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

if you're watching this altair... why do you have so many damn copies of 'dare'??

he said he was gonna wallpaper his room w/it one time

i used to have a suitemate in college who wallpapered his room with playing cards. it was by far the gheyest shit id ever seen.

i met a dude in chicago that put equally spaced ping pong ball halves on his bedroom wall in a grid. it looked kinda pimp

steve young - seven bridges road (rules)

Yessss it does

stuff from the last few weeks-

Bill Connors - Theme to the Guardian
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune 2lp
Raydio - Rock On ($1)
Neil Young - Dreamin' Man
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live At the Fillmore East
Canned Heat - Future Blues
Canned Heat - Live at the Topanga Corrall
Charles Lloyd Quartet - Dream Weaver
Rapeman - Budd ep
10cc - How Dare You! ($1)
Oliver Lake - Life Dance of Is ($1)
Los Lobos - ...and a time to dance ep
Fleetwood Mac - The Rockhoppers Live 1976 boot
Yahowha 13 - Magnificence in the Memory
John Hartford - Housing Project
Tom Cora & The Ex - Scrabbling at the Lock (MS rex reish)
Justin Hayward & John Lodge - Blue Jays

oh, and i forgot -

Bert Jansch - A Rare Conundrum (drag city reish)

and man, I really do need a copy of that Steve Young lp....

Since getting a regular paycheck for the first time in a few years, I've been splurging a bit to make up for precious lost vinyl hoarding time. My latest haul:

All three Chris Rainbow full-lengths (scored one of them from some chump in BK selling it for $12!)
Circuit Rider s/t
Babe Ruth - Stealin' Home
Toe Fat - Two
Michael Head and the Strands - Magical World of the Strands

xpost AFAICT you can't totally go wrong with the dude. I guess I only have a scatter of like 5 or 6 albums between Seven Bridges Road and Switchblades Of Love ('93 or 94?) but I haven't found anything even hinting at dudness yet!

(Beginning w/ Rock Salt & Nails actually but anyway...)

mark stewart & the maffia - learning to cope with cowardice
v/a - balearic sound volumen uno
colourbox - s/t
little annie - short and sweet
yarbrough & peoples - heartbeats 12"
rod - just keep on walking 12"
thompson twins - lies 12"

i got a lot of things this week.. i can't remember everything, prob. from memory:

flower traveling band - satori (original)
michael cacy - gathering (private folk-rock)
laura cantrell - when the roses bloom again
michael yonkers - lovely gold
ex & tom cora - scrabbling at the lock
eddy detroit - immortal gods

uhh, some more stuff too.

'Immortal Gods' is so great. I already have the CD but may just need to swap it out for that new reish

it's so affordable in comparison to an orig that i found it hard to resist.

wowsa, i'm assuming you got a pretty good deal on that original copy of 'satori'?

v.v. jealous of satori

the satori has some scuffs but plays pretty clean, surface noise between tracks kinda thing. luckily it's not a quiet LP and it's a good pressing. sounds better than the radioactive lp anyway. it was $50.

(but i worked 7 hrs on sunday and took records instead of money so..)

how did that come to the store? someone brought it in to sell?

yeah, this friend of Dave L's has a japanese father who happened to have two flower travelin' band LPs laying around the home. there was also a copy of Made in Japan but I think Erin has that one on hold.

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

and will be picking up my copy of Loveless either tonight or tomorrow.

i'd say $50 for satori is a deal!

i've been curious about that ex & tom cora thing, are you guys liking it?

i havent been -- the ex is tedious IMO

oh so anyway other than that german house box and the section 25 album i got last night and the tom ardolino album i also got stuff by live skull (haven't had a copy of the pusherman ep in years), athletico spizz 80, elektrics, hammersmith, sandalwood, jack traylor and steelwind, philisteens, people's choice (moulton action), feedtime.

i really like the ex & tom cora!!

Michael Head and the Strands - Magical World of the Strands

<3 <3 <3 this and bravo on finding the LP

the only tom cora album i have is this one and i really like it a lot:

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i passed on the jobriath s/t album last night for 8 bucks. i gave my copy to chuck years ago and though i kinda want one for historical reasons i never really played it much...so, there ya go.

Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire
Can - Future Days
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Queen Elvis
Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks gatefold
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up 12"
Cortney Tidwell - Boys
Voice Of The Seven Thunders - S/T (w/a very nice #'d print to go along)

Mclusky - The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire

oh fuccccck nice this album starts out so so so great

oh hey btw jon w1lliams linked to the NEU! vinyl boxset yesterday on facebook -- anyone know any specifics about it?

like i mean WHEN not WHAT

The Ex & Tom Cora rekkerd is GRRREAT! both of the albums they made together are among the best stuff the Ex is associated with. and some of the best stuff of the 90s PERIOD

pick it up psychegawsple!! don't listen to 69. I can't recommend it highly enough. you won't be disappointed

saw them together at the Lounge Ax in Chicago mid-90s. one of the best shows ever

i mean, theres a lot of things i dont like on first listen, then come to love. the ex just sounds kinda bloodless or something??

wow! "bloodless" is like the farthest adjective from my mind I could ever use to describe them. their whole 20+ year existence is like the polar opposite of that! but not tryin to fite or anything. we like what we like. but don't you like Dog Faced Hermans?? kinda the same vibe

i like DFH pretty good. they remind me a little more of TFUL282 than the ex, though?

plus the ex is too POLITICAL

well I love all three of those bands. I actually think The Ex sound more urgent/frenetic than DFH (and of course Andy from DFH went on to join The Ex.) actually saw them like three weeks ago here in Chicago (first show since G.W. Sok left the band) and they were still on fire

plus I'm on board with The Ex's politics, so..

newish blue The Ex best-of double LP is ace, still in heavy rotation crate. srsly re-try, now more than ever

i guess urgent/frenetic sounds too STRIDENT to me or something? i dont know, there's no real good rubric for what i immediately like, etc! probably ill be jockin the ex so hard in 6 months, ordering vintage ex shirts on ebay etc

jockin' the ex

done that a few times havent we all amirite

yeah I hear you .. nobody likes to be PREACHED at, but w/ The Ex, I dunno it just kinda works. as part of the whole package. plus they are just so lovable and genuine about it, they aren't like I dunno "Rage Against the Machine" or somethin

I love the Ex. I'm OK with political music though - love anarcho-punk stuff like Crass, Conflict etc. The 1st Ex album sounds a bit like early Crass.

Most of my Ex stuff is on CD though. I only have Aural Guerrilla on LP. And the new 7".

amazing free Ex show in NYC Lincoln Center a couple summers ago, in Ethiopian mode -- they are a band I will always go see.

recent record treats:

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SCG 78. I try to avoid buying purely fetish objects, but it's hard

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I think this will be good, barely scratched the surface

arrg pwnd in html beef

most of my Ex stuff is on CD too! like ALL of my Ex stuff, except for this new Mississippi reissue and a copy of 'Too Many Cowboys' I bought years ago.

there is a record store next to my house that had like every Ex release on CD. so I slowly just bought them up figuring, fuck it, I wanna support this place, plus I just wearied at the idea of hunting down all of the original LPs on eBay or whatever. Plus their CD packaging is pretty rad. Stuff like the '1936' thing, which replicates the original book that the vinyl came with. Or 'Dignity of Labour' which comes in a box with all the orignal inserts, etc...

over the last few weeks:

Sonny Sharrock - Monkey-Pockie-Boo
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Charles Minugs - Tijuana Moods
Tim Cohen - The Two Sides of
v/a - In A Cloud: The New Sounds of San Francisco
The Sandwitches - How to make ambient sadcake
The Sandwitches - Back to the Sea 7"
Bo Diddley - Have Guitar Will Travel
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Crocodiles/Graffiti Island/Dum Dum Girls/Pens 7"
Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La 7"
Olivia Tremor Control vs. Black Swan Network tour lp

<3Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear<3

the dudes at my favorite SF pizza place were jamming bizarro the other day when i was in there the other day. what a great record!