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Tyson and Boogie Currently reside at the indie record store Fox Music. They are the "Record Store Mascots or "Mas-Cats""?? Tyson the "Tortoise Shell" is the record store greeter, some time during your visit to Fox Music you will most likely chat with Tyson. She Loves all the attention she can get and will even allow you to pick her up and,.... will tolerate youngins' to a degree. Tyson is a "Grade A Ham" all the way!!

Boogie the "Tuxedo Cat" on the other hand will not sit still long enough for pictures very often. Boogie is way to curious as to what you are doing, but wants nothing to do with it once he figures it out. Boogie does not like to be picked up and is very selective with who he chats with, but once he gets goin',oh boy! and when you return he will shine around and let you in on whats been happening. If Boogie hears the sound of children even on a Record he disappears into one of his Cat Hide-Outs until the coast is clear.

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Record Store "Mas-Cats"

Vinyl Record Care and Maintenance
Cleanliness is absolutely mandatory if the optimum sound capability of the vinyl record is to be realized. A clean record will not only sound better, but last longer. It has long been proven that repeated playing of dirty phonograph records can cause permanent damage to the vinyl. Preservation of your valuable or irreplaceable records requires careful cleaning. Not to mention that stylus wear is greatly accelerated by playing dirty records, and with high price of cartridges these days, playing dirty records can lead to significant and unneeded expense.

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The Vinyl Record

Vinyl Record Grading
Standard Goldmine Grading System
Fox Music Company uses the grading system first developed by Goldmine Records. Virtually all methods currently in use for the grading of records, is based in some way, shape, or form, on this system. Rather than offer some variation of the original system first developed by Goldmine, Fox Music Company has created a lens to display the Goldmine record grading method in it's entirety.

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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide has the detailed descriptions and current prices you need to determine what your vinyl is worth. From Abba to ZZ Top, you'll find your favorite vinyl LP,s and their variations. This massive reference also features the industry-standard Goldmine condition grading guide, valuable tips on buying and selling records, and a detailed guide listing record company labels, numbering systems, and production years. The Goldmine Record Album Price Guide features 70,000 vinyl LPs from 1948 to 2007 with detailed listings along with up-to-date values and 400 photos. Also included is essential information on grading, buying and selling records

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Collectors of jazz on vinyl know how difficult it can be to find pristine copies of original classic jazz recordings, and ever-changing market values can make pricing those albums even more difficult. With this fantastic, updated 2nd edition, collectors will be able to accurately price records using the most current market values. This all-encompassing reference features all types of jazz issued on 33 1/3 rpm long-playing records, including Dixieland, bebop, big band, swing, West Coast, fusion, modern and many others. It includes over 40,000 albums released between 1948 and today, valued in three grades of condition, as well as a thoroughly illustrated label guide for easy distinction between first editions and later pressings. Collectors will discover thousands of records not listed in any other price guide! The Goldmine Jazz Price Guide Contains listings for over 40,000 records in all types of Jazz, updated prices reflect today's market values an illustrated label guide aids in identifying original editions.

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Whether you're an avid collector searching for a hidden treasure at a flea market, garage sale or thrift shop, or you want to dispose of a trunk full of dusty records, you need this authoritative and comprehensive guide for accurate identification and current pricing of 45s. Don't get stung. Have Goldmine Price Guide to 45 RPM Records on hand!

Need Accurate Prices Fast? Find Them in This Easy-to-Use Book! The Goldmine 45 rpm price guide features 80,000 prices and descriptions for 45s, EPs and accompanying picture sleeves (7-inch singles only)with 400 photos. This value guide also includes essential information on grading and selling your records

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The concert poster is a great visual history of rock n' roll that centers on the posters which were created to advertise the musicians and concert venues. With over six decades of concert posters available, these event posters have become a wildly popular collectible that has taken on a life of their own, sometimes outshining the rock bands they were created to promote. The popular art of concert posters allow collectors to collect by music genre, by musician, by poster artist and even by venue or promoter. Concert promoters also created handbill versions of many of their posters and used them as sidewalk handouts and dashboard fliers to promote upcoming shows. Many of these handbills were double-sided, with poster art on one side and a calendar of upcoming shows on the other. These handbills represent an important element of rock concert history because they were hands on marketing tools that united promoter and concert fan. Concert poster are not only avidly collected today but have spawned collectors clubs, groups and annual conventions that celebrate the concert poster such such as Flatstock or The Rock Poster Society (TRPS).

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Over the time of motion picture history the movie poster has been printed in a number of different sizes and shapes. The larger the movie release, the more poster sizes were produced by the studio. At dawn of the 20th century when motion pictures were just beginning to make an impact on society, the most common format for movie posters was the one sheet. These first posters or one sheets were a common size of 27" x 41" which was the largest sheet (or one sheet) that would fit in lithographers press bed. This was also a common size used for theater posters prior to motion pictures. From the One Sheet size originated the terms used to denote the other larger size .

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Vinyl Record Care and Maintenance
Cleanliness is absolutely mandatory to achieve the best sound quality of your vinyl records. A clean vinyl record will not only sound better, but last longer. It has long been proven that the playing of dirty records will result in a rapid deterioration of quality and degradation of the original recorded sound, or simply can cause permanent damage to your vinyl records.
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Grading Your Vinyl Records
The following is the grading system first developed by Goldmine Records. Virtually all methods currently in use for the grading of records, is based in some way, shape, or form, on this system. Rather than offer some variation of the original system first developed by Goldmine, Fox Music Company will display the Goldmine record grading method in it's entirety.
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Vinyl Records.., What Are Vinyl Records..??
Vinyl records were introduced and marketed as the unbreakable record, unlike its shellac counterpart of days gone by, that would break at the drop of a hat and becomes more brittle over time.
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David Stone Martin and the Art of Jazz
In the world of jazz there is one artist collected the world over who has never played an instrument not even a note of music but has left his mark on the jazz culture. Illustrator David Stone Martin was one of the most prolific and influential graphic designers of the postwar era, with his signature hand sketched graphics with two or three primary colors, perfectly capturing the energy and spontaneity of the jazz idiom.
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What Type of Records Do You Collect??
Vinyl Record Collectors come in as many shapes as sizes and generations as the vinyl records they collect. Why do people collect records??
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What Is A Phonograph Record??
A phonograph record is an analog sound medium that consists of a flat disc record with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the outside edge (lead-in) and ending near the center of the record (lead-out).The audio content of the record is contained within the spiral groove which extends for more than a half mile. The groove itself is actually narrower than the thickness of a human hair yet
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Lenny Bruce the Charlie Parker of Comedy
When once asked to describe jazz, trumpet legend Miles Davis sarcastically but saliently replied, "You can sweat it down to four words: Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker." Now trying to apply that same old-school, new-school trailblazer to comedy is somewhat more a problem.
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Static Electricity and Your Vinyl Records
Because static electricity plays such a major role in the problem of vinyl record cleaning and that we have repeatedly referred to the malice effects of static electricity, we feel an explanation of this phenomenon is in order.
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Audio Rarities
Fox Music is a Indie Record Store Located in the Heart of Watertown Wisconsin in the Downtown Historic District on the corner of First and Main Street. Our online location Fox Music Company - webpages where you can find and search by Artist, Album or Song - Read Reviews, Bios or Listen to Audio Clips of new release and back catalog tiles and a whole lot more......
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Don't Forget To Take The Fox Music Company
Indie Record Store Picture Tour
Hosted on flickr (yahoo images)...and of coarse you must stop and visit with
Tyson and Boogie
the Record Store Mascots or... is it "Mas-Cats"