The P found these records leaning against a telephone pole today and hauled them home for me JUST IN CASE there was some incredibly rare treasure lurking in their midst (that’s called love). In spite of the fact that you often get what you pay for, I just can’t help myself when it comes to free records. That doesn’t mean that I don’t kick 85% of them back to the curb after I’ve siphoned off anything that might have the slightest chance of finding its way to my turntable. Most free records add up to little more than dead weight and a bad case of hives, but I’ll never be able to just walk by a stray pile of wax. Good thing I’m not a fish…
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A few highlights from today’s ‘haul’:
The Rolling Stones | Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead [the self-titled debut]
The Monkees | The Monkees Greatest Hits
Barry White | Stone Gon’ [great elaborate fold-out cover on this one]
The Who | Magic Bus/My Generation [deluxe two-album set!]
Steely Dan | Countdown To Ecstasy
Jimi Hendrix | Electric Ladyland [thrashed, but I'll try to find a home for it]
Cat Stevens | Numbers (A Pythagorean Fairy Tale) [we'll see about this one... although the title has pretty good comedy value]
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And a few that will be going back to the curb:
Carly Simon | Anticipation
Tchaikovsky | Best Of
Pavarotti | In Concert
Dolly Parton | All I Can Do
America | A Horse With No Name
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Total cost = $0
1 July 2008 at 5:01 am |
hehehe that is called LOVE…. thats pretty awesome! As they say “It’s the thought that counts”…. GREAT!…hehehe
1 July 2008 at 6:32 am |
I actually just found that same Steely Dan record at RT. 70 flea Market… which my friend Bungo turned me onto.
1 July 2008 at 7:02 am |
So, are they in good shape?
1 July 2008 at 7:36 am |
The Hendrix and Stones albums are pretty thrashed, but everything else looks like it’s in pretty good shape – playable at least…
1 July 2008 at 12:33 pm |
You turned your back on one of the great forced, nonsensical lyrics of all time?
If dk can’t appreciate a line like, “Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain,” then the naysayers are right: the terrorists have won.
1 July 2008 at 1:14 pm |
Oh, don’t get me wrong – ‘Horse With No Name’ is definitely on my playlist. We’ve just got a few America albums kicking around and not enough room.
Shall I set that one aside for you??
10 August 2008 at 11:22 am |
So why don’t you like classical music?
10 August 2008 at 12:06 pm |
Oh, I like classical music just fine, but we’ve got a couple of shelves of it, and that Tchaikovsky collection seemed pasted together.
20 August 2008 at 9:29 am |
I’m sorry, you’re returning Dolly?!?!!? What the fuck is wrong with you?!?
I have a Musical Youth LP you can have.
20 August 2008 at 9:40 am |
Pass The Dutchie, babe!