I Love Vinyl! Recent Haul/Score/Purchase Thread (2009)

i bought, like, 600 records today. so, i'll spare you. but you go.

and if you want to stay troo to the ilm vinyl thread, um, go ahead. cut and paste or something. i don't know.

michael hurley -- hi-fi snock uptown
ty segall -- lemons LP
mi ami -- new 12"on hoss

waitin for three ORIGINAL MUSIC LP's in the mail:

the tanzania sound
songs the swahili sing
the nairobi sound

shit, spaced out on those rekkerds i told you i'd find out about. i'll give you definite info/prices tomorrow. i'll e-mail you.

made last visit to ol' faithful dance music shop before it closes, took advantage of 50% off sale. got:

colombia #1 'colombia #1'
sir drew 'fat foot'
DK7 'the difference' promo
ray mang & foolish felix 'who said boogie?'
human league 'fascination'
x-press 2 'muzik x-press' DJ pierre mixes
...couple others i've forgotten off the top of my head

possibly crucial mistake: leaving salsoul orchestra 'christmas jollies' in the rack ;__;

xp thanks!

of the records i bought for the store this is what i'm KEEPING:

druids of stonehenge (just boggles my mind how perfect this copy is. looks like the day it came out.)

sealed first merry-go-round album. gonna open it and play it tomorrow. can't resist. i heart emitt rhodes.

PRISTINE copy of one of my favorite albums of all time: it's all happening on the inside by boyce & hart. i've played this album a million times over the years and my copy is nice, but this copy is like the druids album. looks brand new!!

also got a super-clean copy of i wonder what she's doing tonite by boyce and hart. their second album. i will upgrade and sell my old copies.

pristine copy of time fades away.

awesome and also pristine don preston and the south's hot air through a straw album. 60's west coast byrds-y country-ish stuff. love it.

AND the perfect mono copy of the rainy daze album on uni. a fave of mine,

i;m also tempted to keep the simon & garfunkel vinyl boxed set i got today too. all the albums. great shape.

"human league 'fascination'"

fascination single or the fascination EP? The EP is one of my very favorite things on this planet.

12" single - has extended versh and 'improvisation' on the flip. still pretty good!

the 12 inch extended version is probably the same as the EP extended version. but what do i know. it's good any way you slice it. i like lots of human league stuff, but that EP was always my favorite thing by them. it's kinda perfect. it's really just a u.s. comp of stuff that had already come out in the u.k.

(Keep Feeling) Fascination (Extended)
Mirror Man
Hard Times
I Love You Too Much
You Remind Me Of Gold
(Keep Feeling) Fascination (Improvisation)

i love the love and dancing album too. by the League Unlimited Orchestra.

okay, enough human league talk. time for bed.

Meco "Wizard Of Oz" for a dollar
Patrick Adams Presents Phreek, also a dollar
Siouxsie "Cities In Dust" 12" $2... the B-sides compilation box set is great and all, but doesn't include the remixes. So I have been snapping these up whenever I can.
Nonesuch Explorer H-72072 (Japan Trad. Vocal & Instrumental Music)
ZZ Top Fandango
Todd Rundgren Wizard Of Mink Hollow

pretty meager weekend haul for me, just picked up a $1 copy of charles earland's 'revelation' album (jazz goes pop, jazz goes disco)

mono Rev Lonnie Farris LP on Eden.
couple of Bollywood/Tamil Soundtracks:
sookma bhopali
izhaar
vasanti maaligai

eyeing the M Squared VOD boxed set

couple sweet reissues from X records:

tyvek -- mary ellen claims 7"
v/a -- shiftless decay: new sounds of detroit

this board made me finally get off my ass and replace my needle, so I celebrated with new records!

I was in a good ol' country mood and Sally came through like I knew she would:

Jimmy Dean - The Big Ones
Conway Twitty's Greatest Hits Vol.1
Waylon Jennings - Cedartown, Georgia
Fantastic Country Vol. 1 (20 Great Stars 20 Great Hits)
The Greatest Hits of Marty Robbins
The Best of Jean Shepard

and another Tom Jones - Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow

covers are all beat, discs are in good shape. hello beer...

hey, floor-scraper, if you want country records, you should check out the dumpster next to roberto's pizza on federal street. i just spent an hour and a half inside it. thousands of records.

so, what'd you get????

i'll post what i got tomorrow.

i've literally had dreams like that. filled up the trunk of the car. going thru 'em now. head spinning...

yeah, i felt the same way. it was fun too. it's actually not my first time in a dumpster to be honest. i couldn't see how far down the records went. they went pretty far though. i was glad when i figured out that they didn't go all the way to the bottom and that they were mostly on top of old wood and carpet. i would have been there all night if i had had to dig my way to the bottom.

there were some other guys digging with me - it was a party! i was grabbing stacks without looking. the covers are moldy but most of the vinyl is mint. whoever must have brought them out right after the rain today. lots of showtunes and other junk, but lots of gems too. have a nice pile of the sealed 60s stuff. listening to an unplayed Bernstein 'Scheherazade' which sounds like Heaven on my new needle.

gotta pick out the keepers now and move the rest to the garage before the stench knocks me out...

i was pretty picky. i'm a picky dumpster diver. and, yet, like in a dream, i was all hurried and panicky, as if all of a sudden everyone on the street was gonna join me and get all the eddy arnold records i wanted.

i saw those sealed capitol promos and i kept waiting for that sealed Gandalf record to pop up. alas, not a lot of that stuff.

if you tell me that you got a sealed gandalf record i will have to shoot myself.

pics from the 80,000+ Record Bonanza in some dude in Long Beach's backyard:

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not pictured: the additional couple thousand records being stored outside. going back in a couple of weeks.

okay, i wrote down the clean good stuff i got. clean covers and vinyl or sealed. (left out other samey stuff or common stuff like talking heads records and stuff)

here, then, is my dumpster day haul:

artful dodger - babes on broadway

tim buckley - happy sad

paul & paula - we go together

eddie heywood - s/t (emarcy)

what's new pussycat soundtrack

charlie louvin - here's a toast to mama (sealed!)

village people - renaissance

the swazze sound of the zim zemarel dance band

tarney/spencer band - run for your life

russ & becky jeffers and smokey mountain sunshine

sandpipers - the wonder of you (sealed)

hustler - high street

ode to billy joe soundtrack (sealed)

skinny puppy - bites

john mayall - the diary of a band

the best of jimmy smith (verve)

jonah jones - that righteous feelin'

sam the man taylor - mist of the orient

ralph harrison - free spirit movin' (sealed)

tiger - a me name is tiger

george benson - in flight (sealed)

dickey lee - patches

mimi farina & tom jans - take heart

charlie byrd - byrdland

red stewart quintet - redhead

kim weston - for the first time

oxendale & shephard - put your money where your mouth is

the mechanics of corneal contact lenses

steel band bamboushay

the gloucester hornpipe and clog society

linda clifford - i'm yours

auscultation of the heart

rick nelson - intakes

tom paxton - 6

muddy "mississippi" water live (sweet blue sky promo)

toulouse - s/t

maxine nightingale - lead me on

david laflamme - white bird

william d. smith - smitty

eddy howard - saturday nite dance date

valdy & the hometown band - s/t

nat king cole - the very thought of you (sealed)

eddy arnold - one more time

ron carter - pick 'em

george shearing/nancy wilson - the swingin's mutual (sealed)

the rascals - see

steve miller band - your saving grace

barry mcguire - have you heard

jerry lee lewis sings the country music hall of fame hits vol.2

laughing dogs - s/t

loretta lynn & conway twitty - we only make believe

bobbie gentry - ode to billy joe

the best of cal tjader

gap mangione - suite lady

sly & robbie - rhythm killers

toyah - anthem

harrison baker - the hungry i presents the last of the well comedians

gordon lightfoot - if you could read my mind

roslyn kind - this is (very cool promo pack of roslyn kind photos and business cards and inside the pack is a sealed copy of the album. she was barbra streisand's half-sister)

midnight cowboy soundtrack

woody herman - light my fire (on cadet)

nancy wilson - a touch of today (sealed)

jack daniels original silver cornet band in concert

joe brooks and rosko - morning ( i actually have a joe brooks album AND a rosko album in the store. now i have them together!)

popular photography's sound for a picture evening

mina - la mina

west bruce laing - why dontcha

pete drake - the greatest steel guitar in the world

pepper & tanner creative sales library service (60's ad jingles! including one for the record shop!)

i'm keeping the artful dodger record and the hustler record and selling the rest.

love the hustler record!

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^^sweet. I combed out all the showtunes and Mitch Miller and have 400 or so to take another look at. I have some sealed Nancy Wilson, Al Martino, Lettermen - no obvious diamonds though. I figured out his inflated price notes are old guide quotes, poor sap. groovin' on Santana's bro then to bed:

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i'll probably swing by tomorrow morn if it doesn't rain.

i was thinking the same thing. we could have breakfast on the dumpster.

My most recent pile. (Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts LP was the biggest surprise on here, I think):

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

hey, floor-scraper, if you want country records, you should check out the dumpster next to roberto's pizza on federal street. i just spent an hour and a half inside it. thousands of records.

when does this ever happen in the real world!?

more than you would think! I got my entire collection of 78's this way.

Ray Coniff: S&D

i'm having fun opening up sealed eddie heywood and billy vaughan records and playing them.

my brother tells me that there used to be an old pressing plant in Pittsfield and that they pressed stuff for Capitol. it's all coming together...

joe sixpack was taking home the freebies.

Scott, do you ever feel guilty taking the shrinkwrap off of old cheap sealed LPs? Because I know I do -- especially if I think I might not end up wanting to keep them. I've got a couple that have been sitting around here sealed forever (like, one from Juice Newton's pre-stardom Silver Spur Band, and a couple late '80s local-label D.C. go-go albums by bands like EU), and they might not even be worth anything.

you know what, i used to feel like that too and now i just enjoy life and rip them open. it's like christmas! and i love looking at a pristine old record and hearing how it sounds. they were made to be enjoyed.

(though i'm not crazy. some records are gonna be worth a helluva lot more sealed than not sealed.)

found a majestically clean copy of Music for Airports today for like $8! also a pretty good copy of Eric Carmen's second album.

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ebay AU$15 inc postage eh/

all 'VG+ to Mint'

I went ahead and impulse bought them coz I was miffed I got sniped on 5 Sutherland Bros lps from the same seller ;__;

got the first chad's tree album today for $35.. not a bargain but since i've never seen it for under $75 it felt like one

$1 LPs today:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

black sabbath - sabotage
led zeppelin - physical graffiti
bob james - the genie
buck owens - before you go

The Wolfetones - Teddy Bear's Head
The Wolfetones - Rifles of the IRA
The Clancy Brother and Tommy Makem - The rising of the moon
Danny Doyle - Raised on Song and Stories

I think the local AOH must have made a donation the friends of the library bookstore.

oh man, that wolfetones "rifles of the ira" record is a fave!

3 dollar records today:

deep purple - who do we think we are?
rita coolidge - s/t

and a self-titled album by this band called country, about whom i know nothing. maybe one of y'all have heard?

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used to have that country album years ago. but way before my country rock epiphany so i got rid of it years ago too. probably love it now.

Wknd haul, all <= $1

Allen Robin & friends - Thank You, Mr. President (pol. com., jokes about famous Cali Gov Ron Regan)

John Mayall - Jazz Blues Fusion

Urian Heep - Demons And Wizards

Booker T. And the M.G.s - Soul Limbo

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - HI-TECH FX (nice and clean, i just about died when I saw this, it will probably be my purchase of the year)

Bar-Kays - As One

Instant Funk - s/t

Kay-Gees's - Kilowatt

Prince - Sign "☮" The Times

Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C. - Love Byrd

Peedi Crakk feat. Freeway - Fall Back 12"

Snoop Dogg - Selections from Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$

The Blackbyrds - Flying Start

The Joneses - Keeping Up With The Joneses

George Duke - Master Of The Game

The Last Poets - s/t (cover is kinda thrashed, but plays OK)

Jacques Brel - La Chanson Francaise 2

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra - Prevailing Airs

Pam Tims - Pre-School Fitness (I am a sucker for anything on Melody House, this one doesen't have any breaks like the Sharon Lucky LPs but there is a track called "Breathe Deep" that is Dilla bait)

Win Stracke - Johnny Reb & Billy Yank Sing Songs of The War Between The States

Joey Singer, The Quartones, and the Fraternity Chorus - Required Singing for a) College Students b) Boy Scouts c) Bank Presidents d) Pajama Parties e) Grandmothers, and f) The Man In The Street

Shirley Bassey - The Bewitching Miss Bassey

Steve Barri, Norm Ratner, and Fred Finn - The Now Sound of Mickie Finn's

The Concrete Cowboy Band - s/t

Denise La Salle - On The Loose (sealed)

cool stuff! wait, are you me? no, wait, i'm me. i got confused for a second there...

only cuz it kinda sums up my brain in one record haul.

grouper -- dragging a dead deer up a hill
don cherry/latif khan -- music/sangam
alice cooper -- easy action (reissue)

i just won on ebay--
v/a - banjo pickin gal (rounder records)
the original carolina tar heels (old homestead records)

and i won a few weeks ago and am waiting for two LPs on Yazoo--
joe venuti - violin jazz
the young big bill broonzy

joe venuti - violin jazz

good stuff

i have the Venuti/Lang box set on Mosaic. but it is CD :( ( i think tbat was from aftet they stopped pressing LPs. which was a total bummer event in the history of the universe)

I'm jumping up and down about one I just won!

I'm not saying until it's in, but HEY!

there's sooooo much venuti/lang stuff out there. i'd passed up the yazoo lp before cuz it was too pricey, but the copy i won was only $6, so i figure what the hell let's do it.

Here's a small sampling of the dumpster records now piled up in front of the stereo. I kept about 500 LPs from my haul (mostly easy-listening) put out the rest in our tag sale, sold a few and took the rest to Salvation Army.

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Hot Chocolate - Cicero Park

New Riders of the Purple Sage - The Adventures of Panama Red

Malo - Evolution

Chuck Berry - Best of

Chuck Berry - London Sessions

George Benson - Weekend in L.A. (sealed)

Tomita - Greatest Hits

Jose Feliciano - Feliciano!

Gilda Radner - Live in New York

Joan Baez - Joan Baez

Michael Murphey - Geronimo's Cadillac

Pete Seeger - How to Play the 5-String Banjo

Pete Seeger - Freight Train

Four Freshmen - Voices in Modern

Mahalia Jackson - Great Songs of Love and Faith

Count Basie - Straight Ahead

Adrian Belew - Desire Caught By The Tail

Loggins & Messina - Native Sons

Spike Jones - Washington Square

Josie Cotton - Convertible Music

Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On

The Sonny Side of Cher

Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

the weirdest one (which i didn't keep) was a 2-record set of Harry Chapin doing radio spots for Social Security called "Keep the Change". One of his songs would play, then he'd rap about SocSec benefits like how widows can collect or how to file for disability insurance. hip, strange but a total snoozer...

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Finally found (and won!) Ariel Pink's 'My Molly' 7" (ltd. to 1000 numbered copies) on eBay, got it in the mail yesterday! *happy*

I got "Green Mind" Dinosaur Jr, and "Every good boy" Mudhoney, both mint, both £3, not bad!

Picked up the Freedom Rock 4 LP set from a thrift shop for one dollar!

got my chariot album in the mail today. woo hoo! my kinda rock action. another record i never could have afforded 5 or 6 years ago that goes for cheap now.

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hi.

another copy of Panama Red - NRPS over here!

also...
Wheatstraw Suite (promo copy) - The Dillards
Ganglians l.p
No Tomorrow (7") - Desolation Wilderness
Storm/Love's Dart (7") - Django Django
Her Jazz (7") - Huggy Bear
Blessed/Summer Things (tour 7") - Tyvek
Fake Blues (UK 7") - Real Estate

i need to go back and pick up a couple of Michael Nesmith lps a friend is keeping aside for me.

slow day at the office = lunch in berkeley at amoeba and rasputin:

bohannon -- s/t (wahhhhh so good so far)
bohannon -- cut loose
braxton/teitelbaum -- time zones (favorite of mine; moog+braxton)
walcott/cherry/vasconcelos -- codona 3 (codona 2 rules so ok)
little annie -- short and sweet (on-u sound, might be for resale, unless it's great)
ornette coleman -- ornette at 12 (DENAAAAARDOOOOO)
popol vuh -- brüder des schattens - söhne des lichts ($40, but i cant turn down a sweet PV rec in good shape...)
four explorer series LPs:
the african mbira vol1 (i have vol2, which rules)
javanese court gamelan vol1 (i also have vol2 of this (from you), which also rules)
the jasmine isle - javanese gamelan music (never heard this one, even on CD)
golden rain - balinese gamelan music (amazing. possibly my favorite explorer LP with the possible exception of hamza el din's escalay)

under $150 including the popol vuh splurge -- not a bad lil lunch-break!

my fave popol vuh <3

nachtmystium - demise
roosevelt sykes - country blues piano ace (or somesuch--yazoo LP)
jorge ben - samba esquema novo

poco - deliverin'
poco - crazy eyes
poco - cantamos
astrud gilberto - i haven't got anything better to do
black sabbath - vol. 4

garage sales this morning

Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head
Geoffery Chandler - Starscapes (new age w/Moog from 1980)
Altered Images - Pinky Blue
Bouzoukee: The Music Of Greece (Nonesuch Explorer series)
six of these cool environmental records in a series I was not familiar with ("Solitudes").

perfect condition copies of Back In Black and Led Zep IV for free.

Today from Everyday Music

Felt - Ignite The Seven Cannons
REM - Chronic Town
The Gun Club - Miami

just now thru Craiglist, down the street, I got the first four White Stripes LPs for $5 each. They need to be cleaned, but I'm still pretty happy.

sftri?

six of these cool environmental records in a series I was not familiar with ("Solitudes").

What do you think of these? The ones I have heard have been really boring imo (but still better than really boring emo). They are almost cool in a lol70s those hippies will smoke to anything exploito sense.

I got a Swamp Dogg 45 for a quarter this morning, plus some other stuff.

Picked up the Bob Frank album at ian's store. Thank you, Vanguard thread.

Today:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

omar: no, not SFTRI editions, these are V2.

los blue jeans: haven't listened yet but I use environmental records to back other stuff while DJ-ing, so they don't really need to stand on their own. I was intrigued by many of their recording locations, and they were in great shape for a quarter each, so...

First record store excursion in DC area (at Record & Tape Exchange in Fairfax, nice staff):

Pylon - Gyrate
OMD - S/T
Roxy Music - Country Life (missing boobs on cover)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - S/T (uhhh, I never knew there was singing on "Tong Poo"! I had only heard material from this album on best of's and mixtapes, and the singing on the original version makes it one of my fav YMO songs now)
R.E.M. - Chronic Town
Microstoria - Reprovisers (just the record with Stereolab/Endless Summer and Oval/Microstoria Runtime Engine)
Altered Images - Pinky Blue
Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo
Devo - Duty Now for the Future
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Neil Young - Journey Through the Past Soundtrack
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
Bob Marley - Live!
Bob Marley - Confrontation (if anyone ever illustrates me posthumously as a warrior riding a white horse, jousting an evil dragon, I will have known that my life was relatively successful)
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
Grateful Dead - Dead Set
Grateful Dead - S/T
Grateful Dead - S/T (Skull & Roses live one)
Ramsey Lewis Trio - The In Crowd

Grateful Dead - S/T (Skull & Roses live one

and also,
if anyone ever illustrates me posthumously as a warrior riding a white horse, jousting an evil dragon, I will have known that my life was relatively successful

OTM.

even for the V2 editions that's a solid deal, i think those might be oop at this point also

cool, good to know. I'm gonna give them the full soft-brush cleaning treatment today, not much grime besides fingerprints.

Peter Tosh's Equal Rights is such a fucking awesome record.

really awesome record shopping today

king crimson - red
phil lynott - solo in soho
shangri-la's - golden hits
kid creole - wise guy
brass construction - s/t
enchantment - utopia
odyssey - s/t
coil - love's secret domain
todd rundgren - something/anything?
klein & mbo - dirty talk lp
klf - what time is love remix (lol) test pressing

everything was $3 or under, except for the k crimson, which was $7

actually fuck a lol that klf record is awesome

"coil - love's secret domain"

$3 dollars or under for this???? sweeeeeeeeet.

went to some old couple's house today cuz they had an ad in the paper for "records - classical to country - 10 cents each". so cute. got 20 records, but i gave them FOUR dollars instead of two cuz i'm such a nice guy. everything they had was super-clean and most of it in the shrink. plus, almost every record had multiple library of congress cards inside of them as well as the local community college's library i.d. slips. but no unsightly college library markings or tags on the covers. clean as a whistle.

anyway, nothing mind-blowing, but a fun mix for four bucks. all original pressings for the most part:

mahler - kindertotenlieder/lieder eines fahrenden gesellen - flagstad/boult (london ffss)

brubeck and rushing - dave brubeck quartet f. jimmy rushing

henry mancini - the party soundtrack (lotsa fun! minty rca stereo)

mary hopkin - post card

turk murphy - new orleans jazz festival

john gary - john gary sings, john gary swings

nat king cole trio ( nice capitol reissue of ballads. beautiful copy.)

frank sinatra - i remember tommy...

flatt and scruggs at carnegie hall (pristine 360 sound stereo promo copy)

harry belafonte - sings of love (sealed)

margaret whiting - past midnight

tammy grimes - the unmistakable tammy grimes (might as well be sealed. never been played. also a promo.)

roger miller - the 3rd time around

roger miller - dang me

elvis presley's golden hits sung by big ross and the memphis sound (pickwick thing)

patsy cline - showcase (sweet clean decca mono)

john gary - sings your all-time country favorites (sealed)

great original recordings by the carter family (harmony/columbia pressing from 1963. also a promo.)

waring's pennsylvanians (rca purple label vintage series)

lil' abner broadway soundtrack

happy time broadway soundtrack

the husband said when i got there that all they had was real music and no rock. and he asked me if i had a good victrola to play them on.

xp - yeah i got it for two bucks! it was a real "light shining from on high"-type moment.

cdepot?

cd game!

bought a bunch of records at yard sales and a couple second hand stores this weekend:

louis armstrong - some 'giants of jazz' 3 lp set

cameo - cameosis (so awesome, listened to it twice yesterday)

staple singers - pass it on (more forgettable than 'let's do it again' but good)

sheila e - romance 1600

some other stuff i forget

more yesterday:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

mostly cheap:

rolling stones - through the past, darkly
van morrison - st. dominic's preview
ccr - cosmo's factory
paul kantner - blows against the empire
bob dylan - new morning
paul mccartney - mccartney ii
magik markers - feel the crayon
crazy horse - s/t

trade for books at John Doe Jr. -

The Harder They Come OST
Rod McKuen - Live at Carnegie Hall
New Riders of the Purple Sage - s/t
Bubba - ...And Then Came
Nilsson - Schmilsson
Paul Katner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg - Baron von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Pure Prairie League - Bustin' Out
Music of The Austrian Alps (Capitol of the World)
and
Poco - Crazy Eyes
Poco - Head Over Heels

looooove the s/t new riders record.

Sisters Of Mercy - Alice/Floorshow 7"
Royal Trux - Shockwave Rider 7"
Royal Trux - Back To School 7"

$3 each!

Every week I go to this store and I think they must be so busy flipping Xbox games or whatever that they don't even bother pricing their vinyl.

farewell dc record haul ;_;

everything was between ten and twenty five cents!!!! :D

sexual harassment - i need a freak promo LP
komiko - feel all right 12"
nj connection - love don't come easy 12"
nick straker band - s/t promo LP
musique - keep on jumpin LP
womack & womack - love wars 12", teardrops 12"
tantra - double LP
class action - weekend 12"
usa-european connection - s/t promo LP
brooklyn express - sixty-nine/change position 12"
l'amour - let's make love tonight promo 12"
so be it - the kidd promo 12"
laid back - keep smilin lp

only 1 record this weekend thus far, the 'string of pearls' comp

joe cocker - sheffield steel
material - i'm the one/don't lose control 12"
was (not was) - s/t
fela + afrika 70 - zombie
patrick cowley - menergy 12"
patrick cowley - mind warp
herb alpert - beyond
sade - stronger than prode
sade - promise
sade - diamond life
v/a - kza 'stocks on deck' sampler 12"
peter jacques band - welcome back
john foxx - metamatic
the dream academy - s/t
songs of the humpback whale vol. 1
jon + vangelis - the friends of mr. cairo
dennis parker - like an eagle
the human league - fascination
ann marie - with or without you 12"
instant funk - got my mind made up 12"
fern kinney - groove me 12"
the trammps - mixin' it up
jan hammer - escape from television
fleetwood mac - tango in the night
bohannon - cut loose
gq - disco nights
cristina - things fall apart/what's a girl to do 12"
laurie anderson - big science
musical youth - youth of today 12"

all for $6 or less except for 'mind warp' which was $12 but totally worth it

^^^ KUSF record swap?

eric dolphy and ron carter - magic
fairport convention - heyday: bbc sessions
fairport convention - full house

no i had a looong couple of days of record digging all around the bay so i was hoping to save money and get some sleep (i hear you have to get there fuckn EARLY for the good stuff). were you there 69?

Alexander Spence - "Oar" - Original issue, £50

yeah i was workin/shoppin there

i got the following:
bo hansson -- attic thoughts
cecil taylor -- unti structures
mclaughlin/surman -- where fortune smiles
the suicide commandos make a record
nico -- the end (for gf)
the world of harry partch
marion brown -- afternoon of a georgia faun
steve tibbetts -- safe journey
edgar froese -- aqua
canned heat -- s/t
first country joe & the fish record
john coltrane -- ascension
don cherry -- brown rice (for pretzel walrus)
roosevelt sykes -- 1929-32 (yazoo)
the white stripes -- elephant

on saturday in san jose (space cat and streetlight records):
yoko ono -- fly (nice copy for pretty cheap!)
rolling stones -- out of our heads (mono)
incredible string band -- wee tam
something elsssssse i forget

love that Suicide Commandos record

more good stuff today, used/clean/cheap

The Four Tops - Changing Times
Kool & The Gang - The Force
Marvin Gaye - Live At The London Palladium (this looks AWESOME)
Kraut - An Adjustment To Society reissue
Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain EP
Buffalo Springfield - 1st
K-Tel "Fresh Rap" comp, also looks good
Waitresses - I Could Rule The World...

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went to visit ian yesterday

Ofege - Try and Love <-- cool Nigerian psych record that Ac4d3my reissued, they have one great track on that Ghana Soundz comp.
Charley D and Milo - s/t <-- picked this up b/c of skot and ian's enthusiasm for it on other threads
Freeez - One on One 12"
Bohannon - Gittin' Off
Beatnuts - Intoxicated Demons EP

went there with the idea that I was gonna splurge on some expensive krautrock record or something, since I had some birthday money to spend ... they had some great stuff on the wall like always but I just can't get myself to pull the trigger on things like that! too many good $5 and $10 records worth having.

today: all 3 volumes of 'the billie holiday story' on columbia

From the quid bins at Rooster records in Exeter:

Winston Francis "California Dreaming" (Bamboo LP) - (this was a real find, never seen a copy before. Studio One produced pop-reggae from the v early 70s, top drawer)
Catherine Howe - Dragonfly Daze (haven't listened to this yet, looks dodgy as hell and is from 1979 but you never know, eh, and I liked that reissue from the other year well enough)
Edwyn Collins - My Beloved Girl 12" (I gave my copy of the box set 7" away twenty-odd years ago and it was nice to ehar it again but now I know why I can't remember anything about the song. Always interesting to hear how indie stars dealt with the mid-80s 12" extended mix thing) (which is to say, badly).
Edwyn Collins and Paul Quinn - Pale Blue Eyes (a duplicate copy of a record I love, someone will want it, sometime)
The Sandpipers - Spanish Album (this is no better than I expected, which is to say it has a tiny handful of goodies. I bet they made much better LPs than this but I can't bear to pay more than one pound for any of them and in the quid bins they're usually completely knackered, and I wanted to actually hear a Sandpipers LP. I am certain to be playing the version of Louie Louie at the Hangover Lounge before long, and this will drive my lovely wife very crazy.)

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for two bucks
and a bunch of other stuff; new mississippi, nite jewel single &:

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recently in the mail:

Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This to you... lp
Meth Teeth - Everything Went Wrong lp (so good!)
Wounded Lion - Carol Cloud/Pony People 7"
Pumice - Persevere 7"
Cecil Barfield - South Georgia Blues lp
v/a - String of Pearls lp

psyched to hear that meth teeth LP!

sylvester - call me
klaatu - klaatu (five bucks!)
deodato & airto - in concert

Various - Disparate Cognescenti - some Mark E Smith compilation from the 80's

Searching For The Now 5 + 6 Slumberland 45's

blues control - local flavor
jimmy castor bunch - it's just begun
a mountain of one - bonnie and clyde

Picked up cool stuff at SJ Streetlight over the weekend. dB's, Magazine, Cerrone, Eno/Fripp (replacing my kinda scratchy copy of 'No Pussyfooting'), etc.
But the standout is Hawkwind's 'Choose Your Own Masques' for $10. Can't remember which track it is (maybe 'Void City') but it's an awesome pulsing synth epic w/vocoders.

wait what's Space Cat in San Jose like?

so chill. tons of comics, tons of LPs. requires digging through some garbage-records, but i got some cool stuff. incredible string band's WEE TAM in perfect shape. tim hardin 4 in nice shape. umm, other things, too?

good to know. I'll check it out next time I'm down there

thought i bought $136 dollars worth of vinyl last night, but it was all a dream. honestly i was a little relieved when i woke up.

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Vinyl pressing of The Caretaker's magnificent Persistent Repetition of Phrases of last year. It came out in an edition of 400 this week. Looks (and sounds!) amazing.

Next stop will be his THREE DOUBLE LP'S released simultaneously under the new Leyland Kirby moniker. This guy makes me so happy I want to cry.

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Let me try that again..

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how is that?

Someone dumped a huge pile of 45s (my favorite format) most of them in great condition and STILL IN THEIR JACKETS, at my local thrift. Maybe they were from an old jukebox or something. A bunch of lesser known sixties pop and soul, also a favorite category of mine.

bohannon - gittin off (not my favorite, but rad)
cecil taylor - nefertiti the beautiful one has come
sarangi explorer series LP
north indian vocal music explorer series LP
robbie basho - venus in cancer (lil poppy, but for pretty cheap)

also found a "mint" original tony thomas fiddle LP on takoma for $20 - i can only find it on gemm for $52.50 in G/VG shape, so im thinking i should go back and buy it tomorrow? if i dont like it, ian will. if ian doent like it, maybe ebay will.

Today (33 LPs for $28):

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

serendipitous trip to the small, generally useless for anything other than ok jazz vinyl record store nearest to me, going on a hunch to search specifically for the creedence royal albert hall LP. found it for $4.

sweet!

i went to baltimore and got:
TFUL 282- I hope it lands
Steve Hillage- Rainbow Dome Musick

non-scratched beach boys Sunflower (apparently bought from ashtray navigations guy on ebay)
F Mac mystery to me

u like Mystery to Me? one of my fave albs of all time

yeah it's great, dubious artwork tho

is that steve hillage album easy to find? i love the mp3s i've heard

idk, it was the first time i had ever seen it, so i bought it.

I've seen it one or two times, generally between $5-$10. I keep running across a lot of Steve Hillage records though. I see "L" all over the place.

One or two times in addition to the time I bought it, that is.

i'll keep an eye out. picked these two up today...

brian eno/jon hassell - possible musics
clara mondshine - memorymetropolis

i'd only heard a couple mondshine tracks before i found the full-length but it is great!

cerrone - love in c minor lp
delilah - dancing in the fire lp
shalamar - right in the socket 12"
fern kinney - ive been lonely for so long 12"
bohannon - summertime groove lp (at long last \(^o^)/)

couple of $1 pickups:

deodato - whirlwinds
gerry mulligan quartet - what is there to say?

me to an old codger at the flea market: how much are the records?

old codger: they're all different. some are a dollar and some are 90 dollars!

me thinking: *hoo boy, i've got a live one*

i go through them. mostly crap. wondering what the 90 dollar records could possibly be. do see a decent fabian album. i eyeball the second stack and i have a paranormal moment. the day before, saturday, i thought to myself: gee, i wish i had bought that miss butters album i saw at mystery train a couple of months ago. why i thought of it then i have no idea. but this old codger had a copy! clean! in the shrink!

i hold it up and say to him: how much for this?

old codger laughs and says: haha, you don't want to know! that record sells for a lot of money! do you do ebay?

i lie: nah, not really. i buy stuff on ebay.

old codger: that record sells for almost a hundred dollars! (apparently i've found the 90 dollar record.)

me: i think i've seen it for ten dollars before. i'll give you ten.

then - get this - i hold up a decent - if a bit scratched - mono copy of psychotic reaction by the count five and i say: how much for this?

old codger: oh, that's five dollars. (!!!)

so i hold them both for a minute and look at them and then he says: i'll give you both for 20.

i say: sold!

despite some scratches, the count five album plays nicely. i'll sell it in the store for 20. which means that i got my miss butters record for free. or that's how i like to look at it anyway.

Mulatu Astatke - 10" on Soundway
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band - Inter-Reformers A Tunde lp
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book lp
Ides of March - Vehicle lp

couple of nice new 45s in the mail by melodie du kronk (their lp from last year kicked total ass) and spoono, and a clear vinyl single by the vivians with a lovely sleeve

I was scrounging around in an Antiques mall yesterday, found a booth with some records.

I was flipping through a bunch of 70s and 80s rock, nothing to really get excited about and then I start finding these Japanese records. I found like three Ryuichi Sakamoto records, mint Japanese versions with the Obi. It was a really thoroughly bizarre experience.

I'm still trying to figure out how those records ended up in a small town in Central Wisconsin.

it's a beautiful thing, isn't it?

I left a lot of stuff behind too.

I'm going to have to drive out there again next weekend, maybe try and get some contact information for the seller. Records were all reasonably priced, definitely lower than Ebay value though. Bizarrely he had a lot of early 90s Masters at Work records too.

there's a guy around here who sells off parts of his (must be supermassive) collection on the street every weekend, good records for cheap. i got the Gap Band IV for $3, will go back for a bunch of other stuff.

just got leo kottke's first record in the mail. not as good as circle round the sun, maybe, but still rad!

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How much did you have to pay for the Kottke?

Found a copy of this in beautiful nick in a junk shop on my way to DJ on Sunday, for three pounds: http://cot.priceminister.com/photo/835603566_L.jpg (uh it's a copy of the "Tous Les Oiseaux Tous Les Bateau in La Maison Vide" double LP by Michel Polnareff.

Which is not a super amazing find and I'm not even that big a fan of MP but it was pleasing, and it is pretty, and it was for not much money. Then I left it behind in the DJ booth. No confirmation yet whether anyone had rescued it for me. Boo.

How much did you have to pay for the Kottke?

― Plunge Protection Team, Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

30 bucks in v v nice shape

which is what its been goin for on ebay recently, so not a steal or anything...

oblivians - six of the best 10"
oblivians - never enough 10"
the caretaker - persistent repetition of phrases (gave him a listen after le batreau's post and he's exactly my cup o'tea, ordered the lp, thx bro)

huh. I recall that the Kottke routinely went for $100 or so. I don't think there was ever a reissue. Wonder what happened? THE ECONOMY??

Omar Little that is effing great! :-) Can't spread the love for The Caretaker enough!

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^ the Have A Nice Life lp comes with a nice book as well. Also has a different cover than the image shown

Been looking for a copy of Toulouse's "The Way the City Stretches" for years... like ten years! Was checking Parasol's website the other night to see if Vitesse's first album was back in print yet, and the search brought up "The Way the City Stretches" in the bargain bin for $2 new! $2 for the record and $7.50 to ship it, heh.

Holger Hiller - A Bunch of Foulness in the Pit
MOXY II
Honegger - Symphonies 2 & 3
Ariel Pink - Oddities Sodomies
Flipper - Generic Single 10"
Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted
Boogie Tunes 2

Latest haul

Breeders - Last Splash LP
MGMT - Kids 12"
Flowers - Icehouse LP
Peter Gabriel - So LP
Scars - Author Author LP
Steve Miller Band - Circle of Life LP
Thank God It's Friday OST 3LP
Sade - Diamond Life LP
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes LP
The XX - Basic Space 7"

Flipper - Generic Single 10"

what is this?

I had a good day today, got Bohannon's Let's Start The Dance for $3 and Kim Fowley's Sunset Boulevard for $10 (with inner sleeve, I have never even seen this LP before).

I got three Cajun records on Arhoolie today. Two comps and one LP devoted to the Hackberry Ramblers.

hey Sleeve...
the Flipper 10" is actually the Sex Bomb single. it's not really called 'Generic Single', is it? sorry for teh n00b. limited press of 300 on Domino.

an average bank holiday haul in Norwich and Greenwich.

steel pulse - handsworth revolution
leo kottke - s/t (76)
v.a - african scream contest 2xlp
george jones - (a kind of best of vol. 1 or somesuch)
u roy - dread ina babylon

might head up to a service station in Wangford tomorrow - according to record collector they have a stock of used lps and 45s.

Went to pick up the new Yo La Tengo. While browsing I found a copy of Neil Young's Time Fades Away for ten bucks. Hooray!!!!

Steve Miller Band - Circle of Life LP

Macho City!!

i don't know what to price this john davis album on shrimper. the dude from folk implosion. does anyone even care about his records?

I don't think so, I'd go for maybe $6 or $8?

$7 it is!

Went to my local record shop today and picked up Steven R. Smith "Cities" and a Blind Willie Johnson comp entitled "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down".

The Steven R Smith LP is very lovely indeed. A friend recommended it; I must investigate him further. Blind Willie Johnson I bought because I love old blues, and it had the song City of Refuge on it. Will get to know it better in the coming days.

The Blind Willie Johnson material is some stellar stuff. One of my fave singers--such a voice.

The Blind Willie Johnson is great. Amazing contrasts in his voice, between gruff and smooth.

aw man I was in a Goodwill in Charlottesville Virginia today and there were like 20 super minty early 80's metal records but I am flying and can't take much. I settled on the first Pantera LP from 1983 and a Gotham City (Swedish metal band) EP. $1 total. Total eBay fodder.

also got:
Joan Jett LP with "Fake Friends"
John Hartford's Aeroplane LP
a Patrick Cowley/Sylvester 12"
The Temptations "1990" LP, wow this is great and I have never heard any of it, Norman Whitfield is a god.
German Arista pressing of Shriekback's Oil And Gold w/different cover.

i was tempted by a lot of stuff at a record store today, but i'm trying to save $$$ so i just settled on a $5 copy of 'will the circle be unbroken'.

Traded in a bunch of books for these:

Mose Allison - The Best Of lp
Scrawl - Smallmouth lp
v/a - Bubble Gum Music Is The Naked Truth lp

wow I never knew the Bubblegum book had a companion LP! must search.

I didn't either -- or rather, the book seems to have been named after the lp put out by Buddha in 1969. It has a bunch of their usual suspects on it plus Shadows of Knight's "Shake" (which I didn't realize was considered bubble gum).

polvo -- in prism (OMG i couldnt be happier)
hamza el din -- escalay/the water wheel
hamza el din -- song of the nile (en route via ebay)
epsilons -- s/t
kraftwerk -- s/t
kraftwerk -- slow to speak 12"
don cherry -- slow to speak 12"
don cherry/jon appleton -- human music
charley d and milo -- s/t (for 2.99, ill give this one another try)
sandy bull -- demolition derby (en route via ebay)

here some recent online purchases over the last 2 weeks.

dorothy carter- waillee waillee
leo farre- avec le temps
x models- hemligheter
musique noise- fulmines regularis
zint group- curve and crane
missa bantu- mass sung by congolese sisters of katana
tobie lurie- word music
etron fou leloublan- les sillons de la terre
virgule iv- des accordes d'accord

missa bantu- mass sung by congolese sisters of katana

how is this? sounds cooool

hasn't come yet but i think it was part of the same phillips connoisseur series as missa luba though, and i loved that, so i thought i would give this a shot too.

i LOVE that dorothy carter record. better than the other one imo, though they're both good.

gah, finally got a copy of Africa Dances off ebay.

damn dogg nice price too!

yeah, for real! i was genuinely surprised to not be outbid in the last few minutes.

poco - pickin' up the pieces ($1)
billie holiday - solitude

going back to amoeba tonight to pick up the 4-lp 'live at the boston tea party' set by fleetwood mac

wow, is that a new reissue? the tea party gig? i used to have the old british one album comp on vinyl. and, to be honest, my CDs are fine and i probably don't need to spend the money on a vinyl set. definitely one of my top ten live things ever.

check it

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wow that looks awesome!

from GROOVES in SF (awesome store, rad owner), soon to appear on my turntable:
celtic/gaelic music LP on ocora
klaus schulze -- dune
double fantasy -- universal ave.
richard thompson -- henry the human fly
bley/peacock/altschul -- japan suite
pharoah sanders -- wisdom through music
anton karas -- third man sdtrk
tim cohen -- the two sides of tim cohen

ooh some nice new age there! I really dig that double fantasy.
need to go back to grooves sometime again soon...

Well my record shopping in NYC recently was curtailed somewhat by getting a call wafting the possibility of job-loss fairly soon. Surprising how that'll turn "OMG I've gotta buy that" into "hmm maybe not..."!

Anyway I bought this, which is tremendous, in parts (despite looking like an ultimately disappointing easy listening LP AND a rubbishy vocal jazz LP, it's a decent grown-up southern soul record. I can't believe I now own three Tamilo Jones records but what are you gonna do?)
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and these two which I've yet to get to grips with properly:

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(Boo, the latter is the Don Cooper s/t on Roulette.)

picked up that fleetwood mac boston tea party set. dope, of course, though the packaging is maybe a little flimsy and the liner notes are just stolen from the allmusic.com review of the cd releases w/o giving credit, haha. anyway, cool art and awesome music.

also:

tom scott - new york connection (bob james, hugh mccracken, among others backing him up...good late-'70s steely dan vibe to some of the tracks)

today for $3 each

The Cure - Quadpus
Siouxsie - Peekaboo 12" (interesting how all these remix versions are still vinyl-only)
The Smiths - William It Was Really Nothing 12"

Two weeks ago @ $0.99 each:

The Electrosoniks(Tom Dissevelt) - Electronic Music
Gassman - Electronic Music for the ballet "Electronics" b/w Sala - Five Improvisations on Magnetic Tape
Wilson Simonal - Alegria, Alegria Vol 3.
Afric Simone S/T (Polish pressing)
Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs
Ennio Morricone - Marco Polo OST
Ennio Morricone - Moses OST

Today @ $1.50:

The Fifth Dimension - Earthbound

i rode my bike down to the closest record store to where i live, which happens to be a "collector's" store, like they get a lot of good shit but really overprice it and there's nothing that slips in that's unknown b/c these guys know their shit (except they have good bargains on jazz and blues vinyl, for the most part.) anyway i finally tracked down a copy of 'bluff city' by the compulsive gamblers on sftri. of course it was $40 and of course i just had a brief e-mail correspondence with long gone john (started to ask him about other reissues beyond the reigning sound debut, the oblivians 10" records, and some others which just came out) in which he asked me which sftri i wanted to see reissued. i told him the compulsive gamblers were at the top of my list, so as luck will have it they'll come out for $14 in a couple of months. whatever, this was one of my two or three 'grail' lps. kept losing out for it on ebay too.

I've hardly bought anything recently, just a System Shit 7" at a Terveet Kadet gig, and today we went round a charity shop and I found a double-LP best of The Equals for 99p.

45s i bought today:

2 versions of a single by Metelica, Train/Time And Time Again. (early 70's rock. Michael Metelica was the guru behind the Spirit & Flesh commune here in Greenfield. B-side is great dreamy stuff.)

Feeling Harty by Papa Tarzan/Nigger by Kojack All Stars (On Nigger Kojack Records. Nigger is the insane dub of Feeling Harty.)

albert king - i'll play the blues for you/angel of mercy (stax)

2 cameo copies of 96 tears/midnight hour by ?

albert king - breaking up somebody's home/that's what the blues is all about (stax)

dean and jean - hey jean, hey dean (let's have a party)/please don't tell me now (on rust records. they were the ween of their day.)

donovan - atlantis/to susan on the west coast waiting

barbarians - moulty/i'll keep on seeing you

bill wendry & the boss tweeds - fire/a wristband watch (on columbia. such a great psych/garage single. not the cleanest copy, unfortunately, but what are you gonna do.)

radiohead - black star/high and dry (for jukeboxes only!)

bobby rio - show a little kindness/what's his name just died (on Love 'n Peace Records.)

vanilla fudge - season of the witch part 1/part 2

swingin' medallions - i found a rainbow/don't cry no more

free fare - purple heart/put myself together

barbara markay - it's all rite to fuck all night/it's all rite to truck all night (censored and uncensored disco single by the female lenny bruce.)

kindergarden song/doughnut song (heelarious dirty party rekkerd. okay, not really.)

bob daveys - dearest daughter/fonzie for president

filthy mcnasty - the garden song (x rated records)

johnnie white - two old maids part 1/part 2

tim adams - satan's hotline part 1/part 2

crow - evil woman don't play your games with me/gonna leave a mark

the emotions - i call this loving you/put a little love away

bobby b. baker - take your oil and shove it/it's just about time

bloodstone - outside woman/dumb dude

dan siegel - bad habit/friday (cool funky jazzy single on inner city from 1980)

you'll never guess what i found today!

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okay, i guess the picture gives it away...

Wow! That's now yours?

A reasonably small haul for me this week:

Wolves in the Throne Room -- Black Cascade

and

Sugar Minott at Studio One (Soul Jazz)

Still meaning to pick up the latest David Sylvian and disappointed that he doesn't do vinyl.

funny find, scot!

i enjoyed black cascade but i've never heard any of their other work, so i dunno how it compares. definitely interested in hearing two hunters & diadem of 12 stars now, though.

Consensus seems to be that Two Hunters is their best, tho I haven't picked it up yet. Black Cascade is a little more straight and conventional than Diadem (not sure which adjectives to use here), a little less varied. Beefier in sound. I'm only getting into it, but liking it so far alright.

"Wow! That's now yours?"

not that copy, but, you know, same single. NOT minty or anything, but very playable. sounds amazing. i still don't even have the death comp!

i got other good stuff today too. i'll post later, maybe.

this last week...

cat stevens - izitso
ronny + renzo - me, myself, good 12"
marianne faithfull - a child's adventure
flash + the pan - s/t
talk talk - 'life's what you make it' 12" and 'history revisited' remix lp
still going - spaghetti circus 12"
leo zero - glory's vol. 2 ep (with an amazing prefab sprout edit! ha)

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nice little score @ the thrift store around the way:

v/a - Limo (1977 Warner Bros. label comp)
10cc - Bloody Tourists
101 Strings Play The Tijuana Sound
The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett - 50 Guitars in Love

love that miroslav vitous album!

yeah i found it for 3 bucks! in really solid shape, too. same album as 'infinite search', which i didn't realize until after i bought it. i like this cover more, though.

yes thats how i feel, too!

it reminds me of the amusement park scene in the third man

times new viking - born again revisited lp / move to california 7" / stay awake ep

lol @ the move to california insert - reprint of some cranky email sent to matador after tnv's ridic meltdown at the bell house which I know I posted about somewhere but can't find

maybe I only posted about it in IRL convos

^^ never heard this bellhouse story, what's the deal?

new and newish (week or two):

new tnv
a copy of "john wesley harding" (only had an old CD i got from columbia house in high school. it's not a mono copy though but it's a 360 label ;)))))
eikenskaden 'the last dance' which i'd never heard of before, but is some french black metal bleakness from 2002. i like how buried the vocals are on this.
lee dorsey 'ride your money/get out of my life, woman'
(skot's friend) linda cohen "angel alley" (classical guitar & electronics.)'
william truckaway 'breakaway' lp
bardo pond 'bufo alvarius' lp
obituary 'slowly we rot' 180g reissue lp
'folksongs of the louisiana accadians' collected by dr. harry oster
revernd louis overstreet & his four sons lp
wyrd 'huldrafolk lp' (like this))
v/a 'marvellous boy: calyspso from west africa' (two LP on honest jon's. really love the stuff they've been doing lately.

also the albery ayler 'bells' reissue.

i suggest picking this up if you see it. it's a repro of the original one sided lp w/ silkscreend blank side. the LPs are clear & the print is red. they were printed in the basement of where i work by my friend & i think they look great.

there are an unbelievable number of typos going on here i apologize.

I spent $9 in Austin yesterday:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

^^ never heard this bellhouse story, what's the deal?

at that show they played with Mad Scene and TJSA the guitarist for Times New Viking seemed kinda shitfaced and the rest of the band seemed pissed at him, they stopped two songs in the middle, dude broke a string, had a lengthy retuning on stage (while the drummer and keyboardist stared daggers at him and were like "hurry up fucker"). then they finally got through a couple songs and the dude broke another string, the drummer stood up and said "sometimes you've gotta make like the New York Mets and just quit!" and he got up and walked out. they all leave the stage after only a 30-minute or so set (as the headliner) (with about 15 minutes of actual music, the rest was stage banter and retuning)

it was all pretty lolworthy imo, I was bummed they didn't really play but I've seen em do a good set before and the Slave Apartments were awesome so whatever

anyway in the Move to California 7" there's an insert that is some email to Matador saying "that was the worst show I've ever seen!! I'm boycotting all Matador releases until you drop these poseurs!" etc etc

I get antsy at shows. I'd probably be grateful it ended so soon.

oh yeah at the Bellhouse people were heckling the guitarist by yelling "c'mon, don't pull a Wavves on us dude!!" lolol

about to head out to the Brooklyn Record Riot, wish me luck ILV!

my haul:
erotic drum band - plug me to death
universal robot band - dance and shake your tambourine 12"
cybotron - cosmic cars 12"
odyssey - native new yorker 12"
jj fad - way out 12"
blue cheer - vincebus eruptum
electric prunes - underground
savoy brown - looking in
charles wright - express yourself lp

Today:

Pale Fountains - Pacific Street LP
John Cooper Clark - Snap, Crackle & Bop LP
Public Image Limited - Second Edition/Metal Box LP
Interpol - Antics LP
The XX - XX LP

huge box of 45's from the academy $.25 bin <3ian<3
human hair 7"
musiques du cameroun
music of zanzibar
nerve city -- hell cassette
couple guerszen reissues for @nnie
pens LP for @nnie
lucinda williams folkways reissues for @nnie (soon to be our apartment soundtrack, i think)

happy woman bluse is soooooo good.

glad you got your jams bro :D

There are some records I bought:

feedtime - Cooper-S LP
Lubricated Goat - Sub-Pop 7" w/ 'Meating My Head'
Spits - ggnzla cassette
new Fresh & Onlys LP (their 2nd)
The Wake - Something That No One Else Could Bring EP (for a buck, has two great songs)
The Mighty WAH! - 'Come Back' 12" (also for a buck, dodgy but fun)
Chris Knox - 'Not Given Lightly' 12" w/ Guppiplus comp thing
Fred Lane and His Hittite Hot Shots - Car Radio Jerome LP (girlfriend hates this)
Melvins - Boris the Pervert EP (shitty boot)
Mummies - Devo covers EP (decent boot)
Nobunny - Burger cassette
Audacity - Power Drowning LP
Stabbings - 'The Fall'/'No Passions' 45
Soft Boys - All the Soft Boys Certify Insane comp LP on Two Sevens Clash

I'm sure there must be other stuff, but I can't think of it right now...

Car Radio Jerome is one of my favourite albums! Nice score.

(though if I remember correctly my wife hates it too).

It's kind of easy to hate, which is part of the appeal.

Even I hate "French Toast Man" but the title track, "Upper Lip of a Nostril Man" and a few of the others are gold.

Yeah, "French Toast Man" (which seems to be the #1 pick among the album's fans (WTF?)) is unforgivable crap. But the title track is fantastic, and Hittite Hot Shot is almost as good, if nowhere near as bleak. I'm mostly in it for the couple songs I love, but weirdly enough, I'd call it a favorite, too.

recently:

what I assume is a pirate/repro version of Amon Duul II's Phallus Dei
Wolves In The Throne Room - Malevolent Grain EP
Les Paul & Mary Ford "Whither Thou Goest" 45

French Toast Man is awesome!

well, there you go then

a couple of $1 finds

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/3129083844_623996df80.jpg?v=0

and this self-titled album by crystal mansion, which i bought strictly based on the cover, the date, and the hope that it was secretly awesome.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/9aa29724baa779c847ccceb3f837b0a8/628153.jpg

then i searched ilx for discussion of it and the only thing i found was scott saying they should have been called 'crystal shit', haha ;_;

for the record, i've only heard the album on capitol. which does indeed suck. never heard the one on rare earth.

also for the record, the one and only album by wadsworth mansion also sucks despite the year and the promising cover:

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never heard the fatima mansions though. maybe they are the go-to mansion.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/detchibe/R-247749-1135974979.jpg

3/$1:

Andy Robinson - Patterns of Reality
V/A - Partners [Columbia House comp of country duets, prety dece]
Dr. Murray Banks - What you can learn from the KINSEY REPORT
Dallas Country - s/t
The Surfmen - The Sounds of Exotic Island [Best anything ever on Somerset? gotta be either this or something by Skip Martin's Video All-Stars]
Steve Taylor - I Want to be a Clone
Denny Ezba* - Try Jenny
Robert Bryan and Marshall Dodge - Bert and I... And Other Stories from Down East
Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't do it) 12"

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* from honkytonktx.com:

Re: Denny Ezba
Posted by: kinnut (IP Logged)
Date: June 22, 2007 01:08PM

I met Denny Ezba around 1988-99 at Automotive Research on Bandera Rd in S.A.TX. He was a test car driver. I asked him about his music and he told me he was burnt out. He said he had played for Johnny Rodriguez in the past. I remember his songs "Mary Diane" and "There will be brighter tomorrows" I lived in Los Angeles Heights on Lee Hall and used to see Denny around the neighborhood. He was always dressed like a homeless person. He always seemed lost. I remember hearing on KONO that he died. Gone but not forgotten. I am 64 years old. Rock and Roll.

i remember someone else just got this too, but just found a copy of the steve miller band - 'circle of love' lp (for $1!)

that's sort of always a $1 record, no ? (but awesome all the same)

that should be Dallas County

yea i think it's usually pretty cheap, still stoked tho

helped out on a friend's record stall at a market last weekend - he gave me some cash and let me choose a couple of lps...
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also picked up the kid with the replaceable head 7" - richard hell & the voidoids

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whew this board and the noise listen threads are a great refuge

i got a cheap but okay sounding 80s reissue of
MONEY JUNGLE - ellington/mingus/roach and i am loving it. autumn is a good season for the piano trio. been listening to a bit of bud powell lately doo tbh.

wanted an LP of money jungle for so long. never seen one though, and never put any real effort into seeking one out. just you know kind of wanted. mostly while sitting in a chair.

is shorty any good?

Today, for $10:

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

love that Shock Headed Peters EP, really good B-sides on that.

Have bought a LOT of great records since May, but keep forgetting to post here.

Today
Dance:
Model 500 - Deep Space (unplayed 2x12 copy of repress on R&S, unfortunately with a generic sleeve and yet its the music that is most important, right?)
Convextion - Convextion (unplayed 2x12 on black vinyl)
Kai Alce - Polyester Static
Marcellus Pittman - Unirhythm Green
The Streets - Original Pirate Material (already own on CD but used 2x12 for $1 so...)

Dollar bin 12" r&b classix:
Erykah Badu feat. Common - Love of My Life
Truth Hurts feat. Rakim - Addictive
Usher feat. Lil' Jon & Ludacris - Yeah!
Jade - Don't Walk Away
Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew
Aaliyah - One In A Million
Tweet - Oops (Oh My)
Groove Theory - Tell Me
Sweetback feat. Amel Larrieux - You Will Rise

harry partch - world of
dorothy carter - troubadour
gong - camembert electrique
gong - peel sessions
del tha funkee homosapien - i wish my brother george was here
caravan - if i could do it all over again, i'd do it all over you

What's yer take on Troubador vs. Waillee Waillee?

listened to waillee a few times, and i really like it. the dulcimer is such a great percussion instrument. haven't gotten around to spinning troubadour yet. got it for less than a tenner though, which was was pretty awesome.

The Mantles - s/t lp
Sic Alps - L. Mansion 7"

love that harry partch!

just a couple new things this weekend:
kurt vile -- childish prodigy + associated 7"
elizabeth cotten -- vol 3: when im gone
hunx and his punx -- gay singles

some nice ocora on its way, though! congo, burundi, pearl divers...

awesome 30min at SF amoeba:
felt -- crumbling the antiseptic beauty
rev louis overstreet -- the guitar, his four sons... (not the orig on arhoolie, but the 77 press for a pretty good deal!)
philip glass -- north star (i JUST heard about this yesterday on the internet and then found it in a restock box at amoeba for like $4)
charlie haden -- ballad of the fallen (another one from my wishlist for $4)
electrelane -- axes (used and cheap!)
brainiac -- hissing prigs... (sealed and cheap!)
big youth -- the chanting dread inna fine style (sweet cover, love the first track from my friend's summer jamz 08 mixtape)

69 have you been to down home records in el cerrito?

im going on saturday for the first time!

anybody have any arhoolie recommendations or wishes?

when we asked about arhoolie last time the guy was nice enough to give us a bunch of copies of the 'lightning express' arhoolie occasional zine from 1976, i'm sure he has more laying around. they seem to have a disproportionate amount of tex-mex comps there tho

right, that seems reasonable.

yay, i went record browsing today at record stores!!! yay!! i never go out during the day cuz i'm always at my store. but maria manned the store today and me and rufus and my pal maggie hit the road. got some good books and records for the store at a thrift shop and then i bought myself a few things at regular record stores. didn't spend much. like 30 bucks. nice to look around in another store though. helpful too just to see what people are pricing things and such.

got:

savage grace - s/t

kayak - royal bed bouncer (pristine dutch vertigo pressing)

billy nicholls/white horse lp on capitol

the leather nun - force of habit (like my pal, chuck, love the nun. haven't had a copy of this in a zillion years.)

comedian harmonists double album comp (super clean german emi/odeon pressing)

fischer - z - word salad

i got some of teh european dance musics:

ost & kjex ft. mung - 'dirty mind' - whacked-out prince cover
glimmers - 'do it'
rocha - 'hands of love (fingers of sand)' - piano house with harvey rmx
ribn - 'whirl cloud' ep on mule musiq
neworldaquarium - 'the force' ame rmxs

trade in bonanza, I have credit left over!

Mission Of Burma - Vs. 2LP super deluxx repress with DVD
Butthole Surfers - PCPPEP hell yeah
va: String Of Pearls

coming: Michael Hurley - Parsnips Snips

really excited to hear parsnip snips!!

me too obvvv

today

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

rocha - 'hands of love (fingers of sand)' - piano house with harvey rmx

diggin this 12!

man, i have to get that hurley record -- the snippets on amazon sound so good.

i just got another copy of blonde on blonde, this one a uk mono version. i've had a circa 1980s u.s. stereo pressing since i was a young'n and after reading a website detailing all the different versions/mixes out there (pretty crazy actually), this seemed like it might sound a little better than the one I have (...for example i hated pillbox hat until, years later, i heard mp3s of the sundazed reissue: all of the reverb-overkill on my copy was absent, and the song was actually listenable!)

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MS recs shipment today, and OMG PARSNIP SNIPS so good

:D kinda lol at the early, long version of "old black crow."

cage/reich: 3 dances, 4 organs
reich: octet/violin phase
reich/maxfield/oliveros -- new sounds in electronic music
fungi girls LP
new oh sees 7"
oh sees -- carol ann 7"
joseph spence LP
michael hurley -- parsnip snips
tyvek -- 1-sided 12"
de kift LP and 7"

boring purchases today

faces - snakes and ladders
jeff beck group - truth/beck-ola 2fer thing
stones - tatoo you
lindsey buckingham - law and order

i think ian has been outbidding me on country vinyl on eBay

!! no way, i don't think i've bought any country LPs on ebay recently!

Still Going - Spaghetti Circus 12" <--- so awesome
Lenny Williams - You Got Me Running

man i fell off the DFA truck after the black leotard front era, except for black dice and "happy house." what else is worthwhile these days?

most of it, funnily enough

i believe it! the first two crops were tight

there was a slow run for a while but they have a bunch of great 12"s out right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaOg3_XG0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3geGfPUzxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iaVmN45Jh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT5_2tcWb90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UaVSI2WgOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-lLiExwp5I

kinda like the original of the Canyons track better than that remix. also there's a Rub n Tug remix on the other side of the Capracara but I like both versions. Alt41r N0uv3au posts on ilx.

they're also putting out a new Yura Yura Teikoku record which I haven't heard yet but am hoping will rock

wait, did that capracara come out on DFA originally? could've sworn it was some euro label.

oops i guess not.

also "Recorded and mixed at the house on the edge of the park." NICE MOVIE REF DUDES.

looks like they have another 12" on Soul Jazz (that I haven't heard)

Bought two Smithsonian reissues today. Lovely packaging with reproductions of original inserts etc.

first this:

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I've owned the Revenant set of Dock Boggs' recordings from 1927-29 for years now and never got round to buying some of his later, 60s recordings. I suppose my prejudice was that "earlier is better". Well, what absolute nonsense. This is a fucking fantastic LP (I'm certain after first listen!). So clear the recording, so seasoned the voice. And his banjo playing is still amazing.

and then this:

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Must admit I've never listen to Lucinda Williams before, so I picked up this LP. On first listen I'm very pleased I did.

What strikes me in listening to the Dock Boggs songs (which were recorded by Mike Seeger) is how much elements of Mike Seeger's singing (later in his life) resembled Boggs'. I'm certain Seeger was influenced by Boggs in his voicing, even if sub-consciously.

lookin forward to getting the dock boggs and roscoe holcombe reissues -- the elizabeth cotten is great. @nnie anxiously awaited the arrivals of the lucindas for months, and im pretty into em, too, especially HWB.

im surprised, though, that you can't buy the reissues through the folkways website, even though there's a little card in the LPs from the smithsonian that even offers a discount for buying a folkways LP. maybe FW is just being slow updating the site?

are those folkways reissues legit? because there's no mention of them at all on the smithsonian folkways web site (that i can find).

yes, they're licensed, and there is a little card from SI inside

are those folkways reissues legit? because there's no mention of them at all on the smithsonian folkways web site (that i can find).
― amateurist, Friday, 16 October 2009 23:29 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yes. Most certainly legitimate. The packaging and replica liner notes alone speak for that.

According to the postcard included with the release there are currently only 5 reissues: Lucinda Williams "Ramblin' on My Mind" and "Happy Woman Blues"; Roscoe Holcomb "High Lonesome Sound"; Elizabeth Cotten "When I'm Gone" and Dock Boggs "Legendary Singer & Banjo Player".

@nnie anxiously awaited the arrivals of the lucindas for months, and im pretty into em, too, especially HWB.

I'm quite exited about the Lucinda Williams LP. I've been meaning to check her out for a long time now and somehow sense I'll grow to love this album (and perhaps some others I'll buy)

Yes. Most certainly legitimate. The packaging and replica liner notes alone speak for that.

bad logic

robin and i are peeling vinyl for the record show. like eight boxes of cd's and one of records. So much easier to get rid of cds.

new-ish additions:

steve winwood - arc of a diver
jean-luc ponty - cosmic messenger
jean-luc ponty - enigmatic ocean
bionic boogie - hot butterfly
linda di franco - my boss
grackle - desert acid ep
al usher - lullaby for robert remixes
steve hillage - and not or
andreas vollenweider - ...behind the gardens - behind the wall - under the tree...
d-train - music
the art of noise - no nonsense
mark e - friekin shriekin / formed
dr. buzzard's original savannah band - ... meets king pennett

"dr. buzzard's original savannah band - ... meets king pennett"

i can't stop playing this album this week! every time i try to take it off the turntable i just end up playing a side again. so addictive and beautiful.

grackle - desert acid ep

yeah this is great. wish I had the vinyl. the Musiccargo version is epic.

psych, pretty sure you got that steve winwood for nighttrain, right? look for the single of it, there's an instrumental dub that's better.

also, did you get the linda di franco on ebay? if not, where'd you find?

I R jazz douchebag:

Lonnie Liston Smith - Cosmic Funk
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Duke Ellington - Toga Brava Suite 2LP

also the new OOIOO LP

is Archie Shepp's "More Fire Music" (most of which is live at Newport in '65) any good?

xposts- yes! the dr. buzzard's lp and grackle ep were both definite scores.

jaxon- i got the winwood lp for "spanish dancer" actually, but i dig "nighttrain" too. i'll have to check out the instrumental but i kinda like his vocals man! and i found the di franco as an 'unofficial' repress (?) on juno- much cheaper! http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Linda+Di+Franco/

reallly like the all seeing eye. good purchase.

country rock bonanza todizzle:

country funk s/t
rio grande s/t
ol' paint s/t
chris darrow - artist proof
chris darrow s/t

ahhhh refuge from ilm. btw:

time and energy wasted on bad music is time and energy you're not spending on discovering dope new music imo, though i suppose lists like these have their appeal too.

― access flap (omar little), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:43 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

discovering dope new music is overrated anyways

― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:47 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't think i even know what's going on there anymore

brian eno - here come the warm jets
nina nastasia - road to ruin
weather report - mysterious traveler

i bought a Chris Darrow album (Fretless) because we share a last name. ended up falling in love w/the song "Tears of Joy & Sorrow". it's weirdly the most listened to track in my itunes.

o yah, i have that country funk album. neither funky, nor country enough. just sounds like the byrds (not a bad thing)

i dig the country funk rekkerd.

I recall, when I left a little town in North Carolina, I tried to escape this music. I said it was for the old country folks. I went to New York, got slick, got my hair made, I was cool. I was cool. But I had no groove, no groove.

that country funk record is tight

this is highly recommended:
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recently bought a big stash of caribbean records, mostly from haiti and martinique. a few are folklore, most are 80s-early 90s pop like zouk. a few of the zouk records are saccharine trash, a few are pretty good in a hi-tech sort of way. the folklore stuff i haven't listened to yet. it was sort of an impulse purchase.

i also bought a few yazoo and arhoolie lps, like the "mister charlie's blues" lp and "juke joint blues."

the allen bros. cut on "mr charlie's blues" is a favorite of mine.

it's a good one. vinyl impulse purchases are v. bad because not only have you spent money you don't have, you have accumulated a lot of big stuff you don't have space for. so it's been sitting in a pile on my desk for a week now.

sheesh buy some shelves!

"no room for awesome yazoo records except on my desk" = first-world problemz

dude there is no room in my apartment for more shelving! i am pretty much filled to the gills. need to get rid of shit. or get a bigger apartment.

first-world problemz

new hip hop group name?

guaranteed worst rap group ever

terry riley -- shri camel
terry riley -- no man's land
don cherry -- the eternal now
cornelius -- fantasma

thanks jaxon!

:D happy listening

and now in the mail...

captured tracks stuff:
christmas island 7"
bitters 7"
ganglians 7"
spectrals 7"
grass widow 12"
gary war 12"
the german measles -- wild EP
oh sees -- dog poison LP

tv ghost -- cold fish
christmas island -- blackout summer
rainbow bridge 7"

david nzomo: KENYA WORK & DANCE SONGS folkways
miriam makeba: THE VOICE OF AFRICA rca victor
ok jazz PONT SUR LE CONGO
prince nico mbarga+rocafil jazz SWEET MOTHER
SAVANNAH RHYTHMS: MUSIC OF UPPER VOLTA nonesuch
soolyman rodgie LP private '79 african highlife
souleman rowgie: AFRICAN LADY highlife LP private '77

also

Bill Boyds Western Ramblers-Bluebird 5503 2lp's
Fiddlers Convention Tennessee 1924-1930 County
Buddy Jones Louisiana's Honky Tonk Man LP 1935-41
Mister Charlie's Blues 1926-1936 Yazoo 1024 LP
Ola Belle Reed 1973 Rounder LP

and

TAXI JIVE: SONGS FROM THE AFRICAN BUSH

(collection of south african jive from the late 1960s)

and

v/a - Early Blue Grass (RCA Vintage Series)
v/a - Juke Joint Blues (Blues Classics)
v/a - Virginia Traditions: Tidewater Blues (BRI)

i need to slow down

SAVANNAH RHYTHMS: MUSIC OF UPPER VOLTA nonesuch
i hear this RULES

soolyman rodgie LP private '79 african highlife
souleman rowgie: AFRICAN LADY highlife LP private '77
these are SO disappointing

TAXI JIVE: SONGS FROM THE AFRICAN BUSH
tell me more

i need to slow down
man up!

dude jaxon eternal now is so tight!

yeah actually i have one of those rogie LPs in a shitty copy. not sure why i bought a second one as i agree, they are pretty underwhelming (though not awful).

"taxi jive" is supposed to be pretty classic--second only to "ice cream and suckers." haven't had a moment to listen to it yet, though.

bought this lee fields record at the merch table at the daptone supersoul revue

http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/My_World-Lee_Fields_X_The_Expressions_480.jpg

and then got handed a promo of this (good karma)

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^^^ already had this on mp3 it's pretty awes

hey pete what is the best oh sees record. "help"? or the one on castle face?

theres two types of oh sees records, one is weird and a little bedsit. good ones like this are GET STOVED, SUCKS BLOOD, and COOL DEATH OF...

the other type sounds more like coachwhips, whose album PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY LIVE AT THE GINGER MINGE is awesome and should be rec'd here. beyond that, HELP is good, but not my fave. the singles may be better? CAROL ANN and PEANUT BUTTER OVEN especially.

the new captured tracks record is sort of a third road, but really good too. it sounds like canterbury-d a little? or sort of like oh sees + jennifer gentle? did anyone like that jennifer gentle record besides me?

yeah jennifer gentle is good. I think bb likes them too? somebody else on noise brd used to listen to em

thx for advice I think I wanna get one of their Coachwhips style recs. first and then go from there

Haven't purchased much this year, but this was my last trip to the record store:

Gas - Pop ($3, brought it up to the counter and the clerk rolled his eyes and said "our buyer hates electronic music.")
Helen Merrill - S/T ($6, weird 80s Japanese reissue of the 1954 album w/ Clifford Brown. I love this album and there's no way I'll be able to afford the Emarcy original any time soon.)
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay ($2)
Tantra S/T ($2)

The Electrosoniks(Tom Dissevelt) - Electronic Music

I picked this up a couple years ago for $1 as well. It's pretty awesome! 1962 recording of bonkers easy listening music composed from sound collages and studio effects.

• st etienne 'only love can break yr heart' richard x mixes - finest balearic roller, discussed elsewhere
• COMBI 'E / F' - the one with the boney m 'ma baker' edit, it is top-notch

budget rock record swap:
buy the contortions
marion brown -- geechee recollections
misfits -- s/t
dr john -- gris-gris
wipers -- land of the lost

eight LPs for $1 including:
led zeppelin 4 w/ no cover
some 1996 coil double LP
hot tuna -- burgers
some 3LP schmaltz-pop comp
some cabaret voltaire 12" on factory
david bedford -- the odyssey
cheech and chong -- s/t
buffy sainte-marie -- little wheel sit and spin (obv i got this cause it was like $0.13, but i dont know. BS-M is just not my thing, i think...)

columbus discount records singles club (part 2/2)
psychedelic horseshit -- too many hits 2x7" (awesome club-ender with ten new good-to-awesome songs in deluxe packaging with subscriber's name on it wtf)
guinea worms -- i know where will foster lives (these guys are totally one of my favorite current bands)
tv ghost -- the fiend (also good)
little claw -- prickly pear (wtf kid-cover, slightly disappointing a-side, but a sweet mumbly b-side)
havent jammed yet:
cheater slicks
mike rep
the voices of men

update: mike rep rules

some 1996 coil double LP

LOL turns out this is a white-marble edition which, if the records are in good shape, could be a $100 record :)

and they are!

pretty much all coil vinyl = good money

that was my instinct as i was combing the "8LPs for $1" bin!

Horrors 'Primary Colours' LP & a 2nd hand German pressing of Kraftwerk's Radioactivity (with stickers!)

went to Astoria:

Gong - You
McCoy Tyner - Sahara (wild!)
Stomu Yamashta - Go

and Mississippi Records in Portland

Steve Hillage - L (with Don Cherry!)
Mortika (the double LP rembetika comp on Mississippi/Canary)
Mata La Pena
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery (brand new reissue oh yeah)

and at home:

Espvall/Batoh - Overloaded Ark

got the new Michael Hurley & Ida waiting at the store for tomorrow as well.

^nice haul. how's the 'mortika' comp?

next question, hows the hillage w/ cherry???

various things over the past few months:

1st three Fahey LPs on Takoma, in damn good shape for like 10 bucks each
nice 1st Phillips press of Autobahn
Edgar Froese - Macula Transfer
old German press of South of Heaven
Loop - Wolf Flow
Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America
Cheveu - Cheveau
Mekons - The Mekons Story comp
Oliver Nelson - Skull Session reissue (for like five bucks, great cover but only one good track)
Stockhausen - Gruppen/Carre on Deutsche Grammophon
Boulez/Stockhausen - Oddessey split LP
The dB's - Like This
Billy Childish - Der Henkermann (German "Kitchen Recordings" comp, different from the SFTRI one)
Taj Mahal - Oooh So Good 'n Blues
White Hills - Dead
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Tangerine Dream - Stratosphear
Tav Falco's Panther Burns - The World We Knew
Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role on Armageddon
Venom - From Hell to the Unknown
Buzzcocks - Another Music In a Different Kitchen
Various - Mata la Pena
Joseph Spence - Good Morning Mr. Walker
Soft Boys - A Can of Bees
Various - Mortika
Various - Open Strings
Michael Hurley - Parsnip Snips
Jacuzzi Boys - No Seasons

hey folks.

I'm gonna put on that rembetika comp right now and burn it, packaging is beautiful and there's a nice fat booklet to go with it.

I played one (long) track off the Hillage LP on my radio show yesterday and it was great! I got a call even. Super spacey riffage. Didn't hear Cherry though, need to listen to the whole thing (also, I got it at Jackpot not MS). He covers "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "It's All Too Much"! What's not to love?

Will report back to ILV later.

I just bought the Cramps' "Smell of Female" on four coloured 7 inch records in a little box. Couldn't resist.

get a good deal?

boo audible surface noise at 4:04 on the Alice Coltrane, side 1.

I needed to rock that before the rembetika...

WOW never even heard of that xp

Xpost. I think it was a good deal - $25 Canadian. Not mint condition but certainly very good. Totally unnecessary too but I very rarely splash out on collectible vinyl because I can't look after them very well.

thats a good deal!

yeah definitely. 45 RPM?

i just got a bunch of blossom dearie LPs on her own label, dandelion

oops i mean daffodil

should i buy that mortika thing?

here's the thing w/ rebetika. it's very alluring and beautiful, but it also seems like a very lyrics-driven music and i can't understand greek. even if i have a sheet of lyric translations in front of me, it's not the same. so i feel like a bit of poseur when i listen to it.

so i feel like a bit of poseur when i listen to it.

you should never ever ever ever feel this way!

Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator 12"
New Order - Thieves Like Us 12"
New Order - Touched by the Hand of God 12"
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca LP
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby LP

yeah, that's an understandable rationale amateurist, but why deprive yourself of beautiful music? i know very little spanish but i still love listening to all those Tex-Mex comps on Arhoolie. And I know positively no Arabic but I love listening to middle eastern music as well.

plus "authenticity" is like the biggest fakest pose of all!

i keep wanting to get into opera, but since i don't speak french, italian or german... fuggit.

it's not about authenticity, it's about being able to experience the music in a way that grasps it as a formal whole. i can pretend to get the general "gist"--spurned love, fallen women, blah blah blah--but i can't pretend to understand the narrative specifics, and how the music serves to inflect, redirect, emphasize, cajole, ironize, etc. those specifics. so i feel like i'm listening, again, more to the general idea of the music than the music itself.

the music in rebetika seems particuarly designed to inflect and set off the lyrics. this is obviously true also of something like mahler's kindertotenlieder, but the music there seems a bit more autonomous somehow, a bit more through-composed, a bit more whole. PLUS, and this is important, i am so intimately familiar with those mahler songs that even though i don't speak german i know what each line is about, so i can follow the ongoing relation between music and lyrics and feel invested in that interaction at each moment. whereas unless i really, really got to know certain rebetika songs (and honestly the massive amount of this music available mitigates against that) i won't hope to have that same appreciation for them.

make sense?

bah, sense.

I do understand where yer coming from. But, if you're willing to invest a little effort getting to know the music (and you don't seem unwilling to devote time to difficult listening) I don't see any reason why you'd be unable to "grasp it as a whole."

"it's not about authenticity, it's about being able to experience the music in a way that grasps it as a formal whole."

i get that, but i hate to feel like my immediate appreciation of a piece of music/art/etc constrained by my contextual knowledge (which is how id (sloppily) classify knowledge of the foreign-to-me language of a song i like) of the art. so, like, i dont know a ton about russian/soviet history, and yet andrei rublev somehow became one of my favorite films, and i'd hate to feel somehow like that didnt count or wasnt fair or shouldnt be. i say, if you really love the rebetika songs, LOOK UP THE LYRICS AND TRANSLATE THEM, and let the art-love lead you into learning some new things.

is constrained obv

translations are included in the new set btw.

btw amateurist, i wasnt tryna say you were a big fake poseur by ascribing some need-for-authenticity to your argument, i was just hoping you wouldnt get hung up on it, on the way to rocking the greek shit.

oh whatever that sounds asinine too, nevermind. i cant wait to hear those LPs, though!

"rocking the greek shit" = man-boy love??

rocking the greek shit.

are you encouraging me to join a fraternity?

or, same difference

whatever dudes dont be phobos

your username is oddly arousing.

finally scored a copy of that ocora pearl divers LP from ebay, cause the termbo dude never followed up on our proposed trade.

as a result, i have an extra mayyors 12" if anyone's dyin 4 it. first or second edition; i now have both :\

i just got a bunch of blossom dearie LPs on her own label, dandelion

― amateurist, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:11 AM (2 days ago)

i just picked up once upon a summertime a week or so ago. great album.

today:
Thee Oh Sees - Sucks Blood lp
Country Teasers - The Scottish Single 7"
Ty Segall - Skin 7"
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy lp
Ty Segall - It 7"
Ty Segall lp
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On lp
Donovan - Sunshine Superman lp
The Wipers - Youth of America lp
Smog - Wild Love lp
Ty Segall/Black Time - split lp
The Pretty Things lp
DUSTdevils - Geek Drip lp
and
The Mantles - Bad Design 7" (in the mail)

How is Ty Segall? How are The Mantles?

Mantles are pretty okay imo--kind of a Reigning Sound playing The Clean songbook. Friend of mine thinks the closest ref point is the Renderers, and I can see that.

Do you mind if I start asking you questions about bands before I go to the record store? Because I went on Friday and I hadn't heard of anything, and I was talking to the guy and he was saying he just got back from tour/vacation and got an order in, which to me looked huge (judging from stock turnover), and HE didn't really know what anything was, either. And I picked up this weekend:

Gale Garnett - My Kind of Folk Songs
Freddy Keppard, with Dock Cook, Erskine Tate - Jazz Treasury 1923-1928
(from used record store)

The Hunches - Exit Dreams
Michael Hurley - Ancestral Swamp
(from new record store)

And last weekend:

French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson - Live, Love, Larf & Loaf
(from Goodwill or equivalent)

one of the members (past tense i believe) stole cupcakes from my wife's bday party 2 years ago

sorry, of the mantles.

Was that a problem, him stealing the cupcakes? Sometimes people are okay with that and just want stuff eaten. I went to a party and the guy said, "Go ahead, no one else is eating the pineapple."

though i've never done it myself i've always approved of strangers stealing food (cupcakes, pizza, chips) from obnoxious parties @ bars.

i used to steal cutlery and glassware from these.

I'm going to take your silence, Ian, as a tacit okay.

everything is permitted iirc

everything is transgressed

everything is cupcakes

everything is not very nutritious

frosting is everything

also, i think ancestral swamp is a really great record, bam.

Cream cheese frosting.

I love Michael Hurley! Dude said it's earlier stuff? I bought it because of frequent noise dude mentions, basically.

Next time I'm planning to go downtown and spend some of my student loan money at Vinyl Richie's I'm going to draw up a list of new releases, then.

acestral swamp is pretty recent, came out in 2008 i think? the one that just came out of early material is Parsnip Snips on Mississippi records.

when i was in college, i worked at the campus music library and they had a copy of one of the early editions of the Trouser Press Record Guide. i worked a morning shift, and hardly anyone came in, so i'd sit and read the TPRG and made a list of all the records that sounded interesting. When I moved from Providence to SF, I somehow misplaced the list and the product of hours of intensive research.

xpost Kind record store dude mistaken, then. He listens to pretty noisy stuff.

either way hurley has never put out a bad record imo. not all perfect but not one of them is anything like bad.

I like to sit down with the Trouser Press guide to new wave from '83. I still check it sometimes, but usually after I've picked something up. I usually end up getting the lesser record by a particular band (like Deaf School or something).

xpost Yes to that.

I haven't listened to any of my records I bought this weekend yet!

Sort of normal, honestly.

xp - 12 years after making that list, I finally got a copy of Buy by James Chance & the Contortions.

I have that. And he came on my CD player, on the Soul Jazz New York Noise comp, when I was driving with Katie last weekend from Ft. Myers, on the trip when we almost died from the blowout, and the tire rained flecks of rubber on the windshield, and Katie asked politely if we could skip that song.

My friend Ryan sometimes pulls off things like getting the James White & the Blacks record for 25 cents and the Lounge Lizard record for a dollar. We used to fantasize about going out to the old gay disco DJ's house in Farragut and rooting around and saying to him, "You can't take it with you."

What that post is trying to communicate, I don't know.

My friend Ryan sometimes pulls off things like getting the James White & the Blacks record for 25 cents and the Lounge Lizard record for a dollar.

I have a friend that got a lot of that stuff insanely cheap in the late 80s/early 90s from various midwestern cut-out bins. He likes telling people this a lot.

I'm actually really tolerant and sort of enjoy hearing Ryan's adventures in crate digging. He takes these ocd elements I had really bad eight years ago and exaggerates them. I dunno, I like an underdog with an encyclopaedic memory and very unusual girl troubles.

nah, i think my friend's scores are really awesome - the fact that he was really into this stuff when no one cared all that much - before the revival. I can understand why he gets defensive about it, too.

went to the flea market today. pretty much everyone wanted $2/LP which seemed strange but i found a few good things, none of which i kept--some neil young records, a leadbelly lp on biograph, clean original white album no inserts, iron maiden double lp.

I once said to famous ilxor Roxymuzak something about having two copies of Power, Corruption & Lies, and she and her best friend rolled their eyes at me and snickered. Or it might've been something to do with the two versions of the first Clash album. Same eye roll and snicker, though.

Hm. I want some more Neil Young records.

"this stuff" -- ? are we talkin burn-out west coast major label post-psych rural/country-rock here. or like ash ra tempel lps or what.

neil young: you should get them all through the end of the seventies and the choicest ones thereafter. all the early stuff is real cheap everywhere i think.

I actually have two copies of Buy - I had forgotten I had bought the first one and the second one was like new.

ian - no wave and related acts.

burn-out west coast major label post-psych rural/country-rock here

Desire all this stuff. Would be too cumbersome to print out relevant thread to carry around when going to record stores.

oh yeah duh i missed a few posts somehow

wow, go to dinner and this thread takes off. i'm fine w/people taking stuff if there's extras and what not, but this dude sorta snuck in when people weren't looking and took one w/o asking.

hey dudes.

should i buy
- lonesome road blues comp on yazoo for $11
- magma - kohntarkosz lp on a&m for $12

????

The Hunches - Exit Dreams

I love love love this record, man. Almost a year gone by now and it still sounds exciting when i start it up. Home Alone 5 is a nice companion to it too, but I wish they hadn't used what sounds like a webstream as a source for the John Peel side. I found an mp3 of the show's original broadcast and it sounds miles better than what's on that side of the lp.

And yeah, that Mantles lp on Siltbreeze is pretty solid all the way through. The new single just came out on Slumberland and the a-side's in the same vein (haven't heard the other track yet). Funny to me that they're on the two labels that seemed long gone, but are now back rivaling the output and popularity they had 10 or 15 years ago!

The Ty Segall stuff is great, if a little samey-sounding sometimes. I'd had mp3s of much of it and it had grown on me over the last few months -- went into a store I hadn't made my way to here in Austin and they had a bunch of his stuff (and the oh sees record) for cheap that I'd thought was already out of print.

x-post

Not down with the uninvited cupcake eating. Pineapples would be just fine, obvs.

The Hunches album is pretty rad. I think Vic hooked me up w/ that one. I was obsessed w/ "Not Invented" for a while. I'm gonna listen to that today on way to work

wow, go to dinner and this thread takes off. i'm fine w/people taking stuff if there's extras and what not, but this dude sorta snuck in when people weren't looking and took one w/o asking.

― jaxon, Monday, 2 November 2009 07:28 (8 hours ago)

wtf! that blows.

am, i'd buy that yazoo comp if i were you. $11 is a pretty deece deal for almost any yazoo lp--there are a few that are not desirable (poor fidelity papa charlie jackson, walter davis, cripple clarence) but that one is solid.

i'd buy that magma album. but i don't see magma vinyl very often and have no idea what it's worth.

i'd say almost any magma under twenty bucks in good shape is a good deal nowadays.

picked up the Mortika box on MS today as well as v/a "Mountain Music of Kentucky" on folkways.

neil young: you should get them all through the end of the seventies and the choicest ones thereafter. all the early stuff is real cheap everywhere i think.

― ian

yeah there's no reason you shouldn't be able to score all of the key neil records for more than a few bucks apiece.

slow lately, i've been trying to save money.

fleetwood mac - mirage
reigning sound - love and curses

mirage is so good

<3mirage<3

Hold Me is sometimes my fave mac attack track.

it is a truly dope album

Associates - Sulk

bought today for 30 buxx:

joseph & nathan - hallel - songs of praise (no label - 1976)

canterbury country orchestra - mistwold (F&W records - ?)

wind serenade - selections from telemann's constant music master (dg musikfest - 1967)

a new vision from gramavision - kitaro, terry riley & the kronos quartet, yas*kaz, steven halpern (gramavision - 1985)

mr. fingers - what about this love 12 inch (alleviated music - 1989)

candy fresh - homie you ain't got 12 inch (wrap/ichiban - ?)

detroit's most wanted - the money is made 12 inch (wrap/ichiban - ?)

gregorian chant - easter sunday mass - monk's choir of the benedictine abbey of st.martin (archiv - 1960)

sandor and laszlo slomovits - gemini - songs from the heartland (solid sound - 1980)

G.A.T. (Gangstas & Thugs) - just another day (mca - 1995)

slave - the concept (cotillion - 1978)

flute music through larkin - o'cean (oh-see-on) (wind sung sounds - 1980)

2nd pioneer valley jamboree - v/a (pioneer records - 1981)

phil keaggy - what a day (new song - 1973)

jimmy and carol owens - show me (impact - 197?)

son of bazerk - change the style 12 inch (mca - 1990)

the canterbury country orchestra meets the f&w string band (f&w - 197?)

morton gould - fall river legend/interplay/latin-american symphonette (rca - 1961)

kitaro - in person (gramavision - 1985)

kitaro - india (geffen - 1983)

kruskal/morrison/barrand - round pond relics (cottey light industries - 1980)

any old time string band - s/t (arhoolie - 1978)

kitaro - silk road II (gramavision - 1985)

bluegrass! - v/a (pickwick - 1973)

keith green - no compromise (sparrow - 1978)

john fischer - still life (light - 1974)

do'a - ancient beauty (philo - 1981)

judith pintar - changes like the moon (sona gaia - 1986)

robbie gass - trust in love (fretless - 1981)

paul kaplan - life on this planet (hummingbird - 1982)

peaceful solutions - s/t (sycamore hollow - 1984)

^ looks like some good stuff! particularly curious about this- a new vision from gramavision - kitaro, terry riley & the kronos quartet, yas*kaz, steven halpern (gramavision - 1985)

thrift store today was a 50/50 mix of 80's/90's r&b/rap 12 inches and 70's/80's bluegrass/ancientmusic/newage/christian stuff. for some reason. i just go with the flow.

went to the record fair in easthampton today. it was nice. lots of people. all the usual suspects. (see, only lived around here since spring and i know who the usual suspects are) didn't buy much. typical record fair pricing where anything worthwhile is 20 bucks and up. and i don't need too many things that badly. fun to see what byron c. was selling. and not every record fair has its very own noise nomads booth. met a really nice guy named andy though who had the best stuff for me and by far the best prices. he charged me a total of 20 bucks for this stuff:

seventh wave - psi-fi (1975 on Janus. weird glammy proggy stuff.)

rue caldwell - the party starts when i'm with you (12 inch. andy sold me on this. says the dub is crazy)

kikrokos - jungle d.j. and dirty kate (78 disco album on mercury)

the world of good & plenty (60's sunshine pop on senate)

atomic rooster - IV

good god - s/t (always dug the zappa cover of king kong)

tuff darts - s/t

watts 103rd street rhythm band - in the jungle, babe

christ child - s/t (fake punkers from 77. chuck and gorge are fans, obviously. )

i was happy! i don't know why i didn't buy more. he had good jazz and funk and soul too. i probably would have paid ten for any one of them!

great haul. that Kikrokos album is dope, I've seen that for $25

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31tdj3dFjnL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
love this one so much. i posted a track from it right here

http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/artist_images/17019_image0_20070821_auto.jpg
funky proggy new age w/japanese instrumentation

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q4DPREDCL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
the black version of this. P&P records. kinda like a riddim record. live band playing the same beat for different rappers. there's a Cloud One version on here where they just solo keyboard over it. so amazing.

http://www.oldpunks.com/1rationalyouth.jpg
canadian minimal synth

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/2681/covertc.jpg
kissing the pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mljIBTfTxSc
finally picked up a 12" of this. shit is so funny and dirty. could i ever play this out?

http://www.mwgilbert.com/discd.gif
michael william gilber 'in the dreamtime'. really weird new age. pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FstW3Xv2mVg

o ya. i also got the 12" of this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Nu51whDN8

and finally got a copy of this one
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/bootsysrubb_stretchin_101b.jpg

hey guys!

im in NC and picked up the following so far...
X -- LA (for @nnie)
herbie hancock -- mwandishi
timmy thomas -- why cant we live together
timmy thomas -- the magician
bo hansson -- magician's hat
bohannon -- [no idea what it's called but i love it]
uncle dave macon LP comp on county
robert wyatt -- peel sessions
peter gabriel -- s/t #2 [i dont get it. i have no idea why people LOVE this. i thought it would be a poppier, rockier ANOTHER GREEN WORLD, but it's cabaret-stylee like THE LAMB LIES DOWN...]
v/a -- bali gamelan: music for the morning of the world :)
the impressions -- this is my country
ivy green -- s/t [the new boot obv]
tony williams -- (turn it over) [yes yes yes yes yes]
brightblack morning light -- s/t [$5, think i might try and sell for more]
eugene chadbourne -- [i forget the name but it's like free-improv C&W music, pretty LOL but cool]
the cure -- faith

"timmy thomas -- why cant we live together"

--this is sort of too much of a good thing, i think. i prefer the single.

agreed about peter gabriel. i always try to get back into him, and i always come up a bit short.

currently listening to timmy thomas' disco funk track "Are You Crazy???"

i love those gabriel albums. to me they're companion pieces to the eno/fripp/bowie german albums.

how amazing is this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCY6_lxxiw

in the last week or so, the st just vigilantes lathe 7", new hula hoop lp on 555, hulaboy/tunabunny lp on 555, shjips/spacemen split 45, jack rose 45

a few things i picked up after the dentist today:
circus maximus s/t (nice cheap copy.)
james carr - dark end of the street (a hits comp on blue side.)
rosebud s/t (again, cheap; used to have it and sold it but i figure for $5 i can find a few tracks worth playing.)
douglas ecker & friends - more path rent: hammer dulcimer tunes. (one vocal number that i like, some hypnotic instros.)

rosebud is that jerry yester thing, right? don't remember loving it.

yeah. it was pretty cheezed out iirc. but for some reason i feel compelled to give it another shot. i just love farewell aldeberan so much.

I need a better copy of Circus Maximus. mine is crazy scratchy

does anyone on ILV love Jerry Jeff Walker like I do? I'm not even sure if skot is a fan.

i like Jerry Jeff! I picked up Five Years Gone at wfmu...

i like jerry jeff. i just don't listen that much i guess. or maybe i haven't heard the one album i want to play over and over, you know?

i've really been digging this lately:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Hartford_Aereo-Plain.jpg

oh but anyway, bought 20 boxes of records for the store last night. i dunno, 1200 or 1300 records. probably 40% classical, but what are you gonna do. it was an all or nothing deal. the rest is really good store stock. rock and jazz. lots of fusion, just in case anyone needs any. i'm set for jeff lorber albums for awhile. but lots of nice pieces too. white label promo miles davis stuff. nice original copy of this which i'm keeping:

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20041211/4060099885.jpg

and even the classical stuff is nice. old import promo stuff. most of it came from an old radio station.

Earcom 2 on Fast with insert - rare to see in NZ and at a very nice price!

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-290071-1162825156.jpeg

richard thompson 'henry the human fly'
maddox bros & rose 'honky tonkin'
waylon 'are you ready for the country'