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

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