From tisue@Godzilla.cs.nwu.edu Tue Dec 29 01:43:04 1998 Subject: Jandek LP's for sale To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu From: Seth Tisue Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:43:04 -0600 is selling copies of "On the Way" and "The Living End" for $20 apiece. (These are excellent albums by the way... both from 1988... You Walk Alone is the strongest of Jandek's "straighter" electric LP's, beautiful dual electric guitar workouts, wonderfully lucid [this is the album that should have been called "I Woke Up"]. On the Way's got "I'll Sit Alone and Think a Lot About You", nine minutes of Jandek at his most hesitant, mumbling, and introverted, the vocals and music often shading off towards inaudibility, and the melody that recurs throughout on acoustic guitar is one of Jandek's simplest, prettiest, saddest, and most memorable, == Seth Tisue http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/ "The Tao of progress appears as retreat" - Lao Tzu From tisue@Godzilla.cs.nwu.edu Tue Dec 29 01:45:19 1998 Subject: 1000 Jandek LP's To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu From: Seth Tisue Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:45:19 -0600 I was wondering... I'm told that recent Corwood price sheets say that you can order the old out-of-print LP's, but it's "wholesale only", minimum order of 1000 copies. 1) Could someone who has one of these price sheets mail me a photocopy? 2) Does it list a price for the 1000 records? I'm thinking about trying to raise the money. For "Ready for the House", of course. Maybe not now, as a student, but when I'm out of school and have a job and more income. Just thinking ahead... == Seth Tisue http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/ "The Tao of progress appears as retreat" - Lao Tzu From NCR13@aol.com Tue Dec 29 04:54:29 1998 From: NCR13@aol.com Message-ID: <5321349b.36886037@aol.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:53:11 EST To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Re: Jandek LP's for sale I went to the web site and ordered them, and it was no surprise to find that they were still sealed. Does anyone else encounter this phenomenon, that you will hardly ever encounter an opened Jandek LP, regardless of how old it is? Like, doesn't anyone who works in a record store/college radio station get even a little curious? My copy of Lost Cause came from a radio station giveaway at a Taco Bell grand opening (I'm very serious), three years after its release and it was sealed. Recently I got One Foot in the North sealed for $10, and now these other two...I am curious if others on this list have had the same experience. NCR From tisue@Godzilla.cs.nwu.edu Tue Dec 29 05:07:48 1998 To: jandek@cs.nwu.edu Subject: Re: Jandek LP's for sale From: Seth Tisue In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:53:11 EST." <5321349b.36886037@aol.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:07:48 -0600 >>>>> "NCR13" == NCR13 writes: NCR13> I went to the web site and ordered them, and it was no NCR13> surprise to find that they were still sealed. Does anyone else NCR13> encounter this phenomenon, that you will hardly ever encounter NCR13> an opened Jandek LP, regardless of how old it is? Like, NCR13> doesn't anyone who works in a record store/college radio NCR13> station get even a little curious? Yeah, I got the majority of mine sealed. I can think of a couple possible reasons for this: - Corwood's policy of sending out promos in twos. WHPK used to always receive two of each, and at least one person from another radio station has told me that it was the same there. - Corwood's old "25 for $50" (later $60) deal, which dates back to times when there were many fewer than 25 different Jandek albums. I'm sure a lot of people ordered boxes of 25 in order to get the albums cheap and then either hoarded the extras or immediately sold them to stores. Anyone smart enough to have done this then can now make a handsome profit selling them at $20+ per. (And if the Corwood-back-stock-wiped-out-by-flood thing is true, then the speculators were performing a public service too.) Love the Taco Bell story, == Seth Tisue http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~tisue/ "The Tao of progress appears as retreat" - Lao Tzu