AlphaStateMusic

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Newly (re-) established in 2019, Alpha State NYC offers the finest in reissues of Historic & Contemporary Experimental & Electronic Music, as well as a HUGE selection of relatable/covetable second-hand titles from a wide variety of genres & approaches.

Domestic (US) postage via Media Mail is a flat $6 for an order of any size, or you can upgrade to Priority Mail by request (usually it's $10 for the first pound/LP & creeps up significantly from there).

International (non-US) buyers: First Class & Priority/Express Mail Int'l are all available by calculation/quote. If you're worried about the postage rates, please get in touch before you place an order & I'll gladly let you know exactly how much a potential order will cost to ship to you! If something you're interested in says "Unavailable in your country" it is solely due to Discogs' new shipping policies; I'll gladly ship anything anywhere it needs to go, just get in touch first!

New/reissue LPs are generally priced (fairly) to move & I'll rarely budge on prices there. That said, if you see something that you feel is priced absurdly high & you want to work something out, by all means, get in touch! I'm often processing records that have little to no sales history on Discogs (or anywhere really) & when there are no other copies available it's a blind stab (I'll always err on the side of viability when the datasets simply aren't there).

For second-hand vinyl: historically I've turned on "Make An Offer" for most $20+ titles after they've been up for sale for a few months; take this as an invitation to take, say 10% off the sticker price of a number of titles you're interested in to sweeten the pot (don't send a $20 offer on a $200 record, or basically anything below 10% off of what is likely the cheapest domestically-available copy of a given record, you goon). Keep in mind that if you send in a lowball/bad offer for something I will likely ignore it & you won't then be able to make a counter-offer! It's a one-shot deal. Generally speaking I wait a couple of hours after an offer comes in to make sure you're not also going to put in offers on other records, which greatly influences my decision to accept or not (hint hint).

Most CDs are priced to move; almost everything has "Make An Offer" checked at the time of listing, so if you're interested in getting a bunch of things (>10 discs) at a cut-rate, feel free to put in a bunch of lowball offers as this is in no way a breach of our sacred trust & will likely make both of us very happy.

I'm 15-year vet of Discogs, with a 25-year history of actively working within music distribution & mail-order; let me know if you have any questions!