The official thrift/discount store bragging thread - Part II (May 2015 - Sept. 2018)

[capnwes]

Saga Blue Arctic Fox

 

[drlivingston]

Mahatma Holly lets you keep a fur in the house?

 

[capnwes]

Shhh

 

[Timmah]

Mahatma Holly lets you keep a fur in the house?

And Walrus Tusk...

 

[cpmac7]

I am really bad with jeans, but this makes me want to go look for some levis:

http://www.wgme.com/news/features/t...ns-may-worth-fortune-30827.shtml#.VpUxtPk4GM8

 

[Bahljs]

I am really bad with jeans, but this makes me want to go look for some levis:

http://www.wgme.com/news/features/t...ns-may-worth-fortune-30827.shtml#.VpUxtPk4GM8

Soooo awesome

 

[Bahljs]

I am really bad with jeans, but this makes me want to go look for some levis:

http://www.wgme.com/news/features/t...ns-may-worth-fortune-30827.shtml#.VpUxtPk4GM8

Soooo awesome

Also, that dude (or sample pair of jeans) was huge. 44 in x 36 L??

 

[cpmac7]

For Realz, I thought people were smaller back then?!

 

[thebuddahman]



Lanvin trainers. 8uk. Available.

Are you in the UK/EU by any chance. I'm keen on those bad boys.

No no that's just the branded keeper, I mean the tag that is sewn inside the end of the small blade

Sorry chief.

 

[double00]

i'm pretty curious about those 501s.

they look completely unworn but i don't see any storage wear either?

i'd think levi's would cough up $100k to get those if they believed them to be legit.

remember that guy who found an enormous nugget on his property in gold country cali, and then tried selling the place for some stupid amount? and then it turned out when they tested the gold it was Australian? lol if it seems to good to be true it often is.

write it down, i'm calling shenanigans on this.

 

[Fueco]

i'm pretty curious about those 501s.

they look completely unworn but i don't see any storage wear either?

i'd think levi's would cough up $100k to get those if they believed them to be legit.

remember that guy who found an enormous nugget on his property in gold country cali, and then tried selling the place for some stupid amount? and then it turned out when they tested the gold it was Australian? lol if it seems to good to be true it often is.

write it down, i'm calling shenanigans on this.

The gold had an accent?

 

[double00]

lol yes it sounded exactly like nicole kidman. i guess the impurities or whatever. anyways it turned out to be a pretty elaborate real estate swindle.

but back to the pants: even if they were unworn it looks like they've been lovingly stored for 100+ years?! and yet no deep crusty creases, no loss of indigo (which btw happens in storage, it's a pretty fugitive dye on cotton hence sick fadezzz). the more i smell the sharper the bullshit. oh well.

and the proof is what? the pocket stamp? oh okay, but let's not mention provenance... and why a dealer from maine if they're trying to market it to the pacific rim? lol none of this adds up.

 

[ATLjon]

I always recommend that people NOT start vinyl collections. Don't waste your time and money with vinyl- it's an extremely inconvenient format that is a hassle to store, listen to and move. It won't really sound better unless you're getting mint copies of older records ($$$$$) and have a good sound system. Start off with a good stereo soundsystem.

Yeah, with records, a lot of it is about the experience and the collecting aspect, which is why I do it. There are some sound differences, though, tipped in favor of vinyl whatever this guy might think: http://www.laweekly.com/music/why-cds-may-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl-5352162

 

[Fueco]



Yeah, with records, a lot of it is about the experience and the collecting aspect, which is why I do it. There are some sound differences, though, tipped in favor of vinyl whatever this guy might think: http://www.laweekly.com/music/why-cds-may-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl-5352162

And how else are you going to have these gems of album covers floating around?

In terms of absolute recreation of the music, digital might be better in that it is replicable, and the recording will not fall apart with time. I'm listening to an original pressing of Rainbow by Neil Diamond from 1973, and clearly the recording has lost a bit of its "trueness" over the years. But this adds a character to the audio that digital will never be able to replicate. It's kind of like with clothing... Some people like their denim to be crisp and brand new. Others like how the fabric builds character over the years, with creases and fades that show that the jeans have conformed to the wearers body.

But anyway... I've always like vinyl, and am glad I have a turntable again for the first time in 8 years.

 

[TheNeedMachine]

I've got a friend who's been releasing music since 1981, and his assertion is that the warm hum you hear when playing vinyl is nothing but distortion, and not at all what the artist intended you to hear. The majority of his musician friends agree.
That said, I still like vinyl.
But collecting can be a whole other thing. I used to be a hard-core collector of certain artists and certain labels to the point that it was being...sinfully covetous. I would have 8 or 10 or more copies of the same release - the first release, each subsequent re-release, foreign pressings, then CD's, cassettes, maybe a test pressing, etc - all of the same title. And only one copy was a playing copy - everything else was just to admire. I looked around one day and decided it was just sick, so I sold 98% of it.
Then I got into selling vinyl for pure profit - buy from Japan, never play it or get attached to it, resell to the UK etc.
Nowadays I'm all about rooting thru the stacks at the thrifts hoping to find something interesting-looking or that I already know, for cheap. I've been to maybe 2 proper record stores in the past 8 years, but will probably pop into them more often in the future just to see what they have.