And this happens at places like the Groove Merchant, Amoeba etc when motherfuckers look at a row of records in the bin and leave 'em leaning forward. I have this slight OCD where I have to push them back. It makes the place look sloppy and I feel like the records are dishing
agreed. i hate that shit too.
dude, when's the last time you posted weekend finds or talked about records?
Some thrift stores around here price records with no rhyme or reason and it makes absolutely no sense and it really irks me. I don't know where they come up with these numbers, but some will be 81 cents, some $1.41, others $2.92.. and then there will be a couple at $5.19 or some shit. Totally random. They must be trying to predict what people will buy, but if that's the case then they need serious help.
I always do get a kick out of the Elvis or Sinatra records on display up front for $50.
Not record related at all, but this one store has all these ratty old deer heads hanging on the walls and they're priced at $300 and up. Either one side of the antlers will be missing, or the eye has fallen out, or the bottom jaw is hanging off by a thread. Really gross. I hope someone buys em some day so I don't have to stare at them while waiting in line anymore.
I was in Savannah last weekend for the whole st.patrick thing. I found some stuff in this old antigue shop. Here's my peeve, clerks that take 30 minutes to ring up 10 records. All 2 dollars, one missing a price tag. If all 9 are 2 bucks, what do you think the one without a price tag is going to cost? Wastening my damn time!
Then I go to a goodwill, all the good stuff is missing the records. Just the jackets. I found a few things. Here's my peeve. An old bag says "Well you know these are all a dollar". WOW, I thought they were 100 bucks a pop. let me put these back!!!
last time i went to goodwill, they're records were $2 each. i felt like it was such a rip-off.
It's all about Geographics. Some places it's 1.99 Smaller cities and towns .99 cent.
.50 cent at the salvation army old antique shops...high as hell.
20 dollars for a few rock records at some flea markets while all the CTI/Kudu stuff is around 4-8 bucks.
I was in Savannah last weekend for the whole st.patrick thing. I found some stuff in this old antigue shop. Here's my peeve, clerks that take 30 minutes to ring up 10 records. All 2 dollars, one missing a price tag. If all 9 are 2 bucks, what do you think the one without a price tag is going to cost? Wastening my damn time!
Then I go to a goodwill, all the good stuff is missing the records. Just the jackets. I found a few things. Here's my peeve. An old bag says "Well you know these are all a dollar". WOW, I thought they were 100 bucks a pop. let me put these back!!!
last time i went to goodwill, they're records were $2 each. i felt like it was such a rip-off.
It's all about Geographics. Some places it's 1.99 Smaller cities and towns .99 cent.
.50 cent at the salvation army old antique shops...high as hell.
20 dollars for a few rock records at some flea markets while all the CTI/Kudu stuff is around 4-8 bucks.
that's true. sometimes it depends on who's ringing you up at the register. at one thrift store, i bought 45s for $1 from a young girl who read on the pricing guide that records are $1. the next time i went there, an older woman charged me 50 cents for them, realizing that some records hold more songs than others.
other side: theres a table of heat or steals at a show. everyones mobbin it. i finish a row and i'm supposed to wait for motherfuckers to poke their way through a row of 4 crates. nope. get in where you fit in.every moment is vital. every second counts.
It's hard to look at any records after taking an elbow shot to the ribs.
For me, I will generally look inside to see if the record matches with the cover, out of habit. Yet there are times when I'll catch something in the last part of the bin and spotting something I didn't expect to find, I will put it in the pile. Get home, start sorting things out, and I find out it's the wrong record.
Seeing the $50 Beatles and Elvis records in a special display case is funny, especially when the entire thing is held up with masking tape holding together the seam splits, and it has an RIAA certification award logo in the front. Then it has a sticker which says "original pressing". I laugh at that because I don't know anyone who would be serious enough to buy it, and because Goodwill thinks if one record goes for that much on eBay, they may get the same thing.
Or the casual conversation thing. I don't mind that in any other situation, but for some reason I always get someone asking "wow, buying records, huh?" and automatically my mind thinks of Al Jaffee and "Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions".
My pet peeve is aggro record dudes who act like they're gonna do shit at a record show when you flip in the next crate in front of them. They ain't gonna do shit. They talk that shit to some old guy with ass crack halitosis problem but they are not gonna slap the hand of someone who would kick their ass with the quickness. They never talk that shit to someone like Fusion or Gene Brown, never talk that shit to Ray Miller or John Jabara.
Wannabe macho record diggers all like "yo respect the rules." That's my new pet peeve! HA HA HA HA! I've seen some of these young dudes run away one hand on the portable one hand trying to keep their pants up when they play someone for a joke and the other person is not having it. The crate smackdown: don't pull it out if you ain't for real about it! HA HA HA!
At the last ARC there was this dude flipping through one of five crates on the sellers table. I flipped through the other 4, pulling some decent stuff, and he was still only 1/3rd of the way through his first crate.
Dude would pull out an LP look at it closely......... put it back in the crate........flip a few more records....then go back to the LP he had just pulled and do the same thing all over again. I just stood slightly behind him and patiently waited for him to be done.
Didn't say anything .....didn't try to jump in his crate....just quietly stood there waiting.
After about 5 minutes(and believe me, that's a long time to stand there and wait).. the dude turns to me and says "It's very rude to stand there and look over my shoulder".
Incredibly annoying: writing the price on the inner sleeve, or even worse, inside the cover. Leaving piles of records around the shop that have been sold already, so you never know if you can actually buy the records.
After about 5 minutes(and believe me, that's a long time to stand there and wait).. the dude turns to me and says "It's very rude to stand there and look over my shoulder".
My response would have been "I have a pillow which I can place on it, do you mind if I take a nap?"
Nah, my actual response would be "wow bra, no wonder you still live with your mom. BTW - I think she's done at Walgreen's."
My pet peeve is aggro record dudes who act like they're gonna do shit at a record show when you flip in the next crate in front of them. They ain't gonna do shit. They talk that shit to some old guy with ass crack halitosis problem but they are not gonna slap the hand of someone who would kick their ass with the quickness.
I'm not an aggro dude at all, but I'll tell somebody if they are being an asshole. Old man, younger much bigger man, record store owner those are the three folks I can remember getting into it verbally with at shows. I wasn't looking for a fight, c'mon I'm grown. As we all know, many fellow record folks lack the some of the social graces that seem like common knowledge to most. Keeping people abreast of society's norms is everyones job.
i hate how whenever i start to dig, i immediately have to either take a shit or pee within 10 minutes. never fails. and i hate it.
most definitely. my bladder only feels comfortable enough to pee the second i walk through my door or the second i flip through the first record.
going on what someone else mentioned, this place I go to has some records like a Lionel Richie piece priced at 99 cents and then later on I see the same shit for 5 dollars, then the same EXACT thing again for 10, and no condition difference. I'm guessing different employees price, and none of them know shit. This same place also prices simply based on the condition of the cover, and if they dont recognize a record, like an Indian sitar record they just throw a 20 dollar price tag on that bitch.....
Incredibly annoying: writing the price on the inner sleeve, or even worse, inside the cover. Leaving piles of records around the shop that have been sold already, so you never know if you can actually buy the records.
All of this in the same record shop in Germany.
I don't like it when they put the price sticker on the cover bc then you risk ruining it if you try to peel the sticker off. I guess it's a necessary evil.
Incredibly annoying: writing the price on the inner sleeve, or even worse, inside the cover. Leaving piles of records around the shop that have been sold already, so you never know if you can actually buy the records.
All of this in the same record shop in Germany.
I don't like it when they put the price sticker on the cover bc then you risk ruining it if you try to peel the sticker off. I guess it's a necessary evil.
Dusty Groove is even worse - their cheap bin records have this big obnoxious oversized sticker that covers the label on either side. And heaven help you if you try to tear it off; you might rip some of the label off with it too. What the hell are they thinking with that move? We know these records are cheap because the condition ain't pristine; why do they have to go and make it MORE trashy?
Incredibly annoying: writing the price on the inner sleeve, or even worse, inside the cover. Leaving piles of records around the shop that have been sold already, so you never know if you can actually buy the records.
All of this in the same record shop in Germany.
I don't like it when they put the price sticker on the cover bc then you risk ruining it if you try to peel the sticker off. I guess it's a necessary evil.
Dusty Groove is even worse - their cheap bin records have this big obnoxious oversized sticker that covers the label on either side. And heaven help you if you try to tear it off; you might rip some of the label off with it too. What the hell are they thinking with that move? We know these records are cheap because the condition ain't pristine; why do they have to go and make it MORE trashy?
sometimes heating a sticker with a hairdryer will loosen up the adhesive, but you have to make sure that you take out the record from the sleeve so you don't risk any heat-induced vinyl warping.
Incredibly annoying: writing the price on the inner sleeve, or even worse, inside the cover. Leaving piles of records around the shop that have been sold already, so you never know if you can actually buy the records.
All of this in the same record shop in Germany.
I don't like it when they put the price sticker on the cover bc then you risk ruining it if you try to peel the sticker off. I guess it's a necessary evil.
Dusty Groove is even worse - their cheap bin records have this big obnoxious oversized sticker that covers the label on either side. And heaven help you if you try to tear it off; you might rip some of the label off with it too. What the hell are they thinking with that move? We know these records are cheap because the condition ain't pristine; why do they have to go and make it MORE trashy?
I think it's so they will know to never ever buy that record from anyone again. But I agree, it's extremely weak stream.
Incredibly annoying: writing the price on the inner sleeve, or even worse, inside the cover. Leaving piles of records around the shop that have been sold already, so you never know if you can actually buy the records.
All of this in the same record shop in Germany.
I don't like it when they put the price sticker on the cover bc then you risk ruining it if you try to peel the sticker off. I guess it's a necessary evil.
Dusty Groove is even worse - their cheap bin records have this big obnoxious oversized sticker that covers the label on either side. And heaven help you if you try to tear it off; you might rip some of the label off with it too. What the hell are they thinking with that move? We know these records are cheap because the condition ain't pristine; why do they have to go and make it MORE trashy?
sometimes heating a sticker with a hairdryer will loosen up the adhesive, but you have to make sure that you take out the record from the sleeve so you don't risk any heat-induced vinyl warping.
Thanks, but I don't mean the cover. I mean they slap that sticker on the record labels themselves. Both albums and singles.
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dude, when's the last time you posted weekend finds or talked about records?
^^^^
I SEE YOU FAKE-FINDIN' WITH YOUR FAKIN' ASS.
I always do get a kick out of the Elvis or Sinatra records on display up front for $50.
Not record related at all, but this one store has all these ratty old deer heads hanging on the walls and they're priced at $300 and up. Either one side of the antlers will be missing, or the eye has fallen out, or the bottom jaw is hanging off by a thread. Really gross. I hope someone buys em some day so I don't have to stare at them while waiting in line anymore.
It's all about Geographics. Some places it's 1.99
Smaller cities and towns .99 cent.
.50 cent at the salvation army
old antique shops...high as hell.
20 dollars for a few rock records at some flea markets
while all the CTI/Kudu stuff is around 4-8 bucks.
that's true. sometimes it depends on who's ringing you up at the register. at one thrift store, i bought 45s for $1 from a young girl who read on the pricing guide that records are $1. the next time i went there, an older woman charged me 50 cents for them, realizing that some records hold more songs than others.
It's hard to look at any records after taking an elbow shot to the ribs.
Seeing the $50 Beatles and Elvis records in a special display case is funny, especially when the entire thing is held up with masking tape holding together the seam splits, and it has an RIAA certification award logo in the front. Then it has a sticker which says "original pressing". I laugh at that because I don't know anyone who would be serious enough to buy it, and because Goodwill thinks if one record goes for that much on eBay, they may get the same thing.
Or the casual conversation thing. I don't mind that in any other situation, but for some reason I always get someone asking "wow, buying records, huh?" and automatically my mind thinks of Al Jaffee and "Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions".
Oooooh good one. I hate that too!
Wannabe macho record diggers all like "yo respect the rules." That's my new pet peeve! HA HA HA HA! I've seen some of these young dudes run away one hand on the portable one hand trying to keep their pants up when they play someone for a joke and the other person is not having it. The crate smackdown: don't pull it out if you ain't for real about it! HA HA HA!
Dude would pull out an LP look at it closely......... put it back in the crate........flip a few more records....then go back to the LP he had just pulled and do the same thing all over again. I just stood slightly behind him and patiently waited for him to be done.
Didn't say anything .....didn't try to jump in his crate....just quietly stood there waiting.
After about 5 minutes(and believe me, that's a long time to stand there and wait).. the dude turns to me and says "It's very rude to stand there and look over my shoulder".
All of this in the same record shop in Germany.
My response would have been "I have a pillow which I can place on it, do you mind if I take a nap?"
Nah, my actual response would be "wow bra, no wonder you still live with your mom. BTW - I think she's done at Walgreen's."
I'm not an aggro dude at all, but I'll tell somebody if they are being an asshole.
Old man, younger much bigger man, record store owner those are the three folks
I can remember getting into it verbally with at shows. I wasn't looking for a fight, c'mon I'm grown.
As we all know, many fellow record folks lack the some of the social graces that seem like
common knowledge to most.
Keeping people abreast of society's norms is everyones job.
Ya got me!
This doesn't bother me, unless the seam on the spine is split. Or the label is so generic that they don't print anything on it.
I have the same problem. Flomax doesn't help. Viagra neither. I'll try anything.
& yet i have seen this confrontation more than once
from much smaller dudes
(english mike related)
most definitely. my bladder only feels comfortable enough to pee the second i walk through my door or the second i flip through the first record.
going on what someone else mentioned, this place I go to has some records like a Lionel Richie piece priced at 99 cents and then later on I see the same shit for 5 dollars, then the same EXACT thing again for 10, and no condition difference. I'm guessing different employees price, and none of them know shit. This same place also prices simply based on the condition of the cover, and if they dont recognize a record, like an Indian sitar record they just throw a 20 dollar price tag on that bitch.....
FUCT
I don't like it when they put the price sticker on the cover bc then you risk ruining it if you try to peel the sticker off. I guess it's a necessary evil.
Dusty Groove is even worse - their cheap bin records have this big obnoxious oversized sticker that covers the label on either side. And heaven help you if you try to tear it off; you might rip some of the label off with it too. What the hell are they thinking with that move? We know these records are cheap because the condition ain't pristine; why do they have to go and make it MORE trashy?
sometimes heating a sticker with a hairdryer will loosen up the adhesive, but you have to make sure that you take out the record from the sleeve so you don't risk any heat-induced vinyl warping.
I think it's so they will know to never ever buy that record from anyone again. But I agree, it's extremely weak stream.
Thanks, but I don't mean the cover. I mean they slap that sticker on the record labels themselves. Both albums and singles.
people you overhear talking about soulstrut at record shows
That's regular. If ur not ballin or have a connect to hit the boxes before the crowd, how can u really avoid this?
People who have/floss records that I don't have, that I want. Total Bullshit.