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I took a detour along the back lane of Portage Ave and Vaughn St. Low-and-behold, the dumpster was full of vinyl, not garbage or cardboard. There was a good selection of tunes for the picking. Unfortunately, the rain water soaked the whole lot. I wasn't prepared to dive, either.
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Linda Ronstadt had pipes and other desirable attributes.
Sadly, now she has Parkinson's.
About five years ago a friend called. She had some records she wanted to give me. When I got to her house she explained that she'd "rescued" the fifty or so LPs from a dumpster behind the local second-hand shop. They were utterly trashed. Scratched up EZ Listening, Country Western, and Gospel records. They'd been in the dumpster for good reason.
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Sent a good amount to a landfill this Summer.
Just traded in around 30 LPs of doubles (VG & Vg+ mostly) at Half Price Books this weekend. Wow! do those folks low ball ... I think they gave me like 10 cents per record. Not even worth taking the time to trade but I can't justify tossing some half ways decent vinyl that some pepes may find desirable.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
Everything in there looks like junk (though I confess I have in the past owned the Cher album.)
So it most likely either picked through and the remainers are what was tossed... Or the leftovers stored away for some ancient sell off.
Now if you saw a dumpster full of 1960's 70's best Rock groups, and piles of Classical Mercury living presence, and endless 1950 and 60's Blue Notes... Maybe a complete set of early MFSL pressings
Then I would shed a tear with you.
As it is, it is just another dumpster full af worthless junk.
(Though I can sympathize with the notion that all records have some value.. I cannot share your grief over that particular pile.)
Same thing with the guy in Brazil buying millions of records.. What a senseless project. Some day that too will become a huge pile for the dumpsters in Brazil.
One persons trash is another's treasure was never more true.
Well, that Frederick Fennell Conducts Cole Porter album is a stereo Mercury Living Presence. Not one prized by collectors, I suppose, but I'd hate to toss a good Fennell record. As I've mentioned here, I played a concert with him, and he was a very inspiring, enthusiastic, entertaining and downright funny guy. Everyone played their hearts out for him. I'm not sure why this one goes in the trash while Fennell's Hi Fi a la Espanola sells for hundreds.
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Working with Fennell was always memorable, that much is for sure!
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I have that Fennell disc, and it's a very good record. If the catalogue number on that record began with a 9 instead of a 6, people would be all over it.
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If you were at that dumpster, you would take a few minutes to look at the LPs and quickly find any good ones. And even if Mr. Fennell and his high-energy enthusiasm rubbed you the wrong way, it wouldn't make me correct and you wrong. We're all just spouting off opinions.
...listed on Ebay as NM. ;-)
See ya. Dave
Seeing the stickers on them with the numbers, I suspect these were radio station library LP discs. Which can be anywhere from Near Mint condition to badly abused.
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