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Not really, all I know is a few records that the tuba geeks at NT were in love with. Not so much "bebop" as "jazz".

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Harvey Phillips, if that's your type of thing.

Did Malcolm really say that? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/05/03/wellness/

Should be a good site. Glad to see it and will follow as it develops.

Did those hubcaps come with it, or were they after-market? Like that paint job too!

What you're describing is not a bureaucracy, it's old school laissez-faire, every man for himself, them that's got shall get, etc. Works great for mousetraps, shirtcollars, and salted-in-the-shell sunflower seeds, but...no centralization only works where the end and the means do not have a commonality of meaning. Apparently two of the three words "public health crisis" have yet to reach such a consensual agreement... Does NJ have "sign up" options, like we do here? OTOH, it seems absurd that people should have to submit multiple requests to get a call back from somebody, first one wins! But otoh, if we had depended on the county...good luck on that one, never mind CVS/etc. Public. Health. Crisis.

We were advised by everybody we asked to sign up for as many waitlists as we could, and did four - Collin county, Baylor Scott-White (our health care provider network), CVS, and a local grocery store/pharmacy. We were in the 79,XXX range of the county list and so far, they're getting to the low 40,XXX range. CVS, good luck on that one. But BSW, with no warning, sent us an email last week saying hey, your time is here, sign up now! Sports were going fairly quickly, but Brenda was actually able to get hers yesterday, and I am getting mine on Friday. Brenda said that the facility was incredibly well organized, no delays. We'll see how that goes by Friday, but still... Also, the BSW program is scheduling you for your 2nd Dose before they release you - three weeks, to the day. We are fortunate to have group health insurance with a network that has their shit together (and that both of us are old enough to be prioritized....). All it takes is a coordinated will towards a common end, with everybody on the same page. Would that this was in place across the board, across the nation, across all demographics. We're getting there, finally. It ain't a job for posers, profiteers, pirates, and/or otherwise fraudulent actors. This is not a reality show, this is reality itself.

I'm finding this one dangerously impossible to take out of the player...perfect "work music", you can drop in at any given point and be rewarded, drop out without feeling punished, and on and on it's gone, all day. Also waiting for the batteries to die on the Discman, so getting that nice fuzzy sound like an old LP played with a bad needle for too long. Ah. memories!

Spilt tea? Don't laugh. I have coffee stains on some of mine. Remember, LPs used to be like baseball cards for most people - cheap, disposable recreation, not rarified collectables.

Impossible to get a good read of condition of vinyl online (and still not a sure bet checking in person, you really don't know how it's going to play until you play it). Keeping that in mind, I fully accept that: vinyl, especially used vinyl, is never going to be a "given" in terms of quality. most sellers give visual gradings, which are more useful the more obviously trashed the vinyl is, but again, not a 100% surefire indicator. the "rarer" the record, the more likely there are to be imperfections, if not in the wear, then in the pressing. hardly ever (in fact, damn near never) do sellers underprice. some sellers do play the record and/or give a conservative grading, but you don't know who they are until you've already gotten something from them Dusty Groove is very big on the VG+ thing, and the older a record is, the more grain-of-salty that "+" is. vinyl is not, and hasn't been for decades now, the "perfect" medium, nor is it really necessary or most (ah, but not all!) records. Bottom line for me - buying vinyl is like any other form of gambling - don't spend more than you can afford to lose, and know what you're there for. If it's for an object, hey, there's fun galore awaiting the eager player! And if condition is not a driving concern, like, you just want to hear this record once or thrice to see what's up with that? then a $5 record beats the hell out of a $15 CD. Otherwise, if you want a sure thing, vinyl is not for you, and I would strongly dissuade anybody who thinks that it will be, some day, to forget about that fantasy. It is what it is and it ain't ever going to be otherwise. Eyes wide open, ok?

So, all things being equal - goat or Studebaker?

Flayvah!

100%!

Dusty Groove is totally legit. Their international shipping method is totally stupid. I never heard of such a thing until now, but there it is. Way to lose a spending customer, Bastards.

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Why are records sent from Chicago going through Sweden on their way to Toronto? Did they miss a left turn at Albuquerque or something? I do like Discogs, but I also like Dusty Groove. DG will sometimes get stuff before "official" release day, they will sometimes have better prices than anywhere else, and if you know what you're looking for, even roughly, their bird in the hand is....etc. Plus, their selection of anthologies is always interesting and often fascinating. Now having siad all that...what I want is to find what I'm looking for at a price that isn't stoopid. Discogs often gets me that. But sometimes...DG does. Get to know both palces, you can never have too many options. Just figure out why the hell your Chicago-sent mail is going through Sweden, that just seems all kinds of wrong.

That many, then.

like the man said, how many you got?

Oh, apparently "today" now means "tomorrow by 10 PM". Amazon - essential, but still, weasely as fuck when their algorithms feels like it.

For sure, quibbling aside (some of it very valid, imo), this is still one of the more essential and (and!) significant issues in quite some time.

Hey, I may bullshit you 24/7, but I will never lie to you.

That price plus free same day delivery? Sold!

As the originator of the phrase (on this forum), I can tell you that yes, this is what it means. One too many times I had to wlrite something like, "Oh I see Dusty Groove has X, Y, & Z in tonight, along with A,B, C, D, and a used copy of H,,,,,THE BASTARDS!!!" I noticed that many other members shared my sentiments about these rapscallions of records, so it was not long at all before another Organissimo addition to the Puppetutes of Love took root and spread its sweet words of pizmotality full and far across the land.