Darryl Wilks

Hi @chrisseventeen.bsky.social - are you aware of this book, due out next year? It popped up on a saved search on eBay. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pin-your-h...

Mick Jagger calling out in the Dancing in the Streets Video.

IRELAND!

CANADA!

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#VinylSanta post from 2024 with a copy of Tijuana Christmas.

Can confirm! 😂🎅🎺

(Albeit not smoking).

Google search showing assorted recent photos of John Deacon from Queen.

I'm pretty sure I just saw John Deacon from Queen on a train in Cambridge. Looking exactly like these photos.

Uh-oh, I appear to have a new version of the Discogs app. I'm sure it'll be fine. 😬

A TV testcard with the image of a Tijuana Christmas lp. The image features a Santa in a red suit wearing a sombrero and playing the trumpet.

Please stand by for the go live post and updated rules for Vinyl Santa 2025 coming in the next few days.

The admin are currently busy behind the scenes hammering out the final details.

Looking through some new-in records in a chazza today when a really annoying guy squeezed into a non-existent gap between me & someone else to flick through some others before standing over me while I went through the ones I'd picked out to review. So obviously I bought the lot just to piss him off.

You're ok. The official rules state that it only starts on December 1st. That said I was once out by 10am!

They must be banking on all the other 2,102,999 copies in the UK having ended up in landfill. 😂

Messages on Discogs from alert-disco and gabrielablahova purporting to be for a verification process.

Some spammy Discogs activity happening today. Same 2 users being discussed in a forum. Beware! www.discogs.com/forum/thread...

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A numbered White Album in a chazza for a quid? Don't mind if I do. (It's the CD, but still ...).

Ha, no, not as such. The two will always be linked for me. The Barbie-Oppenheimer of its time!

And if you're really lucky, maybe Tigertailz will play Bannerman's soon.

The Blues Brothers on BBC4. I first saw this at a late night screening in Swindon after being turned away from The Brunel Rooms, where Tigertailz were playing. It was a nightclub and we were all 16. I think I got the better deal. Though I did go on to see Tigertailz a couple of times ...

Record Stores of Soho 1946-1996 map, showing location of 122 shops.

The Southern Daily Echo are calling it an "epic quest to buy a record in more than 20 shops". I know these didn't all exist at the same time but that would have been a pretty common day out in Soho.

Very sad. Vince was always fun on here, and back at the other place, right to the end. My condolences to family, friends and loved ones.

Overheard: "The Charlatans, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays ... They all sound the same". Feel free to discuss.

AKA almost the entire "K" section of the second-hand CDs in Reckless Records, Islington circa 1998. People were disowning it almost as fast as Babylon Zoo.

Reverse of a Fray Bentos pie tin. Recommends using with a Brabantia or OXO branded tin opener.

I bought a Fray Bentos Mac & cheese pie for a 70s themed evening recently but our tin opener couldn't open it. Bizarrely for such a cheap product they recommend using relatively expensive branded ones.

eBay message exchange with person asking me to possible split a DVD bundle. Them: "Hi I was wondering if you would sell me the xxx on its own as its for my girlfriend she has all the others and thats the only one she needs she would be over the moon many thanks kind regards Ben". Me: "Hi - you're the 4th person to ask this now! Though it's possible your girlfriend was one of the other 3 ... Essentially the same answer as I gave those I'm afraid; I'm in no particular rush to sell and am not looking to split them." (cont.)

Them: "Sorry I have no idea what your talking about my girlfriend does not have an eBay account thats why I have asked so your assumptions are wrong very wrong if 4 people have ask for it and you dont want to spilt them up or in a rush to sell what's the point of putting them on and to clarif my other half is in a wheel chair and has no way of being able to type let alone have a account she loves xxxxx so please dont every jump to conclusions in the future or judge and one or there parnter it is not nice"

Well, that certainly escalated. 🤷

Very strong captain choice! Are you aware of the change this season, where you now get two of each chip? One to use by gameweek 19, after which you get a new one. I only found out the other day and so used the free hit this week (which included picking Sememyo, but not as captain).

I was ripping some CDs on an old laptop recently and had exactly that happen. I also recall there was an issue with copy protected CDs in Macs, as they would prevent eject from working.

And in the morning ...?

Reddish-pink clouds over Cambridge.

Have just discovered that my 16yo was unaware of the saying "Red sky at night, shepherds delight".

Flukily timed return to the scene of the crime. Feel unreasonably disappointed that Totally Wired 1 wasn't there. Plus some more #VinylSanta potentials that I haven't photographed.

107 days till Christmas Eve, which makes it roughly 100 shopping days for Vinyl Santa.

Start now and build up a little floor pile of goodies. It will make life much easier in December.

Weed out your duplicates and grab those charity shop classics when you can!

Ouch! 🤣

Controversial!