Recent Finds
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View this post on Instagram A quick sample of a couple hundred new arrivals that still need to be filed and you don’t want to see the CDs and tapes!? #soulstrut #vinyl #vinyligclub #instavinyl #vinylcollector #recordcollector A post shared by Rick von Fogelberg (@rajstrut) on Jul 2, 2019 at 5:33pm PDT
My mom is always out hitting estate sales and thrift stores for antiques. She'll send photos of random records she's pulled to see if I'm interested. She did pretty good yesterday.
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nzshadow said:
I have not dug out a record worth mentioning in almost six months.
Since moving seven years ago to a small country town I have had droughts but this is starting to wear.
It's brutal.
Well, after a nice self imposed decision to stop spending money on records. I still somehow manage to acquire records.
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View this post on Instagram A nice little haul of clean OG pressings bought at the local spot this weekend. #soulstrut #strutarchive #vinyligclub #cratedigging A post shared by Rick von Fogelberg (@rajstrut) on Jul 21, 2019 at 4:50pm PDT
Mondeyano said:
I miss digging. Just went to a couple of 2nd hand shops around here (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the cheap bins have become 500 krona ($4) bins with non-stop garbage.
Most of the thrift store dollar bins are $2 to $3 here now unfortunately. Half Price Books and Records used to have dollar clearance bins but they are $3 now also. Times are changing.
billbradley said:
Mondeyano said:
I miss digging. Just went to a couple of 2nd hand shops around here (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the cheap bins have become 500 krona ($4) bins with non-stop garbage.
Most of the thrift store dollar bins are $2 to $3 here now unfortunately. Half Price Books and Records used to have dollar clearance bins but they are $3 now also. Times are changing.
It's insanely difficult to pull dollar bin miracles these days. It's pretty much common knowledge that vinyl is back and collectable across the board, but people do slip. CDs are where it's at right. Admittedly their not as cool and a bit soulless, but there's a lot of amazing stuff to be had at 50 cents to 1 dollar. There are times I prefer the CD over the vinyl pressing.
RAJ said:
It's insanely difficult to pull dollar bin miracles these days. It's pretty much common knowledge that vinyl is back and collectable across the board, but people do slip. CDs are where it's at right. Admittedly their not as cool and a bit soulless, but there's a lot of amazing stuff to be had at 50 cents to 1 dollar. There are times I prefer the CD over the vinyl pressing.
You're probably right. I'm likely missing out on a lot of CD sales. Mostly I buy them to listen to when taking road trips now. This was my most recent CD haul from goodwill.
Praise be! That's better than I've ever seen at goodwill. I kinda hate CDs on an aesthetic and technical level, like a bad medium between fully digital and fully analog, but there is so much cool shit (from certain eras) that's not on any kind of record. It's tough to avoid the format, still.
$5 finds at the record store down the street. Mary Watkins is nice 80s fusion jazz from the usually bland Palo Alto label, Sammy Nestico aside. Victory Chapel Gospel Band is self pressed and based in Southern California. It is partially Santana inspired and led by an ex-junkie preacher on the drums. Hugo Montenegro is a Motown tribute follow-up to his Stevie Wonder one, both which are better than his other cover records of the time. Iliad is more polished and interesting than their other LP which has the samples. CD-R is an unrelased Sun Ra Omniverse Orchestra era album, which I assume was recorded in east Michigan, given to me by Jamaiel Shabaka. He was sitting next to me stageside at the Marshall Allen show this Tuesday. Check out this article, which coincidentally mentions the aforementioned local record store.
https://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/jamaiel-shabaka-cut-his-teeth-on-avant-garde-jazz-with-legend-sun-ra-and-drummer-alex-cline-before-recording-the-mysterious-reggae-lp-the-land-of-the-rising-sun/
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