Rolling "I'd Buy That for a Dollar!" Thread 2008

I'll start this off with my latest finds, all from the dollar bin at Record Surplus in Los Angeles:

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
The Prissteens - Scandal, Controversy and Romance
Whale - All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones
Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
Killer Dwarfs - Dirty Weapons
Firehouse - Hold Your Fire

I haven't listened to everything yet, but Tom Petty, Kate Bush, and Killer Dwarfs were all pretty rad!

i bought this record of little prep school kids doing covers of pipeline and other rockin' instrumentals in the early 60's for a dollar yesterday:

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That's pretty awesome! Where did you find it?

oh, yeah, it was worth a buck. maybe even three!

also, got *the new sound* of les paul on capitol for a dollar. that record is insane and i would have paid at least five bucks for it.

oh also bought a completely hard to find anita o'day album that i was really happy to find cuz i'm a big fan and i've never seen one in person. i would have paid 20 bucks for it. it was in great shape too.

http://popsike.com/pix/20060725/160011835693.jpg

oh, right, this was at a sale at lillian hellman's old house.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_05_img0330.jpg

tons of great 78's, but i just have no room for them. and i would probably never play them. but lots of great jazz and pop from the 40's and 50's.

i won't bother telling you what i got at the dump cuz everything at the dump store is free. got some good stuff though.

3 tapes for 2 bucks each at the flea market:

UGK - Hard to Swallow
Public Enemy - Yo Bum The Show
Outkast - ATLiens

I usually don't like to pay more than a dollar for tapes, but I get all twitchy around classic rap tapes (I'm trying to build the ultimate collection) so I had to cop. Maybe should've passed on the Outkast though.

I just found Richie Hawtins DE9 - Lite mix that he dropped for Mixmag.

Local charity shop - £1.

Well worth it - despite the crappy cover art.

Recently got these all under $4.00

Fesu - "War With No Mercy"
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Caspar Brotzmann - "Home"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007XP9.03.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

Caspar Brotzmann and Page Hamilton - "Zulutime"
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-103680-1098465975.jpg

Er, whoops...pics not showing up?
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Whatever...

On Saturday - Locus Solus by John Zorn on CD for £4.

Oh, also the second Chickenhawks album on half.com for less than a dollar, and it turned out to be signed by Si0ux C1ty P3t3 and Betsy! hoo-wee

http://www.cmtra.org/IMG/jpg_loopuyt.jpg
http://www.music4help.com/userfiles/images/pochettes/moyen/moy_00106058.jpg

£1.50 each, charity shop, Southgate. Musique du Monde always put out good stuff, although they're no Ocora.

Ah that's a bit small. It's music from Azerbaijan and China (Peking Opera specifically).

Scott, what is that Lillian Hellman thing exactly? Is it music (properly speaking)? Or is it her reading one of her plays, or?

I got the Nice Enough to Eat Island Records Sampler for £1 yesterday. It's got Mott the Hoople covering Sir Doug Sahm! Also some Dr Strangely Strange, who I was keen to hear.

Also scored some 7"s for 50p each.

Buffy Saint Marie "I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again"
The Method Actors "Is This It" (nice post-punk grooves)

Also some German synthpop looking thing from 1981. Song called ZAZZ. Band was called Zauerpumpft or Zauerband aor Zau-something. Wasn't quite what I hoped for, but worth a pop.

I got Quadrophenia for £2.99 from Oxford Cowley Road Oxfam the other week. Bit dirty but a quick scrub worted it out, and not scratched to buggery either. I was dead impressed.

Oh, and Flying Burrito Brothers for £3.99 the week after.

Bobby Darin - That's All - $1
Cover is in excellent condition, the record is not scratched, but it's rather dusty. It looks like it was rarely played, but sat for many years without an inner sleeve.

"<i>I'll start this off with my latest finds, all from the dollar bin at Record Surplus in Los Angeles</i>"

Haha. Man, I was trying to make it down there this weekend. That's my favorite record shop in LA. Fuck Amoeba.

Oh, yeah, and when I was there about a month ago, I put my finds up in the Rolling Vinyl thread.

"Scott, what is that Lillian Hellman thing exactly? Is it music (properly speaking)? Or is it her reading one of her plays, or?"

oh no, i just meant that i bought those records at lillian hellman's old house here. i don't know who has been living there since she died though. they had nice stuff whoever they were.

HAW. I was thinking, "she JUST died? how old IS she?!"

Brits, you pay too much. You might as well bow out of the thread.

Now now, let's be nice to the people whose currency is worth more than the paper it's printed on.

I haven't shopped in the past couple weeks, but these were from that vinyl thread (a couple cost slightly more than a dollar, but not very many):

$20 total today, off a nice guy selling on the sidewalk in the West Village; real curious if Scott has any thoughts about any of the go-go stuff...:

Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers D.C.'s No. 1 Band: Live! (Future Sounds, 1986) They cover songs by Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and James Moody, plus "Woody Woodpecker," "Harlem Nocturne", and "The Message".
E.U. (plus various artists?) Rock Yuh Butt (Go-Go USA/TTED, 1988, sealed). I think this is probably a compilation, since only five E.U. songs are listed on the back, and there are also photos of five other go-go bands, though no songs listed for them. The cover of this one and the Chuck Brown one look extremely cut-rate -- almost cardboard Xeroxes, though at least this one is mostly yellow; maybe a quickie cash-in after "Da Butt" hit?
J.C. Lodge "Telephone Love" (Pow Wow 12-inch, 1988) -- not even sure what genre this is, but I remember somebody listed it in their Pazz & Jop Top 10 singles that year, like Frank Owen maybe
Roxanne Shante "Roxanne's Revenge" (Pop Art 12-inch, 1984) -- already had a copy of this, but didn't want to pass up a chance to own a second copy for so cheap
Slug-Go Slug-Go Live (TTED, 1987, sealed)
The Tams Beach Music From the Tams (Compleat EP, 1983, sealed)
2 Puerto Ricans A Black Man And A Dominican "Do It Properly (The Original)" (Grooveline 12-inch, no year listed) I only had the song on compilations before, plus this one has an 11-minute "Fiece Club Mix"; I'm not sure what the "non-original" ones would be. Grooveline couldn't have been the song's original label, though, could it have?
Stevie Wonder "Gotta Have You"/"Feeding Off The Love of the Land" (Motown 12-inch, 1991) I didn't really want this one, but he just threw it in for free at the end, so I guess I'll listen to it.
Betty Wright "No Pain No Gain" (Ms. B, 1988) I may still own the 7-inch of this; I know I used to.

-- xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 00:01 (1 month ago) Link

Vinyl I bought in Texas this week:

dave & sugar - that's the way love should be LP - 75
cents
dave & sugar - stay with me/golden tears LP - $1
lee dorsey - night people LP - $1
dr. feelgood - sneakin' suspicion LP - $2
funky kings - funky kings LP - $1
head east - gettin' lucky LP - $2
long ryders - state of our union LP - $1
mother's finest -another mother further LP - $1
night - night LP - $1
henry paul band - grey ghost LP - $1
ray goodman & brown - II LP - $1
bj thomas - everybody's out of town LP - 75 cents
dave valentin - pied piper LP - $1
(various0 - cruisin' 1960 LP - 75 cents

plus 3 45s w/ pic sleeves for $1 total:

cyndi mizelle - this could be the night/this could be
the night (instrumental)
nu shooz - point of no return/goin' thru the motions
trooper - santa maria/whatcha gonna do about me

-- xhuxk, Sunday, 27 April 2008 00:45 (2 weeks ago) Link

and off-topic, but fwiw, at houston's half price books I also bought copies of the following CDs, all $1 each except in the one case noted: adventures of stevie v adventures of stevie v, bruce anderson brutality, the beloved happiness, t. graham brown lives! ($2), joe dee messina jo dee messina, jamie o'neal shiver, season to risk season to risk, chely wright let me in.

-- xhuxk, Sunday, 27 April 2008 21:39 (2 weeks ago) Link

I have that Season to Risk album, don't pull it out much but "Mine Eyes" is pretty cool.

bamcquern OTM, exactly what I was thinking.

Definitely worth the price, so far:

Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers
J.C. Lodge
2 Puerto Ricans A Black Man And A Dominican
Betty Wright
lee dorsey
dr. feelgood
funky kings
head east
long ryders
mother's finest
night
henry paul band
ray goodman & brown
bj thomas
cruisin' 1960
cyndi mizelle 45
nu shooz 45
trooper 45
bruce anderson
the beloved
t. graham brown
joe dee messina

Definitely not worth the price
both Dave & Sugar LPs (though I'm happy that I now know what Dave & Sugar sounded like)
Stevie Wonder 12" (though it was actually free)

Marginal
Dave Valentin (I'm keeping it, though I'm not sure I could defend it even if you held a gun to my head)

Undecided so far
All the rest (definitely leaning toward "not worth the price" with that Season of Risk CD, though.)

Not sure whether I should open them
All those sealed go-go and Tams records (I want to, but my conscience says maybe it would be better to hold off. I would appreciate advice from collectors.)

By the way, there's a copy of the first Gillette CD for $1 at the Half-Price Books I went to in Houston that I didn't take (since I already have one), if anybody's interested.

Also, I just saw a copy of pretty much every dBs LP ever made (or at least a bunch of their '80s ones, plus a few Alex Chiltons and Traffics and T-Bone Burnetts) for $2 each outside a thrift store on Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside Queens this afternoon. I'm not interested in them myself, I don't think.

Also found in the Record Surplus dollar bin:

Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Viva Death - S/T
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Crowded House - S/T
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OST

And friom the Blowout video parking lot sale in San Diego:

Lush - Split ($1)
Re-Activate - Prevailing Domination demo ($.50)

Worth it so far: Tom Petty, Killer Dwarfs, Chris Isaak, Kate Bush. Re-Activate not so much, although I did get a good laugh out of it.

Heh. TS: Going to the same dollar bins—Camaraderie or Competition?

Princeton Record Exchange, all used CDs, early April (some price tags are missing, and I may also be missing a couple CDs:)

Joe Diffie - Third Rock From The Sun -$1.99 I think
Evangeline - Evangeline - $2.99 (bluegrassy five-woman band on Margarittaville/MCA, 1992)
Firefall - Greatest Hits - $3.99
Lillix - Inside the Hollow - $1.99
Mindy McCready - I'm Not So Tough $1.99 (a couple weeks later, she was on the cover of the NY Post!)
Gary Morris - Hits $2.99
Eddie Rabbit - The Ultimate Eddie Rabbit $2.99 I think
Rancid - B Sides and C Sides - $1.99 (on "Rancid Records" -- is this a bootleg, fan club item, what?)
The Rumour - Purity of Essence $3.99

Actually, what I paid was less than the amounts above, since I got a discount for trade-ins; there's some formula they use, but I don't have it handy.

Evangeline, Firefall, Lillix, McCready, Rabbit, Rancid, Rumour worth the price. (Well, okay, maybe not the Rumour -- we'll see how long that lasts.)

The others we'll see, though so far the Gary Morris sounded so awful I've been afraid to put it back on. The Joe Diffie CD has at least one great song on it.

Stupidly passed up at Princeton: Blackfoot's Tomcattin' CD, for $3.99. It may still be there.

I don't really miss anything about the East Coast except the Princeton Record Exchange.

And, you know, trees.

Well, fwiw, the prices Princeton pay when they buy stuff has gone way down. Though they still take everything I bring, which is cool. (Just probably not worth renting a car to haul it there anymore.)

From Wiki; weird, I'd never heard of the thing:

B Sides and C Sides is a rarities compilation album by Rancid. It was first released online on December 11, 2007, followed by a standard release on January 15, 2008. It contains a number of B-sides and rare songs as well as compilation or soundtrack appearances. The set spans from 1992 to 2004, therefore it doesn't include any songs recorded with current drummer Branden Steineckert.

B Sides and C Sides is also notable as the band's first release since their hiatus in 2004.

Yeah, their buying prices weren't great even when I was still there, I used to take stuff to a small place in Pennsylvania whose name escapes me now. I mostly just loved the $4.99 and under bargain bins.

ebay:
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$1 + $1 shipping

Roxanne Shante "Roxanne's Revenge" (Pop Art 12-inch, 1984) -- already had a copy of this, but didn't want to pass up a chance to own a second copy for so cheap

Okay, this is weird. I just looked at both of my copies, and they're actually different. The one I just bought includes a 4:53 "vocal" version and a 5:01 "instrumental" that aren't on the one I've had for years, and both tracks from that first one "street version" and "instrumental," the latter now called "inst. street version") are on the same side of the new one. Both on Pop Art, both catalog # PA-1406. Is one worth more than the other one?

Tad - Salt Lick MLP - £2, about an hour ago. You don't see Tad vinyl around much, in my experience at least.

It is true that UK equiv to dollar bin 'culture' falls pretty short but I guess people everywhere are pretty keen to offload their unwanted crap

General UK decline down to predictable factors, viz.
(a) ebay;
(b) second hand/charity shop staff taking the pick for themselves and leaving out screeds of free monthly mag CDs, Mark Owen, PopIdol: The Big Band Album, Cathy Davey etc. for mug punters.

As ever, real treasures to be found in shops run by lovely 61-year-old Val Doonican fans to whom it's all this modern pop music and you can't make out the words &c.

>>lee dorsey - night people LP - $1

Just pulled this out the other night for the first time in ages. Nice LP, really like "Draining."

Inadvertently left this one off my Princeton purchases list:

Womack and Womack - Conscience CD, $1.99.

It's great, though not as great as their first two.

I got the Kay Huntington record for $2!!!

chuck, i don't know what to tell you. i had three different timbaland & magoo albums on vinyl and i think i got rid of all them. not because i didn't like them, i just never played them. i tend to listen to 90's/2000's rap on tape or cd more than vinyl. it started to get ridiculous when i was buying wu-tang albums and they were so long that they were six album sets. they did sound great though. double albums are one thing, but when i have to get up from my chair 8 times just to hear one album...okay, i'm lazy.

i still listen to 12 inch singles more than anything when it comes to rap. and tapes.

speaking of which, i just bought some 12 inches and they fit on this thread cuz i bought 114 records for 50 bucks:

ICE T, D.J. JAZZY JEFF AND THE FRESH PRINCE, KOOL MOE DEE, SAMANTHA FOX, JOY WINTER, L'AQUAN, MC RAJAH, WHIZ KID WITH YSL, CANDYMAN, MAESTRO FRESH-NES, THE JAZ, D NICE, THE AFRO'S, THE UBC, STARPOINT, PUBLIC ENEMY, STEADY B., LL COOL J, PIA ZADORA, 2 GIRLS, RISSE, SLY & ROBBIE, RAIANA PAIGE, EDWARD ANTHONY LEWIS, YAZZ, ELAINE STEPTER, FORCE M.D.S., NO FACE HALF, HARD II HANDLE, MICHAEL RODGERS, CLUB HOUSE, NIYOBE, STREET TUFF, DESIREE', STACYE AND KIMIKO, RUBY TURNER, JAMES "J.T." TAYLOR, LOOSE ENDS, EARTH, WIND, & FIRE featuring M.C. HAMMER, SHALAMAR, MAC BAND, NO SMOKE, DON'T KNOW YET, AUGUST WILD, HAROLD FALTERMEYER, S.M.O.K.E.Y. D.E.E. AND THE DXJ, KEVIN PAIGE, GOOD QUESTION, KARIYA, PERFECT GENTLEMEN, Z'LOOKE, RUDE BOYS, NAYOBE,JERMAINE STEWART, ERIC B. & RAKIM, MC900FT.JESUS WITH DJ ZERO, FAT BOYS, PARTNERS IN KRYME, FATHER MC, 3RD BASS, MELISSA ROWAN, CHILL, STEREO MC'S, HEAVY D. AND THE BOYZ, TOO TOUGH D. AND DESIGNER M.J., CANDY FRESH, WEE PAPA GIRLS, M.C. TWIST, LEVERT, THEY WHO MOVE FEATURING NADEE JONES, ST. PAUL, EVELYN "CHAMPAGNE" KING, JULIA SANTANA, SET ME FREE, MIA, RADIO ACTIVE, HIROKO, PAT BENATAR, DENIECE WILLIAMS, TONASIA, THE HILL, EDDY GRANT, FATHER M.C., CALLOWAY, LIA, NEWKIRK, GURU JOSH, D'LAVANCE, MISSY MIST, KLYMAXX,THE GLIMMER TWINS, Z'LOOKE, THE WEST COAST RAP ALL-STARS, TECHNO KUT, KOOL ROCK JAY, GROOVE B. CHILL, THE LADY SPICE, CHRIS FINCH, SHE ROCKERS, QUEEN LATIFAH, LIL' LOUIS AND THE WORLD, KING CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS, M.NEGRA, SIEDAH JARRETT, JANE WIEDLIN, STERLING VOID, LIZ TORRES, READY FOR THE WORLD

CANDY FRESH

^^^ my sleeper favorite. I wish every ILXor could find this record for a dollar or less. It's almost possible.

finally found a copy of that Son of Spirit record on ebay for $0.99! :D

has this track on it which is the fucking tits
http://robotsinheat.com/temp/TheOtherSong.mp3

"Second hand" vintage store that I'd never noticed before, and that I would totally have passed by except my wife wanted to check it out, at 48th and Queens Blvd. in Woodside, Queens:

Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry (Metal Blade/Enigma LP, 1989) - $2
Denroy Morgan - "I'll Do Anything For You" (Becket 12", 1981) - $1
Danny O'Toole - So Long Harry Truman (Atlantic LP, 1975) - $2 (lots of Eagles plus Ronstadt guesting on this one. Great album title. Don't know much about O'Toole except that I've always loved "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues," which is not on this album)
Princess Pang - Princess Pang (Capitol/Metal Blade LP, 1989) - $2
TNT -- Knights Of The New Thunder (Polygram LP, 1984)

Martin Popoff gives the Fates Warning LP a 7, and the TNT a 7. He doesn't grade Princess Pang, who I never heard of before, but one of the guys wears a top-hat, generally a pretty promising sign for late '80s glam/sleaze/hair bands.

Store had LOTS of other cheesy looking $2 mid/late '80s metal, in great condition, that I passed up, much of it on indie labels like Megaforce -- three early Overkill LPs, for instance. Plus Black N BLue, Bulletboys, Vinnie Vincent Explosion, etc...Judging from Popoff's book (he gives the band a couple 8's), maybe I should've bought the Black N Blue album.

The first Overkill record, Feel the Fire, is actually pretty damn good Metallica knockoff thrash. The vocalist wasn't nearly as annoying as he got later on, and they had some great riffs.

Yeah, Popoff points out that Overkill cover the Dead Boys on that LP, and he calls it "metal of a type that doesn't really exist anymore," both of which comments intrigue me. Maybe I'll go back and pick up the copy at that store. (What would make it cool, I think, is if the Metallica it knocked off was Kill 'Em All. Didn't any early thrash bands do that, thinking Metallica got too fancy with their second album, which they sort of did?)

Turns out Danny O'Toole wrote Gary Stewart's great divorce song "Quits," and the original is on that album I bought. Also turns out the guy in the top-hat in Princess Pang is a girl who only looks like a girly man -- a Swedish girl fronting New Yorkers, apparently, with a real cool voice, and the first side of their album is very catchy, often in a fast late '70s hard rock (even think the band 1994 once in a while, maybe) in hair-metal cat clothes way. Also like the speedier songs on that TNT album; they do too many ballads, but the fast ones are worth the $2. Not sure what I think of Fates Warning yet. Some pretty proggy parts; they may or may not add up to any songs.

Any of you guys know about an all girl metal band called Rock Goddess from 1983? Seen an album by them for a couple of quid in a charity shop, looks kinda Girlschool-ish maybe (hopefully)?

stop calling him danny o'toole! it's danny o'keefe. and goodbye harry truman is really good, but i don't like it as much as his global blues album or his breezy stories album. and i might actually like his american roulette album better too. turns out danny was in the band calliope and i've had the calliope album on kama sutra for YEARS and never knew he was in the band. and i like their album too. especially the songs that danny wrote. but i like goodbye harry truman better than the calliope album.

the one o'keefe album i can't get into - surprisingly, cuz i love all his other solo stuff - is his O'Keefe album with his big hit on it, good time charlie's got the blues.

i have that rock goddess album, col. poo. it's good and surprisingly heavy. i'd buy it for cheap. i probably did buy it for cheap.

Is the Rock Goddess that two disc reissue of their first couple albums? Because I have it, and it is indeed quite Girlschool-ish, and it's pretty good. Totally worth it for a few quid.

the first black n' blue album is great, sounds just like ac/dc

http://www.metalmaidens.com/RG002.jpg

Romanian orphan relief fund charity shop was giving away records for free. I came away with a dentist-themed merengue album by Calixto Ochoa.

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Also took...
The Floaters 'Floating into the Future' (Eugene McDaniels produced disco/funk)
Diana Trask - s/t Thought this would be pop/country, like her LP on DOT, but this is more syrupy string-weepy lounge stuff.

<a href="http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/open-for-business/";>My buddies just opened a dollar store</a>. They do mostly Detroit stuff (check the blog, it's full of goodness), and now have a physical location for dedicated dollar-heads. If you're in the Ypsilanti/Detroit neighborhood, it's worth it to check it out.

Arg! http://cousinsvinyl.com/2008/open-for-business/

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Oh, you've got to split for the Vinnie Vincent Explosion record. Blew a career and a wad in Kiss by having a nervous disposition. Famous for unintentionally hilarious ads of him dressed in pink leather with pink guitar in guitar mags. Plays 300 MPH guitar solos in songs that were worthless crap, backing by a band that would become Slaughter. Neck n' neck with Madame X for one-shot laff-riot found comedy.

Rock Goddess -- poor woman's Girlschool, which is a better proposition than you think. On average, homelier than Denise Dufort, the kinds of girls you'd find in a pub in Macclesfield. "Heavy Metal Rock 'n' Roll" and "Angel" were there best songs and if they're on that album -- buy, buy, buy! The rest of the debut wasn't too shabby either. Cover was a close-in group shot over red background, I think. Have it on CD now, was put out by a Cherry Red subsidiary. In the US, an indie had anthologized them.

Got the first 2 New Fads 12" singles for a quid each at a car boot. both mint and staticcy. Mmmmmm. Staticcy.

$5 total for 4 LPs today at Sway (which I talked about without naming a few posts back, though in that one I'd mistakingly pinpointed it at 48th and Queens Blvd in Woodside, rather than its actual location at 48th in Skillman -- in the same post where I called Danny O'Keefe Danny O'Toole, sorry Scott):

Black N Blue - Black N Blue (Geffen, 1984) (See discussion above).

Jelly - A True Story (Asylum, 1977) (Why because they look interesting. Never heard of them before. Just checked the first edition of the Rolling Stone record guide though, and Marsh gives them 3 stars and says "they look terribly unlikely"! Ha, great minds think alike.)

The Men They Couldn't Hang - Night Of A Thousand Candles (Demon UK, 1985) (same year as the Pogues' debut album, I think, and for a month or two I think they were talked about in the same breath as the new faces of Irish folk punk, or at least I read something to the effect in NME or Melody Maker or somewhere at the time. A third band called the Boothill Footstompers or something like that may have been included in the fad as well. Now watch these guys turn out to be Welsh or something. Instrument credits include bouzouki and "Tibetan anus flute.")

Puhdys - Sturmvogel (Amiga, German Democratic Republic, 1976) (Biggest band in Commie East Germany until the wall came down, or so I've been led to believe. I now own three albums by them!)

just picked up this weirdo private culty xtian psych folk album from goodwill from 73. one song is a rocker that sounds like sleater kinney

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/4851/winc2ym8.jpg http://users.volstate.net/~pjl/winc2.JPG

looks like it sells for about $50
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-WIND-CHILDREN-LP-RARE-70s-PRIVATE-XIAN-HIPPIE-FOLK_W0QQitemZ120315856472QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item120315856472&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A3|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

woops, second is supposed to be this

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7288/winc3nt1.jpg

all teenagers and all wearing matching white robes. creeps

(xp Actually the store is called Stray, not Sway. In case anybody cares.)

When I swung by Record Surplus last weekend, someone had just unloaded a giant stack of metal CDs, so I picked up like 12 awesome discs for a total of $6.50. I'll have a list a little later. The guy apparently really liked guitar shred bands.

99 cents a piece:

Eve Moon -- 1981, EMI, s/t. Had this when I was a kid. Thrown out by mother although don't recall liking it much. Now it grabs me. On the first side, somewhat like Lita Ford before she was Lita, only from New York. Fundamentally, a hard rock record with some of the edge sanded off. A bit Manhattan bar-like, a little torchy, a little R&B. But Eve wants to play guitar and shows it on the cover. Over and out after this, I think. Where did Eve go?

US 1 -- Head East It's a Head East record, sounding like Joe Lynn Turner-era Rainbow without Blackmore. They cover Russ Ballard's "I Surrender" -- which Rainbow covered -- which is probably why I make the connection. Rip off Montrose's "Rock Candy" riff on the second side, played with a Sixties fuzz tone style. No better than fair but up to standard for the genre of Eighties midwest party rock to be performed state and ag & mining college gymnasiums. Is Hinder the new Head East and is their current album US 1? I bet it'll be even more obscure than US 1 in ten years.

Sheet Music -- 10cc "Wall Street Shuffle," a lot better than they were live.

Ha ha, I actually reviewed Eve Moon's album for my college newspaper in Missouri, slagging it (headline: "Bad Moon Rising," har), though when I re-read the horribly written review this year (in which I compared her to a more blues-rock Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, and an all-gal Missouri bar band I'm now also curious about called the Debs) it made me wish I'd kept it the thing. Hadn't thought of her for decades.

Bought for $2 yesterday, an aforementioned Queens Blvd thrift store:

New York Citi Peech Boys, "Life is Something Special" (Island 12-inch, 1982) (Formerly just the Peech Boys, with big-deal NYC DJ Larry Levan plus singer Bernard Fowler -- loks like it's going for more than $2 on line, sometimes considerably more)

Life Is Something Special is pretty great. i think i paid around 6-10 for it

in which I compared her to a more blues-rock Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, and an all-gal Missouri bar band I'm now also curious about called the Debs

Naw, not quite. Not enough catchy-ness on Eve Moon. Which is why I say like pre-Lita Lita Ford. The latter's first solo and Dancing On the Edge, which I just listened to, were a bit lacking in the Dept. of Melody. But Eve Moon is by no means slack. It just doesn't leap out of the speakers and claw ya when you're impatient for an immediate jolt. She thanks Willy DeVille on it and it does have a kind of sub-Mink Deville (only trying to be more classic rock) weary city crawler quality to it.

I like it. But I've been listening to the Fanny box. Eve Moon fits right in with that, only it's harder and more rocking, being almost ten years on.

is US 1 the followup album to whatever album "There's Never Been Any Reason" bcz that song is a masterpiece of overblown 70s craptasticness. So good. The aural equivalent of a really great gas station burrito.

Err, no. "Reason" is from the debut, Flat as a Pancake, in '75. US 1 came in '80 and is rather less effortlessly exuberant. For 99 cents, it's fine. But if you'd paid full mileage in '80, you'd have felt you'd been cheated.

9 CDs, $4 total (= less than 50 cents each, because I'm a cheapskate and I haggled), yard sale in Woodside this morning:

Joe Ely Joe Ely (MCA, 1977) (His debut LP nobody ever talks about)
Joe Ely Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (MCA, 1981) (His most rocking album, as I recall; also, my favorite at one time. Not sure why I ever got rid of it before.)
Mother Hen Mother Hen (Edsel, 1992; rec. 1971) (Featuring ex Byrds and Burritos plus a Joplin looking hippie woman on the cover. Never heard of it before.)
Steve Nieve Keyboard Jungle (Demon, 1986) (Looks like this may have originally come out in '83, judging from the copyright dates. Elvis Costello's keyboard player. Maybe it will sound like ? and the Mysterians if I'm lucky but I doubt it.)
Prince Jammy Kamikaze Dub (Trojan, 1996) (A reissue, judging from the looks of it)
Shrimp Boat Duende (Bar None, 1991) (Know nothing about these guys. Plus, indie rock -- I'll hate them, right? Thought I'd try them anyway)
O.C. Smith After All Is Said And Done (Triune, 1993) (Wasn't much impressed by an '00s album I heard by him, but he was a little younger here, so maybe this better)
Tony Toni Tone' Sons of Soul (Polygram, 1993). (Looks...long. And I've never likled them for more than a single at a time. And even Christgau didn't love this one, apparently. May not make it through the thing.)
Wishbone Ash Nouveu Calls (IRS/No Speak, 1988) (Was "No Speak" an instrumental rock imprint or something? If so, I'll probably be disapppointed)

Among the 50-cent CDs I passed up, maybe stupidly in some cases: A live Lonnie Mack CD dated 1990; an Omar and the Howlers CD from 1990; L'Trimm Drop That Bottom (one of my favorite albums of the '80s but I already own it on vinyl); Cafe Tacuba Reyes (which I never liked in the first place); an apparent 1987 blues-rock CD on Grudge by Charlie Karp and the Namedroppers (Karp apparently being one of the two guys who wrote "Too Bad On Your Birthday" which Ram Jam and Joan Jett do great versions of).

Pretty weird selection for a yard sale -- I swear, this is about a third of the CDs they had there!

I have the Charlie Karp & the Namedroppers CD. "Too Bad On Your Birthday" is on it, as well as "Talk Dirty" which Leslie West covered. Outside of those two tunes, mediocre Long Island or NYC bar band. Never listen to it. Omar & The Howlers -- was it Wall of Pride? If so, the title cut was pretty good, the rest of it kind of a riff on ZZ Top. Have it somewhere, obviously not good enough to have listened to in fifteen years plus.

Nah, looks like the Omar CD was Monkeyland, which AMG lists as 1997; not sure where I got the 1990 from.

And ha ha, I am totally going to be bored by Shrimp Boat, I think. Here's what AMG says: "Precursors of the esoteric sound eventually tagged 'post-rock,' Shrimp Boat was among the key Chicago indie bands of their era, with members later going on to even greater success in groups like the Sea and Cake." I am falling asleep already!

Great song title on the first Ely: "Suckin' a Big Bottle of Gin."

And will always rep for Sons of Soul. Wonder if those people bought it for "Anniversary" or "If I Had No Loot."

Yeah, so far, in the background Tony Toni Tone actually sounds better than I would've guessed -- and more fun than the supposedly great Raphael Saadiq album from this year, (which Xgau loves) for that matter.

Steve Nieve (apparently attempting jazz and classical -- who the hell does he think he is, Joe Jackson?) and Prince Jammy (which sounds exactly the same as approximately 10,000 other dub albums I've heard in my life) are nearly as dull as the Shrimp Boat CD, oh well.

"A live Lonnie Mack CD dated 1990"

oh man this should have been your first pick. you would have loved it.

Need to move this back up, above that other rogue "buy that for a dollar" thread that keeps showing up.

So. Officially not worth the 50 cents-to-$2 I paid for them earlier this year: Racing Cars Downtown Tonight, Jelly A True Story, Scope The Busted EP (actually too warped to even listen to, how didn't I notice that in the store?) Mother Hen Mother Hen, Wishbone Ash Nouveu Calls, Joe Diffie Third Rock From The Sun, Rancid B Sides and C Sides, The Rumour Purity of Essence (though I actually paid a whopping $3.99 for that last one, oops.)

c sides. c sides? that's a warning.

Today: a bunch of bad-but-awesome private-press Canadiana that nobody but me cares about
: a near-mint (mint vinyl; vg+ sleeve) Planet Waves
: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 by Mindnight Oil, which I thought was a good record for 1986. That it came out in 1982 is mindblowing. Makes me think U2 copped a lot of their post-October schtick (i.e. that what made 'em famous) from the Oilers.
: a couple Gordon Lightfoot records: Don Quixote and Old Dan's Records. Better than I was expecting. Loved his 60s stuff but always presumed his move to Reprise signalled a precipitous decline in quality. Apparently not.
: Bop-Be by Keith Jarrett. Interesting and very classically Bop-py. Not my bag but quality nonetheless, I think.
: Anyone a fan of Acid Casualties? Haven't listened to it yet. 1982 on Rhino (!).

I actually picked up that Midnight Oil album (on CD) in the dollar bin recently. Haven't listened all the way through yet, but I like what I've heard.

Dollar CDs from the KPFT yard sale:

Eliza Gilkyson-Paradise Hotel
Soloman Burke-Soul of The Blues (reissue)
The Greencards-Weather and Water (signed!)
Robbie Fulks-Georgia Hard
Jimmie Dale Gilmore-Come on Back
Hayes Carll-Little Rock
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals-Cold Roses & Jacksonville City Nights

Americana! Most of these were sealed promos.

For $0.00 total (as in FREE), from a pile of used vinyl that somebody had dumped on the sidewalk around a public trashcan in front of the Quizno's across from The Strand bookstore, at 12th and Broadway in Manhattan early this afternoon.(Hint: While I didn't take anywhere near everything there, and while I assume others had picked through the pile before me, I was also not especially picky):

Baltimora "Tarzan Boy" (EMI 12-inch, 1985) (Already own the LP and 45, but I like this picture sleeve. Looks like an Italian pressing, too. "Summer," "Club," and "7-inch" versions)
Cheater Jones Bombshell (TC EP, 1985) (Never heard of them. NYC bar band, lookslike)
Chilliwack Dreams, Dreams, Dreams (Mushroom, 1976) (one of their early, more metal LPs maybe?)
College Boyz "Victim of the Ghetto" (Virgin 12-inch, 1992) (I love that they are victims of the ghetto, but in college anyway. Amazing magic-markered inscription of plain white record sleeve, too: "Cool! Happy funk/disco Hip Hop. Use at parties! At gatherings! Impress your friends & win flattering attention from the ladies! You'll be amazed at how effective this music can be in increasing your status among your peers & ensuring success in the constant search for sexual gratification! [Besides making your radio show the most listened to on 91.3 fm in Trenton.")
Cosmos "Take Me With You" (Polydor 12-inch, 2002) (Looks British. Also very space age. Techno, maybe?)
Jonathan Edwards & the Seldom Scene Blue Ridge (Sugar Hill LP, 1985) (The bluegrass Sugar Hill, not the rap one. Maybe not that Jonathan Edwards either; I'm not sure)
Ronnie McDowell Personally (Epic LP, 1983)
Paul Parker "One Look" (Dice 12-inch, 1987) ("Produced by Paul Parker and Man Parrish" Also, he has a really gay mustache)
Nile Rodgers "Stay Out The Light" (Warner Bros 12-inch, 1985) (Larry Levan coproduced; from B-Movie Matinee, apparently)
Swimming Pool Qs Blue Tomorrow (A&M LP, 1986)
Rahid Taha "Kelma"/"Non Non Non (System 7 Remix)" (Mango 12-inch, 1996)
3rd Bass "Pop Goes The Weasel"/"Derelict of Dialect" (Def Jam 12-inch, 1991) (The A-side's stupid stodgy anti-Vanilla-Iciness always pissed me off, but this has a great picture sleeve, too)
Lidell Townsell & MTF (Mercury 12-inch, 1992) (He's an early Chicago house guy who later crossed over slightly with a different song, right?)
(Various) The Stars Are Out In Texas (RCA, 1986) (Country songs about Texas from Alabama, Waylon, Louise Mandrell, Charley Pride, Waylon again, Jerry Reed, Willie, Guy Clark. Only eight songs total; can't be much longer than an EP)

yesterday, € 2.50 a piece:

Grace Jones Warm Leatherette (Island, 1980)
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias Skite (Logo, 1978. "Produced & Arranged by Chaz "Wünderkind"! Jankel" - which is why I picked it up. Contains covers of Pete Seeger and Sex Pistols - curious)
Donna Summer Greatest Hits (Basart, 1977)
Les Rita Mitsouko Présentent The No Comprendre (Virgin France, 1986)
Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook (Polydor, 1984)
David Byrne Music for The Knee Plays (EMI, 1985)

I bought Rachid Taha's Diwan 2 earlier this year - terrific album with arabic rockers and more traditional sounding material (i'm no expert though so don't take my word) with great production.

Nice haul. Those are easily my favorite Grace Jones and Les Rita Mitsouko LPs. And that's that's a really cool early Donna Summer best-of, too -- aren't there, like, two or three 1974-1975 songs that were never on any of her other albums? The one I'm jealous of, though, is Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias; that's one of the first punk parody bands ever, I think; doesn't Nick Lowe figure prominently too? Never ever heard them myself, I don't think, but I've heard about them for three decades now.

My favorite Taha album is Made in Medina from 2001 -- A real rocker, and he's the most rocking Algerian I know.

Youtube folks inform me that College Boyz' lead rapper is "the black guy from 40 Year Old Virgin," which I've never seen.

The Cosmos single I bought apparently has a following, too; there's apparently even a Freelance Hellraiser mashup, and some people say theyr'e nostalgic for dancing all summer to it in Greece, which at least makes it more promising than if they were nostalgic for dancing all winter to it in England.

i have the first alberto album. it's funny and fun. they do a great hawkwind parody. you can watch them on youtube:

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