.february vinyl haul

A great haul! Stoked for these!

Lately I haven't purchased anything from Vinyl Me Please. All of the bands I've seen in concert I've been picking up their albums. When A comes to visit we usually hit up some of my favorite record stores. This time we had a mission to search for some 7" albums. A has never been to Haddonfield Record Exchange. They usually have a decent array of 7" albums. I scored New Kids on the Block and Debbie Gibson last time. What I found this time was amazing. One of the earliest albums my parents bought me was at age 3: Duran Duran - Wild Boys. For that album to be displayed in the front of the bin was just practically calling out to me. I snatched it up. I also found Madonna - True Blue (the vinyl is actually blue!), Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight (I owned this at age 5), Blondie - The Tide is High, Run DMC - Walk This Way, and the iconic "Two of Hearts" by Stacey Q. At the register they usually have some neat vintage pins. I picked up Thompson Twins, Janis Joplin, Eurythmics, and Duran Duran. $1.50 each.

Our second stop was Innergroove. Last time my major scores were Hole, Nirvana, and Smashing Pumpkins 7" albums. Ironically I found another Blondie 7" "Rapture" which compliments the one I previously bought. Searching through my favorite section of "Just In!" records I snatched B-52's "Cosmic Thing," Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" for $20 (cheapest I've seen was $30), and Prince's "1999" for $10. Yaaasss!!!

My new goal is to buy a cork board from Target and arrange my pins in a better fashion. No joke I have at least 150+ pins at this point. I rotate them all as much as I can.   

.record shopping weekend

After venturing to the movies, I took a little trip to a record store called Tunes that buy and sells cds, dvds, vinyl, etc. I did spend a lot of time looking through the albums, especially the discounted albums for $1. My first find was on the wall display, The National's "Boxer." I know it's a certain someone's favorite and being I only own "High Violet" I wanted to try another. Then I stumbled upon my favorite Bjork record so that was an easy "yes." Not too far away in the tabs was my second favorite Depeche Mode album "Some Great Reward" for $20. Definite yes. My last find was Morcheeba's "Big Calm." My very first concert was Lilith Fair in 1998. Morcheeba was on the side stage and I remembered not really liking their set. Then a few years later I found myself listening to some of their songs and eventually purchasing this album. I really like this album, it's very relaxing to listen to and very late 90s sounding if that makes sense.

The dollar vinyl section is really inconveniently located on the floor so I had to crouch and flip. Really I almost made it through all the albums but got impatient towards the end. Too many Barry Manilow, Chicago, and Rod Stewart albums that I kept seeing during my flips. They were having a special, "Buy 10 albums, get 5 for free." Honestly I couldn't really find 10 that I wanted and settled for these. Out of these four I was the most excited for Samantha Fox and the Pointer Sisters. Jump for my love! I already pulled that album out first when I got home and danced like a complete dork to that song in my room. Mission of nerdy album listening bliss accomplished!

Scored!: Jefferson Airplane - Gold, Samantha Fox - I Wanna Have Some Fun, The Pointer Sisters - Break Out, Yes - 90125, Bjork - Post, Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward, The National - Boxer, Morcheeba - Big Calm

On second thought (albums I put back): Blur - The Magic Whip, David Bowie - Earthling, Lush - Best of Singles

Customers: During my visit to the record store, again I was practically the only female in the store. One customer had a MASSIVE sale of crates and crates of cds. The clerks said it would take them 4-5 hours to price everything. A shame I don't collect cds anymore otherwise I would've been interested in what he was turning in. One girl came in and said she had no clue what she was doing but wanted to sell back some Wii games and cds. Another younger girl came in with her dad. He kept suggesting albums to her but the only thing I heard her mention was New Found Glory. A good handful of college guys were browsing through the Jazz section along with the R&B / Soul section. Interesting. It's funny because I never cease to amaze my fellow male record collectors of my vast music knowledge. Older guys who know their shit are pretty amazed at what I pick out or make positive comments when ringing up purchases. So that gives me hope!