Showing posts with label vinyl records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vinyl records. Show all posts
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Fug Me? Fug You.

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After we got home from New Orleans last Friday, we were right back at it, checking out garage sales and the antique mall the next day. Most...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Queen's The Game LP With Original Hype Sticker

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What I remember about Queen's "The Game" album coming out in the summer of 1980 is that "Another One Bites the Dust"...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

I Almost Got My Genesis Abacab Album Home Undamaged

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I was very happy when I found this Genesis Abacab album at a local antique mall for two dollars. Until... I tried to buy it and the lady at...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Men At Work Business As Usual

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The Men At Work Business As Usual album isn't a huge score in terms of being a vinyl collector, but at $5.25 it's almost half what...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

AC/DC's Dirty Deeds

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My next few vinyl purchases will be Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," Queen's "The Game," and Judas Priest ...

Clockwork Orange Soundtrack On Vinyl

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Stanley Kubrick received death threats for his movie version of novelist Anthony Burgess' book A Clockwork Orange. The threats were so ...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Johnny Cash At San Quentin LP

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     Bought this album today at Toad Hall in Rockford. Short story to demonstrate how times have changed. In 1991 I walked into Toad Hall ...

Warren Zevon Excitable Boy Iconic Inner Sleeve

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     My parents and aunts and uncles all had large record collections, but there are a few artists that for some reason none of them seeme...
Friday, April 24, 2015

What's In the Box Friday 4/24/2015

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Something from Portugal? For me? I wonder what it could be. A letter from the Portuguese. For me? What could it be? Music Fr...
Monday, April 20, 2015

I'm Not Earl, Tom T. Hall

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The day after Record Store Day I was still craving more vinyl, so Jenny and I set out to an antique mall in town we'd never been to. Eac...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

My Vinyl Collection Is Now Doing The Stroke After Record Store Day

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I wish I liked my new haircut as much as I like the records I bought at Record Store Day. Maybe if i tried combing it. I also got The R...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Bad Company Debut Album On Swan Song records

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Bad Company's Bad Company album from the band Bad Company This arrived today. One of the better debut albums of all time. Not sure...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

You're Nobody Till Dean Martin Loves You

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I'm going to take a break from trying to sell our latest book, The Zen of Beard Trimming, and just write about these 40 Dean Martin 45...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Tom T Hall and Writing For Children

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I can attribute most of the reason I have written at least one children's book, The Toughskin Rhinoceros Wrangler Company, to my gran...

AC/DC Back In Black Vinyl LP

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We bought Back In Black three times when I was growing up. I remember hearing it for the first time at the company summer picnic which...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Synchronicty: The Album That Made Sting a Superstar

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The Police Synchronicity album was one of my favorites as an adolescent.  The vinyl album collection in our household was rather impress...
Friday, November 7, 2014

My Vinyl Collection: The J. Geils Band, "Freeze Frame."

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I think the "Freeze Frame" album by The J. Geils Band is a must-add to any serious vinyl collectors collection.  -Yes, there w...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

My Vinyl Collection Is Now "Flirting With Disaster"

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My new vinyl collection is now definitely Flirting With Disaster, with the addition of not one, but two albums by swamp boogie band Molly H...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

My Vinyl Collection: Santana "Abraxas"

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Like the demon Baphomet, Abraxas is largely an amalgamation of various myths, usually involving a god/demon creator that is neither bound ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

My Vinyl Collection: The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord

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The second acquisition in my new old vinyl collection arrived last week. It's "In Search of the Lost Chord" by The Moody Blues...