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06/03/2025

Roky Erickson’s first record. I’ve seen it in person. I don’t own it. But it was fun to look at.

05/10/2025

Found these in Oak Cliff yesterday. 4 photos from the Beatles press conference in 1964 in Dallas-their only appearance in Dallas. Not pristine by any means. But life isn’t always pristine.

04/14/2025

Plenty of times, there are no records to be found. So I've also gotten into the reselling of rare books. I seem to be stuck on referring to the book as a "pressing." Well being historically a dealer in music media, I don't see that habit changing soon. A rare Mark Twain consignment (2500 copies made) ends in 2 days.

This is a rare first edition copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that is leather bound, not cloth bound as most first editions are. Leather bound copies were limited to a production of about 2500.

10/02/2024

Finger Lakes, Farmington, NY. Big Bad Bud died on the track after finishing 84 lengths back. The jockey could have pulled up at the first sign of distress, but he did not. Racing a horse is animal abuse, and the people who do so are abusers. https://horseracingwrongs.org/2024/10/02/7-year-old-collapses-and-dies-on-finger-lakes-track-after-finishing-84-lengths-back/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=the-last-newslettertotal-posts-from-our-blog-877&fbclid=IwY2xjawFqXy9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfTw0R7Bk4y8c2ZcH7GsxQtJF0oTe5ffejCXjGZaOlaczvbiAsElrR2y7Q_aem_qql-_IqM15ZmKSdKmrf7gw

The Finger Lakes chartwriter is notorious for not reporting bad outcomes. Case in point, the 6th race yesterday. Big Bad Bud, he/she said, was “done early and tired.” The 7-year-old, un…

05/04/2024

While major news outlets have not quite caught on to the evils of horse racing, with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News continuing to propose that horse racing can be safely regulated, other outlets are slowly but surely starting to catch on to the fact that the industry is inherently wrong. Read this OP-ED by Patrick Battuello of Horseracing Wrongs in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

05/03/2024

As I've made known, many follow Horseracing Wrongs Patrick Battuello's posts on a daily basis. Today's post was disturbing, as it depicts a horse named Tyler's Tribe who repeatedly bled at races and during training. Yet despite having had to be taken off track due to bleeding no less than 4 times since 2022, trainer Tim Martin and owner Tom Lepic apparently thought it was a wonderful idea to keep abusing Tyler's Tribe. Tyler's Tribe died yesterday during a training session at Oaklawn Park. Tim Martin feigned shock and sadness at this horse's death. But the fact is that he had plenty of opportunities (at least 4) to see that this horse was not fit for racing. And he did nothing. Martin, to be sure, is not the only abuser out there, but he might be one of the more egregious. In truth, anyone who forces a horse to race is participating in the killing and injuring of innocent animals. We will not stop until horse racing is outlawed and subsidies stopped.

Tyler’s Tribe is dead, so says a post yesterday from Oaklawn Park, the track at which he died. Apparently (details are scarce), Tyler’s died following a training session Wednesday. With…

03/05/2024

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296270118752

Regarding this piece, all 3 discs are strong VG+. Artist: Elvis.

02/14/2024

This is an update on horses killed at Texas tracks in 2023 (Information provided by Horseracing Wrongs. A total of 25 deaths on track were reported last year. 12 of the 25 deaths occurred at Lone Star Park. Sam Houston Park had the second most deaths while Gillespie and Retama accounted for the rest. While all of these deaths are egregious, as these horses are used and abused just to make money, I did find the death of Fabulous Seis (d. Nov 3, 2023 at Lone Star Park) to be particularly disgusting. You can read more in the link below, but I will copy relevant details provided from Horseracing Wrongs:

One Fabulous Seis, Nov 3, Lone Star R
“Fought in gate. Head trauma with acute nasal hemorrhage. Died on track after removal from gates.” The report also noted that prior to dying, One Fabulous Seis had been on bleeder lists three times (in Louisiana and New Mexico). She was four years old.

This poor horse had been subject to bleeding issues three times, and the people still thought it fit to race him.

As humans, what we can do to eventually get the abuse to stop is to put a stranglehold on the business of horse racing by not attending parks, not betting on races, and not watching them on TV. Finally, we are ratcheting up the pressure on politicians to quit providing subsidies for this dying industry. The industry may be slowly dying, but as you can see it's still alive and horses continue to die and suffer from repeated abuse, even after they are proven unfit to ride.

Through a FOIA request to the Texas Racing Commission, I have confirmed the following kills at that state's tracks last year (this is part 2; part 1

10/26/2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296007609287

This borders NM and has a faint dish warp not affecting playback.

10/04/2023

I’m in the process of posting some rare rockabilly from a long time collector. Visit my eBay page when you get some free time.

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05/27/2023

All 5 Sun Records. Strong VG and above. 2 of the 5 are Sample Promos. Extraordinarily rare to find a set in this condition with 2 of 5 being promos.

09/01/2022

Bubbha Thomas & The Lightmen original 1975 pressing of Country Fried Chicken. Selling in local Dallas Ft. Worth area. Vg++ media, strong VG jacket. $1000. . .