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hifiguy

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18. Even in all my time running a sci-fi shop

Thu Nov 6, 2014, 08:41 PM

Nov 2014

that shipped books all over the world, I only knew one guy with a COMPLETE (and I mean down to the last book) set of Arkhams, including a clean "The Outsider and Others" He also had all the Carcosas.

One of my buds is into MONO jazz, down which road madness lies. His collection is amazing. I discovered a lot of great jazz on Pablo is both cheap and relatively easy to find. I have a few Riversides, mostly Bill Evans, my fave jazz pianist and some Ella on Verve. LOVE Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth and Alice Coltrane's LPs on Impulse. My pals have forgotten more about jazz than I will ever know.

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