星期六, 6月 21, 2008

上海黑膠唱片大獵殺

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I am the kind of person who has persistent interests in music. Until last July, I decided to change my career and gave it a shot at Wuxi, China. It is a nice and clean city to work.

Simply put, Wuxi is a desert for pure music. Even I found an audio store selling new and few used LPs but my ambition to collect tons of LP are not met. Until I bought a LP (Painting on the Caravan, Japan) from a young seller on the web and knew about the music import channels to China.

Some of the pirated CD and DVD vendors were used to gather around DZMJ plaza 大自鳴鐘. After it was torn down, they flew to the builder square I frequented ever since. Some of these vendors moved tons of used LP from south where they bought them by weight from Customs auction agents.

These used LP are imported from the US mostly since they are labeled "Goodwill", a chained store system in the US. US$ I.99, 2.99 and some of them, 3.99. I need to pay 30 RMB for these traditional, rocks, and pop LP. Not cheap at all. Anyway, I will stop by the LP square if I have nothing to do on Sunday and carried home 20 to 30 LP each time.

Just show you some of the most exciting LP in the 70's and 80's.














Shanghai builder square LP hunting
東京黑膠之旅
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Took a business trip to Tokyo on June 11 to June 13 and visited two of used LP stores in DiscUnion Shibuya. I brought back 27 LP this trip. It is worth since the price is good and quality is so nice. They look like brand-new rather than second hand.

Check out some of them here.