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New-ish, not really current but hugely enjoyable.
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Sex moaning in songs - yay or nay?
When I first started out with my vampyros lesbos sexploitation parties in 1995 I had girl friends come over to record sex breathing and moaning sessions while listening to various instrumental organ grinders to stay in rhythm and used two pairs of headphones so we would only get the "vocals" on tape. This was back when CD recorders were a very expensive thing almost nobody had so I had the cassettes handed to a friends of a friend who owned such a thing and I didn't personally know. I had a bunch of different tapes, each with the name of the girl on it and a track list on the insert. When the CDs were ready I met the CD guy in a bar... he seemed visibly repelled and I'm sure he washed his hands a few times after the transaction was over. Back then there were usually no CD players in the dj booth so I brought a designated CD walkman, piped it through the 3rd channel and brought the volume up according to the floor heat level. Good times...
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Sleeve Strut.
I bought quite some of these in 2005 and stored records in them until I re-sleeved them maybe 6-7 years later. I felt some deep rooted fear after having come across a few otherwise clean records in Ghana that had been stored in bad pvc sleeves that had "gassed out" and turned the surface dull with constant noise. I think my fear was unfounded though as I forgot to re-sleeve two or three copies I came across in recent years and they were just fine. I chalked it up as typical, unfounded record anxiety.I've been buying from this company for over 20 years by now and they've had these ever since, probably for way longer, I'm quite sure there won't be any problems at all. Somebody would have brought this to their attention and their customer service was always top notch in my limited experience.PVC is short for Poly-Vinyl-Chloride, the same material records are made from. The sleeves that cause the dulling probably had softeners added that can gas out with time.In any way, they do have a great look and feel to them and make the records slide in and out of the shelf with total ease and luxurious smoothness.
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Sleeve Strut.
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Best way/place to sell TehRaer™ in 2020?
4YearGraduate said:Whats up guys, long time no talk. 2020 mfg and all have left me a little high and dry going into the holidays, wondering if anyone has a recommendation on best way to liquidate some raer nowadays? Ebay, Discogs, other? SS list?
I put a few things up on Discogs to test the waters and so far first two orders that came in were from EU and already can see this becoming a nightmare.
Anyone on here interested in picking up some bombs at homie rate?The sales forums here and over at Waxi might be worthwhile but I think Waxi doesn't like sellers who don't participate in the general discurs.
I've always been a fan of store consignment. Superfly in Paris are good, easy and friendly to deal with. Berlin stores are crap right now and everybody is broke as far as I hear. A friend and I used to sell Rear through Disk Union but Japan has gone bad with the economic slump and a sad exchange rate.
https://www.instagram.com/recordcitybk/ works out great for me.
Discogs is a sweltering garbage burn for for over-graded, skated backpacker gear and a bottomless dollar store dump for the medium common or lower wall pieces from yesteryear. Discogs' sales history is all distorted by tons of F/P garbage sold at garbage prices but graded as VG. But maybe that's just with African.
Social media might be a killing field for flipping clean grails but since sm is all geared towards connecting people who don't know each other in the real world I wouldn't have the needed trust in humanity to go that way.
Generally I would never ship valuable records to people I don't personally know without having the cash first. With all these online sales platforms having conditioned everybody to use Paypal or Credit cards (don't even have accounts for this shit) the good old money order has become a 90s thing most young djs/collectors have never even used before.
Personally I'd always chose stores. I do feel like there might be great potential for fresh brick and mortar shops in the post Covid world, perhaps in some emerging nations that might get a kick start soon.
A lot of shit is going to be changing in 2021. Perhaps hold your breath a little while longer and some more rewarding paths for letting go of teh TrülyRär™ might reveal themselves. You can only sell a record once.
