Showing posts with label record collecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label record collecting. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Disney store pulls Joy Division Mickey Mouse mashup tee shirt - Boing Boing (! got mine today)

Disney store offers, then pulls, Mickey t-shirt based on iconic Joy Division album cover - Boing Boing:

The Disney Store is now offering was, until January 25th, selling a new t-shirt design based on the iconic Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" album cover, with Mickey Mouse's face inserted in those wavy lines. From Manchester to Mousechester!
My copy came in the mail today. I'm pretty sure it's not original as I expect the real Disney shirt to have the logo on the shirt label. But for an instant meme, and a funny shirt, it's worth it. It will be reprinted at print-on-demand stores as this article goes to press.
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Record cover art + world's record prices for cover and vinyl | Stylusmedia – Paul Jeffrey | Bloodyloud!

Classic Music Company – Record Sleeves – Stylusmedia – Paul Jeffrey | Bloodyloud!:


These are just a few of the 100 or so album cover designs by Paul Jeffrey of Stylusmedia.


Friday, June 3, 2011

Record collecting: 45 RPM - 45 Record Cover Collection | Alameda Sun



45 rpm record insertImage via Wikipedia
Alameda Sun - Revolutions per Minute: 45 Record Cover Collection:
"Duane Tom began collecting 45-rpm records in the 1970s. In those pre-MTV days, the record sleeve was often the first time you got to see what the artist looked like! This is an exhibition of record covers with the bands and musical personalities from the late '50s to the 1990s."

"Now it was possible to see and purchase sleeves you had only heard about, or saw listed in a record price guide. With that, my collection took off and has been a source of countless hours of enjoyment," Tom said. Come enjoy Tom's collection at the Pacific Pinball Museum, 1510 Webster St. from June 10 to July 5. An opening reception will be held Friday, June 10, from 6 p.m. to midnight with a no-host bar and free flipper finger food. $10 will allow you to play pinball all night.


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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Jutebox & Regina disc players + more @ auction June 18 + June 24-25 in North Carolina | PRLog

The living estate of Mr. Brady C. Jefcoat will be sold June 18 and June 24-25 in North Carolina | PRLog:
1941 Wurlitzer Model 750 jukebox
"Mr. Jefcoat, 95, began his collection in earnest in 1972 ... His main passion is music machines, to include rare and vintage phonographs (many with horns), Regina disc players and players by other makers, jukeboxes, Victrolas, cylinder boxes, organs, band boxes, coin-operated items, Black Forest cuckoo clocks, hanging oil lamps and many other items in a variety of collecting genres."

Hundreds of rare and prized items from the living estate of Brady C. Jefcoat – a collector so dedicated and renowned a museum bearing his name exists in Murfreesboro, N.C. – will be sold on Saturday, June 18, in the showroom of Winstead’s Auction Company, then again June 24-25 in an on-site auction at the Jefcoat residence in Raleigh, N.C.

Edison Bell Electrotone German Excelsior reproducer/talking machine with cupids on all sides and a huge horn; a rare Class M battery-operated phonograph; and an Edison Triumph #66907 with Cygnet horn and original gold paint. Other phonographs will include an oak case Edison Model M spring-model reproducer with 5-inch Mandrel, oak Cygnet horn and Music Master label (plus tag from Theo F. Bentel & Co.); an Edison Model A Oxidized Bronze reproducer (serial #4484), type SM, with 21-inch mahogany Cygnet horn; and an Edison Model B reproducer with two- and four-minute gearing.

This sale will include an upright coin-op 27-inch Regina Corona disc player with the original finish, automatic changer, double comb box and 12 discs; a coin-op oak Regina 27-inch disc player with fancy carvings, 12 automatic changer; an oak coin-op bow-front Regina 12-disc changer; and a rare coin-op oak upright Regina Hexaphone with six interchangeable cylinders.

[A] German-made grandfather clock with a built-in Schultz-Marke 12-inch disc player. The other is an oak hall tree with weight-driven clock, beveled mirrors, swinging pendulum and beveled glass. Also sold will be an RCA Victor “Nipper” the mascot dog (3 feet tall) with a speaker in his belly. ... a totally restored Wurlitzer Model 750 jukebox; a 24-selection 1948 Wurlitzer Model 1100 jukebox; a coin-op Ristaucrat Model 45-S table jukebox that plays 45 rpm records, and a circa 1950s Seeburg Model 200 Wall-o-Matic table jukebox.




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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Elvis, glassware, Polaroid, costume jewelry JJ's Auction Service @jjsauction

JJ's Auction Service: LINO LAKES ESTATE AUCTION
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Lot 526
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THIS ESTATE IS VERY WELL CARED FOR ESTATE, FROM costume jewelry to GUNS... TO COLLECTABLES TO JAPANEESE ART, TO A FULL CAKE DECORATING CENTER......AND 4-ELVIS ALBUMS


Date & Time: STARTS MAY 22ND AND WILL START CLOSING AT 6:30 ON JUNE 1ST AND INSPECTION WILL BE FROM 1 TO 7 ON THURSDAY MAY26TH.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Record collecting: 3 'Crate Diggers' - a glimpse of their vinyl libraries - Ferndale, MI Patch

Local 'Crate Diggers' Offer a Glimpse of Their Vinyl Libraries - Ferndale, MI Patch:
"Meet three record collectors, or 'crate diggers' as they are lovingly called, who are drawn to vinyl records in such a serious way that we may have to call someone."

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Beatles’ only appearance in Minnesota photos August 1965 | Minnesota History Center

The Beatles: A One-Night Stand in the Heartland | Minnesota History Center:

The Beatles: John Lennon   The Beatles: Paul

The Beatles press conference at Metropolitan Stadium.

The Beatles press conference at Metropolitan Stadium.

"In August, 1965, a 17-year-old local photographer documented the Beatles’ only appearance in Minnesota. Bill Carlson’s images are the focus of this new exhibit"

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John Lennon's Letters: Sincerely, John - 'Pen and ink were his medium,' | via Newser

John Lennon's Letters to Be Published - 'Pen and ink were his medium,' says publisher:

"'Pen and ink were his medium,' said a spokesman for publisher Little, Brown. 'John wrote letters and postcards all of his life to his friends, family, strangers, newspapers, organizations, lawyers and the laundry—most of which were funny, informative, campaigning, wise, mad, poetic, anguished and sometimes heartbreaking.' The letters will be printed in chronological order 'so that a narrative builds up,' and many will be reproduced exactly in Lennon's handwriting or typing, along with 'the odd cartoon or doodle,' said the publisher."


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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Recordsmith storefront: Robert Smith has spent 44 years building used LP records - Page 1 - Music - St. Louis - Riverfront Times

Magical Mystery Store: Robert Smith has spent 44 years building Reunion Revoluion's remarkable inventory - Page 1 - Music - St. Louis - Riverfront Times:
Robert Smith's treasures include a Yesterday and Today butcher cover and a $5,000 lamp.

For twenty years, Smith ran a mail-order record business called Recordsmith but desired a more personal interaction with buyers. Before that, he worked as a salesman, going door to door literally selling doors. "I learned if I made someone my friend, they'd buy from me," says Smith. "I try to be nice to people and turn them into my friends first." Smith has an encyclopedic knowledge of nearly every record in Reunion Revolution, and selling things is very much a secondary concern to telling people about them.

"Like the majority of record hoarders from his generation, Smith got into music because of the Beatles. He has every single Beatles release as well as every solo effort or collaboration all four of the band's members ever recorded. A few weeks ago, Smith got a record he'd been waiting on — an echt Yesterday and Today with the original butcher cover. The controversial photo of the Fab Four smiling amid slaughtered baby-doll parts, designed as a 'comment on Vietnam,' led Capitol to recall the album in 1966 so a more innocuous image could go in its place. Smith gave his new prize an $800 price tag, and it comes with a display plaque as well as a letter of authenticity.

Smith's enviable Beatles collection goes beyond records. He owns a suit jacket made by the band's Savile Row tailor — he bought it from a roadie at a Beatles show some 40 years ago. But it was another clothing item that fomented Smith's enthusiasm for collecting, one that comes from a world entirely separate from pop music: European militaria."


Friday, April 15, 2011

Record Store Day News ! Vinyl Record collecting stories | TheLedger.com

Older and Younger Generations Herald the Look and Sound of Records | TheLedger.com:
"Vinyl music, once the standard in the music world, has been making a slow comeback for several years now, a trend that doesn't surprise those who have appreciated it for years."

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Vinyl junkies, listen up: Record Store Day » Ventura, CA + record collecting stories

Vinyl junkies, listen up: The needle drops Saturday on Record Store Day » Ventura County Star:
Stephen Osman/The Star Jim Salzer, owner of Salzer's Records in Ventura, said customers lined up outside his store during last year's Record Store Day to purchase specially priced records and hard-to find albums.
"Celebrate two leisure-activity icons on April 16, 2011: music and breakfast.

Yes, Saturday is both Record Store Day AND National Eggs Benedict Day."

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Rare Beatles acetate, “A Hard Day’s Night,” sold for $2225 @Goldmine's record auction countdown

Nice guys finish first in Goldmine's record auction countdown | Goldmine Magazine

Price realized $2,225.99, The Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night,” 12-inch Emidisc acetate.
Here’s a fairly rare Fab Four find: a 12-inch, double-sided, mono acetate for The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” album.
It features all 14 songs included on the final album. The seller graded it VG to VG- and says the acetate is free of skips and jumps, but it has some pops and background noises and a lot of light hairline marks all over. (If I was going to have a rarity like this, I’m not sure I’d ever want it to be played more than once to record a copy on CD or MP3.) The seller had little else to add, other than the lot included a certificate of authenticity from Beatles expert Perry Cox.
Seven bids were exchanged before a winner was declared.


Read more: Nice guys finish first in Goldmine's record auction countdown | Goldmine Magazine http://www.goldminemag.com/news/nice-guys-finish-first-in-goldmines-market-watch-auction-countdown#ixzz1IfolIqYH

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Record Collecting : Christopher Eilers from the Vanilla Beans on Vintage Vinyl + #Vanilla recipes!

Last Collector Standing: Christopher Eilers on Living Behind Vintage Vinyl, Recording with His Band, Vanilla Beans, and Why Wham! Vinyl is Awesome - St. Louis Music - A to Z:
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"Christopher Eilers is the guitarist in local indie rockers the Vanilla Beans. He is also a relatively new vinyl collector. Not having the common characteristic that most collectors share of a vinyl influence in his formative years of discovering music, Eilers' bedroom décor is only his metal rack of vinyl albums and his assorted musical instruments. Coincidentally, he currently lives in an apartment directly behind Vintage Vinyl, which is almost certainly feeding his collecting habit. We met there to discuss living behind a record store and why he has the album cover for Sebastian's Ross Ross Ross EP as a tattoo."''

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Folk song collector + Men at Work song copied from folk song

Response: This great folk song collector was not a controlling manipulator | Comment is free | The Guardian:

Cecil Sharp was a diligent, highly motivated folk music, dance and song collector who, by the time of his death in 1924, had collected some 5,000 tunes and published more than 70 volumes. He is the only British collector who can be compared with such European giants as Bartók and Kodály."

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Beatles Fans > 37th Annual Fest in Secaucus, New Jersey + #Beatles News stories

The party's over, but the favors last - BeatlesNews.com:

"37th Annual Fest for Beatles Fans in Secaucus, New Jersey. The celebrities are winging their way home. The last chorus of 'The End' has been tearfully sung. The conference rooms at the Crowne Plaza are empty until next March.

But zealous fans can still partake of 'very strange' Fest Goodies via the internet. And this year, there were some unbelievable purchases for fans with every size pocket book! Here are some of the highlights:

$$$$$ For those of you with BIG BUCKS and a penchant for serious collecting, take a look at the RIAA Gold Record Award presented to the Beatles. Documented, framed, and ready to hang on your wall, this one-of-a-kind artifact could be viewed up close and personal at the Fest. In fact, Gary Hein was on hand to give the complete history of the record in glowing detail. But don't despair! This $125,000 record may still be purchased to hang in your Beatles room via www.beatles4me.com!"

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Laurie Anderson retrospective in São Paulo March 29th

[Bb.com.br]: "'I in U / I in You' - Laurie Anderson (Myspace page)



Retrospective show produced exclusively for the CCBB who will present a compelling set of original works by Laurie Anderson, made up of installations, photographs, drawings, videos, music and documentations of performances, creations produced since the 1970s to the present day | From March 29 to June 26"


Sean Kelly is delighted to announce that the major retrospective of work by Laurie Anderson, I in U - Eu em Tu, originally presented at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil (CCBB) in São Paulo will travel to the CCBB in Rio de Janeiro.


For further information on the exhibition and performances, please visit http://www.bb.com.br/portalbb/page501,128,10154,0,0,1,1.bb?codigoMenu=9894&codigoMenu=9890


Sunday, March 13, 2011

Elvis Presley: #Collecting The King

Elvis Presley: Collecting The King

Adore him or not, Elvis' music numbers are astonishing. Industry experts estimate that he has sold more than one billion record units worldwide, more than anyone in history. He has had 149 songs on the Billboards' Hot 100 Pop Chart, of which 18 went to number one. Of course, he also had country western, rhythm & blues, and gospel records as well. Elvis also starred in 31 feature films and two concert documentary films.

In October 2005, Variety Magazine inducted him in their top ten entertainment icons of the twentieth century, along with the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean, and Mickey Mouse.

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Friday, March 11, 2011

#Collecting #Irish #folkmusic Paddy O'Brien. Rochester, MN

O'Brien, Ruckers coming up at Oak Center - PostBulletin.com: Rochester, MN
Paddy O'Brien photo by David Aronow CU
By Tom Weber
The Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN

OAK CENTER — Paddy O'Brien plays from his repertoire in an upcoming at the Oak Center General Store.

O'Brien, a collector of traditional Irish folk music, knows more than 3,000 songs. O'Brien, a native of Ireland, traveled the Irish countryside in his youth, collecting songs and stories. He began performing music in public in 1966 with the Ballinamere Ceili Band, and made his first concert tour of the U.S. in 1968.

Record collecting - Vinyl Gets its Groove Back in the new Millennium - Via Chicago

Vinyl Gets its Groove Back in the new Millennium - Via Chicago
Apparently, it's found a nice home in the music industry, where record sales-- of actual vinyl LPs and EPs-- have been experiencing a renaissance.

About 2.8 million vinyl LPs were sold last year, according to Nielsen Soundscan statistics, the most since the company started collecting the point-of-purchase data in 1991. That same figure marked a 14 percent increase over 2009.

Read more: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/via-chicago/2011/03/vinyl-gets-its-groove-back.html#ixzz1GJj8nBWU
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Great book of rock 'n roll data  (Amazon.com)

Thursday, March 3, 2011

collecting records + #rock n roll #accessories

Greenpoint Gazette:Collect-i-Bowl Strikes Again:
"Laura Billard, a local designer who creates and sells her own line of rock’n’roll inspired hair accessories called Dollsville, NYC, planned to purchase a few albums depending on how many hair bows people bought. “There are some pretty amazing Wanda Jackson records I want,” she said. This was the first Collect-i-Bowl she attended. She usually sells her hair bows, decorated with pictures of Elvis Presley, skulls, or Pabst Blue Ribbon online and around the city."
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