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Non-Music Shit / Records that get warped in the mail

« on: July 13, 2011, 01:33:31 PM »

I sell a lot on ebay these days and I just had my first case of a record that I mailed out becoming warped in transit in the summer heat. Thankfully, it was something cheap and the buyer was nice about it (I refunded them), but now I'm worried.

Is this a common problem? Is there anything I can do to prevent it?

Thanks.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: S.S. Records Pre-Release Hype: Ozzie - A Frames - Dan Melchior - more

« on: April 23, 2010, 10:18:26 AM »

I'll take it all, but I'm mostly looking forward to the Dan Melchior.

It's been, like, four or five whole months since he last put out a record. I thought he'd given up music or something.

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Music Shit / Re: Olivia Tremor Control

« on: April 16, 2010, 04:09:30 AM »

Vinyl reissues are in the works. The label doesn't give any ETA more specific than just "2010", though.

http://www.cloudrecordings.com/order.html

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Music Shit / Re: guided by voices

« on: January 03, 2010, 08:54:23 PM »

I saw a reissue of Alien Lanes the other day, are they doing Bee Thousand too?

About a year and a half ago, Scat Records announced via their mailing list that a straightforward Bee Thousand vinyl reissue was forthcoming. No word on that since, but Scat does work pretty slowly these days.

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Music Shit / Re: The "Why isn't this reissued on vinyl thread?" Part 2

« on: January 02, 2010, 07:17:29 AM »

A lot of Rhino's 180 gram reissues are perplexing (the first Chicago album, the first Bad Company album, Doors, Joni Mitchell--all easy used finds).

Either they're retarded or these things must selling to SOMEBODY.

I figure there must be an exploitable number of record buyers, here in these "vinyl revival" times, who just don't WANT used records. Or these new records have a kind of "gold CD"-style audiophile appeal.

Also, that "180 gram" thing is a powerful selling point. I don't get it or care, but I've read a few goofballs on the 'net (usually people with lousy taste) say that they're ONLY interested in buying heavyweight vinyl.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Shannon and the Clams "I Wanna Go Home" LP pre-order

« on: November 19, 2009, 12:46:30 PM »

bump.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE "O, Clouds Unfold!" Gatefold 2XLP Out now

« on: November 16, 2009, 01:19:45 PM »

Dan Melchior is also selling it on his own site.

http://danmelchior.net/Records.html

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE "O, Clouds Unfold!" Gatefold 2XLP Out now

« on: November 16, 2009, 01:17:18 PM »

Florida's Dying still lists it on their catalog page.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: DAN MELCHIOR'S BROKE REVUE "O, Clouds Unfold!" Gatefold 2XLP Out now

« on: November 11, 2009, 09:12:47 PM »

I don't really care about all the politics.

I just know that a musician I admire (Dan Melchior) made a record. I'd like to hear it.

And the musician wants me to hear it.

The record label guy (who doesn't interest me at all), for some reason, DOESN'T want me to hear it.

The only response I can come up with: FUCK the record label guy. All I want from him is to put out a record. He ain't doin' it. So I have no use for him and don't care about him anymore.

As a total armchair outsider who knows NOTHING about the details of this story, Hook or Crook's release DOES look legally fishy. But I don't care about that, either. That's someone else's headache. (I bought the Hook or Crook LP and am happy with that decision.)

Another thing that makes the record label guy useless to me is that I don't know why I'm supposed to care about Dan Melchior being an asshole. I know remarkably little about Dan Melchior. I love his music, but I've never spoken to him or dealt with him on any personal level other than buying a few records directly from him online. I've read all of TWO interviews. That's as close as I've gotten to the man. Maybe he IS a colossal prick (and maybe he isn't). If so, he's a colossal prick whose music I enjoy and whose records I want to hear. I'm not asking Dan Melchior to be my friend. I just like his music. Luckily, lots of other labels don't seem to have problems working with him.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: New Tape from The Kidnappers

« on: October 04, 2009, 12:05:13 PM »

Vinyl collectors vs. cassette collectors, in 2009.

Geeks vs. nerds.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Expedit Shelf

« on: July 07, 2009, 11:59:05 AM »

No anchor here for about three years now. It's fine. I dusted the top last weekend and the shelf is still so sturdy I feel like I could climb on top of it and clean the ceiling.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Michael Jackson: (almost) DEAD

« on: June 25, 2009, 11:08:51 PM »

Belongs in the "Crazy Recent Ebays" file:

Thriller LP auction, which just happened to end shortly after the death announcement: http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Thriller-LP-Vinyl-Original-EX-1982-EPIC_W0QQitemZ270411333797QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item3ef5c580a5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A16

A lot of Michael Jackson stuff, no matter how common, is getting bid up to crazy amounts on Ebay right now. Here's another Thriller LP auction set to end Friday afternoon: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=260435899340

I wonder how many of these three and four-figure bidders will actually pay up. If they do pay, I'd say the economy is a doing a lot better than we think if some of our dumbest livestock can afford these sums for (not so) "collectible" records.

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Music Shit / Re: Record Rooms

« on: February 16, 2009, 10:35:35 AM »

Mine:

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Reatard / Re: #5

« on: August 30, 2008, 10:34:27 PM »

I used to find this Jay Reatard Matador singles schtick to be irritating, but I've come around to finding it funny.  I think it was the single #4 clusterfuck that turned me around.

Now I have no idea what Jay was thinking when he decided to do this, but this singles series strikes me as a witty parody of the independent punk label business model. 

"Only 500 copies of the new Jizz Burritos 7"!  First 100 on semen-white vinyl!"  That sorta thing. 

And all that stuff is cool with me, and I understand why labels do it.  Nuttin' wrong with some salesmanship to get people exposed to a good record (and also, to not end up sitting on boxes of unsold copies of the thing.)  But it's also something that's ripe for parody.  EVERYTHING could stand to be goofed on a bit.  Me, you, everything.

Record collectors are kinda goofy.  I relate to them (and I am one, to an extent--I like singles and vinyl, but have no "original pressing" fetish or sense of urgency when it comes to getting in on that limited color vinyl segment of the pressing), but they're goofy.  And I'm sure Mr. Reatard deals with these types a lot.  He might be SICK OF THEM.  To start up a singles series where these people have to struggle and grovel and go out of their way to get these records, with the odds looking worse with each new release, strikes me as hilarious revenge.  This is real contempt-for-the-audience stuff (and, as someone who hates people, I get kick out of that sort of thing.  Also, I'm a cool customer and I don't need my ass kissed.  As long as I enjoy the music, I'm dandy.) 

I mean, all of these songs are gonna be available on an LP in October to just about anyone in the world with $15 or so to spend and a decent record store near them (or the ability to go on the internet).  So ONLY fetishist collectors are the ones irritated by this singles series.

OR maybe it just struck him as an interesting way to get publicity.  I don't know...

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Music Shit / Re: new fucked up

« on: August 25, 2008, 01:33:53 PM »

This album sounds like Bob Seger joining Supertramp to cover Husker Du songs if Bob Mould were ten years older, German, and played piano instead of guitar.  Except for the title track which sounds like Mercyful Fate covering an old Melanie song for an 80s teen movie soundtrack produced by Giorgio Moroder.

Okay, I haven't heard this album.