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Music Shit / Re: SERIOUS RECORD COLLECTOR: STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES
« on: January 09, 2009, 02:41:19 PM »
Had a really weird score at a store a few blocks from my house last summer...
This place always has decent and well organized LPs, but the junkiest 45's - tons of sleeveless "oldies", 80's mainstream picture sleeves and other similar junk stuffed into milk crates and uhaul boxes and piled up all over the store - ie, the kind of stuff you really don't want to look through unless you have mountains of time on your hands. Anyways I was in there one day and it lokoed like someone had taken the time to go through all of the shitty 45s and pull all the punk records and leave them in a stack on top of the new arrival lps... Really Red 2nd and 3rd singles, both VKTMS singles, DOA "The Prisoner" on Quintessence, both Modern Warfare singles, Irritators "Whack The Dolphin", 45 Grave "Black Cross", a few no-name punk/synth/powerpop singles (that I took a chance on and ended up flipping most of to good old "lewdsnot" on ebay for $30-40 a pop), and some local stuff like the first two Vinny singles and the 2nd and 3rd Pastiche singles. Took them all to the counter and the guy was like "Ah, just gimme like $75 for all of it, this stuff isn't my thing" (he's into oldies and reggae). I was pretty blown away that someone pulled all this stuff, put it aside and just left it there, it definitely wasn't anyone who worked there because they seemed pretty shocked that someone (me) had actually found anything worthwhile in the 45 boxes.
I mentioned it to a local collector guy that works at another store and I guess he was in there months earlier and had found a Buzzarians single with a sleeve but missed all the stuff I grabbed. He ended up flipping the Buzzarians on ebay for $400 or so.
This place always has decent and well organized LPs, but the junkiest 45's - tons of sleeveless "oldies", 80's mainstream picture sleeves and other similar junk stuffed into milk crates and uhaul boxes and piled up all over the store - ie, the kind of stuff you really don't want to look through unless you have mountains of time on your hands. Anyways I was in there one day and it lokoed like someone had taken the time to go through all of the shitty 45s and pull all the punk records and leave them in a stack on top of the new arrival lps... Really Red 2nd and 3rd singles, both VKTMS singles, DOA "The Prisoner" on Quintessence, both Modern Warfare singles, Irritators "Whack The Dolphin", 45 Grave "Black Cross", a few no-name punk/synth/powerpop singles (that I took a chance on and ended up flipping most of to good old "lewdsnot" on ebay for $30-40 a pop), and some local stuff like the first two Vinny singles and the 2nd and 3rd Pastiche singles. Took them all to the counter and the guy was like "Ah, just gimme like $75 for all of it, this stuff isn't my thing" (he's into oldies and reggae). I was pretty blown away that someone pulled all this stuff, put it aside and just left it there, it definitely wasn't anyone who worked there because they seemed pretty shocked that someone (me) had actually found anything worthwhile in the 45 boxes.
I mentioned it to a local collector guy that works at another store and I guess he was in there months earlier and had found a Buzzarians single with a sleeve but missed all the stuff I grabbed. He ended up flipping the Buzzarians on ebay for $400 or so.
