Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Always wanted to get into them, but only have tapes from friends. Taking it seriously this time.

Holy crapskies! Now THAT'S a shoppin trip!

I have avoided the shops since the Invasion weekend as I picked up about 10 CDs over that weekend....

endorphin74 said:

Yeah? What'd ya get?

Goldfrapp - Black Cherry & Strict Machine singles
All the talk lately has me intrigued.

GangstaFam said:

get the whole cd!!

what did I get?

off the top of my head:

the new Camper Van Beethoven

the new Robyn Hitchcock

Morrissey's "gang" single

Prince's "cinnamon girl" single

the new Le Tigre

The Charlatans "a man needs to be told" single on vinyl

Deee Lite "Infinity Within" (to replace my scratched copy)

and a few others I'm not remembering

endorphin74 said:

Nice! I hardly ever do it, but splurging is fun sometimes isn't it?

it is so nice to do. Even though I wasn't out of town for the Invasion, I treated it as my vacation as well and bought things every time I took people to my favorite record shops

In the tradition of Anxiety's great trip to the record store threads, I present to you my latest excursion.

I moved back to my hometown recently, and we ain't got jack shit for music shopping. Best Buy is about as far as it goes.

So bratchild and I decided to head out of town for a fun-filled Sunday.

One of the better stores in the greater Detroit area is Record Time. They had this killer 25% off sale on everything used. i.e. everything $8 was now $6 and everything $6 was now $4.50. So we went ape shit. I got a total of 24 cd's for a little under $110. What a steal! I decided to go overboard since I pretty much have to plan all my shopping now.

Here's what I found:



Deee-Lite - World Clique
I have all their stuff on vinyl and cassette, but never on CD. I had a renaissance with them recently thanks to the Chicago kittie trip.

Junior Senior - d-d-Don't Don't Stop The Beat
Fun! What more is there to say?

Goldfrapp - Black Cherry & Strict Machine singles
All the talk lately has me intrigued.

Le Tigre - This Island
Bikini Kill was cool. But I had no idea about the connection. Sometimes I'm slow.

Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Always wanted to get into them, but only have tapes from friends. Taking it seriously this time.

k.d. lang - Shadowland
Somehow this is the only one I DON'T have.

Earl Slick - Zig Zag
Fucking brilliant guitar player for Bowie. "Isn't It Evening?" with his boss and "Believe" with Robert Smith are worth the price.

Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used To Be
If she sings and plays anything like she does live, this is sure to be a winner. Expecting great things.

Interpol - self-titled EP
For collector's purposes.

Can - Monster Movie
Whoa! That's all.

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - Ambient 2/The Plateaux of Mirror
Next up is 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'. Been having an electronic music kick lately. Must be a seasonal thing.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Playback
Have wanted this for years and the price was finally right. It's a 6 disc box set and I got it for a measely $27!!

Depeche Mode - Singles Box 1
These are so fucking great. I have many of their singles, but these are definitely the way to go. They collect almost everything from the various versions of each single and compile them onto one disc each; 6 discs in a set, 6 sets in all. Only $18! If only Prince would do the exact same thing with his singles.


Sweet huh? So what've y'all picked up lately? Show and tell time.



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[Edited 11/8/04 1:20am]

OUTSIDE ~ It is INSANE how much I love this CD. I've never heard it before ~ decided this is the time to get everything I don't have by him. Nathan said this was great but could be a challenge ~ it is but OMG ~ his voice is so dark and icy and the instruments create such incredible layers. The more I hear of Bowie the more I love and appreciate him.

endorphin74 said:

And I'm sure you encouraged them to do so in the process. Record shopping is infectious when you're in a group. When I go by myself, I'm usually looking for one thing and am in and out of there in a hurry. When I'm with friends, I take my time.

GangstaFam said:

I'm no longer allowing myself to go record shopping with him. Unless I'm decidedly rich at the moment. Every time I enter a music store with him he hands me a bare minimum of 3 CDs that I have to buy or else.

GangstaFam said:

I'm no longer allowing myself to go record shopping with him. Unless I'm decidedly rich at the moment. Every time I enter a music store with him he hands me a bare minimum of 3 CDs that I have to buy or else.

I've picked up: A whole mess of Aaliyah singles.

I wish Gangsta had scored with me! He's yummy, and I'm a sure thing

I wish Gangsta had scored with me! He's yummy, and I'm a sure thing

GrayKing said:

If you play your cards right, you just might.

GangstaFam said:

swooon.....

CarrieMpls said:

Like what? What've you purchased recently. It was way fun record shopping with you in particular during the Celebration. The posters and the vinyl room were killer!

GrayKing said:

So back to the subject at hand...what've you purchased lately?

GangstaFam said:

purchased? um..... hmmm, what have i purchased?


oh, i just bought the AIDA soundtrack used on ebay... couldn't care less about it, actually, but it came with a second disc of the bootlegged demos that are solo performances by Sir Reg himself, without all of those crap guest stars.


plus CD1/CD2 of his latest single, for the b-sides.


other than that.... wow.... it's actually been a long time since i actually PURCHASED any music.

i've been cycling through all my favorites so fast this year that i either have everything i want to listen to, or i'm onto the next thing before i get a chance to add to the collection

GangstaFam said:

The last time I went was the same weekend as endo and I, too, picked up the new Camper Van Beethoven (which was my own choice, BTW) and he handed me a used copy of Belle & Sebastian "The Boy With the Arab Strap". He handed me a few other things too, but I was trying to save money and I also picked up a copy of NME's special issue on goth. I can't believe I admitted that.

The last time I went was the same weekend as endo and I, too, picked up the new Camper Van Beethoven (which was my own choice, BTW) and he handed me a used copy of Belle & Sebastian "The Boy With the Arab Strap". He handed me a few other things too, but I was trying to save money and I also picked up a copy of NME's special issue on goth. I can't believe I admitted that.

GrayKing said:

Cool! It looks like you're gonna have a fruitful November too with Elton, Rufus and U2 all coming soon.