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

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).

I got three Cajun records on Arhoolie today. Two comps and one LP devoted to the Hackberry Ramblers.

hey Sleeve...
the Flipper 10" is actually the Sex Bomb single. it's not really called 'Generic Single', is it? sorry for teh n00b. limited press of 300 on Domino.

an average bank holiday haul in Norwich and Greenwich.

steel pulse - handsworth revolution
leo kottke - s/t (76)
v.a - african scream contest 2xlp
george jones - (a kind of best of vol. 1 or somesuch)
u roy - dread ina babylon

might head up to a service station in Wangford tomorrow - according to record collector they have a stock of used lps and 45s.

Went to pick up the new Yo La Tengo. While browsing I found a copy of Neil Young's Time Fades Away for ten bucks. Hooray!!!!

Steve Miller Band - Circle of Life LP

Macho City!!

i don't know what to price this john davis album on shrimper. the dude from folk implosion. does anyone even care about his records?

I don't think so, I'd go for maybe $6 or $8?

$7 it is!

Went to my local record shop today and picked up Steven R. Smith "Cities" and a Blind Willie Johnson comp entitled "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down".

The Steven R Smith LP is very lovely indeed. A friend recommended it; I must investigate him further. Blind Willie Johnson I bought because I love old blues, and it had the song City of Refuge on it. Will get to know it better in the coming days.

The Blind Willie Johnson material is some stellar stuff. One of my fave singers--such a voice.

The Blind Willie Johnson is great. Amazing contrasts in his voice, between gruff and smooth.

aw man I was in a Goodwill in Charlottesville Virginia today and there were like 20 super minty early 80's metal records but I am flying and can't take much. I settled on the first Pantera LP from 1983 and a Gotham City (Swedish metal band) EP. $1 total. Total eBay fodder.

also got:
Joan Jett LP with "Fake Friends"
John Hartford's Aeroplane LP
a Patrick Cowley/Sylvester 12"
The Temptations "1990" LP, wow this is great and I have never heard any of it, Norman Whitfield is a god.
German Arista pressing of Shriekback's Oil And Gold w/different cover.

i was tempted by a lot of stuff at a record store today, but i'm trying to save $$$ so i just settled on a $5 copy of 'will the circle be unbroken'.

Traded in a bunch of books for these:

Mose Allison - The Best Of lp
Scrawl - Smallmouth lp
v/a - Bubble Gum Music Is The Naked Truth lp

wow I never knew the Bubblegum book had a companion LP! must search.

I didn't either -- or rather, the book seems to have been named after the lp put out by Buddha in 1969. It has a bunch of their usual suspects on it plus Shadows of Knight's "Shake" (which I didn't realize was considered bubble gum).

polvo -- in prism (OMG i couldnt be happier)
hamza el din -- escalay/the water wheel
hamza el din -- song of the nile (en route via ebay)
epsilons -- s/t
kraftwerk -- s/t
kraftwerk -- slow to speak 12"
don cherry -- slow to speak 12"
don cherry/jon appleton -- human music
charley d and milo -- s/t (for 2.99, ill give this one another try)
sandy bull -- demolition derby (en route via ebay)

here some recent online purchases over the last 2 weeks.

dorothy carter- waillee waillee
leo farre- avec le temps
x models- hemligheter
musique noise- fulmines regularis
zint group- curve and crane
missa bantu- mass sung by congolese sisters of katana
tobie lurie- word music
etron fou leloublan- les sillons de la terre
virgule iv- des accordes d'accord

missa bantu- mass sung by congolese sisters of katana

how is this? sounds cooool

hasn't come yet but i think it was part of the same phillips connoisseur series as missa luba though, and i loved that, so i thought i would give this a shot too.

i LOVE that dorothy carter record. better than the other one imo, though they're both good.

gah, finally got a copy of Africa Dances off ebay.

damn dogg nice price too!

yeah, for real! i was genuinely surprised to not be outbid in the last few minutes.