It's November, assholes. What have you bought?

1 The Fearless Vampire Killers DVD [ 9.74 GBP 1 9.74 GBP
Sold by Amazon.com Int'l Sales, Inc. - taxed

Soon to buy - Seinfeld Boxset 1,2 & 3.

lil scrappy/ trilville album

ginuwine - the bachelor

juvenile - tha g code

fopp bargains

.. 'nervous' by yello is a great classic yello electro track. though i suspect the rest of the lp will be a let down ..

I just paid for two France Gall EPs online.

Lesquels?

Dizzee Rascal: 'Showtime' on vinyl
Bright Eyes: 'Lifted ...'
The 'Plunderphonics' cd box, yay!
Reggaeton Traxx 12", six trax of Puerto Rican rasta shiaart

I'm well chuffed.

ok. Yello - The Eye.

loving the smooth boris blank electro sounds for first time in ages .. time to dig in the archive for their other albums that have been hidden away for too long ..

ugh. It's a bore. And it's onlly Miles and Malc from the original line-up (no Martin, no Fiddly). It's much more the Miles Hunt Club than anything even remotely Stuffesque. Skip it.

Joni Mitchell -- Hissing of Summer Lawns
Captain Beefheart -- Mirror Man Sessions
Herbie Hancock -- Maiden Voyage
Chick Corea -- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Police -- Regatta de Blanc
Black Sabbath -- Paranoid (repurchase after my copy was long lost)
Dubwise II
Kris Kristofferson -- Kristofferson
Savath & Savalas -- Man(tilde)ana

Digital Underground - Sex Packets
Keren Ann - Not Going Anywhere
T. Raumschmiere - Radio Blackout
Three 6 Mafia - Da Unbreakables
Amy Denio - Birthing Chair Blues
Sussan Deyhim - Madman of God
Parts & Labor/Tyondai Braxton split - Rise, Rise, Rise
2002 Cuneiform Records sampler

I AM ILM.

The Avalanches "Since I Left You"
Mice Parade "All Roads Lead To Salzburg"
Amon Duul II "The Best of 1969-1974"
Mice Parade "Obrigado Saudade"
Kim Hiorthoy "Melke"
Playgroup "Partymix"

The Playgroup is mildly fun,
and I thought that the Avalanches were quite good on first listen.

Jez, I got the Baby Pop +3 ep and Deux Oiseaux +3 ep. Have the songs already on the Baby Pop cd but want the OG vinyls for collector satisfaction / dj purposes.

all good

Felt "The Splendour of Fear"
Wolf Eyes/Smegma split CD

the thread title doesn't specify music, so I've also bought:

new issues of The Believer, Critical Inquiry, and Cabinet
Wilhelm Reich "Listen Little Man"
Douglas Wolk's book on "Live at the Apollo" in the 33 1/3 series
Clark Coolidge's book of poems about the Old West
a DVD of "His Girl Friday"

Great stuff - I'm always on the lookout. The1968 album is the last thing I can find predating her later AOR stuff; am I missing anything?

By the way, have you heard the Swinging Mademoiselle compilations?

I haven't watched it yet so I don't know if it's a good transfer. I bought it for $1.99 at Walgreens. They have this crazy DVD cut price series called The Treasure Box Collection, the DVD is just sitting in a cardboard thin sleeve with really crappy Photoshop art. The Criterion Collection it ain't, but quite the low price, eh?

Last night, in HMV Oxford Circus, I went to the counter with the following:

Shitmat - Full English Breakfast
Stonebridge - Can't Get Enough
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map Of All That Is Effortless
Travis - Singles
Verve - This Is Music: Singles '92-'98

Assistant: "You're a PR man, aren't you?"
MC: "??????"
Asst: "You can't possibly like THESE three and those OTHER two as well! You're trying to get them to chart, aren't you?"
MC: "As it happens I like ALL of them and to show you how much I like them, I'm going to cross the road and buy them all out of Selectadisc, where I am not questioned about the aesthetic merit of my purchases or any presumed rationale behind them. Good night."

No wonder Amazon does such good business if this is the attitude of music chainstores these days.

They were cheaper in Selectadisc as well.

So you did buy something, then? How is the new Wildean Elan?

I am such a cheapskate that I would have walked up and down Berwick Street to get the best price on each one....(but they would have to pay ME to take the Travis or the Verve!)

pastels - truck train tractor 12"
jens lekman - you are the light CDS
apples in stereo - sound effects CD
va - vaultage 78 LP
disorder - complete disorder CD
opus 3 - it's a fine day CDS
beat - can't get used to losing you 12"
jilted john - jilted john 7" (original on Rabid Records wooo!)
oblivians - kick your ass 7"
mazzy star - she hangs brightly CD
golden mile - blowing hot and gold 7"
urusei yatsura - all hail CD

They were cheaper in Selectadisc as well."

Amazon would probably have been cheaper than either of them.

I very seldom bother to go in to record shops any more - much to the consternation of my partner who used to refer to HMV in Reading as "The Creche" because she said she knew she could leave me in their safely while she went off and did all of her shopping.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

I have attempted to pursue this line of argument in the past but unfortunately that pile of things I haven't actually quite managed to get 'round to listening to just yet has almost invariably managed to defeat me.

I expected to recognize and like more songs (than the ones I was primarily buying this for) once I actually got this, but it turns out that most of this doesn't do much for me.

Victor Manuelle: Victor Manuelle (3-CD box collecting three of his albums--somewhat weird and pointless way of packaging them, but I wanted them and it's cheaper to buy it this way)

And a few other things I might be forgetting... I'm tired.

American Music Club ? Love Songs For Patriots
Animal Collective ? Sung Tongs
Herman Chin-Loy ? Aquarius Rock
Leonard Cohen ? Dear Heather
Decemberists ? Her Majesty
Gris Gris ? Gris Gris
Ray Lamontagne ? Trouble
Ariel Pink?s Haunted Graffiit ? The Doldrums
Shearwater ? Winged Life
Sufjan Stevens ? Seven Swans
Trashcan Sinatras ? Weightlifting

Somehow it seems as if there should be more though....

I have also purchased the new Mike Watt, the dB's two-fer of their first two albums, and The Slits - Cut (I'm surprised it's taken me so long). I have Piano Magic's Seasonally Affective on the way as well.

is good -- better than PV Trecks. but not as good as 2 Track 12", or Yasunao Tone's releases on Asphodel and Alku last year.

vocokesh "smile and point at the mountain"
framework "skeleton"
von lmo "red resistor"
crank sturgeon lp
birchville cat motel "lion of eight thousand generations"

and then there's 4 or 5 months worth of stuff i haven't bothered with.

Laura Nyro - Eli & The 13th Confession
Wire - Chairs Missing
Bardo Pond - Lapsed
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
My Morning Jacket - Tennessee Fire
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

Almost picked up new Leonard Cohen and Bowie's Low and Heroes cheap - maybe next month...

ynf: what do you think of that crank sturgeon LP? I haven't heard it, but the tape of his I've heard kinda left me unimpressed. He's certainly entertaining live though.

i got to engineer a live performance with him and the id m theft able guy, it was like listening to two hobos who had their language centers disabled arguing over a trombone. (there was a trombone between them.)

Thanks Ian - yeah i'm thrilled i finally got round to picking up a Bardo Pond LP. "Lapsed" was actually the one most recommended by the ILM (*brain*) in a thread a while back. Re: Bowie, there's this deal for both re-mastered "Low" & "Heroes" for $22 Aussie dollars which is $US17 or 9 UK pounds. Cheap! Re: that YLT thread, "Painful" wasn't in stock so has to be an Amazon order. For me: Patience.

the tower recordings - galaxies' incredible sensual transmission field
hall of fame - paradise now
LP of iranian classical music (Vol. 2: anthologie de la musique traditionalle santur par Majid Kiani) (ocora 1979)
gruber/mclean/menger/schieve - music of a timeless earth (folkways... haven't listened yet, but billed as an amalgam of electronic music, various world musics and modern classical.. 1980)

"TIBET I: The Music of Tibetan Buddhism" (Unesco)

bubba sparxxx - dark days bright nights (v. good. wasnt expecting much beyond the singles that i'd already heard, and "twerk". but i don't know if there's a single track i don't actually like. wanna say something more about it another time).

big pun - capital punishment (been looking for this for ages, heard virtually everything on it through mp3. superb, obv.)

pulp - we love life (it's either mostly lousy or needs a different time and place)

We played Lorca in the car trip home from Melbourne and it got laughed off the stereo :(

I liked what little I've heard so far!

New Go-Betweens Reissues! They make great videos!
is there a dvd or do u get a cdrom video with each cd ?
is there bonus tracks

the mia mixtape arrived this morning.

yes good.

and neil young's self titled album. yay! the sleeve anyway, with "harvest" inside. boo.

i bought the ganksta nip because cocaine blunts and we eat so many shrimp have me looking for old hip-hop...

and i should be getting more stuff tonight fuh muh birtday.

haha, does it come in a bent case?
[happy birthday btw]

another performer of this stuff that I have checked out is eberhard blum: there are some gd things on hat art, earle's brown's 'four systems' and stockhausen's 'spiral'.

Neuhaus' at the usual place: http://www.ubu.com/sound/neuhaus.html

I'm not completely sold on it, yet. There's one song ("New York something" maybe?) that really really irritates me; it's just too middleo-of-the-road indie sounding. But there are some nice drones. I wish they'd stretched things out a bit more or varied it.. but ya know, it's pleasant.