compilation records, whilst in a cold ass basement/dungeon, hoping that a Norway rat won't come and see me.
5 pm
"theyre all in that room"
as i stumble over lamp shades and forks that no one in their right mind would eat with to get to the crate of YES LPs i think to myself
"damn its cold...but boy am i lucky....a Lionel Richie 45 with my name on it...."
and yes this happened today
it happens every day
I stay at my brothers spot in West LA so I'm closer to Rhino. Their last parking lot sale is making a buzz amongst rackord geeks. I get there prior to open and see a line around the building...
...After an hour of digging I leave with nothing
I hit up a racord store I pass by in the middle of nowhere freeway exit LA. I walk and they literally have 4 LP's between 12 bins. I ask where the vinyl is and they say it'll be here in a few weeks (WTF?!?!)
I run down to 2 other spots while heading home and walk out with the same amount of records I walked in with
2 Barrio thrift shops no vinyl either.
I ended up at a headshop buying a new bong and enjoying old records on a saturday afternoon
FUCKARECORD. Art-diggin' is where is at.
classic
Either that or it's e-diggin'
I always leave the house not expecting to find anything, but I can't sustain it once I get to a pile of records. As soon as I see the vinyl, I'm thinking, 'oh man, there's gonna be something good in here.' Then when there's not as is the case most of the time I leave thinking, 'gotta stop expecting to find something.' I guess I'm not strong willed enough to actually be in the presence of a pile of vinyl without getting all uppity.
DJ Ferrari
This is why I still hunt for records...because when I was 19, and my grandma gave me an old record player, I decided to go buy some. I had 5 things on my want list- none too rare, but only one super common- and walked in to a store and found them all. "Promise of a Future," by Hugh Masakela and "Country Preacher," by Cannonball Adderley are the only ones I remember, but I'll never forget that feeling...Driving fast back home to drop the needle, and the sounds I heard when I did.
Been trying to repeat it for the last 8 years. 5 for 5...I thought it was that easy.
yep, my weird VHS tape and pulp mag collections are slowley growing, sucks to go home empty handed.
Yep, Abba LP's everytime!
Never!!
(I Hate Coffee)
the rest describes my last week digging excursion. "15,000 records in a storge space you say?"
All crap. Not even an Alice Coltraine.
Sometimes... mostly with little stuff though. The biggest would probably be the time I grabbed 3 Nite-Liters LPs from the same spot for like $5-$10 each. I had found the S/T there the week before and when I went back I was like, 'there's gonna be more this time, I just know it'. And there was... 3 more! Totally stoked.
DJ Ferrari
usually the problem i have is not having enough money to buy all the records i pulled out
miami record spots are aight like that
I've decided I'm going to dig less now and just stock up on club bangers. Seriously, when I look at my collection it lacks anything modern. The new wish list feature at turntablelab.com is stocking up. Gonna cash out this Friday after pay day. I've been feeling this recently -
Shit, nothing worse. I remember finding a Love - Forever Changes LP at a thrift and being super stoked... so stoked that I didn't even look at the vinyl. I got home, took it out and seriously it looked like someone put the vinyl through a woodchipper and then tried to put it back together. Never seen anything in worse condition.
Then of course there's the case of not checking only to come home and find out it's a different record. Boo on that one too.
DJ Ferrari
This is the story of my digging life nowadays.
It really sucks looking tons of records and finding nothing barely decent.
Peace