Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

the first michel chapman LP also came in. I need to get that one too, probably with the next batch of LPs I bring in. My goal is to sell as many LPs as it takes for everything to fit on my shelves. In a perfect world, that means I will sell something before I buy it. For now I'm just happy when I come home with fewer records than I bring to trade in.

texas mexican border music: v/a - the string bands

^^^^

i got a good score on my b-day. a friend of mine works for a record company and secured a bunch of vinyl reissues for me:

goodbye yellow brick road - elton john
gaucho - steely dan
alive - kiss
second helping - lynyrd skynyrd
music of my mind - stevie wonder
synchronicity - the police
the marshall mathers lp - eminem
burnin' - the wailers

not all of them are my thing, but they're pretty dope nonetheless so i'll listen to all of them.

texas-mexican border music: lydia mendoza & the mendoza family volume 2

aaa she's pretty good. have you got any atahualpa yupanqui stuff (personally or in the store) ian?

went to visit my wife's sis and husband in lawrence kansas...found a nice little shop called Keif's downtown...had a pretty nice vinyl selection, but YOWSA ebay has really killed the whole "finding totally underpriced records in a smaller city thing"...had some nice stuff but it was way more than i could get it for in Mpls...thankfully Kansas hasn't gotten the message that Dio is totally hip so Rainbow Rising was in the low priced section...

but they had some great new vinyl sale priced clearance stuff....got a 180g Get Back pressing of Eric Dolphy/Herbie Hancock at the Gaslight 1962...a 2LP reggae comp on Earmark called "Am I Black Enough For You" all old skool reggae greats, for only $15...and a Harlan T Bobo record on Goner new for only 4.99!

'life is a problem' comp
helium - 'no guitars' ep

Picked these up at a car show swap meet:

The Specials- s/t, More Specials, & In The Studio With Specials AKA
Gang of Four- Entertainment!, Another Day/Another Dollar, & Yellow
The English Beat- Special Beat Service & What Is...
Holly & The Italians- Holly Beth Vincent
Duran Duran- s/t & Rio
Peter Gabriel- II, III, & Security/IV
Amanda Lear- Sweet Revenge
XTC- Waxworks & Beeswax
Etta James- Back To The Fifties
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp- I Advance Masked
Bugs Henderson Group- Still Flyin'
The Golden Earrings- s/t
Halfnelson- s/t
Sparks- #1 Song In Heaven
The Residents- Third Reich 'n Roll

everybody's talking about the good old days, eeeeeverybody's talking about the good old days

picked up a couple 45s

Cause Co-Motion - Which Way Is Up?
Tyvek - Sidewalk / Future Junk
Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke and Sassafras / Lonely

i hope i get my turntable needle soon cause all my recent vinyl is sad and unplayed.

v/a - siya hamba! 1950s south african country and small town sounds (original music LP)
culture - two sevens clash

the culture record was priced at 4.99 AS IS, my buddy gave it to me for a buck, cause it was dirty. i cleaned it at home, and it sounds awesome. cross a $25 record off my perpetual ebay watchlist!

V/A - Die Neue Deutsche Welle is Da Da Da
Sortilege - Metamorphosis (cool instrumental called Night of Limbs)
Sound Barrier - Speed of Light ('Black' Metal)
Syar - Death Before Dishonour
Robert Hunter - Tiger Rose
TFU282 - Mother of All Saints
Gilberto Gil - Nightingale
Delta 5 - Anticipation / You
4000000 Telephones - French Girls

v/a - the jug bands (RF Records)
v/a - blue ladies vol. 1 1934-1937 (Document)

quincy jones - smackwater jack
johnny "guitar" watson - a real mother for ya
buffalo springfield - last time around
tom t. hall - places i've done time
'cat people' soundtrack

I scored an original Peter Grudzien "The Unicorn" LP. There's a small deformity on the edge but it does not extend into the grooves, and it plays great. Not cheap, but it's the best excuse I can think of to unload a bunch of rare, and rarely played, records.
I am a happy camper.

Nice one. I haven't bought anything in weeks and probably won't for awhile, either. :(

johnny "guitar" watson - a real mother for ya

are any of his lps good? i love things like that larry williams single he made, but everything else i've heard is just some insane bootsy-esque gold coloured insanity. they all have great titles too (see above).

yeah it's pretty nuts, there's a track on there called 'your love is my love' which sounds like some daft punk, funk, soul hybrid complete with vocoder.

if you like that sort of thing, it's good

I haven't bought anything in weeks and probably won't for awhile, either. :(

I'm in Peru and barring some unlikely flea market score I won´t be buying anything until late March. Still keeping up on this thread, partly because of masochism I think.

dude, i hope you brought a portable turntable. spend all your free time in flea markets and shit looking for peruvian surf singles!

i think the new astral weeks reissue is out, gotta go get that.

btw....this is a long shot, but does anyone on here have a copy of "Mush" by Leatherface they would be willing to part with, sale or trade?

complete list of stuff i traded for:

peter grudzien - the unicorn
dixon brothers volume II
claude casey - pine state honky tonk
the bailes brothers - early radio vol. II
v/a - blue ladies vol. 2 (1937-39)
skillet lickers - old time tunes vol. I
skillet lickers - old time fiddle tunes & songs volume 2
gene clark - white light (original)
big bill broonzy - do that guitar rag 1928-1935 (yazoo)
yo la tengo - president yo la tengo/new wave hot dogs
paris 1942 LP (mo tucker + rick & alan bishop)
dorothy carter - waillee waillee (private acid folk mind-melter. duclimer psych.)
michael chapman - rainmaker

traded a bunch of crap for:

Ornette Coleman/Pat Methany etc - Song X
Tom Tom Club
Squeeze - Singles
Herbie Mann - The Stone Flute
Charlie Parker - 2LP Fantasy Records comp

first time to the record store since my daughter was born 10 weeks ago. picked up:

the chills - brave words lp
the residents - duck stab / buster & glen lp
pebbles vol. 2

yesterday i got

jandek - twelfth apostle
v/a - juju roots (30s-50s african guitar music.)

Just placed an order at S-S for
Los Llamarada "Take the Sky"
A Fames "s/t" "2" and "Police 1000"
Hue Blanc’s Joyless Ones "Arriere Garde"
Der Teenage Panzerkorps "Games for Slaves"
All the A Frames stuff is for my girlfriend for Christmas.
The S/T and 2 are on cd. Scott S. said that A Frames vinyl is still in print and I could find it if I looked around but they are a hard band to google. Guess I'll check the distros.

If the A Frames vinyls are available, I'd imagine that they're from the French pressings Born Bad did a year or so ago. Might help with the search criteria. Recent (last couple months, all new stuff):

Indian Jewelry -- Free Gold
Eddy Current Suppression Ring -- Primary Colors
Muslims -- debut LP
Skull Defekts -- The Drone Drug
Oneida -- Each One Teach One (used & v. cheap!)
Nachtmystium -- Assassins
Love Tan -- Misc. Night Feelings (awesome)
Sex Vid -- Communal Living
Oh Sees -- Peanut Butter Oven EP
Oh Sees/Intelligence -- Mt. St. Mtn. split EP
Harvey Milk -- My Love Is Greater... 2LP reissue
Harvey Milk -- Courtesy and Goodwill... 2LP reissue
Skullflower -- Taste the Blood of the Deceiver
Harlem -- Free Drugs ;-)
George Coleman -- Bongo Joe

i scored this seemingly unknown prestige folk album from 1964 by hamper macbee called "cumberland moonshiner", about which there is very little information available. $1! really excellent.

Oneida -- Each One Teach One (used & v. cheap!)
Very nice. One of the best records of the last ten years. It makes so much more sense in the double lp format than the double cd. The band I used to play in is playing the Oneida fest that is happening this weekend at the Knitting Factory. Meanwhile, I'll be taking the GRE.
Life is funny.

A Fames "s/t" "2" and "Police 1000"
^^they still have these on vinyl??? how much?

The Police 1000 is a seven inch and it was four bucks. S/T and 2 are on cd, I mentioned that in my post, but they were only five bucks. As I said, present for my girlfriend who grew up in Seattle. I just searched for A Frames + Born Bad, as suggested by Contenderizer up there, but I only found the LP's at one place listed for 18 euros, eff that.

We MIGHT still have those Born Bad represses in stock at the store. I think they're pretty pricey ($20 maybe?) but the shipping would be less. I'll get back to you guys if we have any of 'em.

Yeah, awesome, I would totally buy them.

(I'm not at work today, so i'll let you know tomorrow.)

yeah dude keep me posted. love the a-frames

i think i can record vinyl using my new roland edirol using the line in. if it works it's gonna be sweet.

Oh, and weird-ass, SUPER-crepey French doom/prog/artmusik album called Les Morts Vent Vite by Shub-Niggurath. A bunch of French weirdos circa '86, apparently. Bought it 'cuz it was cheap and I'd never seen it, and 'cuz the cover art is AMAZING (glowy-headed skeleton knight on wild-eyed black stallion abducting willowy virgine by moonlight). Music is kinda amazing, too: harsh, dense, ultra-abstract prog with sheetmetal noize guitar and absolutely elephantine bass morass. Sometimes jazzy, sometimes doomy, sometimes carnival crazy. One of the scariest records of its kind I've ever heard. Univers Zero territory, but out-hysteries Hysterie. On the other hand, marred by operatic, nonsensical (Zeuhl-style) female vocals, and a bit too hilariously HIGH-ART overall to take seriously.

Kinda loved it, but sold it almost instantly cuz it turns out ppl will pay a LOT for it.

...Vent VONT Vite...

got Bohannon " south african man' lp for $4 yesterday at a book shop. Don't really know much about the dude...but a song called 'Rap on Dj' from 74 peaked my interest. pretty hyped to get my stereo working now after searching and reading about him here

Les Morts Vent Vite by Shub-Niggurath

pretty amazing record. for me it beats out univers zero by a mile, and most of the post-magma zeuhl-y stuff too. mutant-sounds posted a pretty crazy LP a while back that was four other projects by the members of s-n.

JT IV - cosmic lightning (FUCKING AWESOME)
animal collective/black dice - wastered 12"
v/a - music and dances of occidental africa
v/a - texas/mexican border music vol 1 (saw ian mention it in here, not feelin it too much on a cursory listen)
bohannon - phase 2
blank dogs - the fields 12"
wavves - s/t
maureen tucker - life in exile after abdication
sex vid - communal living (so so so good, best thing ive heard of theirs)
sad horse - MS records north portland 7" series vol 2 (good)
roland kirk - the inflated tear <3<3<3
tony williams' lifetime - emergency!
mx-80 sound - crowd control
mx-80 sound - hard attack
the rats - s/t
why are we building such a big ship? - no blood no blooms (MS records distro, for fans of gogol bordello, ehhhh)
bricolage 7"
sexy kids 7"
los llamarada - take the sky
los llamarada - whatever the first one is called

on the way:
der TPK - games for slaves
the sneaky pinks - loner w a boner 7"

JT IV - cosmic lightning (FUCKING AWESOME)

isn't it? anyone know where i can actually purchase a fucking copy? "out of print at label," my local only got one copy for a guy who works there, blah blah blah. pretty lame when it's easier to download something than buy it a week after it comes out.

imho the JT IV record has a couple jams but is largely forgettable, and the VU cover is downright awful.

JT IV - cosmic lightning (FUCKING AWESOME)

isn't it? anyone know where i can actually purchase a fucking copy? "out of print at label," my local only got one copy for a guy who works there, blah blah blah. pretty lame when it's easier to download something than buy it a week after it comes out.

check near the bottom of the page for new releases 11/17/08 on the other music mail order page

If you've had no luck getting the JT IV, GottPunch, I put one aside for you. E-mail me and I'll hook it up if you need one.

i never saw it here at the store and they usually get drag city stuff.

got the bachs reissue on void today. used to have the vinyl reissue that came out a zillion years ago, but i must have sold it. got two albums of rare 20's red nichols and miff mole sides. they rule. and i bought a used copy of the first trans am album. cuz i like trans am. and i no longer have the cd.

why oh why do i keep staring at that fancy deluxe copy of the last earth album? i'm such a sucker. so pretty though...

(i haven't even heard the album either. i'm gonna help out at the store on friday. i might have to get it...)

I've not been buying many records cos I'm saving for my trip to LA next month but have got these:

cop shoot cop - any day now 12"
ashley von hurter & the haters - s/t 10"
see see rider - she sings alone 12"

From the 50p bin:
joan jett & the blackhearts - I love rock'n'roll 7"
split - carpet bombers for peace + conflict - salt in the wound 7"

And from the band last night (yeah whatever, I like them)
vivian girls - wild eyes 7"
vivian girls - tell the world 7"

What's the Bachs LP like, Scott? I'd been looking for discussion about it elsewhere around here, but no luck.

oh yes im interested in that bachs talk too