Salutations™!!

A lazy, snowy day in WSNC yesterday. It was great, though. It was cold enough to snow and the ground warm enough to not allow it to stick to the roads. They were navigatable and it was beautiful. The flakes were big and fluffy. The BCPF and I loved it. It was cool to stand in Underdog Records, talking records, life, music in general, everything. It was just cool. So, we walked out with this:

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• Belle And Sebastian – The Life Pursuit (The BCPF’s and my favorite B&S album; have looked for it for a while and Jonathan was able to finally get it off backorder; new)
• She & Him – A Very She & Him Christmas (mmmm Zooey Deschanel; The BCPF has wanted this for a long time on vinyl and there it was!; new)
• Dusty Springfield – You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me (VG+ copy)
• David Bowie – Stage (2xLP live album from 1978; VG+)
• The Grateful Dead – Steal Your Face (Okay Danielle, I’m going to try this; 2xLP VG+)
• The Grateful Dead – The Best Of The Grateful Dead: Skeletons From The Closet (same here; VG+)
• Traffic – Traffic (VG+)
• W.A.S.P. – The Headless Children (VG+)
• Various – The Stash Christmas Album (VG++)
• Bob Marley & The Wailers Featuring Peter Tosh – The Birth Of A Legend (VG+)
• Pretenders – The Singles (VG+)
• Phil Collins – Face Value (have always loved PC and this album is amazing from beginning to end, VG++)
• The Fixx – Reach The Beach (as I asked on my post about this album, why weren’t they bigger than they were? This band is amazing! VG++)
• Tracey Ullman – You Broke My Heart In 17 Places (VG+)
• Heart – Heart (spend a lot of time playing “bed drums” (pillows arranged to emulate a drum kit) with this album; VG+)
• Pat Benatar – Seven The Hard Way (VG+)
• Pat Benatar – Tropico (VG+)
• Rolling Stones – Made In The Shade (VG+)
• The Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue (VG)
• Sting – The Dream Of The Blue Turtles ($1 bin find but this joker is in VG+ condition)
• Madonna – Like A Virgin ($1 bin find, but in great shape; VG+)
• Firefall – Élan ($1 bin find; VG+)
• The Living Presence Orchestra – Neapolitan Nights ($1 bin find; VG+)
• Rimsky-Korsakov / The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy – Scheherazade, Op. 35 ($1 bin find; VG)
• Beethoven, Daniel Barenboim – Beethoven Sonatas: Pathetique – Les Adieux – Moonlight ($1 bin find; VG+)
• Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were ($1 bin find; VG is the rating but it sounded great, probably closer to VG+)
• Various – Season’s Greetings From Barbra Streisand…And Friends ($1 bin find; VG)
• Saint-Saëns / Britten – Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic – The Carnival Of The Animals / The Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra (hopefully a better version of the “Carnival of the Animals” that I love so much; $1 bin find; VG+)
• Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, Rosalind Elias, Philip Maero, Erich Leinsdorf – Highlights From Madama Butterfly ($1 bin find; VG+)
• Jethro Tull – M.U. – The Best Of Jethro Tull ($1 bin find; VG)
• Foreigner – Head Games (this is pretty rough looking and I’m going to give it a listen through, Jonathan didn’t charge me for it as it’s in such a sad state and I may remove it if it’s not listenable; G)

So, there you have this week’s haul. Not a bad one, I don’t think. We have sure enjoyed listening to the five or six we got through yesterday (and into today). Right now you can get an additional 10% on a gift certificate (also a 45RPM record with a sticker, très chic!) to give to that record lover that you just don’t know what they have already (and don’t look at Discogs to find out). Jonathan has a few turntables, both new and used, in the store right now! Go check them out. And, if you haven’t noticed, I like Discogs, a lot!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Sukie was the kid, she liked to hang out in the graveyard. She did brass rubbings, she learned you never had to press hard. When she finished hanging out she was all alone. She decided that she better check in at home. There was an awful row between her mum and dad. They said she hadn’t done this, she hadn’t done that. If she wanted to remain inside the family home she’d have to tow the line, she’d have to give it a go. It didn’t suit Sukie, so she took her things and left.” – “Sukie in the Graveyard” (Kildea/Geddes/Cooke/Colburn/Martin/Jackson/Murdoch