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

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