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A. J. Payler

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Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others. Visit ajpayler.com for more.

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The album Petty threatened to name "Eight Ninety-Eight"--or possibly not deliver to the company at all--if MCA raised the list price to $9.98.

21.02.2026 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Hard Promises (Backstreet Records BSR-5160 Vinyl LP Released: May 5, 1981)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #tompetty

21.02.2026 00:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The 1st heavy metal album to hit #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Metal Health sold over 10 million copies worldwide!

20.02.2026 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quiet Riot – Metal Health (Pasha FZ 38443 Vinyl LP Released: Mar 11, 1983)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #quietriot #80smetal #hairmetal

20.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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HERE'S HOW RECORDS GIVE YOU MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT:

#vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify

20.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Wir – The First Letter (Mute/Elektra – 61238-2 Released: Oct 1991)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #wire #postpunk

17.02.2026 04:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Red Crayola – The Parable Of Arable Land/God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It
(Decal CD LIK 65, original LPs rel. 1967/1968, CD Compilation Released: 1990)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #redkrayola #psychedelia

17.02.2026 03:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Teenage Fanclub – A Catholic Education (Matador OLE 012-2 CD Released: 1990)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #teenagefanclub

17.02.2026 03:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Television – The Blow Up (Danceteria/ROIR Europe RE114CD France, Recorded 1978, Orig. Rel. 1982 2xCD Reissue Released: 1992)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #television #guitar

16.02.2026 23:01 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Richard Lloyd – The Countdown (Plowboy Records PLO-CD-46 CD Released: Nov 2, 2018)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #television
#guitar

16.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Led Zeppelin – The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic R2-556277 3xCD Reissue Released: Sep 16, 2016)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #ledzeppelin #classicrock

16.02.2026 00:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wipers – Wipers Box Set (Is This Real? - Youth Of America - Over The Edge) (Zeno Records Z-005 3xCD Released: 2001)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #wipers

15.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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XTC – Black Sea (Virgin VL 2203 Vinyl LP, Album Released: 12 September 1980)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #xtc

15.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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U2 – Boy (Island Records A1 90040 Vinyl LP Released: 20 October 1980 UK, 3 March 1981 US)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #u2

15.02.2026 19:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band – Unconditionally Guaranteed (Mercury SRM-1-709 Vinyl LP Released: Apr 1974)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #captainbeefheart

15.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Custom Floor – From A Body (Analog Sound Recordings Number 3 CD Released: 1997)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #sandiego

15.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ice-T – Home Invasion (Rhyme $yndicate Records/Priority Records P2 53858 CD Released: Mar 23, 1993)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #icet #hiphop

14.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Badfinger – Head First (Y&T Music YT-35 Recorded: 1974, Released: Dec 13, 2024)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #badfinger #classicrock #powerpop

13.02.2026 01:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Church – Deadman's Hand (Unorthodox UNO 009 CD EP, Australia Released: 2010)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #psychedelic

13.02.2026 01:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beastie Boys – Anthology: The Sounds Of Science (Grand Royal/Capitol Records CDP 7243 5 22940 2 2
2xCD Compilation Digipak Released: 1999)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #hiphop #raprock #beastieboys

13.02.2026 00:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Study's List of the Most Invasive AI Browser Extensions Includes a Few You Probably Use A host of AI-powered browser extensions that have been installed by tens of millions of users may also be invading your privacy.

Grammarly is literally the most invasive extension you could ever put on your computer. Don't use it.

lifehacker.com/tech/invasiv...

#authorlife #writinglife #grammarly #aiscam

09.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Crosby, Stills & Nash (& sometimes Young) – CSN (Box Set, Atlantic 7 82319-2 4xCD Released: Oct 15, 1991)

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #folkrock #csn #neilyoung #boxset

08.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OP-ED: F*ck You If You Support Flecha Cantina: Why Patronizing A Mark Wahlberg Mexican Restaurant In San Diego Is A Betrayal Of The City A leading online resource for breaking news about San Diego's hospitality industry and community developments.

www.sandiegoville.com/2026/02/op-e... #sandiego

08.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fred Neil – Everybody's Talkin' (Theme From Midnight Cowboy) (Capitol Records SM-294 Originally Released December 1966 as "Fred Neil", Reissue Released: 1969)

#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #recordcollector #vinyl #musicsky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #folkrock

07.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This Substack Data Breach May Have Compromised Nearly 700,000 User Records Substack recently disclosed a data breach which may have leaked nearly 700,000 user records.

lifehacker.com/tech/substac...

#substack #security

06.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told
By Bill Janovitz

This could definitely have used more editing--the author's inability to trim from his research hobbles the narrative flow badly--but anyone curious how and why this band went so badly wrong will find plenty to interest them here.

#thecars #music

05.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Redhead Stepchild (live on Good Morning America) - Prince & Tamar
YouTube video by Paisley Perk Redhead Stepchild (live on Good Morning America) - Prince & Tamar

Here's a Prince song you almost certainly haven't heard before: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zbl...

#musicsky #prince

01.02.2026 00:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's listening.

#compactdisc #CD #nowplaying #nowspinning #musicsky #CDSky #physicalmedia #nospotify #indiemedia #prince #minneapolis

29.01.2026 01:01 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm just a guy with an album here, I have no special info to offer you. I interviewed Ativin years before EDM but he wasn't involved with that.

26.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No clue, why do you need it?

26.01.2026 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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