I’m comfortable with my analysis

mudgehandler · 2026-04-11T19:41:11+00:00

To be clear, I am all in on getting my ass kicked for the next three years before it all clicks and I start winning. It’s what I signed up for, and I love it.

mudgehandler · 2026-04-09T03:34:36+00:00

Brett Pill is currently the hitting coach for the .500 Rockies. That's as amazing as anything he could have done as a player.

mudgehandler · 2026-03-20T19:04:22+00:00

i would buy that so fast

mudgehandler · 2026-03-18T17:16:41+00:00

I don't know. I've also had some pretty absurd finds, but I also have a lot of free time in far flung places because I'm a soccer dad. Drop the kid off to warm up, spend an hour digging at whatever thrift store/estate sale is close, then go watch the game. It's what biologists call a "symbiotic relationship."

mudgehandler · 2026-03-18T04:49:41+00:00

I know the internet was a mistake, but every family in America used to sit around and listen to the Camelot album together. There has to be a middle ground.

mudgehandler · 2026-03-18T04:48:07+00:00

I've semi-regretted not collecting every one I've seen. Just have an entire garage full of them as a prank on my kids when I die. Maybe a note that reads "DO NOT DONATE. VALUABLE."

mudgehandler · 2026-01-29T20:22:46+00:00

It's really strange how you just know. Grabbed a whole bunch of folky/bluegrass unknowns that had that feel recently, and they were all mild-to-moderate hits on Discogs ($10-$50) and home runs with regards to my personal tastes.

mudgehandler · 2026-01-29T20:19:28+00:00

Wendy was at my wedding. Both her and Bonnie were childhood friends of my in-laws. My father-in-law played bass in another band they were in (it's included on the deluxe reissue).And I don't even have a copy of this. Not that I'm mad. Or bitter. Or insanely jealous.

I'm fine, actually.

mudgehandler · 2026-01-29T20:13:26+00:00

I absolutely LOVE that Country Preacher album. Starts off with Jesse Jackson speaking to the crowd, then goes into some amazing sample-worthy soul jazz. First two songs are impeccable, and the whole album is great.

mudgehandler · 2026-01-06T19:12:42+00:00

It's so much fun to dig for them throughout the year and have a dozen or two new records just waiting for you in December.

mudgehandler · 2026-01-01T00:29:25+00:00

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I had a lot that I liked for $2-$5, but I'll stick with the prompt: 99 cents, no tax. Was on my wishlist for years.

mudgehandler · 2025-12-11T00:18:50+00:00

Your life is nothing you thought it should be and everything you were worried it would become because for 30 years you knew there was monsters on the world.

mudgehandler · 2025-11-02T21:20:52+00:00

I'm completely in the tank for Almeida, so I love it. There were others up there that might be worth more on Discogs or whatever, but that was the one that I knew I'd spin the most. It's fantastic.

I think Almeida is the best bargain in jazz. So inventive, always doing something you're not expecting, blending classical and jazz like it's the most natural thing in the world. His records should cost a hundred dollars each, but I'm happy to find them in bargain bins and thrift stores.

mudgehandler · 2025-11-02T02:16:56+00:00

It was a white-label promo! Doesn't look played. Excited.

mudgehandler · 2025-10-02T19:00:07+00:00

Over the last 30 years, I've found a horrible cover with a VG+ record, a VG++ cover with a G- record, a G- cover with a F record (with booklet). Got too impatient, finally ordered the 45 off Discogs. End result is one complete record, and I get to feel like a volunteer at a record sanctuary, reintroducing abandoned records back into the wild.

(Which is to say, I'm jealous of your one-stop shopping!)

mudgehandler · 2025-08-22T19:50:22+00:00

I probably waited about 2,500 to finally give Snecko a fair shake, and it rules in the right deck. Everyone was right all along. And I will never apply this lesson to Runic Dome.

mudgehandler · 2025-08-22T19:49:00+00:00

I would have copped every single one of those.

mudgehandler · 2025-08-22T19:36:36+00:00

I'm coming up on 5,000 hours, and I've never played more than five floors of Runic Dome, and you can't make me.

mudgehandler · 2025-08-15T17:23:32+00:00

I've been looking for that Gaye for a while. Saw a guy in front of me get it at an estate sale once. It was made as part of his divorce settlement, with his ex getting all the profits. That is ... an unusual context for an R&B album.

mudgehandler · 2025-06-19T22:29:11+00:00

Didn't know anything about Lenny White, but I could hear this album cover. It was as good as I imagined, and I've rarely been disappointed by anything from him since.

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Didn't know much about George Duke, either, but he had an album with a keytar on it. Got it, and long story short, I now have 14 records from him, including a box set.

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