Hawaii - who is "last"?

[anasarca]

Ever wonder who or where your used records came from? In Hawaii I always seem to find records by someone who used a round silver sticker with the words LAST printed on it. I'd find these records all over the place at different used stores. The records are immaculate and often jazz, rock, or obscure electronic. Great taste in general.

The other one I found was some kind of hand made, small, rectangular sticker. It had a Japanese name written in tiny kanji. This person dumped a ton of stuff at Jelly's early on....first started seeing stuff in 2001. Very interesting..it was all stuff that beat digger types would probably fawn over. All kinds of classic jazz,funk, and soul. I've been seeing less of both stickers lately..but was recently going through my sale piles..and it got me thinking.

You guys experience anything similar?

[modal87]

i think my ramsey lewis - love notes had the sticker with kanji on it! i haven't found any silver stickers, shucks as it sounds like that person had a great collection!

is this the kanji one??

[anasarca]

haha yeah that is the kanji one. we got a ton of cti's and other essential but not super rare records from that guy. weird less obvious stuff too like houston person. i'm sure you'll find a LAST some time soon. he must have had a pretty huge collection. all of his stuff is Near Mint. and he put them in these audiophile sleeves. he definitely, inadvertently put me on to some very interesting electronic music. the sticker can also be seen on a miles davis record speedy has.. i'll take a picture of his sticker tomorrow.

isn't it trippy that they let all of this wonderful music go? i mean LAST must have been collecting for a very long time...and buying super expensive pressings, euro imports, etc. It's strange that they'd sell.

[lofa]

i was thinking about making stickers with the pricing gun so that 20 years from now my name be in peoples record collection. just like them old jelly's stickers and other store stickers still kicking it on the wax.