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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Used Wax @ P-Rex
« on: October 11, 2011, 12:19:31 PM »
Kraftwerk - Ralf & Florian (US orig!)
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Music Shit / Re: 4AD
« on: October 05, 2011, 10:33:23 AM »
i love cocteau twins. i got a bunch of OG vinyl from them off a guy on ebay last year. dude had a shop (i assume), and these LPs have insane price stickers on them from the shop - Victorialand for $50, Blue Bell Knoll for $50, and Pink Opaque for $40. i got all three for like $40 combined, with shipping. pretty excellent. strong VG+ condition.
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: September 29, 2011, 09:57:34 AM »94
Music Shit / Re: what records did you "borrow" from your parents?
« on: September 16, 2011, 07:01:20 AM »
pretty typical stuff from my mom's collection, the best of which would be bob dylan, joni mitchell, springsteen, santana, fleetwood mac, emmylou harris, steve miller band, etc...
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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V
« on: September 16, 2011, 05:09:49 AM »Stan Hubbs - Crystal
Still can't get over it, especially now that I got the re-issue direct from the label who did it instead of fondling whatever mp3's I had from illicit sources. They still got a few copies left for cheaper than whoever is distro-ing or re-selling it, as far as I know. Brilliant record. Songs are so good, the atmosphere is out there, and the album cover is freakiness in a lab coat. Perfect for loner late nights and cabbage-brained tomfoolery.
yep. it's my favorite record i've picked up in 2011, that's for sure. the first track kind of belies the deepness that comes after. it took a couple of listens to sink in, but it's such an amazing and indescribable record.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: BRAIN F≠ "Sleep Rough" LP out now
« on: September 14, 2011, 06:35:15 AM »
need this.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Wooden Shjips "West" LP on Thrill Jockey
« on: September 13, 2011, 07:30:38 AM »
wooden shjips is definitely same-y, and their recent material doesn't have that same spark or caustic production as the early stuff. that said, i still dig it and will get this record. they may be coasting, but the shit is still very listenable in my opinion. despite the similarities, i dig "west" way more than "dos." also the cover art is great.
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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: September 06, 2011, 12:20:34 PM »
v/a - death by glam vol. 2 - cool comp, some good tracks for DJing.
Are we talking about Killed By Glam here?
If so vol.1 is way better, if not i'm curious!
yes, i mistyped. killed by glam.
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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions
« on: September 06, 2011, 11:29:36 AM »
just received an order from the distro/used section of S-S
gonn - comp of this iowa garage band, psyched to have it.
v/a - killed by glam vol. 2 - cool comp, some good tracks for DJing.
bobb trimble - crippled dog band sessions - "angel eyes" is one of my favorite songs i've heard this year.
thanks, mr. s!
gonn - comp of this iowa garage band, psyched to have it.
v/a - killed by glam vol. 2 - cool comp, some good tracks for DJing.
bobb trimble - crippled dog band sessions - "angel eyes" is one of my favorite songs i've heard this year.
thanks, mr. s!
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Total Control "Henge Beat" LP out now
« on: September 02, 2011, 05:41:28 AM »
whoa, this is great. i need to grip this immediately. who has 'em on the net?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: google+
« on: August 31, 2011, 11:33:53 AM »Russ posted an article (ironically on g+) that pushed me over the edge.
link?
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Wavers
« on: August 30, 2011, 10:53:38 AM »
there were cliques at my high school, but everyone was too apathetic to care or call anyone "fag" or "skater" or anything else.
for my first two years of high school (96-97) i wore baggy freshjive jeans (but not "phat pants"), stussy hoodies or cardigans, rod lavers and ski caps in some sort of stupid (stoopid) attempt to look like a beastie boy. always wore a backpack full of books i read and books i pretended to read, and listened to the beastie boys, chemical brothers, dj shadow, or plastikman on my discman.
by 97-98, the manson/korn/limp bizkit sort of thing took over, so most "alternative" type kids were going that direction. i refused to be lumped in with those morons, so i went full prep, like christian slater's overnight transformation in "gleaming the cube." nothing but khakis, v-neck sweaters, and chukkas or eastlands. in both style incarnations i was an A-student, president-of-everything guy who was not popular per se, but was not unpopular either. got along with everyone. really, for as diverse as the school was in terms of race, economic strata, and social cliques, it was very harmonious. this was all in a redneck/ghetto suburban school near kansas city. the jocks were nice, the punks were nice, the goths were nice, the preps were nice. that said, high school still sucked. never really got into any angsty, fuck-the-world thing as a teen. i knew the world was fucked up, and there wasn't much i could do about it, but i just decided to have a good attitude anyway.
for my first two years of high school (96-97) i wore baggy freshjive jeans (but not "phat pants"), stussy hoodies or cardigans, rod lavers and ski caps in some sort of stupid (stoopid) attempt to look like a beastie boy. always wore a backpack full of books i read and books i pretended to read, and listened to the beastie boys, chemical brothers, dj shadow, or plastikman on my discman.
by 97-98, the manson/korn/limp bizkit sort of thing took over, so most "alternative" type kids were going that direction. i refused to be lumped in with those morons, so i went full prep, like christian slater's overnight transformation in "gleaming the cube." nothing but khakis, v-neck sweaters, and chukkas or eastlands. in both style incarnations i was an A-student, president-of-everything guy who was not popular per se, but was not unpopular either. got along with everyone. really, for as diverse as the school was in terms of race, economic strata, and social cliques, it was very harmonious. this was all in a redneck/ghetto suburban school near kansas city. the jocks were nice, the punks were nice, the goths were nice, the preps were nice. that said, high school still sucked. never really got into any angsty, fuck-the-world thing as a teen. i knew the world was fucked up, and there wasn't much i could do about it, but i just decided to have a good attitude anyway.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: LONDON'S BURNING
« on: August 15, 2011, 10:16:31 AM »Yeah, I grew up in KC, it's fucked up, some places you just don't go and it's block by block, nice old mansion type places across the street from crackhouses(Hyde Park or Northeast outta nowhere!). Somehow it mostly stays put in designated shitty areas(to a degree, am I right?).
yeah, we live in hyde park. it is generally fine aside from armour blvd and certain apartment buildings, but of course it is just across troost ave from some very questionable areas. old northeast is even more sketchy and patchwork - you can be on a block with rehabbed $400K homes and the next block is crackhouses and tranny prostitutes slicing each other. the real heavy stuff does tend to stay on the east side, but the drug traffic and weirdos that traverse main, broadway, linwood, armour, etc. in midtown can make those areas pretty dicey. i would say that the area centering around the plasma center on broadway is one of the more dangerous places in the city in terms of being at risk of random violence, given the density of crackheads, mentally ill, etc. milling around either selling plasma, buying drugs from the dealers near the plasma center, or seeking to rob folks doing same.
apparently there is some kind of "fight club" type thing on armour blvd in hyde park:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDo3TuNAsBg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-ivXgqMv8
good clean fun!
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Non-Music Shit / Re: LONDON'S BURNING
« on: August 12, 2011, 02:33:22 PM »yeah manitowoc is rough. in 2009, the last year statistics are available, we had zero murders, one rape, and six robberies. 15 auto thefts, and two arsons. fucking scary out there.
my city, KCMO, had 110 murders in 2009. the total city population is around 460,000 (2 million metro), but so much of that is suburban land annexed within KCMO boundaries, so the actual "city" (such as it is) probably only has around 250,000. that's a pretty nasty murder rate. our cross-state sister city, st. louis missouri, is a landlocked city of around 330,000 and they had 143 murders in 2009. thus, missouri has the highest murder rate for black people of any state in the US. also, both KC and STL have small cities across a river from downtown (KCK and E. STL) that are essentially extensions of the larger inner city and each add around 30-40 murders each year. so if you consider the functional "inner city" of KC and STL (ignoring state lines) they had approx. 145 and 175 murders in 2009.
similar stories can be told for other midwest and southern cities like milwaukee, cleveland, detroit (of course), atlanta, memphis, etc., even smaller cities like little rock. and along with these high murder rates come high rates of drug crimes, assaults, rapes, burglaries, etc. KCMO had 3,500+ auto thefts, 272 rapes, 4,000 assaults, etc. in 2009 - and it's all worse in STL.
these places aren't like SF, NYC, Chi, etc. where there are huge swaths of the city that are relatively crime-free. outside of very small, isolated nicer areas, the midwestern/southern cities are typically very block-by-block. the block we live on is very quiet, but literally two blocks away at a single intersection there are shootings weekly and the police chopper hovers overhead almost every night. that said, we still love it and don't plan to move, but our friends from safer coastal cities (or Chi) don't really understand the situation folks face in humdrum burgs in flyover country...
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Music Shit / Re: RIP JERRY
« on: August 12, 2011, 10:18:12 AM »
sweet, thanks for the breakdown. one time i drove my dad's car for a weekend. he has satellite radio. i listened to the "grateful dead bootleg" live recording station for hours on a road trip. it was great. it was cool to hear a set from KC (though it was kinda late, maybe '81?).
