Last Bought

innerspaceboy · 07-17-2016, 10:04 PM

A total shocker - I just ordered a compact disc! The album was only pressed once in the UK and the lone copy for sale on the net is obscenely hyperinflated in price, so I've decided to settle for the CD.

I don't even own a CD/DVD player, but it's more a historical piece than a useful object.

Blank. · 07-17-2016, 10:05 PM

What is that you bought? What's the CD of?

innerspaceboy · 07-18-2016, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by 1blankmind

What is that you bought? What's the CD of?

Future Sound of London's avant-garde ambient classic, Lifeforms. Featuring contributions from Klaus Schulze and Robert Fripp, and spanning two discs of cerebrally-engaging experimental atmospheric textures, it is an album I hope to one day own on vinyl. Just ordered the original double-CD to hold me over.

There were two pressings issued in 1994 on Virgin, on in the UK and the other in all of Europe. The median sale price is $75 but the only copy currently listed for sale online is $130. FSOL's work is a bit of a niche interest and fairly hard to come by, (796 Discogs users have marked the pressing of this album as "wanted"), so it's a bit of a grail.

Fripp provided guitar textures on "Flak" (as well as abstract sounds by Ozric Tentacles) and "Omnipresence" was co-written by Schulze. The album certainly isn't for everyone, but for leftfield/illbient/dark ambient/avant-garde electronic enthusiasts it's a bit of a milestone.

Also just scored a wonderful piece of hacker culture history! (x-posted from a pending submission to my member journal).

As many of you may recall, this famous whistle was packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal in 1971. The whistle emitted a tone at precisely 2600 hertz and could be used to make free long distance phone calls. (Remember, this was back when long distance calls were expensive.)

The whistles have at times commanded over a hundred dollars on eBay but I picked this one up for a very reasonable price. It will make a wild necklace to sport my maker-culture pride!

innerspaceboy · 07-18-2016, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

So bizarre to see what becomes "collectable" in later years.
I have at least one copy of this 2-vinyl thing because it was
part of my stock at my old CD/LP store I had back then.
I think I have a picture disc version of the title cut
around here somewhere too. Is illbient still a thing?

Impressive, Rostasi! Again, you have exquisite taste.

Illbient, like ambient dub, glitch, downtempo, and the hundreds of other microgenres of 90s electronic music still have microcosms of life. As I'm sure you're aware, the internet age has removed the former geographic borders of music like Berlin School or Detroit techno, allowing each nuance of musical interest to thrive and uniting obscure music fans the world over.

I would very much be interested in your copy of the LP (and possibly the pic single as well which I've seen floating around both eBay and Discogs.) If you'd consider parting with them, shoot me a PM !

And cheers to the MB community - you've got some brilliant members here!

innerspaceboy · 07-18-2016, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Well, a question for someone who follows these things:
I've got some of those Orb LPs wrapped in colored
PVC (U.F.Orb?) - one of which I opened something
like 25 years ago to listen to. I'm guessing that there
are people now (still?) interested in such things?
I'll keep you in mind when I come across "Lifeforms."

That's right - I'd wager that, were you to throw all of your deadstock up on the Discogs marketplace, that you could make a decent bit of cash just letting your inventory sell itself. The great thing about Discogs is that someone somewhere is looking for just about anything, and the fantastically-well-organized crowd-sourced catalog they maintain makes hunting even the most elusive titles a 2-3 second task.

Electronic sells well, and Discogs' market statistics will tell you how much the average copy of a given title in a given condition has successfully sold for on their market over any given period of time, so it is very easy to accurately price your stock.

And their new official app features bar code scanning from your phone, so inventory building is easier than ever.

I'd be happy to help you get started listing if you'd like to liquidate your dead stock. I'd just hope that I'd be granted first-dibs on all of your Orb-y downtempo goodness!

innerspaceboy · 07-18-2016, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

Yeah, I've picked up some things on Discogs.
I still have only 33 people who've left feedback,
but that's because I've been more prone to sell
things on eBay (since '99) because I'm continually
surprised by what people will pay for some things.
At Discogs, Im forced to request a set price and I like
the usually pleasant surprise of the final price on eBay.

Roger that. Whatever you elect to do, I'll be first in line to buy! Keep me posted, and thanks again!

**Frownland** · 08-01-2016, 08:58 PM

I bought some underwear for the first time since I was 14 or 15. I thought that I was just starting to prefer going commando until now.

Tristan_Geoff · 08-01-2016, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I bought some underwear for the first time since I was 14 or 15. I thought that I was just starting to prefer going commando until now.

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Plankton · 08-02-2016, 09:47 AM

I grabbed a NextBook tablet on Saturday. I needed something quick and cheap.

Norg · 08-02-2016, 09:52 AM

I bout to buy some music tickets

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