F&P: What mix you guys have going on, right now?

Shane Petty, Phonoforever: Oh, I’m just playing around,” Shane says.

F&P: Catalogues over here on the left of everything, or-

Shane: -Are you the guy that drove far away?

F&P: No, I meant to get here at 4:20, because I wanted to see what you were playing at 4:20. My name is Bryce.

Petty: All right. Yeah, [everybody’s here when] nobody’s here [?] [audio]

My name is Shane, nice to meet you, man.

“This is Guild Merchant (^walking-in audio).” Sort of pays to pick out stuff under his label. I’ve got similar chill-out stuff that sounds like that on the set, but this is normally not on the set. I can play something I think I’ve got [?] though, if you want to hear something,” Shane described the playlist brought together at the corner pop-up table in the front windows, December 7, 2025, southside-of-the-square cannabis retailer, The Laboratory, 37130.

F&P: Is it cool if I take pictures?

“Yeah, I don’t care,” Shane says.

“Oh, no. I don’t re-do the artwork. I just do some stuff with AI on my phone. If I wanted to, I could make his mouth move, and talk, or do something crazy,” as he shows me his phone.”

“Since I specialize in the genre of music I sell […] people in their 40’s and 50’s, they’re wanting to by th stuff they listened to in their 20’s because it looked cool. They like the artwork market: MTSU students and hipsters.

Phonoforever: From Bingham to Glossary to Grand Palace’s local bands in, vinyl, to DNJ to Kevin Robertson to Bingham’s Red Rose’s Phatwaxtrax, to vinyl store to 25-year break, but back for 2026.

“[audio} background beat, “And now, you want to rock it/take a little tip/you need to take heed/quit bein’ such a goofy], switching to ambient, xylophone intro licked with desert rock guitar strum by Canadian artist, Sixtoo, as Shane and the paper go through steps of his advo’s and programs.

[ADD jump] “I did some random stuff for my friend, the other day. I’ll show you how much it did weird sht,” Shane rifles through some screens.

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“He’s like, yo…. if you need to do anything with that. He wanted to have like, -And I was like, what? It did that when I said make blinky Christmas lights. And then it turned to blue and did this, and then at one point it sent a little girl out and the tree disappeared and little girl opened the presents. It was weird. But then it said, ‘Merry Christmas,’ and I was like, nah, I don’t want it to say ‘Merry Christmas.’ I want it to say ‘Christmas Lo-Fi,’ and that was the final product I made for him,” Shane explained.

F&P: Perfect [background audio: descending, four note, Alex Rodriguez guitar riff].

Shane: [My friend I did this for] could put whatever music to that. I said, look, ‘dude, just take your…’ -I don’t- It’s not like I did it for money. I did it for [support on?] -because I’ve been recovering from my giant cist getting taken out of my leg

“When did that happen?” -F&P

“Oct. 2,’ Shane says.

“This season’s endeavor?” Shane shows F&P his leg.

“Yeah, I’ve just been playing around,” says Shane.

~:15 “All right. Tell me what you’re up to. We were talking on the phone the other day and you were telling me you were coming throughRed Rose, and then you went through Grand Palace, and you took a pause-” F&P said.

“[I] knew the guys. […] Red Rose, it’s a little forgotten gem…” [From Bingham to Glossary to Grand Palace’s local bands in, vinyl, to DNJ to Kevin Robertson to Bingham’s Red Rose’s Phatwaxtrax [in] vinyl store to 25-year break, but back for 2026.”

-“So, Red Rose, it’s a little forgotten gem …’cause the ceiling was falling in (upspeak),” Shane said.

F&P, from The lab, pointing, “Yeah, it was right over there at the [Lytle and Broad round-a-bout, or roundabout].

“All the inventory came out, and I sold it online, and [did okay with it, and thought about doing it,” Shane said.

F&P, pointing at his table: Is this the same inventory?

Shane: No, I was all over. Back then it was mostly like drum and bass, house, and like imports from Europe and here in New York. I’d get imports from the 80’s. People were buying them. I was getting about $3-4, but I added up my invoices -and I didn’t pay attention to it- I’d get paid my check for the records. I spent $15,000 doing that [pop-up] store in Red Rose, on vinyl. I didn’t make that much money, but I know I spent that much. I added it up one day. I’d get two hundred, three hundred, four hundred adding it up -because sometimes a lot of the stuff that I sold, sometimes after a rave and stuff, in Nashville, I’d load my trunk up and go to where the kids were having these backalley parties […], and Id open my trunk and say here, take one of these to play in your set, and I’d give’m like a brand new house record; they’d be like, ‘hell yeah!’

F&P: “I moved to Murfreesboro around the time Red Rose closed and so I’d privy to any local house shows around, 2004-ish/2005-ish (upspeak).”

[…] “That was a good scene back then,” Shane continued.

[…] Well, it was the last scene in my experience. I can tell you what I know, but you have to ask the right thing.”

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F&P: Anytime I talk about a Murfreesboro scene I harken back to a ’97 article in Billboard.

~:12 “Bingham [Red Rose Cafe owner] was pretty much just cool to me […], but he did indie rock and punk rock. -You can sit in that wheelchair, if you want to,” Shane said.

“-And then, the section with my records were separate,” Shane continued.

“I had my own little price tag with little “Fatwaxtrax” in red on it, y’know. And like I said, you wanted, -if that wouldn’t there, it -[simply, you might] take it to the register, like ‘okay,’ ten dollars, get your money write the receipt. It might say “Cypress Hill, $10, 12″… you know. [But] in this case -because I have OCD (laughs)- I try to give details and everything [of the exact labels the records/tapes/cds have on them].”

“So, they’d be like, ‘we’re gonna take $10,’ and zip it in a little metal box, Shane said. “And once a week, on Sundays, I’d come in there with my lasttop. I’d put my headphones on and try to listen to techno and see what cool records to get. Because, back then, I could get a fax in my email, back in like the early 2000’s they had software where you could send fax to your email, and I go there -because that stuff was so new, I’d have to go to a UK website and try to find these records and that’s when somebody came in and started looking around, and stuff. I’d chit chat and mingle with then. But there was people driving from, like, Tullahoma, and stuff. Buying records.”

“A couple from DJ’s from 91, when Vanderbilt had good house shows, like Mindhub, a.k.a Tim Hiber’s Underground Alarm Clock [91.1 Rock.Was 91.1 until 2011, then Nashville Public Radio’s WNXP took the airwave Five years ago, Happy 5 WNXP!!]. They’d come down and buy records from me back then. I’ve known him for 20-something years. A lot of DJ’s I know, like Jane Dupree. She’s in Murfreesboro. I’ve known a long time, but some of them don’t play vinyl anymore,” Shane said.

“The hip hop heads like vinyl. And people, like, older now, who want to relive what they heard in High School.”

“The spectrum of what I’ve run into -it depends on who you talk to- it pretty much, if you put all the people you talk to together to realize, those people […] all talking about [keeps] it alive, no matter what your opinion is. That’s how it’s staying alive [by word of mouth, and sentiment]. which is pretty cool. And hopefully those guys will sell you some cheap vinyl, and not have to track one down off Ebay,” said F&P.

“That’s what was interesting, last night. Because Raw [Proof] \ ETC Soul did that thing at Cedar Glades, last night. It was dumb. Dumb. No where to sit down in that place. It had a lot of energy, and like, ‘pass the microphone,’ and I was like, for him to take his time to do that, for the love of hip hop -charge nothing at the door- I mean, he’s got a QR code. You can make a donation,” Shane said.

“ET Soul. And Raw Proof. I don’t know if that’s their real names […] here in town. You know where Broad St. -where Chuy’s is? It’s right on that road between them [and] Cedar Glades right around the corner” [W. College St., the first part of it].

[F&P: I was thinking it was in Nashville, or something.]

Shane: Nah, he could probably be successful in Nashville, and the part-owners usually there, but he wasn’t there, last night].

When’s the next time you’re [at Cedar Glades]?

“It’ll be the next one of these [pop-ups]. […] February 7, at Cedar Glade, from 7pm til 11pm for Barz in the Boro. But I don’t know if I’m going to keep vending, or not. Nobody -I mean, I’ve got one friend that’d buy, like, $30 worth of used records every day, but nobody’d really look through them, or was curious … not that kind of, like. I just think those people like hip-hop, but I don’t think they like hip hop enough to own a turntable and buy vinyl, because my job is to turn them into somebody that wants to buy vinyl,” said Shane.

“It doesn’t make sense for me not to do it, practically, in my own backyard. I just live by Siegel. It only takes… My dad kinda bitches sometimes, like ‘do you make any money?’ And I’m like, so you’re asking me how much money. Do I have to disclose to you, like if I sold any records, you gotta know how…”

[“You gotta explain to him your business model! Tell’m youre using it as social lubrication, and everything,” F&P said.

“I did make $30, but I spent nine of it buying my friends beer on New Year, and I was thinking of saying Dad I might buy records this year than beer!,” said Shane.

“It’s synergy!,” said F&P.]

“But, y’know, people get a record player for Christmas, all the time, but that don’t mean -they have that little group that does bars in the Boro, they’re a little tight-knit group- the people that Raw Proof and ET, people that come and support them. I don’t really mingle with them that much. They don’t come back and introduce you. Like ET and me, he’ll handshake and, ‘thanks for coming,’ but that’s about it. It’s not like I’m super tight homies with’m.”

F&P: But his group, last night, was there, and in full effect and everything?

“Aw, yeah. It was a good show. Lot of people had a good… I put it on my instagram, but I don’t know if it expired yet. Put on that, it has those little segments for 30 seconds, for 24 hours…,” Shane said.

“Yeah, I posted all that a little bit earlier.”

F&P: “Sounds like in your business model…”

Shane Petty: “How do I have a business model?”

“…You’re using the record thing as social lubrication to get into places like Cedar Glades, to have a good night, or to go to EDM houses after the shows,” said F&P.

“Back then I did. I told my mom, if my store is -I mean, I got a little bit of Soul, Funk, and James Brown stuff over there in that crate -in that’s borderline collector’s stuff, and borderline good records, but…” Shane said.

F&P spotted a GED record, “Oh, yeah! GED Soul. That is Sky-Hi’s –that’s Dee’s label, that he played with,” said F&P.

“Yeah, Dee Roberts & The Half Truths. And the Half-Truths,” Shane said.

“He can bring a barn, and a house, down,” said the paper.

“Yeah. I got one of his albums in there,” Shane said.

“He’s good. He personally hand-delivered all these to me at the record. He’s a helluva guy. I was like, ‘What do you want [for them]?’ He was like just give me a hundred dollar bill.’”

He gave me one on a UK label. He gave me this one. That’s on the European label. This one’s cool.

“You’ve got’m packed in here,” F&P says.

“Yeah, the back ones are like $1 apiece. They’re not that great. All these single, unopened Heat Marie, Young Jeezy. Stuff that’s not good. If I don’t like it, it’s always cheap (laughs). That’s the way I am. I’m just like get rid of it. Or if the conditions like ehhh. I don’t let the poor record condition records run sleazy in the good condition records,” Shane says.

“All right, we’ll get into that.”

The Japanese versions of it? What’re the ones in the cases?

So, what OBI strip is, is OBI in Japanese stands for ‘belt,’ so if you hear about Japanese OBI strip, what they’re talking about is the belt of the record, so its a band, like a belt [fiddling with the celophane]. See? Obi. And what they do is, they give you a spot to number’m. So there’s only 35 of these out there. Of that one. And it’s the only way it came out, is with the obi strip. And its only $25. But you can hold on to it. Could be worth 100 next year. You never know. Same way with these ones. It’s called Astro Raymond syndicate. Also limited 35. And they do a special sticker for each one.

“And some record labels charge -like this one here- they made handmade leather obi’s. Like, handmade leather. They only made 15 of these,” said Shane.

“The more creative they get with that, the more collectible it is, or the lesser the number which is kinda -not really a niche, but I’ve only got a handful of people that pay that kinda price for stuff.

“I sold one two weeks ago for 130,” Shane continued. “I could sell them for 130 when they [weren’t] that old.”

“It’s like The Beatles cut out [liner notes] with Sgt Pepper’s, and what not? cool little cut out with mustaches and whatnot. Cool little memorabilia like that,” said F&P.

“Yeah. I find them on Bandcamp the day they’re out, where I know the artist might do 30 of one, and 20 of the other. […] They’re going in a heart…”

“-I’ve got one -this one right here, actually- I got on Bandcamp and ordered it, but I didn’t get the…”

F&P, still looking through the crates spots, “The BROTHERS of Invention!”

“Right here,” Shane said, running through his playlist software, So I bought this. I think I paid 40-45 for it… Just kept it in the box, sitting ont he shelf. First edition he did of that a year ago went for $23 […] I got hurting for money -I had had it on Discogs for, like, 250 and a buddy of mine was getting a ot of 60-$80 records. He was like, ‘what do you want for that Savage Bluto for real? I said for real? Do you really want to buy it? Do you want to know what I paid for it?”

“I said, ‘I can get behind if for 130.’”

“He said ‘Sold.’”

“So, yeah. Spent like 50 and got back 130, and I only had it for a month.”

“You can get lucky on Bandcamp the lower -if somebody does an edition with 30 of this one, and 50 of that, and then you see 10 of a test press… but I don’t like my test presses bc they could be boring. It could be a white paper, [or] a hand painting, test press. Like, if I can get that one, that’s the one that’s gonna go up. But then it also might be the one that takes people forever to find online because so few people have got it,” Shane said.

“But that’s what I tell people to do. If you’re going to invest in it, get the lowest pressing you can find, and even then, its hit or miss. And then you gotta wait to see what the market does on it, semi-annually, all in all. But its fun to me. You can afford to do it. Sometimes it could be better than putting money in gold, in a sense.”

“Like West Side Gun is a terrible rapper, but his music sells like -but it never comes out. He sucks. He’s not good. And Mach-Hommy There’s like Mach-Hommy record on this [?] that sold for like $6,000 and $10,000. And dudes not even good,” said Shane.

“I get mad when they’re rich and I’m not for making that crap, trash rap.”

[…] “I think it should be said or noted that how little streaming pays, and how when a consumer buys or pays for a vinyl, or y’know, whatever -a cd- -I mean, cd’s will deteriorate away a little over time, because the way that you’re made- but, that last a lot longer and it makes the artist more money than Spotify paying 00003. That’s kinda why I do that. These artists and stuff, when I buy from them, they’re happy about it. they might mean going out and buying their kid more Christmas presents this year or put a good turkey in the fridge. It makes me feel good about it.”

“But that to me is more important than even the music is for why why why do it.”

“But, yeah, I’ve pulled up how many dollars per year Americans spend on records every year, which kinda hard to break down the dollar amount bc its only in Hip Hop, but it’s a lot of money, dude. And then vinyl has outsold CD’s for the last three or four years, at least.”

“But I know there’s a couple of cities -there’s one in New York that only sales -the only one that’s surviving, which is great. A larger city makes a difference, but they only sell drum and bass, house and techno,” Shane said.

–F&P: Bringin’ it all back home.

~11:00[-I showed Shane the physical, Folk & Proper Newspaper, available in The Lab front windows, which with his surprise, I took it as he just realized who I was during all this.

“So, this is a whole separate paper from the actually Pulse, it’s just put out by The Pulse? Folk & Proper? This one special edition, or is that a regular title?”

When I saw it over there, I thought it was one of those old people flea market guides, just because that word was on it [the title head]… I didn’t really. …The way it was folded… -Maybe the way the light was hitting it… It looked yellow, and I thought it was old, or something.

But, nah, I thought you were dude… Ryan said some dude called, this morning, and if it was you…. He said, ‘no this dude’s driving down from Nolensville and he likes records a lot, and I’m like, maybe dude will show up. And then when you showed up, I was like ‘are you him?’ And you’re not him.]

Shane Petty, Phonoforever, Murfreesboro’s Premeire Murfreesboro, TN-proper, curated-vintage, obscure and collectible, music pop up that can be found on instagram at Shane Petty (@phonoforever) • Instagram photos and videos, along with further details, contacts, and future announcements.

-It’s pretty cool to catch the genuine sales pitch from someone thinking you’re somebody else, for a bit, and when you think he’s gonna say one thing, he says/means another. I got to sit in the wheelchair of the guy I was interviewing on this one.

“I get a real deep feeling. It feels like my knees kinda made all a weird pain right there a little bit, like […] every once in a while, where I’ll…,” Shane continued.

“No, it’s good.”

More information on Murfreesboro Hip hop nights, Barz in the Boro, can be found online at their instagram page, Barz In The Boro (@barzintheboro) • Instagram photos and videos as well as the at Murfreesboro Pulse Concert Calendar, found at Concert Calendar – The Murfreesboro Pulse (main page, boropulse.com).

“I plan on marketing a little more once the website gets built, [and] the IRS is […] getting me my EIN number…

More information on The Laboratory, located at 25 S. Public Sq., 37130, can be found on their insta, #TheRhinovirus (@the_rhinovirus) • Instagram photos and videos with the latest news from their Facebook, Facebook/labsmokes:

Contact new Lab manager, Ryan Frizzell (of the art space, as well), at his Instagram with any questions, at his Instagram, #TheRhinovirus (@the_rhinovirus) • Instagram photos and videos(www.instagram.com/the_rhinovirus/).

The Laboratory Mixes Up Murfreesboro’s Art and Music Community. – Folk & Proper News: Since The Boro Bar & Grill closed, still located on the Greenland Dr. of our hearts, and as a Sipz goes into the old Suntrust beside it, the venue shift in Murfreesboro has been a toss in the air with Nashville’s Cobra the obvious answer for a burgeoning underground, (whom has ties with area realtist, jason Galaz through his production universe. Pretty cool. Some close and some open, and The Boro was a staple venue, believe it or not, for a little 1997 Billboard article-kinda town) when happenstance running into staple, area-Mammoth, Micah Loyed, lead of Murfreesboro metal band, Aye Mammoth, walking down Fairview, one day.