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Music Shit / Re: SERIOUS RECORD COLLECTOR: STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES
« on: January 10, 2009, 11:34:36 PM »What did Omar look like? this sounds a lot like someone I met a few months ago, then watched a friend buy many of the aforementioned records off of for next to nothing a few months back.
and these stories have all had a happy ending (so to speak). So, where are the horror stories...
Circa 1999-2000, this complete douchebag local named Omar (played in a dreadful band called One Blood with an LP on Gern Blandsten) started selling off his vinyl to a small store I worked at. Omar had been a serious early adopter with international hardcore and mailorder stuff from the early '80's on, and his collection of early North American and Euro stuff was unreal-- Wretched, Anti-Cimex, Shitlickers, Larm, Disgust, Poison Idea, Urban Waste, Terveet Kadet, Rattus, Mecht Mensch, Sound of Disaster, Raw Power, Chain Reaction, Heresy, Crapscrapers, Negative Approach, Malinheads, Actives, DTAL, E.A.T.E.R, Disarm, CCM, Rutto, Stalin, Crisis, Avengers, BGK, Avskum, Neuroot, Bannlyst, Asta Kask, Riistetyt, Mob 47, Subhumans, DOA, Kaaos, SS Decontrol, Infest, Mob, Antidote, Bombanfall, Discard, Septic Death, Inferno, Varukers, Electric Deads, Bastards, Kansan Uutiset, Negazione, Impact, Amebix, Funeral Oration, Varaus, Disorder, No Pigs, Anti-System, Blitz, Crude SS, Reagan Youth, Nog Watt, Napalm Death, Neos are just some I remember (which we'll get to later)....plus boxes of "normal" records a la Discharge, Stooges, Black Flag, Clash, Ramones, Damned etc. All around easily one of the best hardcore record collections ever, and the kind of set that would make some people cry. After a couple of months of bringing in a record here and a record there to consign, all of which obviously sold pretty much immediately, Omar walked in one day and told my coworker, who was working alone, that he really needed cash bad and we could have the entire bulk of his collection for $1000 cash if we could pay him the same day. Coworker wasn't sure about paying out that much cash in one go without permission and couldn't get hold of the owner, who pretty much died when she heard about this that night. He didn't come back.
The store closed shortly after, and Omar contacted me directly about selling his records on eBay. He's living on his mom's couch, playing in a crap shoegaze band, and wants to save the money so he can move to the UK. I said yes, agreed on a 20% cut, and got to work on listing and selling this stuff, although Omar insisted on doing the packaging/mailing himself, which suited me fine. The stuff is selling well, the prices are really good and he even stupidly quits his job because of it. Then things start taking too long to arrive, or arrive broken, and I have to threaten to cut off Omar's vinyl lifeline if he doesn't shape up, which he isn't happy about. Then the records stops showing up, then he leaves for the UK early without telling anyone, then I get to refund a bunch of people large sums of money I never received for records they never received. Haven't heard from him since.
