Discogs Prices Are In-sane
In the Summer 2001 issue of Ugly Things Magazine, author/archivist/curator Johan Kugelberg wrote a feature describing “The godlike glory of DIY records; the shoddy xerox sleeve; the rubber-stamped label, the cheapest pressing imaginable; the inside jokes in the label copy;…
Sometime in the late 90’s I was working at a record store in Boston when this guy, probably early 30’s, suit and tie, came in and asked “Hey, you guys buy CD’s right? Do you also buy records?” I informed…
I spent the first 18 years of my life in NJ and CT just close enough to NYC that in the late 80’s and early 90’s I could tune in to WBLS, KISS-FM and occasionally WKCR Columbia (where Stretch &…
Being a collector of indie/punk/etc records in New York City for any period of time in the 90’s/early 00’s means at least one of two things: 1. You’ve been in a record store somewhere below 14th St in Manhattan and…
I first learned of the world of Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster AKA “Scharpling & Wurster” around 1999 or 2000, not too long after they first started collaborating together on Scharpling’s weekly call-in radio show on WFMU in New Jersey,…
Whether it was Star Wars figures, baseball cards or records, I’ve always had a proclivity for collecting things that appear on lists. The catalogs that came inside Star Wars boxes, the checklist cards that came in sports cards packs and…
My initial introduction to disco in the 80’s was being told by music connoisseurs much older and wiser than I, that it (and I quote), “SUCKS.” These same people would then proceed to play me Journey or Twisted Sister or…
I think I became aware of the concept of “sampling” well before I was a teenager. Two of my uncles had gone from wearing KISS makeup on Halloween and outfitting their vans with full size beds and working B&W television…
The first time I heard of David Peel was when I was 16 or 17 years old, still in high school, and I happened upon a copy of the “King Of Punk” LP at a record store. Even at that…