Today's Haul

[Troy McClure]

While working diligently for the company the employs me (and provides me with a car and a schedule that allows me to stop frequenlty at Thrift Stores and Pawn Shops) I decided to stop in a Habitat for Humanity Restore in near a sales call.

I have shopped here  before but never really looked through the albums, so I found a couple of interest and took them to the register to learn they were priced $.25, so i headed back to the bin and snagged these dozen.

Magaical Mystery Tour in Vg condition, vinyl looks unplayed
Sound of Silence
Clockwork Orange Soundtrack
James Gang Rides Again..vinyl looks pristeine with orig jacket
Ram
Zep III
More of the Monkees (still shrink wraped)
Moody Blues To our childrens childrens children
Brewer and Shiply(w Jerry Garcia on slide guitar)
1969 warner-repise Record show
The Big Red Ball

The last 2 are awesome double album compilations with Zappa, Tull, Captain Beefheart,, Neil Young, The Dead and list goes on and on.

[Big Daddy Audio]

YAHTZEE!

That is a heck of a haul. 

.25 apiece???

Man.

That is all.

[Troy McClure]

I know, There is a copy of the red ball album on ebay right now for $49.99 so I guess I did ok...

[Mattie]

Wowwwwwww.  Sacramento's H for H ReStore is strictly a building-supply store.   

I love the cover of that Zep album.  Spin, spin, spin, woo!  (Sadly, the CD doesn't include the spinning inner disc.)

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Geez-- seriously good stuff there! Unbelievable.

[alexandra]

Whatta haul!!!  I hate paying a buck for vinyl.  Not that I buy many albums (since I don't have a turntable, but am now seeing what a shortcoming that is).

In the spring, I got Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" so that my dog could give it to her "Uncle" for his birthday.  Sadly, she died shortly thereafter.  His birthday is next week, and I guess it will be a posthumous gift.   We coulda gotten the recording on CD, but some of these just seem more "right" on vinyl.  So I ask:  are there some recordings that you absolutely will only ever want in album form?  If so, what are they?

Thriftily,
Alexandra
www.livingwithoutmoney.blogspot.com

[Good Buddy]

I got Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights"

If you look closely at the cover of that album you'll notice that not all the substance covering Herb Alpert's pregnant wife is whipped cream. It's mostly batting....mostly.

Cookie told me that.

[foutchie]

I know!  I know!   Billy Thorpe "Children of the Sun" - although I don't think this was ever released on CD and the albums are a fortune, if you can find one!

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

I thrifted a few of Jethro Tull's concept albums ("Thick as a Brick" and "Passion Play" ) specifically because there's so much more story to it based on the cover art (all the newspaper articles on Thick as a Brick relate to the narrative in the album.) There's NO WAY of being able to read it properly via a CD.

[Troy McClure]

I have 2 copies of Thick as a Brick...

My older brother had it as a kid and I remeber him doint the connect the dots and having to erase it so my virgin eyes wouldn't see it...

I will see Tull in a month... funny Ian is a bit ashamed of Thick as a Brick and Passion Play and down plays his prog period...