To help generate money for artists who may be under duress from the Pandemic, Bandcamp is waiving their fees today… On their front page they show whats being bought… Normally when watching, you can see a couple of items being sold every second or so… Today, though, it’s nuts!!
Vinyl
The passing of Manilla Road.
Well, Mark Shelton died yesterday. As is not unusual, this led me down the path of metal ponderings. However, counter-intuitive as it may seem, this post is not about Manilla Road, or even regular heavy metal. Rather Manilla Road leads me to think of Darkthrone… Until 1998, I was pretty unaware of “extreme metal”. I’d…Read more
Can never have enough supplies…
Since last we spoke, I have managed to pass the 300 Discogs orders threshold. I certainly never thought I’d end up sending 380 records and/or cd’s out the door! It’s been fun… and financially rewarding. But I can never get myself to order way more mylar bags and shipping supplies than I need! I just…Read more
Sales go sailing…
Well, after the unexpectedly prosperous results i’ve had from selling records (here, if you want to partake… Discogs) I decided to try and sell some DVD’s. Well, I dragged about 170 down to Newbury Comics and, while they don’t exactly fetch top dollar, we got somewhat over $200 for the hundred or so of them…Read more
To Coil in the dark, two. And 200
In this bout of selling records that I’ve been doing, I’ve sold eight records for $100+ each, but I’ve never sold, or even listed, a record at $200+… Until just recently. Back around the turn of the millennium, I had some knowledge of Coil. I think I already had the CD version of Musick To…Read more
Vinyl bratt’s
Though, aside from two brief school related visits to the Grad School, I had only made it to Brattleboro once before… Six years ago. I have, since that visit, thought of Brattleboro as the place to go to shop for records… At least in the 2+ years I have lived in Vermont… So going down…Read more