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

hey, floor-scraper, if you want country records, you should check out the dumpster next to roberto's pizza on federal street. i just spent an hour and a half inside it. thousands of records.

so, what'd you get????

i'll post what i got tomorrow.

i've literally had dreams like that. filled up the trunk of the car. going thru 'em now. head spinning...

yeah, i felt the same way. it was fun too. it's actually not my first time in a dumpster to be honest. i couldn't see how far down the records went. they went pretty far though. i was glad when i figured out that they didn't go all the way to the bottom and that they were mostly on top of old wood and carpet. i would have been there all night if i had had to dig my way to the bottom.

there were some other guys digging with me - it was a party! i was grabbing stacks without looking. the covers are moldy but most of the vinyl is mint. whoever must have brought them out right after the rain today. lots of showtunes and other junk, but lots of gems too. have a nice pile of the sealed 60s stuff. listening to an unplayed Bernstein 'Scheherazade' which sounds like Heaven on my new needle.

gotta pick out the keepers now and move the rest to the garage before the stench knocks me out...

i was pretty picky. i'm a picky dumpster diver. and, yet, like in a dream, i was all hurried and panicky, as if all of a sudden everyone on the street was gonna join me and get all the eddy arnold records i wanted.

i saw those sealed capitol promos and i kept waiting for that sealed Gandalf record to pop up. alas, not a lot of that stuff.

if you tell me that you got a sealed gandalf record i will have to shoot myself.

pics from the 80,000+ Record Bonanza in some dude in Long Beach's backyard:

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not pictured: the additional couple thousand records being stored outside. going back in a couple of weeks.

okay, i wrote down the clean good stuff i got. clean covers and vinyl or sealed. (left out other samey stuff or common stuff like talking heads records and stuff)

here, then, is my dumpster day haul:

artful dodger - babes on broadway

tim buckley - happy sad

paul & paula - we go together

eddie heywood - s/t (emarcy)

what's new pussycat soundtrack

charlie louvin - here's a toast to mama (sealed!)

village people - renaissance

the swazze sound of the zim zemarel dance band

tarney/spencer band - run for your life

russ & becky jeffers and smokey mountain sunshine

sandpipers - the wonder of you (sealed)

hustler - high street

ode to billy joe soundtrack (sealed)

skinny puppy - bites

john mayall - the diary of a band

the best of jimmy smith (verve)

jonah jones - that righteous feelin'

sam the man taylor - mist of the orient

ralph harrison - free spirit movin' (sealed)

tiger - a me name is tiger

george benson - in flight (sealed)

dickey lee - patches

mimi farina & tom jans - take heart

charlie byrd - byrdland

red stewart quintet - redhead

kim weston - for the first time

oxendale & shephard - put your money where your mouth is

the mechanics of corneal contact lenses

steel band bamboushay

the gloucester hornpipe and clog society

linda clifford - i'm yours

auscultation of the heart

rick nelson - intakes

tom paxton - 6

muddy "mississippi" water live (sweet blue sky promo)

toulouse - s/t

maxine nightingale - lead me on

david laflamme - white bird

william d. smith - smitty

eddy howard - saturday nite dance date

valdy & the hometown band - s/t

nat king cole - the very thought of you (sealed)

eddy arnold - one more time

ron carter - pick 'em

george shearing/nancy wilson - the swingin's mutual (sealed)

the rascals - see

steve miller band - your saving grace

barry mcguire - have you heard

jerry lee lewis sings the country music hall of fame hits vol.2

laughing dogs - s/t

loretta lynn & conway twitty - we only make believe

bobbie gentry - ode to billy joe

the best of cal tjader

gap mangione - suite lady

sly & robbie - rhythm killers

toyah - anthem

harrison baker - the hungry i presents the last of the well comedians

gordon lightfoot - if you could read my mind

roslyn kind - this is (very cool promo pack of roslyn kind photos and business cards and inside the pack is a sealed copy of the album. she was barbra streisand's half-sister)

midnight cowboy soundtrack

woody herman - light my fire (on cadet)

nancy wilson - a touch of today (sealed)

jack daniels original silver cornet band in concert

joe brooks and rosko - morning ( i actually have a joe brooks album AND a rosko album in the store. now i have them together!)

popular photography's sound for a picture evening

mina - la mina

west bruce laing - why dontcha

pete drake - the greatest steel guitar in the world

pepper & tanner creative sales library service (60's ad jingles! including one for the record shop!)

i'm keeping the artful dodger record and the hustler record and selling the rest.

love the hustler record!

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^^sweet. I combed out all the showtunes and Mitch Miller and have 400 or so to take another look at. I have some sealed Nancy Wilson, Al Martino, Lettermen - no obvious diamonds though. I figured out his inflated price notes are old guide quotes, poor sap. groovin' on Santana's bro then to bed:

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i'll probably swing by tomorrow morn if it doesn't rain.

i was thinking the same thing. we could have breakfast on the dumpster.

My most recent pile. (Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts LP was the biggest surprise on here, I think):

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

hey, floor-scraper, if you want country records, you should check out the dumpster next to roberto's pizza on federal street. i just spent an hour and a half inside it. thousands of records.

when does this ever happen in the real world!?

more than you would think! I got my entire collection of 78's this way.

Ray Coniff: S&D

i'm having fun opening up sealed eddie heywood and billy vaughan records and playing them.

my brother tells me that there used to be an old pressing plant in Pittsfield and that they pressed stuff for Capitol. it's all coming together...

joe sixpack was taking home the freebies.

Scott, do you ever feel guilty taking the shrinkwrap off of old cheap sealed LPs? Because I know I do -- especially if I think I might not end up wanting to keep them. I've got a couple that have been sitting around here sealed forever (like, one from Juice Newton's pre-stardom Silver Spur Band, and a couple late '80s local-label D.C. go-go albums by bands like EU), and they might not even be worth anything.

you know what, i used to feel like that too and now i just enjoy life and rip them open. it's like christmas! and i love looking at a pristine old record and hearing how it sounds. they were made to be enjoyed.

(though i'm not crazy. some records are gonna be worth a helluva lot more sealed than not sealed.)

found a majestically clean copy of Music for Airports today for like $8! also a pretty good copy of Eric Carmen's second album.

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ebay AU$15 inc postage eh/

all 'VG+ to Mint'

I went ahead and impulse bought them coz I was miffed I got sniped on 5 Sutherland Bros lps from the same seller ;__;

got the first chad's tree album today for $35.. not a bargain but since i've never seen it for under $75 it felt like one

$1 LPs today:

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

black sabbath - sabotage
led zeppelin - physical graffiti
bob james - the genie
buck owens - before you go

The Wolfetones - Teddy Bear's Head
The Wolfetones - Rifles of the IRA
The Clancy Brother and Tommy Makem - The rising of the moon
Danny Doyle - Raised on Song and Stories

I think the local AOH must have made a donation the friends of the library bookstore.

oh man, that wolfetones "rifles of the ira" record is a fave!

3 dollar records today:

deep purple - who do we think we are?
rita coolidge - s/t

and a self-titled album by this band called country, about whom i know nothing. maybe one of y'all have heard?

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used to have that country album years ago. but way before my country rock epiphany so i got rid of it years ago too. probably love it now.

Wknd haul, all <= $1

Allen Robin & friends - Thank You, Mr. President (pol. com., jokes about famous Cali Gov Ron Regan)

John Mayall - Jazz Blues Fusion

Urian Heep - Demons And Wizards

Booker T. And the M.G.s - Soul Limbo

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - HI-TECH FX (nice and clean, i just about died when I saw this, it will probably be my purchase of the year)

Bar-Kays - As One

Instant Funk - s/t

Kay-Gees's - Kilowatt

Prince - Sign "☮" The Times

Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C. - Love Byrd

Peedi Crakk feat. Freeway - Fall Back 12"

Snoop Dogg - Selections from Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$

The Blackbyrds - Flying Start

The Joneses - Keeping Up With The Joneses

George Duke - Master Of The Game

The Last Poets - s/t (cover is kinda thrashed, but plays OK)

Jacques Brel - La Chanson Francaise 2

Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra - Prevailing Airs

Pam Tims - Pre-School Fitness (I am a sucker for anything on Melody House, this one doesen't have any breaks like the Sharon Lucky LPs but there is a track called "Breathe Deep" that is Dilla bait)

Win Stracke - Johnny Reb & Billy Yank Sing Songs of The War Between The States

Joey Singer, The Quartones, and the Fraternity Chorus - Required Singing for a) College Students b) Boy Scouts c) Bank Presidents d) Pajama Parties e) Grandmothers, and f) The Man In The Street

Shirley Bassey - The Bewitching Miss Bassey

Steve Barri, Norm Ratner, and Fred Finn - The Now Sound of Mickie Finn's

The Concrete Cowboy Band - s/t

Denise La Salle - On The Loose (sealed)

cool stuff! wait, are you me? no, wait, i'm me. i got confused for a second there...

only cuz it kinda sums up my brain in one record haul.

grouper -- dragging a dead deer up a hill
don cherry/latif khan -- music/sangam
alice cooper -- easy action (reissue)

i just won on ebay--
v/a - banjo pickin gal (rounder records)
the original carolina tar heels (old homestead records)

and i won a few weeks ago and am waiting for two LPs on Yazoo--
joe venuti - violin jazz
the young big bill broonzy

joe venuti - violin jazz

good stuff

i have the Venuti/Lang box set on Mosaic. but it is CD :( ( i think tbat was from aftet they stopped pressing LPs. which was a total bummer event in the history of the universe)

I'm jumping up and down about one I just won!

I'm not saying until it's in, but HEY!

there's sooooo much venuti/lang stuff out there. i'd passed up the yazoo lp before cuz it was too pricey, but the copy i won was only $6, so i figure what the hell let's do it.

Here's a small sampling of the dumpster records now piled up in front of the stereo. I kept about 500 LPs from my haul (mostly easy-listening) put out the rest in our tag sale, sold a few and took the rest to Salvation Army.

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Hot Chocolate - Cicero Park

New Riders of the Purple Sage - The Adventures of Panama Red

Malo - Evolution

Chuck Berry - Best of

Chuck Berry - London Sessions

George Benson - Weekend in L.A. (sealed)

Tomita - Greatest Hits

Jose Feliciano - Feliciano!

Gilda Radner - Live in New York

Joan Baez - Joan Baez

Michael Murphey - Geronimo's Cadillac

Pete Seeger - How to Play the 5-String Banjo

Pete Seeger - Freight Train

Four Freshmen - Voices in Modern

Mahalia Jackson - Great Songs of Love and Faith

Count Basie - Straight Ahead

Adrian Belew - Desire Caught By The Tail

Loggins & Messina - Native Sons

Spike Jones - Washington Square

Josie Cotton - Convertible Music

Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On

The Sonny Side of Cher

Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

the weirdest one (which i didn't keep) was a 2-record set of Harry Chapin doing radio spots for Social Security called "Keep the Change". One of his songs would play, then he'd rap about SocSec benefits like how widows can collect or how to file for disability insurance. hip, strange but a total snoozer...

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Finally found (and won!) Ariel Pink's 'My Molly' 7" (ltd. to 1000 numbered copies) on eBay, got it in the mail yesterday! *happy*

I got "Green Mind" Dinosaur Jr, and "Every good boy" Mudhoney, both mint, both £3, not bad!

Picked up the Freedom Rock 4 LP set from a thrift shop for one dollar!

got my chariot album in the mail today. woo hoo! my kinda rock action. another record i never could have afforded 5 or 6 years ago that goes for cheap now.

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hi.

another copy of Panama Red - NRPS over here!

also...
Wheatstraw Suite (promo copy) - The Dillards
Ganglians l.p
No Tomorrow (7") - Desolation Wilderness
Storm/Love's Dart (7") - Django Django
Her Jazz (7") - Huggy Bear
Blessed/Summer Things (tour 7") - Tyvek
Fake Blues (UK 7") - Real Estate

i need to go back and pick up a couple of Michael Nesmith lps a friend is keeping aside for me.

slow day at the office = lunch in berkeley at amoeba and rasputin:

bohannon -- s/t (wahhhhh so good so far)
bohannon -- cut loose
braxton/teitelbaum -- time zones (favorite of mine; moog+braxton)
walcott/cherry/vasconcelos -- codona 3 (codona 2 rules so ok)
little annie -- short and sweet (on-u sound, might be for resale, unless it's great)
ornette coleman -- ornette at 12 (DENAAAAARDOOOOO)
popol vuh -- brüder des schattens - söhne des lichts ($40, but i cant turn down a sweet PV rec in good shape...)
four explorer series LPs:
the african mbira vol1 (i have vol2, which rules)
javanese court gamelan vol1 (i also have vol2 of this (from you), which also rules)
the jasmine isle - javanese gamelan music (never heard this one, even on CD)
golden rain - balinese gamelan music (amazing. possibly my favorite explorer LP with the possible exception of hamza el din's escalay)

under $150 including the popol vuh splurge -- not a bad lil lunch-break!

my fave popol vuh <3

nachtmystium - demise
roosevelt sykes - country blues piano ace (or somesuch--yazoo LP)
jorge ben - samba esquema novo

poco - deliverin'
poco - crazy eyes
poco - cantamos
astrud gilberto - i haven't got anything better to do
black sabbath - vol. 4

garage sales this morning

Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head
Geoffery Chandler - Starscapes (new age w/Moog from 1980)
Altered Images - Pinky Blue
Bouzoukee: The Music Of Greece (Nonesuch Explorer series)
six of these cool environmental records in a series I was not familiar with ("Solitudes").

perfect condition copies of Back In Black and Led Zep IV for free.

Today from Everyday Music

Felt - Ignite The Seven Cannons
REM - Chronic Town
The Gun Club - Miami

just now thru Craiglist, down the street, I got the first four White Stripes LPs for $5 each. They need to be cleaned, but I'm still pretty happy.

^ inexplicably found that in the 3-for-$1 bins at R5 in sacto. so stoked.

hot shit, dude. before i heard the BIG BOOTY BITCHES mix of "rubicon," that was my #1 braxe track. now, obviously, it's #2.

jean schilling - old traditions: traditional souther appalachian mountain music played on dulcimer
abner jay - the backbone of america is a mule/this is real show nough bicentennial music/sings and plays american classics
charalambides - three lane blacktop (market square-era live recordings!)
bessie johnson - Sanctified Music Volume 1: 1928-29
masami kawaguchi's new rock syndicate - cat vs frog

charalambides - three lane blacktop (market square-era live recordings!)

^^ what is this like?

from LA

dr hook - sloppy seconds
sylvia - pillow talk
washed out - life of leisure
tululah moon - if you want love
the pool - dance it down/jamaica running (amazing. was an xmas gift)

from Arcata CA:

Annie Anxiety - Soul Possession (warped, with lotsa bizarre surface marks, but plays quite well considering this is a holy grail record that I have never seen before)

Throwing Muses - House Tornado (promo copy)

Bush Tetras - Rituals EP (Fetish UK version, much nicer than the Stiff USA one)

Shriekback - My Spine +2 12" (B-sides I didn't know about!!!!)

Jazz Butcher - Big Planet Scary Planet (not as good as the Glass era, but whatever)

roches s/t
gordon lightfoot - gord's gold (2xlp greatest hits comp)
gordon lightfoot - the way i feel (kenny buttrey!!)
kate bush - hounds of love (heavy uk pressings, super clean.)

found a VG+ copy of the first s/t Ten Years After on U.S. Deram for $9.99, pretty psyched about that

also finally picked up the (3-sided) vinyl of the Heaven and Hell LP

Skot and JDJr scored the haul of the decade, which I'm sure he'll brag about hisself.

Henry Mancini - The Party OST
Four Jacks and a Jill - Fables
Dione Warwick - Golden Hits Volume 2
Gabor Szabo - Blowin Some Old Smoke

all sealed

i'm still a little too overwhelmed to brag. i closed the store today to deal with all this stuff. feel free to drop by though, herb, if you need a break. i'll be here all day.

playing this now which i'd never heard before. stevie wonder's ez listening record:

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my day was kinda of fuXored so couldn't make it over but I'm already making room on the shelves. swankadelic Now Sound nirvana - how many versions of 'Look of Love' so far?

crystal blue persuasion seems to be popping up everywhere. i think i could make a 4-cd crystal blue box.

did i miss the reveal of this FIND on another thread?

oh i just bought a bunch of records. like, a whole bunch. some GREAT stuff. and every living strings album ever made too. which isn't all bad, cuz when you get every living strings album you get a minty copy of astro-sounds from beyond the year 2000. if you are lucky. i'm lucky today. hey, i just found the first two kathy smith records! i'm gonna go play them.

herb, please come and take 10 or 20 enoch light records from me and i will make it worth your while.

any Dick Schory?

scored a ck strong album. i needed that. what a great record.

Can't remember everything I got right now, but finally went to Academy Records in Brooklyn last week. I DO know that I picked up the awesome Hawklords album, a Bonzo Dog Band LP, and a couple swell KLF 12"s. Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel as well.
Really dug the store!

just a couple pickups in chicago:

gene ammons w/kenny burrell and hank jones - jungle soul
joe simon - drowning in the sea of love
evelyn 'champagne' king - smooth talk

blue sky boys - together again
guy clark - old no. 1
mary mccaslin - ??? some LP from 1979, don't remember the title

this one?
she looks a lil foxy here tbh

hey, is herb albert the other seward bro?

nah, just a bro that lives in Greenfield and happens to be Skot's exact target demographic. I do this - http://www.weirdsville.com/.

yeah. 69, it's that LP.

aww herb u just added my childhood friend NEWAGEHILLBILLY's music to your site. that guy is really really nice.

yeah, he's great. I'm always psyched to get the latest from his label MT6, uncategorizable awesomeness.

he was friends growing up w me and my brother in forest hill, MD -- we worked together at a seafood pizzeria

just got a box of records in the mail. boogie, house, italo and minimal synth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2KWMw02BEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3XVAkq3UQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf2HjWTe8rY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruFM9M5lH5w

cover of the bill wither's jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whj2g9kQm3o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNRGMr5lUS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76EehF-bIXc

Just picked up the double LP AK79comp reissue of early NZ punk - different tracks on the second LP than the Flying Nun CD reissue too - nice!

stopped at electric fetus in mpls and got deniece williams 'niecy' and an old michael jackson comp, i think it's this one:

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there was also a bunch of stuff i wanted at this hipstery vintage store by dunn bros coffee (lots of old soundtracks that looked sampleable), but everything was way overpriced imo.

sweet & honey reissue LP (psyched out japanese rock w/ Bathoh from ghost 1989-92)
sounds of north american tree frogs (jacket literally falling apart, free)
broomdusters - sounds from the bottom of the tokyo underground

just got a box of records in the mail. boogie, house, italo and minimal synth

You Are In My System is such a dope song. I've used that on a bunch of mixes.

ya. i've had that on LP for ages, but it sounds terrible when i try to play it out. found it on discogs from a dude that had hundreds of pages of rad shit for REALLY cheap.

bought these 2 off mike simonett1's discogs last night

Gaznevada - Special Agent Man (12")
Space Art (2) - Space Art (LP)

what do you guys have against this thread?