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The Holmes bores me by the end of it, but the first few tracks are fan-fucking-tastic.

I love I Wish I Had A Wooden Heart, but ever since I walked out of Music Zone I wondered if £7 really was a bargain...

um, manitoba! and i bought mum today, which is very nice.

Buy King Dub by King Tubby. Is great.

negativland "a big 10-8 place"

I really didn't like that Futureheads thing. :(

Get yerself some Boredoms, laddy!

"Tyranny of Distance," by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.

Right now, "The Ace Of Spades" by Motorhead is rocking my immature little brain, particularly in the knowledge that it cost me the ridiculous price of £3.99.

Boredoms - VCN (or the far superior Rebore vol. 0 remix, if you can find it)
Queen - A Night At The Opera (£3 in Reckless Records, Berwick St, I saw it just half an hour ago)
Glass Candy and the Shattered Theatre - Love Love Love (amazing joyful party record with a m9nd-fuckingly awesome lady singer [should be in RT])

Oh, also I just saw the Residents '3rd Reich n Roll' in Reckless for 15 quid, should I get it?

yes yes yes. get it.

>negativland "a big 10-8 place"

hey that's their best album by a factor of thirty.

Well, out of all them the only one I ended up getting was Manitoba, so if that is rubbish then I will have to kill Mr Murphy, and not just to make a semi-humorous pun of his first name.

However, I did buy an awful lot of stuff today. The map sort of goes like this:

Borders Oxford Street: Nothing
HMV Oxford Street (visit 1): nothing
Music Zone Oxford Street: David Holmes & The Free Association; The Shangri-Las; Deadly Avenger
Virgin Oxford Street: The Futureheads
Fopp, Charing Cross Road: nothing
Rough Trade, Covent Garden: Careless Talk Costs Lives

I tried and failed to get the Hunches there. However, they sent me off to:

Selectadisc, Berwick Street : All Girl Summer Fun Band; Manitoba; My Morning Jacket (for £3.99, somehow); Fortuna Pop! Christmas Gift 2

Still no Hunches. I then had every intention of going home. Until I spotted:

Mister CD, Berwick Street, bargain basement of: Cornershop; McAlmont & Butler; Stylophonic; Brassy; Primal Scream; Baxter Dury; James Yorkston; Atom & His Package; some other promo thing

Seven £1 promos, two proper albums for a fiver. I was just a bit over the moon. It had got a wee bit late, so I decided I'd go to the FAP. Nearest tube was Oxford Street, So on the way there:

HMV Oxford Street: THE HUNCHES!!!

Top day. Utterly top day.

Wicked. Buying records rules!

gimme the lowdown on berwick st these days. i've not been there for 6 years! best cd shopping strip in london?

There's absolutely no point whatsoever in me saying "Trout Mask Replica" at this point is there, because you're all such intelligent and perceptive and just generally wonderful human beings that of course you've all got it already and it would be just plain silly of me to think otherwise.

I've got it but I think it's shit. :o)

Did I say you had to like it Nick?

Thoughts so far:

Free Association - so 'side-project' it hurts, but when it stops posing it's solid.

Deadly Avenger - PS2 RPG soundtrack. Bit underwhelming somehow.

Manitoba - whoa! Max Tundra with tunes! Kilian, you fucking RULE!

All Girl Summer Fun Band - twee-est thing ever. Absolutely ace in every way.

The Hunches - HUNCHES FUCKEN' ROXOR! EXPLOSION! But I can't play it within 100 yards of other people, cos they get cross. This is because they are fools. Hunches rule.

No wonder you were in such a rush to leave the FAP, William. ;)