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

so, um, nothing great, but didn't break the bank either.

I got a pristine mid-50's Oscar Petterson album on Clef for around a buck.

....Much more - those are the first that come to mind.

Great deal! I just paid $10 for the Artist House LP of this on E-bay.

Last weekend a mint copy of Hambi and The Dance LP 'Heartache' for 50p. (Collectors Recds, Kingston)

I'd put the record up on slsk, but it's only on vinyl...

"No New York" at Jerry's for $3.00. Not a buck, but not too bad, either.

OMD - Architecture & Morality
Replacements - Pleased To Mee Me
Miracle Legion - Me & Mr Ray (Anyone else actually like this?)
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Gang of Four - Hard (Eeek!)
New Order - Substance

And dozens of classical things: Debussy, Penderecki, Ligeti, Bartok et al

...on vinyl for a round 50c or $1 ea.

this is the record my folks would take to every party they ever went to when i was a kid...handclappinsomethingsomrthingfonkybuttlive? the whole first side is like an intro..."geno! geno!"

mine might be the vinyl of parliaments chocolate city 50c aust in ashwoods!

Charity shops, ahhhh

$1 in a record store in Key West about 10 years ago. The same store wanted $18 for a Men At Work album. I took the Neil record up to the counter: "You don't want to buy that, it is crap." I begged to differ.

Looking at You, Chaz Jankel
Relight My Fire, Dan Hartman
The Best of B.T.O. (So Far)

Orpheus Records (formerly in DC, currently in Arlington) going out of business sale--vinyl for a buck

Grupo Sportivo- Mistakes
Ian Dury-Lord Upminster
Mickey Jupp's legend
Skids-Scared to Dance

Cool! Mistakes was by far Grupo Sportivo's best album (at least of the four or so I've heard), and one of the great lost new wave albums, period, as far as I'm concerned. Pretty sure, though, that it was actually a compilation of the best tracks from a couple import (Dutch, I guess?) LPs I've never actually seen. In the States it originally came with a free 7-inch 6-song EP called More Mistakes tucked inside. Key track on EP: "Disco Really Made It (It's Yucky And I Hate It)." Still have my copy. But the LP's a lot better than the EP.

I got the second God Machine album on CD for £1 once.
Had various other good things, but nothing that springs to mind right now.

I found the Cure's Happily Ever After CD in a cutout bin for $1.00 in 1990. Its just a US compilation of 17 Seconds and Faith, which went out of print two months after its release (with, as I recall, 2000 copies outstanding). I sold it in 1997 on Ebay for $125 to some completist fanboy. Probably the best investment I've ever made.

If the big-swayzak/john tejada-fan-back-in-2001 who sells all his old records to Sonic Boom, who sell them back for 2-3 dollars is reading this, keep 'em coming (although I generally associate Swayzak and John Tejada, much more so than anyone else, with prolific output of particularly mediocre material, you've given me some good stuff!)

Huh. Someone came up with the exact same thread idea/title five years before I did. Curse you!

A friend of mine, who's a master digger, chanced upon a copy of The World of Cecil Taylor for pennies in the Salvation Army recently. It's pretty gubbed, but still, that's a rare and valuable record, not least cos it was reissued under a different name.

I've not managed any such finds, but I've picked up some nice stuff in that shop nonetheless, not least some 70s Dylan albums for 25p. Problem is that there are always diggers lurking there, waiting to pounce on any new donations.

My favourite £1 buy was a Rutles picture sleeve ep with Cheese & Onions, I Must Be In Love and A Girl Like You on it. It's not in the Record Collector guide, but it's not something I've ever come across.

quando quango - love tempo 12"
space - magic fly lp
from reckless records in chicago
plus tons and tons of shit from the dusty groove 35 cent bin

Crappy record store near the edge of the city that I haven't thought about in years, plays some of the worst music I've ever heard. Got 6 $1 records, including a copy of Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity LP which looks like it hasn't even been touched, and other assorted dance 12's with stuff like Svek, Mike Ink, Remixes by Mad Mike Banks etc.

A pretty who'd have thunk it experience. :)

Vinyl I bought today. (Still like the specificity of this thread more than that catch-all rolling vinyl one.)

$2, thrift store, 46th and Queens Blvd, Sunnyside:

Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame I (Atlantic, 1983)

$4 total (= less than 50 cents each), vintage store, 48th and Skillman, Sunnyside:

Automatic Man Automatic Man (Island, 1976)
The Stanky Brown Group If The Lights Don't Get You The Helots Will (Sire, 1977) (if the band is stanky and brown rather than Stanky Brown being somebody's name, this should be filed in the S's rather than B's obviously)
Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy (RCA, 1981)
Desmond Child And Rouge Desmond Child And Rouge (Capitol, 1979)
Ducks Deluxe Don't Mind Rockin' Tonite (RCA, 1978) (already had this, but what the heck, I'm sure I'll find use for another one someday)
Gazebo Gazebo (Baby Italy, 1983)
Puhdys Das Buch (Pool West Germany, 1984)
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes This Time It's For Real (Epic, 1977)
Randy Travis Old 8 x 10 (Warner Bros., 1988)

Probably not the first time I've tried those Desmond Child and Southside Johnny LPs. Maybe this time they'll sink in. Or maybe I am just a glutton for punishment.

Passed up a couple other 50-cent '80s Randy Travis LPs, but Xgau gave them worse grades than the one I bought, so maybe that was smart. Passed on a 50-cent 1987 Guadalcanal Diary LP too (what did they sound like?), and a $2 1989 LP by Joe Hardy-produced New York hard rock band Law and Order, though if George advises otherwise, I'll go back for that one.

Automatic Man Automatic Man (Island, 1976)

Don't know if you'll like this. Requires more than one listen. Extension of Stomu Yamashita's Go, sort of, which was an experiment on jazz and middle of the road hard rock, the latter furnished by Pat Thrall, who made a lot more money with Pat Travers later but quit that, too, after co-writing "Smoking Whiskey, Drinkin' Cocaine." Anyway, Automatic Man is nothing like that. It's very spacey, often almost frictionless, sometimes veering into prog. One of the members -- singer/bassist, I think, is now much more famous as a songwriter/producer under another name. Plus Michael Shrieve's in the band as a kind of poor man's Jan Hammer. I like it but was there at the beginning. Definitely an acquired taste but not so convincing that you'd have stuck around for the second album, which was colored pink instead of blue, like this one.

Don't remember a great amount about Law & Order except that I had it on cassette, my band played with them in Allentown, and they were good guys. Kind of in the Circus of Power style but better although not that much so. They were part of the major label wave of second and third tier signings in the late Eighties of metal rock 'n' roll bands that were supposed to be more gritty and from-the-street than the hitmakers. Published about the same times as The Throbs and Vain and were in the same, uh, vein. About six months later, grunge washed them all away. Toss up whether it's worth 2 bucks. Depends on the whether and how much loose change you have in your pocket.

$2, thrift store, 46th and Queens Blvd, Sunnyside, today:

The Geraldine Fibbers Get Thee Gone (Sympathy For The Record Industry 10-inch EP, c. '90s I guess)

An extravagance, since I am a total fetishizing sucker when it comes to 10-inch EPs (even though it is impossible to find inner sleeves). Plus I've never liked anything by these '90s indie art roots nerds before (not that I've listened much), and why would this be any different? But I used to be (very) mildly curious about the Fibbers, and I figure, if I'm ever going to like anything by them, this'd be about the correct amount of songs. Plus they cover Dolly's "Jolene" on it; how bad could that be? (Pretty bad, but I'll probably keep it anyway.)

Of the last batch of cheapos I bought, I wound up liking Automatic Man more than George predicted. Also liked Arrington, Stanky Brown Group (its more pompy rocky Tully first side anyway), Hoagy, Desmond Child (a lot actually -- not sure anybody was ever more disco-metal), Gazebo, Puhdys (though '70s LPs I have by them rock harder), Southside Johnny (well that one's pretty darn marginal but I like when the Coasters show up at least), and Randy Travis. Which means I wound up liking the whole pile, I guess.

i've been obsessed of late with all Patrick Adams productions and was thrilled to find an original 12" of Universal Robot Band "Freak With Me" for $1.39 at Other Music, of all the places.

An extravagance, since I am a total fetishizing sucker when it comes to 10-inch EPs (even though it is impossible to find inner sleeves).

78" sleeves are 10 inch. http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/browse.asp?subcat=42 I guess I bought myself a lifetime supply several years ago.

The Geraldine Fibbers Get Thee Gone (Sympathy For The Record Industry 10-inch EP, c. '90s I guess)

An extravagance, since I am a total fetishizing sucker when it comes to 10-inch EPs (even though it is impossible to find inner sleeves). Plus I've never liked anything by these '90s indie art roots nerds before (not that I've listened much), and why would this be any different? But I used to be (very) mildly curious about the Fibbers, and I figure, if I'm ever going to like anything by them, this'd be about the correct amount of songs. Plus they cover Dolly's "Jolene" on it; how bad could that be? (Pretty bad, but I'll probably keep it anyway.)

This record sounds like a frog being choked while someone laboriously puts a guitar out of tune, but I love it; only thing I ever liked by them. Bought it when it came out & would buy a nearly infinite number for $2 each, or half of infinity for $4/ea. It was around the time of Uncle Tupelo's breakup and we were all looking for a new hip alternative country act. Didn't find it; found a choking frog. Still!

I just have to put in a good word here for the Fibbers' two proper albums, the 1st of which is a favorite of mine.

You think finding inner sleeves for 10" records is hard? Try finding OUTER sleeves!

Outer sleeves, what? (I think I have maybe three of those, out of several thousand albums. Never really understood what purpose they serve, unless the record cover is made out of paper. Though I actually think I own a 10-inch somewhere where that's the case.) Will look into those inner ones, though...

I always find great records at salvation armies in Queens. Lots of old-school italian outer-borough disco DJs who've moved on.

But tonight during dinner I listened to Joe Jackson's Night and Day, one of THE most ubiquitous dollar-bin records, at least in these parts, and I think it's a pretty wonderful record.

Jesus, I was just looking at craigslist for used CD's, and it's astonishing to think that people actually think they're going to be able to offload all their regrettable mid-late 90's junk (Backstreet Boys et al), for $5 a disc, but there's dozens of these people. One person was selling the Lion King Soundtrack for $10.

75 cents each, Value Village, Houston, this afternoon, all vinyl:

Ray Charles Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music (ABC Paramount, early '60s) (I used to own a late '80s reissue, but this one's the original pressing. Looks pretty scratched up though.)
Gulliver Gulliver (Elekta, early '70s I guess?) (Don't think I ever even heard of this before -- Daryl Hall's pre-Hall & Oates band)
Stacey Q "Shy Girl" (On The Spot 12-inch, 1985) (pre-debut LP indie-label single; already own the 7-inch.)
(Various) Every Which Way But Loose (Elektra, 1978) (w/ Eddie Rabbit, Charlie Rich, Mel Tillis, Hank Thompson, and lots of instrumentals about orangutans, apparently)

gulliver album is JUST about worth 75 cents. musically, that is. but i only played my copy once years ago. maybe i would like it more now. these things happen.

I've got the Gulliver CD. I got real excited about it about two years ago for about 20 seconds then realized it wasn't all that great.

CD: Bjork's "Homogenic" and Saint Etienne's "Tiger Bay"

12"s
LFO - "LFO"
Stacey Q - "Two of Hearts"
Afro-Rican - "Give it All You Got", Sun Town pressing
TLC - "Diggin' on Me"
Whitney Houston - "I'm Every Woman" (gatefold 2x12")
C+C Music Factory: "Things that Make You Go Hmmmm", "Gonna Make You Sweat"
The KLF - 3AM Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)
Missy Elliot - "Supa Dupa Fly"
Black Box - "Everybody, Everybody"

Curious about this Stacey Q, will investigate.

captain beefheart 'trout mask replica' gatefold LP in fantastic condition - 50 cents
best of ELO LP, brand new - 50 cents

$1 each LPs, garage sale, North Austin, last Saturday:

The Move Looking On (Capitol, no year listed)
Weather Report Sweetnighter (Columbia, 1973)

Move LP was 1970, apparently.

Bob Dylan, Planet Waves (original Asylum edition), 99¢ -- Wal Mart, 1979
Pigpen, Daylight, $1.00 -- Uncle Buck's, Oxford, 1997

"Citywide Garage Sale," Austin, today:

Joan Armatrading How Cruel (A&M EP, 1979) free
Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley Just Good Old Boys (Columbia LP, 1979) $1
Johnny Bristol Feeling The Magic (MGM LP, 1975) $1
Cold Chisel Cold Chisel (Elektra LP, 1980) $1
Headpins Line Of Fire (SGR LP, 1983) $2
Jackson Highway Jackson Highway (Capitol LP, 1980) (Never heard of them, but they have tons of facial hair and at least one great song title: "Rock and Roll Man [Hung Up On A Disco Girl]".) $1
Kansas Bringing It Back (Design Ltd. Music LP, 1980) (Strange looking apparent comp that "may contain previously recorded material" on a questionable indie label I never heard of) $1
O.B. McClinton If You Loved Her That Way (Stax LP, 1974) $1
Ronnie Milsip Images (RCA LP, 1979) (Nice gatefold, and possible disco-country potential) $1
Aaron Tippin Greatest Hits...And Then Some (RCA/BMG CD, 1997) (Road-tested about half of this already. Sounded better and tougher than I'd remembered him.) $3

Goodwill Store, North Central Austin, today:

(Various Artists) The Beatnuts Collection 2 (Strictly Break double LP, 2004) (Questionably legal compilation of songs with hopefully nutty beats that the Beatnuts have allegedly sampled, from Enoch Light, Serge Gainsbourg, Roy Ayers, Lou Rawls, Tyrone Davis, Zulema, Ann Peebles, Harry Nilsson, Electric Prunes, Lou Donaldson, Five Stairsteps, etc.) $2
(Various Artists) The Original Toga Party (Adam VIII double LP, 1979 ("As seen on TV" comp of clearly awesome '50s and '60s frat-party hits by the Isley Brothers, Sam Cooke, Dovels, Regents, Orlons, Kingsmen, Bobby Lewis, Joey Dee and the Starlighters, Lee Dorsey, Chips, The Essex, Kingsmen, Tommy James and Shondells, etc.) $2

Oliver and Jasper's International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal on Jackson Highway: "This band plays a very commercial style of Southern boogie, but not hard enough to stand alongside other outfits of the genre. Most of Blackfoot guest on one track."

BFC (Carl Craig) - 'Elements 1989-1990' on cd for 250yen (£1.80)

Recently:

Truth Hurts feat. Rakim — "Addictive" 12" $1
Felix feat. Jomanda — "Don't You Want Me" 12" $.50

$7.58 total (= $1 to $2 each + tax), some indepedent thrift store at Burnet and W. Koenig in Austin:

Dan Hartman Relight My Fire (Blue Sky LP, 1979)
Harlequins Four "Set It Off"/"Set It Off (With All That You Feel -- Instrumental)" (Jus Born 12-inch, 1985) (Competing cover of Strafe song, released pretty much simultaneously with the original version. This may or may not be my second copy of this; I still need to check)
Ohio Players Greatest Hits (Westbound, 1975) (Their earler, pre-huge-"Fire" crossover hits obv.)
Raze "Jack The Groove"/"Oh Song"/"Jump In Your Dance"/"Bonus" (Grove St. EP, no year listed) (Songwriting, production, mixing, recording studio credited to Vaughan Mason of "Rock Skate Roll Bounce" fame, with some help from one Ben E. Epps. Record label based in Orange, NJ. Pretty sure Raze were considered a sort of Jersey equivalent of house music, so this is probably mid '80s -- And yeah, the copies on line all say 1986, though most of those seem to be on British labels, which presumably means they came out at least slightly later than in the U.S.)
Gil Scott-Heron Moving Target (Arista LP, 1982) (West German pressing, which means this might have been owned by an American soldier stationed there the same time I was, who knows.)

So yeah, not much Rock this time. None, really. Though Dan Hartman does include a version of "Free Ride" with G.E Smith on lead guitar.

Passed up a couple c.-1986 Trax label house 12-inches that looked pretty scratched up, including "The House Music Anthem" by Marshall Jefferson. Also a very indie looking early (1979) Ricky Skaggs album on (bluegrass not rap) Sugar Hill. And a 3-LP live set of Christian rock on Myrrh from 1977 by Phil Keaggy, The Band Called David, and the 2nd Chapter of Acts. I would have bought that one but they wanted to charge me $4 for it, and I'm a cheapskate. Plus I probably never would get around to listening to the whole thing. Feel free to tell me if I was a dumbbell to pass any of those up.

even though phil keaggy is my lord and saviour (in his role as frontman for Glass Harp) and i do own a 2nd chapter of acts album that isn't half bad, you can live without the myrrh sampler.

i love raze, by the way!

$45-or-so total (including $5 entrance fee), Austin Record Convention (which apparently happens twice annually), N. Lamar in Austin morning. (Most old LPs there looked way overpriced -- total sucker-bait. The trick was to stick to $1 and $1.50 bins underneath the tables. Still spent way more money than I should have -- getting to the point where I need to break the habit again. But life is short.):

Ambrosia Life Beyond L.A. (Warner Bros., 1978) (w/ "How Much I Feel." Their highest charting album. Never bought an Ambrosia LP before -- I'm not much of a yachtsman -- and passed up a moldy looking copy of their debut, possibly a fatal mistake.)
American Tears Tear Gas (Columbia, 1975) (W/ a sheet of six band stickers inside. Plus they're wearing shag haircuts and gas masks. Drummer named "Tommy Gunn." Called "plod pomp" in Jasper & Oliver book.)
Carla Bley Sextet (Watt, 1987)
Bus Boys American Worker (Arista, 1982) (Said to be their hard-rock/AOR move, I believe)
Glen Campbell Southern Nights (Capitol, 1977)
Chicken Shack 100 Ton Chicken (Blue Horizon, 1969) (Did not expect them to look so Rennaissance-Fairy.)
Ry Cooder Paradise and Lunch (Warner Bros., 1974) (5-star album in first Rolling Stone Record Guide book, fwiw; I recognized the cool cover, though I bet the music sounds stodgier)
Daddy Cool Eagle Rock (Wizard EP, 1982) (Weren't they supposed to be Australia's answer to Sha Na Na or something? Feel like they were decently reviewed in Creem once, but maybe not)
Derringer Derringer (Blue Sky, 1976)
Esperanto Dance Macabre (A&M, 1974) (Apparently prog, though looks decadent in an early Eurodisco kind of way. Zero stars for all three albums in first RS guide!)
John Fred and his Playboy Band Love My Soul (Uni, 1970) (Xgau gave this a B-.)
Golden Earring The Hole (21 Records, 1986)
Head East Head East (A&M, 1978) (w/ "Since You Been Gone")
Head East Get Yourself Up (A&M, 1976) (Funny album cover -- a jeep hauling what looks like a giant load of weed, in the shape of of an Afro)
The Inmates Shot In The Dark (Polydor, 1980) (their second album, w/ their cover of the Music Machine's "Talk Talk," which lots of new wave bands covered, I just realized)
The Invisible Man's Band The Invisible Man's Band (Mango, 1980) (Chris Blackwell-produced disco by former Five Stairsteps, apparently)
Ironhorse Ironhorse (Scotti Brothers, 1979) (feat. Randy Bachman on guitar and vocals. Got some AOR play in Detroit at the time, but I don't think I've heard it since. Passed up a later LP by them.)
Chas Jankel Chas Jankel (A&M, 1981) (Ian Dury's lead Blockhead. W/ "Ai No Corrida," later that year a hit for Quincy Jones)
Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society Mandance (Antilles, 1982)
Shannon Jackson When Colors Play (Caravan of Dreams, 1987) (Same guy; not sure why he dropped the Ronald from his name. This actually made my Pazz & Jop Top 10 the year it came out, strangely enough.)
Tonio K Life In the Foodchain (Full Moon, 1978) (w/ his quasi-hit "Funky Western Civilization")
Tonio K Amerika (Arista, 1980)
Tonio K La Bomba (Capitol EP, 1982)(No real explanation for why I went Tonio Krazy, though I did pass on two later albums by him.)
Malcolm X "No Sell Out" (Tommy Boy 12-inch, 1983) (Music by Keith Leblanc. First time I've owned this in decades; first time I've ever owned it with the Macolm X picture sleeve on it. Looks like a later pressing than the one I had before.)
The Motors Tenement Steps (Virgin, 1980) (In that weird Traffic-like trapezoidal die-cut sleeve)
Juice Newton Dirty Looks (Capitol, 1983) (Sealed, though I won't keep it that way. LP cover looks extremely new wave.)
Nutz Hard Nutz (A&M, 1977) (George is a fan of these guys, I believe. "The proverbial support band and always guaranteed to keep the punters happy," say Jasper and Oliver, who claim "Wallbanger" -- included here -- is their best song. Popoff gives the album a 7/6.)
The Olympics The Officical Record Album Of The Olympics (Rhino, 1984) (Reissue from wannabee Coasters, who apparently had a pile of smallish hits)
Ossian Acelsziv (Artisjus, 1988) (Totally guessing about the record label. Very goofy looking Hungarian metal with unpronounceable song titles)
Sharks First Water (MCA, 1973) (Featuring Andy Fraser from Free on bass, plus a very pre-punk Chris Spedding on guitar!)
Spitballs Spitballs (Bersekley, 1978) (Apparently very short covers of 15 then-forgotten '60s oldies, from uncredited musicians partly produced by Kenny Laguna. Used to see this in cutout bins a lot; had no idea what it was.)
Michael Stanley Band Heartland (EMI, 1980) (w/ "He Can't Love You")
Isaac Payton Sweat Cotton Eyed Joe/Schottische, Jole Blon and Other Bandstand Favorites (Bellaire, year unknown) (One dealer had about 40 sealed copies of this -- weird, since I swear I just googled Isaac Payton Sweat for the first time few days ago. Maybe they used to sell this in country dance halls or something, and nobody bought it. Label is based in Texas; looks extremely cut-rate.)
Talas Sink Your Teeth Into That (Relativity, 1982) (Vaguely remember somebody comparing this power trio to Blue Cheer in a Creem Rock-a-rama or somewhere once. Probably bullshit, but I'm still curious. Popoff gives it a "5," but I don't think he liked Blue Cheer much in the first place. Also I just noticed they have Billy Sheehan on bass.)
Teka Ensemble Golya, Golya, Glice: Hungarian Folk Games And Dances (Hungarian Records, 1980) (Looks cute and authentic at the same time, though the label is based in Teaneck, NJ.)
World Saxophone Quartet Plays Duke Ellington (Nonesuch Digital, 1986) (The "digital" trend for pre-CD vinyl didn't last very long, did it?)
Zuider Zee Zuider Zee (Columbia, 1975) ("Wooden and uninteresting 1975 album from a group with an Abbey Road-era Beatles fixation," RS record guide says. Appropriately given their end-of-alphabetness, they do a song called "Zeebra." Also one called "The Last Song Of Its Kind," but it doesn't say what kind it is.)

all the musicians are identified in my copy of spitballs. you know, jonathan richman, greg kihn, members of earth quake, etc. in fact i think it even has a group picture of everyone who played on the album.

i go nuts playing life in the foodchain really REALLY loud about twice a year. one of my fave albums of all time.

Yay! As for Spitballs, really? Because I don't see musician names anywhere, though the baseball team on the back does have faces glued on. Inner sleeve is an original Bersekley yellow one too -- weird!

Keith Cross and Pete Ross - Bored Civilians
British folk-Rock from 1972 (sorta - touches of the Fairports/ Fotheringay but also a little bit jazz and a little bit rock)
1 euro
Great record

and a bunch of other stuff, not so good, mostly.

oh, yeah, like i said on the vinyl thread, me and the kids went to a book sale and we got two bags of books and videos and 5 records for a buck. great videos too. star wars trilogy boxed-set on vhs! all kinds of stuff. just cuz i'm so generous i gave the people two bucks. these were the records i got. (and they will be going in my ebay pile, probably. everything except the laibach sells for real money):

laibach - s/t (with insert)

current 93 - looney runes (with poster)

current 93 - swastikas for noddy

death in june - nada!

death in june/current 93 - split lp

A couple others I came real close to buying and passed on, fwiw, were the first Yipes! LP from 1979 (Milwaukee hard powerpop new wave band, and judging from the reviews I'm looking at, I should have paid the $2 they wanted for it) and the Brecker Brothers' Heavy Metal Bebop from 1978 (very intriguing title and goofy LP cover, and I think I didn't hate "Some Skunk Funk" once, but I'm a fusion skeptic. Probably should've shelled out $1 for it anyway.)

Judging from the 50-cent EP I bought, Daddy Cool's 50s schtick is as close to the Flamin' Groovies (maybe even Brownsville Station?) as to Sha Na Na. Still not sure I like these particular songs, though.

So what was the deal with Ambrosia, anyway? First side of the album I bought starts like medium-hard late '70s Styx pomp-rock; second side starts like quasi-Steely Dan (including a song called "Angola" that sounds like Steely Dan doing minstrel reggae with fake accents bordering on the offensive); the huge hit "How Much I Feel" is blue-eyed ballad schlock that I basically confused with Air Supply at the time. What were thinking? Who was their audience? And how typical is this record?

...blue-eyed soul ballad schlock, I mean -- As much Hall and Oates as Air Supply, in retrospect.

all the musicians are identified in my copy of spitballs. you know, jonathan richman, greg kihn, members of earth quake, etc. in fact i think it even has a group picture of everyone who played on the album.

― scott seward, Sunday, 5 April 2009 19:54 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yup, mine too. It's the UK edition.

Maybe that Superpitcher album in the Zavvi (now called HEAD wtf) sale on lunch - I will know once I've listened to it

you made me pull out my Spitballs mine has no info, it is Dutch. I paid 99 cents for it in 1991. I forgot to remove the inner price tag.

I must have known what it was from reading Trouser Press Record Guide or something. Nope, just looked it was in the Rolling Stone blue guide.

$1 each, Half-Price Books, Lamar at Airport, Austin, today:

Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring (EAV Music Appreciation Series LP, 1968) (The "Study Version" on the first side is "desigined to be played with the filmstrip," and includes "electronic signals superimposed on the music to indicate when filmstrip frames are to be changed." Filmstrip not included, of course, so that means I only have to listen to the "Listening Version." Sounds easy!)
The Farm Spartacus (Sire/Reprise CD, 1991) (Post-Manchester/pre-big beat U.K. rock-techno, or something like that. I believe "Groovy Train" was some sort of hit in England. I'll probably hate this, but thought I'd try it anyway.)
Wilson Pickett The Wicked Pickett (Atlantic LP, 1966) (Scratchy, but it looks like he does a lot of great songs)
Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes The Jukes (Mercury LP, 1979) (Was kinda disappointed by This Time It's For Real which I paid a buck for last year, but by the looks of things this was probably their new wave record, if they had one)
Widow Rockit (CBS Associated, 1985) (Never heard of them, but looks promising -- L.A. corporate mid '80s fake new wave rock with a girl singer. They actually had two different cheesy-looking 1985 LPs at the store; went with that one because it's got two possible Holly Knight songwriting credits plus a cover of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," which Nazareth did an awesome version of once. If I like this one, I'll go back and spend a buck on Gone Too Soon or whatever it's called, which has a tombstone on the cover. If I don't, I won't.)

The Farm Spartacus... I'll probably hate this

Too bleh to bother to hate, actually. "Groovy Train" clearly the most tolerable song, and still not so hot. But then I never got Happy Mondays, either.

Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes ...probably their new wave record, if they had one

They apparently didn't, despite Johnny's skinny tie on the cover and the 1979 copyright. Though "I'm So Anxious" might the closest they ever came. I should have been over it decades ago, but I still never fail to be astonished by how mediocre these guys always seem to sound, in a genre (white bar-band r&b-rock) I basically like. They're never that funky, never that rocking, never that soulful, never that catchy, and their songwriting was nothing special. Seems they just did all that stuff enough to get by. Guess they were really lucky Bruce was their buddy.

More duds:

Glen Campbell Southern Nights (Capitol, 1977)
Gil Scott-Heron Moving Target (Arista LP, 1982)

Probably Daddy Cool, too -- amazed to learn "Eagle Rock," which is really no great shakes, was a gigantic hit in 1971 in Australia, where it somehow topped the charts for ten weeks. Maybe I'll force-feed it to myself a couple more times, but I doubt it'll hit. (Copyright on my 12-inch single says '82, so I guess it's possible this is a re-recording.)

on the local weekly market there are one or two bookstands that also have a couple of rugged looking boxes holding slightly less rugged vinyl. checked these out yesterday

JJ Cale - Naturally (Ariola, 1971)
Tom Lehrer - Revisited (Lehrer Records, 1960)
Franz Schubert - String Quartet No. 13 by the Janáček Quartet (Supraphon, 1962)
Walter Carlos - The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (CBS, 1969)

The Motors Tenement Steps (Virgin, 1980)

Weird record. The band had basically broken up, but the two guys who had once upon a time been in Ducks Deluxe stayed together as a duo, and got Jimmy Iovine to produce, and wound up moving away from the pub hard rock of their earlier records toward an almost showtune-rock kind of archness and ornateness. Everybody seemed to notice back then how much "Love and Loneliness" sounds like Stephen Stills' "Love The One You're With," but I'm not sure if anybody noticed how much "Tenement Steps" sound like "MacArthur Park." Those are the two side openers, both almost five minutes long, and they're the two songs I used to hear on college radio in the '80s. Not til halfway through Side Two -- with "Nightmare Zero" and then "Modern Man" (because every fake new wave band back then had to do a song called "Modern Man" that tried to sound like Devo) -- do they speed up and let the new wave rock in.

Turns out Daddy Cool's "Eagle Rock" does have some kind of archival riff and primal structure to it, best overheard loud from the next room over after a couple beers (which is how it was probably often heard in Australia at the time, I bet.) So not as great a pub-boogie single as say "Teenage Head" or "Smokin' In the Boys Room," but still not bad. (And the lyrics to their B-side "Daddy Rocks Off" basically go something like "boogie woogie woogie woogie woogie woogie woogie woogie woogie boogie.")

Widow Rockit (CBS Associated, 1985)

Sound like Scandal, and do it well -- bright sun-shiney hand-clapping hard pop. Maybe a little Quarterflash thrown in there, too (though no saxophones.) Cover of "This Flight Tonight" does sound based on the Nazareth version, to me ears.

"Esperanto Dance Macabre (A&M, 1974) (Apparently prog, though looks decadent in an early Eurodisco kind of way. Zero stars for all three albums in first RS guide!)"

I bought this when I was in high school and loved it for about two months. Never looked into the later two. More Roxy Music prog than Yes prog, features a violin prominently. Haven't played it in years, in fact I may have gotten rid of it because I can't remember seeing it since I played it last. Still have a soft spot for it, though.

And the first Ambrosia is worth getting. "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" was the hit from that one, which had some kind of Kurt Vonnegut connection, I think.

Dollar CDs from the KTRU Outdoor Show:

Volcano Suns-The Bright Orange Years (expanded reissue)
Carbon/Silicon-Last Post
Mark Olson & Gary Louris-Ready For The Flood

xp Not hearing any Roxy Music I can identify on that Esperanto LP, unfortunately; not much Yes, either, though. Really wish there was more rock (as in guitars) in their prog, and more singing too. First side ("The Journey"/"The Castle"/"The Duel," woaagh) is mostly instrumental, at least 'til the sub-Focus operatic hocus-pocus in the final track; second side the high male singer stays sparse and gets lost among the Belgian/Italaian/Brit octet shuffle, who don't really crank their changes silly and over-the-top until the two-minute concluding title track. So though I really want to like the record (the cover illo of leotarded lesbians battling with bull-whips in mid-air is pretty sick), I'm actually bored by most of it. (One website on line compares them to Curved Air, who I've barely ever listened to; was under the impression they were jazzier and folkier, though. Also, Esperanto sadly lack a lady singer, not to mention anybody who wound up in The Police.)

One Amazon reviewer's dissenting opinion, fwiw:

Side One (of the LP) is very much an orchestral ELP, with a touch of orchestral Caravan thrown in for the few vocal tracks. Side Two, in retrospect, is much more interesting, because it contains many of the elements that the Alan Parsons Project would use a year later in their debut album, TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION: highly visual orchestrations, rhythmic bass-lines, John Miles-like vocal. I'm not aware that they have credited the influence of Esperanto, but it's hard to believe that Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson had not heard DANSE MACABRE before composing their first album.

It turns out I have the Last Tango LP (their third) and not Danse Macabre. They do a cover of Eleanor Rigby on it. This one seems to have more vocals than DM, and I kind of remember a female vocalist doing some of the singing (but it may have just been backup).

So Widow actually turn out to be more Motels/Scandal than Quarterflash/Scandal, and like I said not bad, but the only cut that really sticks with me when the album ends is their "This Flight Tonight" cover (which is absolutely schooled in Nazareth's rumble.) Nothing else gets anywhere near that level of kick, and this kind of pop doesn't mean much without hits. So I think I'll pass on picking up their other album.

Motels/Scandal than Quarterflash/Scandal

that is an incredibly fine distinction. More moody than you originally thought?

Nah, just thinner. And less jazzy. (Quarterflash totally had that Fleetwood Mac/Steely Dan thing going on, especially on the debut. Check out "Williams Avenue" if you don't believe me. Not to mention "Valerie," where sax-playing Rindy Ross sings about a lesbian fling in art school. One of my favorite albums ever, no shit.)

Turns out Daddy Cool's "Eagle Rock" does have some kind of archival riff and primal structure to it, best overheard loud from the next room over after a couple beers (which is how it was probably often heard in Australia at the time, I bet.

Has great rhythm thump and guitar turnarounds without being heavy. Song used in the opening sequence of "Wolf Creek", Australia's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," mostly for its bonhommie in the car with three students, one guys/two girls, on their way for a tour after a night of excessive drinking and barfing with friends.

some recent LP finds for 50 cents

robbie basho - rainbow thunder
robbie basho - art of the acoustic steel string guitar 6 & 12
fleetwood mac - rumours
django reinhardt - djangology

That Southside Johnny LP I bought and complained about above turns out to have a pretty decent rock-disco crossover track at the end -- "Vertigo," somehow a paralell to when Phil Lynott and David Johansen made similar moves around that time. And maybe even more than Lynott and Johansen, these guys really come naturally to it, basically being a soul band and all. Also don't mind the E-Streety soul horn arrangements on most of Side Two, and the two semi-new-wave rockers at the album's start ("All I Want Is Everything," "I'm So Anxious") are pretty catchy. So like most of the early LPs I've heard by these guys, this one gets a pass, but just barely.

$1, Top Drawer Thrift, on Burnett in Austin today:

Afro-Cuban Band Rhythm Of Life (Arista 1978) (Latinish disco from Michael Zager)
Mac McNally Cuttin' Corners (RCA 1980)
UTFO Doin' It! (Select 1989)

Passed up these; any reason I shouldn't have?: Lane Caudell Midnight Hunter (1979 apparent disco from an actor I think); June Millington Running (early '80s lesbian folk from ex Fanny member I think); The Pattons Homesteading (1975 Christian hippie folk duo looks like); Maureen Steele Nature Of The Beast (sleazy looking white woman singer on Motown in 1975).

About a year back, I found a copy of the classic ROIR compilation New York Thrash -- featuring seismic tracks by Bad Brains, Kraut, Adrenalin O.D., Beastie Boys -- on compact disc for a dollar. I hadn't heard it since someone swiped my cassette of it in college. Major score.

john coltrane - kulu se mama
jackie mclean - it's time
herbie hancock - maiden voyage
melvin van peebles - br'er soul
canned heat - living the blues
al green - gets next to you
al green - is love
thelonious monk - alone in san francisco
nitty gritty dirt band - uncle charlie and his dog teddy
john mayall - blues in laurel canyon
john mayall - crusade
james brown - black caesar

I picked up the Screaming Trees SST Anthology (21 songs!!!) for $1 the other night.

$1, Top Drawer Thrift, on Burnett in Austin today:

xhuxk, since when are you in Austin?

Since the end of March...

Anyway, bought this CD for 50 cents at a garage sale here today:

Emerson Lake & Palmer Lucky Man And Other Hits (Flashback/Rhino, 1997) (Looks really cut-rate, like something that'd get sold in truck stops or at the drug store counter. Songlist goes: Lucky Man, C'Est La Vie, Paper Blood, Still...You Turn Me On, Karn Evil No. 9 -- 1st Impression Parts 1 & 2, Fanfare For The Common Man)

...and these three LPs at a Goodwill at 183 and Burnett, $5 total:

Richard "Dimples" Fields Tellin' It Like It Is (Columbia, 1987) (Actually, though I'll file it with the other two LPs I have under his whole name, he is just called "Dimples" on the cover and on the label; had no idea he would up doing that)
New England New England (Infinity, 1979) (Includes a song called "Punk {Puny Undernourished Kid}," ha ha)
The Sylvers Something Special (Capitol, 1976)

Would have definitely bought a few more if they'd been selling for $1 instead of $2, and may yet go back to get one or two in a moment of weekness: Robbie Dupree LP with "Steal Away" and "Hot Rod Hearts"; Shirley Murdock self-titled Roger Troutman-produced '87 LP with "As We Lay"; Duke Jupiter LP from 1984 on Motown (not sure if they were ever any good); Bob James Touchdown; Don Williams Cafe Carolina; self-released-looking LP by some Canadian jazz guy who covered a Frank Zappa song.

The Canadian jazz-guy LP was from 1976, fwiw (which made it seem more interesting, since self-released LPs weren't as common back then, jazz or otherwise.)

Also, the Maureen Steele Motown album I mentioned that I didn't buy a week ago was from '85, not '75.

And oh yeah, that Goodwill also had something like 20 different Keith Jarrett LPs from the '70s and '80s for $2 each; apparently some former Keith fan had dumped their whole collection.

25 cents each, garage sale, North Central Austin today:

Bill Doggett Honky Tonk Organ (Harmony LP, c. late '50s or early '60s I assume)
Fats Domino Fats Domino (United Artists Legendary Masters Series double-LP, 1971 -- this is the cool-looking set that got five stars in early editions of the Rolling Stone Record Guide)
S-Ban Hour Best Hit Parade (Hit Songs) (some Japanese label LP, probably mid '60s, beautiful translucent lime-green vinyl -- Maybe "S-Ban Hour," or "S-Ban Haur" as the label inside says, is the group? Three mod-looking non-Asian gals on the cover; songs include "Diana," "Calendar Girl, "One Way Ticket," "The Three Bells" "Day-O," "Sinno'Me Moro," "Mama Guitar," "The Rose Tattoo," "Uska Dara," etc., many of which I never heard of before.)

xpost to xhuxk re: Lane Caudell.

He was in a kinda interesting glam-pop group called Skyband in the 70's, along with Pete Beckett (later of Player) and Steve Kipner (I think you'll know his history? From Bee Gees to Natasha Bedinfield...) I have no idea if his solo album is any good, but it might be interesting depending on who was involved in the songwriting/production. FWIW, the Skyband album looks like it's disco if you judge by the cover, but doesn't sound disco at all. Granted Lane was probably the least musical of the three, but I'd be at least slightly interested, especially for less than a buck.

Hmmm, it looks like one of Caudell's songs was covered by The Cats (another one of those European groups like Gasolin' who were apparently huge at one time...somewhere?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cats

Thanks, dlp -- That does sound kinda promising. Maybe I'll pick it up next time I'm at that store.

And fwiw, S-Ban Hour are apparently not a group. Guess those mod gals are just for decoration. The LP turns out mostly to be a fairly musically pointless compilation of actual hits by the(uncredited) original artists (Anka, Sedaka, Belafonte, etc.) But it sure does look pretty, and weird.

i have a cats album on rare earth that sucks. they were dutch, right?

"they were key figures of what came to be called the Palingsound (eel-sound), an umbrella for artists residing in Volendam (the country's top seafood city)."

meow!

The Cats seem easier to find on youtube. Bee Gees alert! Based on this song, I'm suddenly slightly interested:

Trying that again:

I'm finding a lot of crap and a few things I kind of like. Wonder of this is a job for Geir to sort out?

And fwiw, S-Ban Hour are apparently not a group. Guess those mod gals are just for decoration.

s-banned you for this fwiw

john coltrane - kulu se mama
jackie mclean - it's time
herbie hancock - maiden voyage
melvin van peebles - br'er soul
canned heat - living the blues
al green - gets next to you
al green - is love
thelonious monk - alone in san francisco
nitty gritty dirt band - uncle charlie and his dog teddy
john mayall - blues in laurel canyon
john mayall - crusade
james brown - black caesar

― "Together we could rape the universe" (omar little), Friday, May 1, 2009 6:31 AM (2 weeks ago)

this is one sweeeeet haul. unbelievable.

The best second-hand shop in Vienna (moses records) had another one of their, come in and take free records day today - the third such event they've had this year...

Today was 20 free records per visitor from the bargain bin section at the back of the shop.. Me and the gf left with two big piles including...

Peter Gabriel - So
Tracey Ullmann - You Broke My Heart In 17 places
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
ABC - Up
The Cars - Heartbeat City
Chic - Real People
Linda Ronstadt - Living in the USA
It's Immaterial - Song
Kadydids - Katydids
Nils Lofgren - Night Fades Away
The Immortal Billie Holiday
Fuzzbox - Big Bang
Carole Bayer-Sager - ST
Pete Wylie - Sinful
OMD - The Pacific Age
Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club - English Garden
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Celi Bee - Alternating Currents
The Colour Field - Virgins and Philistines
Amii Stewart - Images
plus a load of other rubbish..

I also bought a copy of Modern Lovers Live from the 2 euro bins there..

I love free records...

Sonic Youth, "Murray Street"

99 cent promo at Record and Tape Traders in Reisterstown, MD (RIP) like a week before it came out

$1 each, Recycled Reads on Burnett in Austin (overrun from Austin Public Library, every LP $1 -- 10 of these, plus a sturdy free complimentary green canvas carrying bag) and Antone's on Guadalupe (4 of these -- $1.99 albums on sale now for $0.99 each):

Bellamy Brothers -- Featuring Let Your Love Flow LP
Champaign - How 'Bout Us LP
Mink Deville - Coup De Grace LP
Dave Edmunds - Tracks On Wax 4 LP
Head East - Live! double LP (their most metal album, according to Martin Popoff)
ZZ Hill - I'm A Blues Man LP
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music LP
T.S. Monk - House Of Music LP
Rank and File -- Long Gone Dead LP
Dee Dee Sharp Gamble - Dee Dee LP
Slave - Just A Touch Of Love LP
The System - Don't Disturb This Groove LP
Tierra - Together Again LP (from 1981; incl covers of "La La Means I Love You" and "Tequila")
Yello - One Second LP

Also, for $3 at a generally way overpriced and totally disorganized but ridiculously overpacked junk store next door to Recylcled Reads

Collin Raye - Extremes CD from 1994

T.S. Monk - House Of Music LP

I love you.

We can post $1 CD purchases on here, right?

Sure!

TS: TS Monk House of Music vs Meredith Monk Dolmen Music

Overall, Meredith. For the greatest single of all-time, T.S. Monk.

Planet Replay on Research, Austin. Entire wall of $1 CDs. Tons of boy band. Passed up that Pimpadelic CD. bad move?

Circuit Sessions 7: Barry Harris - Afterhours Harder Deeper Faster (4 Play 2001)
A Night at the Tunnel (mixed by DJ Jason Ojeda) (Nervous, no yea but the CD booklet is a sticker!!!)
Rigo Star: Attention! (Ima 1998)
Sugar: Beaster (Rykodisc 1993)

Overall, Meredith. For the greatest single of all-time, T.S. Monk.

Sorry, Kevin, but this makes no sense, and carries your delusion about "consistency" to an absurd extreme. Af if Meredith Monk could really make an album as good as THE BEST SONG EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE (not that I'm saying that, but you did) plus filler. Though oddly, Xgau gave Meredith an A- and TS an B-. And neither album seems to be in his '80s book? How weird is that?

I have a delusion about consistency?

Well, what do you want me to say? Ok sure I'd take House of Music to a desert island because it contains THE BEST SONG EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE. But I wouldn't be listening much to the rest of the album. And all that wear and tear on just "Bon Bon Vie" might erase the song from my universe forever. Maybe not such a wise choice.

You're in the ratings game. How would you star or letter grade a crap album that just so happened to contain THE BEST SONG EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE vs. a pretty damn good album, esp. one that DJ Shadow sampled to create the greatest album of the 1990s?

P.S. The House of Music review is in Xgau's 80s book. It's under "T" since T.S. Monk was the name of the band.

I have a delusion about consistency?

See also: Chambers Bros.

a crap album that just so happened to contain THE BEST SONG EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE

Is an oxymoron. If it's got the best song ever on it, it isn't crap. And the T.S Monk LP, which I just listened to, definitely isn't. It's got a few good pop-disco tracks ("Stay Free Of His Love" and the rock-disco "Hot Night In The City" especially) and pretty ballads that surround "Bon Bon Vie" just fine. "Only one great song" does not equal "crap."

Haven't played the Meredith Monk LP yet (at least since the last time I owned it, a couple decades ago), but I'll be really surprised if I like it more. (And while I love "Bon Bon Vie," I pretty clearly don't love it as much as you do.)

under "T" since T.S. Monk was the name of the band

Ha, I had no idea this was the case. I've always just assumed T.S. was Thelonious Jr's pseudonym, but judging from the notes, you're apparently right. Still don't get why Dolmen Music is missing from the '80s book, though. (I checked under "Meredith" too, by the way, just in case.)

Also; never logged in there here: $2 each, antique/ junk store in Giddings, TX two or three weeks ago:

T Graham Brown - I Tell It Like It Used To Be LP (1986)
Tom T Hall - Homecoming LP (1970)
Tom T Hall - For The People In The Last Hard Town LP (1973)
Billy Joe Royal - The Royal Treatment LP (1987)

See also: Chambers Bros.

Oh right. Well, the Chamber Bros. and T.S. Monk's albums, even at a dollar, are why Napster, etc. was invented (but for what it's worth, I have purchased House of Music twice).

Also, I noticed you sidestepped the more difficult question of what to rate these things.

Still don't get why Dolmen Music is missing from the '80s book, though.

A lot of jazz and new music or new classical or modern music or what Meredith Monk is was left out of the book. But that doesn't explain the jazz and new music, etc. that was left in. I seem to recall a page on his site about it but can't find it now.

what to rate these things

Depends how good they are, just like anything else. Also depends on the rating system. But if we're talking letter grades, a 40-minute LP with one all-time great track of fairly substantial length plus consistently enjoyable if generic filler that elucidates the context the great tracks emerged from would sure seem pretty darn A- to me, in most cases.

"Stay Free Of His Love" and "Hot Night In The City"

These are actually great hard disco tracks in their own right, btw -- maybe not on a level with "Bon Bon Vie," but still dark and propulsive and substantial, not lightweight filler at all. And "Candidate For Love" and "Can't Keep My Hands To Myself" and "House of Music", if lighter and sweeter, are real good as well. This is a solid album; not one song I don't like. (Unlike the Dee Dee Sharp Gamble LP I bought, which as Xgau points out in his review, starts with two great disco burners then a nice soul ballad, but devotes all of side two to show-tuney ickiness. His B grade still underrates it, though; "Breaking And Entering" and "Let's Get This Party Started" are worth the price of admission in their own right. Especially if the price of admission is just $1.)

Ugh don't make me listen to this again.

I got that Gamble record for free when a college radio station was getting rid of all their vinyl. Good price.

Lane Caudell... I'd be at least slightly interested, especially for less than a buck.

Went back to Top Drawer yesterday, but the Caudell LP was gone. Bought this for a buck instead:

Bruce Cockburn - World Of Wonders (MCA, 1986)

Very sad to hear about Caudell, 'cause I can't work up the enthusiasm to go on a quest for it, but will now always be slightly curious. Damn.

nearby low-rent record/baseball card/comic book/sundry collectibles shop was trying to get rid of half their floor space so a new renter could take over. they were letting a bunch of vinyl go at 5 lps FOR A DOLLAR. the vast majority was crap (most of the gems had been moved to the front of the shop and priced accordingly), but I managed to score:

Electric Light Orchestra II
On the Third Day
Eldorado
Face the Music
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
Discovery

...all for 20 cents a piece.

$1 each LPs, three different places: an activist-run thrift store on E. 12th in East Austin yesterday (10 of them), a garage sale in North Central Austin today (3), and again today Recycled Reads (10), which supposedly picked up the entire remaining Austin Public Library LP collection his weekend:

Alpha Band - The Statue Makers of Hollywood (Arista 1978)
Be-Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic (Harvest 1978)
Black Rose - Black Rose (Casablanca 1980)
City Boy - Young Men Gone West (Mercury 1977)
Dixie Dregs - Night Of The Living Dregs (Capricorn 1979)
Les Dudek - Say No More (Columbia 1977)
Ellen Foley - Nightout (Epic 1979)
Godley & Creme -- History Mix Vol. 1 (Polydor UK 1985) (weird promo-looking black and white cover thing featuring "Cry" and sundry random 10cc tracks but inexplicably not "Neanderthal Man")
Dobie Gray - From Where I Stand (Capitol 1986)
Pearl Harbour - Don't Follow Me I'm Lost Too (Warner Bros. 1980)
John Hiatt - Warming Up To The Ice Age (Geffen 1985)
ZZ Hill - The Brand New ZZ Hill (Mankind, no year listed but looks early '70s) (First side is a six-part "Blues At The Opera: Communincation In Regard To Circumstances")
Jesse Johnson - Shockadelica (A&M 1986)
D.C. Larue - Star Baby (Casablanca 1980) (conceptual disco singer-songwriter genius, includes his cover of "She's About A Mover" by Doug Sahm)
Charles Lloyd - Wearings (Pacific Arts 1978)
The Records - The Records (Virgin 1979)
Linda Ronstadt - Mad Love (Asylum 1980) (her new wave album obviously; if I really love this, I'm going to regret passing up a Cretones LP from 1981)
Shinehead - Troddin' (Elektra 1994)
Smokey - Smokey (MCA 1975)
Chris Spedding - Hurt (RAK UK 1977) (includes his cover of Garland Jeffreys' "Wild In The Streets," which must have also been covered by 50 or 100 other people between 1977 and 1980 or so)
Gary Stewart & Dean Dillon - Brotherly Love (RCA 1982)
Wild Seeds - Mud Lies + Shame (Passport 1988)
Wishbone Ash - Number The Brave (MCA 1981)

That Z.Z. Hill record looks real interesting. Apparently it's a Swamp Dog production concept album. http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/z_z__hill/the_brand_new_z_z__hill/

I only know him from the great single "Cheatin' in the Next Room" from 1982.

i got two more later city boy records since you were last here.

you gave me a pearl harbour album once!

all of those records you got are such chuck records. i mean, literally now, but you know what i mean.

Yeah, I noticed Swamp Dogg's alter ego name Jerry Williams in the liner notes to that ZZ Hill record; thought it might be a weird one. Hope it is. So far I way prefer Hill's early '80s Malaco stuff (incl "Cheatin In The Next Room" of course) to the late '70s Columbia stuff and late '60s/early '70s indie label stuff I've heard (I've got a couple CD collections), but maybe this album will change that.

Wasn't sure whether I already owned a copy of that Pearl Harbour LP, and the Records one, too, but thought I'd take a chance. Pretty sure I prefer Pearl with the Explosions, though.

No idea why the hell I picked up that Les Dudek album. Guess I liked the cover, and the song titles, or something.

The garage sale guy who sold me the Alpha Band, Smokey, and Dixie Dregs albums also had a bunch of prog and fusion stuff (Rennnaisance, Passport, etc.) and Christian hippie LPs. Considered picking up the 2nd Chapter Of Acts LP he had, but I have no idea which ones of theirs are supposed to be any good, if any. Probably won't make sense out of that Dregs LP (not even "Punk Sandwhich"), since I never make sense out of Dregs LPs, but I'll probably keep trying as long as $1 albums are available, in hopes that one will eventually click. (I know I like the idea of Dixie Dregs.)

Passed up the Dwight Twilley '84 album with "Girls," a Sylvester LP from 1981 (Too Hot To Sleep), an '80s reissue by Shepherds, a '80 or so Carolyn Mas LP, one by Nova Combo, a Van McCoy best-of, lots of things. Really trying to limit myself to 10, at most, per store per trip. Anyway, if anybody in Austin thinks the ones I passed up sound interesting, they're probably still at Recycled Reads for $1 each.

chuck, if you don't already have it, find this for a dollar. you would love it.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2908478215_71d2b4f115.jpg?v=0

Wonderful surprises and Bargains at flea markets

If you want to check out 2nd Chapter of Acts, the ones to go for would be early to mid-seventies where they look like hippie teenagers. In the eighties they were more like ABBA (nothing wrong with that) or something. Well sung and written melodic soft rock all the way through though.

fake edit. I just put on With Footnotes from 1974. It's piano driven soft but big rock with strings. The female vocals are high and sweet and the male vocals are Stevie Wonderish. Closest to Elton John if he was a female harmony act maybe.

The real find is Matthew Ward's (the male singer in 2nd Chapter) first solo album Towards Eternity. Phil Keaggy crunchy hard rock guitars and Ward was a great soulful vocalist. Of course it is Christian as all get out, but in an inspirational way. Along with Keith Green and Daniel Amos, the only Christian music from my childhood that I still have.

2nd Chapter of Acts... With Footnotes from 1974

This is the one he was selling, actually -- oh well. (Just did a Google image search to make sure.)

yer not really missing much with that album. it's pleasant, but that's about it.

this is the dollar xian album that you want. the brits just made better 70's god rekkerds.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ciD4Uvw85wk/R7CvsBbcmOI/AAAAAAAAAcs/XOfDk2m3HMs/s320/shamblejam2.jpg

$0.50 a pop at a Goodwill in Hernando, MS this past weekend:

Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua lp
Donovan - Barabajagal lp
Japan Revisited (Mamoru Miyagi) lp
Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki lp
Firesign Theater - Dear Friends 2lp
Dick Gregory - In Living Black and White lp
Brewer & Shipley - Tarkio lp
Mood to be Wooed lp (Cadet comp of Illinois Jaquet, James Moody, Budd Johnson, Sandy Mosse)
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn/Eight Miles High 7"
Prince - I Would Die 4U 7"

Good haul!

$11 total for 11 records, at a Value Village in Houston yesterday and Antone's in Austin today:

Kenny Burrell - Stormy Monday (Fantasy LP, 1978)
Doug Clark & His Hot Nuts - Rush Week (Gross LP, 1964)
Jerry Harrison - The Red And The Black (Sire LP, 1981) (solo album by Talking Heads guy, w/ Nona Hendryx, Adrian Belew, Bernie Worrell, etc)
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (MCA LP, 1973)
Jump 'N The Saddle Band - Jump 'N The Saddle Band (Atlantic LP, 1984) (w/ their stupid novelty hit "Curly Shuffle"; this is probably horrible.)
Klique - It's Winning Time (MCA LP, 1981)
The Pointer Sisters - Their Greatest Recordings (At Ease LP, 1978) ("This album compiled exclusively for military personnel" -- Must've been sold at PX's; appears to be part of a series of comps by mostly soul and jazz artists, plus Barbara Mandrell, who may well have crossed over to black audiences in certain NCO clubs.)
Ray Goodman & Brown - Ray Goodman & Brown (Polydor LP, 1979)
The Royal Court Of China - The Royal Court Of China (A&M LP, 1987)
Randy Travis - Storms Of Life (Warner Bros LP, 1986)
(Various Birds) - Guide to Bird Sounds (National Geographic Society 10-inch flexidisc triple-EP, 1983) ("These recordings include the sound of 179 species".)

Currently available in Poundland:

Outkast - Idlewild.

Haven't played it yet.

^ it's alright, needs pruning even more than Love Below though

ta.

$1 each, Waterloo Records, Austin, today:

Bruce Cockburn Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws (Gold Mountain LP, 1979) (w/ "Wondering Where The Lions Are")
The Deele Street Beat (Solar LP, 1983)
Peter Gordon Innocent (FM/CBS LP, 1986) (feat. Arthur Russell, David Van Teighem, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Elliot Easton, Tony Levin, etc.)
Ledernacken "Do The Boogalo!"/"Mogadishu Boogie"/"Do The Boogaloo (Moan-Along Mix)" (Strike Back 12-inch, 1987)
Dave Loggins Apprentice (In A Musical Workshop) (Epic LP, 1974) (w/ "Please Come To Boston")
M+M Mystery Walk (Current LP, 1984) (w/ "Black Stations, White Stations"; still don't know why they changed their name from Martha and the Muffins)
Nile Rodgers B-Movie Matinee (Warner Bros. LP, 1985) (reviewed this negatively in the Voice when it came out, but Xgau gave it an A-)
Junior Samples Moonshining (Hilltop LP, no year listed)
Gary Stewart Your Place Or Mine (RCA LP, 1977)
George Strait Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind (MCA LP, 1984) (w/ "The Cowboy Rides Away")
Gil Trythall Country Moog: Switched On Nashville (Athena LP, no year listed)
Junior Walker Blow The House Down (Motown LP, 1983) (w/ his own version of Foreigner's "Urgent," after playing sax on the original)
(Various Artists) Body Moves: Electric Boogie (K-Tel LP, 1984) (w/ O'Bryan, Run-DMC, Dazz Band twice, Cameo, SOS Band, Newcleus, Midnight Star, Bryan Loren whoever he is, Deele, and uh Talk Talk)

Splurged and spent 3 whole dollars on this at Friends of Sound in Austin today:

The Boyzz -- Too Wild To Tame (Epic 1978, w/ cool inner sleeve and promo poster)

And spent $1 on each of these at Friends of Sound, Breakaway, and/or the St. Vincents Thrift Store on South Congress

Bronksi Beat - The Age Of Consent (MCA/London 1984)
Daddy Dewdrop - Daddy Dewdrop (Sunflower 1971) (w/ "Chick-a-Boom [Don't Ya Jes' Love It]")
General Kane - Wide Open (Motown 1987)
Ian Gillan Band - Child In Time (Oyster/Polydor 1976)
Tom T. Hall - Country Is (Mercury 1974)
Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun (Slash 1982)
Garland Jeffreys - Escape Artist (Epic 1981)
Sammy Johns - Sammy Johns (GRC 1973) (w/ "Chevy Van")
Junior - Acquired Taste (London/Metronome West Germany 1985)
Pebbles - Pebbles (MCA 1987)
Smokie - Greatest Hits (RAK West Germany 1977)

i take it you are going for a complete smokie collection.

$1 each (except one for $2) - Half-Price Books, Sound On Sound, and a Goodwill store in Austin:

Automatic Man - The Visitors (Island, 1977)
John Cale - Guts (Antilles, 1977)
Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites (Elektra/Asylum, 1986)
Mac McAnally - No Problem Here (Ariola, 1978)
Richard Thompson - Strict Tempo! (Carthadge, 1983)

How is that Peter Gordon album? I keep meaning to fill out my collection of his stuff, but it's never at the top of my to-do list. His "Yellow Box" thing with the guy from Flying Lizards remains a favorite.

As geeky, moderately rhythmic post-new-wave downtown art-pop goes, not bad. The one track that really makes it a keeper, though, is the one written and sung with Arthur Russell, "That Hat" at the end of Side One, which to me sounds not that far from the three or so Dinosaur L tracks by Russell I've heard.

The Microphones - Tests. 1$

$1 each vinyl, Antone's and Waterloo today:

Big Youth Reggae Phenomenon (Trojan double LP, 1977 -- though actually, one disc turns out to be sides one and two of Big Youth's 1980 Trojan anthology Everyday Skank {The Best Of Big Youth} instead, not that I think I'll mind that much.)
Bobby Bland Try Me, I'm Real (MCA 1981)
Diesel Watts In A Tank* (Atco 1981 - with their new wave disco metal hit "Sausalito Summernight")
D-Train Something's On Your Mind (Prelude 1984)
Steve Forbert Alive On Arrival (Nemperor 1978 -- his debut which briefly led to "new Dylan" claims as I recall; never actually heard it)
John Fred And His Playboys John Fred And His Playboys (Paula, no year listed, but apparently before 1967 by which time they were called the "Playboy Band" instead)
Steve Gibbons Band Any Road Up (MCA 1976 - Birmingham, England's answer to Bob Seger, supposedly)
Steve Gibbons Band Rollin' On (MCA 1977)
Bob James Touchdown (Tappan Zee/Columbia 1978)
Oliver Lake Jump Up (Gramavision 1982)
The Rockets Rocket Roll (Elektra 1982)
Mitch Ryder Never Kick A Sleeping Dog (Riva 1983 -- produced by John Cougar with his band, and featuring cover of Prince's "When You Were Mine" plus a Marianne Faithfull duet)
Michael Stanley Band Stage Pass (Epic double live LP 1977)

15 LPs for $20, Breakaway Records, today:

The Belle Stars The Belle Stars (Stiff 1983)
Jean-Paul Bourelly Jungle Cowboy** (JMT Productions 1987)
The Box Secrets Out (Go! Discs 1983)
Couch Flambeau The Day The Music Died (It's Only A Record 1985)
Great Plains Naked At The Buy Sell And Trade (Homestead 1985)***
Gwen Guthrie Gwen Guthrie (Island 1982) (produced by Sly & Robbie)
Nona Hendryx The Heat (RCA 1985) (production split between Arthur Baker and Bernard Edwards)
Ronald Shannon Jackson Decode Yourself (Island 1985) (produced by Bill Laswell)
Chas Jankel Chas Jankel (A&M 1981)*
Jason & the Scorchers Lost And Found (EMI 1985)
Live Skull Cloud One (Homestead 1986)***
Pink Military Do Animals Believe In God? (Eric's 1980)
Point Blank Point Blank (Arista 1976)**
Rattlesnake Annie Rattlesnake Annie (Columbia 1987)
Nile Rodgers Adventures In The Land Of The Good Groove (Atlantic 1983)
Specimen Batastrophe (Sire EP 1983 - with "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang")
Streetwalkers Streetwalkers (Mercury 1975)
Sweat Band Sweat Band (Uncle Jam 1980 -- with Bootsy, Maceo, Fred Wesley, Mike Hampton, etc; honestly don't expect to like this much, but fairly obscure P-Funk LP that it is, I expect I'll find some use for it regardless)
Watermelon Men Past Present And Future (Tracks On Wax 1985)
Yarborough & Peoples The Two Of Us (Mercury 1980)*

* -- It's possible I already own copies of these, but I hope not
** - LPs from my metal book that I got rid of after I wrote it: Point Blank probably stupidly, Bourelly probably smartly, but I wanted to make sure
*** - Homestead LPs I didn't like a quarter century ago, but I wanted to give them a second chance

Oops, actually, the Breakway ones were 20 LPs for $15, not the other way around! (Whew.)

A quarter each:

The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (2nd copy, but for 25¢ I couldn't pass it up)
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Goose Creek Symphony - Words of Earnest
J. Geils Band - "Live" Full House

plus a bunch of lesser rekkids.

$1 each, Top Drawer Thrift, Austin

Steppenwolf Live (Dunhill 2-LP, 1970)
Tom Johnsston Everything You've Heard Is True (Warner Bros, 1979) (looks like an outlaw country move by Doobie Bros guy, w/ a Joe Tex cover and his Top 40 yacht-rockish-I-think hit "Savannah Nights")

i'll post that first batch of 45s i got last weekend. they were all less than a dollar a piece:

2 versions of a single by Metelica, Train/Time And Time Again. (early 70's rock. Michael Metelica was the guru behind the Spirit & Flesh commune here in Greenfield. B-side is great dreamy stuff.)

Feeling Harty by Papa Tarzan/Nigger by Kojack All Stars (On Nigger Kojack Records. Nigger is the insane dub of Feeling Harty.)

albert king - i'll play the blues for you/angel of mercy (stax)

2 cameo copies of 96 tears/midnight hour by ? & the mysterians

albert king - breaking up somebody's home/that's what the blues is all about (stax)

dean and jean - hey jean, hey dean (let's have a party)/please don't tell me now (on rust records. they were the ween of their day.)

donovan - atlantis/to susan on the west coast waiting

barbarians - moulty/i'll keep on seeing you

bill wendry & the boss tweeds - fire/a wristband watch (on columbia. such a great psych/garage single. not the cleanest copy, unfortunately, but what are you gonna do.)

radiohead - black star/high and dry (for jukeboxes only!)

bobby rio - show a little kindness/what's his name just died (on Love 'n Peace Records.)

vanilla fudge - season of the witch part 1/part 2

swingin' medallions - i found a rainbow/don't cry no more

free fare - purple heart/put myself together

barbara markay - it's all rite to fuck all night/it's all rite to truck all night (censored and uncensored disco single by the female lenny bruce.)

kindergarden song/doughnut song (heelarious dirty party rekkerd. okay, not really.)

bob daveys - dearest daughter/fonzie for president

filthy mcnasty - the garden song (x rated records)

johnnie white - two old maids part 1/part 2

tim adams - satan's hotline part 1/part 2

crow - evil woman don't play your games with me/gonna leave a mark

the emotions - i call this loving you/put a little love away

bobby b. baker - take your oil and shove it/it's just about time

bloodstone - outside woman/dumb dude

dan siegel - bad habit/friday (cool funky jazzy single on inner city from 1980)

bought these on the street this morning. many of these are xhuxk-ready or xhuxk-approved, i'd bet:

sterling - city kids (1980 and awesome!)

alessi - driftin' (my heroes)

orion the hunter - s/t

jim ed brown - jim ed sings the browns

nat stuckey - all my tomorrows

angel city - face to face (own this, but i am, of course, also buying things for my rekkerd store)

skywalk - the bohemians

1994 - s/t (so, i'm guessing jack douglas got brad whitford to play guitar on this or were 1994 actually pals with aerosmith?)

john kaizan neptune and mu'ryo - shogun

poco - s/t

family - bandstand

tom t. hall - a soldier of fortune

tom t. hall - greatest hits vol.2

mary jane girls - only four you

dexter gordon - manhattan symphonie

earth, wind, & fire - open our eyes

romeo void - never say never ep

hagood hardy - the homecoming

I look all over for Alessi!

Yeah, Scott, 1994 and Angel City and Tom T Hall up my alley especially! Don't own any Hagood Hardy, though; have seen his LPs around -- are they worth buying? (His "Homecoming" is unrelated to Tom T's, right?)

Anyway, here's yesterday's haul:

50 cents each, garage sale, North Central Austin

Gary Clial / On-U Sound System Emotional Hooligan (Perfecto cassette, 1991)
Fugazi Fugazi (Dischord cassette EP, 1988 - same songs on both sides)

$2 total for all 7, garage sale, South Austin

Joan Armatrading Me Myself I (A&M LP, 1980)
Lenny Bruce To Is A Preposition, Come Is A Verb (Douglas LP, no year listed -- late '60s / early '70s I guess?)
The Hondells Go Little Honda (Mercury LP, 1964)
Tommy Roe 12 In A Roe: Greatest Hits (ABC LP, 1969)
Leigh Stevens' All Stars Jazz Themes From The Wild One (Decca LP, no year listed, Brando on the cover)
(Various) Merry Tuba Christmas (Harvey Phillips Foundation, no year listed -- label based in Bloomington, Indiana)
(Various) The Now Sound Reggae (Island, 1974 -- radio station promo; guessing this wasn't commercially relased. Select cuts by Marley, Toots, Dekker, Heptones, Cliff, Third World, Slickers)

$6 Total - Friends Of Sound (the EP was a $3 fetish splurge)

Fastway All Fired Up! (Columbia LP, 1984)
Loose Ends The Real Chuckeeboo (Virgin LP, 1988)
Prisonshake Della Street (Scat 10-inch EP, 1991)
Sherbs The Skill (Atco LP, 1980) (Austalians formerely known as Sherbet, which I didn't know when I bought this even though Scott and I briefly discussed Sherbet on ILM earlier this year; did remember that Sherbs had a quasi-new-wave almost-hit called "I Have The Skill," which hit #61 in the US, though I'm pretty sure I haven't heard it since)

Breakaway Records, this afternoon, $10 total

Bobby Bland Dreamer (Dunhill LP, 1974) (w/ "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City," later sampled in Jay-Z song of the same name)
Bobby Bland Get On Down With (Dunhill LP, 1974) (w/ covers of Merle Haggard and Charlie Rich songs)
Fanny Rock And Roll Survivors (Casablanca LP, 1974)
Gamma Gamma 1 (Elektra LP, 1979)
Rebbie Jackson Centipede (Columbia LP, 1984)
Deke Leonard Kamikaze (United Artists LP, 1974)
Man Rhinos, Winos + Lunatics (United Artists LP, 1974)
Max Webster Universal Juveniles (Mercury LP, 1980)
Mother's Finest Mother's Finest (Epic LP, 1976)
Shalamar Uptown Festival (Soul Train LP, 1977)
Shock Headed Peters The Kissing Of Gods (El Benelux EP, c. late '80s I guess)
O.C. Smith Hickory Holler Revisited (Columbia LP, 1968)

$1 each (+ $5 entrance fee) (= $34 total), Austin Record Convention today

Axe Offering (Atco 1982)
Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy (Warner Bros 1976)
Blast Blast (Columbia 1979)
Gary U.S. Bonds Dedication (EMI America 1981)
Herman Brood And His Wild Romance Go Nutz (Ariola 1980)
David + David Boomtown (A&M 1986)
Jack Dejohnette Pictures (ECM 1977)
The Delmore Brothers The Best Of (Starday 1975)
Lee Dorsey Holy Cow: The Best Of (Arista 1985)
Feederz Teachers In Space (Flaming Banker 1986)
Herbert Gronemeyer 4630 Bochum (EMI Electrola Germany 1984)
Gruppo Sportivo 10 Mistakes (Ariola Benelux 1977)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers Branded Man (Captiol 1967)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers I Love Dixie Blues (Capitol 1973)
Ofra Haza Shaday (Sire 1988)
Helix No Rest For The Wicked (Capitol 1983)
Iron City Houserockers Blood On The Bricks (MCA 1981)
Oran "Juice" Jones To Be Immortal (Columbia 1989)
E. Koestyara and Group Gapura Sangkala: Modern Instrumental Music From Indonesia (Icon 1985)
Ian Llloyd 3WC (Scotti Brothers 1980)
Nils Lofgren Nils Lofgren (A&M 1979)
Mandrill Composite Truth (Polydor 1973)
Moxy Ridin' High (Mercury 1977)
Plan 9 Keep Your Cool And Read The Rules (Pink Dust/Enigma 1985)
Red Rockers Good As Gold (Columbia 1983)
Revelacion House Of The Rising Sun (Crocos 1977)*
The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band (Spindizzy/Columbia 1973)
Gene Watson The Best Of (Capitol 1978)
(Various) Permanant Wave (Epic 1979)**

* - w/ Cerrone and Don Ray, somehow
** - technically, this was $2 and the Ofra Haza was free, but I didn't want to confuse things

gotta love that simon stokes album cover

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7pi2v28KCmI/SfYBraVQXII/AAAAAAAABtY/zMuThPIYT8I/s400/SIMON+FRONT.jpg

The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band (Spindizzy/Columbia 1973)

SWEET DEAL!

Went back today because I regretted not buying a $1 Kick Axe Vices and $1 Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning I saw yesterday. Couldn't find those anymore, but spent another $4 anyway:

David Allan Coe Longhaired Redneck (Columbia 1976)
Steve Gibbons Band Down In The Bunker (Polydor 1978)
Killer Whales Killer Whales (Moonlight EP 1981)
REO Speedwagon Ridin' The Storm Out (Epic 1973)
Scorpions Blackout (Merucry 1982)
The Speedboys Look What Love's Done To Me Now (I Like Mike 1983)

Recycled Reads (Austin Library overrun store), $1 each today:

Mink Deville Le Chat Bleu (Capitol 1980)
Jerusalem Warrior (Lamb & Lion 1982) (Christian metal, looks heavy, probably isn't, bought it anyway just in case)
Steve Miller Circle Of Love (Capitol 1981) (w/ side-long "Macho City." I've probably passed this up in dollar bins hundred if not thousands of times in my life, just because its cover looks so boring that I always forget that song's on it.)

I got my original Westbound copy of Maggot Brain LP at Goodwill for 99 cents like fifteen years ago. The cover was worn (lady's face ripped off, revealing the skull beneath) but the vinyl is nearly mint. I love spinning it.

Trail of Dead's Source Tags on Vinyl for 1.00. Still a fantastic record, no doubt.

How'd you find that?!

Spent $1 on 1 (double) album at Half-Price Books today:

Bebop Deluxe Live! In The Air Age (Harvest/EMI 1977)

Not a buck or less, but $7.50 for all four:

Clubroot - s/t
Machinefabriek - Marijn
Machinefabriek - Weleer
Sum of R - s/t

$1, Village Thrift on S. Congress:

Phil Harris On The Record (RCA Victor 10-inch EP, early '50s probably) (has "Darktown Poker Club," "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," "That's What I Love About The South," "Minnie The Mermaid," a couple other songs, but not his biggest novelty hit "The Thing")

^ Actually at St. Vincent De Paul thrift, I meant.

And today at Antone's, $1 each:

Jay Ferguson Real Life Ain't This Way (Elektra 1979 - w/ yacht-rock classic "Shakedown Cruise")
Freedom "Are You Available" (Malaco 1984 - w/ a presumably Southern soul cover of "Do It All Night" by Prince; still can't tell by looking whether Freedom is a band, or one person, or what)
Krystol Talk Of The Town (Epic 1985 - very cool-looking r&b girl group I never heard of before)
Timex Social Club Vicious Rumors...The Album (Danya 1986 -- LP never charted; single, on a different label, went to #8)

Passed up a mid '80s album by Andre Cymone that claimed to be "nu wave" and a mid '80s album on Total Experience (Gap Band's label) by a weird new-wave looking post-Prince funk guy named "E.T." If anybody tells me these are too good to have passed up, I'll go back. Also curious which, if any, Dazz Band LPs might be worth $1. Don't think I've ever had one.

i got the self titled by a gun called tension in brooklyn for a dollar

I clearly have no will power or self control. Antone's, $1 each, today:

Andre Cymone Survivin' In The '80s (Columbia 1983)
ET Best Friends (Total Experience 1986)

in new york, where are there good places to get records for like a dollar

They're $2 at The Thing, a thrift store on Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but there are tons of them there -- a huge basement entirely packed with vinyl, floor to ceiling. So worth the trip, but picking up a paper dust mask at a drugstore down the street is highly advised. There are plenty of other thrift stores in Queens and Brooklyn that are worth checking out, too -- do a search of this thread for "Sunnyside" up above. And sometimes sidewalk dealers in Manhattan have them cheap, or even free. But mostly, used LPs at actual NYC record stores -- by my experience anyway -- are overpriced for suckers.

Also, I didn't have a car in New York, so I never got to check out the thrifts in Staten Island. But I've heard there are lots of good ones.

Also worth the trip for $1 LPs: Princeton Record Exchange (Exit 9 off the NJ Turnpike, I think), if you can get a lift there.

o thanks i live in new jersey that's perfect

$1 each -- Hog Wild Records in San Antonio; a Goodwill store in downtown San Antonio; Sundance Records in San Marcos, this weekend:

Colonel Abrams You And Me Equals Us (MCA 1987)
J. Blackfoot Physical Attraction (Sound Town 1984)
Camel The Single Factor (Passport 1982)
Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman (Epic 1978)
Detective Detective (Swan Song 1977)
The Forester Sisters Perfume, Ribbons & Pearls (Warner Bros. 1986)
The J. Geils Band Showtime! (EMI 1982)
Merle Haggard Greatest Hits (MCA 1982) (All 1977-1981 songs, like "My Old Kind Of Hat" and "Red Bandana"; used to own this, remember liking it, shouldn't have gotten rid of it.)
Robin Lane & the Chartbusters Imitation Life (Warner Bros. 1981)
Little Milton Annie Mae's Cafe (Malaco 1986)
Ian Matthews Stealin' Home (Mushroom 1978)
O.B. McClinton Album No. 2 (Hometown Productions 1986)
New Birth Behold The Mighty Army (Warner Bros. 1977)
Charlie Rich Big Boss Man/My Mountain Dew (RCA 1977)
Charlie Rich I Do My Swingin' At Home (Epic 1973)
Skyy Skyway (Salsoul 1980)
The Smothers Brothers Curb Your Tongue, Knave! (Mercury 1963)
Billie Joe Spears Blanket On The Ground (United Artists 1975)
Billy Swan Rock N Roll Moon (Monument 1975)
Keith Sykes I'm Not Strange I'm Just Like You (Backstreet 1980)
Hank Thompson Movin' On (ABC 1974)
(Various) Motels And Memories (Warner Special Products 1981) (100% country cheating songs, from the mid '70s to early '80s)

xhuxk, let me know how that Keith Sykea record is. I'm a recent convert of his earlier, (much?) different stuff on Vanguard.

I like that Robin Lane record. I remember I paid 50 cents for mine in a Woolworth's cutout bin.

I'll let you know about the Sykes when I get to it, Ian. Never listened to any albums by him before. I only bought this one because the cover makes him looks like a Nashville hack making a 1980 corporate new wave quasi-rockabilly move, hence promising on a wtf level if nothing else.

robin lane lives up the road from here!

Up the lane?

she lives on robin lane! not really.

when i first opened my store here i kept wondering why i was seeing so many robin lane & chartbusters albums. then someone told me she lived up the lane. so, she has a lot of supporters around.

though some don't want to hold on to her album, apparently...

Just got this at the Goodwill Today.

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/records/thegreaterantillessampler.html

was listening to that yesterday. nobody wants to buy it in my store for some reason. maybe i should give it to the goodwill.

worst poll ever too:

Best Track On The Greater Antilles Sampler

i got a nice 12 pack of colored pencils from a bin at k-mart for $.89

nobody wants to buy it in my store for some reason. maybe i should give it to the goodwill.

It cost me $1.06. Maybe it might move at that price.

$1 each CDs (!!! - not vinyl!!!), Citywide Garage Sale, Austin. (And actually, since I didn't buy anything else, if you figure in the $5 entrance fee, these were technically $2 each. Last time I went I found a pile of $1 LPs, plus a great 4-foot-square partitioned wood shelf for my compilation CDs, which made the entrance fee totally worth it obviously. But this time all the vinyl LPs were either ridiculously overpriced for stupid suckers or just not very good. Could have bought $1 copies of the Rockets' No Ballads and the Dwight Twilly LP with "Girls on it from one guy, but I decided to pass for some reason):

Miley Cyrus -Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus (Walt Disney/Hollywood, 2008 -- also, this was a ripoff. I bought it because the 10-song listing on the back cover includes "See You Again," "East Northumberland High," and "G.N.O. {Girl's Night Out}," but one disc of the two two discs is a DVD, and there are a different 10 songs listed inside the booklet, and when I put the CD on it starts with "Best Of Both Worlds," which doesn't correspond with either list. Wtf?)
The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace (Beggars Banquet, 1985/1988 -- Last Fall album I ever cared about; even gave it a good lead review in the Voice when it came out, then inexplicably got rid of my vinyl copy sometime in the '90s I guess. Good to finally have it again, in some form. Looks like this expanded CD version adds both sides of the "Rollin' Dany"/"Couldn't Get Ahead" 45, which I also don't own anymore, plus seemingly a few other previously non-LP cuts, cool.)
Lucy Pearl Lucy Pearl (Pookie/Beyond/BMG, 2000)
Eric Satie Piano Music: Daniel Varsano/Philippe Entremont (Sony Legacy, 2003 -- starts w/ "Trois Gymnopedies," of course)
Mel Torme The Best Of (EMI/Capitol, 1999 - 10 songs.)

It's not that I don't like the extra songs on that Fall CD, but I hate the way they break up the running order that I got used to (I had the US vinyl originally). It flowed really well. Have similar issues on a few of their other albums on CD. Oh well, there are bigger problems in this world...

Some months ago I got a power of Q and Not U - Power for a dollar. Perfect conition, not a promo or anything, and I'm pretty sure it's not like the store was overflowing with multiple copies of it. I have absolutely no idea what was up with it. Nevertheless a dollar well spent. (Oh, and I've never seen a dollar-CD their that I'd deemed buyable either, so...).

There was a time where I loved Q and not U but when I went back recently (about a year ago) I found that they didn't really hold up. Although it could well be the case that I could go back to them a year from now and mysteriously like them again.

earlier this evening from atomic records in bubank's 50cent bin:
galt mac dermot's new pulse jazz band - pulse on!! (slightly warped, but plays alright so)
fairport convention - rising for the moon
fine young cannibals - s/t

Soooo much goodness recently for less than 1 pound/euro..

Alexandre Langa - Late 80's afropop album pressing from Mozambique.
Sugar Creek - Please Tell A Friend - dodgy eastern european bootleg
The Souls of Inspyration - another dodgy eastern european bootleg
Steppenwolf - The Second
Chicken Shack - Imagination Lady
Circuit Rider - German bootleg of obscure early 70's LP
Washrag - Bang! - 1973 Instrumental LP by Steve Cropper
The Association - Stop Your Motor
A.B Skhy - A.B. Skhy LP - Yellow label DJ Promo
Wild Thing - Partyin' LP - The only record Jac Holzman regretted releasing on Elektra - after playing it i can see why.
Chick Corea - Return to forever - ECM LP
Squeeze - Sweets from a stranger
Squeeze - East Side Story
JJ Cale - Shades
Talking Heads - Naked
Aztec Camera - Love
Blue Rondo - Bees knees and chickens elbows
Steve Winwood - Arc of a diver
Nils Lofgren - 1st LP
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
Landscape - From the Tea-rooms of Mars....
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Laughter
Melanie - Gather Me
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Nothing Wrong
Jackson Browne - For Everyman
The Shamen - Drop

all on vinyl of course...

I found a bunch of Fabric mix CDs in a local charity shop, all for a pound each. I picked up the Tiefschwarz one.

Circuit Rider - German bootleg of obscure early 70's LP

!!! great price for this. it was just reissued again.

LPs averaging a few cents less than a $1 each at various record and thrift stores around Austin today:

J. Blackfoot - City Slicker (Sound Town 1983)
Brian Brain - Unexpected Noises (Secret 1980)
Joe King Carrasco & the Crowns - Party Weekend (MCA 1983)
C.J. & Co. - Devil's Gun (Westbound 1977)
Alec Constandinos - Trocadero Blue Citron (Casablanca 1978, movie soundtrack)
Cruzados - After Dark (Arista 1987)
Joe Ely - Hi-Res (MCA 1984 -- his answer to Trans)
Fashion - Twilight Of Idols (Epic 1984)
Jimmy "Bo" Horne - Goin' Home For Love (Sunshine Sound 1979 - w/ "Spank")
Garland Jeffreys - Guts For Love (Epic 1982)
Greg Kihn - Greg Kihn (Bersekley 1985 -- his first, I think)
Kim Mitchell - Akimbo Alogo (Bronze 1980 - w/ "Go For Soda")
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Stick To Me (Mercury 1977)
The Pontiac Brothers - Johnson (Frontier 1988)
The Raes - Dancing Up A Storm (A&M 1979)
R.J.'s Latest Arrival - Hold On (Manhattan 1986 - w/ a remix of "Shackles")
R.J.'s Latest Arrival - Truly Yours (Manhattan 1988)
Pete Shelley - XL-1 (Arista 1983)
Shooting Star - III Wishes (Virgin 1982)
Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way (Capitol 1985 - w/ title track hit)
Michael Stanley - (Tumbleweed Records Inc 1973 - w/ "Rosewood Bitters")
The System - Sweat (Mirage 1983 - w/ "You Are In My System")
Trooper - Thick As Thieves (MCA 1988)
Peter Wolf - Lights Out (EMI America 1984)
World Saxophone Quartet - Dances And Ballads (Nonesuch 1987)
(Various) -- All Ears (Realistic, c. late '70s, probably -- 10 songs with a CB Radio theme; LP sold exclusively through Radio Shack!)

i love XL-1. i even love it more than Homosapien. so underrated/underheard.

good score with that devil's gun. that's a keeper.

How's the Brian Brain? I only know Fun With Music...

Oh, never mind...it's on Rhapsody. How weird. Will check out myself. Also like a thousand live shows/demos, which is probably about 1000 too many?

$1 CD, at Sound Exchange Records in Houston the other day:

(Various) - Made In Britain: Mojo Presents The Sounds Of A New England 1977[1983 (Mojo 2005)

Which might not be such an amazing deal, seeing how Mojo subscribers theoretically didn't have to pay for the CD in the first place -- except that I also got what looks like about ten years worth of Mojo magazines in brand-new condition (didn't count them, but two very big boxes worth, now in the trunk of my car) absolutely free. Somebody had apparently cleared them out of their house, and the store put the boxes by the front door, next to all the local giveaway entertainment papers, beneath the "free" sign. (I've never actually bought a copy of the mag myself before, because they cost too much.)

nice! i did very well selling old mojos at the store. sold them for, like, four bucks a mag! they have good resale value.

this morning for a buck a piece:

the originals - california sunset (nice 70's motown soul)

incredible string band - the big huge

src - milestones (wahoo! needed this record. cover is a little beat up, but the vinyl is nice. sounds amazing.)

george danzer & band - jetzt oder nie (completely bonkers german record from 1982. included inside is a full page letter from some german dude to an american girl explaining why he was giving her this record for christmas. he went and saw the movie ET for the second time in a week and it still could not make him cry! so german.)

grand funk railroad - on time (2 copies actually. they were both in great shape and i couldn't resist. plus, one of my fave records ever too.)

linda hopkins - s/t (funky early 70's soul record. very aretha.)

the tymes - the sound of the wonderful tymes (parkway doo wop)

don shirley - the gospel according to don shirley (jazz piano don doing gospel tunes)

ellen mcilwaine - everybody needs it (had this years ago and didn't play it much. jack bruce on bass.)

john dankworth & orchestra - the $1,000,000 collection (dankworth has some pricey records out there - mostly cuzza the breaks - this isn't one of them. still cool moody mod jazz stuff on this though.)

santana/mclaughlin - love devotion surrender

savage grace - s/t

murari - s/t (hippie commune album from 1979 and which sells for, like, nothing, but i couldn't remember if i'd heard it or not. probably heard it and forgot all about it.)

the cowsills - s/t (i've been getting into the cowsills lately. god help me. especially the later stuff.)

peter stampfel & the bottlecaps - s/t

eric anderson - a country dream

busoni - doktor faust (dgg boxed set)

pepsi 1970 (boxed set of pepsi jingles featuring bonnie dobson/johnny cash/loadstone/odetta/tammy wynette/bb king/patti austin/mongo santamaria/friends of distinction/three dog night)

pepsi 1971 (double album of pepsi jingles featuring johnny cash/ides of march/ronnie dyson/bb king/bj thomas/delanie and bonnie/roberta flack/tammy wynette.)

steven quarella - book of love (private press xian 70's folk. hey, you never know...)

The ones that leap to mind:

Jandek - unopened copy of Telegraph Melts: 50 cents at a thrift shop
Silver Apples - original Kapp pressing of first album: 25 cents at a thrift shop
Marvin Gaye - pristine copies of Let's Get It On, the Trouble Man soundtrack, and I Want You: 75 cents each at a garage sale
Perrey & Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out: free after my friend's cokehead neighbor left it at his apartment

murari - s/t (hippie commune album from 1979 and which sells for, like, nothing, but i couldn't remember if i'd heard it or not.

It's pretty forgettable, actually. (I bought a copy for $2 at the thing in greenpoint a couple years ago -- probably even mention it upthread somewhere, come to think of it -- but it's already long gone from here.)

Scott, every time you say you've bought this or that for a dollar, are they purchases you've made in the wild, or are they walk-ins to your store?

xxpost I got two of my Jandek albums for $2.50 each, but that was a decade ago, and his profile has risen so much, so it wasn't quite the same sort of achievement/coup/whatever.

Purchased just now at Goodwill: John Coltrane - Giant Steps, original pressing with the "bullseye" labels. Vinyl is okay, but the cover is in immaculate condition. $1.

$1 each LPs, Waterloo Records in Austin this afternoon:

The Desert Rose Band The Desert Rose Band (Curb 1987)
Mink Deville Mink Deville (Capitol 1977)
The Fleetwoods The Very Best Of (United Artists 1975)
Rickie Lee Jones Girl At Her Volcano (Warner Bros. 10-inch EP 1983 -- my 10-inch fetish again, obviously. Promise to cut it slack accordingly.)
Karen Lawrence & The Pins Girls' Night Out (RCA 1981 -- produced by Jack Douglas; hard rock band 1994's singer making Go-Gos-era new wave move, looks like)
A'Me Loreain & The Family Affair Starring In...Standing In A Monkey Sea (BMG 1990 -- Pretty sure this made my Pazz & Jop ballot that year, though I don't think I owned it on vinyl even then)
Mac McAnally Finish Lines (Geffen 1988)
Hank Thompson Smoky The Bar (Dot 1969 -- looks like pretty much all songs about drinking except for one about cocaine)
Toyah Warrior Rock: Toyah On Tour (Safari 1982 double LP)
The Whites Old Familiar Feeling (Curb 1983)
Don Williams The Best Of Don Williams Volume II (MCA 1979)
Lesette Wilson Now That I've Got Your Attention (Soul Brother 2002, apparently recorded and maybe first released in 1981; Never heard of her before, and no idea who she is -- a British soul/dance singer, looks like? -- but she covers Chas Jankel's "Ai No Corrida" and has an original song called "Caveman Boogie," so I figured it'd be worth taking a chance.)

Danny O'Keefe - The O'Keefe File (promo best-of, WB 1979)

i bought this "Masters of Gospel" CD full of 1930s classic bangers for like 2.99 once. and then saw on amazon a single used copy was going for 500.00 but of course i fucking lost it...

@ 0.85 USD

Disko Band: Klassiks go Disko
Ariel Ramirez: La Zamba Vol. II
George Duke: I Love the Blues, She Heard My Cry
Joel Grey: Black Sheep Boy
Boston Pops w/ Arthur Fiedler: Peter and the Wolf (Alec Guiness, narrator) / Carnival of the Animals
Teachers OST
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon OST
Staying Alive OST
Issac Hayes: ...To Be Continued
Petula Clark: Petula
Cher: Half-Breed
The Beat: Ackee 1-2-3-Nike Mix/ I Confess (United States of America remix)
The Beat: Doors of Your Heart / Drowning
Enoch Light and the Glittering Guitars
Lenny Dee: Take It To The Limit

recently got the following for £1 (all on vinyl)

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too Rye Aye
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

$1, Goodwill Store, 183 & Burnett in Austin:

The Suburbs Credit In Heaven (Twin/Tone double LP, 1981)

Friday I pick up OMD - Crush for 50 cent at a Goodwill. Saturday I picked up André Cymone - AC, a Beach Boys greatest hits, Rio - Duran Duran, and some others for a buck a piece.

5 for $1 sale (so, $2.18 TOTAL, including tax), Antone's today:

Steve Arrington The Jammin' National Anthem (Atlantic 1986)
D Train Music (Prelude 1983)
Miquel Brown Symphony Of Love (Polydor 1978)
Dazz Band Rock The Room (SBK/RCA 1988)
New York City Band New York City Band (American International 1979 -- my second copy of this; goes straight into the theoretcial ebay pile. Probably mentioned it before way up thread, the first time I bought it: prominently features a very early, pre-fame "Luther Van Dross.")
Pretenders Extended Play (Sire EP 1981)
Charlie Rich Rollin' With The Flow (Epic 1977)
Sugar Babes Sugar Babes (MCA 1987 -- post-"Push It" teen-girl r&b/hip-hop trio, apparently? Never heard of them before.)
Joe Tex Bumps And Bruises (Epic 1977 - w/ "Ain't Gonna Bump No More" {With No Big Fat Woman or something like that, I believe] and "Be Cool {Willie Is Dancing With A Sissy}"!)
(Various) The Gospel At Colonus (Warner Bros. 1984 -- maybe the only gospel LP ever to chart on the Pazz & Jop list, unless there's another one I'm not thinking of. Couldn't get into at the time, but I was a whole lot younger then.)

that is two dollars very well spent.

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75 cents apiece. I was flipping my shit the whole time because all the records were missing from their sleeves and I missed out on Parliament, early Aretha Franklin, and James Brown.

nice! i did very well selling old mojos at the store. sold them for, like, four bucks a mag! they have good resale value.

― scott seward, Sunday, 17 January 2010 01:26 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wish same was true for us in UK.
i have a mountain of old mojos
i started @ #45 approx i think - had pet sounds cd single embedded in the cover - before the days of covermounts
cant get rid of them even for free (well apart from collection that is !)
oh and for thread relevance, last week picked up River Deep, Mountain High on cd for 99 pence with an extra bonus of 25% off.
bargain. rather chuffed about that particular find.

$1 Each today, Recylced Reads (the Austin Library overrun store)

Mose Allison Ever Since the World Ended (Blue Note 1987)
Laurie Anderson Big Science (Warner Bros. 1982 -- got rid of my old copy over two decades ago)
The John Carter Octer Dauwhe (Black Saint 1982)
The Cretones Snap! Snap! (Planet 1981)
Jack Dejohnette New Directions (ECM 1978)
The Persuasions No Frills (Rounder 1984)
Stan Ridgway The Big Heat (IRS 1986)
The Searchers Love's Melodies (Sire 1981 -- comeback LP with Moon Martin, John Fogetry, Motors, Records, and Big Star covers)
Trouble Funk Trouble Over Here (Island 1987)
Y&T In Rock We Trust (A&M 1984)

25 cents each, garage sale, Central Austin (all in great shape; a couple still sealed though I expect I'll fix that problem soon)

George Jones All-Time Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Epic 1977)
Barbara Mandrell The Best Of (Columbia 1977)
Roger Miller The Return Of Roger Miller (Smash 1965)
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (Capitol 1965)
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos Before You Go/No One But You (Capitol 1965)
Buck Owens The Best Of (Capitol 1964)
Ricky Skaggs Don't Cheat In Our Hometown (Epic 1983)
Ernest Tubb Greatest Hits (MCA 1980)

They had a pile of other old country albums -- including four or five more '60s Buck Owens ones -- but I didn't want to be too greedy.

cheapo in minneapolis seemed to have a lot of pretty good stuff for $1-$3. anyone check in there from time to time?

Cheapo in Austin is the most mis-named record store in town, as far as I can tell -- have yet to buy a single thing there.

yeah cheapo's in cambridge mass was, similarly, not all that cheap(o).

xhuxk, question for you, since you buy a lot of $1 or less records -- how picky are you about what kind of shape they are in? How beat up is too beat up?

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Yeah, that'd be too beat up. Anyway, I'd say it depends on the record. And the price. Pickier about $1 records than 50 cent ones. I've bought a couple Suburbs and ZZ Hill and J. Blackfoot LPs this year that are pretty scratchy or even warped (in at least two cases I couldn't play the lead cuts on either side), but that's really rare, actually. At any rate, I've never been what you'd call an audiophile. I'll listen through a scratch or two, if it's something I might not get to hear or own otherwise. Can't say my stylus thanks me, but I can get a new one -- and honestly, in my experience, styluses last a good long time anyway.

Btw, that should be John Carter Octet up above.

$1 each, End Of An Ear in South Austin and Parlor Pizza (music swap meet) at 43rd and Guadalupe:

Bad Boy Back To Back (United Artists 1978 - w/ inner sleeve, press bio, and publicity photo still inside)
The Buggs The Beetle Beat (Coronet 1964 - I think maybe this is a fake Beatles LP that Metal Mike Saunders and/or Doug Wolk recommend?)
The Cretones Long Thin Line (Planet 1980 -- 2 LPs by them in 2 weeks!)
Dave Edmunds Subtle As A Flying Mallet (RCA 1975)
Z.Z. Hill Down Home (Malaco 1981 - pretty scratchy again; I'm starting to get the idea Southern Soul fans don't take very good care of their vinyl)
Moon Martin Mystery Ticket (Capitol 1982)
Elliott Murphy Aquashow (Polydor 1973 -- supposed to be his great one)
Tom Robinson North By Northwest (IRS 1982)
Screaming Blue Messiahs Bikini Red (Elektra 1987 -- pretty sure I trashed this in Creem when it came out)
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys A Six Pack to Go (Capitol 1966 -- "a program of their biggest beer-drinkin' hits!")
Richard & Linda Thompson Pour Down Like Silver (Island 1976)
(Various) Professional Baseball: The First 100 Years (Fleetwood 1969 -- I think I wanted this when I was 9 years old; maybe even got it then; originally cost $3, according to the cover; narrated by James Stewart and Curt Gowdy)
(Various) Goofy Gold (HRB Music 1978 double LP -- some overlap with K-Tel and Ronco novelty song TV-mail-order compilations, but this looks extremely cut-rate; maybe a bootleg?)
(Various) A Nonesuch Christmas (Nonesuch 1969 - "from the Baroque, Renaissance, and Middle Ages")

Oh yeah, I also bought a snowman for $2 at a garage sale who raps "Ice Ice Baby" when you squeeze his hand. (His bling says "Ice" on it, too.)

$5 Total (less than $1 each), Breakaway Records, between SXSW sets by Girl In A Coma, Viv Albertine from the Slits, and Rosie Flores feat. Adrian & the Sickness's rhythm section, in the Cafe Mundi parking lot:

Gregory Abbott Shake You Down (Columbia 1986)
Fad Gadget Incontinent (Mute 1981)
J. Walter Negro and The Loose Jointz "Shoot The Pump" (Zoo York 12-inch single, 1981 -- been looking for a copy of this for approx. 29 years)
Swimming Pool Q's Q (A&M 1984 -- or possibly considered self-titled, but there's a big Q on the cover.)
Joe Tex Rub Down (Epic 1978)
(Various) Radio Tokyo Tapes Volume Two (Enigma 1984, L.A. comp w/ Kommunity FK, 17 Pygmies, John Trubee, Fibonaccis, etc. etc.)

J. Walter Negro and The Loose Jointz "Shoot The Pump" (Zoo York 12-inch single, 1981 -- been looking for a copy of this for approx. 29 years)

so what's the story behind it? when did you first hear it & fall in lust?

Swimming Pool Q's Q (A&M 1984 -- or possibly considered self-titled, but there's a big Q on the cover.)

All I remember is that I liked this record, but I can't remember a single song on it.

goddamn, i'm always envious of your finds, xhuxk

My Computer - Vulnerabilia, in a Tower Records bargain bin. One of my best purchases ever.

J. Walter Negro and The Loose Jointz ...what's the story behind it? when did you first hear it & fall in lust?

Didn't hear it; read about it...Well, I may have heard it once, on WGPR in Detroit or whatever, but mainly I read about in the Additional Consumer News section of Christgau's Consumer Guide in late October 1981: "'Shoot The Pump," like 'Double Dutch Bus,' is a 12-inch that earns the term 'street music' by being about as well as of the streets; it celebrates the joys of liquid under pressure (in hydrants and spray cans) with an irreverent associative glee that altogether obliterates competing tributes to boxes and basketball. Art by Ali, who Rough Trade and Factory should, as we say in New York, check out."

i'm always envious of your finds

Guess I'm just in the right place at the right time a lot? I dunno. It's honestly not like I really dig through crates that much, I don't think! Just make an occasional stop for a half hour or so, at a record or thrift store. That batch yesterday took maybe five minutes -- except for the Abbott, those were all in the "new arrivals" $1 bin, which isn't very big. And how many music fans have probably walked past that store in the past few SXSW days? They could've bought those records as easily as I could have. It's not like I have a magic touch or something; I'm just stumped that more people don't find what I do, to be honest. (By the way, I passed up a late '80s David Van Tieghem LP feat. Blue Gene Tyranny, and this intense black-power- looking African-musicianed jazz LP out of Detroit from 1970 called, uh, Africa Something; would've got the latter but the cover and vinyl looked really moldy, even by my standards. Maybe I should've anyway. But I bet they're both still there, if anybody's in the neighborhood.)

$2.00 (!) from Harvey's Records on East Lancaster in Fort Worth. (Mostly way overpriced but still great little blues/soul/gospel store run for the past 38 years by a hilarious curmudgeony 69-year-old guy named Harvey who says he doesn't carry rap because it's not music, and he remembers when songs used to have more than one verse. He told me this while some hip-hop beat kept blasting over and over across the street. There are also 12 rules of the store posted on a chalkboard on the wall, almost all of which translate to "I don't give discounts".):

Imagination Body Talk (MCA 1981 -- wasn't aware until now that "Just An Illusion" was on two different Imagination LPs, both this one and the one that came after it. Now I have copies of both.)

got both Wrathchild America cds from a sharing center...they had no idea waht they were selling

$34 total ($1 each except $2 for the two-disc Charlie Rich one) at some guy's house on the 1800 block of Redlands in Austin (which is a few blocks south of Rich Creek and east of Burnett). He was selling 10,000 album for $1 or $2 each; I just saw a sign on the street when he was driving. I only looked through the $1 room. He's there tomorrow, too, and for the next couple weekends; says he may eventually lower prices even more. Apparently he used to own a record store in town a couple decades ago, but the vinyl has all been in storage since the early '90s:

Byran Adams You Want It You Got It
Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band
Robert Ashley Automatic Writing
Atomic Rooster Made In England
Kevin Ayers Yes We Have No Mañanas
Babe Ruth Kids Stuff (post Jenny Hahn era; may already have a copy of this but wasn't positive)
B-52s Wild Planet
Bloodrock 2 (w/ "D.O.A.")
The Brains Dancing Under Streetlights EP
Cameo She's Strange
Dire Straits Dire Straits
Dire Straits Communique
Doctors Of Madness Sons Of Survival
Richard Dimples Fields Dimples (his first charting album, with "Earth Angel" and "She's Got Papers On Me")
Godfathers Birth School Work Death
Bill Haley and the Comets Rockin' (9-song cheapo Pickwick best-of from c. 1970)
Haysi Fantayzee Battle Hymns For Children Singing
Rickie Lee Jones debut LP
Klark Kent Music Madness From The Kinetic Kid (I.R.S. 1980 -- covert solo LP from Police's Stewart Copeland)
David Lindley El Rayo-X
Phil Manzanera 801 (Polydor/Listen Now UK 1977)'
Mondo Rock -- self-titled U.S. Columbia LP by Aussie band, 1985
Charlie Rich Fully Realized (Mercury c. 1974 -- 2-LP collection of his earlier Smash sides, looks like)
The Rods Wild Dogs (Arista 1982)
Roxy Music Flesh + Blood (Polydor/El Disco Es Cultura Spain 1980 -- cover looks basically similar to U.S. version except almost all the titles are in Spanish; not sure whether Ferry sings them that way or not)
Sparks Propaganda
Swollen Monkeys On Vacation (Cacholt EP 1982 -- several-member band led by Ralph Carney from Tin Huey etc.)
The Time debut LP
Wide Boy Awake (RCA EP 1982)
Widowmaker self-titled (Jet 1976, feat. Ariel Bender from Mott the Hoople on guitar and backup vocals)
Yesterday And Today (London 1976 -- pre-Y&T metal dudes)
Zinc Street Level (Arista 1982 -- produced/arranged/conducted by Change disco guys Malavasi and Petrus)
(Various) Jive Presents House Volume 1 (Jive/RCA/Zomba 1982 -- w/ Wee Papa Girls, Adonis, the She Rockers, Samantha Fox, etc.)

...saw a sign on the street while I was driving...(obv., not he)

Oh yeah, that Redlands guy is getting to be a legend. Wish I lived in Austin.

sounds awesome!

Just got back from Austin dude's place. It's at 1802 Redlands. Records are $3 on Friday, $2 on Saturday, $1 on Sunday. He told me he's putting out 3,000 more records each Friday for the next four weeks!!! He also told me some fun stories:

A record collector dude haggled him to go down on prices, esp. for some blues singer on King. Turned out the record sold for $1000 (didn't ask how much record collector dude paid for it...could've been $3).

Some guy (don't know when) bought an entire record store from a woman (in New Orleans?) for peanuts (few thou if even that). Turns out she had Robert Johnson 78s and autographed Presley Sun 78s. The purchaser gave her $400 extra to be nice.

He's into paper now. He knows some guy (and maybe it was himself..I forget) who has a bunch of press kits with photos of old country blues singers that date back to 1930. Who knew such things even existed?

He stays up until 5am weeding out the stuff he wants.

A dude asked for Hawkwind and Captain Beyond records. There were none (left, supposedly).

Went through about 80% of what he had there although he kept putting out more. After much sweat, hunger, and that godawful live Grand Funk Railroad record he was playing, I ended up with the below, $23 total (caveat - double records are $2):
The Austin Christmas Collection First Edition
The Austin Christmas Collection Third Edition
Bus Boys: Minimum Wage Rock & Roll
Christmas Greetings Vol. 4 (with Vol. 5 wedged in alongside...on Columbia but has the A&P logo on the back)
Country Girls (cheesy comp of Faron Young, Billy "Crash" Craddock, Del Reeves, etc. singing song about women)
Cory Daye: "I've Cried (Too Many Tears)" (Blue Chip 1987)
Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek
Fire Town: The Good Life
Hot Tracks (Special three record set with one record missing. bought it cuz they're hard to find cheap and one record included the nifty "Attack of the Disco Queens: The 80's Hi-NRG Medley" and a Pet Shop Boys medley called "This Is The Pet Shop Boys")
Jamming! Presents A New Optimism For the 80's (featuring unreleased and rare material by R.E.M., The Special A.K.A., Wah!, etc. Liners by Tony Fletcher who wrote for Addicted to Noise when I was there. Nice guy.)
Julie London: Tenderly Yours (and selections from The Ted Comstock Orchestra)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Nuthin' Fancy (This is the only 1970s record of theirs I don't own and not only has purchase alluded me for decades but somehow I have never seen the cover of the damn thing until this very day! Nice bird flip on the back.)
Major Lance: Now Arriving
The Masked Marauders (pretty beat up but I've never heard it)
M People: "Excited" (promo-only double-pak)
My Sin: Beyond Good and Evil - (I was obsessing about this [dude?] on another thread but cannot recall why. One side originals, the other covers of "Moonlight Mile" and Stooges' "I Need Somebody")
The Perfect Disaster: Asylum Road
Mitch Ryder: How I Spent My Vacation (Finally! Couldn't find one to even download illegally)
The Suburbs: In Combo
Trackin' Up The North - KQDS 95FM (Duluth, MN comp from 1982 with The Replacements, The Flamin' Oh's, Crash Street Kids, Sussman Lawrence with a song called "Torture Me" written and performed by Peter Himmelman, etc. Inside there's a ballot to vote for your fave band. But this copy is sealed.)

And to top it all off, the first 12 customers today got a free (and HUGE) oatmeal cookie!!

or maybe it was himself

some 20p 7"s...

Frijid Pink - End of the Line/Sing a Song for Freedom
Ten Years After - I'm Going Home / Hear Me Calling
Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray
Fashion - Love Shadow

Went back to the Redlands guy's house to see what 3000 albums he added this weekend; lots of them had probably sold Friday and Saturday, but I still bought $11 worth (everything was $1 today), and didn't even get a second copy of the Skatt Bros LP, though maybe I should have. (Though actually, it doesn't look that expensive on discogs, which is a relief.)

Anyway, $1 each:

Aerosmith Rock In Hard Place (Columbia 1982 -- believe or not, I've never had a copy of this before)
Mark Andrews And The Gents Big Boy (A&M 1980 - ex-Joe Jackson bandmate w/ proto-Misfits haircut)
Ellen Foley Spirit Of St. Louis (CBS 1981 - her Sandinista!, supposedly, with 9 of 12 songs written either by Tymon Dogg or her then-boyfriend Joe Strummer)
Robert Cray Strong Persuader (Mercury 1986)
Deep Purple Perfect Strangers (Mercury 1984 -- very sturdy looking inner picture sleeve!)
Gringos Locos Punch Drunk (Atlantic 1989 - Rock City Angels cowpunk glam-metal-looking thing recorded in Helisinki, never heard of it before but probably Hanoi Rocks cousins in some way or other)
Hitmen Torn Together (Columbia Canada 1981 -- probably not the Hitmen I was thinking of, who I think were Aussies; these guys are apparently Brits but at least look kinda tough-guy fake new wave)
Savoy Brown Looking In (Parrot 1970 -- I own zero Savoy Brown LPs but this one looks extremely metal and badass so what the heck)
The Sinceros The Sound Of Sunbathing (Columbia 1979)
St. Paradise St. Paradise (Warner Bros. 1979 - quasi-super-group power trio fronted by Derek St. Holmes from Nugent's band, some song off this was a hit in Detroit that year)
Wasch! Metal Goes Mountain (Strike Back 1989 -- recorded in Dusseldorf and looks very Teutonic)

Also, at a garage sale yesterday for $1, on CD:

David Lee Murphy Out With A Bang (MCA 1994)

Also got Mary Gaitskill's Veronica and Joel Whitburn's Top Country Albums 1964-1997 (harcdover, original price on back says $49.95) for 50 cents each at a garage sale. But those aren't records.

50-cent each cassettes, North Austin garage sales today:

C&C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat (Columbia 1990)
The Jets The Jets (MCA 1985)
Klymaxx Meeting In The Ladies Room (MCA/Casablanca 1984)

doesn't look like the garage sales were rocking too hard today in north austin!

(i couldn't find anything at the ones i went to. bought some dvds for the store.)

Well actually the guy I bought the C&C Music Factory tape from was also selling a bunch of Ozzy, Judas Priest, Scorpions, and Keel LPs from the mid '80s, but I wasn't really interested in those ones.

Today's Flohmarkt haul, averaging out to about a euro per disc:

* three Joyce Sims records which, sadly, don't do much for me
* Janet Jackson's "Control," way better than I remembered
* Barry White, Greatest Hits
* Tears for Fears, "Sowing the Seeds of Love" -- includes "Tears Roll Down," a Latin-house track that sounds like something Luciano would play today
* Midge Ure, "If I Was" - pretty dodgy, but I like the synth-pop cover of "Man Who Sold the World"
* The Private Lightning Six, "They Came Down" -- Pulsinger, Potuznik et al doing weirdo electro from '96
* Kurtis Blow, "The Breaks" (ZXY re-press)
* Kyborg, "Swing" -- an early Raster-Noton
* Bryan Ferry, "Kiss and Tell" -- total turkey
* Donna Summer, "Sunset People" / "Our Love"
* Joe Claussell & Chuck Perkins, "Jazz Funeral" (Guidance)
* I.A.O., 93-95 -- weird, not great, lite jazz + ambient record about which I can't find any information
* The Housemartins, "Caravan of Love" -- all acapella, don't ask me why I bought this
* Soul II Soul, "People"
* Heavy D and the Boyz, "We Got Our Own Thang"

One of the flea market dealers must have gotten his stock from a defunct label or distributor, because all the records were new, and there were dozens of doubles. Most of it looked like mid '90s trance, but I couldn't say for sure. Also, terrible water damage and mildew on a huge swath of the collection. I still can't get the smell out of my nose.

@ $1 each, Antone's today

John Anderson Wild And Blue (Warner Bros. 1982)
George Benson Give Me The Night (Warner Bros. 1980)
Cameo Style (Atlanta Artists/Polygram 1983)
Leon Russell Best Of Leon (Shelter 1976)
Styx Crystal Ball (A&M 1976)

$2 (!) each LPs, garage sale today:

Elvis Costello Taking Liberties (Columbia 1980)
Ted Nugent And The Amboy Dukes Survival Of The Fittest Live (Polydor 1971)

Not exactly $1 on these, but I've been looking for these damn things for so long that it's worth sharing... I found two of the five legendary Disco Inferno EPs (Summer's Last Sound and A Rock to Cling To) for $3.99 each. Two down... three to go.

Of course, all five are being reissued in a few months, per Ned's thread. But I couldn't pass these up in good conscience.

50 cents each, $3 total, Austin garage sale yesterday, all in weird (and maybe bootlegged) import versions from Okinawa, wrapped in plastic-protected paper covers with Japanese lettering added to the album art:

Ferrante & Teicher Midnight Cowboy (assume I won't like this much, but vaguely curious after hearing people rave about an R.J. Smith EMP presentation about them which I didn't actually see.)
Gilbert O'Sullivan Himself and I'm A Writer, Not A Fighter (w/ "Alone Again Naturally" and "Get Down" respectively. Skipped the LP with "Clair," which hit I've never liked as much.)
Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors, The Silver Fox, and Very Special Love Songs

$2 CD, Texas Thrift in East Austin:

Hal Ketchum Sure Love (Curb 1992)

Ferrante & Teicher Midnight Cowboy (assume I won't like this much, but vaguely curious after hearing people rave about an R.J. Smith EMP presentation about them which I didn't actually see.)

I mocked F&T once in a Voice review. My parents thought Ferrante & Teicher were great. They went to see the duo in Hershey and Harrisburg. Probably the only reason, too, why they had a stereo.

The worst milchtoast piano versions of popular songs, movie and TV themes.

The right stuff to include with a library consisting of records by the Ray Coniff Singers, pop music for a listenening audience that inspired elevator muzak. Also great if you thought you might enjoy "Sing Along with Mitch Miller" LPs, the Sukiyaki novelty hit on 45 ...

Savoy Brown Looking In (Parrot 1970 -- I own zero Savoy Brown LPs but this one looks extremely metal and badass so what the heck)

This is Foghat with Kim Simmonds on guitar just before the former split off to make straight boogie records for the US audience. Lonesome Dave sings, would redo "Poor Girl" for the Foghat debut, I think.

Not a lot of boogie on it, though. Mostly brooding blues rock.

Austin garage sale yesterday

You know, xhuxk, I wonder if we haven't crossed paths while record shopping at some point?

We both sure do a lot of it...

It's possible! Next time, say Hello! (I'm the short guy with glasses.)

$2 total, Breakway Records (which has moved to North Loop, excellent location!), today. (A skewed sample, though, since I also sold them a small stack of LPs and mostly indie 45s for $10 that hadn't sold in my yard sale yesterday, and they very likely got a better deal than I did):

The Buzztones En-cy'clo-pe'di-a (Metro-America EP 1984) (Ann Arbor label; Detroit-associated group I hadn't thought about for a quarter century and barely even did back then, though I might briefly have confused them with the Buzzcocks for a day or two. Produced by Don Was, background vocals by Harry Bowens and Sweet Pea Atkinson)
Eddie Kendricks Boogie Down (Motown 1974)
L.A. Boppers L.A. Boppers (Mercury 1980)
Shorty Long Here Comes The Judge (Soul 1968 -- a little bit scratchy but very cool LP cover)
The Masked Marauders (Deity 1969. Real good condition, too. Question for the NY Times magazine Ethicist: What is the proper ethics for when you find an LP in the dollar bin that you have a hunch might be there by mistake, but you'd have no way of knowing for sure? Confession: What I usually do is place it somewhere inconspicuously in the middle of the pile, and say, "These were all in the dollar bin.")
Pat Travers Band Crash And Burn (Polydor 1980 - Hi George.)

Ferrante & Teicher made some great records between 56-59 but anything after that is mostly what Gorge said

all at $1:

LPs:
Jacqueline Dolan : S/T
Homer & Jethro : The Humorous Side of Country Music
Alisha : S/T
John Cali, The World's Greatest Banjoist: Banjo on My Knee
Willie Nelson : Make Way For Willie Nelson
Neil Young : American Stars & Bars
Julien Clerc : Nº 7
Hans Petersen : "Trust Me" (Like Vaughn Meader except Jimmie Carter)
V/A : The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984
Onnik Dinkjian : A Unique Rendition of Armenian Songs
Aerosmith : Live Bootleg (not actually a bootleg)
Dimensional Sound : The Big 50 (one of those collections of soundalikes that resulted in k-tell's "original hits by original stars" disclamer)

12" singles:
Simon Harris : Bass (How Low Can You Go)
Cyré : Last Chance
DJ Miko : Hot Stuff

Yeah, the Ferrante & Teacher LP I bought was indeed awful (beyond the "Midnight Cowboy" theme, at least, which I already own on 45.)

$1 each vinyl, Thrift City and Recycled Reads, today:

Dire Straits Twisting By The Pool (Warner Bros. EP 1983)
Rude Girls Rude Awakening (Flying Fish 1987 - folk not reggae apparently despite the name, but looks potentially interesting in a lesbian Roches sort of way, not that I'd bet on it or anything)
Gino Soccio Closer (Atlantic 1981)

25 cents each cassettes, Thrift City

Nirvana Bleach (Sub Pop 1989)
Redd Kross Neurotica (Big Time 1987)
Lou Reed Coney Island Baby (RCA 1976, 1989 pressing)
Joyce Sims Come Into My Life (Sleeping Bag 1987)

The Neurotica remaster is worth buying...pretty big sonic upgrade.

http://www.amazon.com/Neurotica-Redd-Kross/dp/B0000713AI

3/$2.50 at Crunge Records (Corning, NY's Only Rock and Roll Shop)

Omega Sunrise - Feel The Change [christian Earth Wind & Fire, vocals not as good but tight rhythm section & horns]

Cerrone IV - The Golden Touch

V/A - The Naked Carmen

New Edition - Under The Blue Moon

Sam "The Man" Taylor - Mist Of The Orient

Rose Royce - In Full Bloom

John Culliton Mahoney - Love Not Guaranteed

Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's my way!

Ian and Sylvia - Great Speckled Bird

The Andrea True Connection - More, More, More (LP, not the single)

Bobby Gosh - Love Ballet

(they were buy 2 get 1 half off dollar records, would have grabbed another record if I knew about the discount but I had people waiting for me)

Then at the Elmira Salvation Army:

Sealed copy of Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn's Honky Tonk Heroes for 29 cents

from the fantastic Siren Records in Doylestown, PA:

Morrissey - "Viva Hate"
Morrissey - "Vauxhall & I"
Sinead O'Connor - "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"

Random Fri afternoon yardsale around the corner:

Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66
American Gigolo OST by Giorgio Moroder with "call me" by Blondie

Today's haul from a Berlin flea market includes Cameo's "Word Up," Big Daddy Kane's "I'll Take You there" and Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra" (why not?), the Doobie Bros' "Takin' It to the Streets," some underwhelming mid '90s house records on Nite Grooves and Junior Boy's Own; two compilations of German birdsong, "Vogelstimme Unserer Heimat" vols. 1 and 2; and one absolute gem:

Rupie Edwards + various vocalists, "Yamaha Skank" (Success, 1974)

Really nice dub reggae featuring titles like "Doctor Satan Echo Chamber" and "Half Way Tree Pressure." Awesome.

Apparently the first single-riddim album, according to this: http://www.roots-archives.com/release/1863
More info: "Slim Smith and the Uniques cut My Conversation for Bunny Lee in the late 1960s, in 1974 Lee sold the rhythm to producer Rupie Edwards who then made an album titled Yamaha Skank from twelve versions of that rhythm, the album was a first of it's kind. This is the opening track from the album which kicks off with the words 'Welcome to doctor Satan's echo chamber'."

Ich liebe meinen Flohmarkt!

Some vintage clothes store, Burnett & North Cross, today, $1:

The Animals Animalism (MGM 1966)

Ivy - Realistic, $1

50 cents each, Sundance Records, San Marcos

Baillie & the Boys - self-titled (RCA 1987)
John Conlee - Harmony (Columbia 1986)
John Conlee - American Faces (Columbia 1987)
The Diamonds - Live & Well (2nd Facet Venture 1983 -- autographed, though doesn't look like these are any of the same actual Diamonds who originally hit with "The Stroll," which they revive here anyway)
Narvel Felts - self-titled (ABC 1975)
C.W. McCall - Wolf Creek Pass (MGM 1975)
Mel McDaniel - Just Can't Sit Down Music (Capitol 1986)
Pousette-Dart Band - self-titled (Capitol 1976)
Pousette-Dart Band - Never Enough (Capitol 1979)
Joe Stampley - All These Things (ABC/Dot 1976)

Also, that vintage store I found that Animals LP at last week was at Burnett and Research/183, not North Cross, duh. What was I thinking?

Same Berlin flea market, all between 50 cents and 1 euro. Today's pick is undoubtedly the Flash & the Pan record:

Bark-Kays, Contagious (1987)
Black Sabbath, Live Evil (Phonogram, 1983)
Ian Dury, New Boots and Panties (Stiff, 1977)
Flash & the Pan, s/t (Mercury, 1979)
- has awesome version (I guess the original) of "Walking in the Rain," which I only knew from Grace Jones
John Foxx, Metamatic (Virgin, 1980)
- how did I miss this as a 14-year-old new wave kid? It would have blown my mind.
Gruppo Sportivo, Pop! Goes the Brain (Ariola, 1981)
Bo Hansson, Magician's Hat (Charisma, 1973?)
- psyche/folk
Omega, Time Robber (Bellaphon, 1976)
- interesting Czech rock act w/ Bowie overtones
Ottawan, Megamix (Bailerle, 1989)
Lou Reed, New Sensations (RCA, 1984)
Rheingold, s/t (EMI, 1980)
- produced by Conny Plank, FWIW
Sade, Diamond Life (CBS, 1984)
- I can never remember which Sade albums I already have on vinyl, so every time I see one cheap, I pick it up. I really should take inventory one of these days.
Klaus Schulze, Elektronik-Impressionen (Amiga, 1982)
Gino Soccio, Closer (Atlantic, 1981)
Sparks, Kimono My House (Island, 1974)
Spinners, Working My Way Back to You (Atlantic, 1979)
Talking Heads, "Road to Nowhere" 12" (1985)
Talking Heads, '77 (Sire, 1977)
10cc, The Original Soundtrack (Mercury, 1975)
- very stoked to discover this, as I was just listening to "I'm Not In Love" after reading Oneohtrix Point Never talking about it in the Wire
XTC, Drums and Wires (Virgin, 1979)

There were more, including a few Russian records whose covers I liked, but I'm too lazy to type the rest. I actually bought so many records today that I had to buy a plastic satchel just to cart them home in. A good day at the market! Also, I have proof that it hasn't yet become overrun by hipsters, because the M.C. Hammer record is still there, three weeks after my previous visit. (I'm kidding... kind of.)

I keep meaning to add my various Amoeba hauls here over time. Had a good run there the other day -- and I didn't have to pay for any of it thanks to store credit. Got a few in 'regular' clearance for $3 or less -- Rush, Snakes and Arrows, Cowboy Junkies, Rarities, B-Sides and Slow Sad Waltzes, Sinead O'Connor, Universal Mother, Silver Jews, Starlite Walker, a couple of others -- and the rest of this was $1 or less, some at the suggestion of the similarly scrounging the bins Jeff T:

Pearls and Brass, The Indian Tower
Sunburned Hand of the Man, No Magic Man
Tim Burgess, I Believe
Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Live Aoiheya January 2003
Laethora, March of the Parasite
Bleach, Fast
Plastic Crimewave Sound, Painted Shadows
Jesse Petersen, Unveiling
Thrones, Day Late, Dollar Short
Eden Express, Que Amors Que
Ron Franklin, Ron Franklin
Losing Money & Losing Friends: The March Records Story
The Penelope(s), Priceless Concrete Echoes
A. C. Acoustics, Hand Passes Plenty EP
Primal Scream, Burning Wheel EP
Caroline, Where's My Love EP
Mercury Rev, Everlasting Arm/Deadman EP
Miranda Sex Garden, Gush Forth My Tears EP
Plone, Plock EP
Ministry, Just One Fix EP
Scarecrow Carried Brain, Noise and Straight Hardcore EP
Electrafixion, Lowdown EP
Add N to (X), Revenge of the Black Regent EP
American Music Club, Rise EP
Photon Band, Back Down to Earth
Adventures in Stereo, Alternative Stereo Sounds
Unstable Ensemble, Echoes
Nikki Sudden, The Truth Doesn't Matter
Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Birth
The Tears, Lovers EP
The Mules, Polly-O EP
Agathe Max, This Silver String
Pandora, Space Amazon
Vanishing Voice, Stone Tablet
Andrew Douglas Rothbard, Abandoned Meander
Silm Moon, Won't You Dance With This Man?
Enon, In This City
Mellow, Another Mellow Spring
All India Radio, All India Radio
Leprous, Tall Poppy Syndrome
Empires/Hellas Mounds, split EP
Mad Moisell, Mad Moisell
Anna Oxygen, This is an Exercise
Talbot Tagora, Lessons in the Woods or a City
Swell, The DeCoster's EP
Spirit Vine, Golden EP
Fu Manchu, Something Beyond EP
Human Ear Music, The Human Ear Volume 1
Ein Heit, The Lightning and the Sun
A Day in the Park: A Compilation of Now Sounds
Fuck the Facts, Disgorge Mexico

Sunburned Hand of the Man, No Magic Man

That's a really good find for $1 -- I think it's limited to ~1,000 or so copies, like a lot of Sunburned stuff. I eBayed my copy for $15 or so at a time I needed the cash.

Am avoiding record and thrift stores for the time being as I wade through a huge box of discard vinyl Metal Mike sent me a couple weeks back, but I happened to be in Half-Price Books looking for birthday presents yesterday, and this was in the front of the $1 LPs, so:

Steeleye Span Storm Force Ten (Chrysalis 1977)

Thrones, Day Late, Dollar Short

There's something poetic about buying this used for $1.
(Also, great find! Love me some Thrones.)

Yep, that's a great disc.

$1 vinyl each (except where noted*), $19 total, two flea markets just off I-35 between San Marcos and San Antonio today:

Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain (Sire 1983)
BB&Q (Brooklyn Bronx and Queens) Band - self-titled (Capitol 1981 -- only one of these that looks in really questionable condition, fwiw)
Big Black - Message To Our Ancestors (Uni 1967 -- not the Steve Albini Big Black, obviously, the ethno-jazz or whatever one, though didn't they have a Chicago connection too? Need to investigate that)
Peabo Bryson - The Peabo Bryson Collection (Capitol 1984 -- nervously dipping a toe into '80s urban contemporary quiet storm waters here; passed up the Jeffrey Osbourne LP with "I Really Don't Need No Light" though; opinions about it welcome)
Celibate Rifles - Quintessentially Yours (Hot/What Goes On 1985 -- made my Pazz & Jop top 10 the year it came out, and later my metal book; can't believe I found a cheap copy of this again)
Con Funk Shun - Fever (Polygram 1983)
Andrae Couch & The Disciples - Soulfully (Light 1972 -- Waco, TX label; don't buy hardly any gospel but this looked cool)
Lefty Frizell - Lefty Frizell's Greatest Hits (Columbia 1966 -- nice LP cover)
J.J. Fad - Supersonic: The Cassette* (Atlantic cassette 1988 - 50 cents)
Gap Band - The Gap Band II (Total Experience 1979)
Merle Haggard - A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World (Capitol 1970 -- Bob Wills covers; used to own this, got rid of it for some reason)
Z.Z. Hill - Let's Make A Deal (Columbia 1978)
Millie Jackson - Live And Uncensored* (Spring double LP 1979, $2.00)
Mtume - Juicy Fruit (Epic 1983)
Renaissance - Camera Camera (I.R.S. 1981 -- have never connected with them before, but this looks so new wave; had no idea that they made a new wave move before)
Shalamar - Heartbreak* (Solar cassette 1984 -- 50 cents)
Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World (Vertigo West Germany 1977)
Wild Cherry - Wild Cherry (Epic 1976 - w/ "Play That Funky Music")
(Various) - Wild In The Streets soundtrack (Tower 1968 - "Shape Of Things To Come" credited to The 13th Power instead of Max Frost and The Troopers for some reason, weird)

A stellar day at the Goodwill today:

Francoise Hardy-Voila lp (German Philips) 1969

v/a Irrepressible Impulses (Impulse 1972) **subtitle-A potpourri of energized tracks designed to satisfy your insatiable need for growth music.***

Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Open LP (1968, Atco)

$1.00 each.

Recycled Reads, today:

$2 Book
Nick Tosches - Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock'n'Roll (Da Capo hardcover edition 1996)

$1 CDs
Bobbie Cryner - Girl Of Your Dreams (MCA 1996)
Collin Raye - Counting Sheep (Sony 2000 - album for kids maybe?)

$1 LP
(Various) - Murray The K's Golden Gassers (Chess 1961) (Cover is all but flawless, vinyl not bad)

25-cent cassettes
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel (MCA 1988)
Terri Gibbs - Turn Around (Canaan/Word 1987 - Christian/gospel move?)
Amy Grant - The Collection (Word 1986 -- a best-of of her Xtian period, I gather; they also had cassetes of a few of the original pre-secular-sellout albums, but I wasn't sure which one to start with: How good is Lead Me On -- two different LP/cassette covers -- for instance?)
Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (Castle West German reissue from 1986)

today, for $1.10 total, i bought:

- Shake - Mood Music for the Moody EP (TWO COPIES. MINT)
- X-Press 2- Muzikizum 12"
- Propaganda- A Secret Wish LP
- La Tour- Cold 12"
- Donna Summer- Live and More 2xLP
- The Paper Tulips- Baker's Dozen
- Clara Hill- Nowhere (I Can Go) 12"
- Cassie- Me & U 12"
- Hooters- Nervous Night
- William Ackerman- Passage

Yeah. It's nice having a boyfriend who works in a gigantic junk warehouse.

the X-Press 2 record is particularly rockin tribal shit.

I bought some stuff for $3.99 apiece today. I need to visit more dollar bins. :(

A while back I got Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies for a buck! Pretty beat... but it plays ok. And I sold a copy of "Da Capo" for $1 today. Same story.

I just picked up:

Orbital - In Sides (original US 2xCD with "Time Flies" and "The Box" EPs)
U2 - Zooropa
The KLF - White Room

Kind of lol that it's 2010 and I'm buying Zooropa.

Two summers ago, when I was working at a summer camp in Wisconsin, I picked up a three-movies-for-three-dollars pack (one dollar per movie) and never got around to watching the presumably terrible films: Texas Justice (w/ Heather Locklear), Sleep Murder (w/ Jason Priestly) and something else...Frank Sinatra, maybe?

Anyhow, just watched Texas Justice with a friend of mine and for a two-part, three-hour TV movie about trophy wives, murder, entrapment and hung juries, it's pretty sublime/hilarious.

Best dollar I've spent in recent memory.

Oh shit, this is on ILM. Lawlz.

So, does not apply.

Kind of lol that it's 2010 and I'm buying Zooropa

album is underrated as hell, imo

and insides is like one of the ten best albums of the 90s, so goddamn i envy anyone who gets to hear it for the first time

Orbital - In Sides (original US 2xCD with "Time Flies" and "The Box" EPs)
U2 - Zooropa
The KLF - White Room

Kudos, these are all fantastic. Better late than never (I've had Zooropa for about 10 years, In Sides for 7-8, and just got the KLF album maybe 6 months ago -- no shame!).

I just listened to it for the first time and it has this amazing balance of reaching forward and reaching backward at the same time in a way that I don't really hear often (or maybe it was just produced on the cusp of a new era). "The Girl w/ the Sun in Her Head" = A+ + + +

Top Drawer Thrift on Burnett, today $1:

The Three Degrees - self-titled (Philadelphia International 1973)

Breakaway Records, $1 each, today:

Birtha - Birtha (ABC/Dunhill 1972)
Cheetah - Rock & Roll Women (Altantic 1981 - "all songs written by Vanda & Young")
The Blasters - Non Fiction (Slash/Warner Bros 1983)*
Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes - Call Of The Wild (Discreet 1974)*
Dionne Warwick - Dionnne (Warner Bros 1972 - w/ "Hasbrook Heights")*

* - Used to own all of these before, in past lives, but got rid of them

Passed up: Albums by Mom's Apple Pie and Wrabbit, plus the second Flash & the Pan LP (any good? any of them?), among other things.

Also passed up a copy of the first 4 Out Of 5 Doctors LP from 1980 I saw today at a garage sale, because they wanted $5 for it. Really want that thing, too, but I have principles.

is the second flash and the pan "lights in the night"? haven't heard that one, but i have "Headlines" and it's pretty great. almost as good as the first. jetsetter's ball is pretty great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RU4QDd2on0

chuck i might have that 4 out of 5 doctors album. if i do i'll send it to you. that cheetah album grew on me over the years.

That'd be awesome, Scott! And yeah, re: Flash & the Pan, I definitely meant Lights In The Night (which, come to think of it, I'm not positive was their second LP after all.)

http://www.instromania.net/PHO/comp/G/comp%20-%20Golden%20Goodies%20Vol%2013%20Instrumental.jpg

Got this, four Asleep At The Wheel LPs (including oddities on Edsel and Stony Plain) and Last Roundup "Twister" (Amy Rigby's 80s cowpunk band, she looks so young on this!) $1 each, Animal Ark Thrift & Pet Store.

$1, Thrift City

Chris Rea - Whatever Happened To Benny Santini (United Artists 1978)

I thought I lost interest in collecting vinyl but recently I have an interest in oldies, if in good condition.

Someone dumped a bunch of them off at a local resale shop.

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Breakway, $1 each, today

Flash and the Pan - Lights In The Attic (Epic 1980)
Gamma - Gamma 3 (Elektra 1982)
J. Geils Band - Love Stinks (EMI 1980)
Millie Jackson - Free And In Love (Spring 1976)
The Kingbees - The Kingbees (RSO 1980)

Had a really fantastic day in the stacks yesterday. So much gold that (even at $1 each) I had to postpone my purchase of the Oneida triple-decker til next paycheque. Mainly corny/local/regional vanity stuff from the 50s to 80s (I'm building a collection) which I won't list here (many hithertofore unknown to the internet: the final frontier etcetera), but also:

Baker Gurvitz Army S/T (ringwear, sadly)
REM - Document
Caterwaul - Pin & Web
KISS - Hotter than Hell
Alice Cooper - Love it to Death and Welcome to my Nightmare
Dokken - Tooth and Nail and Under Lock & Key
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Brian Setzer - The Knife Feels Like Justice
BoDeans - Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams
Wah! - A Word to the Wise Guy
Jone Lewie - Heart Skips Beat
J. Geils Band - The Morning After
Paul Simon - Live Rhymin'
Bee Gees - 1st
Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast
Santana - S/T
David Lee Roth - Skyscraper

and two impossibly thick slabs:
Georgie Auld - Plays for Melancholy Babies (near mint)
Flip Phillips Quintet - S/T (features Oscar Peterson and Buddy Rich) (sleeve excellent, LP VG only)

I never really find much in *true* $1 bins but I did get a few relatively cheap CDs yesterday:

Aphex Twin - Drukqs - $3
Baroness - Blue Record (OOP 2xCD version w/ live EP) - $4
Beastie Boys - Root Down EP - $2
Kate Bush - Aspects of the Sensual World EP - $2
The Durutti Column - A Night in New York - $3
His Name Is Alive - Always Stay Sweet - $2
The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde - $2
Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance - $3
Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band - Second Attention - $4

what?? where? great deals there.

i only found that interesting as i dont buy vinyl, but a cd every now and then (if the album is car-worthy, and has good cover art... me being vain)

$1 each vinyl, Breakaway today (it's close to home, and next to a coffee shop I sometimes get work done at, so I keep going back):

Regina Belle - All By Myself (Columbia 1987)
Flash Cadillac And the Continental Kids -- Sons Of The Beaches (Private Stock 1975)
James Blood Ulmer - Freelancing (Columbia 1981)

And oh yeah, I also bought a Keith Whitley best-of CD for $1 at a garage sale a couple weeks ago, but haven't gotten to it yet.

Caterwaul - Pin & Web

Love this, just dug it out of the stacks for a spin a couple weeks ago.

First Pretty Things LP
Sandie Shaw -Me
Ike and Tina Turner Show Live!

All a euro

Dollar Cds from Movie Exchange clearance bin:

James - Laid
The Cars - Candy-O
Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked
Joe Ely - Twistin' In The Wind
Madeline Peyroux - Careless Love
Divine Styler - Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light
Junior Varsity - Bam Bam Bam!
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
Ian McLagan & The Bump Band - Rise & Shine
The Gun Club - Fire of Love
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Tinted Windows - s/t
Percy Mayfield - Specialty Profiles (w/bonus label sampler)

Some of this I wouldn't have paid any more for (hello spin docs). I also got what's Up, Tiger lily? on dvd for 2 bucks and the The Isleys - Live on cd for 3. I think The Gun Club album covers the lot though--an old price tag on it says 15 used, so bless you impatient clerk who reduced it.

I just watched Tiger Lily over the weekend for the first time in ages. It seemed way funnier/better when I was a teenager.

$1 yard sale joy:
Allman Brothers--Fillmore East, pink Capricorn label
Betty Davis--S/T
Uriah Heep--S/T
Neil Young--On the Beach-old pressing, "wallpaper" inside the sleeve
Jimmy Giuffre 3--7 Pieces
Art Blakey--Live Messengers 2LP Blue Note Jazz Classic Series thing
Roy Buchanan--Second Album
Barry Manilow--Sealed Greatest Hits Double Picture Disc?!

All in fantastic shape

$1 yard sale sorrow:
Ornette Coleman--Town Hall 1962 on ESP--not a mark on the ultra-heavy vinyl platter, but it's warped :(

$1 each, Pirahna Records, Round Rock TX today

Addrisi Brothers - s/t (Buddah 1977 -- supposedly country-disco, I read someplace)
The Babys - s/t (Chrysalis 1977)
Hurby's Machine - The House That Rap Built (Sound Check/Next Plateau 1987 - w/ a Salt N Pepa "Push It" remix and lots of other productions from them by lesser known acts. Looks a little scratchy, but I took a chance)
The Jags - Evening Standards (Island 1980 - with all-time early-Costello Xerox almost-hit "Back Of My Hand")
Loose Ends - A Little Space (MCA 1983 - w/ "Hangin' On A String")
Mazz - Standing Ovation (It's A Killer) (Cara 1984 - San Antonio indie label border music; pretty sure he/they were a big deal in that world, plus it has a "Disco Medley")
Bobby Naranjo Y Direccion - Put Me In Jail (Hacienda 1984 - Corpus Christi indie label border music; never heard of them before but the album title and cover photo makes me think they might be tough guys)
John Parr - s/t (Atlantic 1984 - w/ Billy Squier Xerox hit "Naughty Naughty")
Rosetta Stone - s/t (Private Stock 1978 - (Bay City Rollers types maybe?? w/ Kinks and Cream covers)
Space - Magic Fly (United Artists 1977 -- already had a copy; figured it might be profitable to get another one)
Rachel Sweet - Blame It On Love (Columbia 1982)
Pat Travers - Putting It Straight (Polydor 1977)

Passed up the second Widowmaker LP from 1977 because their debut didn't kill me; the Jigsaw LP with "Sky High" on it (think I maybe bought it before and didn't like it?), some late-period Little Anthony & the Imperials LP; sundry other things. (Also passed up cassettes by Chris Rea, Snap, Alexander O'Neal, etc., that I would've bought if they'd been selling for 50 cents instead of $1)

Also picked up five 1967-1970 copies of Look magazine in great shape at a garage sale for $1 total (20 cents each), including ones with Diana Ross and Joan Baez on the cover, one where Jim Bouton talks about Ball Four, and ones featuring the cover headlines "The Hippies: A Look writer who joined them reports on their wild, weird ways" and "How Can You Tell If Your Child Is Taking Drugs?"

paul stookey solo record
a hot tuna LP (second one i think? forget the name)
and a late richard thompson lp

"The Hippies: A Look writer who joined them reports on their wild, weird ways"

Haha, I REMEMBER this issue as a kid!

I paid 20p for a copy of Human League's "Dare", and 10p for a 7" single of Sheila & B. Devotion (i.e. Chic) doing 'Spacer', both awesome.

25 cents each (4 for $1), Antones's tonight

babys - union jack (chrysalis 1980)
the cars - shake it up (elektra 1981)
climax blues band - sense of direction (sire 1974)
climax blues band - fm/live (sire 1973 - double LP)
ry cooder - bop till you drop (warner bros 1980)
fm - city of fear (passport 1980 -- produced by larry fast; synth-rock trio??)
grand funk railroad - on time (capitol 1969)
grand funk railroad - closer to home (capitol 1970)
grand funk railroad - shinin' on (capitol 1974)
grin - grin (spindizzy 1971)
john hiatt - riding with the king (geffen 1983)
jigsaw - jigsaw (chelsea 1974 - w/ 'sky high')
rickie lee jones - pirates (warner bros. 1981)
steve khan - arrows (columbia 1979)
steve khan - the blue man (columbia 1978)
let's active - cypress (i.r.s. 1984)
maze - featuring frankie beverly (capitol 1977)
maze - joy and pain (capitol 1980)
eddie money - life for the taking (columbia 1978 - promo label copy)
eddie money - eddie money (columbia 1977)
jerffrey osbourne - emotional (a&m 1986)
robert palmer - some people can do what they like (island 1976)
robert palmer - double fun (island 1978)
tanita tikaram - ancient heart (reprise 1988)
pat travers band - heat in the street (polydor 1978)
johnny winter - still alive and well (columbia 1973)
wishbone ash - locked in (atlantic 1976)

>>babys - union jack (chrysalis 1980)

Union Jack is really pretty good if you understand the Brit class thing and the 'ello, 'ello, 'ello bit. Google it.

climax blues band - sense of direction (sire 1974)
Title cut is good but the rest is muzak.

>>climax blues band - fm/live (sire 1973 - double LP)

hard rock, their best ... I am constant, you make me sick, all the time in the world

>>grand funk railroad - on time (capitol 1969)
>>grand funk railroad - closer to home (capitol 1970)
>>grand funk railroad - shinin' on (capitol 1974)

hmmmm, i'm your captain I can do without ... dig the hard left/right stereo pan of
On Times

>>pat travers band - heat in the street (polydor 1978)

first side almost totally ruling, second side -- nah.

>>johnny winter - still alive and well (columbia 1973)

title cut is great, too much seconal, too

>>wishbone ash - locked in (atlantic 1976)

will bore you shitless

>>The Babys - s/t (Chrysalis 1977)

Their best album. Bob Ezrin, who hated them and they hated him. Closest to Free they did, which was the early idea. Version of "I Love How You Love Me" either annoying or great, depending on your experience at high school dances.

>>Pat Travers - Putting It Straight (Polydor 1977)

Awesome collisional hard rock. Funky, pointedly skewers punk, which he knew something of since Topper Headon drummed for him. My favorite Pat Travers LP.

All CDs at either Goodwill or a local bookstore:

The Chills - "Kaleidoscope World"
Cocteau Twins - "Blue Bell Knoll"
Lightning Bolt - "Wonderful Rainbow"
Celebration - "Celebration"
Trans Am - "Surrender to the Night"
Trans Am - "The Surveillance"
Yume Bitsu - "Giant Surface Music Falling to Earth Like Jewels"
Pretty Girls Make Graves - "The New Romance"
Eric Copeland - "Hermaphrodite"

Average $1 each (i.e., all $1 except for six 3-for-$1 soul LPs that are all really scratchy* and one rap 12" I convinced a dealer to toss in for free**, which combined sort of make up for the $5 entry fee), Austin Record Convention, today:

The Beat Farmers - Tales Of The New West (Rhino 1985)
Cameo - Secret Omen (Chocolate City 1979)
Cameo - Cameosis (Chocolate City 1980 - made Barry Michael Cooper's Pazz & Jop ballot that year)
Andre Cymone - A.C. (Columbia 1985)
The Dingoes - Five Times The Sun (A&M 1977 -- Aussies, I guess; could suck but plenty of '70s Aussies didn't)
Doug & The Slugs - Wrap It! (RCA 1981 -- Never even considered buying anything by them before but I liked the LP cover and funny liner notes)
Family - Bandstand (United Artists 1972 -- supposed to be of their better ones, I think; also, complicated die-cut cover and sleeve!)
Glass Harp - Synergy (MCA 1971 -- Scott could tell me if this is one of their good ones; passed on the 1980 Resurrection Band LP I saw though.)
Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray - Fresh Fish Special (Private Stock 1978 - bought this for Link not Robert, but have nothing against him really)
Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown (Megaforce 1984 -- Martin Popoff gave it a 9 out of 10; I still might hate it though)
Grin/Nis Lofgren - 1+1 (Spindizzy 1971 -- their best sez Xgau)
Happy The Man - Crafty Hands (Arista 1978 -- made Jon Pareles's Pazz & Jop ballot that year, and he was Super Art-Rock Guy in those days)
Nona Hendryx - The Art Of Defense (RCA 1984 - w/ Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Eddie Martinez, Daniel Ponce, Afrika Bambaataa, etc.)
Millie Jackson - Feelin' Bitchy* (Polydor 1977 - w/ hit Merle Haggard cover "If You're Not Back In Love By Monday")
Willie Hutch - The Mark Of The Beast* (Motown 1974 - cover looks demonic)
King Oliver's Jazz Band 1923 - The Jazz Makers (Swaggie ??? -- Australian compilation, think I have an Armstrong/Hot Five one in the same series)
Lakeside - Rough Riders* (Solar 1979 - badass black cowboy posse gatefold)
Tom Lehrer - Songs By Tom Lehrer (Lehrer 10-inch EP ??? -- an old price sticker on cover says "39.99+TX" and "List $100" but it was in the dollar bin, and it's slightly split at the bottom, and the dealer saw what I was paying for, so who knows)
Little Milton - Playing For Keeps (Malaco 1984)
D.J. Rogers - It's Good To Be Alive* (RCA 1975)
Ron And The D.C. Crew - "Ronnie's Rapp"** (Profile 12-inch single 1986 -- hoping this is a Ronald Reagan parody; there's even a "Kissinger Dub" version!)
Rough Trade - For Those Who Think Young (Boardwalk 1982 - past their prime, I think, but I own nothing else by them; hopefully still good)
SAHB (Without Alex) - Fourplay (Mountain 1977 -- see below; here, Alex is actually bound on gagged in the picture on the back cover)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Vambo Rools: Big Hits And Close Shaves (Vertigo c. 1975??)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live (Atlantic 1975)
Joe Simon - Today* (Spring 1976)
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Columbia 1973 -- bizarrely, did not own this til now)
Tommy Tucker - Mother Tucker (Red Lightnin' ??? - 16-song U.K.comp, recording dates range from his great and only hit "Hi Heel Sneakers" in 1962 to 1976)
Betty Wright - Live* (TK/Alston 1978)
(Various) - Maiden Australia (A&M 1983 - w/ Skyhooks, Split Enz, Mental As Anything, Hunters & Collectors, Jo Jo Zep, plus seven bands I never heard of)

Hey, I was at Toronto's big twice-yearly show today. I'm real picky about shape. These were all $2:

Bryan Ferry -- Let's Stick Together
Poco -- A Good Feelin' to Know
Joe Simon -- Drowning in the Sea of Love
Harry Chapin -- Anthology (almost bought Heads & Tales, which I already have, for the gatefold)
Dave Edmunds -- Tracks on Wax
Grace Jones -- Nightclubbing
Linda Ronstadt -- Greatest Hits Volume Two (and Volume One--oops, already had it)
Randy Newman -- Land of Dreams

3 for $10:

Des O'Connor -- Careless Hands
Des O'Connor -- I Pretend
Brook Benton -- shady looking two-record compilation on Springboard

Best of all was this guy with sealed DVDs for $5:

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (three copies: one for me, two for gifts)
The Dick Cavett Show: John & Yoko Collection
The Night James Brown Saved Boston
This Is Tom Jones, Vols. 1 & 2 (Time-Life collections of clips from his show, 3 discs each)

Throw in $5 admission, a great day.

$1 each today, Pirahna's, Round Rock (owner says he rotated all dollar-bin stock after the Austin record fair)

Alcatraz - No Parole From Rock 'N' Roll (Roshire 1983. Promising song titles: "General Hospital," "Bigfoot," "Hiroshima Mon Amour," "Kree Aakoorie," "Jet to Jet," "To Yung To Die, Too Drunk To Live." Popoff 10 out of 10)
Belmonts - Cheek To Cheek (Strawberry 1976 -- sans Dion; some of same songs as Cigars Acapella Candy; wasn't even aware this existed)
Dr. John - Featuring The Night Trippers (Springboard ??? -- looks very Gris-Gris voodoo style; a cheapo semi-legal outtake comp or something?)
Moxy - Under The Lights (Mercury 1978 - Popoff didn't like this one)
Ohio Express - Ohio Express (Buddah 1968 -- with "Yummy Yummy Yummy" & "Down At Lulu's"; my older brother Louie used to have a copy of this)
Status Quo - Just For The Record (PYE 1980, sealed - U.K. and/or Spain comp of early tracks, apparently; no idea whether I should unseal it.)
The Swingin' Medallions - Sun Sand And Sea (4Sale 1981 -- compilation? re-recordings? not sure. has "Double Shot Of My Baby's Love," one of my favorite singles ever. Autographed on cover by keyboardist/songwriter John McElrath. Don't think I've ever even seen an album by them before.)

Oops, actually, Alcatraz spelled "Young" correctly (unfortunately.)

And pretty sure Rough Trade didn't actually have a "prime" -- was somehow getting them confused with fellow Canadians Teenage Head (who they probably have nothing in common with) when I bought an LP by them last week.

Also, the Robert Gordon/Link Wray LP I bought last week was pretty bad.

re Status Quo, sez these are the tunes:

In My Chair
Something's Going On In My Head
Umleitung
Railroad
Lakky Lady
Nanana
Mean Girl
Someone's Learning
Gotta Go Home
Spinning Wheel Blues
Down The Dustpipe
Gerdundula

=======

Which tells me unseal it and give listen. Looks like a comp combing tracks Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon and Dog of Two Head, the first two albums where they went to the denim and boogie. "Gerdundula," "Railroad," "Something Going On In My Head," "In My Chair," and "Umlietung." "Down the Dustpipe" was the first big hit from the style.

Family - Bandstand (United Artists 1972 -- supposed to be of their better ones, I think; also, complicated die-cut cover and sleeve!)

You're not going to like this anymore than you 'liked' Streetwalkers.

$1 each, Breakaway today. (Mid '70s pre-Ramones/Fonzie-era leather-jacket-rock concept buy):

Brownsville Station School Punks (Big Tree 1974 -- a couple years ahead of their time obviously)
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids Rock & Roll Forever (Epic 1975 double-LP; a sort of repackage that apparently includes their Kim Fowley-produced '72 debut LP, which I've never heard but everybody seems to say is a rocker, and "two additional sides of stolid remakes," according to the Rolling Stone Record Guide. The later album I bought by them earlier this year was a bore, but I have higher hopes for at least Disc One of this.)

A few weeks ago the local library was selling off ex-catalogue CDs for 50c ea.

The Fall - Totale's Turns
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Juana Molina - Un Dia
Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months...

$1 each, Breakaway today:

DB Cooper Buy American (Warner Bros. 1980)
Eruption Featuring Precious Wilson (Ariola 1978)
Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly Golden Time Of Day (Capitol 1978)
Plastic Ono Band Live Peace In Toronto 1969 (Apple 1969 -- guess I just missed owning this.)
Private Lines Trouble In School (Passport 1980)

Just picked up the Sex Pistols DVD, "There's Always Be an England" for a dollar. It's not very good. But for a buck, it's a good deal.

Eruption Featuring Precious Wilson (Ariola 1978)

funny, i just bought this when i was down in Austin at Half-Price Books and had half a notion that you had sold it, Chuck. think when i play it out i'll screw down their "Can't Stand The Rain" cover.

$1 each

mouthus - follow this house
neon neon - stainless style
phantomsmasher - s/t
spiritualized - the abbey road ep
oval - ovalcommers
polvo - exploded drawing
loretta lynn - van lear rose

$2 each

deftones - s/t
nirvana - hormoaning ep
melvins - houdini (strangely enough, i've bought 20+ melvins albums and am just now getting around to houdini...)
r. kelly - untitled
loren mazzacane connors + david gray - this past spring
godflesh - hymns
black sabbath - we sold our soul for rock 'n' roll
the birthday party - drunk on the pope's blood

$3 each

ellen allien - fabric 34
swans - die tur ist zu
saint vitus - born too late

$2 for Godflesh, Melvins and $3 for Saint Vitus?? I want to shop there!

almost didnt post it here b/c it's not $1 each but hey, good deal's a good deal

also, i hear it's the worst godflesh album? who knows. i like all the others, this is my completist purchase, the last one....

50 cents each ($13 total), End Of An Ear, South Austin today. (Thought they were $1 each when I took them up to the counter, so the sale was a good surprise; probably would've also picked up assorted Gentle Giant/Focus/Scorpions/Lizzy Borden/Dire Straits/Cat Mother LPs if I'd known while browsing, but it's probably just as well I didn't):

American Breed American Breed (Acta 1967) -- bi-racial Chicago frat-rockers, before their big hit "Bend Me Shape Me," but apparently "Step Out Of Your Mind" was a smaller one. Plus they cover lots of wild fast r&b and soul dancefloor classics, looks like, and surround themselves with friends dressed racistly as Native Americans on the cover.
Adrian Belew "Big Electric Cat"/"The Lone Rhinoceros" (Island 10-inch single 1982) 10-inch fetish purchase; maybe I'll even like one of the songs a little, who knows.
Bittersweet Alley Some Like It Hot (Track EP 1985, sealed.) Suburban Detroit cheeseball hockey-hair wannabee rock. These guys used to get local AOR play there; no idea if they were any good.
Gary U.S. Bonds The Best Of: From The Original Session Tapes (MCA 1984) 10 songs; bet the Bruce connection caused the reissue.
Book Of Lies Cryptic Memo (Fever EP 1984) Never heard of this before, but it looks cool. Co-ed trio. Pretty sure Fever put out some other good punky/new-wavey local Chicago stuff back then.
Capital City Rockets Capital City Rockets (Elekra 1973) Allegedly proto-punky Midwesterners. Look like smartass tough guys in sports uniforms, a good sign. Pretty sure Rick Johnson liked them and Martin Popoff didn't.
Crabby Appleton Rotten To The Core (Elektra 1971) Lacks their '70s "Go Back" hit.
Fireballet Two, Too... (Passport 1976) Either Scott recommended this on ILX once or he just made fun of the five pirouetting guys wearing tutus on the cover, I'm not sure which.
The Frost Frost Music (Vanguard 1969) Hard-rocking Detroit also-rans w/ Dick Wagner guitaring and yelling.
Hello People Bricks (ABC 1975) Fully expect to hate this, but I never owned an actual mime-rock album before.
Human Sexual Response Fig. 14 (Eat 1980) Boston geek-wavers, w/ "What Does Sex Mean To Me," "Jackie Onassis," other college radio classics you're probably too young to remember.
Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society Barbecue Dog (Antilles 1983) One of his louder ones, iirc, w/ Vernon Reid on guitar.
Original Mirrors Original Mirrors (Arista 1980) Super new wavey instant-cutout cover art; used to see this in stores all the time, and had no idea what it was. Just looked it up - Deaf School spinoff apparently, with one song produced by Bill Nelson.
The Kids Anvil Chorus (Atco 1975) Never heard of, but back cover photos look sufficiently guttersnipe for 1975, plus they do songs called "On The Street," "The Cops Are Coming," and "The Turk (An'Wot'E Smokes)," cool. Not in Popoff or Jasper/Oliver, though.
Pet Hate Bad Publicity (Heavy Metal Records 1984) Cover looks more punk than metal, despite (Wolverhampton UK-based) label, though LPs on their disheveled hotel room floor by Angel, Kiss, and Japan could swing either way. Again, never heard of 'em. Popoff gives it just 4 out of 10, but calls them NWOBHM and compares them to Hanoi Rocks, which makes sense.
Lloyd Price The Rock'n'Roll Magic Of (Candlelight Music double-LP 1978) Just four songs per side, but lots of hits.
The Romantics In Heat (Nemperor 1983) w/ "Talking In Your Sleep," "One In A Million," "Shake A Tail Feather"
Romeo Void Never Say Never (415/Columbia EP 1981) w/ famous title cut
Bob Seger System Mongrel (Capitol 1970) Was just kicking myself on a different thread a few months ago for getting rid of my copy; now I can stop kicking. Condition looks good, too!
Skin Yard Skin Yard (C/Z 1986) Seattle art-grunge, half-decade pre-teen-spirit. On greyish-white vinyl! I actually reviewed this when it came out, too.
Spliff 8555 International Version (CBS Schallplatten 1985) Used to see their records in Mainz/Frankfurt/Bad Kreuznach record stores all the time in the early '80s. Otherwise, I am clueless.
Rick Springfield Comic Book Heroes (Columbia 1973) Lacks his 1972 "Speak To The Sky" hit.
Thunderclaop Newman Hollywood Dream (Track 1970) With "Something In The Air." Somebody said once in Trouser Press that they were the best one-album band ever except maybe X-Ray Spex, but I don't know. Definitely look like beatniks though.
Uzi Sleep Asylum (Homestead 1986 EP) Already have the 1993 CD reissue on Matador, but I'd rather have the original.
Vanderberg Vandenberg (Atco 1982) A Popoff 10-out-of-10 that I will always probably confuse with Vanderhoof.
(Various) W4 Homegrown (W4 c. 1978) Total Holy Grail, and I didn't even know it, because I hadn't thought about it for over three decades. W4 is Detroit AOR station WWWW; this has legendary local wannabees and never-weres Buzztones, Toby Redd, Wolfticket, etc, plus the Rockets doing "Lookin For Love," the Romantics in one of their first on-record appearances doing "Tell It To Carrie" (their first local hit), plus a bunch of other bands I don't recall but might remember their songs, which WWWW probably all played.

Uh, Spliff LP is actually 1982 (the year I got to Germany), not 1985 (and not that anybody cares.)

I love Bricks! It's great.

the kids is the heavy metal kids. their second album.

Cool! I had no idea.

hope you like the thunderclap newman album. i've always really liked it a lot.

i never really liked the 60's hello people stuff. but bricks, i dunno, i just dig it a lot. i don't think a lot of people do. todd rundgren produced it. they brought out his weirdness. in a good way.

That Rick Springfield album is amazing, btw, and for the most part far, far better than Speak To The Sky. Last 3 tracks are nearly perfect. Best thing he ever did, as far as I know.

FWIW, weird Comic Book Heroes related rarity on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6JUWZmK8s

The Frost Frost Music (Vanguard 1969) Hard-rocking Detroit also-rans w/ Dick Wagner guitaring and yelling.

Dang, never even seen a copy of this in the flesh. Lucky man.

Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
Global Communications - 76:14
Vladislav Delay - Multila
Ice - Bad Blood

guess i should check out global communications, considering how much i love the other stuff you've listed

"Either Scott recommended this on ILX once or he just made fun of the five pirouetting guys wearing tutus on the cover, I'm not sure which."

i like it! i played it a lot this year. i like it a lot more than their more famous night on bald mountain album or whatever.

there are a couple of cool guitar tracks i like on that rick springfield album, but the whole album doesn't do much for me. i wanted to love it cuzza the cover and the theme and all that.

i really really like that romeo void EP too. they are too underrated/underplayed as far as i'm concerned. people know the two big songs, but they had lots of great stuff. they should be bigger in neo-post-punk circles.

and everything by human sexual response is worth owning!

and as far as crabby appleton go i actually prefer the two post-crabby albums that singer michael fennelly put out after crabby bit the dust. lane changer and stranger's bed. if you see those for a buck get them. really good hard rock/rock/pop stuff. fennelly worked with curt boettcher and was a part of Millennium. (the fennelly albums are kinda slept on. they are medium-hard to find. they didn't sell at all. ebay probably has cheap copies.)

capitol put out latter-day (late-70's and maybe even early 80's) vinyl reissues of mongrel and ramblin' gamblin' after bob hit it big, so you can find really clean copies if you are lucky. i'm sure there were night moves fans who bought them in a seger-loving frenzy and then didn't play them much. even the later pressings ended up going in the cut-out bins.

Just played Human Sexual Response -- They strike me as pretty awful, as a hint of pale and emaciated indie nerd-dom that's about one-tenth as clever as it thinks it is to come, but I kind of enjoyed it despite itself. A few songs definitely sounded familiar, 30 years later. Four different singers, apparently. There's one guy whose voice reminds me of...Tom Verlaine? Peter Hammil? Peter Gabriel? Somebody. Liked the Hello People album, which was more rock than I expected, way more than HSR, though. Adrian Belew 10-inch was just an excuse to make guitar noises. He makes better noises in his cat song, but I like that his rhino song is about an endangered species.

And oh yeah, turns out that Kids LP (which I haven't played yet) is in both Popoff's and Jasper/Oliver's books, filed under H instead of K. They both like it a lot, seem to consider it the Heavy Metal Kids' peak. Popoff calls it the most ferocious glam rock record ever, or something like that. So I guess I got a good deal.

Playing the Romeo Void EP next. Christgau said when it came out that nobody would ever remember the other three cuts besides the hit. Betting he was right.

Catalog # on the copy of Mongrel I got is ST-499, which oddly isn't listed among the five vinyl versions on discogs. But they do list a 1977 reissue as SM-499. So I was thinking that maybe that's a typo. But if you google ST-499, you get a few sites claiming that's the original 1970 pressing; not sure what's right.

i prefer in a roman mood by human sexual response cuz its got land of the glass pinecones on it which i love, but i like fig. 14 as well. they were nerds but i always thought they were charming nerds. as far as boston nerds go scruffy the cat were a more dire harbinger of things to come.

2 of th original humansexresponserrs live in hudson..a few yrs back they did a full on reunion show in town and i was jizzazzled at th sight of a nontet of 55-60 yr olders makin like coked up teens..they pulled it off w sweat and groin pulls,,but altogether incredible..brought th lesser stuff to a boil and th boily stuff to a volcano...seek out th yutoob videos of th yoredom..so fukkin ahead they were...and they r nice doods tooo...

Guess I just wish (on their debut anyway) they had Romeo Void's rhythm section. (Honestly, that is one embarrassingly stiff-butted "Cool Jerk" cover!) But I haven't given up on the album yet -- and yeah, it's kind of charming, and if I ever see the second LP for a buck, I'll probably pick that up, too. (Btw, was going to also say that I wish Romeo Void had Human Sexual Responses's melodies, but turns out Xgau was wrong. The fourth/last song on their EP, "Not Safe," sounds totally familiar. And it's good, too.)

i always thought i should embrace th anti lead singer look iyall had..im a fan of th fashion underdog..she showed me though..abortion pop is cute too

and...th humans stuff is stiff compared to th live stuff...if u could see where all of it sprang from..early to mid 70s acid gobbling long haired puppeteers in th woods having rave ups w generators outskirting crap boston..ehh,...

chuck were you a fan of Christmas? speaking of boston nerds.

always thought that human sexual response were in the same ballpark as stuff like suburban lawns. or maybe the waitresses. art school nerds? people inspired by the B-52s? always wondered what bands like that were listening to at the end of the 70's. what was pylon listening to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NCP2lhKPw