Monday, November 18, 2002

I know I've linked this in the past, but I always get a kick out of revisiting Peter Gilstrap's "It Crawled From the Bins". I'm also really scared that somebody is going to take this gem of a site offline, and all of this genius will be lost to the sands of time. If you love crawling through dusty bins of thousands of records in the hopes of finding elusive treasures like 'Famous Monsters Speak' (got it), or 'The Payne Family - featuring David' (want it), or "Mr. Tremendous Speaks. Everyone Listens" (would consider trading limb), then you need to get to this site, and fast. Come on Peter... Its been years... There are plenty more albums out there. Come on back, will ya?
I like crawling through record bins too. The one thing I've learned is that you should get used to seeing thousands upon thousands of copies of 'Whipped Cream and Other Delights' - easily the most second-handed, flea-marketed, garage-saled album in the history of recorded music. Somebody tell me why there are 10 times as many copies of this record out there than the combined recorded output of every british invasion, soul/motown, funk, disco, and rock act ever. It defies reason. Why was this album once so loved, and now so carelessly tossed aside? There's a sociology paper in there somewhere.

This weekend I got a Flash/Aquaman split 7" story record and two Firehouse Five Plus Two 78s (of of them Good Time Jazz #2) - all for under five bucks.