Esmi thanks for the response. I am looking it over now and from what I have grasped I was doing this but somehow made a mistake in the transfer.
I exported posts and pages from the localhost version of the new site and once I had the base theme installed on olroyrecords.com imported them. This put mostly everything into place but of course most images are linked to localhost so I have been changing those to the right directory and it seems to be working. Luckily there wasn't a huge amount of info on the old site to go through.
I will attempt to read these instructions again and see what I overlooked. Thank you!