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

The Capitol sampler has a couple tracks by Peggy Lee, and a version of "Cry Me A River" by Tina Mason (never heard of her before), which is why I picked it up. From the jacket (emphasis theirs):

"The tracks in this specially prepared album have been ARRANGED IN A SEQUENCE which will enable you to program the selections ONE AFTER THE OTHER in the order produced on this LP. In other words, INSTANT PROGRAMMING from the FIRST THROUGH THE LAST track. Side one designed for middle-of-the-road good-music programming, side two for EASY LISTENING."

I haven't played it yet.

My most memorable:

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - vinyl - $1 at a WFMU garage sale
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life - promo CD - 99 cents at a record shop before it was officially released

In other words, INSTANT PROGRAMMING from the FIRST THROUGH THE LAST track.

I would listen to this radio show.

End Of An Ear, Aug 3, 50 cents each vinyl

Enuff Znuff – Mother’s Eyes (Atco EP 1991)
Executive Slacks – Nausea (Fundamental 1985)
Executive Slacks – Fire & Ice (Fundamental 1986)
Jo Jo Gunne – Jumpin’ The Gunne (Asylum 1973)
Lazer / Thrust – Solidarnösc Rock For Poland (Erect split LP 1982)
Lucifer’s Friend – Mean Machine (Elektra 1981)
Flora Purim – Carry On (Warner Bros. 1979)
R.E.O. Speedwagon – R.E.O. (Epic 1976)
Snowblind – Snowblind (Mausoleum Belgium 1985)
(Various) - Heavy Duty Breaks (Illuminated 1984)

Sig’s Lagoon, Houston, today, 50 cents each vinyl

The Art Museums – Rough Frame (Woodsist 2010)
James Booker – New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! (Rounder 1981)
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – The Heavy Hitter (Muse 1979)
Funkapolitan – s/t (Pavillion 1982)
Beaver Harris 360 Degree Music Experience – Beautiful Africa (Soul Note Italy 1979)
Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra – 1940 (Alamac)
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra – Lunceford Special (Columbia)
Mothers Finest – Live (Epic 1979)
James Newton – African Flower (Blue Note 1985)
Ohio Players – Fire (Mercury 1974)
Jerry Reed – The Man With The Golden Thumb (RCA 1982)
Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Live (Atlantic 1975)
Phoebe Snow – Second Childhood (Columbia 1976)
Joe Stampley – Take Me Home To Somewhere (ABC 1974)
Wendy & the Rockets – Dazed For Days (A&M 1983)
(Various) – Daffy Dances (K-Tel Canada 1975)
(Various) – Glasnost (MCA 1988)
(Various) – Hits of the Forties Vol. 2 (Capitol Special Markets 1976)

Ex Slacks! Yay!

I don't think I ever even heard them before. They are also on that Heavy Duty Breaks comp (produced or assembled or whatever by Youth from Killing Joke) -- or at least they're credited on the label.

That Glasnost comp is late '80s Soviet rock bands, fwiw -- presumably mediocre, but figured I'd give them a shot.

really, you never even heard their famous gary glitter cover? they were from philly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTHmlVmP78

i used to have all their albums but i don't anymore. they did some cool stuff. definitely one of the better american industrial rock bands. and they were pioneers of sorts here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXDt7jR6TxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLvCkj9qpQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyPTG9uDwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srmoSEs7GH0

Bought about 1000 records for $400 from a guy with a garage full of 'em last week. Real straight-up dollar-bin stuff, most of which I turned around on the weekend for a small profit, but kept a bunch of stuff I didn't yet have in my collection, among them:
Minty copies of All Mod Cons and London 0 Hull 4
some J Geils I hadn't yet bought for a dollar (tho somehow I missed "Showtime" & got scooped by my own customer!)
The first two Sylvain Sylvain albums
A couple of T-Bone Burnette records
About all the Hall & Oates anyone could ever want
ZZ Top - Fandango

Also finally took the opportunity to listen to Carole King's "Tapestry" - not gonna be my cuppa on a regular basis, but was surprised by how "Rumours"-like it was in the way that I seemed to know every damn song on the thing without ever having consciously listened to it. I can see why it sold so many copies.

Some nice hitherto-unknown-to-me discoveries, too:

Eiichi Fujii Trio - Blues for Powell
Melodic, acrobatic fast-tempo trad bop. Very enjoyable party jazz.

The Headboys - S/T
Skinny-tie pub rock from Scotland. A quite-good power-pop record - better than The Knack by a mile.

Three records by Angel City
Australian hard rock band, solid fist-pumping stuff.

A great comp on Arion Records called "Songs and Dances of Morocco". Very little of the ululating that bugs me about so much Arabic music, lots of great intricate hypnotic instrumental stuff.

Same show I've mentioned before. Getting iffier for me every time--my vision's a little time worse every year, so trying to inspect records in (intentionally, I'm sure) less than perfect light becomes less and less reliable. Also couldn't find two of the tables I always go to.

3/$5 -- John Cougar Mellencamp: Scarecrow (good start--already had it at home)
John Cougar Mellencamp: The Lonesome Jubilee

(Those are the only two pop records I bought from this guy. His pop stuff looks fine at first, then you get home and look closer. His old jazz, though, tends to be immaculate.)

Merritt Brunies & His Friars Inn Orchestra, 1924-26
McKinney's Cotton Pickers: Volume 2 (1928-1929)
McKinney's Cotton Pickers: Volume 3 (1929-1930)

(Damn, didn't realize I was without Volume 1--don't think it was in the pile.)

The K.C. Five and the Stompin' Six
Tabbo Smith: Volume One, 1928-1929
Tabbo Smith: Volume Two, 1929-1938
New Orleans Rhythm Kings/Original Memphis Melody Boys: Dixieland in Chicago

$5 -- Bee Gees Greatest (the RSO disco-heavy double)

$10 -- James Taylor (debut on Apple--best thing I got all day, great shape, bought it off a guy I used to work with in a downtown record store)

Also a couple of DVDs for $5, American Graffiti and The Brood.

Highlight of the day was an absurd conversation with my old publisher, who got out of the book business a few years ago and now has a table at the show every year.

Geoff: "So how are your parents?"
Me: "Dead!"
Geoff: (looks a bit puzzled; he met them once a long time ago, he knows this and has obviously forgotten, he's getting a little on himself) "Oh...and your mom? Where is she living now?"
Geoff's son: "They're dead, dad--she lives underground now. I don't think this conversation could get any more awkward."

Didn't bother me at all, it was very funny.

I included that Headboys LP mentioned 2 posts up in this, fwiw:

http://www.spin.com/articles/blame-the-knack-fake-new-wave-feeding-frenzy-essentials/

And there's plenty of Angel City talk on ILM's now defunct Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock threads.

RECYCLED READS, Sep 14, 50 cents each
Thomas Dolby -- The Flat Earth (EMI EP 1984)
Billy Joel – Streetlife Serenade (Columbia 1974)
Billy Joel – Turnstiles (Columbia 1976) -- assumed these two B.J. LPs were awful, just like everybody always says they are, and sure enough they are -- guess I just had to verify that for myself.
Kano – “I’m Ready”/”Holly Dolly” (Emergency 12” 1980) – oops, already had this.
Randy Newman – Land Of Dreams (Reprise 1988)
Betty Wright – Mother Wit (Ms. B 1987)
(Various) – Good to Go (Island 1986)
+
Ken Emerson – Doo Dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture (Simon & Schuster hardcover 1987, $2)

ANTONE’S, Oct 6, $1 each
Firesign Theatre – Not Insane (Columbia 1972) -- totally incoherent; the old Rolling Stone Record Guide reviewer who liked all their other albums way more was right. I felt so ripped off that I wound up passing up 3 of their probably better albums for $1 each today.
Jackson Southenairs – Lead Me (Malaco 1983)
Merilee Rush – s/t (United Artists 1977)
Shannon – Let the Music Play (Mirage 1984)

AUSTIN RECORD CONVENTION, today, $1 each + $5 entrance fee
ADC Band – Long Stroke (Cotillion 1978)
T-Bone Burnett – Truth Decay (Takoma 1980)
Chilliwack – Lights From The Valley (Mushroom 1978)
Bruce Cockburn – The Trouble With Normal (Gold Mountain 1983)
Freddie Fender – Are You Ready For Freddy? (ABC 1975)
Aryln Gale – Back To The Midwest Night (ABC 1978)
Hurricane Jones - s/t (MSI 1981)
Les Variations – Moroccan Roll (Buddah 1974)
Harvey Mandel – The Snake (Janus 1972)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Nightingales And Bombers (Warner Bros/Bronze 1975)
Microdisney – Crooked Mile (Virgin 1987) - Still slightly curious what British critics used to see in these guys; even more curious about why every dozen years or so I pick up one of their albums for a dollar when I know it's going to make me shrug just like the last one did.
Giorgio Moroder – From Here To Eternity (Casablanca 2xLP comp 1985)
Ohio Express – Chewy, Chewy (Buddah 1969)
Mitch Ryder – How I Spent My Vacation (Seeds & Stems 1978)
Bob Seger System – Mongrel (Capitol 1970) -- backup copy, but I was only about 98% sure I already had this.
Michael Stanley Band – You Break It…You Bought It! (Epic 1975)
Ultravox – Vienna (Chrysalis 1980)
Was (Not Was) – What Up Dog? (Chrysalis 1988)

so glad you finally picked up the arlyn gale album! best record show albums definitely adc band, chilliwack, arlyn gale, les variations, bob seger, harvey mandel.

all the firesign records BEFORE that one are way better. including the double album of their radio show stuff. so, the first four albums and the double radio show comp. are really good.

i listened to a bad proctor and bergman album last week too. What This Country Needs. live at the Bottom Line. pretty unfunny. their first duo album is much better.

Picked up Sir Army Suit by Klaatu today so I can play "Mister Manson" when I DJ. Fifty cents. Probably overpaid.

xpost. Microdisney have a few great tracks scattered around (Birthday Girl, Peel version of Everybody is Dead, etc.) and the idea that they were the new Steely Dan might have seemed appealing at the time...that's my guess. At this point I feel as if it was a good concept for a band, but the music needed to be better. And either I don't get the nuances of the lyrics because I'm from the wrong country, or they aren't as good as people thought they were either.

Love Love Love Microdisney. Love Your Enemies/We Hate You South African Bastards! has turned up on spotify recentley.

Ha -- Only in England could a band with no discernible vocal personality or aptitude for rhythm whatsoever be anointed "the new Steely Dan." (Except, I thought the new Steely Dan was already China Crisis! Who weren't much better, judging from the dollar LP I bought by them a couple years back.)

Scott -- One of the $1 Firesign LPs I passed on yesterday was definitely How Can You Be Two Places At Once.... Oops.

bands i never listened to: stump, microdisney, cactus world news, screaming blue messiahs.

I actually like Screaming Blue Messiahs a lot. (First album at least -- second one isn't bad.)

And I just realized there actually is a band with a late '80s LP in yesterday's record convention pile who I wouldn't think it crazy at all to compare to Steely Dan. But they're not Microdisney; they're Was (Not Was).

I thought Crack The Sky was the new Steely Dan in the 70s.

BREAKAWAY, Nov 9, $1 each
John Anderson – I Just Came Home To Count The Memories (Warner Bros. 1981)
Ian & Sylvia – The Best Of (Vanguard 1968)
KC and the Sunshine Band – Do It Good (TK 1974 – supposedly that’s its title, but it looks self-titled and I’ve also heard it called *Queen Of Clubs* to match its cover art)
Harvey Mandel – Baby Batter (Janus 1971)

SALVATION ARMY @ RESEARCH BLVD, Nov 11, $1 CDs
The Beloved – Conscience (Atlantic 1993)
Toby Keith – Boomtown (Mercury 1994)
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (Geffen 1993 pressing, rec. 1988)

RECYCLED READS, Dec 7, 50 cents each
Pauline Black With Sunday’s Best – “Pirates Of The Airwaves” (Chrysalis 12-inch 1984)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Pronto Monto (Warner Bros. 1978)
Tracy Nelson – Tracy Nelson (Atlantic 1974)

WATERLOO, Dec 14, $1 each
Beach Boys – Shut Down Volume 2 (Capitol 1964)
Black & White – Don’t Know Yet (Atlantic 1989)
Joe Gruschecky and the Houserockers – Coming Home (Lightyear CD 1998)
Kaleidoscope – Side Trips (Epic 1967)
Nancy Martinez – Lay It Down (Matra Quebec 1983)
Michael Murphy – Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir (A&M 1973)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Reactor (Official 1980)
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Happy Trails (Capitol 1969)
War – All Day Music (United Artists 1971)

SIG’S LAGOON, Houston, Dec 26, 50 cents each
Coleman Hawkins & The Trumpet Kings – Swinging Sounds Of The 40’s (Trip Jazz 1974)
Rheingold – Fan Fan Fanatic (Harvest EP 1982)
Shandi – Shandi (Dreamland 1980)
Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys – The Best Of (Capitol 1963)
(Various) – Foxes (Casablanca 2xLP OST 1980)

END OF AN EAR, today, 50 cents each
Jeff Dahl – Ultra Under (Triple X 1991)
Dick Gaughan – Live In Edinburgh (Celtic Music 1985)
I Mother Earth – I Mother Earth (Capitol 10-inch blue vinyl EP 1993)
Jelly Bishops – Kings Of Barstool Mountain (Last Time Round EP 1988)
Material – Memory Serves (Elektra Musician 1982)
New York Rock & Roll Ensemble – Faithful Friends… (Atco 1969)
Ohio Express – Mercy (Buddah 1969)
Rex – Rex (Columbia 1976)
Shnazz – Shnazz (Shadow 1980)
Toure Kunda – Natalia (Celluloid 1985)
(Various) – KSJO Best Of The Bay 1982 (KSJO 1982)
(Various) – Salt & Tabasco: Dance Music Styles From Cuba, The Caribbean & Brazil (Mango 1990)

ANTONE’S, today, $1 each
Tyrone Brunson – Sticky Situation (Believe In A Dream 1983)
Horslips – The Book Of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony (OJM 1976)
Interview – Big Oceans (Virgin 1979)
Skyy – Inner City (Salsoul 1984)
Michael Stanley Band – You Can’t Fight Fashion (EMI America 1983)

mostly keepers?

Almost all! Several of the most recent finds are still sinking in, though. And I'm still on a fence about that Tracy Nelson album that Christgau gave a C- to.

Favorites so far: KC & Sunshine, Mandel, Kaleidoscope, Martinez, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, War, Rheingold, Foxes (esp. the very disco-metal side 3 w/ Angel and Keith Forsey), Material, Rex, Schnazz, Skyy, Stanley Band.

NY R&R Ensemble isn't nearly as heavy as their followup from 1970, so that's definitely kinda disappointing. And I'm regretfully starting to realize I respect Dick Gaughan's Socialist-leaning Celtic folk more than I actually enjoy listening to it. (I've got 2 albums by him, both live -- Not sure I've ever even heard a studio one.)

Er...SCOTTISH folk, I meant.

Horslips are the Celtic ones. Music if not vocals on the album I just got sounds sufficiently Tull-like so far; seems like it could use more Lizzy, though (compared to the stuff by them I've liked most in the past; e.g., "Sure The Boy Was Green" off Aliens.)

BREAKAWAY, Jan 24, $1 LPs
Dion and the Belmonts – Wish Upon A Star With (Laurie 1961)
Charlie Dore – Where to Now (Island 1979)
Foxy – Foxy (Dash 1976)
Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Wise Guy (Sire/Ze 1982)
Pamala Stanley – This Is Hot (EMI America 1979)

RECYCLED READS, Jan 24, $1 CDs
Cutthroats 9 – Cutthroats 9 (Man’s Ruin 2000)
Dysrhythmia – Pretest (Relapse 2003)
Mordred – In This Life (Noise/BMG 1991)
Neurosis – Souls At Zero (Alternative Tentacles 1992)
...plus, at $2, Peter Shapiro – Turn The Beat Around: The Secret History Of Disco (Faber and Faber hardcover 2005)

BREAKAWAY, Feb 15, $1 LPs
Tyrone Brunson – Fresh (Believe In A Dream 1984)
Rocky Burnette – Son Of Rock & Roll (EMI America 1980)
Lou Christie – Lightning Strikes (MGM 1966)
Darling – Put It Down To Experience (Charisma 1979)
Howard Devoto – Jerky Versions Of The Dream (IRS 1983)
(Various) – Everything New Is Old…Everything Old Is New (Ambient Sound 1982)

PIRAHNA’S (Round Rock), Feb 22, $1 LPs
Laurie Anderson/John Giorno/William Burroughs – You’re The Guy I Want To Share My Money With (Giorno Poetry Systems 2xLP 1981)
A Split Second – Kiss Of Fury (Antler Subway 1990)
Donnie Iris – The High And The Mighty (MCA 1982)
Jermaine Jackson – Feel The Fire (Motown 1977)
Randy Newman – Little Criminals (Warner Bros. 1977)
Pop Maru – Pop Maru (Wasp 1983)
Trammps – The Best Of (Atlantic 1978)

Garage sale in Round Rock, Feb 22, $1 CD
Gary Allan – Used Heart For Sale (Decca 1996)

OFF THE BEATEN PATH, Milwaukee, March 12, $1 LPs
Patty Duke – Don’t Just Stand There (United Artists 1965)
Eddie Kendricks – Eddie Kendricks (Tamla 1973)
Mass Production – Believe (Cotillion 1977)

BULLSEYE RECORDS, Milwaukee, March 12, $1 LPs
El Chicano – El Chicano (MCA 1973)
Georgia Satellites – Open All Night (Elektra 1988)
The Inmates – First Offence (Polydor 1979)
Grace Jones – Fame (Island 1978)
Grace Jones – Muse (Island 1979)
The Scooters – Young Girls (EMI America 1980)
Rhythm Method – Paquet De Cinq (Transcity EP 1982)
S.S. Fools – S.S. Fools (Columbia 1976)
Steppenwolf – Monster (Dunhill 1979)

Some random nameless thrift store, Milwaukee, March 13, $2 (!) LP
The Passions – Thirty Thousand Feet Over China (Polydor UK 1981)

Oops -- Steppenwolf obv. '69, not '79.

The Inmates – First Offence (Polydor 1979)

This is a really cool record! They cover "Dirty Water" by the Standells but change the references to be about the Thames, I think. Good garage/pub rock thing.

Vinyl:
Marty Paich - Jazz City Workshop
Ben Webster - The Consummate Artistry of...
Bennie Green - Blows His Horn, Soul Stirrin'
Blues Image - s/t
Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz
The Seeds - A Web of Sound
Soft Cell - Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
The Gap Band - IV

The jazz LPs look pretty thrashed but sound great (they're "deep groove" pressings).

CD:
Drunk Horse - Tanning Salon/Biblical Proportions, s/t
Forte - Stranger Than Fiction
AMSG - Anti-Cosmic Tyranny
Vasaeleth - All Uproarious Darkness
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum

At the Pasadena City College swap meet.

$1 each:
Stephen Stills - first album
Renaissance - Prologue
Julie Drsicoll & Brian Auger - Jools
Melanie - first album

50 cents eah:
Bob Newhart - The Button-Down Mind Of
Bob Newhart - The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!

Also got the REM book, Talk About The Passion, for 50 cents.

Went to 2 thrift stores outside of the city and CLEANED UP, with LPs mostly going for 50 cents apiece. I also found a set of 7 Peanuts comic paperbacks from 1970, each for under a quarter. Plus a first edition of "Pet Semetary" for $1.50! The LPs:

Steppenwolf "At Your Birthday Party"
The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O"
"Midnight Cowboy" OST
Aretha Franklin "Lady Soul"
Henry Mancini "The Pink Panther"
Elvis "In Hal Wallis' Blue Hawaii"
Jefferson Starship "Winds of Change" (actually I found a "Ventures Perform Telstar" LP with no jacket that I snuck in here
Chubby Checker "For Twisters Only"
The Dave Clark Five "Return!"
Mike Oldfield "Tubular Bells"
"Snoopy's Christmas"
"24 Original Happening Hits" (w Love "My Little Red Book" & The Seeds "Pushing Too Hard")
Enoch Light "Presenting" (on Tiara)
Eagles s/t

http://billbungay.com/Items_For_Sale/lp_records/J/jefferson_starship_winds_of_change_lg.jpg

I wanna play a video game that looks like this.

ANTONE’S, May 10, $1 each
Grinder Switch – Redwing (Atco 1977)
Werewolves – Werewolves (RCA 1978)

WATERLOO, May 10, $1 each
Big Chief – Drive It Off (Repulsion Germany 1991)
Lotti Golden – Lotti Golden (GRT 1971)
Phil Harris – America’s Happy-Go-Lucky Good Time Singer (RCA Special Products 2xLP 1990)
Polyrock – Polyrock (RCA EP 1980)
Process and the Doo Rags – Too Sharp (Columbia 1985)
Garland Jeffreys – Rock & Roll Adult (Epic 1981 w/ bonus 7” EP inside)
Andy Fairweather Low – Spider Jiving (A&M 1974)
Ruth Ruth – Laughing Gallery (Ventrue/American CD 1995)
Wishbone Ash – Live Dates (MCA 2xLP 1973)
Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons – Step Lively (Columbia 1981)

END OF AN EAR, May 17, 50 cents each
Bryan Adams – “Heaven”/”Diana”/”Heaven (Live)”/”Kids Wanna Rock (Live)” (A&M EP 1985)
Archie Campbell – The Cockfight And Other Tall Tales (RCA Victor 1966)
Clout – Six Of The Best (Epic 1980)
Code Blue – Code Blue (Warner Bros. 1980, inside translucent blue ziplock album bag)
Earl Thomas Conley – Blue Pearl (Sunbird 1980)
Earl Thomas Conley – Fire And Smoke (RCA 1981)
Earl Thomas Conley – Somewhere Between Right And Wrong (RCA 1982)
DB Cooper – Dangerous Curves (Warner Bros. 1981)
Dragon – Are You Old Enough (Portrait 1977)
Dirk Hamilton – Thug Of Love (Elektra 1980)
Jesters Of Destiny – In A Nostalgic Mood (Metal Blade EP 1987)
Nils Lofgren – Nils Lofgren (A&M 1975)
Magnum – Kingdom Of Madness (Jet 1978)
Rezillos – Can’t Stand The Rezillos (Sire 1978)
Rockets – Love Transfusion (Tortoise International 1977)
Turkey Bones & the Wild Dogs – No Way Before The Weekend (Big Beat U.K. EP 1985)

BREAKAWAY, May 24, $1
Dust – Hard Attack (Kama Sutra 1972)

BREAKAWAY, June 21, $1 each
Razzy Bailey – Makin Friends (RCA 1981)
Dirty Tricks – Night Man (Polydor 1975)

WATERLOO, June 21, $1 each
Labelle – Nightbirds (Epic Quadrophonic 1975)
Tuff Darts - Tuff Darts! (Sire 1978)

FRIENDS OF SOUND, July 15, $1 each except*
Freddie Cannon - Freddie Cannon (Warner Bros. 1964)
Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts – On Campus (Gross 1963) * - $2
Focus – Focus 3 (Sire 1972 2xLP)
David Lasley – Raindance (EMI America 1984)

WATERLOO, today, $1 each
Good Rats – Tasty (Rat City 1978)
Damita Jo – Sing A Country Song (Mercury 1962)
Matthew & the Mandarins – s/t (EMI Singapore 1978) -- C&W band from Singapore!
Moon Mullican – Sings His All-Time Hits (King 1958)
Mort Sahl – Iconoclast: The Future Lies Ahead (Verve 1958)
Rachel Sweet - ..And Then He Kissed Me (Columbia 1981)
Target – Captured (A&M 1977)
Chuck Wagon & the Wheels – Please Pass The Gas (Wagon Tracks 1979)
Buck White & the Down Home Folks -- s/t (County 1972)

I noticed a quad album in there — do you have a quad converter?

About a week ago, from the Poo-Bahs free bins outside their front door:

Roger Miller - Golden Hits
Grieg - Peer Gynt (Prague Symphony)
The Moog Machine - Christmas Becomes Electric
Judy Henske - High Flying Bird
Arthur Fiedler/Boston Pops - Greatest Hits of the 60s
Leonard Bernstein - An American In Paris & Billy the Kid (RCA Victor Symphony)

I'm ashamed to say I haven't played any of them yet.

Wau, what is the Singaporean C&W like? Ex-pats?

I can't say for sure, but judging from the LP cover photo (see link below), I assume they are actual Singaoreans -- Not American Ex-pats. Though they do cover several familiar American C&W songs: "Lucille," "City Of New Orleans," "Margaritaville," "Lovesick Blues," etc.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2620266

And no, I don't have a quad converter. Not sure I'd even recognize one if I saw one.

BREAKAWAY, Aug 23, $1 each LPs
Aurra – Live And Let Live (Salsoul 1983)
Blackbyrds – City Life (Fantasy 1975)
Rick James Present The Stone City Band – In ‘n’ Out (Gordy 1980)
Rosalie Sorrels – Miscellaneous Abstract Record No. 1 (Green Linnet 1982)
Grady Tate – Movin’ Day (Janus 1974)

RECYCLED READS, Aug 23, $1 each CDs
Babasonicos – Mucho (Universal Music Latino 2008)
Bruce Cockburn – Christmas (Columbia 1993)
Michelle Shocked – Arkansas Traveler (Mercury 1992)

RECYCLED READS, Sep 20, 50-cent each LPs
Johnny Adams – Room With A View Of The Blues (Rounder 1987)
Ray Barretto – Tomorrow Live (Atlantic 2xLP 1976)
Brides Of Funkenstein – Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy (Atlantic 1979)
Crusaders – Ghetto Blaster (MCA 1984)
Bobby Fuller Four – Best Of (Rhino 1981)
Carlene Carter – Musical Shapes (Warner Bros. 1980)
James P. Johnson – The Original (Folkways 1973)
Steve Kuhn- Mostly Ballads (New World 1987)
David Lasley – Missing Twenty Grand (EMI 1982)
Moon Martin – Street Fever (Capitol 1980)
Thelonious Monk – Monk (Pausa Jazz Origin Series c. 1982)
NRBQ – At Yankee Stadium (Mercury 1978)
Osmonds – The Plan (MGM 1973)
Carl Perkins – Rocking Guitarman (Charly U.K. 1975)
Lou Reed – The Blue Mask (RCA 1982)
Rochereau – Tabu Ley (Shanachie 1984)
Roches – Keep On Doing (Warner Bros. 1982)
Will Rogers – The Wit And Wisdom Of Will Rogers In His Own Voice (Caedmon 2xLP 1969)
Artie Shaw – The Best Of (MCA 2xLP 1975)
The Sheppards – The Sheppards (Solid Smoke 1980)
James Blood Ulmer – Freelancing (Columbia 1981)*
Tom Verlaine – Tom Verlaine (Elektra 1979)
(Various) – Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Volume 2 1952-1955 (Atlantic 2xLP 1985)
(Various) – Freedom Songs: Selma, Alabama (Folkways 1965)
(Various) – Jazz Odyssey Volume 1 The Sound Of New Orleans 1917-1947 (Columbia Special Products 3xLP 1964)
(Various) - Less Than Zero (Def Jam 1987)
(Various) – The Real Calypso 1927-1946 (Folkways 1966)
(Various) – Send Your Children To The Orphan Home: Calypso Songs Of Social Commentary And Love Troubles (Folkways 1981)
(Various) – Urgh! A Music War (A&M 2xLP 1981)
(Various) – Where Was Butler: A Calypso Documentary From Trinidad (Folkloric 1987)
(Various) – Winners & Losers: Campaign Songs From The Critical Elections In American History Volume 2 1896-1976 (Folkways 1980)

RECYCLED READS, Sep 20, $1 each CDs
Toby Keith – How Do You Like Me Now?! (Dreamworks 1999)
Madonna – Erotica (Maverick 1992)
(Various) – Play Me A Polka: Tex-Czech Polkas (Rounder 1994)

* -- oops,already had a copy of this one

Really lucked out at the Value Village tonight. Records are listed as $1.99 but it's half-off day and the clerk messed up anyways so I paid less than a dollar for each of these:

Dio "Holy Diver"
Alice Cooper "Love It To Death"
Alice Cooper "Welcome to My Nightmare"
Ozzy Osbourne "Blizzard of Oz"
Metal Church "Metal Church"
Suzi Quatro "Your Mama Won't Like Me"
Steve Martin "A Wild and Crazy Guy"

Thrift store buy, "The Early Twentieth Century," a 5-LP set of music by Bartok, Gershwin, Milhaud, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, etc. Looks as if it has never been played. Marked $3 but bought on half-price Thursday.

Found (and purchased) this morning at a Goodwill in Westport, CT (all lp's)

Love-Four Sail
The Tony Williams Lifetime-Ego
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Herbie Mann-London Underground
Herbie Mann-Push Push
The Sufi Choir
Talking Heads-Stop Making Sense
Pharoah Sanders-Jewels of Thought
Terje Rydpal-What Comes After
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
David Holland Quartet-Conference of the Birds
Soft Machine-Soft Machine Six
Pharoah Sanders-Karma
The Tony Williams Lifetime- (turn it over)
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
John McLaughlin-Devotion
Sam Rivers-Sizzle
Cecil Taylor-Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
Miles Davis-Get Up With It

Merry Christmas to me.

Impressive. Good condition?

Yeah I would've walked out of that place with a giant smile on my face. California thrifts are all terminally picked over so it's rare to find even one good thing.

good scores kwhitehead. especially in a goodwill!

dave holland's conference of the birds and miles' get up with are two of my all-time jazz records, those are amazing

I've had a quite a year at the area Goodwills. Seems to me there was quite a bit of attic/basement cleanout happening in the New Haven area. The condition of many are quite good and the remainder are dingy but serviceable. I plan on giving them all a good cleaning.

Oh, and regarding Gooodwill record shopping, it's all about the timing.

went to one record fair where I could not find anything to buy. twas so dispiriting! felt like I'd wasted my day, until I flipped through a $1 box and found the Metroplex 12" of Eddie 'Flashin' Fowlkes - "Goodbye Kiss":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjcbxtYF_bI

didn't want to take any chances on further luck - snatched it up and I'm outta here...!

that's the one I usually remember first, but I also bought my copy of Metro's 1976 self-titled LP for $1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kX8LOVII0o

I got it thanks to a mention by Ted White in reference to Lou Stathis' wake.
also picked up their second album, produced by Mike Thorne.
when I hear "Criminal World" I wonder if the insistent pulse inspired the drums & guitar in "I Should Have Known Better".