As the saying goes, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” and I thought I’d take the time to highlight some records I love that’re often floatin’ around for next to nothing. Some of this stuff might not be easy…
Category: rock
“At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.” – Chris Burden
The first time I ever saw a Born Against record was at Rhymes Records in New Haven, CT in 1991. I was 15 or 16. It was on a new release rack next to “Steady Diet of Nothing” by Fugazi,…
“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” – Audrey Hepburn
The curse of getting a song you don’t like stuck in your head can be absolutely maddening. I’m not even sure I can think of too many times where I got a song I do like stuck in my head…
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I don’t think I’ve ever been able to look at a Jan Hammer record without unconsciously thinking “Miami Vice”. The series ran a total of 5 seasons during which I went from age 9 to 14, prime TV viewing time…
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.” – William S. Burroughs
For going on two decades I’ve had this memory in my mind of the hardest, most pronounced eye roll I had ever received from a record store employee. It wasn’t until a few years ago that a friend pointed out…
“Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum” – Lucretius, First Century B.C.
Not long ago my wife posted an Instagram video of our nephew, a 4 year old growing up in South London, banging on a toy guitar/synthesizer and loudly singing shouting a song he had just written on the spot and…
“I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not?” – Jack Handey
If you’re a record collector who has spent any time keeping up with new releases within your preferred genres, surely at least once you’ve missed out on buying something “limited” that went OOP within minutes of being put up for…
“I Thought Solihull Was For Snobs: The Mell Square Musick Story” by Paul Panic
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;…
“To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
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…
“Lot of things in short supply right now, gang. Let’s not make smiles one of them.” – Colin Quinn
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,…