Comes a time when I feel I'm falling down the rabbit hole. One thing about dealing in (not necessarily with) the past, in a shamelessly profit-driven manner, is that decades all start to gel together in a Doctor Whooey sort of way. How many copies of "Poontwangie" does the world want? I won't speculate on the Rick Astley 45's.
So I've found as an emotional and financial coping mechanism, every now and then, I have to clear it all out, and get some new-past in here. The present isn't anything anyone wants. And the future is for those with more bullshit on hand than I.
I have close to 20,000 records I'm clearing out this week. Been using them too long, have taken what I need from them, and need room for something I haven't seen before (or not as often). Most, but not all, of it is up on eBay. So if you're one of the dealers I know on Facebook or Twitter, the basics are that the 45's here are all straight forward $2-$9 Rock, R&B and Country. The LP's are mostly sealed obscure R&B, Disco and Rock from the seventies that all came from one distributor, and for most of them he was the only distributor of those titles. Get bidding. Or call me, email me, send pigeons.
So I've found as an emotional and financial coping mechanism, every now and then, I have to clear it all out, and get some new-past in here. The present isn't anything anyone wants. And the future is for those with more bullshit on hand than I.
I have close to 20,000 records I'm clearing out this week. Been using them too long, have taken what I need from them, and need room for something I haven't seen before (or not as often). Most, but not all, of it is up on eBay. So if you're one of the dealers I know on Facebook or Twitter, the basics are that the 45's here are all straight forward $2-$9 Rock, R&B and Country. The LP's are mostly sealed obscure R&B, Disco and Rock from the seventies that all came from one distributor, and for most of them he was the only distributor of those titles. Get bidding. Or call me, email me, send pigeons.
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