The Vinyl Thread

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Exo

Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman - One of my customers told me that they found this sitting in a used bookstore in my town. Right under my nose! It's a promo too which makes me like it more.

Nice! Did they know that they had treasure in their store?

Terry Riley - In C - You don't see many Terry Riley records in the wild.

The 1968 one?

[Exo]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Nice! Did they know that they had treasure in their store?



The 1968 one?

Yup. First press stereo. The bookstore had the Sharrock priced fair, bout $50, but had it tucked away behind other sh*t. They didn't care what it was.

[Key]

Apparently I was in my great grandmothers will and it said that I would receive all her vinyl records upon her passing. I've compiled a list of the vinyl I already had in my collection, and then added the newly received addition to my collection. I've also attached photos of some things that aren't listed.

The bolded are the ones that I received from my grandma. Non bolded are the ones I already had in my collection, obv. No specific order. [Artist - Album Name, Album Name, etc]

Elliott Smith - Roman Candle, Figure 8, XO, Either/OR, From A Basement on The Hill, New Moon
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Dark Side of The Moon
Judy Garland - Collectors Items 1936 to 1945, Judy Garland, A Star Is Born
Bachman-Turner - Overdrive II
Tool - Aenima, Lateralus
pg.lost - Key
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Yes - Close To The Edge, Fragile, 90125
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Star Wars - Original Trilogy Soundtrack
Music From Star Wars Performed by Electric Moog Orchestra
The Story of Star Wars
The Beatles - Meet The Beatles, Abbey Road
Star Wars - The Last Jedi Soundtrack
Post Malone - Stoney
Heidecker & Wood - Starting From Nowhere, Some Things Never Stay The Same
Saga - Saga, Silent Night
Art Garfunkel - Scissors Cut, Watermark
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme
Osmond's - The Plan
Donny Osmond - My Best To You, Superstar
Jon Anderson - Animation, Song of Seven
Blackfoot - Stryker
Otis Redding In Person At The Whiskey A Go-Go
Don McLean - American Pie
Rainbow - On Stage (live)
Triumph - Rock and Roll Machine
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Asia - Alpha
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Trilogy, Works
Moon River
Foghat - Energized
Uriah Heep - Return To Fantasy
Crosby & Nash - Whistling Down The Wire
America's Greatest Hits
John Denver - Aerie
Eagles - Desperado
Europe - Wings of Tomorrow

Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer
Barbra Streisand - Superstar, My Name Is..., Butterfly
Bernstein Tchaikovsky - Great Overtures and Tone Poems
Capriccio Italien 1812 Overture
The Carpenters - Songbook
Ferrante and Teicher Bernstein's Greatest Hits Volume 2 - New York Philharmonic
The Vienna Choir Boys - Waltzes and Polkas
The Versatile Henry Mancini and His Orchestra
Andy Williams - Moon River and other great movie themes, Sound of Music Deluxe 2
Goldilocks and other stories
Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison - My Fair Lady
Glen Campbell - Bloodline
Tony Orlando and Dawn Greatest Hits
Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass - The Brass Are Coming

[Key]

Also I just realized I forgot to add these to the list. It was another stack I put aside. Also from my grandmother.

Zubin Mehta conducts suites from Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Sesame Street Fever
Andy Williams - The Way We Were
Willie Nelson - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Music from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music Percy Faith and his orchestra
Leonard Bernstein Rhapsody In Blue An American in Paris
Paravottis Greatwst hits
Paul Anka - The Painter
Camelot Broadway musical soundtrack
Bambi soundtrack
2001 A Space Odyssey music from the motion picture soundtrack
Trans electronic music productions Incorporated presents switched-on Bach virtuoso electronic performances
Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me
Terry Baxter and his orchestra the best of 1970
The best of 1965 Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra

[Raime]

I went to a few record stores overseas, but I've still been buying records online from discogs and Redeye Records this past month. A good deal of these are new, but there are a few in here that I found used.

Elements of Joy PI08 - A side project of french producer Hadone, straight from the label
Ayarcana Laminator - Straight from the label, and they threw in a eurorack spacer too.
Silent Servant Shadows of Death And Desire - The clear vinyl version I found new in a shop in Harajuku, ended up paying a couple dollars more than I should of for this.
Neil Landstrumm Understanding Disinformation - Found used in a record store in Shibuya, pretty decent price.
Waki Kyoto EP - New, same place in Shibuya.
Sumisonic Flail EP - Ditto
Arkajo Nadir - Ditto (2)
LSD Third Process - Ditto (3) This was in a pretty dark blue transparent pressing
Oto Hiax s/t - Used, decent price for a decent album. Made by one of the members of Seafeel and Loops Haunt.
Tolouse Low Trax Asimiad - RP Impulse blind buy to justify shipping cost
Takaaki Itoh Killing All Anarchists RM
AEIT Sent To Punish - New direct from distributor
SHXCXCHCXSH VOOO EP - Ditto

I buy mainly dance music these days, but here's a photo from one of the shops I went to. It's also a bar too.

[Exo]

Here's a few things I've added in the last week through a few online sales and a few discoveries at the shop I bought for myself...

Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker - Hooker 'N Heat - I enjoy pretty much anything John Lee Hooker. This one is a nice clean first pressing.
Ludus - Riding The Rag - First pressing from Italy. Fantastic band.
Verne Langdon - Doctor Druid's Haunted Seance - I collect Halloween themed records and this is a unique one.
Codona - Codona - ECM is legit and my man Don Cherry plays on this
Henry Cow - Concerts - First pressing from Norway. I love this band.
Barry Altschul - Another Time / Another Place - Promo copy which doesn't seem to pop up often.
Wildflowers 2 - (The New York Loft Jazz Sessions) - Comp of free jazz artists.
Steve Lacy - Raps - He doesn't really rap.
Elvin Jones - Live - Tribute to Coltrane.

[Frownland]

Everybody wish Exo a happy Record Store Day! I can't wait for the stories.

[Exo]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Everybody wish Exo a happy Record Store Day! I can't wait for the stories.

We aren't participating in Record Store Day this year. To keep it short and sweet, f*ck Record Store Day. RSD is a company that exists now to make money and they're the only ones guaranteed to make money so I'm not feeding the machine. It used to be different. Used to be about actual record stores. Now it's about whatever neon colored reissue of an INXS album is being released in "low" quantities. I'm 100% second hand. I don't have a distributor. I buy from collectors and family members, give a fair price for what I sell things for 20%-50% depending on what it is, and price the record fairly but realistically.

We pulled 50k since we opened July 7th.

I don't need that stupid commercial bullsh*t.

That being said, we were very busy today due to it being our last day open until next week. We are closing for five days for vacation. Had a bunch of calls looking for Tyler the Creator records and whatnot. Politely told them we are not participating in it this year. Thing that sucks is I have to do this two more times this year since they broke it up over three days.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Exo

We aren't participating in Record Store Day this year. To keep it short and sweet, f*ck Record Store Day. RSD is a company that exists now to make money and they're the only ones guaranteed to make money so I'm not feeding the machine. It used to be different. Used to be about actual record stores. Now it's about whatever neon colored reissue of an INXS album is being released in "low" quantities. I'm 100% second hand. I don't have a distributor. I buy from collectors and family members, give a fair price for what I sell things for 20%-50% depending on what it is, and price the record fairly but realistically.

We pulled 50k since we opened July 7th.

I don't need that stupid commercial bullsh*t.

Nice, my favourite local spot has taken the same route, the owner wears homemade "Fuck RSD" shirt for anyone who asks. Sounds like it attracts the worst customers too.

That being said, we were very busy today due to it being our last day open until next week. We are closing for five days for vacation. Had a bunch of calls looking for Tyler the Creator records and whatnot. Politely told them we are not participating in it this year. Thing that sucks is I have to do this two more times this year since they broke it up over three days.

I'm hoping other places follow suit tbh.

[Exo]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Nice, my favourite local spot has taken the same route, the owner wears homemade "Fuck RSD" shirt for anyone who asks. Sounds like it attracts the worst customers too.

My partner has like no opinion whatsoever on anything so he doesn't really care if we do it or not. Sometimes he feels like we should do it every year but I'm always against it. His point is that it gives us promotion for the store and he's right about that to a degree but this year was just too confusing so he didn't care.

I'm just happy that I bought some records today and there was a copy of Arvo Part/Tabula Rasa which I've been looking for forever.