Sold Date: April 1, 2015
Start Date: March 17, 2015
Final Price: $34.43 (USD)
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Buyer Feedback: 33

"The Bandit Records legend could almost be fiction. The house passing as a home, the harem passing as a family, the rising star brutally murdered in his prime, the dream, the con: The end. Arrow Brown inhabited the same south-side Chicago landscape as Afro-Noir author Iceberg Slim’s ghetto characters, taking inspiration from the same sources that shaded Airtight Willie, White Folks, and Blue Howard. Drawn to the underground and fancying himself a rogue entrepreneur, Brown and his Bandit label operated somewhere in the space between money laundering outfit and sex cult. Brown poured proceeds from straight jobs held by his many “daughters” into sumptuously rendered, forward-looking soul records by the egotistically named Arrows and the Majestic Arrows, as well his seven-year-old son Altyrone Deno Brown, whose father hoped to push to Jackson-style child-fame heights. Putting beauty and genius in front of commercial viability, Arrow laid down lush, sweeping strings to lure the listener into a hipster fantasy world, sharply incongruent with the sometimes-criminal reality of the city that dreamt it. Our triple-LP unabridged edition brings 40 tracks to the CD’s 20, and the 14,000-word accompanying book, crackling with odd and dazzling imagery, makes our original notes read like a Babysitter’s Club entry. In 2005, novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem called the entirety of the Bandit Records tale “Haunting… haunted… Like a little novel.” In its darker corners, 003Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label may more closely resemble true crime."

Shipping Information:

LPs:

In the USA:

Media mail: $4.00 for the first LP, $1.00 for each additional.

Rest of World:

Items are shipped via priority mail international.  PLEASE WAIT FOR AN INVOICE before paying if you are making an international order.  The eBay calculator does not work properly.  Generally LPs are between 10 and 20 USD depending on how many your order.

LPs are shipped in an LP mailer with front and back cardboard pads.

CDs and DVDs:

In the USA:

$3.00 for the first CD, $.50 for each additional.  Usually shipped first class.  Large orders may be shipped media mail.

Rest of World

Items are shipped via priority mail international.  PLEASE WAIT FOR AN INVOICE.

CDs are shipped in a standard bubble mailer.

Books:

Due to problems in the past, I only ship books to the U.S.  If you want to try to convince me to ship a book somewhere else, contact me.

Returns:

To receive credit for a return it must be sealed (if it was received that way) and in like new condition.  Other returns will be accepted on a case by case basis at sellers discretion.  Due to the limited nature of the LPs we sell, for exchanges we can not guarantee that a replacement will be available.