Followed a craigslist tip last night to Monrovia, where a guy needed to unload 4,000 records in a hurry.
"Dude, you could have the whole thing for $500!"
No way I could have done that, but we agreed on $15 per box of (roughly) 100 records. I figured I'd take 6 boxes for $90.
He'd told me they were mostly 80's 12" singles, but "there's some regular LPs mixed in."
When I got there, the sun was setting and the garage had no lighting.
The only way to check anything was to haul out each box and put it on my car. The boxes were packed tight, but the records seemed okay. I decided to fill up the car as far as it would go, which became 12 boxes for $160. Then, there were a bunch of loose records, which they jammed into my trunk any which way (no charge; they just wanted to get rid of them.)
Carrying them all into Gower, even with Friday and Elizabeth, totally wiped me out.
I started going through them slowly last night.
Pretty quickly I realized this was a DJ's WORKING collection, with beats and other notes written on the covers, and definite use on the vinyl.
But the worse part is, this guy had a signature that looked like tagging graffiti, AND his personal trademark was to create a spiral with magic marker on the fucking LABELS!!!!!!
Given that I have at least 1200 records (probably way more) the law of averages has left a few UNMOLESTED records behind… but making this money back is not gonna be as quick or as fun as I'd hoped.
I had nightmares about those spiral'd labels!!
