I Love Vinyl! Recent Haul/Score/Purchase Thread (2010)

^^intended for other thread

money's been super tight lately and now i'm trying to save $$ for a new guitar amp but anyway these, after way too much deliberation and penny counting and putting things back on the shelf, are my recent grabs from the fetus:

the del fuegos: boston, mass.
eugene chadbourne: country protest
michael nesmith: live at the palais
esther philips: confessin the blues
portal: swarth

probably the last for a while :(

today:

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

the weeds - aka the lollipop shoppe (basically the lollipop shoppe LP with a few bonus tracks. okay sound!)
roger morris - first album (UK band-style rural rock)
'kid punch' miller - jazz rarities 1929-1930
neil young - broken arrow
'truckin' (wheaton college girl chorus/rock band hybrid)

i had that lollipop shop/weeds cd reissue, need to give it more listens but my cds have been out of commission for over a year.

today

wes montgomery - a day in the life
vern gosdin - till the end
charles mingus - let my children hear music
elliott murphy - aquashow
lynyrd skynyrd - pronounced...
and re-bought stones - sticky fingers (some pressing with a gold stamped zipper, we'll see how it sounds)

Cloudland Canyon - Fin Eaves
Mythical Beast - Scales

NYC Peech Boys - Life Is Something Special (vinyl is in good condition, sleeve is beat to shit but I got it for like $8 so I'll deal)
Sister Sledge - Love Somebody Today
Outer Space - s/t (side project of the synthesizer dude from Emeralds)
Outer Space/Raglani - split 12"
Best Coast - Crazy For You (I had preordered this in order to get the seafoam green vinyl but my copy got lost in the mail so they re-sent me one of the normal black vinyl ones. kind of a bummer but at least the dude at Kemado was super nice about it.)
Magic Kids - Memphis
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Tangerine Dream - Force Majure
Antony/Fennesz - "Returnal" 7"
TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP (for $12!)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Hall & Oates - War Babies (clearly I was on a Rundgren-as-producer kick)

more importantly I also got an Outlaw Audio RR2150 and a pair of those Insignia speakers which everyone raves over despite coming from Best Buy's in-house brand. set everything up last night & threw on Willie Nelson's Phases & Stages and holy shit, I'm about to learn to love music all over again

did a favor for a friend, got a little dough, spent the dough on LPs:

bud powell - the amazing... vol. 2
grace slick & the great society - conspicuous only in its absence
bob weir - ace
v/a - sound of kinshasa: guitar classics from zaire
v/a - shadow music of thailand
lindstrom - breakfast in heaven/blast of loser

freebies:
eagles s/t
john martyn - one world ('77; lately a friend has been really pushing the 'later' uk folk guys solo records; thompson, chapman, martyn. this one seems kinda crapola but i should listen to the whole thing. only gave it a few cuts before)
2 live crew - pop that pussy 12"

Karheinz Stockhausen - Momente (Nonesuch)

ian. 2 things. that martyn record is great. i've mentioned it a billion times before, but 'big muff' is cowritten by lee perry. i really dig later martyn.

secondly. not that you're not allowed to like lindstrom, but you should really start getting into all the stuff he's into. moroder, k.schulze, cerrone, the band space, IC records, italo in general. i think you might dig.

i like cerrone & schulze okay; i'm working my way into it slowly.

i get kinda turned off by cheezy vocals tho. that is my main stumbling block.

but i do try. i listen to cheap disco records with space-themed covers regularly. it's good to drive ppl out of the store late at night when i am drinking beer.

that would drive me *into* the store tbh

you like UNCLASSICS ian? that, mixed up in the hague, and the CBS top 100 radio shows that I-F did for a few years really turned me on to italo. i-robots is a good comp, too...

i don't know any of that shit.
i'd ask u guys to post covers of stuff i'd like so i can remember it easier but being a mod sux

UNCLASSICS is morgan geist's (from metro area) mixed comp
mixed up in the hague (vols 1&2) is I-F's mixed comp, and sort of responsible for the wide exposure of italo i think
CBS top 100 is this internet radio station (cybernetic broadcast system) for which I-F did a yearly countdown of 100 italo classics
i-robots is another mixed comp with good stuff, i forgot who did this one

in my opinion, mixed up in the hague is better as a historical document than it is the best comp. i found unclassics and i-robots more user-friendly.

the idea of becoming a big dance collector is so intimidating to me cause of all the plain sleeves

straight up, i never listen to comps unless they are old-timey comps.
can ya'll recommend good spacey disco LPs? i'll take a dig through our soul/funk/disco section today. we always have tons of crap with mustaches and spaceships for $3-5.

cerrone's supernature is great
moroder's from here to eternity

umm imma defer after those, but seriously, dont discount comps for italo. it's a singles form!

xpost. most of these have a few youtubes on the discogs page. these are all pretty common.

giorgio moroder "from here to eternity" http://www.discogs.com/Giorgio-From-Here-To-Eternity/master/9344
space "magic fly" http://www.discogs.com/Space-Magic-Fly/master/5713
space "just blue" http://www.discogs.com/Space-Just-Blue/master/5736
cerrone "supernature" http://www.discogs.com/Cerrone-Cerrone-3-Supernature/master/11477
tantra "the double album" http://www.discogs.com/Tantra-The-Double-Album/release/52217
gino soccio "the visitors" 12" http://www.discogs.com/Gino-Soccio-The-Visitors-Les-Visiteurs/master/67593

that's just banging space disco. if you want, i can suggest a bunch of cosmic space albums that are less beat driven and just tripped out synth noodling too?

i would like that! (banging space disco sounds good too though, will check out)

k, here's some cosmic space synth reccos. especially w/youtubes on the page.

space art "trip in the center head" http://www.discogs.com/Space-Art-Trip-In-The-Center-Head/master/119994
jean-michel jarre "oxygene" http://www.discogs.com/Jean-Michel-Jarre-Oxygene/master/43980
tangerine dream "tangram" http://www.discogs.com/Tangerine-Dream-Tangram/master/13836
roger powell "cosmic furnace" http://www.discogs.com/Roger-Powell-Cosmic-Furnace/release/1135649 (here's a video
Michael Shrieve with Kevin Shrieve and Klaus Schulze - Transfer Station Blue http://www.discogs.com/Michael-Shrieve-with-Kevin-Shrieve-and-Klaus-Schulze-Transfer-Station-Blue/master/29711 (lindstrom ripped this off completely for 'where you go i go too)
double fantasy "universal ave" http://www.discogs.com/Double-Fantasy-Universal-Ave/master/89265
anthony phillips "1984" http://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Phillips-1984/master/2412
synergy "audion" http://www.discogs.com/Synergy-Audion/master/9371
harald grosskopf "synthesist" http://www.discogs.com/Harald-Grosskopf-Synthesist/master/22033
michael garrison "eclipse" http://www.discogs.com/Michael-Garrison-Eclipse/master/123397

and almost anything on klaus schulze's label http://www.discogs.com/label/Innovative+Communication

i could seriously go on and on and on

i like tangerine dream and schulze a lot already, surely i will like some of the others

$0.50 each:
Richard Hayman - Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine

Gerhard Wendland - Seine Großen Erfolge

Reverend Belgium N. Baxter - Let Me Pass: Poetry of Worship and Meditation

Also Roland Bocquet's Robot Bleu and Robot Rose

and Ryuichi Sakamoto's The Thousand Knives of...

we marked down a bunch of country records at the store today... i took home maybe 15-20 for free. i'll list 'em later. highlights include peewee king, the wilburn brothers, a few comps, and some weird ssw/country hybrid stuff.

I'm impatiently waiting for my Swans LP to arrive.....

epic john fahey haul for $40, all takoma lps:

vol 1: blind joe death
vol 2: death chants, breakdowns, and military waltzes
vol 4: the great san bernadino birthday party (mono)
vol 6: days have gone by (mono)
the voice of the turtle
america

those are pretty much all the best ones, imo.

i already had vol 3: dance of death and other plantation favorites. saw a shitload of cajun arhoolie stuff too but i'm keeping myself on a budget.

Richard Hayman - Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine

i was so psyched to find this when I first started collecting weird records. was a little bummed when I got it home and found that it had the wrong record inside, but that LP was Pierre Henry's 'Le Voyage' on Limelight - double psych!!

got the Love Machine later on the Command 2-fer 'Electronic Evolutions' paired w/ some Hyman moogness

okay, here's what i pulled outta da dollar bin yesterday--

Stu Nunnery s/t (Evolution)
Wilburn Brothers - City Limits (reissue on Stetson)
the blue ridge - here they come (private)
starring Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen (Grand Award)
Allan Block & Ralph Lee Smith (Meadowlands; private? fiddle n banjo)
jeannie c riley - the generation gap (Plantation)
Daryl Beard - one of everything (private?)
the best of hank thompson & the brazos valley boys (capitol)
hank thompson & his brazos valley boys - simple simon, simple heard (hilltop)
Harbus s/t (Evolution)
Billy Danoff & Taffy Nivery - welcome to fat city (paramount)
mike settle - s/t (Uni)
J. David Sloan - modern country sounds of today (starday; really good!)
charlie mccoy - harpin' the blues (Monument)
doug dillard band - jackrabbit! (rounder, 1980)
jim lowe - The Door of Fame/Sings (Mercury)
peewee king & redd stewart - back again with the songs that made them FAMOUS! (starday)
buzz rabin - cross country cowboy (elektra. rural ssw.)
the chicken chokers - shoot your radio (rounder; michael hurley cover.)
v/a - at the fair with the duke of paducah (starday)
v/a - no generation gap among the fiddlers vol. 32 (Westmark Custom Records; where are the first 31 volumes?????)

i thought i took another fiddler's convention record... maybe it was beat up or something. i forgit.

today i bought
allman bros - idlewild south
richard soutar - lavender daydreams ( really nice private psych; old reissue on void.)

the chicken chokers - shoot your radio (rounder; michael hurley cover.)

^^ by this i mean they cover the song "Watertrain" (one of my faves) not that michael hurley painted the cover.

wow that fahey haul!

Finally got a copy of that Lethal Weapons Oz post punk comp LP with the Boys Next Door on it. 1983 reissue

In The Mail-
Prince Rama - Shadow Temple
Endless Boogie - Full House Head
Magic Kids - Memphis

Rockaway Records LA -

Kraan - Wiederhoren
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Paul Bley & Scorpio - S/T
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Pictures Of Infinity
Soft Machine - 4
Art Ensmble Of Chicago - Bap-Tizum
Steve Arrington - Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame I

Gifts -

Jermaine Jackson - Let Me Tickle Your Fancy
Lee Morgan - Tom Cat
Bola Sete - Jungle Suite

i realize that it's only 8:40am, but i'm listening to this anyway
http://www.eljergon.com/wp-content/imagenes/canciones_del_solar_de_los_abburidos_2.jpg

oops wrong thread BUT i did buy this fairly recently, so

Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
Dumptruck - D is for Dumptruck
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge
Guided By Voices - Box
Eggs - Exploder

Various - Troublemakers dbl LP (finally got a copy of the Modern Lovers I'm Straight on vinyl)
The Exploited - Dead Cities 7"
ATV - Life 7"
Happy Mondays - Madchester Rave On 7"

The new Swans LP finally arrived today. It is great. My only (very minor) complaint is the flimsy and austere vinyl packaging. I somehow expected something more sturdy and slightly more lavish (if that's the right word). But who cares.

Picked these up for a buck a piece at a thrift store in Burbank-

Gabor Szabo - Gypsy '66
Paul Desmond - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
Don Ellis - Soaring
Don Ellis - Electric Bath
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
Ahmad Jamal - Happy Moods

Actually got a copy of Tantra's The Double Album today for fifty cents today at the swap meet . Some water damage on the cover, but the records are in nice shape. Also got a 12" from '81 by Ritz, song called "Workin' Out" - Maurice Starr and Arthur Baker involved in production.

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/vareseweisberg.jpg

sun city girls - 33,003 crossdressers triple lp (not the repress)
idea fire company - beauty school
mcguinnes flint s/t
group inerane - guitars from agadez vol. 3
yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out
v/a - mississippi delta blues vol. 1 recorded by george mitchell (later pressing)
orchestre regional de mopti reish on MS

^ that IFCO is fantastic. my Inerane side one is pressed off-center--yours ok? lends a slightly queasy take on the open-string drones!

also, ian: have you heard the Luxus dbl. 7" Academy has on eBay right now? always been curious about that, never seen one.