recent vinyl finds
Out of context: Reply #585
- Started
- Last post
- 605 Responses
- Gardener2
These are some of the albums that have made they way into my grubby hands in the last couple of weeks. I hit Northampton pretty hard the other week, I was only there a couple of days but still crammed in a boot, one auction and several charity shops. The best stuff turned up on my doorstep when I got home when a bloke answered my ad and rang saying he had a load of singles. I went round to his fancy static caravan and although the records were alright but nothing special and as I was saying my thanks but no thanks he asked if I liked The Beatles. Yeah sure, I said, so he pulls a record case out full of fab four and solo albums, "I want a fiver each for these, no offers" erm, OK so, I bought the lot, it's what he wanted. Nice original UK 1st mono pressings, although there was a White Album with only one disc but it had the bits, lovely copies of Ram, Walls & Bridges etc, and this...
A first press gold & black 1H/1H in quite incredible condition. I have only had 2 other copies in 40+ years of collecting, both came from car boots and both were scratched to hell and one never even had a sleeve, so this was gold indeed.
A pile of Lindisfarne and folk albums in an auction win also included this 2016 release which turned out to be nice surprise.
Also included was this short but delightful album which clocks in at less than 25 minutes. I saw Jarvis Cocker talking about it in the latest edition of Record Collector mag too.
Karma is most likely real, I dropped a box of albums off at a charity shop in Milton Keynes and flicked through their album selection in the racks and came across this wee beauty, case closed.
I've not heard Jarvis or anyone talking about this album I picked up in a charity shop in Morpeth on the drive home, I bought it for the sleeve art. Lady in the shop said the school is in the Newcastle area..
I paid a fiver for this one-sided interview disc, Ian explains the stories behind the songs.
I found a bunch of nice classical records on my travels too. Blagging access to the back of the shop I found 3 boxes they had all priced up at a fiver each (can't believe they actually looked any of them up tbh) and in with them were 2 copies of this box set but I chose this one which had an undamaged box. A fiver a record seemed to be the magic price on this trip, spooooky.Ahh, but these albums were a pound each so I guess that blows that theory.
