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

$1 each Antone's today, mostly ROCK

Bad To The Bone - s/t (Megadisc 1988 - Dutch bar-band looking dudes with plenty of promising fake-punk rebellious titles: "Slow Suicide," "Car With No Reverse," "Lucifer's Boogie," "Lost Generation," "Tear Down The White House," etc.)
Doc Holliday - Rides Again... (A&M 1981 - judging from back cover, they were fond of Confederate flags and motorbikes)
John Palumbo - Innocent Bystander (Lifesong 1978 -- Crack The Sky guy; had one of his solo LPs before and couldn't get into it, but I'm older now so maybe this time it'll work)
Ruby Starr and Grey Ghost - s/t (Capitol 1975 - she looks even more badass than they do)
Uriah Heep - Live (Bronze 2-LP 1973 - gorgeous inner sleeves, with lots of old Uriah reviews, some negative: "If this group makes it I'll have to commit suicide," Melissa Mills in Rolling Stone for instance.)
David Van Tieghem - Safety In Numbers (Private Music 1987 w/ avant pals Ryuchi Sakamoto, "Blue" Gene Tyrrany, Tony Levin, Ned Sublette etc.)

>>Ruby Starr and Grey Ghost - s/t (Capitol 1975 - she looks even more badass than they do)

Back up singer for Black Oak Arkansas in her own band. Not bad at all.

>>Uriah Heep - Live (Bronze 2-LP 1973 - gorgeous inner sleeves, with lots of old Uriah reviews, some >>negative: "If this group makes it I'll have to commit suicide," Melissa Mills in Rolling Stone for >>instance.)

Lots of corny biography written just as they were breaking big. Probably the Uriah Heep album I've played the most ever since it clocked a lot of mileage on the turntable when I was a kid. Good version of "Gypsy" -- long sledgehammering, idiotically funny lyrics about being whipped by girlfriend's gypsy dad and getting strong enough to fight and win, too short version of "Love Machine," hilarious sock-hop rock and roll medley.

doc holliday were the poor man's molly hatchet. which is saying something. my dad had all their records. which is saying something.

been trying to curb my dollar bin spending, but today...

Xymox - Obsession 12"
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome 12"
Kool & The Gang - Open Sesame/Love & Understanding 12"
Double Fantasy - Universal Ave. (already have it & love it, giving this one to a friend)
LaSo - S/t (Joe Bataan wrote & prod.)
Environments 8 - Wood-masted Sailboat/A Country Stream
Michael Hoenig - Departure From The Northern Wasteland (Conny Plank-related synth stuff)
David Van Tieghem - These Things Happen (jaxon reccomendation)

David Van Tieghem - These Things Happen (jaxon reccomendation)

David Van Tieghem - Safety In Numbers (Private Music 1987 w/ avant pals Ryuchi Sakamoto, "Blue" Gene Tyrrany, Tony Levin, Ned Sublette etc.)

hehe... lots of Van Tieghem action in the last couple of days... I would heartily recommended These Things Happen to anyone... Didn't think much of Safety In Numbers though....

KPFT Yard Sale, all $1 each:

Vinyl

Gang of Four: Hard
Gene Clark: No Other (cut-out)
Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark (sealed, still has vintage $4.99 price tag)
Talking Heads: Live On Tour (episode of "The Warner Bros. Music Show"/radio promo)

CDs

The Gougers: A Long Day For The Weathervane
Moe Tucker: I Spent A Week There The Other Night
Excuse 17: Such Friends Are Dangerous
Moon Martin: Lunar Samples
Elvis Costello: Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Bascom Lamar Lunsford: Ballads, Banjo Tunes, and Sacred Songs
The Dead Weather: Horehound
Tody Castillo: Windhorse (sealed)
Bobby Charles: Wish You Were Here Right Now
Ray Davies: Working Man's Cafe (sealed)
The Replacements: Hootnanny (sealed Rhino ed.)
'': Let It Be (2 copies; '')
'': Tim (Rhino ed.)
David Lindley & Hani Naser: Official Bootleg
The Grifters: Ain't My Lookout
Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)
Drive-By Truckers: The Big To-Do
Guy Clark: Somedays The Song Writes You
Lil' Band O' Gold: s/t
Kelly Hogan: Because It Feel Good
Dwight Yoakum: Population: Me
Walter Becker: Circus Money
The Charles River Boys: Beatle Country (Rounder reissue)
The Judys: The MOO Album (sealed)

Plus for $3:

Leonard Cohen: Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (sealed cd/dvd combo)

Sooooo worth getting up early this morning.

awesome jonathan fearing mix of "the break" in great nick ... worth £1.00 no doubt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFXUlaJxvU

down in Maryland last weekend, I found a box of Disco 12"s at some gaming store, and for 10 cents a pop, came away with NM copies of:

Sylvia Striplin: "Gimme Your Love" OG press!
Final Edition: "Betcha Can't Love Just One"
Jimmy "Bo" Horne: "Is It In"
The Clash: "The Magnificent Dance"
Chas Jankel: "Glad to Know You"
D Train: "You're the One for Me"
Kano: "I'm Ready"
K.I.D.: "Don't Stop"
Brainstorm: "Hot For You"
Funkapolitan: "Run Run Run" August Darnell prod.

best buck I've spent in ages.

$1 each Waterloo today

Be Bop Deluxe The Best And The Rest Of (Harvest 2xLP 1979)
Louise Goffin Kid Blue (Asylum 1979) - Carole & Gerry's kid. Think I liked "Jimmy and the Tough Kids" back when college radio played it.
Golden Earring Mad Love (MCA 1977)
The Movies Bullets Through The Barrier (GTO 1978) -- OK, I think these are the UK Movies Scott likes. Plus it's on periwinkle-grey vinyl.
Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band With The Rootettes (Warner Bros. 1978) -- Don't remember ever even seeing this before, at any price.
Joe South Games People Play (Pickwick ???)
Skafish Skafish (Illegal 1980) -- speaking of early '80s college radio stars.
The Vapors New Clear Days (United Artists 1980) - w/ "Turning Japanese"

Would have thought that surely you already had that Vapors record, along with a few of the others you bought.

I've always had the Vapors single; might have owned the LP once in the past, but if so, it's been gone for years.

Fwiw, today I also passed up (presumably late '60s) $1 "Memphis soul" albums by both Mitch Ryder and Paul Revere & the Raiders that I'd never seen before. For some reason the Raiders one looked more promising, but for some reason I also wound up too skeptical about them both. Curious if anybody's ever heard either of them, and if so, whether I should regret being such a cheapskate.

Skafish Skafish (Illegal 1980) -- speaking of early '80s college radio stars.

"Disgracing the Family Name" and "Joan Fan Club!"

Louise Goffin Kid Blue (Asylum 1979)

Thought this sucked majorly back then. Felt it was wan and very undeservedly propped up. Maybe I'd think different now.

But never had any use for BeBop best ofs, mostly. The only anthology I still have is Air Age, which came in the age of cd. Barring that, most of Futurama, all of Sunburst Finish, some of Modern Music, almost all of Live in the Air Age and half of Axe Victim. None of Drastic Plastic.

Have actually been liking that Louise Goffin album more than I'd expected to.

$1 each today, End of An Ear and some art gallery store a quarter mile or so up S. 1st St from there, with a sign prominently saying "Turntable Records" in front:

J. Blackfoot - City Slicker (SoundTown 1983) -- already had this, but it's one of my all-time favorite Southern soul LPs and my other copy is in horrible condition
Ian Hunter - All-American Alien Boy (Columbia 1975)
Huey Lewis and the News - Huey Lewis and the News (Chrysalis 1980) - their pre-stardom Boomtown Rats-looking supposed new wave album
The Masked Marauders - The Masked Marauders (Deity 1969) -- already had this, but I'm sure it's worth way more than a buck; good for re-selling or gifting maybe
Ramatam - In April Came The Dawning Of The Red Suns (Atlantic 1973)
Styx - The Serpent Rising (Wooden Nickel 1973) -- I've never even seen this before
Vice Squad - Shot Away (Anagram 1984)

Masked Marauders has a promo insert, too -- Fake Rolling Stone review by "T.M. Christian" on one side, Ralph J. Gleason San Francisco Chronicle "On The Town" column on the other talking about the review's fallout on the other.

$1 each Breakaway today

Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling (EMI 1973)
City Boy - The Day The Earth Caught Fire (Atlantic 1979)
Family - It's Only A Movie (United Artists 1973)
Guess Who - The Best Of The Guess Who (Scepter 1973 -- all or mostly '60s singles, looks like)
Jamaaldeen Tacuma - Show Stopper (Gramavision 1983)
(Various) - Freeze (New York Records, c. mid '80s probably - w/ Freez "I.O.U.," Yazoo "State Farm," Toto Coelo "Milk From The Coconut," Comateens, Galaxxy, Miquel Brown, Nancy Martinez, Raw Silk, the Strangers, Fever)

Recycled Reads, 50-cent LPs...

Dire Straits - Making Movies (Warner Bros 1980)
L.T.D. - Love To The World (A&M 1976)
Maze - Inspiration (Capitol 1979)

and $1 CDs (!! -- purchases probably partially sub-consciously motivated by finding an excellent approximately 2.5' x 6.5' wooden CD rack that used to belong to a classical music station for $10 at a yard sale earlier today)

Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (A&M 1992)
Inner City - Praise (Virgin 1992)
Marah - Kids In Philly (E-Squared/Artemis 2000)
Michel'le - Michel'le (Ruthless/Atco 1989)

The Goodwill on La Brea near Wilshire.

Melanie - Leftover Wine
Dave Alvin - Romeo's Escape
Jerry Jeff Walker - s/t, with L.A. Freeway on it. Was this his first?
Boz Skaggs - Silk Degrees
Two Nice Girls - 2 Nice Girls

99 cents each, all seem to be in good condition.

$1 each Breakaway today

Brothers Johnson - Blast! (A&M 1982 -- apparently half best-of, half new songs)
Cameo - Feel Me (Casablanca 1980)
Spinners - Pick Of The Litter (Atlantic 1975)

Recent acquisitions in this realm:

Robert Palmer: Clues
Robert Palmer: Pride
Robert Palmer: Double Fun
Power Station: s/t

ALL GREAT. I went too long without Palmer in my life.

Friends of Sound today - $1 each

Carlene Carter - Blue Nun (F-Beat UK 1981)
Nils Lofgren - Night After Night (A&M 2xLP 1977)
(Various) - Disco Direction (RCA Limited UK 1978 -- K-Tel type comp w/ Olympic Runners, D.J. Rogers. Rah Band, Inner City Express, Baccara, etc)

same store, 25 cents each

John Anderson - s/t (Warner Bros 1980 -- already have it on CD, but this is in great shape)
Art In America - s/t (Pavillion/CBS 1983 -- hack American late-prog I think?
Carlene Carter - s/t (Warner Bros 1978 -- lots of pub-rocker input even beyond her husband Nick on all three Carter LPs, looks like; this one even has Graham Parker pictured on the inner sleeve)
Carlene Carter - Two Sides To Every Woman (Warner Bros 1979)
Coloured Stone - Black Rock From Red Centre (Rounder 1987 - "Australian Aborigone Rock," made Frank Kogan's Pazz & Jop ballot that year but I've never seen a copy before)
Forester Sisters - s/t (Warner Bros 1985)
Franke & the Knockouts - s/t (Millennium 1981)
Tompall Glaser - The Great Tompal And His Outlaw Band (MGM 1976)
Luxuria - Unanswerable Lust (Beggars Banquet 1988 - w/ Howard Devoto of Magazine)
Michael Murphey - Blue Sky Night Thunder (Epic 1975 - w/ "Wildfire")
Toby Beau - s/t (RCA 1978 - w/ "My Angel Baby")
Dottie West - Special Delivery (United Artists 1979)
Frank Zappa/The Mothers - Over-nite Sensation (Discreet 1973 - w/ "Dirty Love" and "Montana"; gatefold split a bit, but still...25 cents??)
(Various) - XII Inches Of Virgin (Virgin 1988 - pre-rave post-new-wave mostly Brit I think dancefloor tracks by Age Of Chance, Soho, Black Britain, Annabouboula, others I've never heard of)

My radio station, which has been dying a slow death the past two years and is just about to vacate the building, had a community sale yesterday to get rid of all its vinyl. Thousands and thousand of albums, the majority of them from a window covering the late '80s. Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Microdisney, Dos, Death of Samantha, Greater Than One...it really felt like wandering around some creaky old museum for college radio circa 1987. Nothing was organized, of course, so the whole time I was there they were still bringing down huge bins of albums from upstairs. I'm more particular about shape than such a sale warrants, so I ended up putting back about 20% of what I grabbed.

1) Stuff I'm embarrassed to be buying at my age (and may or may not ever play):

Laughing Hyenas -- Merry Go Round
Divine Horseman -- Middle of the Night
Das Damen -- Triskaidekaphobe
Keith LeBlanc -- Stranger Than Fiction (what we called "Chris Twomey music" at the monthly I used to write for in the mid-'80s)

2) Album I bought even though I know I already hate it: Van Dyke Parks -- Song Cycle (Dutch resissue)

3) Album I bought just because it's a little rare: Kensington Market -- Aardvark

4) I like the '70s:

Kevin Ayers -- Yes We Have No Mananas
Grin -- All Out
Laura Nyro -- Nested
Audience -- Lunch
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel -- The Psychomodo
Sweet -- It's It's...Sweet's Hits

5) Ancient:

Mildred Bailey -- The Paul Whiteman Years
Fletch Henderson's Orchestra
Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band -- Hoodoo Man Blues (thank you, first Rolling Stone guide)
Herbie Nichols Trio (one of the guys in A.B. Spellman's Four Lives in the Bebop Business--I already have it, but couldn't resist)

6) Stuff I'm pretty happy about:

Pastels -- Sittin' Pretty
Guadalcanal Diary -- 2 x 4
Colin Newman -- It Seems
Reducers -- Let's Go! (I remember Marcus raving about the title song in an old "Real Life")
Dramarama -- Stuck in Wonderamaland
Joe•Pop•O•Pie -- Joe's Third Record
Rain Parade -- Beyond the Sunset
Van Morrison & the Chieftans -- Irish Heartbeat
Chieftans -- Celtic Wedding
Go-Betweens -- Tallulah
Voice of the Beehive -- Let It Bee
Let's Active -- Afoot
Let's Active -- Every Dog Has His Day (oops--already had this)

Also a bunch of 7-inches from a series called "A Fiftieth Anniversary Project" put out by Capac--20th-century-type stuff, I think. They charged me $55 for everything, and I got a $30 credit for turning in my access card. Typical collector mindset: all I could think of as I left were the three albums other people just beat me to (one of the Bo Diddley Chess reissues, the Neil Young cover album The Bridge, and Nico's The End).

Fletcher Henderson and I were good friends, so I just call him Fletch.

opening track on that keith leblanc album = amazing

one of the best leblanc tracks ever.

A story about the sale I mentioned above--I get quoted right at the end.

http://beta.torontoist.com/2011/08/ckln-holds-a-moving-sale-2/

Of course, they never quote you in full; the next thing I said was something like, "But I wish them all the luck in the world." The way it's rendered, it sounds like I'm really down on the station. And it's Aardvark by Kensington Market--in a bizarre coincidence, I made the exact same mistake in my italicization above (accidentally, as I do know which is which).

Haven't quite re-caught the bug yet--I just don't have the patience to wade through piles of junk like I used to--but I've found a couple of places I'm periodically browsing.

Barry Lyndon O.S.T.
Roy Clark's Greatest Hits
Faron Young -- Pen & Paper
Tom Jones -- Tom

$1.50 each. The Roy Clark was sealed, the other three in very good shape. I basically bought the Tom Jones for the cover.

On a related note, I was browsing through all the ridiculously overpriced new vinyl at a mall store last week (actually situated right near the entrance now), seeing albums I bought 35 years ago and others I should have bought 35 years ago, and one question seemed obvious to me: who's going to buy this stuff? Maybe I'm way wrong, but my guess is no one--I'm looking forward to five years from now, when the bottom drops out a second time and all those records can be picked up for next to nothing.

http://www.kosmikradiation.com/albums_files/tomjones_TOM.jpg

Some street festival in mid-Toronto; excellent shape, $1 each, folkie-centric.

Peter (solo Peter Yarrow, '72, with a "register to vote" reminder on the inside gatefold; apparently either sold few copies or was purchased in great quantity by Nixon lovers)
Mud Slide Slim -- James Taylor (never owned a copy)
Circles in the Stream -- Bruce Cockburn (double-live, Massey Hall '77; nothing from Goin' Down the Road, unfortunately)
Ten Man Mop -- Steeleye Span (actual title three times as long)
Summer Solstice -- Maddy Prior & Tim Hart

Also Elvis Costello's Spike, which may or may not be folkie, I don't know.

CDs for 50ç - $1 each, past few weeks...

v/a - The Golden Apples of the Sun
Digable Planets - Reachin (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Janet Jackson - Janet
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel like Showing Up (Live)
Mobb Deep - The Infamous...
Massive Attack - Massive Attack EP
Philosopher's Stone - Preparation
Valet - Blood Is Clean
Wir - The First Letter

yesterday:

joe cuba sextet - bailadores
above the law - time will reveal
pete rock & c.l. smooth - they reminisce over you (cover a little ragged)
malcolm x speaks
art blakey with the original jazz messengers - jazz odyssey
max roach + 4 (trip re-issue)
leaders of the new school - sobb story + international zone coaster
zhigge - toss it up
george benson - good king bad
billy cobham - shabazz
fonda rae - last train to clarksville
the evasions - all wrapped up
raw silk - do it to the music
first choice - love thing (tee scott remix)

found this
http://www.pettediscographies.com/images/SP103slv.jpg

for a single dollur... came on pink vinyl and features a pretty catchy cover of miaow's (?) "when it all comes down" which actually probably ranks amongst my top favorite unrest songs as of now. it's surprisingly how easily they translate into songs more dynamic than their usual affair

zhigge - toss it up

This song still makes me inordinately happy.

for a single dollur... came on pink vinyl and features a pretty catchy cover of miaow's (?) "when it all comes down" which actually probably ranks amongst my top favorite unrest songs as of now. it's surprisingly how easily they translate into songs more dynamic than their usual affair

― Hullo, I'm Jon Moss (kelpolaris), Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:17 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

man i love that cover so much!

it's so great and so different - whereas unrest always seemed to thrive in singular melodies done continuously, "when it all comes down" jumps from one to another just totally fluid. it feels crammed - but less like an office elevator, and more so like dorm-room shower.

i wish they did more stuff like it.

have you heard "bavarian mods" or "capezio b"?

no, never - do you have any links?

joe cuba sextet - bailadores

re ^^^ would love to know more !
i picked up a fania reissue of the 'dead of alive' album by this lot.
absolutely fantastic stuff.
this never fails to put a smile on my face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MenOmqIBmIM

joe cuba sextet - bailadores

re ^^^ would love to know more !
i picked up a fania reissue of the 'dead of alive' album by this lot.
absolutely fantastic stuff.
this never fails to put a smile on my face

really great record. there's apparently a 2010 fania re-issue. can't really go wrong with cuba, or most anything on tico records.
http://www.discogs.com/Joe-Cuba-Sextet-Bailadores/release/3027547

its now on my never ending wish list

charity shop dig for first time in ages the other day, some very satisfying £1 buys ...

picked up another copy of this to sell on or give away http://www.discogs.com/Various-Pure-Classics-Volume-Two/release/6564

lovely unplayed copy of this ... http://www.discogs.com/Yazoo-You-And-Me-Both/release/31607

and most satisfyingly of all took a blind punt on this great little post punk / synthy diy thing which i really like http://www.discogs.com/Mud-Hutters-Factory-Farming/release/2021932

this excellent comp of frank tovey "hits" ... £1 - cancer research up morningside

http://www.discogs.com/Frank-Tovey-The-Fad-Gadget-Singles/release/62095

prince's hits + b-sides 3CD set for $1 at a book fair woo

^^^^ nice!

Just got a sealed 180gram copy of Smash Your Head Against The Wall for $3 @ Half-Price.

dollar disco vinyl:

Double Exposure - 'My Love is Free' / Salsoul Orchestra - 'It Don't Have to Be Funky (to be a Groove)'
Grace Jones - 'On Your Knees' / 'Don't Mess with the Messer'
Voyage - s/t

About $25 total including $5 entrance fee (lots of 50-centers, a few $1s, two $2s), Austin Record Convention today

Bobby Bland – Two Steps From The Blues (Duke 1961)
Rory Block – Intoxication (Chrysalis 1977)
Bloodrock – 3 (Capitol 1971)
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids – There’s No Face Like Chrome (Epic 1974)
Dazz Band – Greatest Hits (Motown 1986)
Rick Dees – The Original Disco Duck (RSO 1977)
Dr. Feelgood – As It Happens (United Artists 1979)
Faith Hope & Charity – s/t (RCA 1975)
4 Out Of 5 Doctors – s/t (Nemperor 1980)
Eddie Jefferson – The Main Man (Inner City 1977)
Bobby Jimmy and the Critters – Ugly Knuckle Butt (Rapsur 1985)
Krokus – One Vice At A Time (Arista 1982)
Man 2 Man Meet Man Parrish – Male Stripper (Bolts 12-iinch c. 1987)
Nick Mason – Fictitious Sports (Columbia 1981)
Mel McDaniel – Gentle To Your Senses (Capitol 1977)
Motorhead – Another Perfect Day (Bronze Mexico 1983)
Tracy Nelson – Sweet Soul Music (MCA 1975)
One Way – Shine On Me (MCA 1983)
Paper Lace – Paper Lace (Mercury 1974)
Chris Rea – Chris Rea (Columbia 1982)
The Rings – The Rings (MCA 1981)
Tom Robinson – Sector 27 (IRS 1980)
Phil Seymour – 2 (Boardwalk 1982)
Sweet – Identity Crisis (Polydor Mexico 1982)
Pat Terry – Humanity Gangsters (Myrrh 1982)
2 Live Crew – Is What We Are (Luke Skyywalker 1986)
West Street Mob – Let Your Mind Be Free/Breakdance – Electric Boogie (Sugar Hill 12-inch 1983)
White Wolf – Standing Alone (RCA 1984)
Y&T – Open Fire (A&M 1985)
(Various) – Le Mejor Del Rock En Espanol (WEA Mexico 1985)
(Various) – Sylvester (Curb 1985 – what a weird format: a movie soundtrack *EP*, just six songs, by Cruzados, Los Lobos, Textones, Gail Davies, Rank & File)

That Nick Mason album is pretty great, but you probably know that... Still not on CD, I don't think, which is kinda weird.

Oh, no, I was wrong. Just out of print and expensive...

i just heard that album for the first time last month. i had no idea i would like it so much. such a great cast of characters too.

Was in Krakow the past two weekends, and made a great haul -- some Polish new wave, couple of synth-prog records, and then maybe a hundred sound postcards, which was a popular format for distributing western music in Poland in the '60s and '70s. Woke up this morning with the inconsolable urge to buy more postcards. Then, at my local flea market here in Neukölln, I actually did score one: a German one, with an image of the Berlin Kongreßhalle; the song is "The River Kwai March," whistles and all. Sometimes, the record gods smile upon us.

(I also got some Bummi flexidiscs, starring the adventures of a cartoon bear. Score!)

Where's a good place to look for music in Krakow?