[WIN] a vinyl shopping spree with Cold Cave!
February 12th, 2010 · 8 Comments
Cold Cave is playing Lexington Feb 28. Here's how to get them to buy you some stuff while they're in town!
UPDATE: the tour has been canceled and therefore the contest is off. Sorry guys :(
I am so insanely glad to be able to do another one of these vinyl shopping sprees. The one we did with These United States was such a blast that I knew we had to repeat it.
This go around You Ain't No Picasso is offering one lucky Lexington-area reader the chance to have a $50 vinyl shopping spree at CD Central, curated by Cold Cave.
MP3: Cold Cave - Life Magazine
How to Enter the contest and what you can expect if you win
To enter, leave a comment here describing your personal approach to record — that’s vinyl — collecting. If you only buy the pricey “must haves” like Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and OK Computer, if you like to go diving in the used bins or if you’re just starting out — whatever. Just lay it all in the comments, along with some record finds/purchases that have made you particularly happy.
Now, if you win you’ll get a $50 coupon to CD Central to be spent ONLY ON VINYL. The catch is that it’s not up to you to spend it. It’s going to Cold Cave, who will walk around the store with you, talk to you, ask questions of you and eventually decide what records you need to take home with you. Luckily they know a ton about music (hell, Dom even owns a record store), so you can trust them pretty well. Additionally, you'll also get two tickets to the Cold Cave/Hair Police show Feb 28th at Al's Bar.
Either Cold Cave or I will pick a winner Thursday Feb 25. The shopping spree will be Sunday Feb 28 before their show at Al's Bar. So be sure to leave an email address that you check regularly because if you don’t get back to me the day I email you, it’s going to the next person on the list. Also, don’t enter if you aren’t OK with me photographing your shopping spree to post on YANP.
8 responses so far
1 Leah Hutchison // Feb 12, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I like covers. The first thing I’m drawn to is cover art. Carnage, carnality – anything with blood. I love how the cover of I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard And Linda Thompson, from far away, looks like some Manson-esque message written in blood on the wall. I’m hoping the Cold Cave folks can point me to something that sounds like a black metal version of The Cure that ISN’T Forgotten Woods. Yeah, I know who Forgotten Woods is.
2 Brody Kenny // Feb 14, 2010 at 6:15 pm
I love vinyl because in a world where everything is conveniently there, wherever you are, including music, it forces you to to just slow down, and take it easy. Plus there’s so much to appreciate about the experience of buying and owning vinyl, whether it’s an album released this year, or 30 years ago: humongous cover art, great sound, stumbling upon records you weren’t even looking for. For example, I got a used copy of Springsteen’s “Born to Run” for about $7, and the combination of classic album + wonderful surprise was great. So yes, I love vinyl and am glad it’s a medium that is still going strong.
3 Matt Delormier // Feb 15, 2010 at 7:55 pm
My personal approach to record collecting comes down to this:
whatever. I don’t [usually] go to records stores because I usually run
on a PBR or Old Style budget. I mainly go to Goodwills or Flea markets
and, to tell you the truth, it really takes an art to really enjoy
collecting. Sometimes when I’m going through a Flea Market or
Goodwill’s selection, I tend to think I’m looking some dead person’s
record collection which their love ones didn’t really want and each
record might have story to them. Is that silly? I don’t know. Maybe(?)
But that delusion makes me feel warm inside for the fact I have a dead
person’s memory in something.
Anyways, here’s is how I make my picks which are composed of these
factors: 1.)Album art, can end up bad sometimes but it also goes the
other way around. 2.) Don’t be stuck to a certain genre, you can find
the best music that way (that’s how I found Isao Tomita). 3.) Knowing
some production can pay off,[for example] get anything that Quincy
Jones produced because it will be GOLDEN. 4.) Trading with Friends is
always nice too, I once traded two newly bought records [comes out to
$40] for The Wiz soundtrack which my friend found at Goodwill for 50
cents. It was worth it [in my opinion, anyways]. 5.) Only buy your
favorite albums New, its makes your collection alot less clutter and
you will enjoy the album way more (I’m still looking for Death From
Above 1979′s only album but no luck).
That’s how I do it. My method of collecting records. Hopefully we can
find some John Carpenter soundtracks…hopefully.
4 Chris // Feb 16, 2010 at 9:58 am
I got my own turntable during college, and immediately all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins began dropping off boxes of their vinyl at my parents house for me to dig through. There are, literally, hundreds upon hundreds of records I still haven’t been able to look at much less listen to. As far as buying stuff on my own, I’m still new to this. I tend to get weird things like 7″ clear vinyl records in pink velvet cases, but then I feel bad for listening to them. On the other hand, I will also buy things that are ridiculous like this copy of Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health” I found at a Goodwill for a quarter. Also, I have this idea of where I want to buy and frame my favorite record of each year dating back to 2000 when I first really started listening to music. I think that would be a really cool collage in my apartment. So, I’m all over the place. In all honesty, I kind of wish I could start over with record collecting, but it is an expensive past time to be a collector when you covet as much music as I do.
5 Jaime // Feb 16, 2010 at 4:54 pm
FYI, this show was canceled.
6 Brody Kenny // Feb 16, 2010 at 5:14 pm
why?
7 Brody Kenny // Feb 16, 2010 at 5:19 pm
How come?
8 Trevor Tremaine // Feb 22, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Because the Hair Police are in jail forever (murder).
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