record collecting fa... er... um... freak



so a few months ago tower records had this huge sale at their warehouse. the first hour was for employees only. luckily niki is an employee so we were second or third in line, and once they let us in i couldn't believe all the amazing stuff i was finding (and makes me wonder...why is tower hiding all the good shit in storage and keeping their stores out of the loop). dan from tonevendor isn't an employee, but we let him sneak in anyway.

so anyhow, i first walked over to the LP section since i still listen to that medium (and at least once a year i get invited to dj somewhere...and it's way more fun to spin wax than aluminum/plastic) and found some crazy 60's garage/pop reissue records. i hadn't heard of most of the stuff i was finding, but i grabbed everything (since they were a buck a piece) all on 180 gram vinyl...later it turned out that some of the stuff i scored were of bands you would find in the nuggets box sets...surreal!

later on i made it to the cds and couldn't believe my eyes...it started with a tall dwarfs cd, then something by the terminals...and it only got better from there (the clean, look blue go purple, two flying nun compilations). niki ran into suresh, who is the neighborhood expert on kiwi-pop (and the lucky one who found a bats rarities comp..the bastard!) and found the flying nun records goldmine and kept advising us to "get this and get this and get this and get this..." before we knew it, we had 15-20 flying nun titles, most of which were of bands neither of us had even heard of before. well, most of the stuff turns out to be david kilgore side projects (you would think every band in new zealand required vocals from the dude)...anyhow..slowly but surely i've been getting through all the cd's and last night i happened to put on "what happened to ray" by the great unwashed... amazing stuff.. very clean-esque (dave kilgor's first post-clean band..get it? the great unwashed..hahahahah!). great stuff!

and the moral of the story....

50 cent was robbed of the "best new artist" award at the grammys last night