Sold Date: July 14, 2019
Start Date: July 14, 2017
Final Price: $19.97 (USD)
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Lee Bain's III & Glory Fires

Youth Detention-Pink Vinyl

New and sealed

This records kicks ass.

For fans of Drive-by Truckers, Patterson Hood, The Yawpers, Lydia Loveless

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You want the motherfuckin' rundown... Read on.

TITLED: NEVER ACCEPT BULLSHIT PACKAGING (So please read this. It’s sort of funny, too.)

Tired of getting damaged records mailed in flimsy boxes that have been used too many times evident from the mess of previous seller labels marked out all over the outside? (or worse, have a famous pizza brand names plaintively shouting from under the packing tape.) Are seam splits about to help you break your vinyl habit (or change dealers)? Has your reaction to the discovery of split seams in every side of the cover forced your old lady to hide the shotgun? Or have you received so much vinyl with creased corners that you make your girl  apply extra starch to every work shirt so you somehow feel vindicated, especially from the dumbass who mailed you the mint Slobberbone record without even adding an old Lawrence Welk cover to protect it from getting bent over in the mail? 

Stop the madness. AND STOP BELIEVING Free Shipping IS FREE. Buyers pay for it all the time by being forced to accept damaged merch that has lost value because the piece was a limited variant of 50 pressings. Good luck with that replacement.

Or you send a record back after waiting two days for a return label and wait a week for a refund back to your Paypal account when it only took a click to transfer the $$ when you paid for it!.

Or, before any of that, you have to deal and argue with one of those annoying book sellers you see at thrift stores if you ever go in one. They are those weird millennials who stalk thrift stores every day and stand in everyone’s way as they scan anything with pages, a cover, AND A BARCODE looking for a deal of the century. Some of these guys flip through each and every novel checking for an author’s signature on the title page so they can overcharge and pay rent with that one book—at least they hope so. THANK GOD MOST RECORDS DON’T HAVE BAR CODES!!! But unfortunately, these guys also think they know something about vinyl because they’ll buy it because they are there when the store clerk slides them in the cardboard box a bunch of scratched-to-hell Haggard and Willie records were dropped off in last week. Every once in a while, a mint batch of Cash or blues records will come in while Mr. Bookseller is in the media room scanning his war novels while I am busting my ass at the day job waiting for the shift bell to sing so I can smoke a cig and drop by to flip through the leftovers and sloppy seconds.

Most working men like me like sell records for honest reasons. We do so because we absolutely love the sound and were enjoying it long before everyone started 8 years ago after Jack White told them it was cool. We buy records so to re-sell because we buy so much, selling it gives us a little extra cash to buy more to re-sell because, most importantly, it keeps our hardworking super wives off our ass. Since we did something stupid, like spend  the money set aside for the cable TV bill one month or made her miss her HULU subscription renewal for two weeks, she ain't trusted us since.

I package each record like I am sending it to myself. I hate bent corners and seam splits. That’s why I take the time to package each record and prepare the mailer for potential issues during transit. I’m not going to pack a 2LP gatefold the same way I do a single 1-pocket record. And a 2-record set packaged by manufacturer using only one pocket is even going to get more attention b/c of its delicacy and the weight both records can put on the outside during transit.

So, how do I package my records? It depends.

First, I always include a 3 mil poly bag slipped over new and used vinyl. NO EXCEPTIONS. Of course, occasionally I run out of these “slip covers.” So what… I get a good one off a record from my own collection. Next, all records are fitted in a vinyl mailer box made for records. Depending on the details I mentioned earlier, they then get wrapped using bubble wrap. Sometimes shrink wrap is added around the bubble stuff. Again, it all depends.
 
After packaging the record(s) into the mailer and taping it shut (note: no more than three records are ever shipped in one of these mailers—too heavy and definitely inviting to bent corners and creasing galore), I attach extra cardboard “planks” to each corner around the edges to prevent damage when tossed around in the mail.

Then I label it FRAGILE on both sides, write a shout-out to the USPS (every time), and take it to the post office.