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Discogs’ Top 50 Best Selling Records Of May 2017
May 2017 marked an unfortunate turn of events in music history. We witness the passing of legendary alt-rock frontman Chris Cornell, blues rocker Gregg Allman, and electronic music pioneer Robert Miles. Their presence in the community was deeply felt, as evidenced by their respective fanbases’ need to reconnect with their music during their passing with each making a strong showing […]
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Favorite Studio One Tracks, According To Reggae Connoisseur, WeedMusic
It gives me great pleasure to introduce a list this week from none other than Discogs top Reggae contributor, WeedMusic. Since we’re partnering with Studio One for the reissue of Freddie McKay’s masterpiece album, ‘Picture On The Wall’, WeedMusic were the first I wanted to contact to help out with this celebration and to dig further into Studio […]
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Top 10 Rarest Reggae Record Sales Of All Time
We’re celebrating Studio One’s release of Freddie McKay’s ‘Picture On The Wall: Deluxe Edition’ with the top selling records on the site of all time under the Reggae genre banner. This Top 10 encompasses a few different styles with a lot of emphasis on earlier ones like Rocksteady and Ska. I’m not exactly a reggae expert, so […]
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Tapes Are Still Awful And You Should Continue To Ignore Them
Science has proven most people have already bailed by now to go leave an angry comment. Go laugh at them for not reading the article. You could be making tapes and selling/gifting/trading them right now. Tapes are so cheap C30s are about $0.90 each for a 25 pack shipped to your door. If you’re crafty […]
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Discogs’ Top 50 Best Selling Records Of April 2017
Record Store Day. When I pulled the best selling records of April list up, I assumed I was looking at the wrong query or I had got something horrifically wrong. Nope. RSD struck again this April. Fresh vinyl reissues are. Well needed. Stock injections help offset the demand for vinyl that was pressed during the dark […]
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Plunderphonics Producers: How Do You Organize Your Sample Records?
I need to know. The more records I have, the harder it is to get my thoughts together. It’s an issue that’s rooted in both physical organization and how I catalog notes in my collection on the site. This has been an ongoing project for years, longer than me being a member of this website. […]
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What I Did (And Records I Bought) On My Spring Vacation: Part 2
Check out Part 1 of what I did on my spring vacation here! No notes were taken on Sunday, the day of the record show. The following is scribed together from notes from the day following and from scraps of information we have that survived. I have something of an awful tradition. What you got […]
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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 […]