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« on: December 17, 2010, 12:26:01 PM »
Good Score:
Early (mid?) 90's and my girlfriend gives me a gift certificate for $20 for the local record store. I head on over and they tell me that they've moved all the vinyl to a storefront down the street because fuckin cds are taking over.
So when I get there there is still the usual sections - rock/punk/jazz/world and so on but there are also 5 or 6 big boxes of 7 inchers at the front of the store. When I ask the clerk if I can check them out he tells me they're backstock clearance 10 cents a piece.
You already know where I'm going with this bullshit, as I flip through hundreds of ep's with no pic sleeves I'm determined to pull out anything with a pic sleeve that looks remotely punk. Pulled 2 Maids, a John Vomit and Leather Scabs, Avengers crucifix sleeve, both Insults, Eyes TAQN, + some others like the Nerves, Units, Dead Boys and a few more I cant remember all near mint.
Then when I brought the stack up he tallies them up and its like $1.80 so I give him my gift certificate and he says c'mon man I dont want to have to go through the hassle of re-writing your gift certificate, you can have the records.
Traded or sold away everything except the Eyes.
Obviously it was the John Vomit 7" that was the big score but when I put it on the turntable I knew it had to go. Imagine what else was in there. I remember passing on more than a few new wavy looking ep's I had never heard of and I didnt even really look at the hundreds of no pic sleevers.
Dodgy Score:
Used to go to Rough Trade on Haight and the lady would let me look through the new stuff under the counter. One time she tells me to hang on for a few minutes and when her co-worker leaves she pulls 6-7 Rock o Rama Skrewdriver LPs out of the garbage and asks me if I want them. She had just bought them from a skin, then her manager saw them and without saying a word he picked them up and threw them in the trash - "so just take them out of here for free".
Non Scores:
I passed up a red sleeved Minor Threat Filler 7" for $5 in the late 90's at the local store because I didn't really need it...had the cassette tape back in rotation. (stupid non-collecting phase)
Passed on an Agent Orange Bloodstains 7" for $15 at Epicenter right before it closed down for good because I only had $20 on me and wanted a super burrito ($7).
Got It Wrong Score:
Bought both Agent Orange (Holland) ep's - Your Mother Sucks and VD for $15 bucks then decided that the Your Mother Sucks was the shittier one so I sold it back for couple bucks (mid 90's). Still think the VD 7" is better but have come to appreciate the Your Mother ep now that I don't have it.
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