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59 minutes ago, stc said:

anyone make it to the record convention last weekend? between F1 and the football game i was not about to venture downtown. 

I did for the very first time.  I was mainly looking for a music poster to match a poster I miraculously found at Goodwill for $4.  But I picked up a really nice Rank and File Album.  Alejandro Escovedo looks like a baby!  Got a Skunks album as well, but it was the second one with the twins, not the original with Jon Dee.  So I am gonna look for that one.  But a really good haul.  I think my collection pace is gonna pick up.  As I grabbed a near mint Linda Ronstadt, "Heart like a Wheel," The Pretenders "Singles" album, also near mint or better, and an beat up old Animals album cover with a great condition album inside yesterday at Half Price books.

But I got below is the T-Bird's poster I found to match my Goodwill Asleep at the Wheel find.  I paid $225 for the T-Bird poster, down from $300 at the end of the day on Sunday.  Which sort of stung but it was a good match.  Then I went home and saw my signed and numbered Asleep at the Wheel poster was worth at least $250?  I was estatic.  Anyhow these two posters are going to be mounted on the inside slide back doors on Whiskey/Tequila cabinet.  So I am stoked!

But a nice poster spread from the convention.  Downtown was actually cool Saturday with so many folks heading to the game and track.  The wife and I went to C-Boys, for Jesse Sublett's Birthday party with Jon Dee a few hours after my Skunks album find.  I anyone findsRecordconventionposters.thumb.jpg.05c7308ad6924054d226f83b06e86d85.jpgrecordconventionpurchases2024.thumb.jpg.74c355ea3c969ac46ce2b800c5f4f15f.jpg the original Skunks album I am interested.

 

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22 minutes ago, stc said:

i had no idea this existed until finding it in the new arrivals bin at amoeba. definitely has a steely dan demos feel. not as polished or complex as their later work but still interesting. 

 

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That brings back memories, I bought that from a mail-order catalog around 1983 or so.  Sold it at some pint, but have an mp3 copy on a hard drive.  It is interesting, but definitely not memorable.  Just gave it a quick spot check, title track, Roll Back the Meaning, Dog Eat Dog, even Flotsam and Jetsam, you can hear the embers of Steely Dan starting to light. 

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That’s awesome. I was worried when that block sold but I honestly forgot about it. At least it’s a lifeline.

I’ve been taking my 8 year old daughter with me the last few times I’ve gone. Hopefully it’s something I can do for a little longer before she is old enough to have her own Spotify account and tells me I’m dumb for buying records.

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That’s awesome. I was worried when that block sold but I honestly forgot about it. At least it’s a lifeline.

I’ve been taking my 8 year old daughter with me the last few times I’ve gone. Hopefully it’s something I can do for a little longer before she is old enough to have her own Spotify account and tells me I’m dumb for buying records.

I took my 12YO to Waterloo and she asked for her first vinyl. It was a Taylor Swift record of course. Taught her how to use the turntable. She sat there listening in silence and said “there’s so much more music in these songs.” She was blown away at how much better vinyl sounded than Spotify. She listened to the album in its entirety. I may have a convert.
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That’s awesome. I taught her how to use the turntable when she was probably 4. She really liked St Vincent’s Masseduction album, particularly Los Ageless and kept asking for that song so I showed her how to put it on.

We got her Swift’s 1989 last Christmas and she plays it a fair amount.

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If you want a decent Taylor Swift album for your daughters and you to enjoy, get them Folklore. I've partaken in all of the TS albums due to my oldest being obsessed with her and that one really stands out as a great album. I put that just a touch higher than 1989. Produced with Jack Antonoff with instrumentation by Aaron Dessner from the National. You could put Matt Berninger on the vocals of Cardigan and it would stand easily as a National song. You can really hear who influences her in that album. James Taylor, The National, Lana Del Rey. 

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On 1/2/2025 at 5:19 PM, UTexasFight said:

I’ve got my 16 year old on to Waterloo this is fantastic news. They are supposed to expand live showings too. He’s becoming a vinyl fan need to get him hooked up with his own system. Right now he just enjoys it when I spin something. 

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On 1/6/2025 at 10:43 PM, troph said:

I’ve got my 16 year old on to Waterloo this is fantastic news. They are supposed to expand live showings too. He’s becoming a vinyl fan need to get him hooked up with his own system. Right now he just enjoys it when I spin something. 

Oh, wow.  I was just there with my son doing some vinyl shopping, and I told him to his surprise that it was in the same location it was when I was at UT in the 90s.  Sad for me for nostalgia's sake, but probably a good move overall.  North Austin is more Austin than that location at this point anyway.

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haven't been to waterloo in probably a decade. went all the time when it was the only independent record store in town, but now that we've got so many great options it's just not worth the hassle of going down there. i assume it's 90% tourists in there these days. 

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On 1/15/2025 at 8:29 AM, stc said:

haven't been to waterloo in probably a decade. went all the time when it was the only independent record store in town, but now that we've got so many great options it's just not worth the hassle of going down there. i assume it's 90% tourists in there these days. 

If you spotted a couple of tourists at one of your favorite record shops, would you find their car, remove the carburetor, show it to them, then throw it in the ocean?

 

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