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Real name: 
Danny

Favorite Bands: 
Ramones, Riverdales, Misfits, Copyrights, Rancid, Weezer, Clash, Off With Their Heads, Teenage Bottlerocket, Social Distortion, Lillingtons

Hobbies (outside of record collecting): 
photography, computers, video editing, skateboarding, playing the guitar

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
Yes!  Back Alley Riot

http://www.backalleyriot.com

https://www.facebook.com/backalleyriot

http://backalleyriot.bandcamp.com/

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I work in the IT/computer field, I live in Chicago, and I hate pickles.

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Greetings, everyone!

 

Real name: 
Homer

Favorite Bands: 
Far too many to name, but I will say I'm big on shoegaze, dreampop, post-punk, darkwave/coldwave/goth, metal (no "core" metal), indie, chillwave, trip hop, among many others.

 

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?: 
Twitter: @Spooky_Kabuki

Instagram: @scumpadre

Tumblr: spooky-kabuki.tumblr.com

Hobbies (outside of record collecting): 
I'm a horror and haunt enthusiast, so I like to dabble in props and such.  I'm heavily into thrifting/antique hunting.  I've also been an Ebay seller for a decade and am still going strong.

 

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
I play guitar here and there, but I'm not involved with a band.

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I'm a huge horror fanatic, as well as haunt enthusiast.  I plan to get into the haunted house industry at some point in the future.  I'm going to dabble in prop making, special effects, mask making, etc.   I'm also a huge wrestling fanatic.  I'm huge on Lucha Libre, WWE, and various indie organizations.  Fuck TNA.  

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Real name:

Bryan

Favorite Bands:

American Nightmare, ETID, Converge. Pretty varied taste though, I can get down to lots of different stuff.

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):

Bikes, surfing, drawing/painting, getting tattooed, more bikes.

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:

Left these guys about a year ago due to moving to Philly, and commuting back to NY made me feel like killing.

http://www.cavalloband.com Go buy a 7"!

Random things you want us to know about you:

I do event production lighting and wrench at a bike shop. Mostly here to find records that I should've bought 10+ years ago.

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Real name: Deej

Favorite Bands: (copied from my okcupid profile)

little big league, iron chic, minor threat, rvivr, the descendents, restorations, the menzingers, the wild, the smith street band, spraynard, the copyrights, the bouncing souls, youth brigade, dead kennedys, teenage bottlerocket, millencolin, lemuria, the ergs, title fight, fucked up, joyce manor, the flatliners, big dick, metz, propagandhi, white lung, masked intruder, lipstick homicide, crusades, hop along, mean jeans, paul baribeau, pity sex, big eyes, canadian rifle, radiator hospital, night birds, andrew jackson jihad, banner pilot, cayetana, glocca mora, hot water music

What's your blog? pending.

Hobbies (outside of record collecting): obsessive hockey fan (go wild!). designer/seamstress. i make bags, accessories and home decor... just started making messenger bags sized to carry vinyl lps. cheeseburger enthusiast. hufflepuff.

Random things you want us to know about you: every year i travel to fest from central canada... by greyhound. it takes 4+ days EACH way. and well worth it.

started lurking here because i don't have any local friends who listen to the same music as i do. i'd love it if you sent me a message if you wanted to talk about punk, hockey, or both!

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Real name: 
Ethan

Favorite Bands: 
Blood Orange , Joyce Manor , Title Fight , Elvis Depressedly , Teen Suicide , Nouns , Joy Division , Cities Aviv , Walter Mitty & His Makeshift Orchestra, Mac Demarco, Rudimentary Peni , Hoax, The Rival Mob , Salvation , Total Abuse , Francis Harold & The Holograms.

 

Mainly punk/lofi/hardcore/industrial

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?: 
https:/www.facebook.com/etienne.lasalle.10 (Only use it to keep track of bands and labels and my girlfriend ;)

Hobbies (outside of record collecting): 
show-going, music-making, word-writing, book-reading, print-making, sleeping

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
Hope to run a label soon, but not now.

 

Haunt

http://haunt420.bandcamp.com/ (some bleeps and bloops that I make at 4 am)

 

Vocals in V(irtual)H(olographic)S(ex)/Black Santa (RIP)

 

 

Haha we played 2 house shows, started as a christmas-themed hardcore band. Fun times. 

Random things you want us to know about you: 
I was planning on becoming vegetarian for a year, but I can't stop now.

I am hopelessly in love.

I am an insomniac. 

I have no friends. 

Fuck school. 

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Real name: 
Danielle. 

Favorite Bands: 
brand new. coheed & cambria. misfits. bayside. alkaline trio. the format. TREOS

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?: 
http://danismithillustration.blogspot.com/

Hobbies (outside of record collecting): 
art. videogames.

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
I once played bass in a Kittie cover band when I was a freshman in HS

Random things you want us to know about you: 

I love squirrels.

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Here it goes :D

 

Real name:
William, but you can call me Will

Favorite Bands:
Coheed and Cambria, BTBAM, Tera Melos

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:
http://www.facebook.com/william.wagner.369

http://twitter.com/emokid9963


Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
videogames, movies, my GF, food

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
sadly no

Random things you want us to know about you:
Nothing really random about me honeslty.  I guess I could say im cheap, but love to impulse buy things.  Big issue with me.

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Hey there! I'm Jared! I love vinyl! Favorite bands; everything from Zappa, Dylan, Sabbath to Dead Kennedys, Chain Rank, Bill Orcutt, Aaron Dilloway, Ani Difranco, Rusted Root, Grateful Dead, etc...

 

I play lots of tunes; vistit http://www.Jareddocestes.bandcamp.com

 

Here's a recent jam:

https://soundcloud.com/jareds-insomnia-cafe/mana-pre-mix-take-2

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Real name:
Natalie

Favorite Bands:
Nirvana, The Bronx, Rancid, The Clash, Foo Fighters, Bouncing Souls, Misfits

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:
https://www.facebook.com/natalie.odonnell.71

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
photography, travel, food

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
Nope. Although I did play guitar in a shitty punk rock band in high school. We were really bad...

Random things you want us to know about you:

I live in Chicago and work as a baby photographer. I have lots of tattoos, am a vegetarian and I really hate winter. I love to travel to new places and different countries and I buy some form of art in every city I go to.

 

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Real name:

Alex

Favorite Bands:

NOFX, Night Birds, Suicidal Tendencies (not much after S/T), Operation Ivy, Youth Brigade, Led Zeppelin, Adolescents, Descendents, James Gang, Black Flag, OFF!, Marty Robbins

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

I'll post tumblr later, though I don't update it much

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):

I play guitar, I like to sing sometimes. On occasion I will actually listen to records.

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:

No and no, but I'd really like to do both. All my friends have shit taste in music though, so it looks like we won't be warming up with covers of "Beer Bong" or "the Qwassitworsh" anytime soon.

Random things you want us to know about you:

Finances permitting, my ultimate goal in the realm of vinyl is to become a NOFX variant collector. For now, I'm just trying to track down variants of my favorite LP (Ribbed - almost halfway done!) and get whatever else I can without paying an arm and a leg.

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I've been away from the VC Board for so long I thought it was time for a re-introduction.

Real name:

Christer

Favorite Bands:

Ceremony, Converge, Paint It Black, The Clash, The Measure SA, Fucked Up, Young Widows, Tragedy etc.

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

Fanzine/Blog: http://smallhoursjournal.tumblr.com

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):

Books, whisky without an e, bird-watching (for real) and traveling of course.

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Real name:
Laura

Favorite Bands:
The Smiths/Morrissey, The White Stripes, Mirah, Magnetic Fields, Arctic Monkeys, Patrick Wolf, way too many more to list

I also collect 60s pop, albums with theramins/sci-fi sound effect type stuff, screenprinted album sleeves (or handmade album sleeves).

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

I have a twitter and instragram that I've never used.

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
art/design, refinishing furniture, fashion, being outdoors (I love canoeing, hiking, horseback riding, that kind of thing). Mainly record collecting though (tbh)

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
I just stick to collecting. I have done graphic design work for distros/labels/bands though.

Random things you want us to know about you:

I started collecting because my grandfather gave me his old jazz records as a kid. I work in a library, which I love. I studied graphic design and literature in school. A few years ago I sold a chunk of my collection (partly due to moving related frustrations, partly due to "I can't believe this is my life", and partly to get some money for school). Super regret it now. I love Steve Buscemi. I like snacks. I like travelling but the first thing I always do is try to find the record shops (the first thing I do when thinking about travelling is to check out what kind of shops are around. This may or may not influence my decision to go).

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I just started this vinyl journey today at the age of 30.

 

Name:

Dustin

Favorite Bands:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Radiohead, Iron & Wine, Explosions in the Sky, Elliot Smith, Zao, The Chariot, mewithoutYou

 

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):

I enjoy being a husband and dad, playing PC games, watching baseball, and drinking coffee.

Random things you want us to know about you:

I'm a middle school English teacher.

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Hello !!

 

Real name: 

 

Joel

Favorite Bands:

 

Tame Imapala, MGMT, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Temples, Jagwar Ma, Motley Crue, Dream Theater, Rush


What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

 

https://www.facebook.com/Sgtpepper68

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):

 

Hockey, Nature


Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:

 

I did sing in the past, but now it's over :(


Random things you want us to know about you:

 

I live in Quebec, Canada so my first language is french ! I am not bilingual so sorry if sometimes my sentence aren't clear :)

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Real name: 
Shaun

Favorite Bands:
Mainly rock/metal music from late 60s to recent bands. At the moment listening to Coheed & Cambria, Dead Letter Circus, Karnivool.
 
What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:
www.facebook.com/NowSpinningTV
www.twitter.com/NowSpinningTV
www.instagram.com/NowSpinningTV
www.youtube.com/NowSpinningTV
www.NowSpinning.TV
 
 
Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
Enjoy going to gigs/concerts, web design, the outdoors (restaurants and bars over here in Melbourne), and record collecting discovering new music.

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
I'm working on a project called NowSpinningTV (www.NowSpinning.TV) where I post YouTube videos discussing my recent vinyl finds. And also on Instagram I post some photos on a regular basis whenever I'm spinning some tunes. You can find all the links above.

Random things you want us to know about you:

 

My dad started record collecting in the 70s collecting records mainly hard rock, blues, prog rock music. Being raised in the 90s during the Cassettes and CDs era I was more into early 90s bands such as Metallica, Guns n' Roses, Pearl Jam. My dad used to suggest me to listen to bands such as Yes, Rush, Alan Parsons Project, Camel, Clapton, Santana, Dire Straits. So I found it difficult getting into the bands at a young age during the metal and grunge scene.

 

I've just turned 30 and I’ve recently just set up my turntable and my dad shipped me his entire record collection from overseas.

 

​Now I'm on a journey rediscovering music :)

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Real name: 
Errol. 
Favorite Bands:
cursed, MLIW, the microphones/mount eerie, american football. dumb shit like that.

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

https://www.facebook.com/errol.west

https://twitter.com/worstloser

http://errrolgoeswest.tumblr.com/

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
Playing in bands, recording bands, fixing guitars ect

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
https://bunkwavesband.bandcamp.com/

http://invasion666.bandcamp.com/

http://secretangles.bandcamp.com/

my main band is recording our first release this weekend/will probably be more exciting than any of the links i just posted.

Random things you want us to know about you:
i used to post a ton on VC back in the day haven't really posted too much since 2010. im pretty bored/it looks like a few familiar faces have started posting again. hi

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Real name: 
John


Favorite Bands:
Black Sabbath, Mount Eerie, Skeletonwitch

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

The only social media I'm on is instagram @john_a_thon

 

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
Hanging out with my dog, reading, playing M:tg.


Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:

Nope.

Random things you want us to know about you:
I like a good beer and a burger. If you're stopping through Portland and want to know where to get a good one of either, or find a record store, hit me up.

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Real name:
Laura M.

Favorite Bands:
of Montreal, Built to Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, The Olivia Tremor Control, Nana Grizol, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Brand New, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Tennis, Los Campesinos!  I'm not going to list all of them because I love so many bands but those are at the top of the list :)

What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:
Ask me if you want them? You'll probably be weirded out if you don't already know me so I'm not putting them here right now.

Hobbies (outside of record collecting):
Making art (sculpture, crafty things, etc) going to thrift stores, attempting to learn how to play guitar, drinking and hanging out with awesome friends and going to shows!

Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:
I freakin wish!

Random things you want us to know about you:
I love of Montreal too much and Kevin Barnes knows who I am

 

I made my account forever ago and then forgot about it but now I'm back :)

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Real name: 

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Favorite Bands:

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What's your Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr etc.?:

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Hobbies (outside of record collecting):

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Play in a band? Run a record label? Link us!:

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Random things you want us to know about you:

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