I Found Great Vinyl Records at the WFMU New York Record Fair | New York City

[@mazzysmusic]

Too bad Billys was closed. He has a great shop and our group meet up part at his shop last year was a highlight. I would have recorded me walking up to his locked door🤠😎 that years venue was color looking it seems, but I would prefer hanging in Manhattan. Arnaldo and Walter are the bests hosts. Fun stuff Chance. ❤️‍🔥

[@ConcertBuddie]

Spoiler: the follow up video to this featuring the shops we visited does have a Billy’s Record Salon appearance in that vein. It was fun to see him briefly at the show. And I said it before and will say it again, you were definitely missed. Especially when it came to organizing our little lots into one singular meetup. Plus Amanda (Women In Vinyl/wearesmelly on IG) instantly recognized the Mazzy t-shirt I wore on day two. More on her also in the next video. Maybe you know her.

[@MrLovell1971]

Chance great finds that NWA is pristine so hard to find in that condition. That Nirvana Bleach is cool never seen the white one your hip hop collection is dangerous so many grails . That Craig Mack is amazingly loved it Chance .

[@ConcertBuddie]

Thank you sir! Game recognizes game, so praise like that coming from you means a lot. 👍🏻

[@MrLovell1971]

@ I appreciate you brother 🤜🤜

[@ConcertBuddie]

@ 🤛🏻🤛🏻

[@catherine6653]

What an adventure to travel to New York! I didn't stop watching when you showed the Marky Mark record. We all need a little nostalgia in the collection collection. 😊

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@catherine6653 Yes we do! Nostalgia does the collecting ❤️ good. Saw you got out to the Seattle show yourself 😁

[@fidelios_frequency]

Awesome recap of the WFMU show. And some fine purchases. It was great to have you visiting. Thanks for the shout out!

[@ConcertBuddie]

Sincerely appreciated your terrific hospitality Arnaldo, thank you! Five stars. NY food was decent 🤣

[@fidelios_frequency]

@@ConcertBuddieI was waiting for that Levain cookie mention… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@fidelios_frequency hahahaha. Banana pudding > Levain cookie

[@StylusMeetsVinyl]

Hey Buddie. Nice 90s finds, as always. You never disappoint! That N.W.A tho 🔥!

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@StylusMeetsVinyl Thank you sir! I’m still healing from the burns! 🔥

[@dimebagdave77]

These are some of my favorite videos man.i love to see em pop up

[@ConcertBuddie]

Thanks Buddie! A few bucks may have left my wallet on this record trip. 🤣

[@elliottcrews4997]

Hey Chance, sounds like a great time was had by all in NYC! I'm glad you were able to find some of the LPs you were looking for. I enjoyed the video.

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@elliottcrews4997 thank you Elliott! Now we gotta drag you to one of these big shows for a meetup. 🤔

[@fts81]

I had a great time, and had the chance to meet Concert Buddy, pretty awesome

[@ConcertBuddie]

remember, I was taller in person than you thought 🤣🤣🤣

[@strangebrewreactions]

Good job, Buddie. Good to see you back.

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@strangebrewreactions Thanks John! It’s like putting on an old pair of shoes (minus the stank). 🤣

[@patrick3926]

Amazing finds wow 🎉

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@patrick3926 Thank you! It was a rewarding show! Appreciate you taking the time to watch 🙌🏻

[@seekingathread]

Good to meet you in nyc. Nice work. I really like having goals and missions at these things. Plus just letting things find you. The hip hop focus was smart. Probably something I should've done a long time ago. That DOC record is great!

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@seekingathread Thanks Dom! We both did pretty well ✌🏻

[@analog_archive]

Great video Chance and it was nice meeting you and chatting for a few minutes! Glad you were able to find a copy of Bleach!

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@analog_archive thanks Joe, great meeting you as well! You are hereby known as “Jazz Joe” on this channel 🤣🤣

[@danakimborowicz5812]

Some serious heat 🔥

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@danakimborowicz5812 damage, done. 😎

[@dimebagdave77]

Killer old hip hop indeed my friend ✌️🤘

[@ConcertBuddie]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@madvinylnyc7821]

Salute Chance. It was nice being able to meet you in person

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@madvinylnyc7821 Same here. Salute 🫡 ✌🏻

[@VinylPiper]

nice finds.. Glad you got the Bleach.. it's my favorite album by them.. that damn poster has elluded me.. 'it's about the poster, stupid' :)

[@ConcertBuddie]

Haha. It’s always about the poster 🤣🤣

[@JimmyBarnesYT]

As an unashamed lover of all things cheesy from the ‘90s, I’m envious of that Marky Mark album! Had a modern reissue of Paid In Full up until a few years ago but I either sold it or passed it on as VCLT, I forget which. Interestingly (to me anyway!) the cut-up artist People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) who I have a unique 1 of 1 LP pressing (Selections from Wet Sounds, I’m so proud, it is displayed behind me in many of my vids), has a seasonal show on WFMU radio. I listen on demand when I can, she plays some crazy musique concrete, bootlegs, cut-ups and other weird-arse stuff 😄 Had no idea the station held a record show; it looks a superb one. Great video Chance, enjoyed seeing you share your stories and showing your pick ups here 👍🏼

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@JimmyBarnesYT thanks Jimmy! You obviously have great taste in 90’s music! Even cooler that you listened to the station. They put on a great record fair 🤘🏻

[@amandasellsrecords]

It was really great meeting you!!

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@amandasellsrecords Hey! Great meeting you too! I sincerely appreciate all the work you do for the vinyl community. I talk about that great record store pamphlet you had at the fair in the next video✌🏻

[@amandasellsrecords]

@ConcertBuddie wow! Thank you so much! It's always a good feeling to introduce collectors to new stores they may not know about while they're in town. Hope to see you in St. Louis, the next time I pass through!

[@memyselfmyvinyl894]

Nice Frank Rizzo drop. Mayor of Philly back in the day. That whole clip is funny.

[@ConcertBuddie]

Classic

[@highrantdistrict]

Lots of cool pickups... you dropped some dough up there. Very cool of Arnoldo to put you up though. Hopefully you didn't have to listen to every single Morrisey record back to back to back. 😉 Cheers! Tom

[@ConcertBuddie]

Just all the Johnny Marr albums back to back to back 😂. I’d like to thank the RSD people for putting out such a weak BF list that I was confidently able to move that budget to my WFMU expedition. Better records, better spend. Great to hear from you as always sir ✌🏻

[@Axel_Foley1970]

I am glad you got the Bleach now! Lol!

[@ConcertBuddie]

Joining you in the big leagues!

[@Localbandography]

Mike at Mind Cure was one of the best vendors there for sure. Super fair prices to begin with and still took chunks off. He was there to move records.

[@ConcertBuddie]

Easily a top three vendor for me. The records I didn’t buy are still on my mind. Literal five alarm situation

[@arzabael]

Hey concert buddy, is that an Alice In Chains tripod behind you

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@arzabael it is! Grabbed the cd in Seattle a few months ago. Had that same cd (and distinct colored jewel case) back in the day when it came out. The tripod vinyl lives in my record room. 😄

[@arzabael]

@@ConcertBuddie could do a whole podcast on that f album man, just the lore of the vinyl and CD releases alone

[@Davidicus-m8c]

nice you found a OG copy of that bleach album, chance,i have as repress of bleach i got from wal-mart, sounds awesome too!

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@Davidicus-m8c thanks Wyo 😎. Cool you have a repress of that record. 🤘🏻

[@Davidicus-m8c]

@@ConcertBuddie and i used to have a colored vinyl of the astro creep,2000 record!! another one gone!!

[@arzabael]

Haha yea man, straight outta Compton is truly a classic, every song got burned into my brain because it was one of those car CDs you had back in the day in your car where you make all these car related memories to the music

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@arzabael stone cold classic. Where I grew up, we couldn’t even get a copy. 2 Live Crew was as “real” as we could get. Had a lot of catching up to do when I hit high school 🔥

[@arzabael]

@@ConcertBuddie haha yea all I could get was sugar hill gang I think. Grandpa said they were the real thugs

[@nigelcampag1290]

As I said in Surface Noise, great buys Chance. Love to see those classic hip hop buys. I'm of the age where I bought Eric B & Rakim, NWA and The DOC first time round. Played those records to death. I know in Surface Noise you mentioned UK/European pressings. I'm glad you didn't end up with the Euro press of The DOC. The Grand Finale has all the expletives bleeped out unlike your US press. Annoyingly I had the opportunity to buy a US copy (shrink/hype stickers) from a friends collection years ago for £10 but just thought I'd live with my Euro press. It was a few years later when I found out about the difference...doh! Big time want on the Gil Scott-Heron since 1990! Not a record you're seeing here in the UK but I should have got one online in the 00s when they were a fraction of the current price. I've said it before but my pals white Bleach is still in his attic, along with other highly sought after indie/grunge/shoegaze. His wife was a huge Smiths fan. Her big regret was not swapping her jacket with the jacket of the drummer as he took a fancy to hers, I think around 86/87. She saw The Smiths live multiple times. Tell Arnaldo that story 🙂. Would love to visit NY and especially the fair. Regards Nige

[@ConcertBuddie]

Would love for you to come stateside and meetup Nige. But first - UK D.O.C. w/o the profanity?!?!? Yikes! Reminds me of the 1st copy of Dre's 2001 I got - didn't pay attention to the absence of the PA sticker...started playing it....CLEAN VERSION. Wack AF! Needless to say I corrected that asap AND made sure to list the clean version for sale with that detail. 🙂

[@nigelcampag1290]

@ConcertBuddie Would be great mate...if only I could stop buying records and save up for such trips 😄. I know, absolutely wrong on many levels...like the 2 Live Crew's - As Clean As They Wanna Be. Btw I noticed the Large Professor as your footage started. Don't know if you're familiar with his group Main Source and their Breaking Atoms lp from 91. Arguably my favourite hip hop lp ever. Have a good week mate.

[@vinylrichie007]

That map had a lot of tables. I would jump all over Marky Mark for $15. I had that Gil Scott Heron album that I picked up at Goodwill in the 70s. The vender from Pittsburgh might have been Mind Cure Records.

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@vinylrichie007 yes - exactly who that vendor was! Have you bought from them before? Mind’s Eye is in Cleveland; got them mixed up. You could get a nice return on your GSH today if you chose to part with it 💰

[@spindoctorandhisvinylmayhem]

Great stuff! Glad you were able to nab a copy of Bleach! I’m super jealous over the Kravitz. Is that Clapton a US or UK? I have an OG UK but I couldn’t remember if they was a US press.

[@ConcertBuddie]

Thank you sir! Patience paid off (literally). That is a 2014 US reissue, but still cut by Chris Bellman. 🙂

[@cgarci19]

Great pick ups Chance! Maybe you took my advice on that bleach. No need to spend 3k for the same or better quality record (black vinyl is the way to go) (plus I hate white vinyl lol)… korn, incubus, NWA, all killers 🔥

[@ConcertBuddie]

@@cgarci19 no lie, it was definitely in my decision tree. Appreciate you Cesar 🙏🏻

[@dimebagdave77]

Supreme Nirvana heater...

[@ConcertBuddie]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🧯

[@dimebagdave77]

I know there's heat coming.. I'll report back in a minute 👌

[@Chasing_records]

It feels like you need to sell a organ or two to collect OG copies of the music from our childhood

[@ConcertBuddie]

I wish I was more aggressive hunting OG’s back 10 years ago, when the prices didn’t cost a second kidney. Then again….that’s why we have two, right? KIDDING 🩸Thanks for stopping by to watch + comment!

[@Harrispilton22]

A few I bought day of release there Chance. NWA..although it dissapeared somewhere in the nineties god knows who has it now! . Ive got all the twelves off it. Did I ever tell you about the time I bought Nirvana's 'Bleach' on white vinyl for £3.99 day or release 🤣..although mines on Tupelo, so sits around the 1k mark. I would have snapped up that D.O.C 'No one deos it better.

[@ConcertBuddie]

HP, it's your fault I spend more time looking at 12" singles these days. I've bought a few that I haven't shown on the channel, namely because it's an "emerging" niche part of my collecting. But TOTALLY your fault, mate! Haha. 🙂

[@Harrispilton22]

@ConcertBuddie get them shown! The 'Express Yourself' 12" is killer, it's got 'Compton' on the flip....& a rather rude song! ..but the sound is off the charts...as they always are!

[@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147]

So many albums that I have looked for from the 90s only came out in the UK and Europe. After all these years I’m still pissed at the recording industry for forcing me into CDs because they refused to do vinyl. Obviously I’m not bitter, freaking bastards. With my lack of self control and unable to find a wingman to keep me in control this show would not have been financially positive for me .

[@ConcertBuddie]

I don't sense any bitterness at all Steve 🙂

[@dimebagdave77]

I hope you didn't spend too much black white, red or especially green on that Marky edit: 😂😂😂

[@cliffordyamasaki6169]

Are you gonna show stuff or drop names

[@ConcertBuddie]

Your support is my lifeline. Your critiques, my loveline.

[@ConcertBuddie]

I counted 47 seconds of footage from the floor. ✌🏻

[@fts81]

I think now you’re selling your records and going back to iPod

[@ConcertBuddie]

Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone. I want to be a leader of the iPod comeback 🤫

[@vinylpatrol101]

Cool show but generally overpriced there, although I haven’t been there since the last show before the pandemic.

[@ConcertBuddie]

“Healthy” pricing at several booths, I agree. Overall I found it “Discogs-ian”, price-wise. Thanks for checking out the video!

[@cliffordyamasaki6169]

5 seconds of crowd and dealers walls,thanks for nothing

[@ConcertBuddie]

Your welcome. I aim to please.

[@djtrishm]

Hi Chance I came across your channel an thought I was subbed already and made sure I did finally did sub to you! Great footage! Thumbs up! Trish

[@ConcertBuddie]

Thank you Trish! I really appreciate that and you watching this video 🙏🏻