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

prince's hits + b-sides 3CD set for $1 at a book fair woo

^^^^ nice!

Just got a sealed 180gram copy of Smash Your Head Against The Wall for $3 @ Half-Price.

dollar disco vinyl:

Double Exposure - 'My Love is Free' / Salsoul Orchestra - 'It Don't Have to Be Funky (to be a Groove)'
Grace Jones - 'On Your Knees' / 'Don't Mess with the Messer'
Voyage - s/t

About $25 total including $5 entrance fee (lots of 50-centers, a few $1s, two $2s), Austin Record Convention today

Bobby Bland – Two Steps From The Blues (Duke 1961)
Rory Block – Intoxication (Chrysalis 1977)
Bloodrock – 3 (Capitol 1971)
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids – There’s No Face Like Chrome (Epic 1974)
Dazz Band – Greatest Hits (Motown 1986)
Rick Dees – The Original Disco Duck (RSO 1977)
Dr. Feelgood – As It Happens (United Artists 1979)
Faith Hope & Charity – s/t (RCA 1975)
4 Out Of 5 Doctors – s/t (Nemperor 1980)
Eddie Jefferson – The Main Man (Inner City 1977)
Bobby Jimmy and the Critters – Ugly Knuckle Butt (Rapsur 1985)
Krokus – One Vice At A Time (Arista 1982)
Man 2 Man Meet Man Parrish – Male Stripper (Bolts 12-iinch c. 1987)
Nick Mason – Fictitious Sports (Columbia 1981)
Mel McDaniel – Gentle To Your Senses (Capitol 1977)
Motorhead – Another Perfect Day (Bronze Mexico 1983)
Tracy Nelson – Sweet Soul Music (MCA 1975)
One Way – Shine On Me (MCA 1983)
Paper Lace – Paper Lace (Mercury 1974)
Chris Rea – Chris Rea (Columbia 1982)
The Rings – The Rings (MCA 1981)
Tom Robinson – Sector 27 (IRS 1980)
Phil Seymour – 2 (Boardwalk 1982)
Sweet – Identity Crisis (Polydor Mexico 1982)
Pat Terry – Humanity Gangsters (Myrrh 1982)
2 Live Crew – Is What We Are (Luke Skyywalker 1986)
West Street Mob – Let Your Mind Be Free/Breakdance – Electric Boogie (Sugar Hill 12-inch 1983)
White Wolf – Standing Alone (RCA 1984)
Y&T – Open Fire (A&M 1985)
(Various) – Le Mejor Del Rock En Espanol (WEA Mexico 1985)
(Various) – Sylvester (Curb 1985 – what a weird format: a movie soundtrack *EP*, just six songs, by Cruzados, Los Lobos, Textones, Gail Davies, Rank & File)

That Nick Mason album is pretty great, but you probably know that... Still not on CD, I don't think, which is kinda weird.

Oh, no, I was wrong. Just out of print and expensive...

i just heard that album for the first time last month. i had no idea i would like it so much. such a great cast of characters too.

Was in Krakow the past two weekends, and made a great haul -- some Polish new wave, couple of synth-prog records, and then maybe a hundred sound postcards, which was a popular format for distributing western music in Poland in the '60s and '70s. Woke up this morning with the inconsolable urge to buy more postcards. Then, at my local flea market here in Neukölln, I actually did score one: a German one, with an image of the Berlin Kongreßhalle; the song is "The River Kwai March," whistles and all. Sometimes, the record gods smile upon us.

(I also got some Bummi flexidiscs, starring the adventures of a cartoon bear. Score!)

Where's a good place to look for music in Krakow?

Wow, what is the Polish new wave like. I wonder if YouTube has videos....

The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic"
Spiritualized - "Let It Come Down"
Air - "Talkie Walkie"
Underworld - "Dubnobasswithmyheadman"
Cibo Matto - "Stereo * Type A"
The Juan Maclean - "Less Than Human"
The Juan Maclean - "The Future Will Come"
Leftfield - "Rhythm and Stealth"
Black Box - "Dreamland"
S'Express - "Intercourse"
Inner City - "Paradise"

Total cost: $10.72

If I want I can go back and get New Order's "Get Ready" and "Waitinf Or The Siren's Call" and/or also Massive Attack's "100th Window". Also the first Herc & Love Affair album and Simian Mobile Disco's "Attack Decay Sustain Release" or whatever it's called

END OF AN EAR, JAN 14 - $1 each except one free one
A Split Second – A Split Second (Wax Trax 1988)
Boxer – Absolutely (Epic 1977)
Breaking Circus – The Ice Machine (Homestead 1986)
Dark Heart – Shadows Of The Night (Roadrunner 1984)
Detroit – Detroit (Paramount 1972)
Keith Leblanc – Stranger Than Fiction (Nettwerk 1989)
Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Ninos Del Parque (Mute 12-inch 1990)
Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers – Contents Under Pressure (War Bride/Solid Smoke 1981)
Scorpions – Taken By Force (RCA 1978)
Swa - Your Future If You Have One (SST 1985)
Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention – One Size Fits All (Discreet 1975)

FRIENDS OF SOUND, Jan 21 - 25 cents each
John Eddie – s/t (Columbia 1986)
Euro-K – s/t (Profile 1990)
Ferron – Testimony (Lucy 1980)
Hunters & Collectors – s/t (A&M 1982)
New Marines – Diving For Pearls (American 1985)
Tommy Shaw – Girls With Guns (A&M 1984)
Gino Vanelli – Black Cars (Dreyfus 1984)

HALF PRICE BOOKS ANDERSON MILL, today - $1 each
The Deele – Material Thangz (Solar 1985)
Runrig – The Cutter & The Clan (Chrysalis 1987)

HALF PRICE BOOKS PARMER, today, 5 @ $1 each; 3 @ 25 cents each
Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 (New World), Hamburg Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra (Funk & Wagnalls Library Of Great Music, 1985)
805 – Stand In Line (RCA 1982)
Digney Fignus – Digney Fignus (Columbia EP 1985)
The Olympics – Golden Greats (Everest ???)
Ricky Van Shelton – Wild Eyed Dream (Columbia 1987)
War – Deliver The Word (United Artists 1973)
Betty Wright – Back At You (Epic 1983)
Yates Brothers & Sisters – Electricity (MCA 1982)

BREAKAWAY, today, $1 each
Daddy Dewdrop – Meet The Beat (Inphasion 1979)
Hues Corporation – Freedom For The Stallion (RCA 1973)
Loose Ends – A Little Spice (MCA 1983)
The Sweet – Level Headed (Capitol 1978, with a no-cover copy of their 1977 Off The Record also inside the sleeve)
Judie Tzukie – Shoot The Moon (Chrysalis 1982)

RECYCLED READS today, 50 cents each
Brick – After 5 (Bang 1982)
Roy Clark / Gatemouth Brown – Makin’ Music (MCA 1979)
Herbie Mann – Memphis Underground (Atlantic 1969, w/ Sonny Sharrock on guitar)
Gunther Schuller – Footlifters: A Century Of American Marches In Authentic Versions (Columbia 1975)

I just picked up the Rhino Brit Box for $2 bcz it was missing disc 1

very nice vinyl copy of guess who's coming home: black fighting men recorded live in vietnam (motown, '72) for a buck

and a few more for the same price, all in great shape:

sparks - angst in my pants
leo kottke - mudlark
leo kottke - leo kottke: 1971–1976
sly and the family stone - there's a riot going on
elton john - goodbye yellow brick road
count carnette - count carnette plays psychic piano music from the masters (oddball private press thing)

PIRAHNA’S in ROUNDROCK, Feb 25, $1 each
Jay Boy Adams – Jay Boy Adams (Atlantic 1977)
T Bone Burnett - Trap Door (Warner Bros EP 1982)
Nils Lofgren - Night Fades Away (Backstreet 1981)
Melanie – Melanie (Buddah Canada 1975)
Pentagle – Basket Of Light (Reprise 1969)
Roches – Another World (Warner Bros 1985)
War – War (United Artists 1971)

WATERLOO, March 10, $1 each
China Crisis – Flaunt The Imperfection (Virgin 1985)
Isaac Hayes Movement – Disco Connection (ABC 1975)
Garland Jeffreys – American Boy & Girl (A&M 1979)
Joy Of Cooking – Joy Of Cooking (Capitol 1971)
Major Lance – Now Arriving (Soul/Motown 1978)
Q- Dancin’ Man (Epic/Sweet City 1977 – sealed)
The Rave-Ups – Town + Country (Fun Stuff 1985)
The Stairsteps – Step By Step By Step (Buddah 1970)
Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring (EMI America 1986)

SUNDANCE, SAN MARCOS, today, 50 cents each

Deborah Allen – Cheat The Night (RCA EP 1983)
Bachman Turner Overdrive – Bachman Turner Overdrive (Mercury 1973)
Razzy Bailey – The Midnight Hour (RCA 1984)
Rosanne Cash – (Columbia 1979)
Tommy Cash – Six White Horses (Epic 1970)
John Conlee – Fellow Travelers (16th Avenue 1979)
The Family – The Family (Warner Bros./Paisley Park 1985)
Steve Harley - Hobo With A Grin (Capitol 1978)
Heaven 17 – The Luxury Gap (Virgin 1983)
Woody Herman and his First Herd – Vol. II: The Old Gold Radio Shows 1944 (Hindsight 1979)
Honeymoon Suite – Racing After Midnight (Warner Bros. 1988)
C.W. McCall – Rubber Duck (Polydor 1976)’
Mel McDaniel – Let It Roll (Capitol 1984)
The Pasadenas – The Pasadenas (Columbia 1989)
Skyy – Skyyjammer (Salsoul 1982)
Starland Vocal Band - Rear View Mirror (Windsong 1977)
John Stewart - The Phoenix Concerts Live (RCA 2-LP 1974)
Southern Pacific - Hillybilly Hill (Warner Bros 1986)
Sweethearts Of The Rodeo – One Time One Night (Columbia 1988)
Gene Watson and his Farewell Party Band – Little By Little (MCA 1984)

oops...Rosanne Cash LP is Right Or Wrong. And the Family one has the original version of "Nothing Compares 2 U."

Toronto's twice-yearly show today. I always head straight for this guy who sells everything for $2 (cheating the thread title a bit), all of it in very good shape:

Hot Rocks (original pressing, first copy I've owned in almost 40 years--best thing I got today)
Tom Rush (w/"These Days")
Blue Oyster Cult: Spectres
Atlantic Rhythm Section: A Rock and Roll Alternative (one of Marcus's bete noires, I believe)
Three Dog Night: Seven Separate Fools (mostly for the elaborate cover, which I want to show to my students)
Three Dog Night: Harmony (okay, okay--I'm a fan)
Partridge Family: Up to Date
Jazz in the Thirties (double, British EMI)
Jazz in Britain: The '20s
Fletcher Henderson & the Dixie Stompers: 1925-26 (British)
Fletcher Henderson & the Dixie Stompers: 1927-28 (British)
Alix Combelle, 1937-1940 (French)

Also three from something called the "Yale Series of Recorded Poets," all sealed: Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, Robert Penn Warren. There were others, but they were the only names I recognized.

Minor correction: I have no idea how Marcus feels about the Atlanta Rhythm Section (or the "Atlantic" Rhythm Section, for that matter). It's Ace's "How Long" he's on record as hating.

$1, Estate sale, a few Saturdays ago:

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith with his Crackerjacks - Foolish Questions (MGM 10-inch EP, c. early '50s probably

$1 each, Breakaway Records, today:

Axe - Nemesis (Atco 1983)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile (Mercury 1974)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Four Wheel Drive (Mercury 1975)
Johnny Bristol - Bristol's Creme (Atlantic 1976)
Fiends - Gynecölögy (PVC 1986)
L.A. Jets - L.A. Jets (RCA 1976)
Olive Lake - Jump Up (Gramavision 1982)
Nazareth - Sound Elixer (MCA 1973)
Peer Günt - Backseat (Euros Finland 1986)
Quincy -Quincy (Columbia 1980)
Streetwalkers - Red Card (Mercury 1976)

Uh, that'd be Oliver Lake -- not Olive.

jesus, that fiends album...so goofy.

I've mentioned this flea market before on this thread, a guy who alternates (arbitrarily, I'd say) between over-charging and giving stuff away. Today he had about 20-25 sealed albums sitting on top of his 5/$10 bins. Almost all of them were MOR from the '60s. I asked him where they came from (an estate sale), and if they were also $2 each (yes). I bought 15:

The Unsinkable Molly Brown O.S.T.
Robert Goulet: My Love Forgive Me
Ann-Margaret: Bachelors' Paradise (serendipity squared: there's a birthday thread that just went up for her on ILX)
Sergio Franchi: Our Man from Italy (never heard of him)
The Jane Morgan Album
Jane Morgan in Gold
Engelbert Humperdinck: Engelbert
Barbara Streisand: My Name Is Barbara, Two...
Marty Robbins: R.E.D.
Jerry Vale: It's Magic
Jerry Vale: Have You Looked Into Your Heart
Roger Williams Plays the Hits
John Gary: Choice
Kate Smith: A Touch of Magic
Vic Dana: Red Roses for a Blue Lady

There's a temptation not to open them, but a) I open everything, and don't resell anything, and b) except for maybe the Streisand, Ann-Margaret, and Marty Robbins, they're worthless anyway. (Nine still have their original price tags--they were all bought at Simpson's for $3.33.) I left a few Goulets and Vales behind, also a Mike Douglas and Merv Griffin; I felt stupid buying so much stuff I really have no interest in. (Translation: I'll be back next week to see if they're still there.)

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Procured for $0.99 a pop some time ago:
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Those are great--I've got the first, third, and fourth, plus the New York volume. (You actually got them on vinyl?)

i got in-real-life rickrolled on vinyl for 25cents, but the 25cent frank yankovic record with a sticker saying "rare! $75" crossed out on the front made up for it.

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Nah, all CD, but they're well out of print and generally fetch pretty high prices (assuming the people selling them know what they're selling). And understandably. The UK comps in particular are fantastic.

I've been working my way through all those sealed MOR albums I listed just above, and, halfway through, I've been surprised that not one of them thus far has had an inner sleeve. Probably 99% of the '60s albums I've ever bought have been used, so by the time they reached me someone had included a sleeve. I'd never really given this any thought: when did the inner sleeve become standard practice? Late '60s?

Do you mean any sleeve, or a custom (band or just label) sleeve? I can't remember ever seeing a new LP without a sleeve unless it was a kid's record, or a very low-budget local label type thing. And my older brother was buying LPs in the mid 60s, though I didn't start until 1972.

Just a plain white paper sleeve:

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I thought for sure the Engelbert album would have one--it came out in '69. I haven't opened the Streisand yet. I'm wondering if they were more liable to be issued with rock LPs.

Sometimes I just have to pause and take notice of where life has brought me: pondering the history of inner record sleeves on a Tuesday night.

maybe they were record-club versions?

they might have been resealed by a dodgy mobbed up distributor. distros would take record store returns and reseal them and sell them back to stores as dollar bin records. you can usually tell if on the back cover there is a seam running the length of the record in the middle. they sometimes didn't bother putting sleeves on them.

i've seen sealed records from the 60's and 70's that didn't even have covers. just generic 12 inch covers and full-length major label records inside. they might get a big batch of somewhat defective records without sleeves or the covers might have been damaged in shipping and they figured, hell, maybe someone will pay 50 cents for the record anyway.

but what I wanna know is .. what's up with 'sealed inner sleeves' ?? those perforated circular plastic covers over the actual LP. was that actually a thing at some point??

I've bought two in the last year ... a Dave Clark Five greatest type thing and Ricky Nelson's 'Million Sellers'. both LOOK great, so i'm inclined to believe its was a thing. and not a scam

Scott: I know records get resealed, but as I mentioned earlier, most of these ones have the original price tag still affixed; also, I'd be surprised if anyone was taking the time to reseal Robert Goulet or Jerry Vale albums.

I bet Vale was pretty mobbed up though

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wow, lucky catch on those power pop CDs.

$1 each, End of An Ear, May 19
Charlie – Fight Dirty LP (Polydor France 1979)
Flash – In the Can LP (Capitol/Sovereign 1972)
Journey – Journey LP (Columbia 1975)
Ritchie Family – African Queens LP (Marlin 1977)

$1 each, Waterloo, today
Big Chief – Platinum Jive CD (Capitol 1994)
The Big F – Is CD (Chrysalis 1993)
Dog Soldier – Dog Soldier LP (United Artists 1975)
Fabian – The Very Best Of LP (United Artists 1975)
Nazareth – The Fool Circle LP (A&M 1980)
Uriah Heep – Sweet Freedom LP (Warner Bros. 1973)

library book sale today. all a dollar a piece. i went late at noon and the sale was over at 12:30, but apparently there weren't a lot of adventurous music fans at the sale! i got some other stuff too for the store. like reggae and jawbox CDs and stuff like that. i might keep a bunch of these. my kinda music! i like schnittke and i never see his CDs or records. it was raining schnittke at the greenfield library!

Henry Threadgill – Very Very Circus – Live at Concepts (Taylor Made Records)

Schnittke – Quasi Una Sonata – Rostropovich (Sony) (super bit mapping, don’t you know)

Gorecki – nr.3 fur sopran und orchester (Koch Schwann)

Felipe Diaz – Latin Jazz Quintet (Palladium) (dolphy appearance I’ve never heard)

Diabolical Masquerade – Nightwork (Avantgarde) (Katatonia side-project. I own this, so maybe I’ll put this in the store. Great record.)

Arthur Kroker/Steve Gibson – Spasm (new world perspectives) (introduced by Bruce Sterling!)

David Diamond – Symphony no. 2 & 4 & Concerto for Small Orchestra (delos)

David Murray Special Quartet (Tyner, Hopkins, Jones) (DIW)

Schnittke – Concerto Grosso no. 1 (DG)

The Ligeti Project 1 – Melodien/Chamber Concerto/Piano Concerto/Mysteries of the Macabre (Teldec)

Archie Shepp & Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen – Looking at Bird (Steeplechase)

Messiaen – Die Fruhen Orgelwerke (Dabringhaus Und Grimm)

Charles Mingus – A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry (Bethlehem)

Gary Bartz – Libra/Another Earth (Milestone)

Henry Threadgill – Song out of my Trees (Black Saint)

Henry Threadgill & Make a Move – Everybodys Mouth’s a Book (Pi Recordings)

Schnittke – Hymns/Denisov – Chamber Symphony (Melodiya)

Schnittke – Symphony no.3 (Melodiya)

Helen Merrill & Ron Carter – Duets (Emarcy)

Ilona Maros – Swedish Contemporary Vocal Music (Phono Suecia)

Frank Morgan – Love, Lost & Found (Telarc)

Henry Threadgill’s Zooid – Up Popped The Two Lips (Pi Recordings)

Chico Buarque – Chicocanta (Philips)

Piano Magic – Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl)

Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt – We’ll Be Together Again (Prestige)

David S. Ware – Surrendered (Columbia)

Schnittke – Cello Concerto 2/Concerto Grosso no.2 (BIS)

Schnittke – Symphony no. 4 (Melodiya)

Elliot Carter – The Minotaur/Piano Sonata/Two Songs (Elektra Nonesuch)

David Diamond – Symphony no. 3/kaddish/romeo and Juliet/psalm (Delos)

Bright Sheng – H’un (Lacerations) and other works (New World )

Stravinsky – Les Noces/Mass (DG)

Schnittke – Concerto Grosso No.2/Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (Melodiya)

John Harle, saxophone – Nyman, Bryars, Westbrook (Argo)

Nico – Desertshore (Warner Archives)

Gavin Bryars – The Sinking of the Titanic (Point)

Thad Jones/Pepper Adams Quintet – Mean What You Say (Milestone)

Jacqueline du Pre – A Lasting Inspiration 2 disc set (EMI)

Corigliano – Symphony no. 1 – Barenboim/Chicago (Erato)

Messiaen – Turangalila-Symphonie (DG)

Ken McIntyre – The Complete United Artists Sessions (Blue Note) (Two disc set signed and inscribed by Makanda Ken McIntyre and his business card inside the case!)

jealous

i would totally be jealous if someone had come in my store and said look what i got at the library book sale! cuz its not usually that exciting. and me being me i can't help but think about what people DID buy before i got there. but maybe there were just no mod classical or jazz fans around cuz i can't believe they would have left some of these sitting there.

$1 for the first 5, $0.75c for each addtl, plus a 30% employee discount = about $0.70 each

12"s:
Jomanda - "Got A Love For You"
Herbie Hancock - "Autodrive"
Paul Hardcastle - "19"
Whitney Houston - "How Will I Know"
Crush - "Jellyhead"
Crystal Waters "100% Pure Love"
AB Logic - "The Hitman"

got depeche mode's 101 on cd for a buck last week at a thrift store.

Stevie D probably feeling like the Monkees following Hendrix at their early shows.

And note to self: Check my library's sales.

$1 each, Piranha, yesterday
Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band – Garden Party (MCA 1972)
Soft Cell – Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing (Sire EP 1982)
Tony Williams – The Joy Of Flying (Columbia 1979)

40 cents each (5 for $1.99 = $10 total), Waterloo, today
Curtiss A – Damage Is Done (Twin/Tone 1983)
Angel City – The MCA/Angel City 2-Pack (MCA 2xLP radio-station promo 1984) - with interviews, bonus live stuff
Gary U.S. Bonds and the American Men – Standing In The Line Of Fire (Phoenix 1984)
CJ & Co. – Devil’s Gun (Westbound 1977) - probably already have this, but got it just in case
Dyan Diamond – Dyan Diamond (MCA 1978)
Divinyls – What A Life! (Chrysalis 1985)
Foghat – Fool For The City (Bearsville 1975)
Foghat – Live (Bearsville 1977)
Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys – Changed Man (Waiji 1989)
The Gentrys – The Gentrys (Sun 1970)
Guadalcanal Diary – Walking In The Shadow Of A Big Man (Elektra/Asylum 1985)
Joy Of Cooking – Closer To The Ground (Capitol 1971)
Lemon – Lemon (Prelude 1978)
Looking Glass – Looking Glass (Epic 1971) - w/ "Brandy"
McFadden & Whitehead – McFadden & Whitehead (Philadelphia International 1979) - w/ "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"
Moby Grape – Grape Jam (Columbia 1968)
The Neon Judgement – Games Of Love (Play It Again Sam EP 1989)
Henry Paul Band – Anytime (Atlantic 1981)
Michael Quatro – Dancers Romancers Dreamers & Schemers (Motown 1976)
Stories – Stories (Kama Sutra 1973) - definitely already had this, but this copy looks cleaner
Sun – Destination: Sun (Capitol 1979)
Nolan Thomas – Yo Little Brother (Emergency 12-inch 1984)
3-D – 3-D (Polydor 1980)
Xavier – Point of Pleasure (Liberty 1981) - w/ "Work That Sucker To Death"
(Various) – Strength Magazine Presents Subtext (Strength/London 2xLP 1999) - w/ Aceyalone, Lootpack, Del The Funky Homosapien, A-Trak, Rob Swift, Divine Styler, etc.

Stevie D probably feeling like the Monkees following Hendrix at their early shows.

And note to self: Check my library's sales.

idgi

that's a great quatro record, chuck. but i like them all. and that is my favorite gentrys album. one of my favorite ROCK albums for that matter.

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