reina_t_1111: Hey Ceej. What are you doing on IM at 2:30 in the afternoon your time on a work day?
minimoniotaku: My dipshit boss is out sick with the same thing I had three Sundays ago and I’m up front watching the store and playing Jimmy Smith CDs.
reina_t_1111: Aw, that explains it. You heard about Johnson?
minimoniotaku: Yeah. About time. I thought she was overdue.
reina_t_1111: You and me both. I see I missed some, um, excitement over the past week or so.
minimoniotaku: Yeah, let’s just say some people shouldn’t get to be within 100 yards of your band.
reina_t_1111: I think I saw him from the stage… the guy looks like Penny Rimbaud from Crass does today, only with more weight and less hair?
minimoniotaku: Give that wonky-eyed beauty a 200-gram vinyl pressing of Kind Of Blue!
reina_t_1111: Yeah, speaking of vinyl, where in the hell do you find a copy of that?
minimoniotaku: Classic Records put it out a few years ago. It sounds fucking great.
reina_t_1111: Sounds like a good excuse for me to buy a turntable. Let me check it out…
minimoniotaku: Go for it.
reina_t_1111: *looks* THIRTY-THREE FUCKING DOLLARS AMERICAN?!? Jesus Xavier Christ! It’s not like I can’t afford it, but do you realize how much that is in Japanese yen?!?
minimoniotaku: It costs me $25 for a MoMusu album from CD Japan before Express Mail postage! Nothing different on either side of the pond.
reina_t_1111: Yeah, but still… thirty-three bucks?!?
minimoniotaku: Reina, it’s Miles motherfuckin’ Davis! One of the greatest albums ever made. Every home should have a copy.
reina_t_1111: 200 grams sounds like it would survive a nuclear holocaust along with cockroaches and Keith Richards.
minimoniotaku: Perhaps, but that’s one thing I don’t want to find out the hard way.
reina_t_1111: I gather you’d buy the Stooges all over again if it was out on heavy vinyl?
minimoniotaku: I already have Raw Power in a 180-gram pressing. One album down, three to go.
reina_t_1111: I’m not even going to ask you if you’d ever buy Morning Musume on audiophile vinyl.
minimoniotaku: In a heartbeat.
reina_t_1111: I smell another post at your other blog brewing.
minimoniotaku: Well, you’re the personification of my muse, you should already know that by now.

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