2016 Purchases

MonoStereo · The Captain

2016 Purchases

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

and to think I almost went to the record store today..... haha.

MonoStereo · The Captain

Last year had to be the skimpiest collection of stuff I've bought in forever. Not even sure I'm gonna bother with a "Best of 2015" list.

And hopefully the fact that I've started 2016 off with an "illegal" download from a blog is not an omen.

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

haha. I bought a lot of stuff last year but most of it wasn't stuff released last year. I'd been keeping a "Best of 2015" playlist in my iTunes as year went on and I'm kinda with you. I think I'd struggle to piece together a Best of 2015 list. I'll say this I definitely think my favorite album of 2015 was The Go! Team/The Scene Between. It's a band I'd kinda given up on after their last album. I bought this new one just on a whim and really like it.

having said that I'll kick off my 2016 purchase list:

The Jam/Greatest Hits... just watched the doc on Showtime. I'd always been a mild fan of theirs. Got this pretty cheap on eBay. Didn't feel like commiting to buying the albums out right. Will start here.

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

went to a few record stores while I was just in Florida.
two strokes I checked out were Park Ave CDs in Orlando and Atlantic Sounds in Daytona.

I got:
Descendents/Everything Sucks (one of my favorite records.... now on Vinyl!)
Rancid/Indestructible (also on vinyl)
Stephen Malkmus & Jicks/Real Emotional Trash (cheap used CD)

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

here we go again.....

stopped in one of my local shops today. All of these I got used for $3-$5 each.

Waitresses/Best Of
Romantics/Best Of
Public Enemy/It Takes A Nation...
Wailing Souls/All Over The World
Luscious Jackson/Electric Honey
Old 97s/Too Far To Care
Buck-O-Nine/28 Teeth

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

MonoStereo wrote:

4. The I Don't Cares : "Wild Stab" ( Amazon...$12 )

I just downloaded a song from KEXP by them. I didn't realize when I saw your original post that this was a band featuring Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield. How's the album?

MonoStereo · The Captain

I've only heard it once ( on Spotify, actually...still haven't loaded it onto the iPod yet ). It's good - if you like the kind of stuff Westerberg has done down in his basement the last decade or so you'll like it.

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

new purchases....

Tears For Fears/Songs form Big Chair
Lemonheads/Come on Feel...
(International) Noise Conspiracy/Survival Sickness
(got those for buy 2 get 1 free at 3.99 each)

Also picked up used vinyl of The Police/Every Breath You Take just 3.99 and in near mint condition.... why not?

MonoStereo · The Captain

That's the one with the updated version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me", isn't it?

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

MonoStereo wrote:
That's the one with the updated version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me", isn't it?

yeah.... which I'm not a fan of but ya know $3 in mint condition for all the other songs is worth it. I think that '86 version is perfect example of what was great about The Police compared to solo Sting. He made this great song boring as **** with that '86 version. Funny thing was I don't know if you remember but they were supposed to rerecord ALL of the songs until Stewart Copeland broke his arm. They'd only gotten through "Don't Stand" and "De Do Do Do." For some reason "De Do Do" didn't make the album. But I have a copy of it. It's just as boring as "Don't Stand '86."

MonoStereo · The Captain

I did NOT know that. Wow. I remember the video for the new version being a lot like the song - very mid 80's...very "look at what we can do with all these gadgets".

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

MonoStereo wrote:
I did NOT know that. Wow. I remember the video for the new version being a lot like the song - very mid 80's...very "look at what we can do with all these gadgets".

here's the 1986 version of "De Do Do" apparently it was a bonus track on one of the reissued versions of their greatest hits CD in the 90s or 00s....

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

more more more..... all CDs from eBay for pretty cheap except Blondie vinyl that's from Amoeba.

Simple Minds/Sons of Fascination Sister Feelings Call
Simple Minds/Real To Real Cacophony
Thompson Twins/Greatest Hits
Juice soundtrack
Lykke Li/Youth Novels
Blondie/Parallel Lines (vinyl)

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

The Police (the 2CD best of from 2007, I have all the Police stuff I don't even know why i bought this there's nothing new or unreleased on it. but i got it for like $2 so I guess it's a completist kinda purchase.)
Hooters/Nervous Night ($3 off eBay, surprised I didn't have this.)
Patti Rotheberg/Ulerior Motives ($2 at Princeton Record Exchange. Loved her first album in 1996 always curious what her stuff after that sounded like. Usually forget to check. In the record store low and behold they have an album by her for 1.99 I think maybe it's her 2nd record but it's from 2015! and still in shrink-wrapped. Why not? It's not bad. Terrible cover though.)
that purchase led me to find her 2nd album on amazon....
Patti Rothberg/Candelabra Cadabra (FREE on amazon....i used AMEX points to buy it.)
Culture/International Herb ($6 on ebay)
Jimmy Cliff/Unlimited ($10 on eBay, always grabbing old Jimmy Cliff CDs if I find them, a lot go for high prices)

Pulptom · Gold Record Seller

I bought the Lemmy doc last weekend.

Smedley Morrison · Gold Record Seller

well I've been MIA from the board for a long time.... been working down in Baton Rouge and shooting a short film in spare time. But I haven't stopped buying records (to my bank account's chagrin.) But I have stopped listening to Rock Solid. I don't listen to many podcasts anymore but Rock Solid just sort of fell by the wayside for me. It was until last year appointment listening to me. Not sure why it started feeling less so. But it has the last year or so. When I do listen I still enjoy some of the hosts. But anyway since 2016 is coming to an end and I haven't updated my purchase list in a long time and I'm home for a few days I figured I'd pop in and update it......

KILLERS Sam’s Town (had digital files picked up physical copy)
DAVID BOWIE Best Of (ya know like a lotta other people did....)
FEELIES Crazy
JIMMY CLIFF s/t
CLUB PARADISE soundtrack (if ya like reggae/Jimmy Cliff it's great. One of my Holy Grail CDs I've been seeking forever....)
ZIGGY MARLEY Time Has Come
PETER TOSH Equal Rights
PETER TOSH Bush Doctor
IO ECHO Ministry (the CD that made me set up my computer on makeshift stand as I was moving and lead to me dropping my ext HD and spending a lotta money to get it rescued. Back up your stuff in more than one place friends....)
SLEIGH BELLS Treats
XTC Nonsuch
SANTIGOLD 99¢
PETER TOSH Legalize It
THE FALL Frenz Experiment
SEX PISTOLS Never Mind The Bollocks (Record Store Day vinyl)
REPLACEMENTS Let It Be (vinyl)
BAD II The Globe
SAHARA HOTNIGHTS C’mon (already owned this, but this is import version of CD with some different tracks)
THE LA’S s/t
PSYCHEDELIC FURS s/t
CITIZEN COPE Every Waking
ZIGGY MARELY Concious (vinyl)
THE CARS s/t (vinyl.... Chicago & Cheap Trick in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but not the Cars? Insane.)
GANG OF FOUR Entertainment
NINE INCH NAILS Pretty Hate
KATE BUSH Hounds
SPECIALS More
ELEFANT Black Magic (another I had digitally but picked up physical)
PHOENIX Bankrupt
FISHBONE Nuttwerx
PATTI SMITH Dream Of Life
LYKKE LI Wounded
STEVIE WONDER Songs In Key
SNOOP Doggystyle
U2 Boy
SAINT ETIENNE Foxbase
PSYCHEDLIC FURS Mirror
SAHARA HOTNIGHTS Keep Up
MARIA ANDERSSON Suscension (vinyl)
NEWCLEUS Jam On
CULTURE Colombo
TACOCAT NVM
TACOCAT Lost Time
TACOCAT Take Me
BEATLES Sgt Peppers
U2 Atomic Bomb
STEPHEN MALKMUS Face The Truth
SEX PISTOLS Filthy Lucre
REZILLOS Can’t Stand
GOSSIP Movement
STROKES Future Present Past
RAMONES Mania (vinyl)
BLONDIE Eat To The Beat (vinyl)
GO TEAM Scene Between (vinyl)
JIMMY CLIFF WOndeful World (vinyl)
PETE TOWNSHEND Empty Glass (vinyl)
POLICE Outlandous (vinyl)
YYYS Mosquito (vinyl)
INNOCENCE MISSION Glow
SONIC YOUTH Goo
RAVEONETTES In And Out Of Control
FEELIES Only Life
ENGLISH BEAT Just Can’t Stop
PATTI SMITH Horses
PETER BJORN & JOHN Writer’s Block
ECHO & BUNNYMEN Songs To Learn
WAR Best
DURAN DURAN Rio
GODFATHERS Birth
SUNDAYS Reading
YOUTH LAGOON Year Of Hibernation
GERMS Live 80
GOOPS bored and white
JOHNNY CASH Legend
APB Something
MIA Kala
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
POSTAL SERVICE Give Up
MISSING PERSONS Spring Session M
VERUCA SALT American Thighs
DURAN DURAN Seven
HUSKER DU Warehouse
ZERO 7 Simple Things
MISFITS s/t
WUSSY Forever Sounds
BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds
CORNERSHOP When I Was Born
DESCENDENTS Hyper
TALKING HEADS Fear Of Music
SISSYBAR Songs For Peeps
LUSH Spooky
U2 All That You
MIDNIGHT OIL Diesel Or Dust
POWER STATION Living In Fear
VERUCA SALT Eight Arms
GO-GOS Beauty & The Beat
SOUNDS Something To Die For
PHOENIX Never Been Like That
ZIGGY MARLEY Reggae Is Now
LA LUZ Weirdo Shrine
YYYS date with the night
MUFFS Blonder
REPLACEMENTS Stink
SLITS Cut
WHITE LIES
BAD BRAINS s/t
PETER GABRIEL melt
INSIDERS ghost on the beach
DEAD MILKMEN chaos rules live
SIMON & GARFUNKEL greatest hits
STEPHEN MARLEY mind control
SUNDAYS blind
WUSSY left for dead
BEASTIE BOYS hot sauce
VACCINES english graffiti
MIMI & RICHARD FARINA best
LUMINEERS s/t
SHERYL CROW s/t
DAMNED damned damned damned
CLOUD NOTHINGS s/t
ADOLESCENTS oc confidential
PAOLO NUTINI caustic love
THAO man alive
GIRLPOOL s/t
AGES AND AGES something to ruin
BLACK LIPS arabain mountain
TING TINGS we started nothing
TEMPER TRAP conditions
TALK TALK it’s my life
SPINNERS best
UNTOUCHABLES wild child
DAMNED machine gun
PSYCH FURS talk
GLASVEGAS s/t
AIMEE MANN that’s just
SMTHS best 1
GASLIGHT ANTHEM 59 sound
PETER GABRIEL security
LOS ABADONED mixtape
BAD RELIGION all ages
EAGLE EYE CHERRY desireless
ADOLESCENTS s/t (vinyl)
STROKES first impressions (vinyl)
BAGS babylonia gorgon (vinyl)
SMITHEREENS green thoughts
SMITHEREENS especially
WUSSY funeral
WUSSY s/t
EDWARD SHARPE up from below (online)
EDWARD SHARPE here (online)

So yeah I'v bought a lot this year. I travel for work a lot and I can't help but stop in local record shops along the way. Most of this stuff was bought used so I keep it under $5 per CD. I definitely have to ease up on vinyl. I like having it but I'm not listening as much as I thought I would. Originally my plan was to just stick to those special albums I love. But that's kinda fell by wayside too. Anyway enjoy your holidays y'all......