your fav album from a cut-out bin

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I LOOOVE cut out bins. They are the top place to get something so obscure, badly marketed, or misplaced, nobody's even bought it yet to be found used or at a flea market. (Those are the sources for 97% of music I buy.) Meaning, you can find amazing, top shit for a couple bucks if you look hard enough. (Wading thru 50 copies of "Extreme II Pornografitti" for example.) So, I nominate top album I ever got from a cut-out bin: Gang of 4 "Brief History of the 20th Century", my personal favorite ever of all post-punk era music. Man, early-mid 90's were the days for the cut out bin scores, for me- tapes were just getting overtaken by CD, pickin's were amazing- I just getting into music & hi skool- and the suburban mall near me had a large, incongruous, misplaced collection of great arty post-punk albums that no phil collins, suburban AOR shit music fans were buying. Frickin gold mine. I didnt even know Gang of 4 & I just read about them, got the tape & loved listening to it while biking on my paper route. Some other shit I scored: loads of wierd early industrial, like Throbbing gristle- Nitzer Ebb's first, really great, especially since it had their best song ever "Warsaw Ghetto" now unconscionably deleted, which was why it was cut out- Wire, another top favorite of mine, I got Pink Flag AND 154 among others- some good lesser gothic bands like Xymox- me I my brother both envied each other's scores of Joy Division "Closer" and Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's import only rare "Smashed Hits"- I got lots of new 90's industro-rock like KMFDM, Chemlab too. Man those were the days. Those music hunts got me into bike & bus exploration of the city & tons of great memories. Music hunting + good memories = fun posting. So, these days cut-outs aren't so good, but flea markets are better and better with all the great 80's tapes people ditch- people do buy those, but 70's records- nobody does- they're all just waiting for the taking. So lets hear your stories ?

sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

That mall I used to hang around- Funny, it had 2 decent sized music stores in it, way, way more music than customers, because it was a dying mall, got demolished 2 or 3 years ago. They were liquidating inventory like hell, meanwhile the poor guys working there were doing their best to make it cool, with "industrial revolution" displays of that kind of music, amongst customers who didn't know it from Yanni or Herb Alpert & Tijuana brass or whatever the fuck. Well, it was good scores for me, haha. Blah, blah, sorry.

sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was going to school, one of the local chain stores ended up dumping a bunch of Ninja Tune stuff in the cut-out bin, so I ended up picking up some Funki Porcini, Amon Tobin and DJ Food for next to nothing.

Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Too many choices. I think my fave example would have to be all the various things I picked up after Rough Trade America's collapse...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

shaquille oneal presents superfriends

trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a near-complete set of calypso reissues on the Ice label--Lord Melody, Roaring Lion, Mighty Sparrow, Lord Kitchener--for about $8 apiece in a cutout bin in Mpls. Those were/are fucking amazing. But probably my single favorite CD is the Hoosier Hot Shots' Rural Rhythm on Columbia/Legacy--they were a comedy country group from the '30s and '40s, did songs like "I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)" and "Connie's Got Connections in Connecticut." Robert Christgau called them "the silliest music I've ever heard" and he wasn't kidding. There's a new 2CD set out on Collectors' Choice as well as a 4CD box on Proper UK, but Rural Rhythm kinda ownz.

M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

mpls always sounds like some cheap record wonderland

nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

because it is

M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Hanoi Rocks' "Oriental Beat." Not sure why I bought it, but was surprisingly pretty good.

Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

prime minister pete nice and daddy rich - dust to dust lp (production by beatnuts and kmd!!)

trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of my él records cost a quid...they're like gold dust now (Marden Hill's 'Cadaquez', Bad Dream Fancy Dress...), Devine & Statton's 'Cardiffians', the first two Monochrome Set albums...and all of my Blue Note vinyl (a fiver each...yes, even Out to Lunch!) - bought over a couple of years when the label was trying to clear its vinyl stock...only to repress it five years later ;-)

Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

any 78s?

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

scarce, 'deadsexy'

stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Drawings Of Patient O.T.", by Einsturzende Neubauten, the American edition on PVC Records. Not just their best album, in my opinion, but it came with an extra record w/ live tracks, otherwise unavailable.

Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is more fun if you only name cds

trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Fingers "Introduction"
A Guy Called Gerald "Black Secret Technology"
Curtis Mayfield "Curtis Live!"

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

that shaq record really is great, 'do it faster' with twista is one of my fav twista songs ever

trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Best record I ever bought from a cutout bin: Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Best record I ever shoplifted: NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Best record I ever shoplifted from a cutout bin: Da Lench Mob - Guerillas in da Midst

Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Pell Mell "Interstate" = highest fucking possible ratio of album quality over ease of finding a used copy for less than a buck.

donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)


pell mell are highly under-rated and under-mentioned if you ask me. what a great band!
m.

msp, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

consolidated-"friendly fascism"

Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

this whole world of cutout bin finds was the sole reason i created ireallylovemusic. i have found so many decent stuff over the years and decided that the albums need to have a memory out there. recently the focus has moved. but within the archive are many of my faves. most recent has to be latest grand mal album. a complete result for me as i had no idea that they were even going as a band. from this one find i am now an arena rock hunter... so one simple £1 find means i end up spending a lot more .. such is life. other faves include .. exodus77 (now Free Assoc), swervedriver, pmd, akrobatic, puresence, oh i could get boring soon.
stopping now .. m.e

mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)


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