Saturday is wombling free

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Record Fair today. As usual 95% white men 40+, 100% body odour that could strip paint.
 
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to York.
 
I got so so so drunk in Norwich yesterday.

Next level smashed.
 
lolly said:
Record Fair today. As usual 95% white men 40+, 100% body odour that could strip paint.
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I always hated those things. In many ways, they represented exactly what I was scared I would become...besides, I just want the music legitimately, I managed to wriggle free from the whole "I MUST have a first edition!!!" thing pretty fast.
 
Do you GET what you're HOPING FOR?
When you look behind you
There's no OPEN DOORS
What are you HOPING FOR?
Do you KNOW?

Record fairs were always shit not that I've been to one for about 20 years
 
Why in the internet age would anyone bother with a RECORD FAIR?
 
At least they seem to be FREE to get into these days. I'm sure I used to pay a fiver to get in twenty years ago.
 
Sheena said:
Why in the internet age would anyone bother with a RECORD FAIR?
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Bootlegs. Last one I went to was stuffed with dodgy boots of the type Discogs and eBay won't let you flog. Beatles outtakes, live Dylan, live Nirvana etc etc.
 
I think we're going to end up just shy of £150.
 
octophone said:
Bootlegs. Last one I went to was stuffed with dodgy boots of the type Discogs and eBay won't let you flog. Beatles outtakes, live Dylan, live Nirvana etc etc.
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They always WERE stuffed with bootlegs, true, but surely that stuff is available on the internet for FREE?
 
lolly said:
Tell that to HMV.
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I think that's slightly different- discovering new music and having the joy of browsing, rather than going to a record fair, which is where you generally look for things you already own, albeit in different formats, and generally pay a lot more for than you can find elsewhere...

Don't get me wrong- I'm the LAST one to moan about the joy of HAPPY BROWSING, but it doesn't seem to quite work in 2019 for me.
 
octophone said:
Bootlegs. Last one I went to was stuffed with dodgy boots of the type Discogs and eBay won't let you flog. Beatles outtakes, live Dylan, live Nirvana etc etc.
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Well the internet really needs to catch up. Everything online is just so boring and legal.
 
Mr S met the COUNCIL ESTATE COMMUNITY SUPERMARKET LEFT-OVERS RECYCLING SHOP people outside TESCO this morning and he says he's going to volunteer to help them

AT LAST!
 
Sheena said:
They always WERE stuffed with bootlegs, true, but surely that stuff is available on the internet for FREE?
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Ag said:
Well the internet really needs to catch up. Everything online is just so boring and legal.
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I know, I know. But collectors like to have things. I still like to have things at times, although it's no longer an essential thanks to Bandcamp.
 
Shirley said:
Mr S met the COUNCIL ESTATE COMMUNITY SUPERMARKET LEFT-OVERS RECYCLING SHOP people outside TESCO this morning and he says he's going to volunteer to help them

AT LAST!
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CONGRATULATIONS!
 
octophone said:
I know, I know. But collectors like to have things. I still like to have things at times, although it's no longer an essential thanks to Bandcamp.
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Oh I AM a collector, but I don't need BOOTLEGS. What's the POINT? That's not part of the collection REALLY- you can just BURN YOUR OWN
 
Sheena said:
I think that's slightly different- discovering new music and having the joy of browsing, rather than going to a record fair, which is where you generally look for things you already own, albeit in different formats, and generally pay a lot more for than you can find elsewhere...

Don't get me wrong- I'm the LAST one to moan about the joy of HAPPY BROWSING, but it doesn't seem to quite work in 2019 for me.
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I think it's only slightly different - but actually less pleasurable for new releases. I can see the appeal of browsing in a record fair far more than in a shop just selling the same old new releases.
 
octophone said:
Is that par for the course or does it represent an impressive yield?
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Just under £50 of that was on new polywatsit and cardboard covers. About a hundred quid on vinyl itself is more than what he usually spends. I imagine it's more like £30 - £50 usually.
 
The big advantage of record fairs to me is the fact you can see the condition of what you're getting. The whole grading business is so murky and subjective, particularly when it comes to covers rather than the vinyl itself.

Who'd have thought a cover that is ripped, only holding together at all due to tape (and blue tape at that), with stickers and scribble on it could be described as 'good'?

And only this week I had a delivery from discogs from Denmark where one of the records supposedly from Italy was actually the British version.
 
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