longgoneloser

I love used record stores in the USA... I spent 4 weeks in LA / Chicago recently and went to Vinyl Frontier in McHenry, Illinois. If anyone is into 70's / 80's metal / hard rock, I suggest you go to this place. I bought a shitload of records there, all in great condition for around $3 - $6 each. Some really hard to get stuff. Most was around $3. I spent $162 there and then the guy says "go grab an extra $25 worth of records for free!" and i was like "WTF?!?!?!" and he said "no one ever walks in and spends $162 in one go on a Wednesday." That dude gets my thumbs up. And if there's any Beatles fans here, he still has a sealed copy of an original Butcher Babies cover framed on the wall. He had it appraised at over $25,000 and there's only 11 sealed copies in existence. It's worth the drive alone if you're a Beatles fan. But yeah, great store, great guy.
Rainbow Records in Palatine or wherever it is... some good records but shit condition for the prices. Way too expensive. Unless you think spending $15 on a Bruce Springsteen record is worth it considering you can find them everywhere in the USA in $1 stores.
I got tons of SAMMY HAGAR, KISS, DOKKEN, Y&T, RATT, DEF LEPPARD, TRIUMPH, RAVEN, WHITESNAKE, BLACK SABBATH, RORY GALLAGHER, KROKUS, TYGERS OF PAN TANG, SAMSON, SCORPIONS, AUTOGRAPH, CHEAP TRICK, RUSH, HEART, THE VENTURES, PRINCE, BOB SEGER, BLONDIE, etc. for no more than $3 each most were $1 or 50 cents.
My next plan is to go to the USA and hire a van and drive from one side to the next, just going through all used stores and just buying a fuckload of records along the way.
In LA I went to Amoeba in Hollywood and just delved into their boxes of 7"ers... found all these for 50 cents to $1 each:
The Records - Teenarama
Unit 11:74
Nursery Crimes - All Torn Up Inside (blue vinyl)
Wino / Scott Kelly split
Sugar - Titled
Naked Raygun - Vanilla Blue
The Dictators - I Am Right
Dead Silence - How can we make any more money than this?
Oiler - with the pop up cover of the person in bed
plus tons more including stuff by Red Aunts, American Ruse, The Bitters, The Fluid, Boris The Sprinkler, Grand Funk Railroad, Chrome Cranks, Supersuckers, Green Day, The Dragons, The New Christs, Pooh Sticks, Patti Smith, Riverboat Gamblers, The Dogs, Lime Spiders, The Thing, Pyschotic Turnbuckles, Valiant Thorr, Man Or Astro-Man?...
The stores in the USA for used records are amazing. Love that place. Will return next year for MARYLAND DEATH FEST so if anyone knows good used stores around Baltimore, please let me know.

My MC5 vinyl collection.
1. LIVE AT THE GRANDE BALLROOM 1968 2xLP (Get Back)
2. REHEARSALS 2xLP (Get Back)
3. ‘66 BREAKOUT! (Alive! / Total Energy)
4. TEEN AGE LUST - Recorded live at the Saginaw Civic Center, January 1st, 1970 (Alive! / Total Energy)
5. 1965-1968 2xLP (Get Back)
6. THUNDER EXPRESS (Munster)
7. KICK OUT THE JAMS (censored version - Elektra)
8. KICK OUT THE JAMS (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
9. ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY? - THE LIVE BOOTLEG ANTHOLOGY PART 1 - Sturgis Armoury, 27th June 1968 (Earmark)
10. MOTOR CITY IS BURNING 2xLP (180 gram vinyl - Earmark)
11. BACK IN THE USA (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
12. BACK IN THE USA (Atlantic)
13. STARSHIP - Live at Sturgis Armoury, June 27th 1968 (Total Energy)
14. DO IT! (Revenge)
15. BABES IN ARMS (Reachout International)
16. HIGH TIME (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
17. KICK OUT THE JAMS! ANTHOLOGY 1965-1971 3xLP Boxset #474/500 (Cleopatra)
18. LIVE AT THE SAGINAW CIVIC CENTRE 1st JAN 1970 (Get Back)
19. MC5 PICTURE DISC (Alive! / Total Energy)
20. LOOKING AT YOU / BORDERLINE 10” (Alive! / Total Energy)
21. ICE PICK SLIM 10” (Alive)
22. POWER TRIP 10” (Alive)
23. SISTER ANN featuring Lemmy 7” (White Panther)
24. KICK OUT THE JAMS 7” #49/200 (White Label)
25. MC5 / AFRIKA BAMBAATAA - SIDE BY SIDE RECORD STORE DAY 7” (Rhino)

I have all the respect in the world for Jack White. Like someone else said, he could just sit in some mansion and count money OR he could do stuff with his money that people will get enjoyment out of. Opening a record store, starting a label, all this "gimmicky shit" is the thing he is interested in and wants people to be interested in. It really gets people into everything vinyl and from a golden era of kitsch and Americana. One of those mold machines wouldn't have been cheap and that Scopitone would have cost a mint to restore and get all those videos put on to 16mm reels. He's doing things for the fans of his label's music. You don't have to go there and spend money on it but it's there if you want to. He hasn't gone the way of KI$$ or MI$FIT$ and just whored himself out to any piece of merch that comes his way (condoms, coffins, perfumes, fragrances and fucking golf balls). The dude has a fuckload of money so these things are his way of sharing his fortunes with the people who helped him get there. He never stops working, always doing something and that is commendable.

I have all the respect in the world for Jack White. Like someone else said, he could just sit in some mansion and count money OR he could do stuff with his money that people will get enjoyment out of. Opening a record store, starting a label, all this "gimmicky shit" is the thing he is interested in and wants people to be interested in. It really gets people into everything vinyl and from a golden era of kitsch and Americana. One of those mold machines wouldn't have been cheap and that Scopitone would have cost a mint to restore and get all those videos put on to 16mm reels. He's doing things for the fans of his label's music. You don't have to go there and spend money on it but it's there if you want to. He hasn't gone the way of KI$$ or MI$FIT$ and just whored himself out to any piece of merch that comes his way (condoms, coffins, perfumes, fragrances and fucking golf balls). The dude has a fuckload of money so these things are his way of sharing his fortunes with the people who helped him get there. He never stops working, always doing something and that is commendable.

My MC5 vinyl collection.
1. LIVE AT THE GRANDE BALLROOM 1968 2xLP (Get Back)
2. REHEARSALS 2xLP (Get Back)
3. ‘66 BREAKOUT! (Alive! / Total Energy)
4. TEEN AGE LUST - Recorded live at the Saginaw Civic Center, January 1st, 1970 (Alive! / Total Energy)
5. 1965-1968 2xLP (Get Back)
6. THUNDER EXPRESS (Munster)
7. KICK OUT THE JAMS (censored version - Elektra)
8. KICK OUT THE JAMS (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
9. ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY? - THE LIVE BOOTLEG ANTHOLOGY PART 1 - Sturgis Armoury, 27th June 1968 (Earmark)
10. MOTOR CITY IS BURNING 2xLP (180 gram vinyl - Earmark)
11. BACK IN THE USA (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
12. BACK IN THE USA (Atlantic)
13. STARSHIP - Live at Sturgis Armoury, June 27th 1968 (Total Energy)
14. DO IT! (Revenge)
15. BABES IN ARMS (Reachout International)
16. HIGH TIME (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
17. KICK OUT THE JAMS! ANTHOLOGY 1965-1971 3xLP Boxset #474/500 (Cleopatra)
18. LIVE AT THE SAGINAW CIVIC CENTRE 1st JAN 1970 (Get Back)
19. MC5 PICTURE DISC (Alive! / Total Energy)
20. LOOKING AT YOU / BORDERLINE 10” (Alive! / Total Energy)
21. ICE PICK SLIM 10” (Alive)
22. POWER TRIP 10” (Alive)
23. SISTER ANN featuring Lemmy 7” (White Panther)
24. KICK OUT THE JAMS 7” #49/200 (White Label)
25. MC5 / AFRIKA BAMBAATAA - SIDE BY SIDE RECORD STORE DAY 7” (Rhino)

My MC5 vinyl collection.
1. LIVE AT THE GRANDE BALLROOM 1968 2xLP (Get Back)
2. REHEARSALS 2xLP (Get Back)
3. ‘66 BREAKOUT! (Alive! / Total Energy)
4. TEEN AGE LUST - Recorded live at the Saginaw Civic Center, January 1st, 1970 (Alive! / Total Energy)
5. 1965-1968 2xLP (Get Back)
6. THUNDER EXPRESS (Munster)
7. KICK OUT THE JAMS (censored version - Elektra)
8. KICK OUT THE JAMS (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
9. ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY? - THE LIVE BOOTLEG ANTHOLOGY PART 1 - Sturgis Armoury, 27th June 1968 (Earmark)
10. MOTOR CITY IS BURNING 2xLP (180 gram vinyl - Earmark)
11. BACK IN THE USA (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
12. BACK IN THE USA (Atlantic)
13. STARSHIP - Live at Sturgis Armoury, June 27th 1968 (Total Energy)
14. DO IT! (Revenge)
15. BABES IN ARMS (Reachout International)
16. HIGH TIME (180 gram vinyl - Sundazed)
17. KICK OUT THE JAMS! ANTHOLOGY 1965-1971 3xLP Boxset #474/500 (Cleopatra)
18. LIVE AT THE SAGINAW CIVIC CENTRE 1st JAN 1970 (Get Back)
19. MC5 PICTURE DISC (Alive! / Total Energy)
20. LOOKING AT YOU / BORDERLINE 10” (Alive! / Total Energy)
21. ICE PICK SLIM 10” (Alive)
22. POWER TRIP 10” (Alive)
23. SISTER ANN featuring Lemmy 7” (White Panther)
24. KICK OUT THE JAMS 7” #49/200 (White Label)
25. MC5 / AFRIKA BAMBAATAA - SIDE BY SIDE RECORD STORE DAY 7” (Rhino)