I am still putting my foot squarely up my own ass for throwing away boxes of those OG Phill Most Chill "On Tempo Jack" 12"s- how was I to know that one day people would discover it and want to pay me $500-$600 for a copy?
Just curious, but why would you do that anyway? its your own shit!
When I got married I had to move all my records pretty much by myself from my bachelor pad to our new apt. Only around 5-7,000 records at the time, but still a huge pain in the ass. By the time we bought our house the collection was probably somewhere around 15-20,000. Dog, I had big weightliftin' brothers damn near passing out in the summer heat helping me transport all of those crates! They couldn't handle the whole weight, so I had to haul the reminder all alone, just loading the car up and making multiple trips. After a while I started throwing shit into the dumpster... just physically couldn't take it anymore.
Those boxes of Phill Most Chill records had been sitting in my closet for almost ten years- as far as I knew, nobody knew about the record or gave a damn about it. This is before rap records were seen as "collectible", for the most part- we speculated that the day would come that stuff would sell for big $$$, but at that time nobody really knew that it would explode like it did. $500-$600 for that record??? I would've drove yo' ass straight to rehab if you tried to tell me that that record would be worth that much one day. I was using those shits as frisbees, throwing them around and shit. I still have a copy that's got some kind of strange melt mark on it- I don't know if I was burning that shit with a blow torch or what!
And I know some people probably think "ahh, Phill's got hundreds of copies in his crib, he's just making up the story about throwing them away so that the record will seem rarer than it really is and he can get more money for them"... I wish that were true, but unfortunately it's not. Every now and then I do find another copy mixed in somewhere it's not suppossed to be in my collection, though.
That's a real shame phil, that record is really dope. the reissue was a good look cause lord knows, i aint payin $500 for it. I only have 3 copies of my record. 1 in a frame, and two test pressings that I've completely worn to shit. And Jake, you're right, if i never hear it again, it'll be way to goddamn soon.
I helped Asprin load up his moving truck when he moved from VA to OR. There was about 5000 if I remember correctly. Just him and I moving that shit out of his dingy ass basement in the blazing summer. What do I end up doing when I go visit him in LA??? Arranging his damn records again. T@#$*, you better fly out here and help me next time i move.
I used to have over 3000 records, mostly promo 12"s that I had from years on the radio. In hindsight I wish I had kept some of them, but you really cant tell what will blow up. Or at least, no one will admit it at the time. I have it down to about 1500 now, and I feel damn good about it. It's still no small task to move though. I'm looking forward to getting Serato, so I can narrow it down even more.
