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Awesome news!  Nearest store with the LE is an hour away, so I guess I'll have to do a mini-road trip this evening.

I ate at Chicago Diner when I went last year, their Reuben was pretty on point

Sounds cool, but unfortunately too far for me

FYE is running a deal right now: 50% off discount records.  Looks like in-store only.  Picked these up for about $60 after tax:

Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary (Deluxe)
HIM - Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
The Get Up Kids - Four Minute Mile

22 hours ago, Kanye West said:

Jesus it's still sad as fuck

Lets be fair though, Phil's never really been known for writing the most up-beat songs

Thanks for the heads up, I'll definitely be stopping by after work

It's been a while so I don't remember any of the shops I went to specifically, but Paris is so full of really great shops to go into that you can't go wrong.  Walking along the Champs Elysees is fun, hum the tune ("Oh Champs-Elysees") to yourself, it's a good time.  Paris has a lot of department stores, which is a good place to pick up reprints of some of their vintage comics, like Asterix or Tintin.

The French can be a little bit of a jerks to foreigners, but in my experience it wasn't too bad.  Most people in Paris speak English, they just get annoyed when they have to.  It doesn't have to affect your trip, just something I wish someone had told me before after studying French for 6 years, I went up to delicatessen vendor and said, "Je prende  un sandwich au jambon" and he replied, "We don't serve that here, what do you want?"

So, buy your sandwiches on the streets, haggle with the street vendors, and buy your wine in half carafes when you're sitting in cafes.

Some insurance companies will allow you to insure your record collection.  When I bought my house a couple years back I talked to some agents about this.  But it often requires 1) an official appraisal (which only works for what you currently have in your collection) and 2) buying a policy that is above and beyond the normal.

The gist that I got is that, unless you have a collection of Presley 78s, original Buddy Holly pressings, and 50 copies of the Butcher cover album, your money is better spent on getting an apartment that doesn't leak on your albums.

Edit: Sorry, that being said, State Farm did offer to insure the records.

Any new business you start is going to take a while to start being profitable, so you can probably count on not cutting yourself a paycheck for about a year or two, after that you're probably still not making much money.  But that's rule of thumb, so it changes business to business.

Ive never owned a store but I had a friend that opened one.  He made a little extra money selling his paintings in the store, and made a lot of his money from buying cheap records on eBay and reselling them for more in his store.  He overextended himself because he wanted to make the coolest shop possible and then went bankrupt after 2 years.  He ended up selling the place for about half what he invested in it.  But from what I gather, the new owners do okay.  Probably not $35k a year, but enough that they're still open 10 years later.

Surprisingly, what he told me was that more people were buying CDs than records.  I don't know if that still holds up, could have been because it was 10 years back or maybe regional?  Either way, something to consider.

If you get serious about it, feel free to PM if you want.  I worked for a small business consulting firm while getting my MBA so I might be able to help with any questions about creating a business plan, putting together projections, getting a loan, etc

On 2/2/2018 at 3:02 PM, dynamitekid said:

Got tickets to see Elton John's last tour. Hopefully its fun. Im excited!

Noticed that tickets for his tour went on sale, it's not till 2019 tho right?

I think I could enjoy an Elton John show, not sure how he sounds these days but it'd at least be a visually entertaining show.  But man, I can't imagine the level of khaki in that crowd.

It's been a really slow winter so I'm excited that concert dates are starting to get announced again - planning way out and hoping that a lot more shows get announced in the interim...

3/2 Dark Funeral
3/10 Lucero
3/18 Eyehategod
4/8 Sleep
4/10 The Queers
5/18 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
6/21 Lucero & Frank Turner

Good to see they're getting more shows

On 12/26/2017 at 8:35 PM, Bladewillisisdead said:

Just want to take this opportunity to say EHG are playing here for the first time in at least 15 years (No idea if they played here before I knew about them) and it's opening for garbage ass Black Label Society. I'm fucking pissed. I'm not trying to spend $35 to see them play a 30 minute set first on the bill.

I'd been seeing fliers around  town for the upcoming BLS/Corrosion of Conformity show but I didn't realize Eyehategod was touring with them too.  Same boat, not going to throw down $35 so that I can hang around a bunch of BLS fans for 40 minutes as they talk over the opener.  But would have been really cool to see Eyehategod finally.

9 hours ago, Battra said:

No worries...I'm a linguist by profession and by nature.

 

It's fun to talk about.

 

I cannot understand how so many American are proud of their ignorance by only speaking one language.

To be fair, it's really tough to learn another language.  I took French classes for like 6 years and the best I can do is name some of the colors and count to 39.  Some of us just don't have brains wired for it I guess.

1 hour ago, youspinmeround said:

Anyone find any places but direct through mbv yet?

Been looking at the local record shops but no luck yet.  I figured this would be a wider release than what it seems like it's turned into.

1 hour ago, conedust said:

Semi-recently:

 

Devo - Recombo DNA ("Emergency Colors" variant)

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Vol. 1 (opaque red) - also bought & quickly flipped 2 copies on transparent purple w/ silver glitter

Blood Incantation - Starspawn LP (transparent yellow w/ red haze) & Interdimensional Extinction EP (transparent red) - plus spares to sell

Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse (2LP reissue, clear) - have the 10" version but hate the format

Oh Sees - Orc ("Poisonous Bloom" variant) - also bought & flipped the other 2 versions

A Frames - A Frames and A Frames 2 (white) - half price from Bull Moose, basically backups cuz I have 1st press copies of both

Earth - Earth 2 (Newbury Comics exclusive, opaque pale blue marbled) - plus spares

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira (2LP clear w/ red splatter) - bought 2, sold1

Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things Volume 1 ("Deluxe" version, purple/blue/red/pink merge splatter whatever) - $15.00 used

Douglas Pipes - Trick 'r Treat soundtrack (picture disc reissue) - why the fuck did I buy this?

Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time soundtrack

Ennio Morricone - The Thing soundtrack (1st press promo)

Kendra Smith & the Guild of Temporal Adventurers - self-titled 10" - $5.00!

Tav Falco Panther Burns - Sugar Ditch Revisited EP - unexpectedly included a signed letter from Tav and a big archive of clippings & photos

Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent (1st press)

Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic - 1940s (Japan-only 3LP box)

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! ('76 reissue) - a little rough around the edges but cost basically nothing

Keith Jarrett - Facing You (US 1st press) - another dollar bin cheapie, damn good, though his later stuff tends to bug me

 

Totally just reminded me that I need to grab some A Frames albums.  I had pretty much forgotten about those guys but loved them when they first got on subpop.

So I'm the only one whose surprised they needed 3 lps for a best of Hanson set?

Not a "white whale" by a lot of standards, because it's relatively available and not very expensive.  But I told myself I wouldn't order Mudhoney-Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew, I wanted to physically purchase it.  By no means the best Mudhoney out there, but I originally picked up the CD during a $1 bin sale when I was about 13 so the albums got a special spot for me.

Finally grabbed it a couple days ago for a cool $25.  Only took 7 years of hunting.

18 hours ago, The Ghost of Randy Savage said:

Did all the members of the band slap you in the face when they were done for making them sign so many things? Because I'm pretty sure I'd have told you to fuck off after about the third thing.

Between this and that pressing of Yourself or Someone Like You, my moms record collection is really starting to take off

21 hours ago, Aych said:

Correct! Go get those shitty sale records, y'all. Haha

(Just kidding, I know some stores have that post-humous Amy Winehouse comp record and a few decent hip hop LPs among other things)

Yep, picked up 2pacalypse Now for $12 and the new New Pornographers for $6, which seemed like a fair deal.  The other stuff wasn't really my taste but at my store there definitely was a lot of it.  

8 hours ago, Twistedshabazz said:

I got the new primitive man in the mail yesterday. Pretty excited to see them at the end of the month with bell witch. 

 

I have been buying less and less in general but even less in this space. I have just had no time to listen and explore new things so i have been gravitating to my usual things. 

Same.  And that new Sleep album we were promised in 2017 seems like its probably definitely going to be pushed until whenever never.

40% off clearance is back.  It looks like you have to get them to scan your UO member QR code or it's only 30% off.

Instant order, I get why a lot of these tracks ended up b-sides but I still think its some of the best work they put out.

Not feeling overly optimistic on that In Reverie repress, especially with this being released first.  But we'll see.  Might need the band to intervene in order to make it happen.  Definitely thinking its a ways off on a Can't Slow Down repress, tough to estimate but I'd assume there'd probably be a lot less demand for it.  I like it, I think its a decent album, but its far from their best effort.  Plus it can still be picked up for ~$50 if you really want it.

1 hour ago, DecayToDeath said:

Update: Though not expected to make it through the day, he's still alive, with prior reports being disputed

 

http://heavy.com/entertainment/2017/10/tom-petty-condition-health-is-dead-or-alive-cardiac-arrest-updates/

This article looks like it was from hours ago, is there any update?  I tried google but there are too many news organizations just now picking up the original story to get a clear picture of what's actually happening.