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Discogs’ Top 50 Best Selling Records Of March 2017
Another fun and exciting month in the top selling records on Discogs. We see about 10% new content with Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits being heavy on “stuff that should be here regularly but isn’t for some reason”. The top of this best selling records list is perpetually that one old guy at the flea market that uses […]
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Top 20 Most Wanted Totally Canadian Records (And Tape)
In light of our recent announcement of bringing Crate Diggers Record Fair to Canada, I thought I might provide some of the most wanted Canadian records on offer. I built this list by looking at the most wanted Canadian-only releases. These are defined as releases from Canada that do not share a master release with a version […]
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What I Did On My Spring Vacation (Part 1)
The next few posts will be different from my normal format of consumption-oriented clickbait. Here I am every other week telling you to buy buy buy, to sub sub sub. It’s so fun to consume, you know. It’s more fun to mask your giddy consumerism as half-hearted ironic consumerism. That having been said, buying outside […]
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Discogs’ Top 50 Best Selling Albums of February 2017
The only thing that’s really shocking here is how long it took Led Zeppelin‘s Houses Of The Holy to show up in the charts. I was beginning to wonder if everything was okay with high school students these days. With the exception to a few stragglers from the upper 50-100 range dropping into focus, the […]
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Top 10 Community Voted Best Releases In My Collection
I don’t have a lot this week. I’ve got a few really interesting projects in the chamber, but nothing worth reporting yet. As I’m due to for something, I whipped up this list the top ten community voted best releases in my collection. It’s an amazing mix of funk, disco, psych and electronic-ish music. I was […]
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Bottom 10: Cheapest Records, CDs and Tapes Ever Sold On Discogs
Since the dawn of time, mankind has dreamed of a brighter tomorrow and a modern successful way of living. A time, when music could be nearly free. These brave records, cds, tapes or other fine alternatives to entertainment dared to make that dream a reality. It brings me great pleasure to announce to you today, […]
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Thrift Store Tales: Digging In Rhode Island (Again)
Well, here I am back again with another true story from the world of dust. I used to hear stories that thrift stores used to be consistent amazing fountains of records. This was the thought going through my head last Friday. I walked out of a certain chain thrift store in Rhode Island empty handed. […]
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Discogs Top 50 Best Selling Records – January, 2017
A new year, a new month, a new best selling records list. It’s not new now, but it was then. We see this month a fairly average mark. The one year anniversary of David Bowie‘s passing brought fans back to remember. Thrift store perennials Carole King and Simon & Garfunkel finally make it onto the […]
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Records Nobody Has And Nobody Wants (Unless A Celebrity’s On It)
We all have used vinyl records that nobody wants. Well, you don’t. Of course, your collection is a pristine manicured garden. It’s curated to only award winning specimens of the rarest of rare records. Some of us, though, spend more than enough time hunting for vinyl records or cds and tapes. We live at flea […]
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Top Ten Most Expensive Miami Bass Releases
In light of the upcoming Crate Diggers Miami record fair, I thought it’d be a good time to share some of the choicer cuts of a style of music known as Miami Bass. This sub-style of Bass Music gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. Chances are, you’ve heard this music too. 2 Live Crew, Tag […]