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Music Shit / Re: Alice Cooper (the band, the ride, the reunion)

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:38:54 AM »

Hopefully it's fun for 'em. I'm not going to actually listen to it, but yeah. They deserve it.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Other Music

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:37:09 AM »

The UK, Euroland and Japan still buy CDs as though streaming hasn't happened.  Expensive CDs, too, like $200 bootlegs.

Yeah, it's nuts! I threw some CDs up on Amazon at one point, and nearly every one that sold was overseas, even with the shipping...which I got sick of dealing with, so I pulled the rest. I wish I could take suitcases full of CDs over to these mythical spots and unload 'em at $5 a pop. Would at least pay for my airfare and a decent hotel room and maybe a meal or 3.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Other Music

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:34:42 AM »

Not the stuff Other Music sells. People will still pay $18 for a CD of Derek Bailey playing a duet w/ Jim O'Rourke's farts.

If they were "diminishing" the CD stock, then the statement still stands in its entirety - they paid real bucks at one point for the CDs they're now forced to liquidate, and have to buy increased new stock of vinyl to fill in the increase there, which is costly. Regardless of whether they can still sell Jim O'Rourke bodily spewage encased in silver. It doesn't fit every case, but it's been a common thing (and logical from a business perpective) I've noticed with "established" shops. This one might be different in that it came in a bit late to be a vinyl conversion story, but if that's true, why is everyone bemoaning some CD shop that's closing down? I have like rooms of those fuckin coasters.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Other Music

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:24:59 AM »

^ Right, anyone who needed to liquidate a large stock of CDs was hurtin'. They were originally bought for a decent wholesale price, and now they're worth less than a pair of wax lips. Outside classical and krautrock and a few other genres. In this country, at least.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Other Music

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:14:09 AM »

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/10/other-music-feature/

Headline reads Remembering Other Music, NYC's Last Great Record Store

It should read: Remembering Other Music, NYC's Last Great CD Store

I've noticed a lot of established record stores that went out of business were the ones that "moved on" from vinyl into CDs during those years, and then struggled because CDs dropped precipitously from $7 wholesale to $1 bin dust collectors. And since there was little vinyl backstock left, the restock included unloading tons of worthless (but expensive) CD stock and buying (expensive) entirely new vinyl stock. I never respected those outlets. Shouldn'ta cheated on vinyl, bruh.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: If you could live anywhere in America in 2016, where would it be?

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:09:03 AM »

Florida Coast & parts of the Gulf Coast, West Coast, and some SW at lower elevations. For "best" I'd personally pick WC, especially north of LA.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Punk Books

« on: May 11, 2016, 08:06:11 AM »

Really glad that MDC is in Non-Music Shit. Does the book ask you for more money?

Haha...

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Music Shit / Re: MRR ARCHIVES PROJECT -

« on: May 10, 2016, 11:06:28 AM »

Yeah, I scanned half of 'em yesterday. Just send me a SASE.

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Music Shit / Re: MRR ARCHIVES PROJECT -

« on: May 10, 2016, 10:47:09 AM »

^ that's basically it. All the music the mag has ever reviewed.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Other Music

« on: May 10, 2016, 10:33:07 AM »

The cultural currency of having a flag ship brick 'n mortar in highfalutin Brooklyn, USA is priceless. Most corporate flag ship stores on 5th Ave operate at a loss.

Also may double as a shipping hub for North American online orders.

^ That would be my guess

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Music Shit / Re: MRR ARCHIVES PROJECT -

« on: May 10, 2016, 09:51:40 AM »

^ A great thing, and a long time coming.

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Music Shit / Re: FLIP SHIT LP

« on: May 10, 2016, 07:03:01 AM »

When the Mystery Girls & Teenage Rejects and the like were young, carloads of high schoolers would travel along to all-ages shows in Michigan and so on....not to mention heading down to Milwaukee or Madison or some hick towns across the state. Helps the bands feel comfortable, too.

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Music Shit / Re: Reissuing old releases - how to find out who has the right to what...

« on: May 10, 2016, 06:59:05 AM »

^ Yup

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Post Your Art (wether it's good, bad or average it doesn't matter)

« on: May 10, 2016, 06:56:02 AM »

^ I like that one, too

Krautrock - always excellent!

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Music Shit / Re: R'A'J'A'YTT'A'J'A'T

« on: May 09, 2016, 08:21:29 AM »

Huh, was listening to an LP yesterday (Deadbeat one? They put one out on Deadbeat, right?) and liked it, rock-solid-plus though not overly killer or anything. Hadn't thrown it on in some time. I can see how a band like that would find it hard to sustain such a meat 'n tators approach, it's tought to spit out anything good like that anymore in the first place. Was thinking that I'd like to see them ON ALCOHOL some time, and still would, regardless of how the new stuff is vs the older material.