I exchanged my mind for a bag of records.

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Just got in and I need to catch up on some sleep, so I'll make this quick. I went down to the legendary Princeton Record Exchange today and went all kinds of insane.

On CD:

V/A - The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957 (3-CD box set) 24.99

Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush $1.99

OMC - How Bizarre $1.99

V/A - Macarena Dance (1995 Polydor comp of "Macarena" remixes) $1.99

V/A - KAOL 3: The Spirit of '78 (2-CD KISS Army Online tribute to the 1978 KISS solo albums) $4.99

V/A - Freak the Sheep Vol. 1: A New Zealand Music Compilation (Flying Nun, 1991) $3.99

Circle Jerks - Oddities, Abnormalities & Curiosities $2.99

Rainbow - The Very Best of Rainbow $3.99

Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars! $2.99

Laura Branigan - Branigan $1.99

Taylor Dayne - Can't Fight Fate $1.99

Pat Benatar - Get Nervous $3.99

Ace of Base - Happy Nation U.S. Version $3.99

Army of Lovers - Massive Luxury Overdose $1.99

La Bouche - Sweet Dreams $2.99

Expose - Exposure $2.99*

V/A - Flashdance: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack $4.99*

(*upgrades from vinyl)

...and on cassette:

Technotronic Featuring Ya Kid K - Pump Up the Jam: The Album $1.99

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Has the Freak the Sheep compiliation got 'Heavenly Pop Hit' by the Chills on it?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh bollocks. Never mind, Ya Kid K! http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:jo6gM6IbT30C:www.danceartistinfo.com/pictures/technotronic-group.jpg

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

No offence but you did go insane and buy the biggest load of crap!!! Oh well i always wondered who bought those things in the bargain bin!

― S Samson, Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

No offence but you did go insane and buy the biggest load of crap!!!

I know! I can't wait to listen to it all!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

If you came around to my house with those records I would ask you to go away.

― S Samson, Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I would not be offended.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Army of Lovers - Massive Luxury Overdose $1.99

Your life is about to become so, so sweet

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the Rainbow's bound to be grand anyway. Does it have "Power", "Street of Dreams" and "Stone Cold"?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Check, check, check.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yo - YOU WERE IN PRINCETON?!?!? Next person who's coming to Princeton HAS to e-mail me, so we can have a Princeton FAP!!! The Annex is crucial.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, but what the blazers is a FAP?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

jbr, your mind is worth a lot than a bag of cut-outs.

the good news is that bad music is sometimes more fun than good music.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ack, that should read "more than"

I guess my mind is worth that bag of records, today at least.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

jbr u went to prex and you didn't tell me?!?!

goddammit

― geeta, Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, guys. This was a solitary mission. But I'm up for another trip soon!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, the Len and OMC albums are really good, and I mean that without any hint of irony.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

what a load of crap!!!

― chad (chad), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Destination unknown
As we pull in for some gas
Freshly pasted poster
Reveals a smile from the past

Elephants and acrobats,
Lions snakes monkeys
Pele speaks “righteous”
Sister Zina says “funky”

How bizarre
How bizarre
How bizarre

I'm jealous.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Army of Lovers...... best thing I can think to listen to right now.

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, it's still a load of crap!!!

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot about that Len album, i bet there's a few gems on it

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My ex-friend Mickey used to this. Buy $50.00 worth of absolute crap in the bargain bins everytime we went shopping. Used to get so angry when I said "If you stopped buying so much crap in the bargain bins you could actually get a half decent record". Pffftt! He used to get mad at me. But hey, it was true. Why buy a load of crap??

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Technotronic is the best. If you don't like that one, send it to me!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Pfft!!!

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Samson, do you hate fun?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 23 March 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Fun? Pfffttt!

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, guys. This was a solitary mission.

tr. "Jody's got a boyfriend"

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 23 March 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor fellow probably has to listen to those records as well.

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

This place sounds amazing. Are there really thousands of $5 or less CDs or are they mostly singles and such? Is it remotely possible to see everything in a day? How do you carry around everything you want?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 23 March 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

my recent (last three months) p-rex finds:

country teasers - science hat... (1.99)
8 eyed spy - live (3.99)
marc ribot - saints (1.99)
xtc - oranges & lemons (4.99)
pharoah sanders - karma (7.99)
jandek - follow your footsteps (3.99)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 23 March 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just there two weeks ago, I took the bus from NYC to Princton, I was bored and sick of NYC record shops...(1.5 hours one way). It was nice, very good record store. Here's what I bought:

Sunburned Hand of Man-Jaybird LP
Friends Forever-Soundtrack LP
The Yips-Bonfire in a Dixiecup LP
The Numbers/Emergency 12"

― ddb, Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember the Len being good, from what I heard.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, Samson, you can drop it. There are some albums in the lot that are actually worth a damn.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

HOWEVER, because you're starting to irritate me, I'm gonna put on some PAT BENATAR. Suck it up.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

This place sounds amazing. Are there really thousands of $5 or less CDs or are they mostly singles and such?

Mostly full-length CDs -- promos, used stuff, cutouts.

How do you carry around everything you want?

The magic of the shopping cart! I dropped my CDs at one point b/c of sheer volume and someone offered me a cart. I was like "Uhhh... once you need a cart it's probably time to get going." and. yet. i. stayed.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I want the title of this thread to be the title of my autobiography.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice catch Jody. I haven't listened to that OKeh box in a while, so thanks for the reminder. The Trenier's "Uh Oh (Get Out of the Car)" is #1 on my list of Great Moments in Pop Music Misogyny.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Jody, you forgot to pick up some Atlantic Starr.

― mosurock (mosurock), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Midnight Star were so much better.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Pat Benatar - Get Nervous $3.99

ooh, i could drown in this.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

was this the first time you went to the Record Exchange, Jody?

i haven't been there in years meself. since i grew up and went to college around princeton, it should be needless to say that i spent way too much time/money there as a teenager/college student.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 23 March 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Rainbow - The Very Best of Rainbow $3.99

"Don't know about your brain, but you look all right!" = greatest rock lyric ever

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 23 March 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never been to the RX! next time for sure. also, Dave M, are you coming to the Jersey City FAP? details here: FAJCP?

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 23 March 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and I fully expect you to make me a mix-CD with stuff from each and every one of those purchases, Jody. ;-)

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 23 March 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

was this the first time you went to the Record Exchange, Jody?

Nah, I go down there about once every six months. It's a good thing I don't live in that part of Jersey.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

you need some S.W.V. and some shanice!

― drystereo (drystereo), Sunday, 23 March 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't tell me what I need.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry

― drystereo (drystereo), Sunday, 23 March 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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nesian mystik!!!

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 23 March 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

that fiver right there could have been a pack of cigarettes.

Answer One: "haha not in new york, my friend" (try seven bucks)

Answer Two: "music, cigarettes, it's all just trading one bad habit for another, innit?"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

no FAJCP for me, since it's six days before my thesis is due. you may be able to hear me scream from there, though. since enough of us frequent it, maybe i should call a P-REX FAP to celebrate?

It's a good thing I don't live in that part of Jersey.

four minute walk from my doorstep. ummm... anybody want some credit card debt? i have some to spare.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

you were ripped off, you could get heaps of that stuff for 50cents here.

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

you were ripped off, you could get heaps of that stuff for 50cents here.

That's what I was thinking as well Di. What a load of crap! Pffftt.
: - )

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck off.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Relax! : - D

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't do it. Baby don't want to lose it. Errr. Pfff!

― S SAmson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i like that stuff jbr, i just wouldn't have paid that much for it.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think $1.99 is a lot to pay for ANYTHING, but that's just me.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

'Exposure' kind of dies beyond the singles

― dave q, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this, pick on Jody day??

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa, whoa, i didn't think i was picking on you, i'm sorry if you thought i was. whats that flying nun comp got on it?

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

'Exposure' kind of dies beyond the singles

Huh. The last En Vogue album sort of doest that as well. Good hair on the cover.

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

whats that flying nun comp got on it?

Malchicks - "Vanilla"
Watershed - "Spark"
Nemesis Dub Systems - "Radical Technology"
Second Child - "Right Up"
Plaster Saints - "I Can't Reach You"
Lee Harvey - "Honey Jar"
Compulsory Joy - "Crash Love"
Freak Power - "Rye"
Hallelujah Picassos - "Rockin' Time"
Nixons - "Song to"
Drill - "No Trouble"
Spermbank Five - "Call Me Bub"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I fully support the following things:
1. Jody Beth's taste in music.
2. Jody Beth's right to buy lots of cheap music in New Jersey, with or without telling anyone else she's going. (And this passion, let me point out, doesn't have to have anything to do with any boyfriend/girlfriend Jody Beth may have.)
3. My own right to buy lots of cheap music in Wisconsin, which continues: this week I bought Jody Watley's Real Love and Princess Erika's Tant Qu'il y Aura for $1.00 each, the Melodians' Rivers of Babylon comp for $8.99, and Scientist's amazing Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires for $6.63.
4. S Samson's right to pick on Jody Beth's taste in music...the first time.
5. The wonderful genius of used shops, the thrill of the hunt, the roar of the greasepaint, the feeling I get when you look to the west....

― Neudonym, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Also - LEN????? Boycott Canadian product!

― dave q, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(besides MY stuff, I meant)

― dave q, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't live in Canada, so you're exempted.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(And this passion, let me point out, doesn't have to have anything to do with any boyfriend/girlfriend Jody Beth may have.)

Wait, when was it decided I had a boyfriend, and how come no one told me until now?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, that Len album is great! There's one track that sounds like an outtake from Bruce Haack's Electric Lucifer Book II!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Also - LEN????? Boycott Canadian product!

Aah what a load of crap. Manitoba's new one, is all dancing and all singing beauty!

Who are the Melodians?

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR: J0hn Darn1elle decided your status, upthread. Try and keep up, wouldja?

The Melodians were one of the front-line Jamaican rocksteady vocal harmony groups. They made some of the most beautiful music of all time: "Rivers of Babylon," "Sweet Sensation," "Swing and Dine." All sublime, all lovely, all rugged.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds pretty sweet. What label is it on?

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR: J0hn Darn1elle decided your status, upthread. Try and keep up, wouldja?

No, no, I grokked that, I just... oh never mind.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR: Stop grokking all over the place. It's getting embarrassing, and slightly messy. ("All this caffeine in me / Is the reason I been so mean")

S Samson: The comp I have is from Trojan. The mighty Blood and Fire Records has a bunch of other similar groups' comps coming out now (The Pioneers, etc.)...now seems to be a pretty good time for this stuff's reappearance. And stop going pffft all over Taylor Dayne. That's my girl right there.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Taylor Dane? Secretary rock. Pffft. What a load of crap. : - D I mean you can turn on any AM radio station in North America and you've got a DJ mixing that crap for you all day!

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, S Samson, I give up. I'll leave the world to you and float off into my own private atmosphere...with the lovely and beauteous T.D.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean you can turn on any AM radio station in North America

Wow! Even in Mexico?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it similar to the sweet girl voices on Mad Professor's stuff? The melodians?

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

S Samson: 1. no, these are guy voices, similar to early Wailers but not as smooth.
2. what the hell is wrong with secretaries, you elitist jerk?

― Neudonym, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

2. what the hell is wrong with secretaries, you elitist jerk?

Hell nothing. It was a term made up by a Secretary friend I know. She was made to listen to AM Radio all day. And she termed it 'SECRETARY ROCK I CAN'T STAND IT'. So I used the term.

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

and that gets you off the hook? well, okay, so it does, kinda. never mind.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Though we met up for lunch one day and in the middle of lunch I caught her singing 'Toni Braxton's 'Unbreak my Heart''.

: - D

― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

what on earth is"grokking"?

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

To get, as in comprehend or wrap your head around.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 23 March 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Darn1elle, you're so, so right about Army of Lovers. Why did I pass this up the other 9,334,705,365 times I saw it in the cutout bin? I suck.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

good on ya for picking up all this stuff jody. it does take guts and its risk taking, which makes it classic (even if its cheap).

and i thougth s samson had gone away for good but he couldn't stay away.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(I've said it before and I'll say it again, JBR roxx u r all gay!) Man, JBR, that has to be the wackiest shop I ever did see. I bet you had fun.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Answer One: "haha not in new york, my friend" (try seven bucks)

You gotta buy cartons in NJ. But you knew that.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 23 March 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I buy 'em in bulk from an Indian reservation in upstate New York!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

With that purchase JBR of Army of Lovers increased your coolness quotient yes you have 4000%!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to like that 'Expose' Lp in the '80's,quite good at the time,maybe a bit dated now.I'll have to check them out again

― Paul R (paul R), Monday, 24 March 2003 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to drive the point into the ground (too late), but you're better off buying Kylie's latest.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Way ahead of you, KH... that was like my #4 album of last year.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Should have been mine, but I found out too late. That's just one of the reasons I don't like making lists.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought "How Bizarre" was Beck for about six months, and I'm not the only one I know who did

― dave q, Monday, 24 March 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

V/A - KAOL 3: The Spirit of '78 (2-CD KISS Army Online tribute to the 1978 KISS solo albums) $4.99

This is really way too much for me to wrap my head around.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Nature abhors a vacuum. It appears that none of those people did a version of "Dirty Livin'". Hmmm...'I shall be gone for some time...'

― dave q, Monday, 24 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Q, if you record a version of that and do the Oates quote IN THE SONG -- in perfectly stiff Etonian English, of course -- I will marry you, or at least fling rice at you or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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