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I do have some badly warped styrene, but I agree it's rarer than vinyl. I also know that unplayed styrene can sound great. The more specific problem I have with the distortion is that it's a specific type of distortion that sounds much worse than, say, a trashed vinyl record. The high end distortion just sounds so bad. You can tune out constant white noise or even crackle but every time the styrene distortion hits it's painful. The other thing that's bad about distorted styrene is that there's often no visual evidence of it. A good looking vinyl record will generally play well (at least after cleaning it, obviously with some rare exceptions). A perfectly looking styrene record can be burnt and distorted and there's just no way to tell until after you get it and play it and hear the painful distortion. I agree about styrene being easier to crack. But one thing that really pisses me off are the stress lines that I guess are not cracks on styrene records. Someone here once said that they are a product of the cooling process or something. I hate cracks and those stress lines are like something in the middle between cracked and uncracked. It's some weird record collector OCD thing, but I hate those. I even used to send records back when they had those but I gave up because they're so common.

the 45 is still in print: https://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01228

i agree. it took me forever to find my first copy of this, I later got a double and traded it a few years ago. I have no idea where all these copies are coming from. Are they all from one person who found a big cache of them (e.g. that brooklynsoul dude) or are they coming from multiple places?

True, I still would have bought it knowing it was some garbage. Just warning people who see it and think it might be some great obscure and unknown roxsbury label. Also, I was sort of annoyed because I've only ever found soul on the label.

related to what garethx said, chicago was one of the most tightly controlled radio markets. The control went down to the actual stores where obscure records weren't even stocked. People would produce and press a record, and then find out they had no "in" into the market (most often no money to pay off the DJs) and nothing would happen. Additionally, the programming became more and more controlled by the program director rather than the choice of the DJ. Nowadays DJs don't do anything except play what they're supposed to play in the correct order off of a hard drive system (e.g. they're just dialing up track numbers).

no, i bought it for the label #. I have gotten country records that were described as "northern soul". More frequently people try to pass off hard rock records as soul, it's very annoying.

saved you a couple hundred pounds maybe a month ago. now it's saved you like $40.

I like Tammy Wynette. However, I hope Tony Rounce takes the bait and starts ranting though.

Monkey Meeks on Roxsbury is a terrible country record. Do not buy it.

I was going to say the same thing, the people who were / are into house in Chicago pride themselves in the openness of their scene, whether or not they are gay. Although some of the 12"s are super weird and gay sounding. This is one of the most awesome soul train performances of all time: that rocking chair thing is way over the top.

they don't go into a landfill, they get grabbed by one of their few record collector friends for pennies and resold or merged into another collection of someone who is going to die with a lot of records. i have seen this happen several times.

Barrons on cobblestone is rare George, there's a problem if you look at chess discographies because a lot of the titles don't exis or don't exist on Chess (the one matt mentioned does though).

i thought j2 was a division of sue?

most of my want list are records like this, i don't like this topic! a few rare sweet soul group records: - rare second inclinations 45 on janus - second coup de villes 45 on philly groove - the rare unlimited four 45 on chanson also obviously, the rare sensations on way out there's a lot more

I had never seen that before until that Japanese seller had it on ebay recently. I don't think he got his $2000 that he was trying to sell it for initially. Maybe it's equally as rare as the poets but lack of demand / knowledge about it makes it come up for sale less?

If you collect labels it's pretty common to not know exactly what records you don't have in the label run (especially if a lot of the records are crappy random titles). On ebay I watch items that look unfamiliar, then go to my shelf to check, and it's usually there but sometimes not. Sometimes if the record is cheap (like a dollar or two) and I'm feeling lazy I'll just bid without checking whether I have it or not.

tru glo town did lease stuff to other labels. that joseph moore on mar-v-lus is an example (same dude as joe moore on tru-glo-town).

At least they will see my post calling them a jerk. I've been made fun of a couple times on different message boards for having "boba" as my handle, they are like "you are such a loser you named yourself after a star wars character." Actually I've never seen a star wars movie which is funny.

I meant the people in the UK who think only two known copies exist in collections anywhere. I have some rare chicago soul records that I would trade to you, I thought you previously told me you didn't trade out of your collection.

that's funny that they borrowed a picture that makes their product look worse than it is

I bet Robb K has a lot of records that are supposedly "two known copies" in the UK.

or you could even plant records that you have quantity of into this thread

I just "discovered" mp3s for the first time. The cd player in my car broke and I have an aux input and was like "I should get an mp3 player so I can listen to music". Then I was like "wait, my phone IS an mp3 player". All of a sudden I had several dozen rap LPs that I have on vinyl from the 90s on my phone and it took like 10 minutes. Someone who listens to my show asked me what my spotify account was and I was like "what?" She laughed at me in response.

yeah, if someone is asking for "gift" and I don't know them or if my account were partially disabled (like sleeps story), I just add 4% and tell them I paid their fees. I remember in the 80s all gas stations (in the US at least) used to have "cash" and "credit" prices for gas. Those went away when credit merchant account agreements said you couldn't charge your fees to the customers. Just the other day I saw a gas station in my neighborhood whose sign had different cash and credit prices. They were probably violating their agreement rather than there actually being some sort of change though.

That is true I guess, although I'd imagine if it was reissued someone somewhere would have a pic of that to steal. I have seen crappy boots of soul and psych LPs that had worn looking "new" covers or stamps that were on the copied cover that were just printed on.