AlphaStateMusic

Newly (re-) established in New York City in 2019, Alpha State NYC (formerly Broken-Music, Melbourne; Mimaroglu Music Sales, Cambridge/Somerville) is a private label-group & dealership offering the finest in covetable second-hand titles from a wide variety of genres & approaches (albeit largely focused on Historical Experimental & Electronic Music) along with an apropos selection of reissues. While there's no physical storefront, I occasionally sell at record fairs (including WFMU 2024).

Domestic (US) postage via Media Mail is a flat $6.50 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). Pickup can also be arranged in advance (I'm usually free to meet up M-F at lunchtime at Fowler Square, above the Fulton G & Lafayette C stops, or Saturday mid-morning if you're heading to the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket).

International (non-US) buyers: I've switched over to Asendia (a joint venture between French La Poste & Swiss Post) for most export shipments, which has really been interchangeable service-wise with USPS First Class/Priority International (down to the tracking) at a fraction of the price. Still, 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 (it's generally $20 to most places for a parcel up to 2 lbs.) 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 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 any other records (def. let me know when you're done selecting!) & that the volume of offers greatly influences my decision to accept them 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 working professionally within music distribution & mail-order; let me know if you have any questions!

PS. I tend to scan & transcribe most valuable (>$30) records as a "farewell" gesture on their way (back) out the door & will gladly pass along the (raw, unedited; you can do the track separation & meta-tagging/trancoding on your end) 24-bit / 96k / 600DPI .aif & .tif files via Drop Box if that in some way helps sweeten the pot...