it happened on a whim: I was wearing a sun dress today, and, walking home from work, I thought to myself "I look damn good in dresses. I should buy a few more."
as I headed down to Telegraph, I realized the ridiculousness of my premise
and, as not to kick myself later for spending money on clothes instead of music, I headed towards the record shops instead
I limited myself to dollar vinyl (and a handful of used LPs); absolutely no new vinyl. I still managed to spend 80 dollars between Amoeba and Rasputin.
anyways, I bought loads of dollar vinyl, a heap of Elvis Costello records, a bunch of Kinks albums and a handful of 45s.
totals: 39 LPs, 5 45s
here are my favourites, and Amoeba is holding onto a copy of My Aim Is True (Costello), a couple of Black Lips LPs, some Ryan Adams LPs and the BBC Beatles for me, because I'm hitting up the SF store tomorrow and was worried I wouldn't have enough money.
er, the middle record in the first column is Fly Like An Eagle by Steve Miller Band. I accidentally had it backwards when I took the photo. the one in the upper right corner is A Psychedelic Furs album (the top got cut out)
on the bottom row, the black album is a live Ella Fitzgerald LP, the white one: Come Fly with Me by Frank Sinatra
I'm really getting into Grand Funk. I listened to them as I was cleaning my room last night. good stuff.
by far, my best find of the day was the following:
IT'S MY FAVOURITE CLASH SINGLE!
The Clash - Rock the Casbah [mp3]
6 comments:
Woo hoo! I love record shopping
I'm going to a conference in Sacramento on Thursday and I'd LOVE to spend some time record shopping but I don't think it will work with my schedule ='-(
The Arctic Monkeys one is a great find though! I've ordered it a few times from online stores and they always cancel it due to not having it in stock...
I know! I also found all three singles for Favourite Worst Nightmare at Amoeba! I only bought Brianstorm but I'm going back on Thursday
(I also found some Franz singles. score.)
White Light/White Heat is choice, so is The Cars s/t. You should really pick up some Keith Moon-era The Who, though, a la Who's Next, Quadrophenia, and Tommy.
I love the Cars. I keep finding their albums in the dollar vinyl bins. this all started because I thought the album art of Candy-O was rad
oh, hon, I already own Who's Next and Tommy, don't have Quadrophenia yet though. my Who collection is blossoming. my copy of Tommy was 9 bucks but other than that, I only buy their albums if they're under 5 bucks. I hate those super expensive rereleases. I got Who's Next for 90 cents and it plays like a charm!
(that's why it took me forever to buy white light/white heat, I didn't want to shell out 30 bucks for a shiny new copy. I found the s/t VU record the last time I went shopping, for 3 dollars I think, that made me really happy because all the copies I had come across up till that point were fancy reissues way out of my budget.)
Who's Next is probably my favorite album of all time, but Quadrophenia is a very close contender. I think it's heads and shoulders above Tommy.
oh wow, I didn't know you were such a Who fan!
I've yet to come across Quadrophenia, but I'm going to Amoeba SF tomorrow and I hear it's like a grocery store. I am so excited. it's the first of many trips, I'm going to start going every time I go to the city for shows, so I won't have to lug hundreds of LPs home all at once.
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