Saturday, July 11, 2009
FAN: Yardsale Music Scores
This is getting to be too easy. Still A Stroke and I went out to a few local yardsales this morning advertised on Craigslist. We were never more than 3-4 miles from the house and by quick count we went to 8. I added 6 cds to my collection for the grand total of $9. What's funny about the total is that a quick check of secondspin.com shows that one of the ones I paid $2 for (Miles Davis Bitch's Brew, a double cd) they will pay $10 for. What's crazy about the purchase is that I only bought that cd because of the potential resell value. The guy had his cds marked way too high at $3 a piece or 2 for $5. I found two that I wanted (Midnight Oil and Silverchair) but couldn't find a third. Why did I want a third? Because you NEVER pay what the person running the yardsale wants. If they want 2 for $5, you ask if you can have 3 for $5. They said yes and I picked the Miles cd. When the guy said "Oh I didn't know you were going to pick a double cd as the third", I threw the crying bitch an extra single. The rest of the sales were strikesouts until we got back to my neighborhood. Someone was selling cds for $1 and I picked up Anthology of Bread, BTO's Greatest and Queens of the Stoneage. I already ripped the 6 and am now ready to create my order for secondspin which is worth $19. True, it's only $10, but I got 6 cds plus $10 in my eyes. I still like that feeling of seeing a box of cds. I need secondspin.com to play nice with my Blackberry browser so I can see the resell value realtime. The $10 for Miles is the best buyback price I've had. Second was Floyd's delicate Sound Of Thunder at $7.50.
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3 comments:
You should keep the Miles Davis Bitches Brew. That is a true classic. Resale value will definitely increase over time. That guy was a dumbass to have sold it to you in the first place.
I think I have 63 Mile Davis albums and Bitches Brew is probably in the top 10.
Unless you send me 11, its gone by this weekend. I don't really listen to jazz at all. Not that I don't appreciate, but because with what little time I lsten to music, I can barely keep up.
I don't need it. It's one of the Miles Davis albums I already have.
Miles Davis isn't probably the place you should start listening to jazz if you have little to no ear for it to begin with. A lot of Miles' recordings from the Bitches Brew period is some very complex stuff. Lots of people say it sounds like noise. But it's very deep. I've listened to that album dozens of times and I cannot tell you in all honesty that I truly "get it." I understand it better than many, but not as well as many others.
I'm much better at understanding his "Kind of Blue" album which I've listened to way more times. But "Sketches of Spain" (also considered a classic) pretty much still evades me.
The further back in time I go the more bop and hard-bop his music is, the easier it is for me to understand. "The Birth of The Cool" is still challenging though.
As I see it, the problem with Miles music is that it requires concentration. Sometimes listening to him just wears me out.
Put it in your music library and come back to it in a few years. Then sell the disks for the $11 or whatever.
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