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Music Shit / Re: Worst Record Store, Ever.

« on: June 08, 2009, 12:47:41 PM »

We like to give everything a chance in the store for less than the going eBay rate first before putting it on eBay.

Our idea being: Why would people continue to shop at a store when they can buy it online for the same price?

The only things that go straight to eBay are more traditional jazz/vocalist expensive records (like Billie Holiday originals), modern indie/metal that goes for wayyyy more than it would sell for in the store and sealed classic rock records.

Anything cool we try to put out so people can see we get good things all the time.

To address the person who said in the "best record store" thread that the employees buy all the good records: They definitely buy some good stuff, but nobody can afford everything they want and plenty of people here will tell you that good punk/psych/out-jazz/experimental goes out all the time. It just sells super fast. Usually in a day.

Also, a lot of the employees at both shops like genres of music that isn
t discussed much here. One guy only buys House and reggae. Someone else is only into 50's jazz. The three guys that post here are your only competition, so to speak.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: are any of you assholes on Twitter?

« on: April 23, 2009, 01:33:22 PM »

http://twitter.com/AcademyRecords

check us out for updates on new records, noteworthy shows, etc.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: ACADEMY MAILORDER

« on: March 05, 2009, 12:03:44 PM »

We are working on a new website with a better ordering system (including shopping cart and all that good stuff). For now here is a few of the items we have gotten recently as well as some restocks and some stuff we highly recommend you get before its gone forever. As always email academymailorder@gmail.com with your order and stay tuned for the new website.
Cheers

LPS

ABNER JAY-True Story Of Abner Jay LP $13 Loner blues comedy. Absolutely essential.

BLANK DOGS-Seconds 12" EP $12 New one on Captured Tracks.

COLD CAVE-The Trees Grew Emotions and Died LP $13 Second press.

DAVILA 666 LP $12 Garage psych from Puerto Rico on In The Red

DEAD C-Eusa Kills/Helen Said This LP $22

DUM DUM GIRLS 12" EP $12 4 tracks of blissed out buzzsaw. On Captured Tracks.

EL KINTO-Circa 1968 LP $22

ILLUMINATIONS-See Saw LP $13 Excellent psych folk featuring Zachary Cale

LINEAR MOVEMENT LP $21 On Minimal Wave

LIVE FAST DIE-Shit Amplified/By The Time These Flowers Die LP $12 Live side and country side.

MADHOUSE LP $11 On Fountain Of Youth Records

THE NIXE-Complete 1980-1981 LP $24 Essential all girl dutch punk. Last copies!

THE NO NECK BLUES BAND-Qvaris LP $18

NODZZZ LP $13 Quirk pop on What's Your Rupture

OFEGE-Try And Love $14 First LP on the ACADEMY LP's reissue label. Great 70s psych afro-rock from Nigeria.

ROYAL TRUX - Accelerator LP $13

ROYAL TRUX - Cats & Dogs LP $11

ROYAL TRUX - Hand of Glory LP $14

ROYAL TRUX - Pound For Pound LP $14

ROYAL TRUX-Twin Infinitives LP $20

ROYAL TRUX - Veterans of Disorder LP $13

RTFO BANDWAGON-Dums Will Survive LP $14 Debut LP from this Columbus, OH band on the always great Dull Knife label.

SIC ALPS-U.S. EZ LP $15

SPIDER 12" EP $13

SUDETEN CRECHE-Are Kisses Out Of Fashion? LP $18 On Minimal Wave

ZACHARY CALE-Walking Papers $13 Excellent second album. As good as modern loner folk gets. Highly recommended.

V/A FIGHT ON, YOUR TIME AIN'T LONG LP $13 Another essential Mississippi Records comp.

V/A I WOKE UP ONE MORNING IN MAY LP $13 Another essential Mississippi Records comp.

V/A JUBILEE TO GOSPEL LP $15 Gospel comp spanning 1921-1953


7"es

FRESH & ONLYS ep $8 on Chuffed

REAL ESTATE-Suburban Beverage $7

ROSES ARE RED ep $7 Reissue on Sing Sing Records

RUDI-Big Time $7 Reissue on Sing Sing Records

SCRIBBLER-My Old Lady $7 Canadian folk/noise group. Great stuff

THE ZIPS ep $7 Reissue on Sing Sing Records

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: ACADEMY MAILORDER (big early december update)

« on: December 06, 2008, 11:41:59 AM »

early december update

email us at academymailorder (at) gmail . com and tell us what you want and we will send you a total with shipping. We can no longer hold items unless they are paid for. If not paid for within a week then it will be taken out of hold. If you are waiting for other stuff to come in so you can add to your order then just pay for what's already available and we will consider shipping when the other stuff comes in. is the kewl? ok.

heres some new stuff and restocks

Lots of new releases and re-stocks, as well as some exclusive old-time reissue stock. To order, e-mail a list of what you want to academymailorder (at) gmail . com
NEW RELEASES & RE-STOCKS:

Blank Dogs - The Fields New on Woodsist Records LP $12

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus Dig!! Double LP $28

Children's Hospital - Alone Together New LP on Sacred Bones! Dark art punk for art punks. $14

Crazy Dreams Band Baltimore's new brew of venomous sludge. LP $15

Emaciator - Coveting New LP on Not Not Fun from this guy, AKA Pedestrian Deposit. Harsh noise & sound scapes, but a lot more mellow than his previous work. $14

Love Tan - Miscellaneous Night Feelings LP $14

Thee Mighty Caesars - Surely They Were The Sons of God LP $10 Re-stocked!!

Jay Reatard - The Matador Singles LP $15

The Rebel - Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable Excellent new recordings by this Country Teasers offshoot. Intelligent and willfully bizarre. Droll, even. LP $14

Royal Trux - Accelerator LP $13

Royal Trux - Cats & Dogs LP $11

Royal Trux - Hand of Glory LP $14

Royal Trux - Pound For Pound LP $14

Royal Trux - Veterans of Disorder LP $13

Sex Vid - Communal Living LP $13

Matt Valentine & Erika Elder - Gettin' Gone Electric acid-washed rock from ex-Tower Recordings helmseman. Band members include J Mascis, Samara Lubelski, and more! Great. Double LP $22



NEW RE-ISSUES:

Animals & Men - Never Bought, Never Sold Back in stock on Mississippi Records! Classic DIY. LP $13

The Better Beatles - Mercy Beat Famous for their "Penny Lane" 45. 10 Beatles cuts re-done as minimal synth/bedroom-wave. $12.

Karen Dalton - In My Own Time Back in stock! Comes with bonus 7" with alternate mixes of "Katy Cruel" and "Something On Your Mind." Essential femme county/rock-rock sessions. One of the most amazing voices of her time. LP $18.

The Dead C - DR 503/The Sun Stabbed EP Essential jangle-drone deconstruction from New Zealand. Their early records laid the blueprint for much of what we're buried under today. Pre-Siltbreeze LP and EP together on double LP! $22

The Dead C - Eusa Kills/Helen Said This Second double LP volume of early material re-issued! Eusa kills features a T-Rex cover, barely recognizable under the murk. The Helen Said This EP (two side-long tracks) is some of their finest long-form work to date. $22

Dead Kennedys - What Shall We Do Tonight? 1978 Demos LP $14

Daniel Johnson - Artistic Vice / 1990 Classic LPs reissued! Double LP $18

Daniel Johnson - Hi How Are You? Re-stocked! $16.

Daniel Johnston - Yip Jump Music! Re-ish of cassette material back in stock!! Re-ish of cassette material back in stock!! Double LP $16

The Nervse - One Way Ticket Classic power pop, features "Hanging On The Telephone" of course. $18

Bulent Ortacgil - Benimle Oynar Misin?" Legit reissue on Wah-Wah of super rare Turkish folk-rock/singer songwriter. Think Donovan or Dylan, if you must. LP $27

The Rats LP Mississippi Records re-issued this Fred n Toody pre-Dead Moon LP. Sick. $14

V/A - Bloodstains Across California OOP KBD rare LP $13

V/A - Bloodstains Across The Midwest LP $13



Blues & Old-Time Reissues!
Many of these are old label stock from the 7os. If you've been digging on recent Mississippi Records compilations like "Last Kind Words", "Life Is A Problem" or "I Don't Feel At Home" you might want to check a few of these out.

The Allen Brothers - The Chattanooga Boys Recordings made 1927-1934, featuring the Allen Brothers on guitar, banjo, kazoo and vocals. Ballads, blues and comedic songs. Fuckin' great. Original copies on the Old-Timey label. LP $12

Roosevelt Sykes - 1929-1936 Original presing on Document. Perhaps the finest blues pianist of all time, here recorded with a number of different collaborators. LP $12

Sonny Boy Williamson - Blues Classics Original copies. 1937-1944. LP $18

v/a - Blue Ladies Volume 2: 1937 - 1939 The complete recordings of Hattie Bolten, Lilie Mae Kirkman, Lorraine Walton, and Minnie Mathes. Original copies on Document. LP $10

v/a - Jubilee to Gospel "A selection of commercially recorded black religious music, 1921-1953." Original LPs $15

v/a - Oh, Run Into Me But Don't Hurt Me! Female Blues Singers 1923-1930. LP $16

v/a - Shim Sham Shimmy Rare electric blues selections from 1945-50. LP $16

7" MANIA! New and restocks

Amber Alerts-Ghost House Great follow up to their split with Wizzard Sleeve. Dirty south synth scuzz punk! $5

The Barbaras-Summertime Road Garage pop psych outta Memphis on Goner $5

Finally Punk-Coffee, Tea, And Misery FINALLY! PUNK! New and great one from these gals on M'Lady Records. One of the best bands around sez I. $6

Grave Blankets-Our Love Is Real New on HoZac Records. Great mean spite fueled garage. $6

Life Partners-Aids Of Spades[/b] Art scum punk ala Electric Eels and some of San Francisco's late 70s weirdos. On Ride The Snake Records. 300 copies. $5.50

Medication-Don't Die Excellent loner downer vibrations on HoZac. One of this year's best. $6

MV & EE-The Best It Ever Was Great psych folk on The Great Pop Supplement $6

Subtle Turnhips-F* The People F* The Power French spazz punk on HoZac $6

V/A The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol 3 The madness continues with this repress featuring Suspicions, Wax Museums, Romance Novels, and Nobunny. Great multiple covers as always. $5.50

for updates and full list go to http://academymailorder.blogspot.com/

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Academy Mailorder Update (post OhSees madness)

« on: November 30, 2008, 03:16:26 PM »

For everyone who purchased an Ohsees 12", here's the promised update if you wanted to add to your order.

LP's
Die Bunker "1983-1984" LP classic French Synth/Coldwave Ltd. Re on Greek label $25.00
Nodzzz LP $13.00
Blank Dogs "The Fields" Mini-LP $13.00
Children's Hospital LP on Sacred Bones $14.00
The Rebel LP on Sacred Bones $14.00
Wavves LP on Woodsist $13.00
The Rats LP reissue on Mississippi $14.00

I'll put more up tomorrow.

If you ordered an OhSees 12", just tack on an extra dollar per record ordered.

academymailorder@gmail.com

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Vivian Girls SURF'S UP package avail now!!

« on: November 26, 2008, 09:33:45 AM »

The 7" will only be available in the package.  There are 1000 copies on black, not to be repressed.  There are 2000 postcards, 1000 buttons and 1000 shirts.

We won't have them in the UK, sorry!

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: OH SEES Awesome Vistas 12" HOT POTATO HOT POTATO.

« on: November 25, 2008, 02:11:42 PM »

There's no need for email confirmations/asking if you got it in time.

I programmed the auction so that whoever gets a buy it now gets one.

The amount is limited.

Simple.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: OH SEES Awesome Vistas 12" HOT POTATO HOT POTATO.

« on: November 25, 2008, 01:42:57 PM »

Whoever just asked for money orders, No, sorry.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / OH SEES Awesome Vistas 12" HOT POTATO HOT POTATO.

« on: November 25, 2008, 01:27:35 PM »

Total fairness.

I have the entire quantity on eBay.

Whoever Pays first "wins."

NO HOLDS, NO EMAILS.

Because of the holidays: THESE WILL NOT SHIP UNTIL MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK.

We will have a huge new listing of cool new records and reissues posted later today (Including Wavves, new Blank Dogs, Nodzzz, etc.) You can ADD THESE TO YOUR OH SEES ORDER LATER BUT YOU NEED TO PAY FOR OH SEES NOW. You just add $1.00 per item for more stuff for shipping later and write in your email that you bought an Oh Sees.

HERE YOU GO:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110317765035

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: GET A DEAL ON THESE BEFORE I RETURN THEM!

« on: November 14, 2008, 12:06:00 AM »

Some of these I over ordered on and some just didn't move for some reason. I'm offering them at a discount before I return them to the distributor. If you want any of these email me at store@1234gorecords.com with your address and I'll get back to you with a qoute including shipping

Vivian Girls "S/T" LP $8.49 (in the red reissue)
Sic Alps "US EZ" LP $12.99
Wax Museums "S/T" LP $11.99
Sunn O))) "Domkirke" 2xLP $18.99

So if LP's don't sell in 3-4 months, they're dead?

Sad. Those are good records.

What's wrong with having good music in stock?

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: OHSEES 12" on AWESOME VISTAS

« on: November 14, 2008, 12:03:31 AM »

Ok.

We were supposed to get the "maximum amount" allowed per store. Last time I checked at the distributor site it was "sold out." But I haven't seen it for sale. I was emailing the distro BEFORE it was listed as available. Whether or not we (and other people who contacted well in advance) are the reason it's sold out remains to be seen.

I haven't gotten an invoice, so I'm fearing we're not getting any.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: WAVVES "BEACH DEMON, WEED DEMON" + SNAKE FLOWER 2 on LP!!!!!

« on: November 10, 2008, 01:49:33 PM »

No wholesale on this?

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: OHSEES 12" on AWESOME VISTAS

« on: November 05, 2008, 09:20:50 PM »

I think they're pressed but not assembled? The band had there's assembled first?

Awesome Vistas doesn't do represses.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: OHSEES 12" on AWESOME VISTAS

« on: November 05, 2008, 07:49:33 PM »

We're also wondering.

Probably a hold-up at the plant, it's not yet listed from the distributor.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Crystal Stilts LP

« on: October 28, 2008, 10:58:11 AM »

How do you guys price all the Siltbreeze stuff?  isn't that stuff all like $10 wholesale?  Or $9.15 or something weird?  I mean among tons of other examples too of course.  Just seems like many more peeps is going that route charging a lot wholesale. 

We usually have to put $15 on Siltbreeze stuff.

I actually don't see it as gouging, records should be more expensive. Way more expensive to make these days. We still have 90's prices in our heads.