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That is pretty common actually! I've had records in pizza boxes, shoe boxes, any old boxes! 45s in LP mailers, the odd one where you need A level maths to work out how a 7 inch fitted in the box, broken ones in envelopes, not broken ones in envelopes. Nothing surprises anymore! Getting 45s in proper mailers is getting to be a real plus.

A few things that I haven't put on my web site yet: The Satisfactions - Take It Or Leave It - Smash 2098 VG (maybe VG+) 100 Rarer issue in company sleeve This has a few pops and crackles, a bit of distortion at the start but otherwise plays really well. There are a lot of light marks and one that looks worse. The label is faded round the edges - it looks like somebody has cleaned it with something errr... strong! Less than half book price sma2098.mp3 Soulful Twins - I Can't let You Go - Sable 101 Ex+ 80 Small green sticker on label Martha Reeves - No One There - UK TMG 843 Ex 90 Carolyn Cooke - I Don't Mind - RCA 8553 white demo Ex 50 Dushons - Better Think It Over - Golden Gate 70 M- 80 Original before Down To Earth issue Lorraine Rudolph - Keep Coming Back For More - Jet Stream 817 Ex+ 40 Paypal OK Postage will be 5.90 special delivery to make sure they are insured Drop me a pm or email ptp [at] just7.co.uk Off out for a while so will answer any q's etc later Thanks Paul

Finishing today

The post office continually whittle away at what they will cover, essentially because they know they are totally unable to deliver normal post within the same country. Where's that w*nker smiley? Proof of postage used to cover up to £30, recorded should cover up to £40 but they have been insisting that this cover is now only for the cost to the sender if it is the sender who is claiming and you have to provide proof of value. So if you buy something for a tenner and sell it for twenty they will only reimburse you for the tenner. The best thing to do if something gets stolen lost in the post is to get the buyer to claim as they can prove the correct value as they have paid for the item. I think it has moved recently as last time I sent something recorded the guy in the PO was at pains to point out that I was "paying for a signature - things still get lost in the post". The postal service in this country is an absolute joke.

He has a Parisians - Twinkle Twinkle etc on Demon Hot described as "original label" ...... ...... 9 available ...................... BIN £9.50

It's a Frank Wilson "Dee Daa Doo" apparently on the "US RELEASE SOUL LABEL" according to the seller. Even has that authentic looking "been in a jukebox" bit of ring wear on the label.

Amazing what you find hidden away on ebay [item 160678985844]

Just put a few things on ebay [here]

I took John Smiths out of my pub because it isn't real beer anymore. They no longer use hops in the brewing of it. The only thing it was good for was outside bars because most cask beers take 2 (or more) days to get ready but John Smiths drops clear in an hour. S&N have ruined more good beers than I care to name.

Thanks for the heads up on this, went to see it last night at City Screen in York. Really good film about the idiosyncrasies of a record shop and its visitors. Cheers Paul

This guy emailed me the other week, it was obviously an email he had sent to loads of other people, he quoted JMs 3rd (?) guide as the basis for his prices. He didn't ask me to buy them, just to value them which i didn't bother doing. Told him some were boots and some weren't. Run of the mill "found a collection in my attic" sort of thing.

I bought a copy of this in Hanway St, just off oxford street in the late 90's. I used to look through his "northern/motown" box now and then when in town but there was never anything much in it. This was one of those moments where you have to try and not shout out whilst your heart beat rises rapidly. It was marked up with the other sides title and priced at £5. :D I still keep it in the priced up sleeve - it has a very calming effect on this Yorkshireman.

I spent a day in Rookys and bought 2 records, they wouldn't let me look through the unchecked pile and the rest was dross. I did find a wd of Yvonne Baker - You didn't say a word in another record shop, the guy had two but I just got the feeling that it was one or none. $50 - which was nice. Went back the next day for the other but the guy I dealt with wasn't there and the guy minding the store denied all knowledge - aah well. I was sure I had bought a boot but it seems to be an original. This was in the late 90's before ebay went daft and before price guides. I looked in the phone book and went round record stores and came back with a nice little box full. The hotel lost my Boss suit though so I'm not sure if it was worth it.

I think that's a valid point where collecting is concerned but not where a night out is concerned. I still collect, just very slowly these days but the skill of a DJ is to put a set together not just to buy records. Would it be better to hear a really well put together set of interesting tunes, regardless of format, than just listen to somebody plonk record after record on that they had managed to purchase? I like people's sets rather than records people have managed to buy. I still like records though.

I can't believe how off topic this thread has become whilst I've been out sailing all afternoon, if freebasing still existed this would be heading there! My original post was actually raising the question of whether the scene is more about ownership of records rather than the tunes themselves.

The only Shazam that I know was the thing that flashed on the screen at ABC minors when that bloke changed into Captain Marvel (or summat). We all used to flip the folding seats back up and start kicking the bottom - it made a hell of a row when the whole cinema did it. The bloke in the dickie bow would turn up and sling you out if he caught you doing it though (err... kicking the seat that is)

What's an iphone? I have a nokia that still works as well as when I got it in 2001 - i think I can play mp3s on it but have never tried. I did have The Four Tops - Reach Out as a ring tone until it rang when I was on the train and the whole carriage joined in.

No, you're missing the point, you would still have to carry the records. If you can't show the records you could have recorded somebody else's records or even from a boot.

Actually there is a better model, you only need one ipod:

If I recorded all my originals on to my ipod and then played them at a venue that had one of these, would that be acceptable as long as I held each record up as it was playing?

I regret selling my "advance pressing" 70's bootleg of Reconsider and possibly Lou Pride but that's about it, didn't really have many boots tbh. My missus has a box of records she bought in the 70's which I will not sell for her because they are part of her life history. I sneakily add one or two of her favourites to it now and again. I recorded them all onto her ipod for her when I bought it for her a couple of years ago.

Maybe if he knew he wasn't going to recoup costs he shouldn't have told people they would be paid from the profits? I certainly don't admire that. I don't know the details but the impression I get is that he got performances from a lot of artists on the basis they would eventually be paid and then they didn't get paid. As I understand it TSWONS was an example of a project in which a lot of people performed and didn't get paid, happy to be corrected if I'm wrong. On topic .... err ..... I don't have a favourite IL anything

I get people emailing me quite regularly from my website offering me collections. They are always full of boots with 1 in 20 being OG but only worth a tenner. I always reply politely that they should put them on ebay to get the best price. Some joker the other day sent me an "I've just remembered I have a box of records in my attic that I've not looked at for 30 years" email and it was obviously an email he had sent to JM (and probably everyone else) as it kept referring to records on "your website" that I don't have on my website. He had priced them up out of JM's 3rd guide, and seemed to want me to look through the list sorting out which were real and which weren't, didn't actually say if he wanted to sell them just seemed to want me to tell him the value. I told him some were boots and some were not but I was sure JM would offer him a price. These "collections" are just not worth the bother unless they let you have them for a quid a record.

Cheers Pete

I use my name - people with alter-egos are weird