Pure TokyoScope PODCAST 95: VIDEO - Cuckoo for Toy Hunting at Mandarake CoCoo!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
The battle for the mind of Neo-Tokyo will be fought in the video arena! In this installment of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) run amok at the Mandarake CoCoo collector's store in Akihabara and make a pit stop at treasury of vinyl LP delights known as RECOfan!
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More Record Digging please. How else will I find out what is "hot" and what is "not"
You passed on the Lensman soundtrack? You dirty barbarian! How dare you?! I don’t think that ever made it to CD. I would spend too much money buying LPs not so much to play them and rip them to iTunes* but for those beautiful jackets.
Among the things I need to buy on my dream trip to Japan is a ton of CDs and some LPs and 45s to fill gaps in my library. I trust Patrick will know the secret places to score these treasures. 😁
So that shop is the ‘we overprice for the gaijin who don’t know better’ place? I mean those were sick prices for Madball knockoffs!
But I would likely still buy junk there.
Oh! Hey! Is there a floor dedicated to…I guess ‘role play’ toys from shows? I need the Gigastream from Winspector/Solbrain. I might have trouble at customs when I bring it home…
*yes I know iTunes is dead and I don’t currently have a setup to rip anything to anything. It’s all part of that dream package. 👍