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Trip to a Record Store - What's Your Latest?
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This was many years ago, I wandered into a record store in Melbourne and I saw one of the most stunning looking skinny blonde shop assistant. I was looking for some stuff by Ian Dury and the blockheads and so I asked her what they had. She then reported to me that her favorite by the blockhead was " sex and drug and rock and roll". Wow, I fell in love that moment!
Made a pilgrimage to St. Paul's Cheapo Records. I followed this advice:
Arc of a Diver ($5.00) at Valley Vinyls in McAllen, TX.
Doug G.
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
My latest was to The Philadelphia Record Exchange in January while visiting my daughter over Christmas/New Years. I bought several records of various condition (mostly at least VG) and the prices were commensurate with the condition.
It is fairly close to where she lives so I walked there and then walked down to the Fishtown Tavern afterward where they make killer Martinis and Tonics. They certainly don't skimp on the gin!
Doug
It is fairly close to where she lives so I walked there and then walked down to the Fishtown Tavern afterward where they make killer Martinis and Tonics. They certainly don't skimp on the gin!
Doug
Today, i hit the Cheapo Records in Minneapolis. Here's a pano of the interior:
Wow that is pretty damn cool. What did you buy?
Today, on the recommendation of the owner of SolSta Records, i hit Agartha Records in St. Paul whilst my daughter was at another doctor's appointment:
https://www.aghartarecords.com/
Boy howdy do I have a stack of records to get to! As mentioned in the thread for the new Yes Fragile set, today's my birthday and my family sent me all this:\
That's the Steven Wilson Atmos Mix Yes Album set, De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising, Hermanos Gutierrez's El Bueno Y El Malo, and Khruangbin and Leon Bridges's Texas Sun (all but the last one with Atmos mixes on one format or another!) And the things in front are Loop Concert Earplugs, a phone mount for my car, a real meat thermometer (I have one of those old dial ones that seems to... not work?), and a new nice keyboard for my office nook.
If that somehow isn't enough, my lovely sister-in-law has ordered Jazzmachine's 24 and Tetragon Project's Oracles off of IAN Records's site for me, and my brother got me a Sigur Ros album (which one, currently unknown on their way to me).
I had a FULL day of birthday adventures, from lunch at a nearby deli, to mini golf at a nearby local course, to going to Wax Trax records here in Denver, Colorado. I forgot to take pictures of the place itself because I was a kid in a candy store. I hadn't actually been to a record store in nearly a year, having moved away from nearby places to Denver late Oct, and not wanting to add much more to my packing duties. I probably haven't been to one since sometime either late August or September last year... as a result I went a little crazy. Did I spend too much? Yes. Can I afford it? Also yes. Do I regret it... no not at all:
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That is, in order:
In order:
Ash Ra Tempel S/T (Krautrock)
Michael Hoenig/Manuel Göttsching - Early Water (Berlin School ambient)
Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum (Space Ambient)
Ryo Fukui - Mellow Dream (Modal Japanese Jazz)
Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar (Pop Electronic)
Tortoise - TNT (Post Rock)
Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods (Ambient, a 1975 album, his only album until…)
Ernest Hood - Back To The Woodlands (Ambient, released in 2022!)
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade 2020 (New remixes/"continuations" of a track from the album Lifeforms, a whole new album built around one track)
Nujabes - Modal Soul (instrumental hip-hop... for those who are fans of J Dilla, Nujabes was born the exact same day and year as J Dilla and makes very similar music... tragically gone too soon just like Dilla)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Killer Whale Atmospheres (Dark, moody ambient)
From there we went to a Brewery not too far from Wax Trax, Bierstadt Lagerhaus, and then dinner at Jinya Ramen
And then finally rounded things off with a few arcade games and rounds of pinball at The 1UP Arcade Bar
All this was a capstone for a full birthday weekend that ranged from Disc Golf and grillouts on the 4th, the Grateful Dead cover band Dark Star Orchestra on the 5th (another great poster added to my walls!), and now today. With one more day left in the weekend... my plan is to do a whole heck of a lot of listening!
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That's the Steven Wilson Atmos Mix Yes Album set, De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising, Hermanos Gutierrez's El Bueno Y El Malo, and Khruangbin and Leon Bridges's Texas Sun (all but the last one with Atmos mixes on one format or another!) And the things in front are Loop Concert Earplugs, a phone mount for my car, a real meat thermometer (I have one of those old dial ones that seems to... not work?), and a new nice keyboard for my office nook.
If that somehow isn't enough, my lovely sister-in-law has ordered Jazzmachine's 24 and Tetragon Project's Oracles off of IAN Records's site for me, and my brother got me a Sigur Ros album (which one, currently unknown on their way to me).
I had a FULL day of birthday adventures, from lunch at a nearby deli, to mini golf at a nearby local course, to going to Wax Trax records here in Denver, Colorado. I forgot to take pictures of the place itself because I was a kid in a candy store. I hadn't actually been to a record store in nearly a year, having moved away from nearby places to Denver late Oct, and not wanting to add much more to my packing duties. I probably haven't been to one since sometime either late August or September last year... as a result I went a little crazy. Did I spend too much? Yes. Can I afford it? Also yes. Do I regret it... no not at all:
View attachment IMG_1809.jpg
That is, in order:
In order:
Ash Ra Tempel S/T (Krautrock)
Michael Hoenig/Manuel Göttsching - Early Water (Berlin School ambient)
Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum (Space Ambient)
Ryo Fukui - Mellow Dream (Modal Japanese Jazz)
Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar (Pop Electronic)
Tortoise - TNT (Post Rock)
Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods (Ambient, a 1975 album, his only album until…)
Ernest Hood - Back To The Woodlands (Ambient, released in 2022!)
The Future Sound Of London - Cascade 2020 (New remixes/"continuations" of a track from the album Lifeforms, a whole new album built around one track)
Nujabes - Modal Soul (instrumental hip-hop... for those who are fans of J Dilla, Nujabes was born the exact same day and year as J Dilla and makes very similar music... tragically gone too soon just like Dilla)
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Killer Whale Atmospheres (Dark, moody ambient)
From there we went to a Brewery not too far from Wax Trax, Bierstadt Lagerhaus, and then dinner at Jinya Ramen
And then finally rounded things off with a few arcade games and rounds of pinball at The 1UP Arcade Bar
All this was a capstone for a full birthday weekend that ranged from Disc Golf and grillouts on the 4th, the Grateful Dead cover band Dark Star Orchestra on the 5th (another great poster added to my walls!), and now today. With one more day left in the weekend... my plan is to do a whole heck of a lot of listening!
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Doug G.
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
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Great card @PurpleMoustache - Louis Wain ?
It doesn’t actually say! It’s from Lucca Paperworks from Seattle however, that’s the information given on the back
Always a treat supporting Cheapo Records in St. Paul
A new record store opened in Evanston, IL! A deacon from St. Nick's Catholic Church blessed the store, and the barber who has a store next door cut the ribbon! Greg, the owner, told me he has about 50 Quad LPs, but they are not out yet: the LPs were in no real order on the shelves; Greg had just thrown some of his 30,000 collection of records out to get the store opened on time. Maybe the highlight of my trip was the Mexican Elvis! Greg is in the Captain Kirk outfit. He told me to return in a couple of weeks to check out his Quads! Animal Records
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Lovely!
If I had a store like that near me, I’d be in trouble. The deacon’s blessings even attracted the ghost of Elvis apparently.
“This one's for real
I already bought the dream”
