My favorite was when the cutouts came in, priced to sell at $1.99 or $2.99 I could get for something like .75 or maybe even less. Since we did about 50% of our business in classical and a healthy % in jazz, some great LPs for next to nothing. We didn't sell 45s, or I probably would have a ton of them, too!
I love that record. One of my favorite spins from Joe Jackson is Beat Crazy. My friends and I wore out that album in high school.It’s getting late, it’s getting loud, and I just switched from beer to bourbon!
But you can’t always get what you want!
There's a pretty amazing story wrapped around that show.Love my vinyl and vintage Thorens TD145, and I'll never give them up. Still buying new releases too; most recently, this one.
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The copy of "Some Girls" is what came to be known as a "Lucy Cover." When the album was first released, the Stones received a cease-and-desist letter from Lucille Ball's lawyers, and subsequent copies of the album had her photo (on the upper right) removed.So an old friend just retired, sold his house and is moving to fla…as east coast lemmings do. He’s giving his records to his daughter, and he said she doesn’t know shit about proper handling or really even appreciates the music. So he told me to thumb through a few boxes and pick out anything I want. Most of what I’d want, I already have….but I didn’t waste time snatching his original Sticky Fingers and Some Girls. Jackets in VG condition, records in EX condition!!
Made my day! (I had both records, but not the original cutout cover of Some Girls or the original zipper Sticky Fingers. (Great story about that album is the first 10k records were shipped w/ the zipper zipped up. It typically left an indentation in the vinyl causing a skip. Every non stocked record was shipped back to the record co where all the 60 yr old women that worked in the packaging/shipping dept were given the task of physically pulling the zipper down on every single record….upwards of 100,000 albums worth. (W/ the zipper down, the zipper clasp only leaves an indentation on the label, not the playing surface)
actully, that is just the mat..I took the record out before I snapped the photo. Mat is from Third Man records in Detroit...^ I bet that record looks wild when it's spinning!
Conor Oberst is a really good songwriter..."I'm Wide Awake, it's Morning" is their only album I have done a deep listen to, but just downloaded their latest...And his solo stuff is also good...will check out Down in the Weeds as well..
