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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays

« on: July 23, 2014, 10:12:56 PM »

I would be interested to know what sort of music he listened to and where he situated himself as an artist.   

Bruce Hornsby obvs

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Music Shit / Re: WARNING (weird electro disco punk from 1982)

« on: June 10, 2014, 10:20:32 PM »

also cool for fans of cookie monster

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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: June 10, 2014, 12:06:31 PM »

If you open it, it is no longer sealed

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Music Shit / Re: Value of an OG Reactors I want sex single

« on: June 10, 2014, 12:05:50 PM »

I could use a play copy, I noticed my file copy has been looking lonely of late

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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: June 01, 2014, 10:32:22 PM »

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 24, 2014, 10:02:18 AM »

Wait how is soul jazz in the spirit of american apparel/urban outfitters? I feel like this idea that since it's not done "by us" it's somehow made by a faceless corporation representing something evil and wrong (often attributed to AA/Urban Outfitters, regardless of a complete disconnect), and inevitably the word "hipster" gets tossed in there.  If anything the fact that Soul Jazz is doing this instead of a label like Simply Vinyl or 4men means that the source material might have been properly tracked down and that artists might actually be getting royalty checks.

again though, not saying I give anymore than zero-fucks about these, I just think the backlash is an example of punk-snobbery at its finest.  Somehow as a community we're okay with artists getting bootlegged and unpaid for their output, but if a "real" label releases a similar record it's viewed as scum.

what does the LGBT community have to do with Soul Jazz?

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 10:05:22 AM »

Isn't this shit on spotify? These valuable cultural artifacts are just more post consumer waste. The market for this physical product bullshit has contracted for years, I don't understand how you guys are even arguing for more blah gateway physical product. Make something important, not some redundant  luxury waste for clueless armchair connoisseurship. It devalues our collective existence. I think your imagined potential for opening doors is way overblown. I mean, maybe this would be a cool cd to be given away free with a subscription or whatever. This is KTEL

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 22, 2014, 07:59:28 AM »

I remember actually having to work to find the rawest craziest shit, I actually feel my life is better now for it, and I enjoyed the fact that my peers were all total scary losers with nothing else to live for. What I learned is that the shit served up on a platter was never really it for me, it meant a lot less than the secret shit I went out of my way to get my hands on. You guys seem to think this music will be forgotten now if you don't spoonfeed it via coffee table books. I believe that the right people will still be able to figure it out and get there in the end, and they will be better for it without beige mixtapes. The answer isn't build a better coffee table book.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 21, 2014, 10:50:42 PM »

Many funk dudes I know spent the last 15 years distancing themselves and mocking their punk upbringings, and have only recently started backpeddling. I mean, maybe it's sincere worthwhile work, maybe it's diversifying your brand and staking a claim to obvious cult shit that is inexplicably still hanging out there in license limbo.

You guys act like people still go to CD Warehouse and discover music at the mall. The only 20-somethings buying these RECORDS probably don't even have a record player. I find these objects embarrassing. Most of the material represented can be purchased with a modicum of effort for under $20, why settle for some flimsy glossy shrink wrapped Target shit with a great essay you will read once?

Shall I keep going? I do not believe that pressing up 2000 copies of some random bread and butter compendium that already basically exists is a useful expenditure of earths resources in 2014.

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Music Shit / Re: What are your thoughts on Soul Jazz's Punk 45 comps?

« on: May 20, 2014, 10:35:59 PM »

comps used to be about unleashing the raerest of the raerz then the well ran dry. now it's basically just best of recirculating mix tapes based on obvious easily licensed low hanging fruit. i kinda doubt this release is "getting the music into the hands" of anyone who wouldn't just find it on youtube or whatever, and let's be honest, the graphics aren't much of an improvement over chuck warners. i have a bit of a sour taste seeing funky soul bros capitalizing on the punk rehash bandwagon now that hard rock 45s are cooler than whatever, then again i can't think of a "punk" label i'd rather be trying to cash in. kinda depressing to think the search is officially over and we are now squarely in an era of simply repackaging the same "life-changing" units.

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Music Shit / Re: Crazy recent eBays

« on: May 13, 2014, 11:29:31 PM »

Maybe the most that particular record has sold for, but plenty of 'american powerpop' has sold for more.

actually that isn't quite true for powerpop. can't think of many examples up in that range.

while we are splitting hairs, i too would call BOMBS pop punk.

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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: May 01, 2014, 11:00:19 PM »

Two of these were not cheap, one of them was:

kool findz psyche guy

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Music Shit / Re: How much do you bother collecting "regional" records...

« on: April 25, 2014, 09:19:32 PM »

I pick up nearly any local record pre-1985 if I havent seen it.

ahem. this is what every human who buys records has been doing for 10 years.

you might want to rethink your 1985 cutoff too puss. mine is currently 2004

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Music Shit / Re: Sister Ray

« on: April 14, 2014, 11:21:48 PM »

my only forced exposure to 'em was via old punkers sale lists in the 90s, always $20+ range raers, and there were always way more priorities to spend money on. at some point i started encountering the 45s in real life dollar bins, and started accumulating them, although i'm pretty sure i have never knowingly listened to Sister Ray to this day. have the ROOM 101 single(s? i forgot), maybe got halfway through both sides one time.

the real question is, will there ever be a point in the future when they are rated more highly than they were in the past? i imagine this thread might be the only worldwide Sister Ray discussion for the year 2014. i am super into 80s miasma these days, not sure why anyone would want to revisit the edgy college rock sound when there is plenty of actual never known bedroom weirdo shit out there ripe for discovery.

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: March 13, 2014, 08:09:15 AM »

Meh. Seemed like the focus was posturing as authentic boho, disguised as a in-depth look at being trapped in the minimum wage labor force. Only she actually had inert upward mobility, and was the outsider in an earlier round of gentrification. 15 years deep undercover workin for that Pulitzer...