bicyclepirate

Well, currently I'm working on a PhD in Political Science at the University of New Mexico. After years of booking shows, running a label, and playing in bands in Michigan, I became so burnt out. My wife and I decided to pick and move to New Mexico and try something new, so I entered grad school, and got a Master's in Latin American studies. I wasn't sure grad school was for me, but I really liked it. I actually get paid to go to school and read books, so it's a pretty sweet deal. I have the summers off, travel to Latin America all the time and work at home. It's intense sometimes, during the semester I work about 60-70 hours a week and write a ton, but it is better than the lame warehouse I worked in for 6 years before moving. After being away from the "scene" for a while, I love music more than ever and sometimes miss being involved in music, but it is a great hobby to keep my mind off politics when I'm really stressed out.

Just wondering, how annoying is it to take the platter off to switch the speed? Does it take getting used to, or is it fairly simple? I'm also somewhat clueless on record players that are not automatic. Does that mean when the record is over, it keeps spinning on the last groove? How do non-automatic record players stop?

Kenwood KD291-R. I think I got it 12-13 years ago and its still going strong. I think it plays records just a little too fast, which I recently noticed, maybe like 34-35rpm instead of 33. But, its like a child to me, its my first record player. I have two others in storage, one broke and another I didn't like how the arm dropped on the vinyl...

I'm not sure, I was just watching one on ebay and it went for only $18. I wanted it, but I had just bought a bunch of other stuff, and combined with my hatred for picture discs, I didn't feel like buying it. I just want the music without spending a lot of money.

Faint-Blank Wave Arcade Remixes

Songs: Ohia-Didn't it Rain Party of Helicopters-all Thoughts of Ionesco-the scar is our watermark

MC5? nice! If you haven't heard it yet, you should check out the second album, Back in the USA, it might just be the first pop-punk record ever. Its great, but is unfortunately overshadowed by KOTJ.

Wow, someone that knows Volta Do Mar? They rule, I remember the guitar player used to play in this band hashbrown from Chicago, that was the coolest band I ever saw when I was 14. Not sure if they are still around either...

I just got a couple good deals off of ebay (at least I think they were good deals) $17 for Earth Crisis-Destroy the Machines lp $7.50 for Shotmaker-Crayon Club lp

Another question: how often to people change their needles? I try to do it once a year, but I usually don't think about it

I generally don't keep my records separate from the sleeves, maybe for some older, rare records it is a good idea. I've had several records for over ten years and still no signs of ring wear, so its not something that happens very fast. Although, 7"s seem to get ring wear much faster and so I have a few of those outside of the sleeves. I don't really like to do this for my LPs because it is much bulkier and I am running out a room for my records!

I'd be interested in the 7 percent solution split, how much do you want for it? A great band that very few people ever heard...

I think the original bidding ended at around $125,000 but the bidder didn't pay up, and then the record went for somewhere in the neighborhood of $25-40,000. I could be wrong, I read about this on a message board a while back and don't remember the exact figures. I'm just glad someone pressed a copy of it that is affordable, and the sound is pretty good.

Some recent buys: Velvet Underground and Nico: Unripened. I got this off of ebay, its the original 1966 version of the album, and I love these guys, its a great record. Harriet the Spy-unfuckwithable from a local store Waiting for these to come in the mail: Shellac-excellent italian greyhound 12" Nile-Annihilation of the wicked 12" They Live 12" Rumbleseat is dead 12" PMFS-Mercy 12" The Sword-Freya 7"

I've done this and it hasn't been a problem. Nothing that has been held at the post office was ever damaged, and you can fill out the hold mail form online now, you don't have to go into the post office.

I would pick brown, I always prefer solid colors to clear. I'm kinda annoyed they redid this record. I have the original with only 10 tracks, and don't feel like forking over the money just to get a color and an extra song. Although this new version is way cooler than the first...

I put the MCS demo up on ebay if anyone's interested. Thanks thomas for the advice

I have one of these if anyone wants to buy or trade for it

I saw drag the river play in Albuquerque, picked up the esta loco lp, and then found the site to order more Drag stuff...

I have a few, but probably my favorite is a 5lp box set of Emperor. It was a gift, otherwise I would rather buy the CD than a pic disc, as much as I love vinyl. They are the most annoying things to take care of, its nearly impossible to tell if it has a scratch, and the sound does seem kinda thin compared to regular vinyl.

It comes with artwork in a plastic sleeve, with an insert describing the recording. I got it from the band themselves back in 2000. I'm not sure if they were selling them or not at their shows at the time, but I got it for booking a show for them.

I have the following items I'm trying to get rid of. Some of the stuff has prices, if it doesn't then make me an offer. Most of this stuff is in like new condition, but if anyone is interested in the following things, I am willing to send pictures and better describe the condition. I will also listen to anything before shipping just in case, because I haven't listened to these records in years. I have more random demos, records, etc of hardcore, punk, and indie stuff from the midwest from the late 90s if anyone is looking for something obscure. 7” Reality Vol. 1 comp, with Spazz, MITB, and more. Yellow vinyl Small Brown Bike “And Don’t Forget Me” on Salinger Press. Don Knotts “A Black Day for Mayberry” on Friction. Yellow vinyl, grind band that features all the members of North Lincoln. ($6ppd) (I have a few copies) 12” Israfel Comp on Ape Records, limited to 1000, with tracks from Locust, Reversal of Man, and more. Histeria Comp on Lengua Armada, with tracks from Life's Halt, Seein Red, Limp Wrist, E150, DS-13, deathreat and more. $10ppd. Since By Man/Seven Days of Samsara split “Why Don’t You Set This On Fire?” black vinyl on Harmless Records with diecut cover.$30ppd. Misc. Since By Man/With Arms Still Empty split CD on Kill You For A Dollar. SBM’s first release, limited to 1000 and out of print. $9ppd (I have more than one copy) Since By Man “What We Do is Secret” CD-R Demo. Same tracks as the split CD above, but this demo came out first, was limited to around 50 copies or so, and has radically different, zine style packaging. Cd itself is not in such great shape, but it should play ok. $55ppd, and I’ll throw in a copy of the split cd and an old button I have. True North “Sounds of Breaking Glass” demo tape. Motion City Soundtrack “Kids for America” CD-R demo, 6 songs. These songs were recorded in 2000, and I think these are their first recordings. Not sure if these songs were ever re-released later.

Here is pretty much all of 12"s, and a few 10"s. I haven't gotten around to cataloging my 7"s yet. 13th Floor Elevators Bull of the Woods 13th Floor Elevators Live 30 Second Motion Picture Can't Kill Time 7 Seconds Walk Together Rock Together 88 Fingers Louie Behind Bars Aerosmith s/t Aerosmith Toys in the Attic Aerosmith Rocks Aerosmith Draw the Line Aerosmith Night in the Ruts Alkaline Trio Goddammit Angry Samoans Inside my Brain Anthrax I'm the Man Anthrax Among the Living Anthrax State of Euphoria Antioch Arrow s/t Arturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia Assuck Misery Index Assuck Anticapital At the Drive-In Relationship of Command At the Drive-In Sunshine split Atahualpa Yupanqui el hombre, el paisaje, y su cancion Avail Over the James Avail Dixie Beach Boys Surfer Girl Beach Boys Wild Honey and 20/20 Beach Boys American Summer Beach Boys High Water Beach Boys Holland Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles White Album Beatles Abbey Road Beatles Let it Be Beatles 1967-70 Big Black Atomizer Bjork Telegram Bjork Alarm Call 2 Bjork Alarm Call 3 Bjork Alarm Call 4 Bjork Post Black Mass Lucifer Black Mass Lucifer Black Sabbath s/t Black Sabbath Paranoid Black Sabbath Master of Reality Black Sabbath Vol. 4 Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath Sabotage Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy Black Sabbath Never Say Die Black Sabbath Live At Last Black Sabbath Mob Rules Black Sabbath Born Again Bloodlet Entheogen Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer Outside/Inside Blue Cheer New! Improved! Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan Desire Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding Bomboras Savage Island Bone Thugs N Harmony Collection Vol. 1 Bread and Circuits s/t Broadways Broken Star Broken Spindles s/t 12" Captain Sensible Women and Captains First Carcass Symphonies of Sickness Carcass Heartwork Carlos Mejia Godoy El Son Nuestro de Cada Dia Cattle Decapitation Homovore Cattle Decapitation s/t Cattle Decapitation To Serve Man Cattle Press Hordes to Abolish the Divine Celtic Frost Morbid Tales Celtic Frost Tragic Serenades Charles Bronson Youth Attack Chisel Drill Hammer s/t 12" Chocolate Watchband Inner Mystique Clash s/t (US) Clash London Calling Closure s/t Coalesce 002*A Safe Place Cream Fresh Cream Crimson Curse Both Feet in the Grave Cure Boys Don't Cry Cure Pornography Cure The Walk ep Cure Standing on a Beach: The Singles Cure Concert Cure Quadpus Cure Inbetween Days Cure Why Can't I Be You? Cure Hot Hot Hot!!! Cure Lullaby Cure Pictures of You Cure Lovesong Cure Wild Mood Swings Dabrye Game Over Dabrye Payback Dabrye Air Damned Damned Damned Damned Damned Music for Pleasure Damned Mindless, Directionless, Energy Damned Grimly Fiendish Damned Thanks for the Night Damned Is It A Dream Damned White Rabbit/Curtain Call Damned Eloise Damned Phantasmagoria Damned Anything Damned Final Damnation David Bowie Starting Point David Bowie Space Oddity David Bowie Hunky Dory David Bowie Aladdin Sane David Bowie Pin Ups David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... David Bowie Diamond Dogs David Bowie Ziggy Stardust the Motion Picture De Facto Megaton Shotblast Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Dead Kennedys In God We Trust Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters Dead Kennedys Bleed for Me/Life Sentence Dead Kennedys Halloween/Saturday Night Holocaust Dead Kennedys Mutiny on the Bay Dead Prez Lets Get Free Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple Deep Purple s/t Deep Purple Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Deep Purple In Rock Deep Purple Fireball Deep Purple Machine Head Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are! Deep Purple Burn Deep Purple Stormbringer Deep Purple Made in Europe Deep Purple Perfect Strangers Deep Purple The Book of Taliesyn Desobediencia Civil No hay libertad sin desobediencia Devo Total Devo Dillinger Four Midwestern Songs of the Americas Dio Holy Diver Dio Dream Evil Discount Ataxia's Alright Tonight Drag the River Gabba Gabba Hey Buddies Drag the River Esta Loco Early Man Death is the Answer Electric Prunes s/t Electric Prunes Mass in F Minor Elliot US Songs Emperor Imperial Vinyl Presentation 5LP Box Set End of the Century Party s/t Examination Of The... 12" ep w/spraypainted cover Faint Mote/Dust Faint Danse Macabre Faint Blank Wave Arcade Faith No More We Care a Lot Faith No More Introduce Yourself Faith No More Anne's Song Faith No More Falling to Pieces Faith No More The Real Thing Floor s/t Flower Travellin' Band Sartori Forstella Ford/Life Detecting Coffins split 12" Frodus Conglomerate International Front 242 Endless Riddance Front 242 Politics of Pressue Front 242 Interception Front 242 Official Version Front 242 Masterhit Front 242 Headhunter Front 242 Front by Front Front 242 Tragedy for You Front 242 Tyranny for You Fugazi End Hits Gain Sing Ready, Steady, Smash Godspeed You Black Emperor f#a#infinity Godspeed You Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Gossip Movement Gossip Standing in the Way of Control Graves At Sea Asunder split Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction Hankshaw Nothing Personal Hankshaw Everyday I Wish You Harm Helmet Meantime Hot Water Music Live at the Hardback Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game Iggy and the Stooges Raw Power Iggy and the Stooges Open Up and Bleed Iggy and the Stooges California Bleeding Iggy and the Stooges Detroit Rehearsals Iggy Pop New Values Iggy Pop The Idiot Iguanas s/t In/Humanity The History Behind the Mystery Inept Images of Betrayal Infest Slave Infest No Man's Slave Infest Live Instil Gray Before My Eyes split Interpol Antics Iron Maiden s/t Iron Maiden Maiden Japan Iron Maiden Piece of Mind Iron Maiden Live After Death Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking Japan Adolescent Sex Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy Jazz June They Love Those Who Make the Music Jazz June The Boom, The Motion, and the Music Jesus Lizard Liar Jesus Lizard Down Jesus Lizard Shot Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland Johny Cash At Folsom Prison Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Orange Karate Pockets Karate s/t Karate The Bed is in the Ocean Kraftwerk Autobahn Kraftwerk The Man Machine Kung Fu Rick Motivation to Abuse Kylesa s/t Kylesa Cream Abdul Babar split Kylesa To Walk a Middle Course Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth L.A. Guns s/t Last Poets, Dead Prez and Common Panthers Leaf Hound Growers of Mushroom Led Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin IV Zoso Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same Led Zeppelin Presence Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door Led Zeppelin Coda Limp Wrist s/t 12" Los Crudos 1991-1995 Los Primeros Gritos Los Crudos Canciones para liberar nuestras fronteras Los Crudos Spitboy split Lou Reed Transformer Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy Loving in Times of War Madness s/t Man or Astroman? Experiment Zero Managra Modern Day Remembrance Manowar Fighting the World Mars Volta Frances the Mute single MC5 1965-1968 MC5 Kick Out the Jams MC5 Back in the USA MC5 High Times MC5 Motor City is Burning MC5 Live at Saginaw Civic Centre 1970 Megadeth Peace Sells but Who's Buying Memento Mori s/t Metallica Whiplash Metallica Creeping Death Metallica Master of Puppets Metallica Kill Em All Michael Jackson Thriller Milemarker Non Plus Ultra Milemarker Frigid Forms Sell Mineral End Serenading Ministry Twitch Ministry Over the Shoulder Ministry Stigmata Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime Misfits Static Age Misfits Walk Among Us Misfits Earth AD/Wolfsblood Misfits Die Die My Darling Misfits Legacy of Brutality Misfits Evilive Misfits Collection 1 Misfits Collection 2 Misfits Braineaters-Live@Al's Bar 1982 Misfits Live@Whiskey A Go Go/Original Plan 9 Walk Among Us Misfits I Turned Into a Martian-Live@Ritz 1981 Mk Ultra/Seein Red Network of Friends Part 3 Morning Again The Cleanest War Motley Crue Shout at the Devil Motley Crue Theatre of Pain Motley Crue Girls Girls Girls Motley Crue Doctor Feelgood Motorhead Ace of Spades Motorhead Iron Fist Mt. McKinleys Portrait of a Mindbender My Lai Learn Forget Relearn Naz Nomad and the Nightmares Give Daddy the Knife Cindy Nirvana Bleach Nirvana Nevermind Nirvana In Utero Omar Rodriguez Lopez Please Heat This Eventually Orchid Chaos Is Me Orchid Dance Tonight, Revolution Tomorrow! Palatka The End of Irony Palatka/Asshole Parade Network of Friends Part 2 Party of Helicopters Mt. Forever Party of Helicopters the first two years of conquering the tundra Paul Revere and the Raiders Goin' to Memphis Pinhead Circus Detailed Instructions for the Self-Involved Pink Floyd Relics Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds Pink Floyd Animals Planes Mistaken for Stars Knife in the Marathon Police Outlandos D'Amour Portraits of Past 01001011... Psychedelic Furs Forever Now Pussy Galore Right Now! Pussy Galore Dial M for Motherfucker Queensryche s/t Queensryche The Warning Queensryche Rage for Order Queensryche Operation Mindcrime Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Rainbow Rainbow Rising Rainbow On Stage Rainbow Difficult to Cure Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes Rainbow Bent Out of Shape Rainbow Long Live Rock n' Roll Ramones Leave Home Ramones Rocket to Russia Ramones Road to Ruin Rebel Radio Hip Hop Barrio Red Scare Capillary Lockdown Red Scare Strangers Die Everyday Refused Everlasting Republic of Freedom Fighters s/t Republic of Freedom Fighters Third World Planet split Rites of Spring s/t 12" Roky Erickson and the Aliens Don't Knock the Rok! Roky Erickson and the Aliens The Evil One Rolling Stones Now! Rolling Stones Out of Our Heads Rolling Stones December's Children Rolling Stones Aftermath(US) Rolling Stones Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request Rolling Stones Between the Buttons Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet Rolling Stones Exile on Main St Rolling Stones Goat's Head Soup Rolling Stones Black and Blue Rolling Stones Metamorphosis Rolling Stones Some Girls Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Rush A Farewell to Kings Rush Hemispheres Rush Permanent Waves Rush Moving Pictures Rush Exit Stage Left Rush Signals Rush Archives Samiam Astray Scared of Chaka Crossing with Switchblades Scared of Chaka Masonic Youth Scared of Chaka Hutch Brown Sayngwich Seeds s/t Seeds Web of Sound Seven Days of Samsara/Since By Man split 12" Shadows of Knight Back Door Men Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion Shellac At Action Park Shotmaker Mouse Ear Forget Me Not Skatalites Ska Authentic Sky Saxon Firewall Slayer Show No Mercy Slayer Reign in Blood Small Brown Bike Our Own Wars Song of Kerman the unamerican sounds of... Song of Zarathustra A View From High Tides Specials s/t Spy Versus Spy Little Lights Stooges s/t Stooges Fun House Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints Strike Anywhere Chorus of One Struggle s/t 12" Subhumans EP LP Subhumans From the Cradle to the Grave Subhumans Worlds Apart Subhumans 29:29 Split Vision Suicidal Tendencies Join the Army Suicidal Tendencies Lights Camera Revolution Suicidal Tendencies How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... Sun Ra Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1 Sun Ra My Brother the Wind Team Dresch Personal Best Team Dresch Captain My Captain Terminal Youth s/t 12" The Cars s/t The Monacles s/t The Preachers Moanin' Third Bardo s/t Thoughts of Ionesco And Then Their Was Motion Thoughts of Ionesco The Triptych Session Threadbare Feeling Older Faster Threadbare Escapist Three Penny Opera Countless Trips From Here to There Torche s/t Torches to Rome s/t Tristeza s/t EP Tuesday Freewheelin Twelve Hour Turn The Victory of Flight Twelve Hour Turn Perfect Progress, Perfect Destruction Twelve Hour Turn Bend Break Spill Twelve Hour Turn/I Hate Myself split 12" Universal Order of Armageddon 3 song 12"(Gravity#12) Universal Order of Armageddon The Switch is Down v/a Garage Punk Unknowns Vol.8 v/a El Guapo comp on 625 v/a Tomorrow Will Be Worse vol. 2 v/a Possessed to Skate v/a South America in Decline v/a Histeria Lengua Armada comp Vanilla Fudge s/t Vanilla Fudge Near the Beginning Vanilla Fudge The Beat Goes On Vanilla Fudge Rock and Roll Velvet Underground Etc. Velvet Underground And so on Velvet Underground Archetypes Velvet Underground Loaded Velvet Underground 1969 live Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City Velvet Underground VU Venom Black Metal Ventures Running Strong Ventures Where the Action Is! Violent Femmes s/t White Stripes Elephant Whitesnake Come and Get It Whitesnake Saints and Sinners Whitesnake s/t Who Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Who Who Are You Who Quadrophenia Witch s/t Yaphet Kotto The Killer Was in the Government Blankets Yaphet Kotto Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love Young Pioneers Free the (Young) Pioneers Now! Youth of Today We're Not in This Alone Youth of Today Can't Close My Eyes

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