Okay, so I'm killing time today and avoiding work by doing a little work on
my ongoing project to catalogue my music collection.  I've gotten into the
LPs, and the one I just added was a personal fave I haven't listened to in
years, Richard Barone and James Mastro's NUTS AND BOLTS.

So here's the thing: I have to take the LP out of the sleeve to get the
track times for the database.  As I'm sliding the LP back into the sleeve,
I see a handwritten note on the paper inner sleeve: "2/22/83, R. Sutliff".
And I think, "Okay.  Why do I have Bobby Sutliff's copy of this album?"

Here's the reason why I'm pretty sure this album either once belonged to
Bobby Sutliff or perhaps was intended to be given to him: the price sticker
is still on the front of the LP, and it shows that I bought this copy of
the album (a replacement for my old beat-to-hell copy) at Relapse Records
in Albuquerque, for the princely sum of $1.  Relapse, which was open for
about 8 months in 1998, was a satellite store owned and operated by former
employees of Used Kids Records, and initially stocked with overstock LPs
and CDs from Used Kids.  Which is in Columbus.  Which is, if I'm not
mistaken, where Bobby Sutliff is from.

So how about it, Bobby?  Did I somehow buy one of your old cast-offs or what?

S