Tim Buckley/"Starsailor": help me land a copy

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Hi, I'm new here. I hate to start my first post with a grovel, but so it goes.

I need a CD copy of "Starsailor," but I refuse to pay the three digits it's going for on amazon. I'd get the LP but it averages for around $50 on ebay, which is about $30 more than I'm willing to spend. Scouring the P2P's is out--I just spent a weekend recovering my hard disk and I'm not about to put some dodgy software on my machine.

So, this is where you come in. Burn me a CDR (preferrably from the Rhino CD) and I'll burn you for one of the following out of print/spottily available CDs that I have. If none of these float your boat, I have a good amount of expensive imports to offer as well.

Sonny Sharrock/Ask the Ages
New York Dolls/Too Much Too Soon
Dolly Parton/Best of (1975, RCA)
Townes Van Zandt/Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Herbie Hancock/Flood
Pat Martino/Head and Heart (includes the terrific "Live!" album)
Jean Luc Ponty/King Kong
James Blood Ulmer/Tales of Captain Black (going for $44 on amazon?)
Sam Cooke/The Man and His Music
Big Youth/Screaming Target
Moby Grape/Moby Grape (don't pay the $25 like I did!)
Gram Parsons/Sleepless Nights

Thanks

― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

preferrably from the Rhino CD

Did Rhino actually issue a CD of this? My copy is the Restless one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the auctions on ebay claim it's a Rhino release

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4700462517

― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you have a CD burner? I can yousendit if you'd like. if not something else can be arranged, I have to burn a copy of this for another ILXor soon anyway.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

if you buy vinyl, i know a store in Vancouver that'd probably mail it to you and it's probably CAN$30

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Deos anyone have any idea why this is out of print? It's his only studio album you can't get, but the most acclaimed of the lot. They've released new packages of old live material in recent years, but not Starsailor, which would probably turn a profit from fans of that British band Starsailor alone. What the fuck?

― Lee M Cardholder, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

a YOUSENDIT would be great! i'd love to get my hands on this too.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1QDUDAZIG2H092XW054C44SQBH

There ya go guys...

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope it works, first time I've ever used YSI or made a stuffit file.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks so much, i owe you one!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Worked just fine. Already burned it and listening to it on my stereo right now.

You rock, dude! Much gratitude.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone tell me why Starsailor gets namechecked infinitely more times than Lorca? i really feel they're comparable albums as far as out-ness and in-ness goes. i probably listen to lorca more. does it have anything to do with an obscurantist inside joke? "hey, it's harder to find, so it must be better."

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, thanks for the yousendit link. i've always wanted this for my ipod

― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Incidentally, a friend of mine insisted once insisted that I own this record and promptly called 50 stores. Not one had a copy.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(A whisper in the breeze loooorrrccaaa iiiissss fiiiinneeee... sttaaarrrsaaaillloorrr issss suppeerrriioorrrr...

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's 'cos, other than the title track, "Lorca" is boring as hell while the Jimmy Saville impression on "Come Here Woman" on "Starsailor" is funny as fuck. In fact, it's laffs all the way with this album.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Buckley's vocal on "Monterey" is like Jimmy Savile having a pillow fight with Phil Minton (N.B.: This Is No Bad Thing).

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Did Leon Thomas rip off Jimmy Savile, then?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Ifield as unacknowledged mentor of improv vocalese: discuss.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard Goodall's Twentieth Century Greats - Lennon & McCartney
Am looking forward to the rest of the series: Kenny Ball, Geoff Love, Frank Ifield...
-- We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), November 28th, 2004.
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is there really going to be a programme about frank ifield?
-- RJG (RJ...), November 30th, 2004.

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Well he is a 20th Century Great, isn't he?
-- We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), November 30th, 2004.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone confirm or deny the scurrilous rumour that what Buckley is actually singing on the title track of "Starsailor" is a slowed-down and backward-playing rendition of "She's known as Nell in Camberwell/She went down to the vicar's"?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I read this thread yesterday, and had a nightmare last night some hipster at a dive bar took pity on me for never having heard "Song to the Siren." I felt very bad.

― Tonka Trux, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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