Glorious find after glorious find! And most of it didn't come until after I checked out and went BACK to the $1 section (which ended up being .50 cents each yesterday = sweet). It is an addiction...
Regularly Priced
Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - The Pacific Age
A Flock of Seagulls - Modern Love Is Automatic/Telecommunication 12"
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (Picture Disc!!!)
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
Al B. Sure! - In Effect Mode
Johnny Gill - S/T
Ready For The World - Long Time Coming
Sting - Nothing Like the Sun
Paw - Death To Traitors
Gas Huffer - Mole 7"
.50 Cents Each Section
Go West - Dancing On The Couch
Belinda Carlisle - Belinda
Caterwaul - Beholden
Icehouse - S/T
Howard Jones - One To One
Kiss - Hotter Than Hell
Shadowfax - The Dreams of Children
Roman Holliday - Cookin' On The Roof
Rick Springfield - Beautiful Feelings
Phyllis Nelson - I Like You
Simple Minds - I Travel 12"
Rumble Fish - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Stewart Copeland)
Paul Young - No Parlez (track 2 is a Love Will Tear Us Apart cover!!!)
Billy Ocean - Love Zone
Real Life - Heartland
Can I tell you how excited I was to see that Real Life album? One of those finds that makes you go "No way!" or "Yessssss..." or "hahahaHAHAHAhahaha" or "Oooooooohhhh..." and you hope no one is actually around to hear you geek the freak out over a .50 cent synth pop record. But the same happened for the Lauper picture disc and the Go West, and the Paul Young, and the Howard Jones... sometimes it pays to love what most people might consider irrelevant music. Fine by me though, left me more money to pick up that Sugarcubes piece of gold. And totally psyched to dig into Paw... Definitely think there will be some great, obscure, longtime friends to be had when I get this batch home to the safety of my shelves, where they belong. Now only one more stop to the location in Albany where I have read on their site that they have Prefab Sprout's If You Don't Love Me 12" and A-Ha's Stay On These Roads LP... if I could find both of those it would be like finding 3/5ths of a Last Temptation of Christ Soundtrack... fingers crossed!
Some crazy news that I found out after I left the store... Apparently Last Vestige will be consolidating into their Albany location and closing the Saratoga store... pause to watch heart sink to the bottom of the ocean... continue reading - but the longtime Saratoga manager will be renting the space on her own to open up her own record store. Sweet. I am up for that. Especially if it can bring some new vinyl into that shop. The one thing that plagues me about their stock is that the new release availability is horrendous. I always want that option when I go into a record store to pick up some new stuff that I've been obsessing over while I search through the past time and time again for the few new discs that have been placed among the ages... and the dust. Or if you would like the exact formula, one We Were Promised Jetpacks to each Milli Vanilli... And a side note to Adam - I almost picked up Yessongs and Fragile, but ended up putting them back. Wasn't sure what the going rates on either of them are. Yessongs was $18 and it had a notch cut out of the lower left hand corner. Think I would rather spend that kind of money on the 180 gram reissues at this point and hope to find them both for less at another time. Twas pretty darn awesome to see Yessongs fold all the way out though. No luck on finding another Close To The Edge to replace my warped copy. Pollacks... Jackson Pollacks...
Oh, and I had some totally basic, bland, whatever pancakes at the Latham 76 Diner the morning after I got into town at like 5AM. Might have been the most average pancakes to ever pass my lips. And can you believe they didn't even offer blueberry? or strawberry? or any berry for that matter? Waste of my time except to fill up the ole cake tank. I will have to find better before I leave.
Oh (x2), I have been meaning to post up two of the records that I snagged from my Uncle's box o records in his basement in Glocester, NJ. Normally, I could never ever EVER raid another person's record stash even if they say "take anything you want". Because of the way I feel about my records, I know that I could never take any bit of music that could have possibly been the soundtrack to a moment in someone's life, thus rendering them incapable of putting the disc on, reliving that wonderful nostalgia. Just can't do it... BUT, when he told me that he got some of the records from someone else and that he totally doesn't care about them, I went into "Well, if you insist!" mode... Let's just say that in a box full of Perry Cuomo, I doubt he will miss Kiss Double Platinum and Kiss Rock and Roll Over, both in perfect condition with vintage inserts intact. WON DER FUL. I swear, if you have never been a Kiss fan, go get double platinum. That shmurph is OFF THE HOOK. Except for Strutter '78. Wha the WHA were they thinking... other than, hey guys, you want to make some more money? Sure what the heck... Long story short, thanks Uncle Richard!
Now I shall drive into Saratoga, get a cappuccino at Uncommon Grounds and begin my last day of Christmas shopping. I Like Vacation.
Man I have so much catching up to do on my commenting. :-) Yeah, I would say $18 for a cut-out Yessongs is a little absurd. There should be plenty o' copies out there to be had, for a triple record I'd bet it sold crazy amounts in its time.
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