#inyourear

[stevehatguy]

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[indieephemera]

Receipt from In Your Ear Records in Cambridge, MA, dated June 7, 1991.

Cutting right to the chase, here's Mr. Bob Fay once again accurately summing up the entirety of my purchase that summer Friday—almost 30 years ago to the day!—at In Your Ear Records. And of course, after my high school “internship” there, I got that sweet, 10% friend-of-the-store discount.

[indieephemera]

Receipt from In Your Ear Records in Cambridge, MA, dated April 1, 1991.

I can easily ID any receipt with former co-worker Bob’s handwriting on it. That means it’s from In Your Ear, which also explains the 10% (”friend of the store”) discount.

The spring of 1991 I had been doing a six-week internship at In Your Ear for school credit. I actually chose this over an internship opportunity at The Boston Globe, even though at that time I was still planning on studying journalism. Guess that gives you sense of my overall priorities.

Anyway, being at the store all day, every weekday meant that I was able to scoop up all the good stuff that came through the door during that time. And since my current obsession was Flying Nun Records, it’s no surprise that Bob chose to abbreviate the goods on my purchase receipt to simply “NZ (2/3).” (The other 1/3 was probably some good ol’ American indie rock.)

[indieephemera]

Receipt, dated June 19, 1992, from a purchase by Providence, RI record store In Your Ear Records of five copies of issue #1 of my fanzine, Nonstop Diatribe.

This is one of a number of receipts from record stores and other retail outlets where I was shopping around the first issue of my fanzine. From the date, I can see that I was in Providence for the Velocity Girl/Velvet Crush concert later that night at Club Babyhead. So of course I hit all the record stores along Thayer Ave that afternoon, including the Providence branch of my on-and-off employer, In Your Ear Records.

While IYE was a three-store chain, the Providence store operated semi-independently, so I knew I’d need to sell directly to them. And when bellying up to the counter with my bag of zines, the clerk I got to help me was... Ric Menck of Velvet Crush himself!

From the receipt, it looks like Ric was initially going to accept these on consignment, but as he perused the pages, that turned into an “outright buy.” I also must have been angling to interview him for the next issue of my zine, as Ric helpfully wrote his phone number on the back of my receipt.

And while I never did end up interviewing Ric, I know that he gave my fanzine a good read. How do I know this? Well, he ended up sending me a very long letter about my review of the first Velvet Crush album. Even though it was a positive review, it was not an unqualified rave, and Ric presented an ardent defense. When I finally published issue #2 of my zine in 2017, you bet I included an excerpt of that in the Letters section.

[fantaztika]

This was recorded a few days ago. When O picked up his new bike. He felt the kids needed some sun and of course wanted to test out his new toy. I wanted to get a picture of them riding by, but didn't realise I was recording the entire time I was waiting for them. I was listening to @kpfaradio #InYourEar with Art Sato and he was playing "Precious Energy (sun song" ) by Leon Thomas and Gary Bartz ❤ #sweetmoments https://www.instagram.com/p/B_lUxm4jYpL933RV6hDdeA1tnxFBee0nEEs_e00/?igshid=1bup6b7fjx8gg

[darkgreenflowers]

Sex is great and all, but have you ever felt the water running out of your ear after it's been stuck there for hours

[specialdark79]

#ILOVEYOULORD #ANDILIFTMYVOICE #TOWORSHIPYOU #OHMYSOULREJOICE #TAKEJOYMYKING #INWHATYOUHEAR #ANDLETITBEASWEET #SWEETSWEETSOUND #INYOUREAR #OOOLETITBEASWEETSWEETSOUNDINYOUREAR #OH #LETITBEASWEEEEEET #SWEEEETTTSOUNDINYOUR #INYOUREAR #YOUREAR!!!!!

[2dburton]

When the doctor pulls this out your ear...well let’s just say, someone’s got a lot of explaining to do.