I figured there should be one of these. Why hasn't there been? Going with all things record playing, etc etc etc

Anyway, today I won a vinyl district contest for a free LP today and got pretty excited. Especially since I wasted some dough on a show I didnt go to yesterday.

5/10/2011 11:47:26 PM

Good call. I will post here again.

5/10/2011 11:55:59 PM

Looking at a Victrola this weekend, also.

Judge. Me. PS I have like 50 blues 78s. Not good for Crumb standards, but still...

5/11/2011 12:11:14 AM

last year they had an awesome victrola at father & son that had the horn inside the cabinet

it was sold before I got there, though

score of the month was original geffen pressings of elastica s/t and nirvana unplugged on white when i was in baltimore

also, i heard some guy went backstage at phosphorescent and asked them if they knew any covers. they said no, so he threw down $300 and told them to play whatever else they knew

5/11/2011 12:17:13 AM

in san diego til friday. might try and check out a record store or two before i leave. i don't know how i'll fit anything in my bag if i find anything worth buying, though.

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 12:36 AM. Reason : .]

5/11/2011 12:36:30 AM

I am pretty sure I'll need to pick up Unplugged on vinyl at some point, but I'm not the type of person to go crazy on collector's copies of LPs. I DO wish I had bought more stuff on vinyl in the 90s that was current. I have a few decent ones I guess...Yield, Mellow Gold, Odelay, some others in there...

5/11/2011 12:40:13 AM

Also, when I find them, I have an assload of 7"s from the 90s, including some Superchunk stuff that I'm gonna be selling off. Will let yall know when and if I find them and that happens...

5/11/2011 12:50:23 AM

pretty much anything original from the '90s or early '00s on vinyl, especially mainstream releases, is worth something. i bought a new copy of RATM "battle of los angeles" when it came out, and i recently sold it for almost $60 without the slipmat it came packaged with. a mediocre album for sure, but there were only a few thousand vinyl copies made.

5/11/2011 12:51:53 AM

With the exception of the Odelay album that I picked up at Schoolkids in 1998, EVERY current 90s release I had to specially order. I just wish I had done that more, because the price difference was about what it is today. Now they make it hard not to buy records, because you get the free download, and who the hell wants a CD?

5/11/2011 12:55:02 AM

with the invention of downloadable content, the CD is the worst of both worlds. it's less portable than an ipod, and the artwork is smaller/shittier than an LP.

5/11/2011 12:57:34 AM

i got an original pressing of led zeppelin II about a month ago for $10. i've been seeing it go for close to $100 on ebay.

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM. Reason : .]

5/11/2011 10:46:49 AM

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"also, i heard some guy went backstage at phosphorescent and asked them if they knew any covers. they said no, so he threw down $300 and told them to play whatever else they knew"

haha, woah...was this at kings or in baltimore?

i loved their set but can't ever imagine doing something like that haha

5/11/2011 11:01:39 AM

kings

got the full story last night; no other details, really, but it did happen

5/11/2011 12:42:01 PM

add to my topiks!

5/11/2011 12:44:08 PM

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"also, i heard some guy went backstage at phosphorescent and asked them if they knew any covers. "

i guess the man wanted to hear some him some goddamned willie nelson

5/11/2011 1:06:19 PM

my most recent acquisition is a canadian pressing of piper at the gates of dawn, heh.

5/11/2011 1:30:35 PM

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"in san diego til friday. might try and check out a record store or two before i leave."

where abouts? i used to live about 2 blocks from M-Theory records in Mission Hills, but have since moved up near Del Mar. Lou's Records up in Encinitas is pretty good as well (although I liked M-Theory more).

5/11/2011 1:44:18 PM

^x5 pm sent

EDIT: also, to get back on topic, vinyl rules. i sold back all of my CDs to schoolkids about 6-8 months ago for store credit towards vinyl.

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 2:28 PM. Reason : lps]

5/11/2011 2:22:37 PM

^^ im staying at a residence inn on 6th ave right by petco park. i was gonna get a cab up to record city since that's also on 6th. it doesn't look like any of the stores that are closer would be worth my time, but who knows

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM. Reason : stores]

5/11/2011 4:01:02 PM

Hey pilgrimshoes remember when I sold u a echo and the bunnymen album lol

5/11/2011 8:27:49 PM

yes i do

and how things come full circle, last friday night that i dipped on the phosphorescent show, it was at one of those places that's split into two venues, with a bigger area, then a smaller studio/bar area.... phosphorescent played the bar, echo played the larger room at the same time.

echo and the bunnymen are kinda dreadful live, or were at all points west a few years ago.

5/12/2011 9:50:42 AM

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"i used to live about 2 blocks from M-Theory records in Mission Hills, but have since moved up near Del Mar. Lou's Records up in Encinitas is pretty good as well (although I liked M-Theory more)."

stopped by m-theory today. i found a copy of beck's "sexx laws" single. that's about as close as i'll ever get to that album unless it's ever reissued

5/12/2011 10:50:43 PM

^ the clear one? it has "salt in the wound" on it, one of my favorite beck songs

those were on sale at schoolkids for 99 cents back in the day, i bought three and always get them whenever i see them now

5/13/2011 9:44:29 AM

^ yep. the clear one. it was only 7 bucks. i've seen it going for $25 on ebay. this place also had a used copy of siamese dream for $30 even though someone probably bought it at best buy or off amazon and later traded it in. it was just a black vinyl instead of one of the original color pressings, but i wasn't sure if there was any way to distinguish between one of the early repressings that also happen to be black or if it was a 2007 reissue

There was also a goblin cock record that i regret not buying for the sheer novelty of it

[Edited on May 13, 2011 at 2:01 PM. Reason : .]

5/13/2011 1:57:31 PM

^my copy of siamese dream is on like peachy colored vinyl, picked it up a number of years back.

also, the rob crow stuff (like goblin cock and solo) is a lot more abundant since they're local. zach lives in little italy (or at least he did a few years ago). they played a free show up at Lou's records when Autumn of the Seraphs came out and did a signing and he mentioned that in passing. judging by the rob crow album cover, he lives in like north park or something.

anyways, i saw goblin cock at a little place when that album came out. fun show. i've also randomly seen rob crow in attendance at other shows.

5/13/2011 2:29:35 PM

^ nice. that's one of the first 3 pressings, but i'm not sure which

5/13/2011 4:26:19 PM

For anybody that cares, Insound has a decent sale on newer releases going on. Some of the prices are whack, but others are awesome. If you don't have that Tame Impala record yet, that's probably the best you're gonna do...

5/18/2011 12:56:33 AM

import prices ftl

thx for the heads up

5/18/2011 1:22:37 AM

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" i got an original pressing of led zeppelin II about a month ago for $10. i've been seeing it go for close to $100 on ebay."

No kidding? I have I, II, IV, physical graffiti, and houses of the holy.

5/18/2011 8:30:09 AM

Do you have the bob ludwig version of II? That's what i was referring to.

5/18/2011 9:12:05 AM

i picked up an original pressing of london calling at schoolkids for 16 bucks the other week.

5/18/2011 1:56:05 PM

got my newspaper album today

shit is wacky

the discs are super heavy though, import-style slabs like that white future islands 7"...not sure i've ever seen clear discs this heavy

i am pleased

5/18/2011 3:14:58 PM

i sell some shit on discogs. just 7"s right now. let me know if you want something and i'll hook up a discount.

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?seller=softdickcity

5/18/2011 3:29:11 PM

how accurate are the prices on that site?

apparently i need to offload some of my late 90s emo lol

[Edited on May 18, 2011 at 4:08 PM. Reason : apparently people want mineral-end serenading and other things]

5/18/2011 4:03:47 PM

it varies. sometimes you'll see a record sell for $20 and then a week later the same thing will sell for $100. condition counts, of course, as does location, but i can't wrap my head around all the price jumps. i'd guess that 2/3 of the people who use that site are euros, too. glad they pay shipping.

who knew that boring-ass mineral record would go for so much? i think i sold mine in the early 2000s for $40-50, though. yikes!

5/18/2011 4:59:40 PM

http://5secondfilms.com/watch/subliminal_message/

5/20/2011 1:00:33 AM

Just picked up the Fat Boys' first album in awesome condition, a Megapuss record, and Gang Gang Dance's latest (I decided I liked it enough to spend 18 bucks on, apparently).

4AD has been killin' it lately. And by 'it', I mean my damned wallet.

5/21/2011 1:55:38 PM

hey, schoolkids. did yall get my tv ghost record? i ordered it some time ago, but i've not received a phone call.

5/22/2011 11:27:45 AM

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"got my newspaper album today"

yeah. that shit sounds good.

5/22/2011 5:38:47 PM

At the rate of my buying/winning records, I will have over 1000 on the year. Just won 4 new titles from various contests, and it includes a Devo re-issue.

5/25/2011 7:36:11 PM

No lie...
I found like four crates of country and oldies records on the side of the road on Kaplan Dr. one day. I dug through them and pulled out all the Willie Nelson, Hank Sr, Waylon Jennings, Patsy Cline, etc. and then I took all the rest to that indoor flea market on Capital Blvd where Mike gave me an early pressing of the S/T Clash record for them. That record is still in heavy rotation at my house to this day.

No lie for real.

Oh yeah, another No Lie story...
One day I was driving down Kaplan Dr. and there was a sweet vintage Yamaha stereo system on the side of the road. I picked it up, sold the receiver and tape deck for like $100 on eBay, and kept the record player for myself. I had to spend $35 on a new cartridge, but it sounds pretty good and has been solid for at least 6 years now. It's a silver "Yamaha Natural Sound" turntable with wood grain vinyl on the base.

Kaplan Dr. has been good to me.

[Edited on May 25, 2011 at 8:34 PM. Reason : l]

5/25/2011 8:29:32 PM

I didn't find out until this year that his name is Michael Mann, not Michael Spikel. He picked "Spikel" because it rhymes.

5/25/2011 8:55:04 PM

^That dude once brought in a copy of his band's CD to give to our manager here at Schoolkids, then signed it, gave it to him, and said with a straight face, "that'll be $10." Ric didn't know what to do, so he gave him $10.

5/25/2011 9:24:05 PM

Apparently he's an amazing funk drummer. He may listen to mostly silly '80s stuff like ConFunkShun in his shop, but if you get him going about classic '60s/'70s funk you can really get a lesson.

Still a weird guy.

5/25/2011 9:39:15 PM

that dude sucks. some of my friends love him, but that's just because he sells tons of questionable electro/rap/electro-pop-rap singles.

5/26/2011 12:23:38 AM

Occasionally he's got a nice soul record on the wall you can talk him down on.

Can't argue with King Floyd for $6.

5/26/2011 12:31:08 AM

i'm too old to deal with "occasionally." or too young. either way, my record digging trips are few and far between these days.

5/26/2011 12:36:36 AM

Quote :

"^That dude once brought in a copy of his band's CD to give to our manager here at Schoolkids, then signed it, gave it to him, and said with a straight face, "that'll be $10." Ric didn't know what to do, so he gave him $10."

That's awesome.

I go by there every once in a while just to see what classic punk rock and metal stuff he has. He seems like a good guy to me, but he has a sad story about losing his son. I'm sure that's something you never fully recover from.

5/26/2011 12:42:20 AM

King Floyd for 6. I'm down.

I say this while considering a Chad and Jeremy original for 15. Not the greatest price, but Summer Song on a record without having to dig is probably 15 worthy...

5/26/2011 1:35:27 AM

so did schoolkids get that tv ghost record? i believe i'm in the system as dick sucker. i care, but not enough to pick up the phone.

5/27/2011 2:01:28 PM