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

The Nashville soundtrack is sorta disappointing--missing songs and the Keith comps were studio versions.

Clem's next stop shulld be getting the two Keith Carradine lps for 50 cents.

all vinyl, all pretty good condition for the price:

go-gos: talk show
ultravox: rage in eden
genesis: duke and three sides live

WATERLOO SEP 22, $1 each: All vinyl except the emo comp

Bruce Cockburn – High Winds White Sky (True North 1971)
Field Mob – From Tha Roota To Tha Toota (MCA 2xLP 2002 - one of my favorite '00s rap albums, very cool to find on vinyl)
Good Rats – Rat City In Blue (Ratcity 1976)
Howard Hawes – The Sermon (Contemporary/Fantasy 1987)
Helix – Long Way To Heaven (Capitol 1985)
Kristi Rose and the Midnight Walkers – Some People (Rounder 1986)
Taxxi – Foreign Tongue (Fantasy 1983)
Yipes! – Yipes! (Millenium 1979)
(Various) – Nowcore!: The Punk Rock Evolution (K-Tel CD 1999 – w/ Promise Ring, Hum, Modest Mouse, Braid, At the Drive In, Burning Airlines, Unwound, Dismemberment Plan, Drive Like Jehu, Jawbox, etc.)

AUSTIN RECORD CONVENTION, today, $35 total (all @ $1/each except 2 @ 50 cents/each* and 5 @ 5-for-$1**)

Tony Basil – Word Of Mouth (Chrysalis 1982)
Shirley Brown – Woman To Woman (Truth 1974)
Bullfrog – Second Wind (Nash West Germany 1980)*
Cameo – Alligator Woman (Chocolate City 1982)** -- two scratchy copies inside, though actually I think I might own this already
Chic – Chic-ism (Warner Bros. 1992)
Chubb Rock – Featuring Hitman Howie Tee (Select 1988)
Bruce Cockburn – Circles In The Stream (True North 2xLP 1977)
Bruce Cockburn – Further Adventures Of (Island 1978)
Bruce Cockburn – Humans (Millenium 1980)
Bruce Cockburn – Stealing Fire (Gold Mountain/A&M 1984)
Ornette Coleman – Of Human Feelings (Antilles 1982)
Cool It Reba – Money Fall Out Of The Sky (Hannibal EP 1982)
Bill Cosby – Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings (Warner Bros. 1967)* - w/ "Little Ole Man"
Dr. John – Babylon (Atco 1968) - his name's not even on the cover; weird
Fleetwood Mac – Bare Trees (Reprise 1972)
Tom T. Hall – The Storyteller (Mercury 1972)
Millie Jackson – Live and Dangerous (Spring 1982)
Garland Jeffreys – Garland Jeffreys (Atlantic 1972)
Johnny and the Distractions – Let It Rock (A&M 1981)
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Dread Beat An’ Blood (Virgin UK 1978)
Jonzun Crew – Lost In Space (Tommy Boy 1983 -- already had this on CD reissue, but I missed the vinyl
The Judds – The Judds (RCA EP 1984) -- only record by them I ever cared about
Mickey Jupp – Juppanese (Stiff UK 1978)
The Kendalls – The Best Of (Ovation 1980) -- can probably get rid of my 3 spotty LPs by them now
Nils Lofgren – The Best (A&M 1981)
Mama’s Boys – Mama’s Boys (Arista 1984)
Suzi Quatro – Quatro (Bell 1974)
Genya Ravan – Urban Desire (20th Century Fox 1978)
The Reddings – The Awakening (Believe In A Dream 1980)**
Pharoah Sanders – Wisdom Through Music (Impulse 1973)
Skids – Days In Europa (Virgin UK 1979)
Slim – “Good To Go” (T.T.E.D. 12” 1984)**
James Talley – Tryin’ Like The Devil (Capitol 1976)
Ursa Major – Ursa Major (RCA 1972) -
Loudon Wainwright III – T-Shirt (Arista 1976) - Xgau says Attempted Mustache from 1973 is better; they had both but this had more promising titles and I liked the cover more
West Street Mob – “Ooh Baby” (Sugarhill 12” 1982)**
XTC – White Music (Epic 1978)
(Various) – Chicago Rocks Volume One (The Loop 1980) - WLUP local band comp w/ M&R Rush and lots of artists I never heard of
(Various) – Disco Bump (Telefunken West Germany 1975) - w/ Bohannon and lots of artists I never heard of
(Various) – Skool Of Hard Knocks (Renegade Hardware UK 5-12” box set 2003)** - drum'n'bass apparently, with the electronic-not-rock Bad Company and lots of artists I never heard of; who knows if I'll ever listen to this, but hey, 20 cents!

I looked up the Nils Lofgren LP--too bad there's no "Lost a Number," or anything from Grin. I've got two or three James Talley albums, including that one, thanks to Christgau. Would love to find Bare Trees. but

(No buts about it--stray word.)

I've already got a couple Grin LPs though (including 1+1, which has that song on it); it was Lofgren's early solo career I wanted to catch up with -- like his 1977 double-live album and 1979 self-titled LP quite a bit. As for Talley, I have a 2006 "30th Anniversary" CD reissue of Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money..., and to be honest it's never done much for me at all -- Never figured out why Christgau descibed it as "Western Swing"; just seemed mostly like drab folkie proto-alt-country or something. Hung onto it, though, figuring maybe I'd grow into it someday. Decided to take a shot on the other one by him Xgau liked, which I don't think I'd ever seen a copy of before yesterday.

Found Gabor Szabo's Spellbinder LP in a bin for 50 cents, but it was beat to shit so I left it there.

SETTLEMENT HOME CHARITY GARAGE SALE @ PALMER EVENT CENTER, Nov 3 - $1 each CDs

Dixie Chicks – Thank Heavens For Dale Evans (Crystal Clear Sound 1990)
EMF – Schubert Dip (EMI 1991)
Abbey Lincoln- The World Is Fallin Down (Verve/Polydor France 1990)
Jill Scott – Who Is Jill Scott?: Words And Sounds Vol. 1 (Hidden Beach 2000)
Fats Waller – Jazz Collector Edition: Historic Recording (Laser Light Digital West Germany 1989)
Tom Zé – Fabrication Defect: Com Defeito De Fabriaçño (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. 1998)
(Various) – Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul Of Black Peru (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros. 1995)

END OF AN EAR, Nov 10 - 50 cents each vinyl

Hunters And Collectors – The Jaws Of Life (Slash 1984)
Iowa Beef Experience – Coolass Gravytrain (Vinyl Solution UK 1988)
Tippa Irie & Pato Banton – Dance Hall Moves (Bubblers/Greensleeves UK split EP 1986)
Erich Katz – Motets And Hymns Of The 16 Century For Three Recorders (Music Minus One 10-inch EP 1956, w/ sheet music book)
Texas Instruments – s/t (Rabid Cat 1987)
Uncle Wiggly – Across The Room And Into Your Lap (Shimmy-Disc 1991)
Joe Walsh – Barnstorm (Dunhill/ABC 1972)
Wildebeest – Reckless Dreams (Gnu 10-inch EP 1981 -- probably not as Satan-metal as the goat on the cover looks, but still.)
(Various) – Diggin’ It (Diggin Breaks ???, probable bootleg w/ Zulema, David Axelrod, Ann Peebles, Main Ingredient, Gil Scott-Heron, Night Court theme, etc.; cover lists rap songs they’re all sampled in)
(Various) – Gabe’s Dirty Blues (Gabe’s Archive of Sound/Gusto 2xLP 1978, probable bootleg w/ Little Willie John, Wynonie Harris, Bullmoose Jackson, Little Esther Phillips, the Midnighters, Roy Brown, etc.)

FULL MOON RECORDS, Atlanta, GA

$1 LPs (even 3xLP ATMP was same price)

Randy Newman "Live"
Randy Newman "Sail Away"
Randy Newman "Good Old Boys"
Steely Dan "Aja"
Beach Boys "Love You"
Joe Cocker s/t 1972
Beatles "Yesterday and Today"
Vangelis "China"
Peter Murphy "Should the World Fail to Fall Apart"
Talk Talk "It's My Life"
Quincy Jones "The Dude"
Brian Ferry "These Foolish Things"
George Harrison "All Things Must Pass"

$1 45s

The Tornados "Telstar"

just found this for £2 in an oxfam music, perfect quality original pressing

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qkbIRB2aYhE/TBpSzDTuY7I/AAAAAAAAAQU/HeJ3FZVI7Fg/s1600/astor.jpg

At thrift stores (each for $1, all CDs):

Branford Marsalis - The First Time
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Twin Peaks Soundtrack
Luscious Jackson - Electric Honey

Also Topo! which is an "interactive" map of many So Cal counties' National Forests on CD. I haven't tried using it yet.

RECYCLED READS, Nov 17

Army of Lovers – Army Of Lovers (Giant 1990 CD) - $1
Jurassic 5 – Jurassic 5 EP (Interscope 1999 CD) - $1
Hal Ketchum – Past the Point of Rescue (Curb 1991 cassette) – 25 cents

CHEAPO, Dec 8 – CDs $2, LPs $1 (going out of business sale, don't think I'd ever bought anything there before)

Banderas – Ripe (London 1991 CD)
Niños Con Bombas – Di Tiempo En El Momento De La Explosión (Grita! 1997 CD)
Rubber Rodeo – Scenic Views (Mercury 1984 LP)
Sherbet – Magazine (MCA 1977 LP)
Dionne Warwick – Soulful (Sceptor 1969 LP – German pressing)*
Walk The West – Walk The West (Capitol 1986 LP)
Wildlife – Wildlife (Swan Song 1983 LP)

WATERLOO, Dec 8, $1 each

Artful Dodger – Rave On (Ariola 1980)
Henry Badowski – Life Is A Grand… (IRS 1981)
Celi Bee & The Buzzy Bunch – s/t (Apa 1977)
Michael Henderson – Wide Receiver (Buddah 1980)
Mylon – Holy Smoke (Columbia 1971)*
Q – Dancin’ Man (Epic 1977)
Visage – Visage (Polydor 1980)

ESTATE SALE ON BUELL ST., Dec 15, $1.50 or so each (i.e., I paid $5 total for these two LPs plus two books, including a good-as-new hardcover Dictionary Of American Slang from 1960)

Gian Carlo Menotti – The Unicorn Gorgon And The Manticore (Angel 1957 - boxed but only one disc, very goth/prog cover though)
(Various) – Shut Down (Capitol 1963)

BREAKAWAY Dec 29, $1 each

The Bluebells - s/t (Sire EP 1983)
David Geddes – Run Joey Run (Big Tree 1975)
Helmet Boy – s/t (Asylum 1980)
Patrick Juvet – Got A Feeling (Casablanca 1978)
Idris Muhammad – Boogie To The Top (Kudu 1978)
Glenn Phillips Band – Live (Shanachie 1985)
Jeannie C. Riley – Things Go Better With Love (Plantation 1969)
J.D. Souther – You’re Only Lonely (Columbia 1979)*
(Various) – Cruisin’ 1967 (Increase 1984)

* -- Probably not worth keeping (which might go for a couple others, too.)

My ex-wife was really into that Glenn Phillips album when we met, I haven't thought about him since. Good lord, David Geddes...

xhuxk, how do you find time to listen to all this stuff? And store it? I love this thread, but it makes me realize how selective I'm becoming about bringing home tons of vinyl.

Army of Lovers! Seem to recall they were a subject of contention in one of the early Radio Ons.

Were they? Who wouldn't like Army Of Lovers?? Anyway, I'm not sure why I ever got rid of that CD; wrote them up in both the Voice and Spin back then. ("Crucified," which I assume is their most famous song, isn't on the album, but I still have a CD single of it.)

And Dan, finding listening time is not a problem at all -- Downstairs stereo is reserved for vinyl, so that's pretty much all we play during meals (both cooking and eating), and some turntable use occurs during reading and calisthenics sessions as well. Don't only play new dollar-bin purchases, either -- pull down records off the shelves all the time too, and lots of Christmas records get spun in December. Vinyl used to pile up for years, but I haven't had that problem in a long time -- Just keep a running stack, work my way through it, and don't let it stress me out. LPs get played a few times then filed away (sometimes in a sell pile) fairly quick.

Storage is more of an issue, but not a huge problem yet. Vinyl mid-H's (Headboys to be exact) through Z's plus compilations are on shelves in my home office (as are CDs -- cassettes in plastic pull-out file drawers of just the right depth); A's through H's on a shelf at the top of our walk-in bedroom closet. All the vinyl is admittedly packed pretty tight now (so I've been looking around for more shelves and talking to my wife who's much better at such things about how to reconfigure my office furniture to accommodate them), and I've been starting to think of weeding out more marginal records one of these days. But so far I've been able to get by.

And yes, David Geddes -- Good lord is about right. Album looked too potentially interesting to pass up for a buck, though, plus I guess I have a soft spot for records on Big Tree. (Sounds way less interesting than it looks, though now I'm wondering whether he paved the way for Meat Loaf.)

I always assumed "Blind Man In The Bleachers" was on that Geddes LP too, but I'm researching (why?!) and it's not.

WATERLOO, Jan 12, $1 each
Live Wire – Live Wire (A&M 1979) -- sounds like dire straits crossed with herman brood.
Tex and the Horseheads – Life’s So Good (Enigma 1985) -- wish they had better tunes, playing, and singing, but I'll probably keep this anyway.

BREAKAWAY Jan 26, $1 each
Peabo Bryson – Crosswinds (Capitol 1978)
Andrae Crouch & the Disciples – Keep On Singin’ (Light 1972) -- already had this, but with a different cover; both look really cool.
Tim Curry – Fearless (A&M 1979)
ZZ Hill – Thrill On The Hill (Rare Bullet 1984)

RECYCLED READS Jan 26 (books), $1 each
Bill C. Malone – Country Music USA (2002 – second revised edition)
Dave Marsh et. al. – The Rolling Stone Record Guide (1979 – first/red edition) -- my second copy; am still using other one, though, which is pretty much torn to pieces.

END OF AN EAR March 2, 2013, 50 cents each (LPs unless noted otherwise)
B.T. Express – Do It ‘Til You’re Satisfied (Yegrin South Korea 1974) -- in green Xeroxy bootleggy looking cover.
Central Line - Don’t Tell Me/Walking Into Sunshine/Shake It Up {Larry Levan Mixes} (Mercury 12” 1981)
Chip Chip – Never Say Goodbye (ZYX 12” 1987)
Sparky “D” – Sparky’s Turn {Roxanne You’re Through} (Nia 12” 1985)
Sparky Dee Vs. The Playgirls – The Battle (Nia 12” 1985) -- she sure changed the spelling of her name fast.
El Roacho – The Best Of El Roacho’s Greatest Hits (Columbia 1973) -- "debut recordings...never before released," ha.
The Evasions – Wikka Wrap (Sam 12” 1981) -- had this already; will give this copy away; there was actually one more in the bin, too.
Foundation – Voyage (Fartblossom Enterprizes EP 1986) - produced by Brian Baker
Cynthia Gooding – Queen Of Hearts: Early English Folk Songs (Elektra 1953) -- VERY thick pressing; was that common then?
Head East – A Different Kind Of Crazy (A&M 1979) -- they sure did like pancakes.
Hubert Laws – The Chicago Theme (CTI 1975)
MFSB – MFSB (Philadelphia International 1973) -- w/ presumably instrumental versions of "Freddie's Dead," "Family Affair," "Back Stabbers."
Roger Miller – 1970 (Smash 1970)
T.S. Monk – Human (Mirage 1982)
The Motors – The Motors (Virgin 1977)
Elliott Murphy – Night Lights (RCA 1976)
Plastic Bertrand – L’Album (Attic Canada 1980)
Maryla Rodowicz – Sing-Sing (Pronit Poland 1976) -- w/ provocatively posed gatefold.
Roxanne Shante – (Cold Chillin’ 12” 1989)
Trooper – Two For The Show (MCA/Legend 1976) -- still "sealed for your protection," but I'll probably open it anyway.
Dwight Twilley – Scuba Divers (EMI 1979)
Ben Vereen – Ben Vereen (Buddah 1976)
(Various) – Danae Jacovidis – At Midnight Medley/Tantra – Hills Of Katmandu (Disconet promo 1979) -- first side is DJ mastermix of '70s songs by spinners, lamont dozier, bionic boogie, timmy thomas, george mccrae, love unlimited orchestra, buddy miles, t-connection.
(Various) – New Rock New Bands New Albums (Phonogram West Germany 1980) -- w/ the kids, faith band, original mirrors, duke jupiter, ian mclagan, def leppard off their debut LP, etc.; includes swell-looking german-language promotional zine about all the bands.

Oops -- The Roxanne Shante 12-inch is "Live On Stage."

Same old record convention. Slowly but noticeably getting more expensive--what was $2 when vinyl was at low ebb a few years ago is now $5, what was $5 in now $10, etc. So I didn't buy much. (Truthfully, I only hit the same three or four tables every year, although I found a good soul/R&B this time.)

$2: Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (popular guy from the '70s)
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Golden Hour of Donovan (no hits--likely all folkie)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Life (the only Neil vinyl I didn't own up until the Budweiser album, so I was happy about this)

$5: Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls
Dionne Warwick: Very Dionne (sealed)
The Supremes (Jimmy Webb produced LP from '72, sealed)

$7: Mister Little Willie John
Little Willie John: Talk to Me
Annisteen Allen: Give It Up (never heard of her--last three all Dutch pressings)

Been buying cassettes at thrift stores for a a couple reasons:
1) Placeholders until I can find certain stuff on CD (or vinyl preferably) and
2) They are dirt cheap! Most thrift stores around town have them two for a quarter (some places even have them ten for a dollar!).

Been finding lots of good ambient stuff this way (including five Harold Budd albums!) and, every once in a while, you'll run into someone's old Elvis or Roy Orbison collection and there's inevitably the great early stuff in there.

One thing I haven't been able to bring myself to do is buy classical on cassette. Just can't do it.

I got a kickass SQUARE DANCE CALLS LP by Carson Robison and His Pleasant Valley Boys.
I got a great 2xLP comp from the 60's called "Them Old Country Songs".
I got Herbie Mann's "Mississippi Gambler" which has a cool cover and it's some weird flute-based 70's fusion so it's the odd man out. It's a little cheesy but I may end up getting into it.

All for $1 apiece at Atlanta's Full Moon Records. I didn't have enough cash so i just told him to charge me $5. The Square Dance record is amazing, I probably played it 6 times yesterday.

Thrift shopping in rural Georgia yesterday, look at this LP score:

Miles Davis "Filles de Kilimanjaro"
New York Dolls s/t (heavily water damaged cover, but it was a dollar)
Tommy James and the Shondells "I Think We're Alone Now"
Various Artists "The Concert for Bangladesh" (3xLP, includes booklet)
Gary Lewis "A Session With Gary Lewis and the Playboys"
Paul McCartney "McCartney II" (ok, this was actually $2 but Bangladesh was $1 for 3xLP, so it counts)
The Rader Family "Ocean Opry: Most Requested Show Songs" (vintage Panama City Beach, FL country)

Also found "Lady Sings the Blues" the autobiography for 50 cents.

Cool, were you near the GA/FL border? I've tried hitting some thrifts around there when I was in the area but didn't find much.

It was conyers/covington.

FL is thrift dreamland.

So I hear

crusin around OKC a town I don't know well, I started hitting thrifts: Country Christian Christmas dominates out here but I scored
an Al Green on Myrrh, "The Lord Will Make a Way")
"Cugat's Favorite Rumbas" which is shit-hot
Astrud Gilberto "A Certain Smile A Certain Sadness"
"Irakere"
and a dozen good classical records including quite a bit of American stuff I haven't heard (Ives songs, Babbitt)

I found great records in OKC these last few months, and last weekend these two Korean records at a Tulsa flea market and the cashier just gave them to me!
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I've already decided a few of these purchases were mistakes. But some are really good, too (all vinyl til the bottom):

WATERLOO March 9, $1 each
Alpha Band – Spark In The Dark (Arista 1977)
Bronz – Taken By Storm (Bronze/Island 1984)

BREAKAWAY & EPOCH COFFEE SHOP RUMMAGE SALE IN THE PARKING LOT OUTSIDE March 23, $1 each
The Archies – Everything’s Archie (Calendar 1969)
The Crusaders – Southern Comfort (ABC 2xLP 1974)
Patrice Rushen – Patrice (Elektra 1978)
Village People – Renaissance (RCA 1981)

SALVATION ARMY ON I-183, May 9, $1
(Various) – Teen Challenge: Addicts Choir (Word c. 1966)

WATERLOO , May 16, $1 each
American Flyer – Spirit Of A Woman (United Artists 1977)
Barclay James Harvest – Time Honoured Ghosts (Polydor 1975)
Clover –Love On The Wire (Mercury 1977)
The Crusaders – Scratch (MCA 1974)
Duke Jupiter – Band In Blue (Mercury 1980)
Sugar Loaf – Spaceship Earth (Liberty 1970)

FOR CURIOSITY SAKE, MARBLE FALLS, June 1, 2013, $1 each
LPs:
Cabaret Voltaire – Code (EMI Manhattan 1987)
Champaign – Woman In Flames (Columbia 1984)
Faith Band – Rock’n Romance (Village 1978)
Japan – Tin Drum (Virgin 1981)
Les Variations – Café De Paris (Buddah 1975)
Surface – Surface (Columbia 1986)
The Tourists – Luminous Basement (Epic 1980)

CDs:
Debbie Deb – She’s Back! (Pandisc 1995)
Divinyls – Divinyls (Virgin 1990)
Evelyn “Champagne” King – Love Come Down: The Best Of (RCA 1993)
Barrington Levy – Barrington (MCA 1993)
Lords Of Acid – Lust (Caroline 1991)
Mary Jane Girls – In My House: The Very Best Of (Motown 1994)
Nina Sky – Nina Sky (Universal 2004)
Prong – Prove You Wrong (Epic 1991)
Rodney O Joe Cooley - Days Of Way Back (Psychotic 1994)
Rodney O Joe Cooley – F__k New York (Psychotic 1993)

haha would love your thoughts on Japan and the King comp.

I'll be way beyond shocked if, of those two, I don't wind up liking the Evelyn "Champagne" King way more. Must be just a glutton for punishment for buying the Japan album -- I've never much liked much what I've heard by them in the past, and stuff I've read makes me assume they got even more boring as they went on. But their fans consider Tin Drum one of their landmarks, right? And I've never heard it, so maybe I should. Anyway, here's what I wrote on a couple years ago, about an earlier album by them:

Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock 2011

Btw, that Tourists album I got stars a young Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, pre-Eurythmics. The Clover album (which I like a lot so far) stars a young Huey Lewis, pre-News. The Alpha Band album stars a young T-Bone Burnett, obviously. The American Flyer album, which totally bored me the one time I played it, has late-Velvet Undergrounder Doug Yule plus, supposedly, various Blues Magoo/Blues Project/Blood Sweat & Tears/Pure Prairie League dudes. The Village People album is their "New Romantic" move, but though they're dressed up like Spandau Ballet on the cover they sound more like they've been listening more to Devo circa "Whip It." (Also, they do three songs about food.) And the weirdest thing up there is probably Teen Challenge: Addicts Choir, in which a young Andrae Crouch leads (often as soloist) "the most unusual choir you have ever heard! Thirty voices of converted drug addicts and delinquents singing the praises of God." It is definitely the only gospel album I've ever seen with somebody shooting up on the cover.

The chinoiserie of Tin Drum bothers me as much as Sylvian's singing these days. I had more fun playing old "bad" Japan -- the brief period when they thought they were the New York Dolls.

I picked up American Flyer's debut a couple months ago and that is pretty boring as well

ANTONE’S, June 1, $1 each
Barooga Bandit – s/t (Capitol 1979)
Blackfoot – Flyin’ High (Epic 1976)
John Fred and his Playboy Band – Agnes English (Paula 1968)
Ish – s/t (Clouds/TK 1979)
Paul Nicholas – s/t (RSO 1977)
Spider – s/t (Dreamland 1980)
Stealin Horses – s/t (Arista 1988)
Tycoon – s/t (Arista 1978)

END OF AN EAR, June 8, 50 cents each
Ambrosia – s/t (20th Century 1975)
American Tears – Branded Bad (Columbia 1974)
Cochise – Rauchezeichen (Folk Freak West Germany 1979)
Cri-Cri – Homenaje A Cri-Cri (RCA Victory Mexico ???)
Moms Mabley/Pigmeat Markham – The Best Of Moms And Pigmeat (Chess ???)
1910 Fruitgum Co. – Simon Says (Buddah Mexico 1968)
Pontiac Brothers – Doll Hut (Frontier 1985)
Rank and File – s/t (Slash/Warner Bros. 1982)
Svart Snö – Smock ‘n Roll (Prank 1995)
Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together (Glades 1972)
Lu Waters’ Yerba Buena Big Band – s/t (Good Time Jazz 10-inch c. 1952)
White Witch – A Spiritual Greeting (Capricorn 1974)

BREAKAWAY, June 15, $1 each
Millie Jackson – I Had To Say It (Spring 1980)
Rosalie Sorrels – Always A Lady (Philo 1975)
Sylvester – Stars (Fantasy 1979)
Cris Williamson – The Changer And The Changed (Olivia 1975)

BREAKAWAY, June 22, $1 each
Blues Image – Open (Atco 1970)
Freddie Fender – The Fabulous Freddie Fender: His All Time Favorites (SMI 2xLP 1976)

i've heard almost all of those records - including tycoon, spider, stealin horses, ish, and barooga bandit - and my faves would have to be the rosalie sorrels, timmy thomas, white witch, ambrosia, and blackfoot. but millie jackson and sylvester are always good too. and i like that blues image album. the Ish album i play quite often.

I hated the Rosalie Sorrels at first. (Only just played it yesterday.) She just seemed way too mannered/quirky/whatever. Weird, but not in a listenable way, I thought. By the second side, though, I was started to like her better, so who knows.

Timmy Thomas, White Witch, and Blackfoot albums are kind of amazing -- like those way more than I expected to. Of the others you named, Tycoon is the biggest surprise so far: Post-Foreigner disco-pomping mustache AOR pop; catchy stuff, what's not to like?

i love rosalie! she's one of my fave singers. she talks like that too.

Why Isn't Rosalie Sorrels Hip With Hepcats??? She's Great!

no, i like tycoon okay. but they aren't entirely memorable. good when i'm playing them, but kinda out of sight out of mind.

timmy thomas album just one of the great albums of the 70's.

i like Foxy more than Tycoon. ISH was the lead singer of Foxy.

Oh yeah, sure, course - Foxy were great! And Ish was also the guy behind Company B, and the new wave group OXO ("Whirly Girl.") I've even got a 2-CD career retrospective by him called Ishology, from 2005. Have a feeling this solo LP I just found isn't close to his best work, though -- Haven't played it yet, but I think I used to own it before. Seemed like something I should re-investigate, though.

Tycoon's "Such A Woman" actually rang a bell in my AOR memory banks, though I doubt I'd heard in the past 34 years.

I bought that White Witch years ago because of a recommendation in some heavy metal book. I should pull it out and give it another listen.

I was just researching Spider last night. It's the band of Anton Fig and Holly Knight (songwriter for the stars)

recommendation in some heavy metal book

Coincidence! (#266, to be exact.)

That Timmy Thomas album is a like a mini-There's a Riot Goin' On, by the way. (If that's common knowledge, I never realized it before.)

Combined total = £2:

Crown Heights Affair - Dream World (lp)
Nick Edwards - Plekzationz (test pressing lp)
Basteroid/Konfekt/Metope/Ada - Rabimmel/Ra(Bammel)/Rabum/Bum Bum (12")
Julian Jonah - Welcome to the Disco (EP)
Alex Gopher - Party People (WORST THING EVER)

Nashville dollar finds:

Joe Simon, Greatest Hits (Sound Stage 7)
Graham Parker and the Rumor, The Parkerilla and Stick to Me
Don Bowman, Our Man in Trouble (recently dead cornpone-country-insider comedian who sent up his association with Chet Atkins)
Bernard Herrmann, Conducts Music from Citizen Kane et al
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Suite for Pops 1975 Horizon/A&M
Carly Simon, Anticipation
Anne Murray, Talk It Over in the Morning and Highly Prized Possession
Larry Hosford, Cross Word (1976 Shelter LP)
Jackie DeShannon, New Image
Lovin' Spoonful, Daydream
Henson Cargill, Comin' on Strong 1968 Monument
Matthew Fisher, Journey's End sealed
Chacksfield Plays Simon and Garfunkel and Jimmy Webb
Xhuxk, I also recently bought Timmy Thomas' 1972 Glades LP, Why Can't We Live Together, which is definitely one of the greatest drum-machine statements of all time. I've heard at least one of his late-'70s albums, and I also liked.

From the free bins at Poo Bah:
Glen Campbell - Greatest Hits
Capitol Disc Jockey Album - September 1967

Both appear to be in decent condition.

Anything cool on the Capitol album?

Just picked these up for fifty cents each:

Ray Charles Live at Newport
Beck Bogert Appice (think this is a required buy for white men my age)
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Big Jim Sullivan - Plays Gilbert O'Sullivan (WAY better than you'd think, at least if you like cheesy funky instrumental jams)

The Capitol sampler has a couple tracks by Peggy Lee, and a version of "Cry Me A River" by Tina Mason (never heard of her before), which is why I picked it up. From the jacket (emphasis theirs):

"The tracks in this specially prepared album have been ARRANGED IN A SEQUENCE which will enable you to program the selections ONE AFTER THE OTHER in the order produced on this LP. In other words, INSTANT PROGRAMMING from the FIRST THROUGH THE LAST track. Side one designed for middle-of-the-road good-music programming, side two for EASY LISTENING."

I haven't played it yet.

My most memorable:

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - vinyl - $1 at a WFMU garage sale
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life - promo CD - 99 cents at a record shop before it was officially released