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Terminal Boardumb => Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists => Topic started by: Angry_and_Horny on January 14, 2007, 06:41:46 PM
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I am not the one selling these....
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZreddevil6913QQhtZ-1
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That is Red Devil Records in San Rafael, formerly of Petaluma. Barry openned the store up in the 1990s and had first shot at former Frisco punks who moved to Marin & Sonoma County, got straight jobs, had kids, and sold off their record collections. Never found a punk record there that I wanted to pay his prices for though I fished many a great jazz record out of his bins for nothing and a copy of the Equals US LP for $3.
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Sweet, I can't belive my Busy Signals 7" is already worth $15!
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The next record we release is going to be a $75 US bond and an iTunes coupon.
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Funny, I had no idea Barry was putting anything on ebay.
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That is Red Devil Records in San Rafael, formerly of Petaluma. Barry openned the store up in the 1990s and had first shot at former Frisco punks who moved to Marin & Sonoma County, got straight jobs, had kids, and sold off their record collections. Never found a punk record there that I wanted to pay his prices for though I fished many a great jazz record out of his bins for nothing and a copy of the Equals US LP for $3.
Back when I had a job that paid me well, I used to blow a ton of money at his store. When I was confined to my apartment (with a broken leg), he even hand delivered a few orders. Now that's customer service!
Got lots of good shit from him.. Pack, the Dogs (FR), both Murder Punk CDs.. If I can't find it at Amoeba, I know Barry probably has it.
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Man, Red Devil is selling some awesome jazz records right now. Too bad a few of them are topping 100 bones already.
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I remember Barry telling me (when I used to sell him records from my day job at a distro) how the North Bay was perfect for a used store, that there must be hundreds of great collections sitting around up there too busy to drive all the way to SF to sell them when the time came. He meant punk first, but every other genre too. The three big record collector areas in the USA are New York/Jersey, LA and SF. Duh.
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that doesn't make me feel too good about records if NJ is one of the top 3 places in the US.
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Well, it would be safer to say NYC metro area, including CT and so forth. As an NJ resident, I know there are lots of good records here -- they just rarely end up in the relatively few used vinyl stores left in the state. And then the biggest problem with NYC record shopping is it's so competitive. There are some stores I hit every week, and there can be months of nothing before one good record is found. Often I hear about a collection that came in a couple days earlier, and all the best stuff sold the first day.
Can someone explain why NYC record stores have so much less 45s that other cities? I know some store owners consider them a liability -- hard to display, easy to steal, etc, but that's not a location specific thing (well, maybe we have more thieves.) It's nice that Academy Annex in Brooklyn has more space devoted to 45s every time I go there.
that doesn't make me feel too good about records if NJ is one of the top 3 places in the US.
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All the stores I went to in NYC were LP-dominated except for the Annex. In the UK most stores keep all their 45s behind the counter in boxes. The Bay Area is still pretty 45-friendly as far as display space goes, some waaaay more than others.
It's funny, Saturn Records in Oakland getting all that press for selling the VU acetate, but if you go into the store it's obvious all the cream goes straight to ebay. The stuff in the racks are all boilerplate 'collectables' like Zappa and Blue Note jazz where the value has been etched in stone for ages. I haven't found an old nugget there in years.