So much to enjoy in this story – including @deramdaze outing the dodgy Clash vinyl seller ‘ not only is the sound quality awful, there are no hits on this record at all’ . But who were the ‘avid fans’ who noticed these were fake due to small discrepancies in the sound quality? My money’s on @fentonsteve or possibly @davebigpicture.
But who were those ‘avid fans’ ?
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The answer to your sound quality issues is to forget this dodgy vinyl and buy a Fiio.
I recall in the seventies the vinyl grey market in which Yanks on Oxford Rd Manchester would sell either discontinued albums with a small cut-out made on the sleeve, or imported Portugese or Spanish versions of albums which always had very very shiny finish sleeves.
The confiscation order of 25% of his earnings seems a little light. Would I receive a suspended jail sentence, wear a tag for a bit and do a month of community service for £900,000? Anyone with legal experience care to comment.
Cash recovery aside, the punishment for his crime is going to look a lot like my actual job..
My mastering engineer pal and I had to laugh at the use of “vast collection of vinyl records” in the Bournemouth Echo article below. He’s got a couple of Kallax units but half of them are empty. I don’t know where that leaves us – what’s bigger than “vast”?
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23434046.man-sentenced-selling-fake-vinyl-records-online/
Colossal? Humungous? Titanic? Very big indeed?
“Vinyls.” Pah.
no-hits clash, vinlys, 55 year old (great timing!), mug punters, an appalling office… this story has everything.
Anyway, this may not work with the no-hits, Winehouse, Nirvana etc. but there are millions of unplayed records all over the country in millions of homes. If I wanted to re-engage with vinlys, and who knows I might some time, I’d ask this simple question to people various:
“‘ere mate/love, you still got your records?”
I wouldn’t be sending 35 notes to a 60s dodger in bleedin’ Hampshire for vinlys from the Czech Republic!
In short, you wouldn’t want a Czech in the post.
Huzzah!
no hits clash
vinlys
punters
appalling
dodgers
HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice try, but ..
Sainted Dave ✖️
Spurs’ Trophy Cabinet ✖️
Dire 80s ✖️
In fairness, the article itself does vinlys… read it… and incorrect on two –
By definition no-hits are dire 1980s.
At any given time Tottenham will have no trophies. That would be like starting every sentence, “Tottenham have no trophies / Paris is the capital of France… that Joe Strummer was a bas…” etc. etc. Actually, might do that from now on.
And… hmm… the S. Dave?… I quite like Sainted D., so missing him out from this piece is no big issue… this story is pretty much 100% about dodgers. The Beatles, the most collectable act of all, have just been added to give it credibility.
This guy’s market is, no “was”, no-hits vinlys to mug punters, not your Stereo/Old label/Please Please Me or Sun 45s’ merchants.
This is the thing… if you want vinlys in 2023 why employ a middle man unless it’s for high-end product?
Forget no-hits, forget dire 1980s, that is the question.
They are not feckin’ ‘VINYLS’!
They are either LPs or RECORDS.
FFS!
a. k.a. platters (or paltters if you’re DD)
I prefer waxings.
A term open to misinterpretation these days…
Try saying Have you got a record? to a dodgy stallholder.
Couldn’t agree more – one for my (very) minor hell list…
As for the “hilarious” vinly mis-spelling…well, my sides stopped splitting some time ago.
Seems like a victimless crime to me.
Bloke spots gap in the market for suckers & obliges them.
As Uncle Joe once declared
‘Cheat, cheat, no reason to play fair,
Cheat, cheat, you won’t get anywhere’
Rather churlish to complain after that warning.
I’m guessing they were cheaply-pressed Russian bootlegs sold as being the real deal at full price.
If he’d listed them as being bootlegs at half the price, he’d probably have got away with it.
Are Clash fans avid? I’m not so sure.
Enthusiastic at best, I would say.