I commend your bin-digging endurance. i've found maybe two records in the entire lot that have been worth purchasing -- 99.8% of that Watts collection is horrid commercial dance music.
- jobot ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 11:31 am Subject: Re: FW: (313) Re: what's the most people are willing to pay for rekkids? > > > > > yeah, as I've mentioned before, one of the local shops here has a > fairlygood relationship with Watts distribution > Watts had a warehouse full of records and CDs that they had lost > inventoryon and they were tired of paying rent on the storage space > so they sold the whole entire warehouse to the local shop here in > Minneapolis > The shop has been putting the records - brand new and most still > sealed - > out for sale for ridiculous prices > $2 for 12" to maybe $11 for a double or triple vinyl. > > The big finds have been > Claude Young's "Acid Wash Conflict" on 7th City - sealed for $3 > Dan Bell's "Elevate Special Projects 1" - the original ltd to 500 > release - > for $2! the record was brand new never played > Paul W. Teebrooke - OW002 and Nova 12" brand new for $3 each > Sterac - Secret Life Remixes Pt.1 > Most of the Tons of Tones 12" on Urban Sound of Amsterdam > quite a number of early Detroit house/techno records (Happy Records, > Santonio Echols, etc.) > > there's a been a few more but can't recall everything > > MEK > > >It's good when shops 'discover' a lost batch of original > pressings which > >sometimes happens - Piccadilly di this recently with the Mowax > stuff - and > I > >checked with the label, they really were original. If they were > bootlegs>they were damn fine ones, original art, little postcard, > cardboard sleeves > >and mega loud pressing (esp for 1996.) > > >I had not heard 'Ravers Suck Our Sound' before I gotr this so I was > >grateful. > > >This also happened with Roy Davis Junior's 'Gabriel' thing a few > years ago > >too. > > >Anyone else with such tales? > >
