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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 16h

I love cassettes. Except when I'm holding a stack and one slips out and they fall and every single case hinge breaks. Then I hate cassettes with a deep fiery passion.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 1d

Some great western music on this acetate from Canada. It's labeled as the Round Up Rangers, which might be the same band that released a handful of 78s in the 1930s, but I'm not positive. Either way they sound great!

Listen here:
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#dcap #acetates #hillbillymusic

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 1d

Here are a pair of discs recorded in Paris with Arabic handwriting on the labels. The first has two solo instrumentals and the second has two duets with piano. Listen here:

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#acetates #DCAP #vinylsky

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 4d

Thanks! I've been thinking about expanding it but I'd need to find someone who could do the actual app modding.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

Any Arabic speakers want to help me translate a few handwritten labels?

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

I've just learned that @wcsb.bsky.social has shut down as we knew it. It's now a jazz station and not a student run radio station. I find it hard to describe just how big a loss this is to the local Cleveland music and student communities.

They are my favorite radio station in the country.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

I think a lot about how some people are comfortable with asking for money/selling things to make money and how many aren't. It feels like I live in a society built by people with Type A traits and everyone else has to try and make it work somehow.

Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

Dollar Country is going to be having a public radio style fundraiser soon. It's something I've never done and I'm a bit nervous and reluctant to publicly be asking for funding, but I'm also excited to see how it goes.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

And I often don't like to write about it because I don't want it to come off as "what I do is at least as important (and better for the world) than buying a $5 coffee," but in the end I do believe that.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

However $5 a month as a donation is just harder to contemplate for many people. There's surely some sort of psychology papers written about this. I pay $5 for a beer all the time when my wife and I go eat, but someone asking me to join their $5 patreon seems like a completely different idea.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

The problem with doing stuff like I do is that since the primary work isn't marketable in that I create a product and people buy that product then it's hard to get people to support the idea of archiving. It's much more concrete to pay $5 at starbucks bc you see and hold what you exchange money for.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

Dollar Country is going to be having a public radio style fundraiser soon. It's something I've never done and I'm a bit nervous and reluctant to publicly be asking for funding, but I'm also excited to see how it goes.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

I'm in need of some song identification help. The first, second, and fourth song on this acetate I can't ID. Can you?

The first is a bluegrass instrumental, second is a yodeling western song and the last is a country song.

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#songidentification #acetate

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

Here's a recording of "Mom & Dad Stasi" from "Christmas 1958" I transferred last month. It's like being a fly on the wall during a Christmas party. People are having a sing along with the piano and shouting at each other.

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#acetateoftheday #acetate #familyrecording

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

I love that no matter how much I analyze it, experience it, and talk about it makes it less magical.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

It's definitely magical

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-v...

The Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn (Official Video)

YouTube video by Art Of Noise

www.youtube.com

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

Music is so cool. It's just normal sounds we hear in the world that are deliberately organized and somehow that makes us feel very interesting emotions.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

hell yeah

Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

No, I get them printed in bulk at a place that makes them.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

Thanks JT, I really appreciate that.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

I wholesale to shops or bands too. Want this stuff to sell on your merch table or shelves? Contact me directly for wholesale prices on stickers, zines, tapes, and cds.

[email protected]

Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

Just updated the stickers on the online shop. Added the Support Your Local Bookshop/Record Store stickers on there and made all the small stickers 2/$6 instead of $3.50 each.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

Just updated the stickers on the online shop. Added the Support Your Local Bookshop/Record Store stickers on there and made all the small stickers 2/$6 instead of $3.50 each.

dollarcountry.bigcartel.com/product/stic...

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 10d

If you own a book store or record store I'm wholesaling these for $1. Let me know if you'd like some!

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 11d

This is definitely all christian

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 11d

Stopped by a garage sale today and bought a stack of latin gospel records. If they were appalachian gospel records this would have been a pile of gold for me, but as it stands it's hopefully a pile of gold for the spanish speaking equivalent of Dollar Country. So many have no online footprint!

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