A record in a bargain bin may just mean someone is liquidating their vinyl collection for money or to go fully digital. It could mean they are broke and need cash. Or they're downsizing. Or it was part of someone's possessions who died and they're selling everything. (I sold all my mom's vinyl.) So you just never know and it likely has nothing whatsoever to do with your music and everything to do with circumstances. You could buy it and resell it for much more!
Totally and that too is a positive re-frame. I was not offended by seeing the record out there, just observing that it COULD be triggering for someone without a re-frame tool in the tool box. Thanks Ellen
Very well put. I am always pleasantly surprised to see my stuff out in the wild, whatever the circumstance; it's like unexpectedly running into an old college friend or something.
I have two stories for you — one book-related, one record-related, both (to me) very humorous.
In 2002, I was in St. Louis for a day and paid a visit to what I'd heard was "the best record store in town" (I forget the name of it). I walked in and made a beeline to their massive 45 bin, and almost immediately ran across the second of the two singles that my Chicago band Lava Sutra had self-released in the early 90s. As soon as I saw that it was priced at $7.50, I turned around and left; if that's how much they were charging for it, I figured that the rest of their stock had to be SERIOUSLY overpriced!
Then, in 2014, a friend of my book agent insisted that I should send them a copy of my new baseball book Stars & Strikes to give to their "good friend" Billy Crystal, since he loves baseball, might want to turn it into an HBO movie like 61, whatever. Okay, fine — I sent her a copy that I signed to Billy, thanking him for all the laughs, etc. About six months later, I see a "signed author copy" of my book listed on Ebay; I clicked the link out of curiosity, and it was the Billy Crystal copy, along with a lengthy description that intimated that the book's author (me) and Billy were good friends, which I thought was fucking hysterical. I'm guessing the book never actually made it to him...
But yeah, once it's outta your hands, it's outta your control. Leave it in the lap of the gods, so sayeth the late, great Freddie Mercury...
Thanks Dan! Damn, that Billy story I imagine is a perfect example of how a re-frame can help. That fact that Billy may have never seen it and that someone on eBay is saying a non-truth about you can feel deflating and frustrating. Im glad you found humor in it. And yes, any art you make public becomes the publics and out of your hands!
A record in a bargain bin may just mean someone is liquidating their vinyl collection for money or to go fully digital. It could mean they are broke and need cash. Or they're downsizing. Or it was part of someone's possessions who died and they're selling everything. (I sold all my mom's vinyl.) So you just never know and it likely has nothing whatsoever to do with your music and everything to do with circumstances. You could buy it and resell it for much more!
Totally and that too is a positive re-frame. I was not offended by seeing the record out there, just observing that it COULD be triggering for someone without a re-frame tool in the tool box. Thanks Ellen
Very well put. I am always pleasantly surprised to see my stuff out in the wild, whatever the circumstance; it's like unexpectedly running into an old college friend or something.
I have two stories for you — one book-related, one record-related, both (to me) very humorous.
In 2002, I was in St. Louis for a day and paid a visit to what I'd heard was "the best record store in town" (I forget the name of it). I walked in and made a beeline to their massive 45 bin, and almost immediately ran across the second of the two singles that my Chicago band Lava Sutra had self-released in the early 90s. As soon as I saw that it was priced at $7.50, I turned around and left; if that's how much they were charging for it, I figured that the rest of their stock had to be SERIOUSLY overpriced!
Then, in 2014, a friend of my book agent insisted that I should send them a copy of my new baseball book Stars & Strikes to give to their "good friend" Billy Crystal, since he loves baseball, might want to turn it into an HBO movie like 61, whatever. Okay, fine — I sent her a copy that I signed to Billy, thanking him for all the laughs, etc. About six months later, I see a "signed author copy" of my book listed on Ebay; I clicked the link out of curiosity, and it was the Billy Crystal copy, along with a lengthy description that intimated that the book's author (me) and Billy were good friends, which I thought was fucking hysterical. I'm guessing the book never actually made it to him...
But yeah, once it's outta your hands, it's outta your control. Leave it in the lap of the gods, so sayeth the late, great Freddie Mercury...
Thanks Dan! Damn, that Billy story I imagine is a perfect example of how a re-frame can help. That fact that Billy may have never seen it and that someone on eBay is saying a non-truth about you can feel deflating and frustrating. Im glad you found humor in it. And yes, any art you make public becomes the publics and out of your hands!