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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Shit Talk / Business Used CD Bins and Their Dissed Contents

Posted by on Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:52 AM

This directive telling employees of Chicago record store Laurie’s Planet of Sound to “NEVER EVER BUY” used CDs recorded by a long list of artists for the should resonate with anyone who’s worked in music retail over the last decade. The litany may be a few years old, and surely many more titles need to be added to it, but the bulk of the albums by artists here have been sitting unloved in used bins for years, like lousy cheese in the colons of sluggish humans. When I worked for Everyday Music in 2003-2004, I’d see discs by post-Green R.E.M., Cranberries, Alice in Chains, Beck, Björk, and countless others flooding the store like unwanted guests you’re too polite to kick out (EM bought almost everything customers would haul in). I’m surprised these acts didn’t make Laurie's shit list.

That being said, the Laurie’s Planet of Sound list does contain a few surprises—Suede, Flying Luttenbachers, Apes, Grifters, 808 State, Love Battery—but overall it’s a solid document of ignominy, and whoever composed it possesses a sound business mind. (However, who decides what "2nd Tier Hip-Hop" is and by what criteria?) The one entry that’s most damning, though is “most 90s bands.” Harsh!

Peruse the list here.

 

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Travis Ritter 1
During my time at Sonic Boom, we had a pretty extensive "NEVER BUY" list. It's probably still at the Ballard store, with infinitely more addendums since it's creation. The Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's and many other flavor of the whatever month it was that KEXP played them are included.
Posted by Travis Ritter http://nuglifer.wordpress.com on July 19, 2012 at 11:24 AM
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Everything "Pitchfork-y"
Posted by Avtar on July 19, 2012 at 12:03 PM
geoff teardrop 3
The Eagles earned their spots in this shit list, but why "luttenbachers" (flying or not) show up on their radar is odd to me
Posted by geoff teardrop http://twitter.com/wipess on July 19, 2012 at 12:09 PM
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Luttenbachers is probably a Chicago thing. Some feebs can't handle their madness.
Posted by Dave Segal on July 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Estey 5
Quickly determining what "2nd Tier Hip-Hop" is during a buy is actually the first part of a hiring test at some used record stores.
Posted by Estey on July 19, 2012 at 2:19 PM
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what's a "CD"?
Posted by legacy builder on July 19, 2012 at 4:12 PM

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