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It’s great to have a physical object for music.
Whatever you’re doing I hope you find what it is your looking for (record-wise that is). I’m hoping to get my hands on a bunch of releases, and, depending on what I end up with, I’ll post details later, or tomorrow, or something.
Anyway, enjoy Record Store Day!
I’m really looking forward to RSD2015 and there are good reasons too, in fact, quite a number of good reasons, all of which I’m hoping to get hold of. Here’s my list of stuff I’m after:
It’s a big list this year. The last couple of years I haven’t been looking for nearly as many items, but this year there are just too many good things.
Well, I’ve searched and searched and can’t find a digital version of this anywhere. I really wish I could as their version is better than the original in my view.
Beautiful to look at, beautiful to listen to.
Well, to be honest, it is Soul Mining at 31, but who’s counting right?
Last night I went along to Rough Trade East to listen to Matt Johnson from The The talk about Soul Mining, The The and what he’s been doing. I went with a certain sense of trepidation as I always worry that I’ll listen to someone who’s music I’ve enjoyed for many years and then I’ll listen to their opinions about other stuff and I won’t be able to listen to their music anymore.
Not so with Mr Johnson. No, we was excellent. Funny, insightful and full of interesting stories about the album and the music. I really enjoyed listening to him talk about each song as well, it gave interesting background, without breaking the spell of what has long been one of my all time favourite albums.
Of course, the evening was even better as I walked away with the 30th (31st to be precise) anniversary box set of Soul Mining, and it is a thing of beauty I have to say.
So now it deserves a proper listen. Well that won’t be a chore will it.
I posted yesterday about getting this 12″ single of The The’s Giant. So far so good. But, sadly, the nice sticker on the front of the disc is on the cellophane and not on the sleeve itself, meaning that the minute I open it, the sticker is gone!
Disaster!
This was the other record store day release I really wanted, but couldn’t get on the day. At the time I thought I’d done pretty well to get 2 out of three of the special releases I wanted, but I’d really wanted this too and ended up looking on eBay for it.
Well the one I got wasn’t a bad price at all, and was in perfect condition too.
Even though I have this album, and I’ve probably bought it about 4 times now, I still couldn’t help myself!
One of the things I picked up from Record Store Day last weekend was this special release of John Foxx’s first album Metamatic on white vinyl. I’ve had this album for ages but I couldn’t resist getting this version.
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