The official thrift/discount store bragging thread - Page 3076

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Originally Posted by mexicutioner 

cos & HA: this is a serious question for the two of you: how many tribe called quest, run dmc, biggie or tupac songs can you name off the top of your head?
note: this isn't on some "you youngsters don't know what the real shit is" tip. it's more "did these dudes go straight into this new stuff, or do they have some context about where this music came from?" i'm genuinely curious. back when i was younger, white dudes my age were into nirvana and whatnot. eventually, rap music became widespread, and everyone listened to it, but white dudes still had come from a non-rap background, and didn't go straight into liking hip hop.
also, yes i know i'm making generalizations and whatnot, so what.

Finally someone who speaks English. I have no idea what those two were saying at all. 

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Originally Posted by rayxlui 

Can anyone date this Brooks Brothers suit? I know it's old cause it has signs of hand stitching and it's design is a la Thom Browne.

I would guess 60's

The bag man striketh again (though on a much lower level).

Yesterday I dropped by the GW that I'll be establishing residency at due to proximity in a few weeks. Anyway it was just before closing, and I didn't have much time to do a complete sweep of the place. Walked past the pile, and I mean pile of bags and stuff in the back of the store when this little guy caught my eye.

Not a Billykirk by any means, but way stoked on this. Problem is, this sucker is dirty. As part of a costume shop's inventory, it was probably rented out on a lot of films. As you can see in the first picture, one of the snaps on the left is missing, but that's ok by me. They also seem to have retrofitted velcro tabs to the bag as well, which is pretty awesome since I'll hopefully make this a keeper/user for myself, and you can't see them with the flap closed.

How should I clean this thing? I can't exactly throw it in the washer the leather and all. Soap and brush in the sink?

Also the strap is too damn short, considering various options to lengthen it so that I don't loose the awesomeness of the original.

Yeah no kidding man. All I want is a black m4-p or m6, well used and beat up, with a 35mm lens. I would run through a cornfield backwards/naked for one.

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Originally Posted by mexicutioner 

cos & HA: this is a serious question for the two of you: how many tribe called quest, run dmc, biggie or tupac songs can you name off the top of your head?
note: this isn't on some "you youngsters don't know what the real shit is" tip. it's more "did these dudes go straight into this new stuff, or do they have some context about where this music came from?" i'm genuinely curious. back when i was younger, white dudes my age were into nirvana and whatnot. eventually, rap music became widespread, and everyone listened to it, but white dudes still had come from a non-rap background, and didn't go straight into liking hip hop.
also, yes i know i'm making generalizations and whatnot, so what.

I've never been great at rote memorization of song titles, but I could probably approximately name 30-40 songs by those specific artists.  How many Company Flow, J Dilla, Busdriver, Pharcyde, Antipop Consortium, Digable Planets etc songs can you name off the top of your head?  Probably none.  

More than anything, I come from an understand of underground music, whether it be punk, metal, hardcore, noise, or hip hop.  It just so happens that hip hop beats hit the mainstream sooner and more pervasively than John Wiese noise experiments.  

However, you have artists like Johnny Jewel contributing to Oscar nominated films (Drive) so the underground does gets through in unexpected ways.  

Hip hop is generally about "look-at-me" lyrics and spitting game about raping women will get people to look at you.  Earl's 18, he's young and dumb.  

Youth makes music exciting and generally introduces the freshest ideas. Period.

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Originally Posted by FaceOfBoh 


Boss 3B SC, beautiful Loro Piana Wool/Cashmere, tagged 48C (not sure what C means)

"C" usually means short but the Boss labels are all funky. Does it fit like a 48 or a 38?