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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 27, 2016, 07:58:39 AM »

^ That's lame as hell, too, and to me it's a very similar issue and why I don't like the instant collectible game.

If Jason has a store and loves RSD, that makes one voice I've heard thus far - that's all I was asking for. Because other people chimed in saying the opposite, and the stores I've spoken with over the last couple weeks dislike it across-the-board. It seems as though some stores like it, and some do not. Which is weird for something called "Record Store Day," don't you think? The fact that a large % of Record Stores hate it?

I will say that just because there are other useless records clogging the plants doesn't mean that it's ok for this "holiday" to do the same - that's reductive reasoning. Clearly I'm taking a position and running with it for laughs, but I do believe overall it's more scourge than godsend.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 27, 2016, 07:19:09 AM »

I just ignore his posts, lists are the most boring things in the world. No offense, Krapo, I'm sure language comes into play here, but give me ideas and thoughts please.

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 27, 2016, 07:16:40 AM »

^ Stores don't like it; It's called RECORD STORE Day. There's a big strike 1. Most labels don't like it, either. The only exceptions are the "records as instant collectibles" crowd, which includes assholes who come as couples and grab 2 of everything they can in order to sell both on eBay; the fucking rubes who miss out and pay those exorbitant fees for modern records that are pressed right off a CD and have zero sonic benefit over said CDs or computer clips; and the record companies who conduct business in this fashion. Two of these are my sworn enemies, and the other I mostly just feel really sorry for because they have an addiction problem.

I like records because I like music.

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Music Shit / Re: School me on early Country and Jazz Fusion

« on: April 27, 2016, 07:11:03 AM »

Not to be a purist, but very little of that is "early" country.

That's why I unsuccessfully tried to get him to specify. I would assume he basically meant "not that modern garbage." I think that list was what he was looking for, considering context and knowing Dan a bit.

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 26, 2016, 12:02:55 PM »

Haha, yep, funnier to leave it in there though...

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 26, 2016, 10:10:50 AM »

Every record store folk I've spoken with since this thread (I wanted to know if any had opposing views on it that I'm not privvy to so's I can be all educated) HATES RSD. A couple owners, a couple managers and every clerk (obviously).

Also - the only Dead fan I have any respect for is Russ, because he has a sense of humor about it and had excellent overall taste. Leech is to the right of Mussolini, is a frothing Dead fan, and loves Record Store Day and all the lame trinkets. Connect the dots, la la la la LA.

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Music Shit / Re: School me on early Country and Jazz Fusion

« on: April 26, 2016, 10:03:38 AM »

^ Lots of good suggestions/starting points

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Cities / Re: The Great British Curry Crisis

« on: April 26, 2016, 09:59:36 AM »

I wish we had great curry spots around town, tho.

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Cities / Re: The Great British Curry Crisis

« on: April 26, 2016, 09:59:07 AM »

Do other countries have a love affair with another nations cuisine the way Brits do with curry?

No.  Its a lucky unintended consequence of colonialism that curry became part of Britain's national cuisine.

There's lots and lots of people from the Indian subcontinent here in Toronto where I live and while there's some OK curry places, its just seen as one among many ethnic food options.

I disagree - Mexican food is definitely part of US cuisine, especially in certain regions (all of which are larger than the UK). You can't separate it from Texas (Tex Mex), you can't pull tamales off the Mississippian menu, remove green chiles from New Mexico, etc.

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 22, 2016, 12:48:13 PM »

Right, or they use the download code and leave the record out to impress other idiots who never play the records they buy.

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 22, 2016, 12:30:21 PM »

If you ran an indie record store you would want to sell...

A. Lots of records
B. Just enough to squeak by
C. Some records, but you know, not too many to people who don't, like, get what records are all about, I mean, I've been collecting records since blah-blah-blah...and it wasn't like this back in blah-blah-blah...

My point about closing is this: shoppers can NOT shop if they so choose, and store owners CAN (we did) make above average profits ONE DAY A FUCKING YEAR and either stock the RSD shit or not. If you think it's bullshit - fine, I don't give a fuck, but my boss will be slightly less ulcerous this month thanks to whomever suppressed their nerd rage and spent money on RSD in our store. The store down the street from us notified his customers he couldn't afford the RSD shit so he had a sale and some live bands. What an asshole, huh? I hope his store burns down.

 "An attrocity" (sic)?!?!?!?!?!

Nice job not following the thread:

However, a good % of owners seem to hate it, too.

Unlike regular ordered items from distributors, I am fairly certain there no returns on RSD items. Which I would imagine is the main reason that distributors love it and stores hate it.

Still, 3 months on is the best time to look up the releases you missed out on, got my Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle Mono reissue for 1/2 what it was in stores and 1/4 of what people put it up at first...

TOTALLY.  I feel like it's become almost as common for a store to have an "RSD Bargain Bin" as a new releases bin these days.  It's genuinely upsetting to me every time I see it too.  Like watching a good friend get tricked by a shitty girl.

Also, yes, it's an attrocity that clogs up pressing plants that should be committed to new releases by new bands but instead are making instant collectibles for people who'll never even play them. Recently, a report came out that nearly 50% of new records that are sold do not get played. I wonder what that % is for RSD garbage? I can tell you that for a new release on Total Punk (for instance), nearly every copy gets played.

So anyway, there are tons of reasons why RSD is pure, unadulterated horseshit, but the most important are the facts that they 1) don't benefit most record stores at all, and 2) clog up already-overflowing record presses with instant collectible chachkies that aren't even getting played over half the time.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 22, 2016, 08:25:39 AM »

Right, Poison 13 was solid throughout but (I know it was a different deal live) fairly unremarkable. LHF's highpoints I'll easily take over P13 at this point, call me what you will. That shit jumps right out of the speakers where P13 often sounds muted. I'm sure part of this is in the production. But that's how it be for me.

Saw Monkeywrench back in the day and musically it sorta went in one ear/out the other, but the show itself was good.

Still listening to a bunch of old WI country 45s. Not much is up online, but here's a few tunes I've been spinning:

Bobby Hodge "Sitting on Top of the World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT3M6Ibera0
Bobby Hodge "Don't Call the Law": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpD51Ah7d1c
Larry Lee Phillipson "Milwaukee Road" (he did 4 recorded versions of this, one of which was "Miami Road"; here's the countrybilly version, but I prefer the him and a guitar and a primitive drum machine in a living room in the 70s up nort' version, which ain't up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_d6l-RwGNM

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Music Shit / Re: School me on early Country and Jazz Fusion

« on: April 22, 2016, 08:02:32 AM »

^ Check PMs. And BMs. But PMs first. Unless you really need to BM ASAP LOL.

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 22, 2016, 07:59:28 AM »

The fuck are you going on about? Point to where someone said stores should close on RSD? I've never, ever seen anyone suggest that. It's just a fact that most owners dislike it and most regular shoppers, not to mention underground labels & bands, find it at best, distasteful. And at worst, an attrocity.

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Music Shit / Re: PRINCE DEAD

« on: April 21, 2016, 09:34:55 AM »

Yup, not cool.