Speaker: Music: The Vinyl Frontier
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Grant McDougall, in reply to
It fascinates me now to see what old Flying Nun platters are going for at RG. I wonder who’s buying them at $100+?
I can't speak for RG, but for the same items on Trade Me I am reliably informed that a prominent, frequent buyer is a very rich professional in one of the larger North island provincial cities. Being a wealthy professional, the cost is no impediment to his accumulating.
It is crazy that it's came to this. A couple of years ago a singer-guitarist from a significant FN band told me he'd rather people just illegally download his band's EPs, rather than bankrupt themselves by splashing out three-figure sums on Trade Me, etc.
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Grant McDougall, in reply to
Share the love - besides nothing beats making your own sounds anyway. Given your years of listening to great sounds I'm sure some has rubbed off - any links?
Not yet, but when we've got a full set together and doen a few gigs I expect there'll be a few mixcloud-type things set up.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
we? you've got a band together?
got a name yet?
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Not yet, but I'm jamming with a drummer called Tim Player; his main band, Opposite Sex, have been getting rave reviews in Q, Uncut, etc, for their album.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
ha, punk still lives.
sounds like good times. oh, them were the days.
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Andrew Geddis, in reply to
@Alan: "It's music, not a cure for cancer, and I say that as an, umm, enthusiast."
Perhaps, then, you should spend your time reading medical journals rather than blog posts in which people with similar individual quirks self-depreciatingly share in-jokes? That might help lower your general sense of smug righteousness.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
oops, sorry about that, I just get tired of such comments. taste is a personal thing. oh, I see I'm going to tie myself in knots trying to explain and I'd rather not. anyway, smug wasn't what I was being.
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A couple of years ago a singer-guitarist from a significant FN band told me he'd rather people just illegally download his band's EPs, rather than bankrupt themselves by splashing out three-figure sums on Trade Me, etc
And nowadays it isn't that expensive to get one-off direct-cut disks, like these guys do.
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Danielle, in reply to
anyway, smug wasn’t what I was being.
No, you weren't. That was in response to my post about the whole "hobbyist expertise" thing, and I appreciated it, because I really hate musical dick-waving and judgeypantsness too. My favourite thing about music nerds is enthusiasm, not jaded oneupmanship.
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
thanks, I write for a bloody living yet I find trying to join in on these chats to be very difficult.
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Andrew Geddis, in reply to
@Alan: "oops, sorry about that, I just get tired of such comments. taste is a personal thing."
This springs to mind:
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I'm not a collector. The pain of giving up a lot of full boxes of CDs the first time I moved to Australia put that in the past; I couldn't do it, and severed my love for physical objects. Since I now pretty much live under the 18/20/23kg weight limit, this attitude serves me well. I don't want things accumulating dust in a parent's garage, and there isn't any point in buying if you're just going to sell again soon, is there?
here I am, 41 years after I, as a mid-teenager, acquired the very first EMI NZ copy brand new on the day of release, buying yet another copy, one that is unlikely to get played more than once or twice, and one that I even hesitated unwrapping from the plastic seal. I was, crushed by the burden of addiction, absolutely unable to resist buying this.
Simon G's blog about being on the other end of the spectrum is still something to enjoy. Tragic and warm and funny at the same time.
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Oh, and the same for books. Except I keep acquiring foreign language dictionaries, big huge things that cost hundreds of dollars in many cases. I'm a sucker for the comprehensive. They come in handy, and often count against whatever else I put on airport scales. Anything else in print acquires bible status or is given away.
No doubt once my life acquires permanency this will change. But hopefully not dramatically.
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ChrisW, in reply to
but I'm jamming with a drummer called Tim Player
You could discuss the connections between music collecting and books with him - he had a good second-hand bookshop in Gisborne for a few years, pity it and he's moved on.
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Yous lot might like my friend's documentary Sound It Out. It's a lovely portrait of the (UK) North-East's last independent record shop and the characters who frequent it. Some of you might recognise yourselves. It hasn't had an NZ screening yet, but you can rent or buy it from the site, or watch the preview here:
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Oooooh disc porn!
Just for you JacksonP
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But the beauty of it all is naively never letting go of the things you like and discovering that other people loved them just as much.
An A2 pressing of FAC 73.
For as much fun as I have had collecting (and playing) some of this stuff giving it away is a lot of fun too. At a friend’s 50th I finally gave him a much envied original copy of the theme from Shaft…damn right ;-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
More pr0n. ;-)
For as much fun as I have had collecting (and playing) some of this stuff giving it away is a lot of fun too.
Thanks 81st, and absolutely agree. I gave my whole New Order collection to my bro, which included the Murder 12", the 7" of Procession and the white sleeve Fac 33 of Ceremony/In a lonely place, among others.
But you can pry my copies of A Forest and Cult Hero, signed by Porl and Simon, from my cold dead hands.
#sarc #noreally
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I found this very interesting because I am always thinking along the lines of quitting my records, books about records and bands. I have moved a number onto new homes without feeling pain. What got me thinking about this was not cashflow, that is an eternal problem that will never be rectified but realizing that sometimes getting a wanted record in the mail just did not deliver the required buzz. I opened the package, looked at the cover, the label artwork and filed it away while listening to talkback radio. Last night though I attempted to get that buzz again by purchasing Babes in Toyland bootleg lps online. I guess I'll find out whether I get the hit I require in a week or two. Is there a local branch of Records Anonymous?. I can imagine turning up at RA and saying "Hi, My name is Brian and I have not bought a record for 30 mins"
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Most doctors agree: reggae and vinyl go together … like this track goes hand in hand with the sunny day outside … the dub version is good too. (Photo above: Cheers DJ Dubhead!)
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Hebe, in reply to
But you can pry my copies of A Forest and Cult Hero, signed by Porl and Simon, from my cold dead hands.
I get the A Forest love. Totally.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I can imagine turning up at RA and saying “Hi, My name is Brian and I have not bought a record for 30 mins”
And let me guess: you just can't get a buzz off that digital stuff.
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