Oh Boy...Here Comes Homeboy w/ the Portable

[soulmarcosa]

I'm quite happy to be homeboy with the portable everywhere I go, scooping the goodies and leaving all the shitty records. But the real fun part is when the portable hatters pick up said shitty records and complain about them (and me) on Soulstrut that evening. As far as I can tell, these posts are usually made while I'm out making money DJing with the aforementioned goodies and enjoying free beer.

 

[bull_ox]

I'm quite happy to be homeboy with the portable everywhere I go, scooping the goodies and leaving all the shitty records.

 

[mrpek]

The problem is when fools are just stupid about portables. There is a little small town antique spot I used to go to all the time. They had a small selection like 250 records ...but good records the owner would rotate records from storage once a month in the place so every month he would replace what was left with a fresh batch. One day some kid is in there with a portable and 1/3 (I am not over exagerating.)of the stock from this store at his feet (and his girlfriend standing there like guarding or something). After browsing what was in the bins I went over to dudes stack at his feet and he was like "Uhm I'm gonna listen to those." I looked at dude and just continued to go through his shit. I ended up buying shit out of dudes pile. I had been hitting this spot for years and some kid is gonna try and do that funk that! In a small town it's every man for them self. One or two records at atime is cool but like 100 I hate to use the word etiquette but damn!

 

[Jonny_Paycheck]

I find that speed is necessary at fleas, swaps, sales, etc. So yes a portable gets in the way. I hate lugging that shit around, plus it does look truly cornish... BUT yes I see a point as well. I can't really be bothered most times though. I have one, it has its uses, but it usually collects dust because i rarely run into anything that I just NEED to ear check before buying.

Sunday I bought a grip of 12"s I had never heard, and a number of LPs as well. If you know what you're doing (and I don't always) it's pretty easy to bat a high percentage while taking chances.

That said NO FUCKING PORTABLES in my shop. And yes people are insane and don't know how to handle records. And yes I will yell at you. But you can't not have a listening station in this day and age.

 

[edpowers]

portables are for cheaters...

if the record is $1..just buy it you cheap bastard

if the record is $100..do you really think Mr. record store owner wants your fisher price needle on it...how arrrogant of you

you look corny walking in the store carrying a toy

you're in the fucking way with your toy

listening stations are a convenience provided by the store owner....if the owner does not provide a listening station...you should not even have the right to ask if it is o.k. to listen to his records on your traveling listening station.....you are now being disrespectful and arrogant...record stores are not libraries ....

if a clothing store does not have a dressing room you can't just try on clothes in the corner !!!

 

[soulmarcosa]

if a clothing store does not have a dressing room you can't just try on clothes in the corner !!!

oops

 

[SqaureSoul]

Really I see It as a funny thing If you use your portable to check 50 cent and dollar records but bringing it when you dig is dope why use your hands when you can use a shovel(portable)

 

[faux_rillz]

portables are for cheaters...

if the record is $1..just buy it you cheap bastard

if the record is $100..do you really think Mr. record store owner wants your fisher price needle on it...how arrrogant of you

you look corny walking in the store carrying a toy

you're in the fucking way with your toy

listening stations are a convenience provided by the store owner....if the owner does not provide a listening station...you should not even have the right to ask if it is o.k. to listen to his records on your traveling listening station.....you are now being disrespectful and arrogant...record stores are not libraries ....

if a clothing store does not have a dressing room you can't just try on clothes in the corner !!!

I feel like we've just gotten a glipse of Ed in parent mode.

 

[gloom]

if a clothing store does not have a dressing room you can't just try on clothes in the corner !!!

oops
ayo?

 

[Mike_Bell]

i can see using them on 45s or ina warehouse/basement /where there are large quantities of unknown and when you know you will be there all day in one spot.

 

[recordbinladen]

fuck what i look like, lemme make this hot beat out of this hot loop off this dollar record that i came up on using my toy, thats whats up.

 

[jjfad027]

I'm quite happy to be homeboy with the portable everywhere I go

me too

My portable paid for itself in about a week. All those wack records that I would have otherwise bought. I try not to dig without it now. Not that I'd be crippled by not having it, but it does give an advantage. That thing stays under the seat in my car (along with the most recent copy of "the list") so that I "don't leave home without it."

I can understand some store owners not letting people use them. But why hate if dudes want to use em on dollar records? Those dollars add up.

 

[bull_ox]

If you know what you're doing (and I don't always) it's pretty easy to bat a high percentage while taking chances.

It took 10 years of listening to everything, but I'm nearly there... I pretty much know what I'm looking for... I have a portable but rarely need to use it

I recently went through about 5-8000 12s and LPs at a rural junk shop... listened to less than 10 records, left with about 80. Everything I brought home that wasn't good musically was $$$ and there was nothing left behind

 

[prof_rockwell]

if a clothing store does not have a dressing room you can't just try on clothes in the corner !!!

You have obviously never been to a sample sale.

 

[magnetic]

Here's my 3rd world perspective.


1.Carrying around a portable to the record shops downhere will get you strange looks and a price hike on the vinyl(dont get it twisted i dont own a portable

).


2.I told the dj in the store i buy from to change the needle and clean the lint off it,his response was to say "nuthin' nuh wrong wid di needle,[h]it ah play dont!?"

 

[jaymack]

portables are for cheaters...

if the record is $1..just buy it you cheap bastard

if the record is $100..do you really think Mr. record store owner wants your fisher price needle on it...how arrrogant of you

you look corny walking in the store carrying a toy

you're in the fucking way with your toy

listening stations are a convenience provided by the store owner....if the owner does not provide a listening station...you should not even have the right to ask if it is o.k. to listen to his records on your traveling listening station.....you are now being disrespectful and arrogant...record stores are not libraries ....

if a clothing store does not have a dressing room you can't just try on clothes in the corner !!!

haha!
i like this opinion more than the jealousy theory.

 

[Salary_Diz]

So when you buy 10 records and 9 of them sucked, you basically bought a 1 dollar record for 10 dollars. Then what do you do with the other 9? through them away?

 

[resk]

i used to say the same shit, if its a one dollar record just take a chance.

but now i say diffrent. this is because after years, taking chances with one dollar records, these one dollar records just accumulate (even though records are thin, they take space). And unless your just trying to bulk up your quanity and not really caring about your quality this is a good thing, but not for me. I move around so often, i try to not add unnecessary records to my collection, just extra records to move.

so even with dollar records, i use a portable, more just to save space, its not so much a money issue then a space issue. Its very rare i bump into other diggers at flea markets and thrift shops i go to anyways, the only people i ever see at flea markets who check out records, look at the first five records in a crate, say "cool, records" and walk away empty handed.

 

[Dubious]

i bought about 100 12"s in the last two weeks.. without the aid of a portable.. of those only 4 or 5 were ass..

if your batting average is SO low then maybe you need to step out of the game

 

[DjArcadian]

I don't see what's so terrible about trying to maintain a minimum amount of control in one's own store. A store owner has NO WAY of knowing if random portable dude takes care of his needle, what kind of care people take, etc. Shit, stores take a chance having their own listening stations....people seriously don't know how to act.

There's truth in that but I always spend more in stores that have listening stations. Saturn Records in Oakland has a listening station (had one at least, fix that shit!) but they keep all the vinyl in the back that I really want to listen too.