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It's Strip Me Away actually. Which is extra nice cause Pocketful Of Sunshine's on it, and I didn't feel like getting the US album since I already owned NB.Originally Posted by Crayons
BT - Laptop Symphony
Grimes - Visions
Grimes - Halfaxa
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Holly Johnson - Dreams That Money Can't Buy (2CD/DVD). It was £10 used on Amazon Markeplace, haven't seen it for less than that. Blast is still about £12.50 though, it just never seems to drop.
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Some obscure David Byrne soundtrack stuff from the 80s and 90s, both Billy Bragg & Wilco albums, and Matthew Sweet's 1991 cult classic Girlfriend. No McFly this time!
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Armada Trance 14
FAC.DANCE
Deadly Presents
all 'various artists'.
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Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
The Saturdays - On Your Radar
Goldfrapp - The Singles
Nero - Welcome Reality
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
I. Can't. Stop. Spending!
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Betty Wright: The Movie by Betty Wright and the Roots.
Bloody hell, it's brilliant.
Ugh.Originally Posted by SockMonkey
BAD: the above arrived it pretty shit condition for "Used - Very Good". Sticker marks all over the digipak, spine crushed, edges scuffed, bent and torn!
GOOD: emailed the seller (SourceMediaUK), sent a few pictures of the damage, refund given within 2 hours of contacting them and I get to keep it. Ah well, it's the music that matters I suppose! And I managed to get the sticker residue off with olive oil.
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It's taken me a long time to 'love' this album. I found it all a bit samey on the first few listensOriginally Posted by SockMonkey
Anyway my latest buys to try and cheer myself up( I'm sick of the shit summer we are having here in the UK)
Karin Park - Highwire Poetry ( the track 'Thousand Loaded Gun' is brilliant)
Beach House - Bloom (I can never resist a bit of dream pop)
School Of Seven Bells - Ghostory ( been wanting this for a while but waited to the price of the cd came down!)
Oh and my copy of Saint Saviour's 'Union' with bonus tracks finally arrived this weekend
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Although I have the digital copy, I gave in and bought Fiona Apple's CD/DVD "The Idler Wheel". I ordered it from US Amazon as it's $14 compared to £23(!!!) from UK Amazon. Robbing bastards!
This is a rare occasion for me, I don't often buy CD's unless I can't get the digital version here or the digital version is much more expensive than the physical (Like Taylor Swift's "Speak Now") The last one I bought was Kate Miller-Heidke's latest album imported from Australia as on Twitter she said it wasn't being released here yet... and then was pissed off when I saw it on iTunes the day of the Australian release. Ah well, it's a signed copy!
Today:
Taxi Girl - 84-86 CD
Stephanie - Collection Reference 80 CD
Various - Post Punk 3CD
And One - S.T.O.P. 2CD
And One - Back Home CD
Brigitte Fontaine - L'un N'empeche Pas L'autre CD promo
Girls Aloud - Sound of The Underground CD French promo (1 Euro!)
Crystal Castles - Baptism CD promo
Yelle - Safari Disco Club CD promo
Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife promo box set
I should mention that FNAC (I'm posting this from Paris) has gone down the same route as HMV did with even more gusto. CDs are now at the very back (at least in the Champs Elysees store) and have been condensed, at the expense of choice, into a miniscule space.
To make up for my disappointment I've had to console myself with two very large Eiffel Towers.
I love the Stephanie Reference cd! Great to have her stuff in decent quality.
Someone had a mid-90s CD single clearout in a charity shop in town:
Moby - Hymn
Voodoo Child (aka Moby) - Demons/Horses
Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave (inc Leftfield remixes)
The Boo Radleys - I Hang Suspended (inc Saint Etienne remix of 'Rodney King')
The Age Of Love - The Age Of Love (Remixes CD1)
Clubhouse feat. Carl - Light My Fire (Capella remixes)
£2 for the lot.
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A Shangri-Las greatest hits LP from 1984 for £1.99.
I bought Kelly Osbourne's Sleeping in the Nothing for only 99 cents.
I love it!
Just a few more singles I walked into..
After a few hours of CD shopping in London today:
Saint Saviour - Union (promo) - £1 (!!)
Donkey Boy - Caught In A Life (5 track sampler with Ambitions video on DVD) - £2
Jupiter - Juicy Lucy (promo) - £1
Moby - The Story So Far - 50p
Eve Gallagher - Woman Can Have It (Australian 2CD edition) - £6
Various - City Rockers Present Futurism 2 - £2
Karin Park - Highwire Poetry (promo) - £2
Karin Park - Fryngies (remix promo) - £1
Karin Park - Restless (remix promo) - £2
The Neon Lights - EP One - £1
Beats International - The Sun Doesn't Shine (CD single) - 50p
The Brilliant Things - Feels Like Summer (promo) - £1 (this was for the bf who loves them)
A pretty good haul for £20.
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Mvnl, can I ask a general question (and I genuinely hope you're not offended, I am just interested) - do you buy every CD single that you find ? Or what is your criteria for purchasing ?
I'm just jealous that I never find the same amount of cd singles in UK charity shops.
Haha, no I absolutely don't! I used to only get ones that actually included nice b-sides or remixes I didn't own yet, and only of songs I didn't have on an album yet, but ever since I got a box of about 200 singles for 5 euro it kinda kickstarted a collection of pretty much any song I really liked or that's just so incredibly random in an 'Oh my god, I never expected to ever see this again' way. Since I also have about 2500+ singles from my DJing days so it already felt like a nice start point I suppose. But yes, I seriously like all those singles you're seeing.Originally Posted by Lazarus
I don't hunt down the internet to collect ones I really need though, the fun's really in going through boxes full of singles to spot a few singles that excite me. And if I find 10 in a box with 100 of them it's a lot!
Oh, I just realized Discogs.com was part of the turning point too. Being able to properly list/browse them definitely added to the appeal of starting collecting.
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I totally understand the criteria for getting CD singles that you've never seen before and doubt will ever turn up again! Haha. Just impulse buys...things that you remember in the back of your mind, things that you were curious about at the time, all those things go through my mind when I see boxes of unloved CD singles in used stores. I'll go weeks without finding anything, then happen upon a whole stack of them in one place. I'm still reeling over the 25 quite rare 80s and early 90s ones I got a month ago.
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Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels LP - £5.99
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes - £1
More CD singles from the 90s clearout charity shop:
Reese - You're Mine (looked interesting, seems to be fairly rare, £20+ on Amazon Marketplace)
gusgus - Believe (remix CD, including an LFO remix)
Wir - So And Slow It Grows (including LFO and The Orb remixes)
The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It? (finally my cassingle gets an upgrade)
Earthling - Nefisa (never heard of it, but there's Portishead remix on it)
N-Trance - Set You Free (1994 release CD2 with 7 remixes)
Again, £2 for the lot.
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Finally spotted a nice unspoiled copy of Idlewilde (Deluxe) by Everything But The Girl in HMV! It's my favourite of the first 4 albums. Now I just need to find equally unspoiled copies of Love Not Money and Baby The Stars Shine bright and all will be well.
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I LOVE Walking Wounded, it's one of my favourite albums. And Temperamental was good as well. I've got that 'Original Albums' 5cd thing of their earlier work but I just can't get into it. Is there a particular lp that you'd recommend ?Originally Posted by Eric Generic
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