I Love Vinyl! Recent Haul/Score/Purchase Thread (2009)

joe cocker - sheffield steel
material - i'm the one/don't lose control 12"
was (not was) - s/t
fela + afrika 70 - zombie
patrick cowley - menergy 12"
patrick cowley - mind warp
herb alpert - beyond
sade - stronger than prode
sade - promise
sade - diamond life
v/a - kza 'stocks on deck' sampler 12"
peter jacques band - welcome back
john foxx - metamatic
the dream academy - s/t
songs of the humpback whale vol. 1
jon + vangelis - the friends of mr. cairo
dennis parker - like an eagle
the human league - fascination
ann marie - with or without you 12"
instant funk - got my mind made up 12"
fern kinney - groove me 12"
the trammps - mixin' it up
jan hammer - escape from television
fleetwood mac - tango in the night
bohannon - cut loose
gq - disco nights
cristina - things fall apart/what's a girl to do 12"
laurie anderson - big science
musical youth - youth of today 12"

all for $6 or less except for 'mind warp' which was $12 but totally worth it

^^^ KUSF record swap?

eric dolphy and ron carter - magic
fairport convention - heyday: bbc sessions
fairport convention - full house

no i had a looong couple of days of record digging all around the bay so i was hoping to save money and get some sleep (i hear you have to get there fuckn EARLY for the good stuff). were you there 69?

Alexander Spence - "Oar" - Original issue, £50

yeah i was workin/shoppin there

i got the following:
bo hansson -- attic thoughts
cecil taylor -- unti structures
mclaughlin/surman -- where fortune smiles
the suicide commandos make a record
nico -- the end (for gf)
the world of harry partch
marion brown -- afternoon of a georgia faun
steve tibbetts -- safe journey
edgar froese -- aqua
canned heat -- s/t
first country joe & the fish record
john coltrane -- ascension
don cherry -- brown rice (for pretzel walrus)
roosevelt sykes -- 1929-32 (yazoo)
the white stripes -- elephant

on saturday in san jose (space cat and streetlight records):
yoko ono -- fly (nice copy for pretty cheap!)
rolling stones -- out of our heads (mono)
incredible string band -- wee tam
something elsssssse i forget

love that Suicide Commandos record

more good stuff today, used/clean/cheap

The Four Tops - Changing Times
Kool & The Gang - The Force
Marvin Gaye - Live At The London Palladium (this looks AWESOME)
Kraut - An Adjustment To Society reissue
Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain EP
Buffalo Springfield - 1st
K-Tel "Fresh Rap" comp, also looks good
Waitresses - I Could Rule The World...

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went to visit ian yesterday

Ofege - Try and Love <-- cool Nigerian psych record that Ac4d3my reissued, they have one great track on that Ghana Soundz comp.
Charley D and Milo - s/t <-- picked this up b/c of skot and ian's enthusiasm for it on other threads
Freeez - One on One 12"
Bohannon - Gittin' Off
Beatnuts - Intoxicated Demons EP

went there with the idea that I was gonna splurge on some expensive krautrock record or something, since I had some birthday money to spend ... they had some great stuff on the wall like always but I just can't get myself to pull the trigger on things like that! too many good $5 and $10 records worth having.

today: all 3 volumes of 'the billie holiday story' on columbia

From the quid bins at Rooster records in Exeter:

Winston Francis "California Dreaming" (Bamboo LP) - (this was a real find, never seen a copy before. Studio One produced pop-reggae from the v early 70s, top drawer)
Catherine Howe - Dragonfly Daze (haven't listened to this yet, looks dodgy as hell and is from 1979 but you never know, eh, and I liked that reissue from the other year well enough)
Edwyn Collins - My Beloved Girl 12" (I gave my copy of the box set 7" away twenty-odd years ago and it was nice to ehar it again but now I know why I can't remember anything about the song. Always interesting to hear how indie stars dealt with the mid-80s 12" extended mix thing) (which is to say, badly).
Edwyn Collins and Paul Quinn - Pale Blue Eyes (a duplicate copy of a record I love, someone will want it, sometime)
The Sandpipers - Spanish Album (this is no better than I expected, which is to say it has a tiny handful of goodies. I bet they made much better LPs than this but I can't bear to pay more than one pound for any of them and in the quid bins they're usually completely knackered, and I wanted to actually hear a Sandpipers LP. I am certain to be playing the version of Louie Louie at the Hangover Lounge before long, and this will drive my lovely wife very crazy.)

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for two bucks
and a bunch of other stuff; new mississippi, nite jewel single &:

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recently in the mail:

Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This to you... lp
Meth Teeth - Everything Went Wrong lp (so good!)
Wounded Lion - Carol Cloud/Pony People 7"
Pumice - Persevere 7"
Cecil Barfield - South Georgia Blues lp
v/a - String of Pearls lp

psyched to hear that meth teeth LP!

sylvester - call me
klaatu - klaatu (five bucks!)
deodato & airto - in concert

Various - Disparate Cognescenti - some Mark E Smith compilation from the 80's

Searching For The Now 5 + 6 Slumberland 45's

blues control - local flavor
jimmy castor bunch - it's just begun
a mountain of one - bonnie and clyde

Picked up cool stuff at SJ Streetlight over the weekend. dB's, Magazine, Cerrone, Eno/Fripp (replacing my kinda scratchy copy of 'No Pussyfooting'), etc.
But the standout is Hawkwind's 'Choose Your Own Masques' for $10. Can't remember which track it is (maybe 'Void City') but it's an awesome pulsing synth epic w/vocoders.

wait what's Space Cat in San Jose like?

so chill. tons of comics, tons of LPs. requires digging through some garbage-records, but i got some cool stuff. incredible string band's WEE TAM in perfect shape. tim hardin 4 in nice shape. umm, other things, too?

good to know. I'll check it out next time I'm down there

thought i bought $136 dollars worth of vinyl last night, but it was all a dream. honestly i was a little relieved when i woke up.

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Vinyl pressing of The Caretaker's magnificent Persistent Repetition of Phrases of last year. It came out in an edition of 400 this week. Looks (and sounds!) amazing.

Next stop will be his THREE DOUBLE LP'S released simultaneously under the new Leyland Kirby moniker. This guy makes me so happy I want to cry.

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Someone dumped a huge pile of 45s (my favorite format) most of them in great condition and STILL IN THEIR JACKETS, at my local thrift. Maybe they were from an old jukebox or something. A bunch of lesser known sixties pop and soul, also a favorite category of mine.

bohannon - gittin off (not my favorite, but rad)
cecil taylor - nefertiti the beautiful one has come
sarangi explorer series LP
north indian vocal music explorer series LP
robbie basho - venus in cancer (lil poppy, but for pretty cheap)

also found a "mint" original tony thomas fiddle LP on takoma for $20 - i can only find it on gemm for $52.50 in G/VG shape, so im thinking i should go back and buy it tomorrow? if i dont like it, ian will. if ian doent like it, maybe ebay will.

Today (33 LPs for $28):

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

serendipitous trip to the small, generally useless for anything other than ok jazz vinyl record store nearest to me, going on a hunch to search specifically for the creedence royal albert hall LP. found it for $4.

sweet!

i went to baltimore and got:
TFUL 282- I hope it lands
Steve Hillage- Rainbow Dome Musick

non-scratched beach boys Sunflower (apparently bought from ashtray navigations guy on ebay)
F Mac mystery to me

u like Mystery to Me? one of my fave albs of all time

yeah it's great, dubious artwork tho

is that steve hillage album easy to find? i love the mp3s i've heard

idk, it was the first time i had ever seen it, so i bought it.

I've seen it one or two times, generally between $5-$10. I keep running across a lot of Steve Hillage records though. I see "L" all over the place.

One or two times in addition to the time I bought it, that is.

i'll keep an eye out. picked these two up today...

brian eno/jon hassell - possible musics
clara mondshine - memorymetropolis

i'd only heard a couple mondshine tracks before i found the full-length but it is great!

cerrone - love in c minor lp
delilah - dancing in the fire lp
shalamar - right in the socket 12"
fern kinney - ive been lonely for so long 12"
bohannon - summertime groove lp (at long last \(^o^)/)

couple of $1 pickups:

deodato - whirlwinds
gerry mulligan quartet - what is there to say?

me to an old codger at the flea market: how much are the records?

old codger: they're all different. some are a dollar and some are 90 dollars!

me thinking: *hoo boy, i've got a live one*

i go through them. mostly crap. wondering what the 90 dollar records could possibly be. do see a decent fabian album. i eyeball the second stack and i have a paranormal moment. the day before, saturday, i thought to myself: gee, i wish i had bought that miss butters album i saw at mystery train a couple of months ago. why i thought of it then i have no idea. but this old codger had a copy! clean! in the shrink!

i hold it up and say to him: how much for this?

old codger laughs and says: haha, you don't want to know! that record sells for a lot of money! do you do ebay?

i lie: nah, not really. i buy stuff on ebay.

old codger: that record sells for almost a hundred dollars! (apparently i've found the 90 dollar record.)

me: i think i've seen it for ten dollars before. i'll give you ten.

then - get this - i hold up a decent - if a bit scratched - mono copy of psychotic reaction by the count five and i say: how much for this?

old codger: oh, that's five dollars. (!!!)

so i hold them both for a minute and look at them and then he says: i'll give you both for 20.

i say: sold!

despite some scratches, the count five album plays nicely. i'll sell it in the store for 20. which means that i got my miss butters record for free. or that's how i like to look at it anyway.

Mulatu Astatke - 10" on Soundway
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & His Inter-Reformers Band - Inter-Reformers A Tunde lp
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book lp
Ides of March - Vehicle lp

couple of nice new 45s in the mail by melodie du kronk (their lp from last year kicked total ass) and spoono, and a clear vinyl single by the vivians with a lovely sleeve

I was scrounging around in an Antiques mall yesterday, found a booth with some records.

I was flipping through a bunch of 70s and 80s rock, nothing to really get excited about and then I start finding these Japanese records. I found like three Ryuichi Sakamoto records, mint Japanese versions with the Obi. It was a really thoroughly bizarre experience.

I'm still trying to figure out how those records ended up in a small town in Central Wisconsin.

it's a beautiful thing, isn't it?

I left a lot of stuff behind too.

I'm going to have to drive out there again next weekend, maybe try and get some contact information for the seller. Records were all reasonably priced, definitely lower than Ebay value though. Bizarrely he had a lot of early 90s Masters at Work records too.