Random Music Thoughts

[Ojai Sam]

I just finished lunch at City National Plaza, an underground mall here in Downtown LA. The sound system just played Nat King Cole's "Straighten Up and Fly Right." A little while ago they had early Charlie Parker. Sounds like @Zeeba Neighba is moonlighting as a DJ.

Don't worry - I'm not going to do a Spotify playlist.

 

[axolotl]

I just finished lunch at City National Plaza, an underground mall here in Downtown LA. The sound system just played Nat King Cole's "Straighten Up and Fly Right." A little while ago they had early Charlie Parker. Sounds like @Zeeba Neighba is moonlighting as a DJ.

Don't worry - I'm not going to do a Spotify playlist.

I wonder what music they play in the Catacombs.

 

[Nickyboy]

I wonder what music they play in the Catacombs.

Jacques Brel.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I bought a used CD on eBay that I paid $8.99 for (shipping included). That same CD, used, is going for $75.50 to $81 on Amazon from 3rd party sellers. Very strange. o_O

 

[Nickyboy]

I bought a used CD on eBay that I paid $8.99 for (shipping included). That same CD, used, is going for $75.50 to $81 on Amazon from 3rd party sellers. Very strange. o_O

A certain member/former member here was selling discs at a discount. I bought a few at $10 a piece, One of them was going for $85 on Amazon.
I bit.

 

[Ojai Sam]

I wonder what music they play in the Catacombs.

Obviously you've visited City National Plaza. The resemblance is unmistakable.

 

[axolotl]

Obviously you've visited City National Plaza. The resemblance is unmistakable.

Once the City Goths and Vampires arrived, at least.

 

[axolotl]

I bought a used CD on eBay that I paid $8.99 for (shipping included). That same CD, used, is going for $75.50 to $81 on Amazon from 3rd party sellers. Very strange. o_O

It's ephemeral, almost like the price of tulips.

Honestly, a year ago or so, I once looked up a K-pop band for which I have an affinity, and the prices for CDs that I had bought from a discount rack in Pasadena (Poobah's) were going in the several hundred dollars. Now I look at Amazon, and the prices are in the range of $30. I'm not sure what that tells me. It might tell me that the first time I tried, I used the Korean language characters and so it was giving me some skewed numbers.

As my mum used to say, "Or, I don't know what."

 

[Unsomnambulist]

It never fails: when I'm tired/sleepy and want to take a nap, the last song on the album is over 6 minutes long.

 

[axolotl]

It never fails: when I'm tired/sleepy and want to take a nap, the last song on the album is over 6 minutes long.

I'm reasonably certain that you won't have to lift the tonearm manually.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I'm reasonably certain that you won't have to lift the tonearm manually.

Not even figuratively.

 

[axolotl]

Not even figuratively.

That literally made me lurf out soft.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The CD I ordered came today, and it's brand new (it was listed as "like new"). So, new CD for $8.99 shipped from eBay, or used (?) CD from Amazon for $80.

 

[axolotl]

The CD I ordered came today, and it's brand new (it was listed as "like new"). So, new CD for $8.99 shipped from eBay, or used (?) CD from Amazon for $80.

I never knew you had a CDP. I thought you only had digital streaming formats, like FLAC, etc.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I never knew you had a CDP. I thought you only had digital streaming formats, like FLAC, etc.

I have two portable CD players, both with a rep for good sound quality. There is also the optical drive in my laptop.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I always used to think it was "Are you reeling in the eaves?"

Which makes no sense.

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Mayhaps you need to go back to My Old School.

 

[Ojai Sam]

So last Saturday I went to Amoeba to trade in 2 boxes' worth of surplus vinyl that had accumulated over several years. It was a diverse lot, with everything from rock to country to jazz to pop to classical, even opera. They spent about 30 minutes pricing everything and then wound up taking all but these two:

I'm not sure which rejection puzzles me more.

 

[Nickyboy]

Perry Como albums probably flood the market so won't move, and Gregorian chants are too unknown/popular to sell? I can see rejecting the Como, but the chants should have been snapped up. I would have taken them in a heartbeat.

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

I can't speak for the Perry Como, but for the chants, the answer is right on the bottom of the album cover. "Long playing microgroove full frequency range recording."

Amoeba guy: "tl;dr"