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MonoStereo


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I was able to keep up with my expenditures in last year's thread, so I thought I'd do it again.

1. Crueliet : "Thorn" ( Bandcamp download single...$1 )

2. Kurt Baker Combo : "Muy Hola Live!" ( artist's Bandcamp...$14 )

3. Hembree : "New Oasis" ( Amazon MP3...$6 )

4. The Vapors : "15 Landsdown St. Boston 9-11-80" ( Free...Guitars 101 Bootleg Board )

5. 54-40 : "s/t" ( Ebay...$4 )

6. Government Cheese : "The Late Show" ( $20...artist website )

7. The Darkness : "Last Of Our Kind" ( Pledgemusic...$19 )

8. Deckard : "Stereodreamscene" ( Amazon...$4 )

9. The Scaramanga Six : "And Introduction To The Scaramanga Six" ( Bandcamp...$2 )

10. KIX : "Live In Baltimore" ( eBay...$29 )

11. Avalanche : "s/t" ( RockOnVinyl.com...Free )

12. The Scaramanga Six : "Songs Of Prey" ( Bandcamp...$7.50 )

13. The Scaramanga Six : "The Dance Of Death" ( Bandcamp...$7.50 )

14. The Scaramanga Six : "Cabin Fever" ( Bandcamp...$7.50 )

15. Van Halen : "Live - Tokyo Dome In Concert" ( Amazon...$14 )

16. Deco Auto : "Past Mistakes And Hauntings" ( artist's Bandcamp...$5 )

17. Deco Auto : "The Curse Of Deco Auto" ( artist's Bandcamp...$7 )

18. "Live From The Rock Solid Studios" ( $25 )

19. The Knack : "Zoom" ( reissue...$4 after Amazon Fun Money )

20. Ginger Wildheart : "Clout" EP ( Free...Pledgemusic )

21. The Darkness : "Last Of Our Kind" ( $11...Best Buy version w/2 bonus tracks...yes, I'm a sucker )

22. Superego : "Live At Riot LA 1.17.15" ( Bandcamp....$3 )

23. Doug Benson : "Promotional Tool" ( AST Records...$9 )

24. One Eskimo : "s/t" ( Hastings...$2 )

25. Shunt McGuppin : "Bad Honky" ( Amazon MP3...$1 after MP3 credits )

26. Radkey :"Dark Black Makeup" ( Amazon...free after credits )

27. Kurt Baker : "Play It Cool" ( Rum Bar Records...$13.50 )

28. Pseudo Echo : "Race" ( Amazon...$1 after credits )

29. Taste : "Best Of The Remasters" ( artist's site : $19 )

30. Taste : "Rock Is Dead" ( artist's site : $19 )

31. CJ Wildheart : "Robot" ( Pledge Music : $25 )

32. Warner Hodges : "Preachin' The Gospel" ( artist website : $14 )

33. The Knack : "Normal As The Next Guy" ( reissue...$6...Omnivore Records )

34. The Knack : "Live From The Rock & Roll Funhouse" ( reissue...$6...Omnivore Records )

35. The Three O' Clock : "The Hidden World Revealed" ( reissue...$6...Omnivore Records )

36. Stone Gods : "Silver Spoons & Broken Bones" ( Amazon...$3 )

37. Cheap Trick : "The Epic Archive Vols. 1-3" ( Amazon MP3...$19 total )

38. Supersuckers : "Holdin' The Bag" ( Free...Christmas )

39. Wayne Federman : "The Chronicles Of Federman" ( Free...RS giveaway )

40. Matt Gourley : "Garanimal Farm" ( $12...ComedySportz online store )



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I've been buying a lot of old stuff. Does that count? I guess it does. This is for everything you're buying in 2015, right?
Well here goes. Most of this is from ebay so i'm getting stuff cheap.

Van Halen: Best of Both Worlds (didn't really want it, certainly didn't need it. but found it for really cheap.)
Eddie Murphy: Eddie Murphy (his first comedy album…. had the vinyl, bought this CD.)
Models: Out of Mind, Out of Sight (good new wave australian band. Had this on cassette found the CD on ebay)
R.E.M.: Dead Letter Office, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Lifes Rich Pageant, Document (had Eponymous but no other early R.E.M. after the Rock Solid episode I grabbed it all up. Always forget how much I like them)
Tuesday Blue: Shibumi (another alt rock band I had the cassette of. Found this CD new and still in the CD Long Box - remember those? - on ebay. was a trip opening that long box up. been a long time since I did that)
Go-Go's: Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's (again, found cheap on ebay. some cool pre-record label garage punk on this)
Various Artists: D.I.Y.: Mass Ave - Boston (a good Boston punk comp.)
Billy Joel: Glass Houses (got a little nostalgic for the first music I ever bought. This was one of the those. Back then it was cassette. Now it's CD.)
Stone Roses: Stone Roses (don't know why I never knew of this back in day)
John Mellencamp: Scarecrow (similar story: had the cassette, found the CD cheap on ebay.)
Razorlight: Razorlight (someone once gave me a copy of this, finally got around to getting my own physical CD)
Saturday Looks Good To Me: All Your Summers Songs (a song of theirs I liked a lot "Alcohol" was on a sampler. Decided to give the album a shot. Not that great.)
Sugar: Copper Blue
Scarlett Johansson: Anywhere I lay My Head (I liked some of her Tom Waits covers. I always think other people's versions of his songs are better than his.)
Queen: The Game (see Billy Joel: Glass Houses)
Screaming Females: Rose Mountain (I think best rock guitar player around right now)
Prodigy: Fat of the Land (I know… always liked this, never owned. Got it for like $2.)
Tilly and the Wall: O (like this band a lot.)
The Who: Who's Last (My first favorite band. I'm a completist I guess. It's really not a bad live album.)
Fiona Apple: Tidal
Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers: Free Like We Want 2 B (had the CD, found the vinyl for $20 - didn't even know this was released on vinyl. great reggae album.)
Richard Hell & Voidoids: Blank Generation (not sure why I never picked this up.)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Uplift Mofo Party Plan (replacing my regular CD with the "Special Edition.")
Iggy Pop: Blah Blah Blah
INXS: Shabooh Shoobah (always forget what a good band they were, too)
Chairlift: Something
Aerosmith: Greatest Hits (see Billy Joel: Glass Houses)
Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine
Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers: Live Volume 1 (wish they would get back together)
National Lampoon: Lemmings (have the vinyl, bought the CD)

 

 



-- Edited by Smedley Morrison on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 10:32:42 AM

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The Models! We used to play the title track from that one back in my radio days. Haven't heard that tune in FOREVER. I always thought it was gonna be a hit, but it never really took off.

And speaking of Australia, "Shabooh" is my favorite INXS album. I have it on CD now, but I wore the cassette of that thing out back in the 80's.

There's a lot of cool stuff in that list - & yeah, the idea is to just track everything you buy this year.

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MonoStereo. If you want the Models stuff lemme know…. no big deal.

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Just went a little nuts (again) and bought bunch more….

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers & Freaky Styley (never dug back in their catalog beyond Uplift Mofo, thought it was time I did. Got em pretty cheap on Deep Discount)
Television: Marquee Moon & Adventure (upgraded to the "bonus tracks" versions)
The Clash: The Clash & Give Em Enough Rope & Sandinista! & Combat Rock & Super Black Market (again, hadn't dug deep into their catalog and thought it was time I did. Got em all cheap on ebay)
Stephen Makmus: Stephen Malkmus (had one track from this "The Hook" great song, found this in record store in South Carolina next to hotel I was staying in for work.)
JEFF the Brotherhood: We Are The Champions (found in same South Carolina store)
The Cars: Candy-O (only album of theirs I didn't have, found in Athens, GA record store I was working near. Same record store Peter Buck from REM used to work at apparently)
The Virgins: The Virgins (got this cheap off ebay, based on song April Richardson gave away free on her monthly playlist)



-- Edited by Smedley Morrison on Tuesday 28th of April 2015 01:20:48 PM

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I'll be interested in hearing what you think of The Clash once you immerse yourself in all those songs.

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Yeah i've always liked them but never dug deep into their catalog. I've just been listening the last 2 days with iTunes on shuffle and like everything i've heard so far. I think people forget or don't realize how diverse they were. lotsa different sounds.

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And that's just "Sandinista!". Ha ha...

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This should be my last post for a little while. Gotta ease up on buying music….

went to the local flea market and found these CDs for $2 each:
Pete Townshend/White City
Red Hot Chili Peppers/Californication
Roxy Music/Avalon

then stopped in for my once-a-year visit to Jack's Music Shoppe in Red Bank, NJ.
These CDs were all $4 each:
Sly & Family Stone/Greatest Hits
La Sera/Hour of the Dawn
Ages And Ages/Divisonary
Florence & the Machine/Lungs
The Futureheads/self-titled
Dead Kennedys/Give Me Convenience…
Siouxsie & Banshees/Twice Upon A Time
The Gossip/Standing In The Way of Control



-- Edited by Smedley Morrison on Saturday 2nd of May 2015 06:03:54 PM

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I'm a liar MonoStereo….

I couldn't pass up a 15% Off deal on Deep Discount last weekend. Got:

Velvet Underground: …and Nico, White Light/White Heat, V/U, Loaded (how could I not they were only $4 after discount brand new!)
Van Halen: Live Tokyo Dome (only $9 after discount. I know I'm not gonna like it but I'm a hardcore VH fan since 1982. I told myself I wouldn't buy it but knew sooner or later I would.)

then today visited this small record shop called Holdfast in Asbury Park, NJ and for $4/Used each got:
Might Diamonds/Speak the Truth
The Dils/Classic War
Simple Minds/Sparkle in the Rain

OK now THIS should be my last post for awhile…… I hope.

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Ha ha...

You've been picking up the slack from me - this has been a below average spending/buying year for me so far.

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Well to finish off the year here's what I've bought since last post in May:

Priscilla Ahn/A Good Day
Dire Straits/Making Movies (directly because of the Dire Straits episode of Rock Solid)
The Vaccines/Come Of Age
The Alley Cats/Best Of
Florence + The Machine/How Big How Blue How Beautiful
Simple Minds/New Gold Dream (continuing my filling out of their back catalog)
Those Dancing Days/In Our Space Hero Suits
Prince/Around The World In A Day
Pete Townshend/All The Best Cowboys... [VINYL]
Shriekback/Oil & Gold [VINYL]
Toots & Maytals/Funky Kingston [VINYL]
Dead Milkmen/Big Lizard [VINYL]
The Go! Team/The Scene Between (I had kinda given up on them after their last record, but I bought this on a whim while stopping at record store on my travels through Houston. Love this record. Might be my favorite of 2015)
Karen O/Live From Crush Palace
Ross Johnson/Make It Stop (visited a friend in Memphis. We stopped in Goner Records. Picked this up after hearing one tune. It's not that great)
David + David/Boomtown (had this on cassette in the 80s. Finally found it cheap on CD)
Devo/Greatest Hits
Psychedelic Furs/Book of Days
Blondie/Parallel Lines (2001 Remaster)
Bow Wow Wow/Best Of (took a chance on this CD for just 95 cents. This band was a lot better than I expected.)
Tilly & The Wall/Wild Like Children
Jimmy Cliff/Special
Blondie/Blondie (2001 Remaster)
Ouija Radio/Oh No... Yes! Yes!
Bishop Allen/Charm School
The Hooters/One Way Home (see David + David)
Supertramp/Greatest Hits (ear worm tunes)
No Doubt/Push & Shove (completist purchase at just $1.95)
Roxy Music/Avalon
Blondie/Autoamerican (2001 Remaster)
Blondie/Eat to the Beat (2001 Remaster)
Blondie/Plastic Letters (2001 Remaster)

So I've been traveling for work since end of July. Been based in Baton Rouge. Every weekend I would take road trips. Houston, Dallas, Austin, Gulf Shores, Memphis, Nashville, etc. Everywhere I go I always look for record stores to check out. In Tennessee if you're ever there there's a great chain of 3 stores called McKay's. It's like a big warehouse of used books, DVDs, CDs, video games, vinyl. It's insane. I stopped at the one in Nashville and Knoxville. The 3rd is in Chattanooga. I almost stopped there too. But I felt I was getting carried away. Found CDs for as low as 25 cents. Seriously.



-- Edited by Smedley Morrison on Thursday 31st of December 2015 01:03:59 PM

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damn looking over my posts from earlier in the year I realize I bought a second copy of Roxy Music/Avalon recently. I'm in process of moving so all my music is boxed up. I didn't realize I already had it on CD. Oh well. It was cheap.

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That's funny - we were literally talking about that idea like, 10 minutes ago. I think I've only had the "Crap, I already own this" thing once. I bought Ramones "Pleasant Dreams" on CD thinking it was one I hadn't upgraded from vinyl yet.

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