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Points: 20032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 08:33
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I was about 8 so no sadly no poontang in sight
I once got a very wet French kiss after popping on Ace Of Base's undying classic 'I Saw The Sign'. Must've been 12.
 
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Points: 15331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 08:38
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ I have a good collection of cheesy pop. I have a New Kids On The Block album, Papa Roach etc. Not that i listen to them but i like having them in case i want to scare away guests! LOL

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Well, it's never too late. None of them have overdosed on anything yet as far as i know LOL

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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 08:39
Heh...I had to look up that acronym
Anyway my apologies. I will never mention Ace Of Base on PA again.
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Points: 20649 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 08:55
Regarding selling cd's......unless you have some obscure and rare prog, folk,  or jazz ,no one really wants them.
I've tried to sell mainstream stuff and my friend Bill gets very little for the classic rock he sells online at e-bay etc.
I have a fair amount of obscure prog and psych on cd and I have no intention of getting rid of them.....they are too hard to replace in many cases and I certainly can't afford the vinyl on most of them.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 09:25
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

I was about 8 so no sadly no poontang in sight

I'd forgotten how young you'd be when New Kids were having their moment.

When I was eight the only record I had was Puff the Magic Dragon. The finer points of this tale of Jackie Rolling Paper and his psychoactive friend were wasted on me at the time.

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Puff was a big thing somewhere around 1988. I didn't pick up on the "deeper" meaning either.
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Too busy buying CDs to think about selling them.

Back in the day my cast off CDs, vinyl and cassettes went to the local charity shops. Hope someone is enjoying those Chris de Burgh albums

Don't get me started on the entire box of eighties metal LPs that my mother gave away without asking me a few years after I left them with her for 'safekeeping'. All my thrash albums and even the Celtic Frost Tragic Serenades EP gone forever

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I bet you could sell those bad boys now and probably have enough dough to buy a small island somewhere Old metal lps (and cds for that matter) are highly sought after these days.

I have a bunch of old Metallica rarities on cd. I should probably sell them...but a part of me wants to wait and see how much the prizes go up in say a decade. If I'm lucky I will be buying Madagascar (and some Stax headphones of course).
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Points: 15331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 09:48
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Regarding selling cd's......unless you have some obscure and rare prog, folk,  or jazz ,no one really wants them.
I've tried to sell mainstream stuff and my friend Bill gets very little for the classic rock he sells online at e-bay etc.
I have a fair amount of obscure prog and psych on cd and I have no intention of getting rid of them.....they are too hard to replace in many cases and I certainly can't afford the vinyl on most of them.


These things go in cycles. Those who were hip in the 80s bought up prog albums from the 70s dirt cheap. Today those dollar albums are worth hundreds and thousands

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Points: 18383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 13:06
Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Too busy buying CDs to think about selling them.

Back in the day my cast off CDs, vinyl and cassettes went to the local charity shops. Hope someone is enjoying those Chris de Burgh albums

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Glad to see this thread continue!

I revisited a CD that I thought I was going to sell - "Fusion" with Christian Vander, Jannik Top, etc. In other words, Magma folks doing fusion. When I first got it I think I listened to it once, and wasn't too impressed. But listening yesterday, I really dug it! It's staying. 

The Ash Ra Tempel stuff - I think it's gonna go. 

I'm going to let go of Soft Machine - Alive and Well - the live album after Mike Ratledge left - I love John Marshall/Karl Jenkins-era Soft Machine but this one just doesn't make the cut. 

I don't really have a problem selling stuff to Amoeba - I could maybe try and get a little more via eBay but it's not really worth it to me. One time I sold off a bunch of stuff and got something like $500 in store credit! That let me buy stuff that I was searching for for a while without having to give up any cash. I'm also much pickier about what I get - when I was in grad school I lived in Berkeley and worked across the street from Amoeba and anytime I went in there I could find something to buy - I don't do that anymore!
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Points: 15331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2018 at 22:44
^ That's exactly why i can't let anything go anymore. I can't tell you how many times i've listened to something and it did absolutely nothing for me, placed it on the shelf for years and then only to discover it was absolutely brilliant! Of course this doesn't happen all the time. It does happen the other way around as well :P

As far as going to Amoeba, when i go in and tell myself i'm only going to buy one thing is like an alcoholic going to a New Year's party and saying they'll only have one beer. I literally feel the endorphins surging when i'm around so much music. The disc start singing to me and voices emerge saying "buy me!"

I always listen but at least i don't do what the Rice Krispies tell me any longer Clown

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Points: 20649 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2018 at 09:57
Never heard of Amoeba record store in LA before....looked it up online...wow ..what a place. 
Almost makes me want to get on a plane and go.
The last interesting place I was at was Electric Fetus in Minneapolis.
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Hey Doc, my son dragged me to the one in San Francisco. Wild place, more like a head shop, if you know what I mean. I think I liked it for all the wrong reasons! Wink
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Points: 20649 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2018 at 10:22
^ Definitely an old time head shop/record store.....loved it...reminded me of IU Bloomington back in the college days in the early 70's.
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@Dr Wu.... i was in LA a couple months back and went to that Amoeba Records in Hollywood. It blows away the ones in the Bay Area. It is huuuuuuuuuuuge! Probably one of the largest record stores left in the country perhaps.

@Steve.... yeah, the two Amoebas in the Bay Area have been wise as to ride the bandwagon into the legalization of cannabis. The one in SF issues medical cards (not sure if this will continue now that recreational marijuana use has been approved by the voters) and the one in Berkeley is an actual dispensery. I told them that they were brilliant! Get everyone stoned next to a music store! Genius!!!! LOL

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^  Yes, the Bay area! Still progressive and  psychedelic! Smile
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Yeah, the SF & Berkeley stores are local to me, but the Hollywood store is kind of a pilgrimage site for me - any time I am down there I try and stop by. I have found stuff there that I have been searching for for years, and also found stuff that I didn't even know I was looking for!
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I haven't been to Amoeba Hollywood in years. I need to rectify that. 

For fans of AH, a bit of bad news: in a few years, it won't be there. Meaning on the Sunset Strip. The owners sold the land (don't ask why/how, it's beyond me), and the current owners of the property want to build on the plot. The owners of AH say that they'll just "move to a new location in Hollywood/LA."

Which is ridiculous. AH and its unique façade have attained an iconic regard in SoCal. It's in a prime location. Unless they were to relocate to, say, the former-and-still-unused Tower Sunset store, I don't see how AH will withstand a move and sustain its viability and reputation. Really unfortunate. They should have thought about is so more before accepting the big check that landed in front of them.


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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ Do you have lots of prog stuff?

I have a decent amount.  Some I'll definitely keep, others I could easily part with now that I'm past my "all prog or nothing" phase and I bought a lot of crap. LOL  I guess it depends on the rarity of some of them, too.


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