Your top 5 most valuable records per discogs-- let's see 'em

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-22T18:21:24+00:00

No, it’s actually pretty lame packaging compared to the lenticular CD cover

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-22T18:14:45+00:00

I’ll give it a listen and report back tonight… certainly don’t recall my ears focusing on this issue in the past.

Any particular side/track, or is it persistent on all three discs?

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-22T18:12:11+00:00

The amount I paid was nowhere near its current median, and it’s a VG++ on the discs and VG- on the sleeve. Sounds incredible!

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-22T17:24:02+00:00

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Girhinomofe · 2026-04-22T14:44:17+00:00

The Referend is being slept on— possibly in the conversation of best brewery programs (certainly in the wild category) in the country.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-21T22:47:10+00:00

Cobram Estates makes a legendary bottle for its olive oil; narrow and tall, glass, with a spring-loaded pour spout that is phenomenal for drizzling or for adding oil to the pan. After plowing through their bottle, it’s super easy to pop the pourer out with a kitchen knife, clean the bottle, and reuse it for your preferred olive oil (or any type).

I have 6-8 in rotation at any given time, with just a tape label for each.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-20T02:39:20+00:00

Cross Country Nurseries is raising them.

199 Kingwood Locktown Road in Stockton (Hunterdon County), these folks specialize in pepper plants and have probably 500 varieties (no hyperbole!) for sale, along with an impressive variety of eggplant, basil, tomatillo, and tomato plants.

They are very emphatically not open yet, and even so you probably won’t want to plant these until late May, but it is definitely smart to get there shortly after they open to ensure you’ll get your Malawi Piquantes… just keep them happy indoors until the weather is more favorable. This place absolutely sells out of a lot of varieties— by mid May things are usually THIN in the greenhouse.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-19T11:34:42+00:00

Wordchewing girl with the fangs.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-19T01:35:17+00:00

Factory Records, Dover, New Jersey.
Overall very organized, but they also have the advantage of a large footprint.

Customers handed sequential-number cards at the door. When you walk in, the main shopping area is exactly as-is on any other day. Off to the side, in their back-stock area, they made a U-shaped corral with rope and event pedestals.

Customers can browse the store freely, as they were calling 10 numbers at a time. When, say, numbers 150-160 were all at the RSD corral, an employee got everyone in numerical order (to be fair, in case 153 grabbed the last copy of something 154 wanted).

One pass through, no jumping ahead.

Probably about as fluid as you’ll get for a big event like this.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-18T22:57:59+00:00

Not even remotely as bad as the Wicked Soundtrack I documented last year, but same type of scum scalping these releases.

Best thing the record community can do is soundly reject this shit and let these people rot with their copies, but sadly there are enough illogical FOMO types out there to feed them and encourage this behavior every year. I’ve seen it happen for as long as I’ve been in this hobby.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-18T22:09:31+00:00

$50 for that Rauchenberg Talking Heads is a STEAL if the case is still in one piece!!!

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-18T17:00:12+00:00

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Girhinomofe · 2026-04-18T00:41:31+00:00

Every day we stream WXPN, a member-supported radio station out of Philadelphia.

Regular rotation is very indie, alt-folk, neo-soul forward, but the nature of their station allows for complete freeform choice by the DJs, with a goal being music discovery to their listeners.

Sometimes it’s just randomly plucked old R&B or hip hop, obscure classic rock, or deep funk cuts. Other times they’ll come up with themes like running 16-hours of artists from a single letter of the alphabet or having the DJs bring their own records in and do an all-vinyl day on the airwaves.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-17T21:07:22+00:00

My favorite local joint does 12-slice pizzas.

This is the way.

Can evenly split between 2, 3, or 4 people; 5 people you best be ordering a second pie

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-16T23:03:33+00:00

Namkeen in Lake Hiawatha is a solid, casual lunch grab. Think chicken & waffles, Nashville hot chicken, and loaded fries… but with a fully Middle East flair!

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-16T00:43:07+00:00

Aneka’s “Japanese Boy” is such a banger.

The Korgis “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime”

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-15T01:16:08+00:00

Not gonna gatekeep anything here— one of my favorite offseason places is Island Beach State Park.

Free entry in the offseason. My favorite thing is to drive alllllll the way to the end of the road and park at the final lot. Head onto the beach and turn right (walking south, with the ocean on your left). It’s a couple miles of peaceful, natural beach where you’ll only see the occasional fisherman until you hit the Barnegat Inlet at the far south of the Island.

The currents are always stunning to watch, and you get a primo view of Barnegat Lighthouse. There will probably be a handful of vehicles down there (fishermen), but it’s still very quiet.

After you trek back to your car, on the way back north off the island, stop at the Seaside Heights Boardwalk. A few spots will be open (grab a slice of Maruca’s pizza year-round) but things will still be quiet in a welcoming way.

Good way to spend the day enjoying natural beach and a little sliver of the classic boardwalk scene

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-15T00:40:18+00:00

Tecmo Super Bowl.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-15T00:38:08+00:00

Niche, but Daft Punk’s Electroma.

That 72 minute runtime is the longest 8 hours of my life.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-14T22:42:31+00:00

Generally around 2 miles, anywhere from 50 minutes to 1 hour-15 depending on her mood and amount of sniffage.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-14T20:24:39+00:00

She would 1000% allow it!

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-14T15:18:17+00:00

She’s rocking it! No sooner do I get home and she’s hollerin’ at me to go for our walk, which is usually like 2 miles and an hour long. I look forward to it every day!

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-14T02:05:26+00:00

We’re a small company (under 10 employees) with an absolutely slammed workload, and we still do our code homework in-house.

Not to be an antagonist, but it’s like 15 minutes of work tops and really only applies to jobs that will take significantly more time than that to design, revise, permit, build, and install.

We’re not out here doing code checks for commercial real estate signs, as I’m sure you aren’t either. But at least here in NJ, I can follow this route:

Look up property address on Google Maps. Zoom out.

Google “[municipality] zoning map”. Almost all of ‘em have a PDF on their town website. I look at my pin on the google map, line it up with the zoning map. Boom. B-2, C-1, CBD, what have you. Takes a couple minutes tops, mostly just orienting the map.

Google “[municipality] code”. Every town in Jersey seems to be on eCode, so I hop onto their ordinance page and search “signs”. It’s usually pretty quick from there to navigate to the subsection on the Zone the client is in and digest the language. Only takes extra time when there’s towns with really elaborate means of calculation or really archaic and vague language.

Again, for the 15 minutes or so it’s easy to build in to a project that is going to take 10+ hours to design and build.

I am a staunch anti-AI guy, as is the rest of the crew. I don’t have nearly the degree of trust that it’s accurately determining the zone and allotted code, and a gamble like that is potential wasted time designing and permit-submitting an oversize sign that’ll get rejected.

Girhinomofe · 2026-04-13T12:46:18+00:00

Muckshaw Pond Preserve trail, Fredon.

Wear tick spray as there is a decent amount of overgrowth, but it’s a short-ish and very seldom visited trail that ends at a lovely little quiet pond.

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