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This is great news if I can get it online. No Hot Topics in Chicago proper and even one of my favorite records from my teenage years is not worth hauling ass to the suburbs for!

I like to think that if Blake and J were playing in a band together, I would somehow just know. Like my Jaw-dey sense would kick in. My two favorite musicians of all time, easily. I don't dig forgetters stuff I've heard at all, which is super heartbreaking to me. But maybe there's some magic on this full length (that I'd buy even if it was just 40min of Blake thinking about stuff silently) that I've been missing.

Maybe they'll be less than $30 though... Nevermind. Still expensive as hell.

Sell everything. You'll be surprised how little you miss having all that "stuff." If you do miss it, rebuy the important stuff when you're settled down- my guess is that you'll miss none of it more than you'd miss the money you spent storing it. Yes, it's a hassle to sell and pack and ship and all that, but you'll make money to facilitate the move. Once you're over there and immersed, you won't miss them like you did when you were here. They're just things. Simplify. This is from a guy who has sold off almost half of his collection (mostly on eBay), including some of the first and most "personally significant" records I ever bought, over the past couple of years. I don't miss any of it and I'll use the money to fund new experiences that I'll never forget. Sounds like that's kinda what you're doing anyway so go whole hog. Just my opinion, of course, and I don't know you or how important your things are to you. But from personal experience, that's my stance.

Ultimately the problem is that eBay is moving away from user-to-user sale of stuff like old shit you had lying around and more towards institutional sales (i.e. a record store using eBay as their online presence). Which means they're treating indivuduals like companies. All of their new policies (including the ones announced today) are all about making the experience better for the buyer. Sellers are losing all of their power against scammers. I'm sure there's all sorts of data to back up eBay's decision to do that, but it makes it hard for people like us just trying to sell records. If Discogs wasn't such a mess with such a tiny tiny amount of traffic, there'd be no reason to sell records on eBay. Eventually these niche sites will take over that section of the market but it's been a long slow process and I'll be out of the game by then because I do not have the patience for this shit.

Both of these are Marilyn Manson records. Which I guess explains why it's attracted this unstable person. But hey, I like (early) Manson and I'm not crazy!

AMAZING HILARIOUS TERRIFYING UPDATE! This guy called me yesterday. I posted a huge new batch of records on eBay this weekend. Yesterday I get a call and it's this guy. He said, "Yeah, I bought something on eBay from you a while back and I'm trying to buy this record ou've got listed but it says I'm blocked." I was so fucking shocked that dude had the balls to call me, but I kept my cool. "Yes, I blocked you because I had some trouble with you last time and we won't be doing business together." "Well, I couldn't find the feedback I left-" "Yes, because it was rules feedback extortion and removed immediately." "Yeah well I just kinda wanted to make it right. This is the last one I need for my collection." "We're not doing business together. Goodbye." Turns out he put in a request to get my phone number from eBay and they were kind enough to send me a notice that he had asked. Oh, not that they were like, "Hey, is this okay? I mean he's on your blocked list and everything but..." No, just, "This dude asked for your shit and we gave it to him because fuck you I guess, right?!" An hour later, a new user made an offer on the record. The user had this dude's last name in his username. And he made an offer instead of just trying to buy it! I declined it immediately, but then he bought it outright before I could add him to my blocked list. And then (my favorite part), he sends a messagefrom his old (blocked) account ASKING ME FOR A DISCOUNT ON SHIPPING of this item. The fucing actual balls on this guy. I sent a transaction cancellation request right away and called eBay. The woman literally said, "Oh jeez. I'm sorry." when I explained the situation. She assured me that the transaction would be cancelled and that any feedback left as a result would be removed. So I relisted the item and someone else bought it pretty quickly. Guy who bought it was in TX (original dude is in NY) so I figured no connection. Then I get a message from the new buyer: "hi i was just wondering i saw this for sale eariler today and it looked like somebaody bought it and then later i saw it for sale again so i bought it now was there a problem with the buyer or something please let me know otherwise payment will be sent tomorrow please pack well and write fragile all over the box also please send me a delivery confirmation # let me know when it ships" Which basically tells me this is that guy using a friend's account. Whatever. Anyway. I refund crazy dude's payment with a note that it's been sold to another buyer. He repays it. I refund it. He repays it. So I had to call eBay today where I got a much less friendly dude saying, "Well, we need to make sure we have enough proof that the accounts are linked." Ugh. He says it looks pretty obvious and he's forwarding the case to their "team" that handles shit like this and also to the team that handles buyers who fuck with sellers with malicious intent. I'm sure that will amount to some super awesome nothing, since blocking this guy DID NOT PREVENT THE FROM GIVING HIM MY FUCKING PHONE NUMBER. I'm so glad this is my last purge on eBay. I hate people so much.

Holy flaming emo shitballs, Batman! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Texas-Is-the-Reason-Orig-LP-Do-You-Know-Who-You-Are-Jimmy-Eat-World-Samiam-/280854375855?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item416439adaf I'm thinning out my collection and ditching things I have two of. Keeping my red copy and selling my black press I bought back in 2001 or so. No idea what sorcery this is though.

Maybe they could bring the price down if they stopped ordering 20 fucking test pressings of a 7".

I haven't listened to it in a grip but I thought they were demos or, at least, somehow different from the album versions. But I may just be confused because Jawbox did that on several singles.

I've never even seen the Passing Complex single... are they demo versions like the Scissoring single (and every Jawbox Dischord single)?

I'd take one to keep my Thursday full-length collection complete I guess. PM sent.

FUCKING FINALLY. So stoked. I thought Barsuk or someone was going to do this in the US though. Of course, I thought they were doing Change as well and apparently I was wrong about that too. I just rememberthe 2 Burning Airlines records being off the table back in the early days of the Collective as Virgil said it was "being done by someone else."

What can I say. It's a gift.

Had no idea these guys were still a band. We shot a video for them like 7 years ago. Super cool dudes, though their music is not my thing. Big fan of the baseball vinyl idea and baseball cards in general, but I'm not really seeing the connection to the record... unles they're all songs about baseball or something. Anyone in the know?

I'll gladly watch this, though I hope it's not done in the throw-away puff piece style that a lot of modern music docs are (the DCFC one was unwatchable). Also weird that Novoselic (or anyone from the Melvins) wasn't interviewed.

Incidentally, I just got another negative. A buyer in Switzerland got a record I shipped him and it was broken in transit. He said, "I throw away now give me money back." I told him he'd have to ship it back and he left a negative. EBAY IS AWESOME!

I direct and edit videos. Mostly corporate and commercial to pay the billz but music videos and personal stuff as much as I can without losing all my clients. Side note: the responses here are way more varied than I would've expected. Very interesting cross section we've got going here!

Agreed that LP + 7" + shirt is the best package idea. Posters are useless by the time you're 27 plus they cost a mint to ship. Quick question that I may have missed the answer to though- are the 7" tracks exclusive in any way or are they LP tracks? If the latter, it's useless too. EDIT: Answered my own question. B-side is non-album.

This guy has been relisting the same Nirvana and Beck bullshit for literally 5 years. I've never seen him sell a thing. He must have an in somewhere to have gotten the ORG tests- I highly doubt he went searching for the whole set.

"I wouldn't hold out much hope for the Creedence, though."

I've never had a record warp due to heat in transit. One time a guy shipped a record to me wrapped in tinfoil (over the inner sleeve). I asked why and he said it was to protect it from heat. Not sure if that logic is legit but, then, I'm not a physicist.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/benfoldsfive I didn't see a thread for the new BFF record anywhere, so feel free to combine if one exists. Link above is for a limited autographed version the LP through a site called PledgeMusic. I'm not a big BF fan, but I know lots of people here dig him. Only 50 or so left of the auto'd copies so get on it!

Saw these guys open for a Polyvinyl band (Headlights maybe?) my girlfriend likes and she dug these guys too. A little too poppy for my tastes, but if you're into the type of bands that are on Polyvinyl I bet you'd dig these guys- good, energetic show too.

Probably, though I'm not sure it's it's going to get suspended or anything: m6m6m6m Buys lots of comic books and goth jewelry. Block him up, y'all.