Birdman Sound: December 2023

Friday, December 29, 2023

Sunday, December 24, 2023

New Arrivals 12/24/2023

Experimental Audio Research

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

X-MESS Pop Up Shop: December 23rd, 2023

Used to be a time when people asked me to pick out whatever and how ever many LPs for someone they gave a shit about! Predominately at this time of year, but also on other ocassions as well. Sure there's the gift certificate, that's always a popular option, but nothing says

BANG like giving some unsuspecting receiver an actual record or two, especially if there's nary a clue upon reception as to the WTF? factor. Never had any negative reports after the fact so musta have been a "hit"! In any event, I'll be a Dave's Drum Shop this Saturday, the 23rd with 10 crates of curated vinyl LPs.

New Arrivals 12/19/2023

Monday, December 18, 2023

Not Just A Lump Of Coal...

Gift Certificates are available all year round at Birdman Sound. Message me if you're inclined to make a certain someone happy...👽

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Aunt Minerva's Linen Shop

I gotta be real honest here because I'm sick to death hearing about how tough it is to be a small business these days! It's never been "easy", trust me. Beating the COVID drum has become a thing and okay, I sorta get it, however it's like pretty much everything else that's gone to shit over time. It's a reality and has become a convenient excuse. Way back in time when you hung a shingle on the door proudly displaying "Open For Business", the community took it literally and responded appropriately by checking you out. Depending on your custom, said peeps decided for themselves whether good, bad or indifferent and you were off to whatever race; uphill or down.

I've retailed physical music in 4 different haunts in two cities touching 5 decades. The playing field today CANNOT be compared to what was whenever! There is no getting ahead these times. I will not go on and on here (although I certainly could). Suffice to say, humans are easily sucked in, fucked over and completely bereft of giving a fuck about your Aunt Minerva opening up a linen shop in some shit strip mall on the outskirts of town in this day and age. It'll never float. Humans have now become totally dedicated to sitting around in dirty drawers ordering lettuce on line, picked out by some pimply faced teen at the grocer's, having it delivered and thinking it's cool. They no longer have to go anywhere to get anything, much less put pants on, so fuck Aunt Minerva eh ! Things went awry for most humans when home computers became the family braintrust by my estimation and totally dulled down the already predominately dull by nature aspect of humanity.

Covid has scared people off sure, but people been lazy fucks for way longer than that guaranteed and that's why the word Covid has become an excuse every 6 ways of a Sunday! Everything costs more nowadays, of course it does! A bag of chips for a nickel and a coke for a dime were the ancient glory days and records were also stupidly cheap, get the fuck over it ! Respect to anyone who has the balls to even bother to start any sorta small business this day and age, even poor old Aunt Minerva and I hope she survives! We are living in troubled times from any angle you look at shit!

This week was a reality check for me, cuz' it's the fucking xmas season where everyone gets ahead right ? You know what? That's a fucking crock! I just looked at my daily ledger from 2019 (pre-pandemic) and on December 14th that year in history, I was - $2935.75 into overdraft...fucking sad...some shit never change...Déjà vu...Support small business wherever you may be and happy holi-daze 👽

Editor's note...It should be added that the following usually abundant expenses are the always increasing bane of existence for the small business owner...at the end of any day, you are more than likely fucked when the math is done...rent, hydro, heating source, phone, internet, insurance, alarm monitoring fees, point of sale terminal rental costs, credit card fees, debit fees and all other bullshit bank charges attached (total scam), inventory, paying landlord's property tax, parking etc. etc. etc. Gotta sell one fucking large load of Dirtbombs LPs to pay for that eh...?

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Birdman Sound Pop Up Shop 12/16/2023

Monday, December 11, 2023

NEW ARRIVALS: 12/12/2023

RIPPLE

Spiral Wave Nomads

Upper Wilds

New Age Doom and Tuvaband

Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock

Friday, December 8, 2023

Birdman Sound Winter Hours

Cardinal Fuzz UK: The Latest News 12/8/2023

Friday Dec 1st, 3 new albums went up for Pre-order by Bhajan Bhoy, Volksempfänger and The Royal Family. Check them out here:

https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/bhajan-bhoy-shanti-shanti-shanti

https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/volksempf-nger-attack-of-sound

https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/the-royal-family-s-t

ORDER here direct from Cardinal Fuzz

If you are in Birdman Sound territory, we carry all Cardinal Fuzz titles and currently have 2 of the above titles instock (Volksempfänger LP) we'll have in January!

Exciting releases on the very near horizon include the following...

These titles are all on order at Birdman Sound and we will have them upon physicality...GUARANTEED!

Coming For 2024Jan Pre-Sales
The Exorzist III - Gospel Jamming vol. 1 (Cardinal Fuzz)
Firefriend - RCKNRLL (Cardinal Fuzz / Little Cloud Records)
Firefriend - Decreation Facts Repress (Cardinal Fuzz / Little Cloud Records) - 150 Repress - Clear Vinyl

Feb 2024
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol - Verdun (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records)
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol / Dead Sea Apes - Patheon Of Fuckery (ultra ltd 100 Pink Vinyl Repressing - Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records)

Check out the history of Cardinal Fuzz in the year 2023 + here... Cardinal Fuzz / Optical Sounds News Letter Email Archive

For a Discogs History...Look here : Cardinal Fuzz Releases