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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 1:00:17 GMT
Vinyljunkie22: STeVe: STeVE: For more SHiTey goodness the whole thread is at: Vinyl Landmines |
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jul 5, 2020 3:07:00 GMT
Oh Cassius, Wherefore Art Thou?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 3:51:35 GMT
As if we needed another example of his misogyny. Fucking troglodyte.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 5, 2020 4:02:34 GMT
As if we needed another example of his misogyny. Fucking troglodyte. Actually, it is quite rare to find a used record store with any female staff. (We simply cannot abide by the hygienically-challenged staff/customers and that omnipresent stench all used record store seem to have.) |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 4:56:22 GMT
As if we needed another example of his misogyny. Fucking troglodyte. Actually, it is quite rare to find a used record store with any female staff. (We simply cannot abide by the hygienically-challenged staff/customers and that omnipresent stench all used record store seem to have.) My experience, locally of course, has been somewhat the opposite. Princeton Record Exchange has a roughly 50/50 staff of men and women, and The Record Collector is a husband/wife operation. Also, Tunes in Hoboken has a mixed staff as well. Discogs on the other hand, though it’s hard to discern gender from a username profile, I would say that my purchases have been from mostly men, maybe one in five is a woman. I agree about your summation of the atmosphere and cleanliness being a deterrent for women, especially when the customer demographic tends to be portly curmudgeons like myself. And speaking for my wife, who has a dust allergy, she hates going with me to these shops. |
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 5, 2020 5:58:41 GMT
Actually, it is quite rare to find a used record store with any female staff. (We simply cannot abide by the hygienically-challenged staff/customers and that omnipresent stench all used record store seem to have.) My experience, locally of course, has been somewhat the opposite. Princeton Record Exchange has a roughly 50/50 staff of men and women, and The Record Collector is a husband/wife operation. Also, Tunes in Hoboken has a mixed staff as well. Discogs on the other hand, though it’s hard to discern gender from a username profile, I would say that my purchases have been from mostly men, maybe one in five is a woman. I agree about your summation of the atmosphere and cleanliness being a deterrent for women, especially when the customer demographic tends to be portly curmudgeons like myself. And speaking for my wife, who has a dust allergy, she hates going with me to these shops. Of course, I was (mostly) being facetious. I have visited a number of used record stores that haven’t made me gag. However... Back in the eighties, I worked in Harvard Square (before it got all gentrified). There were quite a number of used record places around and they always seemed to have either surly or smelly (often both) proprietors. (And I don’t recall ever seeing a woman working at any of them.) [Between Harvard Square and Central Square there was a bootleg record shop called “Second Coming Records”. They had a fairly helpful woman who would sometimes hold stuff for me.] |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 12:01:11 GMT
My experience, locally of course, has been somewhat the opposite. Princeton Record Exchange has a roughly 50/50 staff of men and women, and The Record Collector is a husband/wife operation. Also, Tunes in Hoboken has a mixed staff as well. Discogs on the other hand, though it’s hard to discern gender from a username profile, I would say that my purchases have been from mostly men, maybe one in five is a woman. I agree about your summation of the atmosphere and cleanliness being a deterrent for women, especially when the customer demographic tends to be portly curmudgeons like myself. And speaking for my wife, who has a dust allergy, she hates going with me to these shops. Of course, I was (mostly) being facetious. I have visited a number of used record stores that haven’t made me gag. However... Back in the eighties, I worked in Harvard Square (before it got all gentrified). There were quite a number of used record places around and they always seemed to have either surly or smelly (often both) proprietors. (And I don’t recall ever seeing a woman working at any of them.) [Between Harvard Square and Central Square there was a bootleg record shop called “Second Coming Records”. They had a fairly helpful woman who would sometimes hold stuff for me.] I guess the point I was trying to make was, fuck Styve.  |
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Jul 5, 2020 16:57:46 GMT
I think we all know how to buy records STeVE style:
1. Poat on your vanity forum that you need a copy for “research”
2. Wait by mailbox
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jul 5, 2020 19:14:19 GMT
I think we all know how to buy records STeVE style: 1. Poat on your vanity forum that you need a copy for “research” 2. Wait by mailbox Hey, that's no mailbox, that's my office headquarters! |
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Post by hoofyflipflops on Jul 23, 2020 18:57:02 GMT
All that useful advice and yet they all failed to mention the magic words "hot stamper." You're giving me the idea for a thread... |
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Jul 26, 2020 3:32:03 GMT
As if we needed another example of his misogyny. Fucking troglodyte. Actually, it is quite rare to find a used record store with any female staff. (We simply cannot abide by the hygienically-challenged staff/customers and that omnipresent stench all used record store seem to have.) I actually encountered one today! I took a trip to see my brothers, and the music fan of the two suggested hitting a popular, local record store. As soon as I saw her at the register, I thought about this thread. Most record stores I go into are with the owner (who is wearing a dirty shirt with massive Dunlap Syndrome) and his one hanger-on that tells you about the time he did coke in the bathroom at the Grande Ballroom with the MC5 and (insert forgotten 70s local rock band here) and tells you about the record you're buying (as if you didn't know the fucking story behind Led Zeppelin III at this point). It's especially like that at the shop my friend took my Buddy Holly cassettes to  That said, this place runs much better. She was even nice enough to toss in a couple Beastie Boys stickers we were eyeing. |
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jul 26, 2020 7:47:32 GMT
I was thinking about this too - when I worked in a record store, the staff was 50/50 and the manager was a woman (who we all hated, but was no less of a music fan, just quite unpleasant). Likewise, the indie stores I’ve visited in the US have generally had female staff who were obviously fans of music: I remember having good conversations in both Grimeys and Third Man Records in Nashville about local bands, and - cliché of mid 00s clichés - talking about The Shins in Amoeba Records in Hollywood while the LA-beautiful sales clerk rang through whatever bargain bin shit I had picked up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2020 12:08:32 GMT
Ironic to see Steve giving out advice on purchasing records... when he gets them for free.... and doesn't even need the vinyl as he probably has the master tape stashed away somewhere that he stole.
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Post by kingdiamond on Jul 26, 2020 15:52:46 GMT
My experience, locally of course, has been somewhat the opposite. Princeton Record Exchange has a roughly 50/50 staff of men and women, and The Record Collector is a husband/wife operation. Also, Tunes in Hoboken has a mixed staff as well. Discogs on the other hand, though it’s hard to discern gender from a username profile, I would say that my purchases have been from mostly men, maybe one in five is a woman. I agree about your summation of the atmosphere and cleanliness being a deterrent for women, especially when the customer demographic tends to be portly curmudgeons like myself. And speaking for my wife, who has a dust allergy, she hates going with me to these shops. Of course, I was (mostly) being facetious. I have visited a number of used record stores that haven’t made me gag. However... Back in the eighties, I worked in Harvard Square (before it got all gentrified). There were quite a number of used record places around and they always seemed to have either surly or smelly (often both) proprietors. (And I don’t recall ever seeing a woman working at any of them.) [Between Harvard Square and Central Square there was a bootleg record shop called “Second Coming Records”. They had a fairly helpful woman who would sometimes hold stuff for me.] Do you remember Twisted Village in Cambridge? I used to go there once in a while. I'm pretty sure one of the owners was a female. |
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