[boc-l] NIK/OFF: Kollector worry

[Jonathan Jarrett]

 	Dear Mary,
 		   glad to gather you're still out there, and in fact that 
anyone is, hurray! I have missed the list a bit, though I'd hardly have 
had the time this last year or so, things have been really busy.

 	The Magic Muscle album came to me from the US, in fact, Mary, so 
maybe it was yours, how many can there have been? It was signed by Huw 
Gower, in case that narrows it down. I have been toying with sending it to 
Rod Goodway to get him to sign it too, but I see he's closed up his old 
shop at the Aching Cellar and his and Adrian Shaw's second album still 
isn't out... so I'm not sure I'd get an answer. I should at least ask 
after him, though. Their first album was on my turntable for weeks and is 
still one of my favourite purchases of the last few years. What else can 
one think of a record on which the phrase `perpendicular aerodrome' is 
used? Yours all,
 		 Jon

ObCD: Spirits Burning and Bridget Wishart - _Bloodlines_

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, mary sullivan via boc-l wrote:
> Jon, that's 1 of the nice things about this list, is the caring, given you
> felt for the person who parted with the disc, Good for you.  Maybe whoever
> owned it didn't like it, that would be a situation where everyone is happy.
> Nice to read your posting, since I'll go days without checking my email,
> sometimes, I tend to miss a lot, so if I ever don't respond to anything
> anyone here sends, it's I'm a spaceshot with way too much email. I hope you
> are well.  I remember Magic Muscle, Chris and I owned a few of their albums,
> sadly I don't remember which ones, anymore. Well, I'm still here, I think.
>
> Peace, prosperity friendship and hope,
>
> Lots of love,
>
> Kaduflyer
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> Subject: [boc-l] NIK/OFF: Kollector worry
>
> 	Dear all,
> 		  I return... Hopefully there's still some people out there
> and you're all OK!
>
> 	I return because I recently had something of a collector's score,
> after finding myself led to Discogs.com by Googling for Magic Muscle's _The
> Pipe, The Roar and the Grid_, the only one of their albums I didn't have.
> And lo it was there. I'd signed up for an account with them when trying to
> get hold of an entirely different album (_Subkraut: U-Boats Wilkommen Hier_
> by Vespero, which is excellent), but it turned out to be easier to get by
> other routes so I never went any further. This time I did, and I kind of
> cleaned out on several things I've been after for a long long time,
> including a 7" of ICU's `Paradise Beach' and, holy of holies, DarXtar's
> _Darker_.
>
> 	Well, at that point I had two thoughts. The first of them, and
> meaner, was that when I saw DarXtar play in London and I afterwards talked
> to the Commander about the unavailability of that album, I encouraged him to
> re-release it as a CD-R so he could actually see some money out of it, and
> he said no, he thought it was good that there should be some rarities.
> Well, now I have a copy and he got nothing from it, so I still think he
> would have done better to do it my way. But then, a quickly following second
> thought, this CD is rare than hen's teeth; if it's available, that probably
> means someone's collection is being sold off. Which left me suddenly feeling
> guilty and wondering: is everyone on BOC-L OK? Have I missed someone's final
> departure into space in my absence? And, well, I thought I'd sign back on
> and check... Yours all as of yore,
> 							    Jon
>
>

-- 
 	Jonathan Jarrett, Leeds      jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
 	"May the Lord Almighty guard your life, because among other
  things it is of great value in silencing the idiocies of blatherskites."
   (Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury to Archbishop John of Rouen, 1073)