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

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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how is that?

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.

there's a guy around here who sells off parts of his (must be supermassive) collection on the street every weekend, good records for cheap. i got the Gap Band IV for $3, will go back for a bunch of other stuff.

just got leo kottke's first record in the mail. not as good as circle round the sun, maybe, but still rad!

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How much did you have to pay for the Kottke?

Found a copy of this in beautiful nick in a junk shop on my way to DJ on Sunday, for three pounds: http://cot.priceminister.com/photo/835603566_L.jpg (uh it's a copy of the "Tous Les Oiseaux Tous Les Bateau in La Maison Vide" double LP by Michel Polnareff.

Which is not a super amazing find and I'm not even that big a fan of MP but it was pleasing, and it is pretty, and it was for not much money. Then I left it behind in the DJ booth. No confirmation yet whether anyone had rescued it for me. Boo.

How much did you have to pay for the Kottke?

― Plunge Protection Team, Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

30 bucks in v v nice shape

which is what its been goin for on ebay recently, so not a steal or anything...

oblivians - six of the best 10"
oblivians - never enough 10"
the caretaker - persistent repetition of phrases (gave him a listen after le batreau's post and he's exactly my cup o'tea, ordered the lp, thx bro)

huh. I recall that the Kottke routinely went for $100 or so. I don't think there was ever a reissue. Wonder what happened? THE ECONOMY??

Omar Little that is effing great! :-) Can't spread the love for The Caretaker enough!

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^ the Have A Nice Life lp comes with a nice book as well. Also has a different cover than the image shown

Been looking for a copy of Toulouse's "The Way the City Stretches" for years... like ten years! Was checking Parasol's website the other night to see if Vitesse's first album was back in print yet, and the search brought up "The Way the City Stretches" in the bargain bin for $2 new! $2 for the record and $7.50 to ship it, heh.

Holger Hiller - A Bunch of Foulness in the Pit
MOXY II
Honegger - Symphonies 2 & 3
Ariel Pink - Oddities Sodomies
Flipper - Generic Single 10"
Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted
Boogie Tunes 2

Latest haul

Breeders - Last Splash LP
MGMT - Kids 12"
Flowers - Icehouse LP
Peter Gabriel - So LP
Scars - Author Author LP
Steve Miller Band - Circle of Life LP
Thank God It's Friday OST 3LP
Sade - Diamond Life LP
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes LP
The XX - Basic Space 7"

Flipper - Generic Single 10"

what is this?

I had a good day today, got Bohannon's Let's Start The Dance for $3 and Kim Fowley's Sunset Boulevard for $10 (with inner sleeve, I have never even seen this LP before).