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Frank Zappa
Roxy and Elsewhere

Startin' the day off right.

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Butthole Surfers
Electric Larryland

Some guy came in and was talking to us about how he used to go see Letterman live. I asked him what his favorite musical act was. He said Renaissance. I asked him what his least favorite was. He said "some awful band called, and I quote, The Butthole Surfers". I immediately put this on after he left.

He didn't like them because he's an ultra religious man who likes Renaissance.

Lame. You should've been like "check out this Renaissance side-project that came out last year".

Stick to what you know and throw on some Weezer.

I really hope this wasn't directed at me.

Twas pointed at the Weezer fan talking down on an artist in a genre that they don't enjoy much in the first place.

Phew.

If you like Weezer, I'll gladly make fun of you for that if you like.

I have never listened to a Weezer album.

That and played this song:


Or their insane cover of American Woman. :laughing:

On a serious note, Independent Worm Saloon is an incredible album and one of my favorite albums from the 90's.

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Stephen Malkmus and Jicks
Real Emotional Trash

This thing kicks.

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Courtney Barnett
Tell Me How You Really Feel

Never gave this a listen yet. Might as well play it here since we're now considered a cool place by the local hipsters.

Bro, we are? I have so much terrible ****.

....play it in my store?

Play this and the losers will touch themselves.



Seriously just play this for an hour and laugh at the results.

I had my phone on shuffle and "Yonkers" by Tyler the Creator came on and a bunch of old white ladies walked in and I forgot it was on because I was busy and I hear them say to each other" what kind of music is this? It's so raunchy".

I found it funny they used the term raunchy.

I still remember the time my mother unironically used the term "smut" and one day I intend to mock her for it but she's crazy yo.

Who was Raunch and where can we find their jokes?

Just now seeing this...If the guy was talking about the 70s version of Renaissance, then yeah, sure - a good band at times, BUT I’m a bigger fan of the Surfers ... right up to still wearing the t-shirts now and havin’ the posters then. A few years ago, I showed some high school pictures of Gibby here on the MB (scanned from the yearbook). There are about a half-dozen better albums from them besides that one tho.

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Van Morrison
Astral Weeks

We're very hard pressed for records right now. Been slow as far as buying goes. I've always had a soft spot for Van Morrison. The first pressing of this record is so damn expensive for some reason. $40.

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Mahavishnu Orchestra
Birds of Fire

Haven't heard this is a long while. I always find their albums either incredible or underwhelming. Don't really remember where this one falls.

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Talking Heads
Talking Heads: 77

The lack of interesting records in this shop is getting to me. Staple records are fine but I get bored with albums I've heard over and over again. Talking Heads however usually bypasses that because I love them so. This is a 2009 Rhino reissue. They sound good.

I love the records that are mentioned in your thread here EXO :)

Analogus is goregous....

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The Cure
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Rainy day. Good rainy day album.

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La Femme
Psycho Tropical Berlin

I showed my boss this record a few weeks ago and he immediately bought the record for the shop only and we've been listening to it non stop.

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Massive Attack
Mezzanine

Found a CD of this in the back. Had to throw it on.

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Beastie Boys
Hello Nasty

It's Friday night and we share a parking lot with a very good Italian restaurant. We have a lot of senior citizens come in and browse while they wait for their table. I'm trying to get them into hip hop. Still waiting for one of them to start bobbing their head.

Try some L'Orange. Maybe the old timey jazz samples will rope em in.

Problem is I need a CD or record and I don't have those. Our receiver has bluetooth but it's terrible.

How to buy CDs

How to buy vinyl

Hilarious.

I don't really buy CDs anymore and most of the L'Orange albums I love are expensive as f*ck.

You can't buy just the one CD? It'll break your hipster cred?

By that logic I should be buying more CDs because they are declining in popularity.

Yeah but nobody's doing that and you're not a trend setter.

my fav

always keep a copy in my van lol.

I only buy CD's not vinyl. So I guess that makes me a massive hipster.

I still can't bring myself to believe that analog sound and bigger artwork are enough to explain people under the age of 40 who legit collect vinyl. I'd buy a vinyl copy of an album I ****ed over and had bombass artwork just to say I had it but other than that it seems frivolous.

I can only really speak for myself here but I just like collecting stuff. I like finding albums I really like like in the wild. I don't adhere to that whole "vinyl sounds better. OOOOOOWEEEEE THE WARMTH." pretentious bullsh*t that most collectors spew out of their mouths. It's a hobby for me. I like trading and getting good deals and trying out stuff that I find in shops that isn't on a streaming service or even Youtube. If I don't like something, I'll sell it and get my money back. It's like anything else people collect.

What is it about the collecting? The aesthetic of the giant cover? The aesthetic of the giant vinyl? Both? I mean I get how collecting stuff can be irrational but still make sense to the person in question even if they can't put it into words. I mean I have a giant collection, hundreds of gigs, of digital comics on an external hard drive. Most of it I'll likely never read, but I don't care cause I just like having it. Not even just because it gives me the option to read them if I want, but it's oddly soothing to have a comprehensive library of things you think are cool. And this does not interfere with my buying of actual comics, nor does my physical collection cause me to delete digital comics since they're two separate collections and it doesn't matter if I have duplicates. To delete my digital copies would be to leave holes that would feel wrong.