Unfortunate practice at MD record store.
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illinoisteve
Super Member
Absentee record-store owners are a pimple on the buttocks of society.
What he said!
vegabass25
Awesome AK member.
They should do what the stores in my area do. Not clean them at all. That way only the buyers can mess 'em up! 
ARJohn
Super Member
They should do what the stores in my area do. Not clean them at all. That way only the buyers can mess 'em up!
Hey I grew up there in the bay and bought many an LP from various merchants now all gone I'm sure . Do they have a used LP store there now ?
I might end up there this summer one weekend , I have heard of Omers house of vacums and guitars , that will have to be a stop for sure
A similar legend, with a great ending.
The first time I visited my first record shop that sells records, the clerk was playing the latest reissue of an African American blues artist (I cannot remember this particular African American artist, but the album cover was presented in a saturated monochrome style), on a black Hitachi turntable. Throughout the time I was shopping for records, he played both sides of the record. When I was finished browsing his shop, I walked to his counter, so I can make a transaction with him in order to buy the records I want.
I had the oppourtunity (with my eyes) to collect visual information with a vast glimpse of his Hitachi turntable. It was attached with a cartridge that has a red body. I noticed that when he was playing the blues record, the azimuth of the cartridge was not properly set. Also, the turntable was not level!
I asked him about these problems and these problems will affect the sonic ability of the cartridge. His response is that he has kept the Hitachi turntable since eight years prior [2001], but he claimed there were no problems whatsoever, and it does not matter as long as your needle is good. I am surprized that when he was playing the blues record with these problems in the presence, forward or backward skipping did not occur!
When I visited the same shop one month later, the Hitachi turntable is still there, but it appears that he eliminated the problems I addressed to him! I think that I have psychologically provoked him to acquire more information on how to successfully balance a turntable system.
The first time I visited my first record shop that sells records, the clerk was playing the latest reissue of an African American blues artist (I cannot remember this particular African American artist, but the album cover was presented in a saturated monochrome style), on a black Hitachi turntable. Throughout the time I was shopping for records, he played both sides of the record. When I was finished browsing his shop, I walked to his counter, so I can make a transaction with him in order to buy the records I want.
I had the oppourtunity (with my eyes) to collect visual information with a vast glimpse of his Hitachi turntable. It was attached with a cartridge that has a red body. I noticed that when he was playing the blues record, the azimuth of the cartridge was not properly set. Also, the turntable was not level!
I asked him about these problems and these problems will affect the sonic ability of the cartridge. His response is that he has kept the Hitachi turntable since eight years prior [2001], but he claimed there were no problems whatsoever, and it does not matter as long as your needle is good. I am surprized that when he was playing the blues record with these problems in the presence, forward or backward skipping did not occur!
When I visited the same shop one month later, the Hitachi turntable is still there, but it appears that he eliminated the problems I addressed to him! I think that I have psychologically provoked him to acquire more information on how to successfully balance a turntable system.
What kind of price tag stickers do they slap on the covers? That's my pet peeve! There's nothing like finding a mint first pressing with a store sticker on it.
-Phil
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-Phil
www.philpalombi.com
A local used record store did the same thing to me. I politely told her if you do that to the next used record that I have in my pile you can have them all back. That was the end of the caveman type record cleaning job. I couldn't believe that she scoffed at the idea of a rcm. Needless to say I don't patronize their establishment anymore.
illinoisteve
Super Member
If I'm not buying a sealed record, I kind of expect to find price stickers on the labels some of the time...sometimes a new price sticker or it might be 30 years old. They mainly irritate me if they are covering up information I want to read.
zenith2134
Lunatic Member
Nothing is worse than the stickers they put on CD releases! Talk about covering up the entire cover...
Windex has probably ruined a LOT of quality used records, which is sad.
Windex has probably ruined a LOT of quality used records, which is sad.
spartanmanor
Lunatic Member
That is great for business, and there is nothing better than word of mouth to keep them in business.
I would have told him he is ruining the vinyl with what he is doing. What an idiot!
spartanmanor
Lunatic Member
I can't tell you how many times I've gone into record stores and seen:
Clerk behind counter sitting on a stool smoking a cigarette and wiping a filthy windex soaked rag over records, in order to "clean" them.
Fortunately, times are changing. Smoking indoors is now seen as bad for business, so that's stopped.
Clerk behind counter sitting on a stool smoking a cigarette and wiping a filthy windex soaked rag over records, in order to "clean" them.
Fortunately, times are changing. Smoking indoors is now seen as bad for business, so that's stopped.
MarSanZ
Simple Pleasures...
I second that, attitude they do have at the CDepot, for some reason they think they are Gods...it kills me. Why pay $1,300 for a record machine and not use it?:thumbsdn: Not to mention I have NEVER seen a Blue Note label on the floor! Go figure.
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