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Post by beta on Jul 3, 2022 6:43:49 GMT
I was looking at Innerworld by Electric Youth that was hovering around $12 last year. Now about $85. Fuck me fuck me fuck me. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 5, 2022 4:23:42 GMT
Soft Cell - 1981 - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Dunno how I didn't pick this up years ago, but holy shit, what a record.
The Klezmonauts - 1998 - Oy to the World! - I've got a soft spot for proper Christmas carols but most recordings are fucking over-sentimental dreck, over elaborate, child choirs and the like. This is a klezmer version that is simultaneously very funny because of how Jewish it sounds and through minor-key interpretations of the tunes it sort of captures that slightly melancholy feeling of a Salvation Army brass quintet on a street corner, which is something else I'd like to find a decent recording of. Morrissey - 2009 - Swords - Just a B-sides compilation for the sake of general completion. Some funnier tracks on here. Steven Wilson - 2014 - Hand. Cannot. Erase. - A present from the ladyfriend after I mentioned it existed and gave a rundown of its background concept. It's a little too proggy for me but some very good tracks.
Porcupine Tree - 1996 - Signify - Part of the same present from the girlfriend. I like it a little more than Wilson's solo album and some of it rocks decently. Very proggy.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Aug 9, 2022 8:45:13 GMT
Bad Manners - Gosh It's...LP. oddly enough, it needs more ska
Devo - Freedom Of Choice LP. reacquistion after daftly selling my last copy.
Mark Hollis - s/t CD
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring CD
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden CD ffs the T's are a long way from the C's. Going to take years before I get around to these
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 5, 2022 10:12:57 GMT
My Discogs wantlist is at about 900-odd entries for about 500 albums, but the prices are so berserk lately I haven't bought much.
Woah. Thats a lot I used to have a list of 100 or so but goddamnit the thing took up weighted residence in my head like I was a drug addict looking for fixes of unobtainium. Ended up torturing myself over it My poxy wee current list is much more realistically manageable: Barkmarket - Gimmick Barkmarket - L. Ron Barkmarket - Lardroom Deadsmoke - Deadsmoke Deadsmoke - Mountain Legacy Electric Wizard - Black Masses Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Ufomammut - 8 Ufomammut - Snailking Im curious if www.ccmusic.com/ have the same bonkers cheap postage to Aus that they do to Japan. Their stuff is not particularly cheap but factor in the postage and its the same total as wholesalers ffs Just had a dick around with the CCmusic cart and they charge the same postage for lp's as cd's. WFT. 5 items to Japan: US$23.9910 items: $33.99and if you really go berko, 20 items for $53.99 |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 29, 2022 7:42:58 GMT
$3 ARCHERS OF LOAF - WHITE TRASH HEROES CD. kind of almost rooting it
$4 BLIND SHAKE / FLY RIGHT LP top, top sound
$12 CAVITY / AFTER DEATH LP
$10 CAVITY / WRAITH LP wow, they came back from the 90's, got older, more primeval and mythical, and are, insanely, even better now. Totally repetitive slow riffing
$4 DEAD C / VAIN, ERUDITE AND STUPID cd another joust with this thorny snarling beautiful beast. Plan is to wade in, pick my spots and commit the gold to tape
Ufomammut - Ecate cd
Ufomammut - Snailking CD
Ufomammut - Idolum CD. fahhhk this is top flight doom shit
$6 ELECTRIC WIZARD / TIME TO DIE cd
$7 ELECTRIC WIZARD / BLACK MASSES cd
$6 Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard CD. as with all the best doom, the concept of time just melts away...
$3 HEY COLOSSUS / CARCASS 7" top shit
$4 HEY COLOSSUS / FOUR BIBLES lp. still growing on me
$5 HUM / YOU'D PREFER AN ASTRONAUT cd. morose 90's noise rock seems like my thing but this aint hitting at all
$5 MASTERS OF REALITY / SUNRISE ON THE SUFFERBUS CD knew it would be aces. Ginger Baker on drums
$4 ROY MONTGOMERY /7"
$2 ROY MONTGOMERY / LONDON IS SWINGING BY HIS NECK 7"
$6 SPOTLIGHTS / SEISMIC cd. needs huge volume on headphones iHomo
$6 SPRAY PAINT / PUNTERS ON A BARGE lp. top tone
$6 SWELL MAPS / TRIP TO MARINEVILLE cd. more punky than I was expecting. Unlike my comp lp's of this band
$2 YO LA TENGO / POPULAR SONGS cd
$5 YO LA TENGO / FAKEBOOK cd
$4 YO LA TENGO / PAINFUL cd
$2 YO LA TENGO / I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS cd. snoozed on this band forever. Stupid name and just assumed they were a 3rd rate Sonic Youth/Superchunk on Merge. top quality band iHomo as long as they stick to Neil Young tones /mellow shit and dont stray too far into Tweetown,
Cocteau Twins - BBC Sessions 2xCD
$12 ZENI GEVA / AGONY FOR DESIRE lp
Mercury Rev - Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp 12" 400 yen. skeptical but wftever
Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music cd 100 yen. bit bummed. Boring Hawaaian music
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express LP 2,000 yen. had to have it. It's all that
Godflesh - Slavestate LP. bit bummed this is a remixes thing
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet LP. cheapo copy from Book Off ffs 600 yen. will prolly sell like the 17 other copies I sold
Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. never really matched the clanging grandeur of the opening track
Brass Construction - Movin' 7 200 yen
Ohio Players - Skin Tight LP 700 yen another upgrade from Book Off ffs
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Post by Ladyfingers on Dec 30, 2022 1:46:38 GMT
Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. never really matched the clanging grandeur of the opening track The title track, Armenia and Styropor are some of my favourites on there, I love the mood of that album.
Where are you getting such cheap records?
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 30, 2022 1:51:57 GMT
Where are you getting such cheap records?
AKA The Road To Financial Ruin  |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Dec 30, 2022 2:01:14 GMT
Where are you getting such cheap records?
AKA The Road To Financial Ruin Bah, it's all in chicken scratches.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Dec 30, 2022 2:32:34 GMT
Been a while since I updated, not a huge number of records bought this year.
Bruce Springsteen - 1973 - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J - Record fair bargain bin pickup. I only recently decided to give Springsteen a go and he is wildly overrated but still good. $2 or so a disc is fine by me.
Bruce Springsteen - 1980 - The River - Same record fair. Catherine Wheel - 1992 - Ferment - Making an effort to pick up some classic shoegaze albums lately. This is great. Chapterhouse - 1991 - Whirlpool - Also great. Chris Rea - 1993 - Espresso Logic - Not his best stuff but I always enjoy his particular combo of vocal rasp and virtuoso slide guitar. Colourbox - 2012 - Colourbox - This has been hovering around AUD200 for years now and I got a good deal. Beautifully remastered, zero brickwalling. -
Electric Youth - 2014 - Innerworld - Got the un-identifiable deluxe version with the bonus tracks I wanted on eBay for a fraction of the price it was hovering around on Discogs. A nice album.
Eureka Brass Band - 1951 - New Orleans Funeral & Parade - A bit no-noised, sadly, but has that loose, primitive feel I like in old-timey jazz, which is (generally) the only jazz I like. Final - 2022 - I Am the Dirt Under Your Fingernails - Just some drones from Broadrick, very tasteful. Hatchie - 2022 - Giving the World Away - Brisbane girl who makes pop songs that seem to have been secretly backed by Lush and Slowdive. Nothing brilliant, but the guitar sounds are utterly huge and so I reward her with my dollars. Leonard Cohen - 1984 - Various Positions - Filling out the Cohen collection. Ludwig van Beethoven - 1963 - 9 Symphonien (Herbert von Karajan,Berliner Philharmoniker) - Extremely lush recordings, although could be a little snappier here and there. Makthaverskan - 2017 - Ill - This was really hard to find and then popped up for cheap at a generic eBay seller. Score! Mogwai - 2008 - The Hawk Is Howling - Part of a big Discogs haul Mogwai - 2017 - Every Country's Sun - Same Discogs haul New Model Army - 1989 - Thunder and Consolation - Bought for "Vagabonds", but whole album is great. Pale Sketcher - 2022 - Golden Skin - Really nice little collection of surprisingly upbeat drum'n'bass type stuff by Broadrick Robert Johnson - 1937 - The Complete Recordings - Owned a prior version of this but this was re-recorded from recently unearthed sources in far better nick than before, and better ordered too. Absolutely huge improvement. Roger Waters - 1992 - Amused to Death - It's not Floyd but it's okay. Swirlies - 1993 - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton - This one was really, really expensive but I got a deal on it. Still expensive. Good album. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 2009 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Noisy sort of pop/indie stuff that works. The Waterboys - 1985 - This Is the Sea - Not entirely sold on this band despite all the praise, but it's a good listen. Weyes Blood - 2022 - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow - A good album by any standards but lacks the immediate standouts of her earlier stuff. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 30, 2022 2:37:43 GMT
Bah, it's all in chicken scratches.
Google Chrome browser with its auto translate is my lifesaver. Wouldnt even bother otherwise. Sounds like International Shipping would be a pain in the arse though Feel free to send a list of links of stuff u want from their store and I can add em to my next order and forward them on to Aus. Regular Japan PO shipping would surely be cheaper than whatever emanates from that "World Shopping Cart" bullshit. No idea whats in it for me LOL. Maybe dubbing the odd cd to tape if it takes my fancy fukk knows. 1,000 yen looks to be about AU$11 these days |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Dec 30, 2022 2:42:34 GMT
Bah, it's all in chicken scratches.
Google Chrome browser with its auto translate is my lifesaver. Wouldnt even bother otherwise. Sounds like International Shipping would be a pain in the arse though Feel free to send a list of links of stuff u want from their store and I can add em to my next order and forward them on to Aus. Regular Japan PO shipping would surely be cheaper than whatever emanates from that "World Shopping Cart" bullshit. No idea whats in it for me LOL. Maybe dubbing the odd cd to tape if it takes my fancy fukk knows. 1,000 yen looks to be about AU$11 these days I'll have to take you up on that. I am continually surprised at how cheap 2nd hand Japanese CDs are when bought in Japan compared to the insane prices they fetch outside of the country. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 31, 2022 0:03:13 GMT
[/b] - Record fair bargain bin pickup. I only recently decided to give Springsteen a go and he is wildly overrated but still good. $2 or so a disc is fine by me. Bruce Springsteen - 1980 - The River - Same record fair.[/quote][/quote]
totally agree on the wildly overrated. Born In The USA and its Guitar Rock Man iconography ffs all the riffs are plinkly little keyboards, tuff guy. Darkness and Nebraska are the only 2 lp's I kept (and I think of them as perfect 10's.)
my taek
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. 3/10
Wild, Innocent 3/10
Born To Run 6/10
The River 6/10
Nebraska 10/10
Darkness on the edge of town 10/10
Born In The U.S.A. 5/10
Ticks me off I couldnt get into this band. Should be right in my droney noisy shoegazey wheelhouse
current shoegaze Mt Rushmore? HIT ME
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 31, 2022 0:40:38 GMT
couple more scabs from a local 50% off sale yesterday... Ry Cooder - Music From The Motion Picture "Alamo Bay" LP 400 yen Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers + Queers LP 400 yen ...and the Vic is going to killlllll me for this one... My Bloody Valentine - Complete Rarities Vol. 3 LP 1200 yen  |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Dec 31, 2022 4:41:46 GMT
my top 10 buys in 2022
1 ELECTRIC WIZARD - time to die CD. easy choice. time melts away
2 UFOMAMMUT - Ecate CD. so stooped I slept on this baaaand
3 UFOMAMMUT- Idolum CD
4 CAVITY After Death LP. amazing rise from the ashes, the sludge roar now reimagined as medieval monotony
5 ELECTRIC WIZARD - black masses CD
6 ELECTRIC WIZARD - Wizard Bloody Wizard CD
7 UFOMAMMUT- Snailking CD
8 MINISTRY - Filth Pig CD. odd reacquisition that has really crept up on me
9 KRAFTWERK - Trans Europe Express LP
10 EARTH - Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method CD
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jan 4, 2023 0:30:45 GMT
couple more scabs from a local 50% off sale yesterday... Ry Cooder - Music From The Motion Picture "Alamo Bay" LP 400 yen Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers + Queers LP 400 yen ...and the Vic is going to killlllll me for this one... My Bloody Valentine - Complete Rarities Vol. 3 LP 1200 yen Very nice!
I have a few of those tracks, but curious about MBV remxes now.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 7, 2023 11:54:11 GMT
I have a few of those tracks, but curious about MBV remxes now.
Turns out I got a problem with "remixes". I know NOTHING about t eh dance scene but that Andrew Weatherall "remix" sounds to me like some egotistical fashun d'jay has just lazily slapped his artless oonst oonst numbskull bass drumbeat on the track and in doing so robbed it of the dreamy falling skree quality which made it legandary in the first place. Thank you for nothing, Mr Big Name Remixing" D'Jay. Hack. |
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Post by beta on Jan 16, 2023 7:41:54 GMT
Bought some computer books, but also one CD. Some Greek musician's CD. You'd all probably never listen to it or even look at it. I am quite excited to hear it. I even wrote her and told her. Total fucking music nerd to the death. She replied that she looks forward to hearing about my response to the CD seeing as how I own every other CD she has ever made. It was put out by BIS, which I mentioned to her has, to my mind, the best sound engineers of classical CDs going today. She agreed privately. Sher certainly can't afford to alienate other labels. BIS really is night and day compared to NAXOS, for example. More nerd talk.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jan 25, 2023 13:26:56 GMT
Got the new Laibach album, Sketches of the Red Districts. Laibach are an interesting mix of hilariously silly and genuine menace This is squarely in the latter camp, and actually pretty great. Pretty spare, soundtrack-y sort of thing. Sounds very, very nice.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 29, 2023 7:43:23 GMT
more disk union online scabs...
$2 Tall Dwarfs - Fifty Flavours Of Glue CD. 1998, the lads still had it
$5 Godflesh - Selfless CD. total mid-tempo brain bludgeon
$6 Godflesh - Streetcleaner CD. Dolby B saved me from the high pitched gittar squall I wasnt expecting
$3 Throwing Muses - Hunkpapa CD. bit forgettable
$6 Riuichi Sakamoto- B-2 Unit LP. insane score on the cheap. bout time I reacquired this. Utterly explodes out of le speakers with le big amp
$3 Russian Circles - Enter CD. instrumental "post metal" they call it
$7 Russian Circles - Station CD. bit uneventful here
$6 Russian Circles - Geneva CD. v.v noice. Ladyfingers might be into this band
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jan 29, 2023 14:13:15 GMT
$6 Russian Circles - Geneva CD. v.v noice. Ladyfingers might be into this band I will check them out. $5 Godflesh - Selfless CD. total mid-tempo brain bludgeon Love this one so much. "Anything Is Mine", "Xnoybis", and "Crush My Soul" are just absolute crunch perfection. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jan 29, 2023 14:14:55 GMT
Russian Circles = very nice!
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 12, 2023 11:22:06 GMT
Commodores - Machine Gun LP 500 yen Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin' 7" 200 yen Stevie Wonder - Superstition 7" 200 yen Graham Central Station - LP 700 yen. all 4 reacquisitions of moranically sold copies Killing Joke - Birds Of A Feather 12" 100 yen  Would love to see some scum stats for this 7". There must have been millions pressed. It is in every single record shop in Japan. And every recycled shop |
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Post by pussycat on Feb 14, 2023 21:40:10 GMT
My favorite conspiracy theory (which may be true) is that Stevie Wonder has been faking blindness since the beginning. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 14, 2023 22:59:53 GMT
My favorite conspiracy theory (which may be true) is that Stevie Wonder has been faking blindness since the beginning. Makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Yeah have read a few things, supposedly can make out shape outlines etc. I reckon he scopes out where the drums are positioned prior to playing then away he goes.  Nice try "Stevie Wonder", if in fact that is even your real name. |
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Post by pussycat on Feb 15, 2023 2:06:08 GMT
I think there have always been more than one “stevie wonder” at a given time. It’s like that episode of the simpsons with krusty’s clown school.
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Post by nikkeisindex on Feb 16, 2023 16:29:05 GMT
Bad Manners... I hung on to 1 album, "klass." If I was REAL drunk and someone put on Lip Up Fatty or Lorraine, I'd probably be pretty happy, but I can't really imagine playing this or any other BM any time soon. Although I guess for reasons I can't explain I hung onto a 12" cover of "Bang on the Drum." I'd be more apt to play the Selecter... The Specials, I love and respect, but I mean, I have probably played those records all I need to play them. I did buy my friends' weird ones like No Sports, Maroon Town, etc, always did have a sweet spot in my heart for that awful stuff but I don't actually play them often.
These days it's dub, dub, and the occasional punky 7". After passing on King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown 100 times in the 90s I paid $20 of whatever for it. And I think I got an RSD pressing of Revolutionaries "Sounds vol 2." which I'm really looking forward to, should arrive any minute now. I saw a copy that was probably not RSD for $40 but... who cares? I guess I do but not $40 worth.
I got NCM Ultimate Orgasm for $100 and this guy is NOT NM-. The cover managed to get a little divot in the top somehow during shipping and it plays pretty noisy, A side looks like it has jizz streaks on it or something. Not sure what to do. What is my plan here. Bitch and moan and ship it back and buy a different copy for a similar price that's a little better? Demand $20? Look I'm probably going to suck it up and leave positive feedback.
You win some and you lose some in this wild game we play.
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Post by sukebegg on Feb 18, 2023 9:18:47 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 18, 2023 10:12:05 GMT
woah $100 is the cheapest copy by far on the cogs ffs
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Feb 21, 2023 7:48:49 GMT
$2 Botch - An Anthology Of Dead Ends CD. reacquistion. can still hack this in small doses
$6 Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Alter CD. perfect 10/10. Hellstorm of doom
$6 Les Claypool - Of Whales And Woe CD. intensely, intensely annoying
$4 The Young Gods - Second Nature CD. always been keen to reconnect with this band after the TV Sky period. Total electronica, lot to unpack. This digital sound would be epic on Ladyfingers rig
$22 Pixies - Bossanova LP. massive splurge. should never have sold the cunt in the first place ffs
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Post by fuckface on Feb 21, 2023 9:14:07 GMT
bought an original 1957 australian copy of louie louie by richard berry at a garage sale in an outback town for $2
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