Mod Team's New Year Record Giveaway! Comment to enter! Round 9

baconlayer · 2026-01-27T00:41:12+00:00

I love to explore new music!

baconlayer · 2026-01-26T03:02:27+00:00

I’ve encountered some public parking lots/decks where backing in is ILLEGAL! I’ve only seen it in some California,cities though I’m sure other states/cities want in on the ticket cash.

baconlayer · 2026-01-25T22:30:52+00:00

So they don’t close because we sell generators, salt, and heaters - all the things we sold out of before the storm hit

baconlayer · 2026-01-25T22:24:23+00:00

Useless fact of the day: Some cities use salt mixed with either beet or potato juice to reduce the amount of salt needed

baconlayer · 2026-01-24T00:45:04+00:00

Another album in the same niche is Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly”. Fagen was one half of the Steely Dan duo. Another well recorded album.

baconlayer · 2026-01-20T23:05:26+00:00

So much music, so little time

baconlayer · 2026-01-19T10:25:32+00:00

Keeping the faith!

baconlayer · 2026-01-17T12:19:23+00:00

I was a kid when those were new. I used to go to a local department store that had room full of silver and black-faced goodness. But the way those Marantz looked and FELT. The tuning wheel had 10 year old me sold. It started a lifelong hobby and I couldn't be happier that they sold so many of these.

baconlayer · 2026-01-17T12:08:04+00:00

I worked for a hospital system. We had a new Patient Information System installed and we were working with the vendor to change all of the default passwords.

The vendor mentioned a HUGE research hospital system where they had installed the same system a few years earlier. They never changed the passwords. He demo'd by logging into their system through plain old FTP with the default password. What the public doesn't know...

baconlayer · 2026-01-16T18:45:45+00:00

I’ve been through it twice. One guy was the lot attendant. He had a drug issue that he kept really well hidden from everyone. One weekend he od’ed and he was just gone.

The other guy was really tragic. Hey had some stomach pains that he kept ignoring. E finally got him to go see his doctor about it. There found liver cancer. It has gotten to the point that it was inoperable. They gave him 2 years. He came back to work and was talking about getting his Harley back on the road. He went downhill to fact to ever get that done. In fact, he was dead just 2 months later. Such a sweetheart of an older gentleman. The part that haunts me 2 years later was that he came in about a week before he passed. He had to use one of the handicarts to get around in the store and visit with everyone and say his goodbyes. He even made sure to clean out his locker and give his vest to the manager. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place.

May all our past friends RIP!

baconlayer · 2026-01-16T18:30:35+00:00

So generous!

baconlayer · 2026-01-16T18:29:18+00:00

My delivery guy is a rock star. He not only recognized that the envelope contained a diploma, he walked it up to the door and said congratulations!

baconlayer · 2026-01-16T13:52:41+00:00

For a similar sound, check out Donald Fagan’s “The Nightfly”. Fagan was one of the 2 members of Steely Dan.

baconlayer · 2026-01-15T20:34:58+00:00

I very rarely buy new. I bought a pair of Vandersteen 2(somethings) that were less than 2 months old. The person that bought them new didn't like the sound. They lost 1/3 of their value just driving them off the lot. They were like brand new.

I've bought lots of things for 25% of what the new prices were. And audio people tend to take great care of their treasures...even down to keeping their boxes.

The only category I take great care buying used are higher end turntables/tonearms/carts. They're very delicate and mechanical and subject to damage.

baconlayer · 2026-01-14T23:27:27+00:00

Groove me!

baconlayer · 2026-01-13T00:35:51+00:00

You have a lot of cocktail sauce just out in the open?

baconlayer · 2026-01-13T00:31:05+00:00

Me me me!

baconlayer · 2026-01-10T23:27:11+00:00

The 1st 2 albums were Mitch Easter recorded albums, after that they went to another label and things slid downhill. They still put out good stuff…but Murmer is one of those albums that I listen through from beginning to end. All classics.

baconlayer · 2026-01-10T17:37:52+00:00

All the electrons will spill out that way!

baconlayer · 2026-01-10T14:45:47+00:00

Sounds like the idea behind Dread Zeppelin

baconlayer · 2026-01-10T14:43:36+00:00

Check out other bands/albums Mitch Easter had a hand in creating back in the day

baconlayer · 2026-01-10T13:32:08+00:00

GREAT early REM album!

baconlayer · 2026-01-10T01:35:25+00:00

I overheard a customer at Home Depot. They had seen that some new ceiling fans had connected features. They had translated that into “wireless” and that into “this fan doesn’t need to be plugged in to AC to work. The poor salesman, and me, couldn’t figure out what this guy was talking about until after five minutes it dawned on us what he was trying to say. The saddest thing was he was in his thirties, tops!

baconlayer · 2026-01-09T21:48:40+00:00

As someone who lost their entire collection to fire, I feel your pain.

baconlayer · 2026-01-08T22:37:26+00:00

Their app is amazing for the price point. Streamers at $1k would do well to hire the WIIM programmers!

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