The store is now open!

You can now shop for music—currently CDs only—from the comfort of your own home! My Discogs store is currently open for business! I am working hard to add more inventory, but it takes time to sort the CDs, grade them, price them, and add them to Discogs. I am pricing them to sell but if you find the price of anything is too high, Discogs will let you make an offer....

April 21, 2020
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Recovering the Satellites

It was 1996. A newlywed in a small town in the mountains of Virginia. A sparsely furnished first-floor apartment. The burn in the linoleum left by a comal that split and was sent flying from the electric stove. Strumming my acoustic guitar to this CD in the barren living room, separated by a plastic sheet hung to keep the heat in the side of the apartment we actually used. Carver 900 receiver, Advent Legacy speakers, that crappy Panasonic five-disc changer that everyone had....

April 20, 2020

I Am an Idiot

I have been looking for a way to support my record buying habit, and I came up with the great idea of trying to buy entire collections and then sell off the albums I don’t want. I know this is fraught with challenges, the primary one being time. Assuming I can find buyers, I have to wait for them to find me, and I’ve tied up cash I could otherwise use to buy records I actually want....

April 16, 2020