Aucbarpa.688 net.records utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:olson Thu Jan 21 09:04:14 1982 hi there, net.records! i like it. i'll subscribe. count me in. query one, to get the ball rolling: where do most people get their records? berkeley has a marvelous underground culture, and is geared to the student's budget. there are five (count 'em, FIVE) used record stores within walking distance of my apartment. four of them are primarily punk/new wave/experimental, but one is exclusively funk and jazz. all of them also feature new albums by popular and not-so-popular (with a bullet) artists, and (don't quote me before a grand jury) quite a decent selection of bootlegs. cheap, too; $4 and less per album. this helps beat the prices of new albums (at about eight bucks per, i don't own many of those). the only problem with this set-up is that you have to wait about a month and a half after an album comes out to find a used copy. you also have to peer closely into the grooves while you're still in the store, to be sure nobody's spilled ex-lax or coffee on the album they sold. also, who knows what the status of "rather ripped records" is? they used to be on the north side of the uc berkeley campus, a two-block walk from my office in evans hall. then they moved to oakland somewhere, and i lost track of them. they used to advertise in rolling stone a lot. they had a great record search service. i'd tell them i wanted a single of "dry bones" by the original artist, but i didn't know who the original artist was. two weeks later, they'd call me and tell me they found a copy by the kingsmen from 1960, and was i interested? since they moved, i've seen no advertisements and heard no rumors. i'd like to track these guys down, as they were the sole bay area distributor for the english label rough trade. alas, the times change... so get those digital cards and letters sent, amici and amicae. first person with the correct address for rather ripped wins my personally transcribed copy of the lyrics to the dead kennedy's album, "fresh fruit for rotting vegetables." oh, that reminds me... the new kennedy's ep (i forget its christian name) is excellent. has a version of "california uber alles" with ronald reagan substituted for jerry brown. yow! mikey (mikey olson, ...!ucbvax!olson) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.