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Last night I ordered a CD through Barnes and Noble online:

Hair [Original Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition]

(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/522/26735691.jpg) (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/26735691.jpg/)

The last thing I bought was Journey's Greatest Hits (1 of the 15 or so greatest hits albums they've got), and Stone in Love.  That was about 3 weeks ago though.

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At about 2:30 in the morning I decided to treat myself to some new music, so I ordered 3 CDs from Walmart. They should be at my house anywhere from 5 to 10 days.
I ordered a new portable CD player a few hours before that as well. It should arrive at my house in the same amount of time.

The CDs are:

Floating by Eloy

I've never heard anything by Eloy, but they looked really good and I've been wanting to try some new things too.

(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6797/cover3956197102008.jpg) (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/cover3956197102008.jpg/)


Agents of Fortune by Blue Oyster Cult

I love Blue Oyster Cult! This will be my 3rd album by them.

(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6518/cover1456161332010.jpg) (http://img517.imageshack.us/i/cover1456161332010.jpg/)

Freak Out! by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

I've never heard anything by them, but they look really good, they seem pretty weird (always a bonus!), and I've had several people that know me really well recommend them to me.


(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/377/37801.jpg) (http://img139.imageshack.us/i/37801.jpg/)

CD from Amazon:

(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d748/d74893he66d.jpg)

Jesse Johnson - Shockadelica (1986)

and two MP3 downloads from Amazon:

(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf200/f264/f26435cf3zd.jpg)

Fatback - Hot Box (1980)

and Liquid Gold - Greatest Hits

Over the past few weeks I've been buying some cheap CD's I've come across in thrift stores.  Some I'm sort of familiar with or know what I'm getting in to and the rest are on impulse and the results vary.  All of these were from $0.50 to $1.50:

(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/140/140790.jpg)(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s28784.jpg)(http://www.alicenter.org/press/newsarchive/PublishingImages/fgws_drums_mac.jpg)
(http://www.laughingplace.com/files/DinoKarioke/Dinosaur.jpg)(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000179T.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/180/189557.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/090/94042.jpg)(http://www.startreksoundtracks.com/images/cov-best.jpg)(http://www.coco-records.nl/catalog/images/B000HWY58O.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V41398770_.jpg)(http://www.orkhestra.fr/imag/pochet/NW80451.jpg)(http://www.fakejazz.com/images/covers/2002/karate2.jpg)(http://i3.ebayimg.com/02/c/05/af/56/23_8.JPG)(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080515055619/lyricwiki/images/thumb/0/06/Rheostatics_-_The_Blue_Hysteria.jpg/180px-Rheostatics_-_The_Blue_Hysteria.jpg)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Beauty
Godfathers - More Songs About Love & Hate
River City Drum Corps - Spirit of the Drum (couldn't find an album cover, it's some really small independent release performed by drum students from what I can gather)
James Newton Howard - Dinosaur soundtrack
Wilburn Brothers - The Wonderful Wilburn Brothers
James Horner - Casper soundtrack
Crowded House - self-titled
Best of Star Trek 30th Anniversary Special
New Barbarians - Buried Alive
Ed Jackson - Wake Up Call
Karate - Cancel/Sing
The Bridge - self-titled I think
Rheostatics - The Blue Hysteria

Got these for real cheap/trade:

(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/250/255333.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/07/7632407.jpg)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pMo5rbgaMSU/Sh7ZZ2mrZYI/AAAAAAAAAPE/z4yQU_MOx4E/s400/JardimEletrico.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/150/157915.jpg)(http://www.soundbitesdog.com/Craigslist_ADS/JefferyCain/Isidore.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/63/7997163.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/92/1243692.jpg)(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/28/7934728.jpg)

Ween - The Mollusk
Ron Carter - Where?
Os Mutantes - Jardim Eletrico
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Isisdore - self-titled
Ciao My Shing Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Weather Report - self-titled

I ordered yet another CD through Walmart.com:

Dare to Be Stupid by Weird Al Yankovic

I've heard only a little of Weird Al, but I like what I have heard enough to order a CD! I also saw his movie (UHF) which also increased my desire to get a CD.

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/6980/alb3b.jpg) (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/alb3b.jpg/)

I ordered yet another CD, this time through Best Buy online:

Who's Next by The Who

I already have two CDs by The Who (Endless Wire and Tommy) and they are both really good, but I wanted to hear more.

(http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7307/thewhowhosnext.jpg) (http://img85.imageshack.us/i/thewhowhosnext.jpg/)

It should arrive at my house sometime from June 25th to July 2nd!

Decent album overall, but I'm a bit biased as I have all his albums, cheesy compilations included.  One suggestion: if you can find it, grab The Essential Weird Al Yankovic.  It's relatively cheap, coming in around $15 (various stores have it cheaper), and it's a 2 disc compilation of a cross of his best known parodies: "Eat It", "Smells Like Nirvana", "Lasagna", "White and Nerdy", as well as some of his best known Non-Parodies: "You Don't Love Me Anymore", "Dare to Be Stupid", "Pancreas", and "Bob."

Thanks for the information! I've heard about The Essential Weird Yankovic and it looks really nice, but when I first buy an artist's CDs I like to start with non-compilation albums. Still I've heard it has some new stuff so I'll look it into it.

The second disc has stuff from his '99, '03 and '06 releases.  As much as I like Al's work, I generally suggest a compilation to people, as most people aren't 'hardcore' fans of him like myself and a few others, and they can only take so much of his output.  The compilation's have the best-written stuff, as some cd's have a few songs that are not-so-good.

HappyGilmore -

I won't say that I will definitely become a hardcore fan, but I have a very broad range of comedic tastes ranging from very clever and witty to very corny and stupid, so I feel confident I'll be more into him than most people.

I also feel admiration for Weird Al as it's pretty cool how he managed to make a living!

Again, thanks for the information!

Something for Everybody by Devo.  New album, came out last week.  A really good output, really.  Most people chuckle, as it's "Devo."

Raw Power by Iggy and The Stooges.

The Best of Kiss: Volume 3

Bought a second copy of Baton Rouge's Shake Your Soul cd (1990). My original copy isn't working anymore as I actually wore it out playing it that much!  :lookingup:

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd- based somewhat due to a suggestion from AHD.  Good album. :wink:

Raw Power by Iggy and The Stooges.  Again, seen AHD mention it and suggest it, and being familiar with Iggy's solo stuff, decided to grab it.

Amazon:

Donna Allen - Perfect Timing (1986)

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctg8YjuoLjM

The Essential Elvis Presley

Did because I've always loved Elvis, but realized I have no Elvis at all.

Bought Van Halen's '95 Balance album, which was recommended to me by my former manager. I can't get into it at all, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge is still way better in terms of Van Hagar stuff...

Lately I've bought several cassettes from my favorite thrift store:

The Atlantic Years - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

(http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1352/cover3331101112008.jpg) (http://img534.imageshack.us/i/cover3331101112008.jpg/)

Word of Mouth - The Kinks

(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6897/kinkswordofmouth.jpg) (http://img714.imageshack.us/i/kinkswordofmouth.jpg/)

Think Visual - The Kinks

(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/1139/img1pr.jpg) (http://img827.imageshack.us/i/img1pr.jpg/)

I don't feel like looking up pictures for these:   The Simpsons Sing the Blues and a collection of songs from the 60s and 70s.

On CD:


Asia - Asia

(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9980/asiaasia.jpg) (http://img34.imageshack.us/i/asiaasia.jpg/)

Scream in Blue Live - Midnight Oil


(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1884/screaminbluecover.jpg) (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/screaminbluecover.jpg/)

More from my favorite thrift store:

Cassettes:

The Kink Kronikles - The Kinks

(http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/711/kinkkron.jpg) (http://img237.imageshack.us/i/kinkkron.jpg/)

Schoolboys in Disgrace - The Kinks

(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8571/schoolboys.jpg) (http://img42.imageshack.us/i/schoolboys.jpg/)

Golden Hits - Little Richard

Def, Dumb and Blonde - Deborah Harry

(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2673/ddbs.jpg) (http://img96.imageshack.us/i/ddbs.jpg/)

Cats without Claws - Donna Summer

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9355/cwcc.jpg) (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/cwcc.jpg/)

Reach the beach -  The Fixx

(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2231/fixx.jpg) (http://img411.imageshack.us/i/fixx.jpg/)

MEGADETH : Rust In Peace Remastered
Breaking Benjamin : Dear Agony
Ozzy osbourne : scream
SLIPKNOT : Iowa
KORN : Life Is Peachy

And Also.......GASP!

Miley Cyrus : The Time Of Our Lives

CDs:

Antics in the Forbidden Zone - Adam and the Ants/Adam Ant

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/5585/antk.jpg) (http://img375.imageshack.us/i/antk.jpg/)

Out of the Blue - Electric Light Orchestra

(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8872/eloj.jpg) (http://img293.imageshack.us/i/eloj.jpg/)

Revolver - The Beatles

(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4329/beatlesrevolver.jpg) (http://img84.imageshack.us/i/beatlesrevolver.jpg/)

I just ordered 11 CDs from Amazon.com:

Ocean - Eloy

(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6091/eloyocean.jpg) (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/eloyocean.jpg/)

The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/2489/4457thevillagegreenpres.jpg) (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/4457thevillagegreenpres.jpg/)

The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan

(http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/3852/thepleasureprinciple1.jpg) (http://img844.imageshack.us/i/thepleasureprinciple1.jpg/)

In Search of Space - Hawkwind

(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8509/insearchofspace.jpg) (http://img72.imageshack.us/i/insearchofspace.jpg/)

Third - Soft Machine

(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8121/softu.png) (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/softu.png/)

Songs From the Wood - Jethro Tull

(http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/9068/songsfromthewood.jpg) (http://img594.imageshack.us/i/songsfromthewood.jpg/)

Spectres - Blue Oyster Cult

(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9813/spectres.png) (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/spectres.png/)

Tarkus - Emerson Lake and Palmer

(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6461/tarkus.jpg) (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/tarkus.jpg/)

Interview - Gentle Giant

(http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/1530/interv.png) (http://img51.imageshack.us/i/interv.png/)

Telekon - Gary Numan

(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8121/telekon.jpg) (http://img96.imageshack.us/i/telekon.jpg/)

Replicas - Gary Numan

(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/369/rep.png) (http://img836.imageshack.us/i/rep.png/)

Damn, I've bought a lot of music lately!!

I've bought yet another batch of CDs and Cassettes from my favorite local thrift store, because they were having a great sale:

CDs:

Mechanical Resonance - Tesla (A band I've heard about and wanted to explore)

(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/7024/albummechanicalresonanc.jpg) (http://img827.imageshack.us/i/albummechanicalresonanc.jpg/)

Big Bam Boom - Hall and Oates (See above)

(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9108/bigbamboom.jpg) (http://img713.imageshack.us/i/bigbamboom.jpg/)

Woodface - Crowded House (I like an associated band Split Enz so I decided to get the two Crowded House albums I saw)

(http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/3146/albumwoodface.jpg) (http://img831.imageshack.us/i/albumwoodface.jpg/)

Place Without a Postcard - Midnight Oil (I have one other CD by this band and it was good enough to make me buy this)

(http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8386/placewithoutapostcard.jpg) (http://img442.imageshack.us/i/placewithoutapostcard.jpg/)

Empire - Queensryche (Again, it's a band I've been wanting to explore)

(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3538/empirew.png) (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/empirew.png/)

Temple of Low Men - Crowded House

(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/808/albumtempleoflowmen.jpg) (http://img571.imageshack.us/i/albumtempleoflowmen.jpg/)

Music for TV Dinners (On the back of the case it's described with the following: "An inspiring and soothing collection of production music - ready-made tunes that have appeared in everything from feature-length movies to TV and radio commercials, and even those "edifying" driver's ed and good citizenship films you were forced to watch on school.")

Cassettes:

101 - Depeche Mode (2-cassette set)

(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3238/depechemode101.jpg) (http://img836.imageshack.us/i/depechemode101.jpg/)

On Through the Night - Def Leppard

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7811/defleppardonthroughthen.jpg) (http://img375.imageshack.us/i/defleppardonthroughthen.jpg/)

Raised on Radio - Journey

(http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/7707/raisedonradio.jpg) (http://img825.imageshack.us/i/raisedonradio.jpg/)

Theatre of Pain - Motley Crue

(http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/8916/motleycruetheatreofpain.jpg) (http://img822.imageshack.us/i/motleycruetheatreofpain.jpg/)

(I've been wanting to explore all 4 of these bands.)

3 CDs:

Close to the Edge - Yes

(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7758/closetotheedgeyes.jpg) (http://img155.imageshack.us/i/closetotheedgeyes.jpg/)

These next 2 should arrive between September 2nd and 20th:

Dizrythmia - Split Enz

(http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2998/dizrythmiasplitenz.jpg) (http://img716.imageshack.us/i/dizrythmiasplitenz.jpg/)

Soap Opera - The Kinks

(http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4892/soapoperathekinks.jpg) (http://img842.imageshack.us/i/soapoperathekinks.jpg/)

Street Dogs - S/T

As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise

Bob Newhart - The Bob Newhart Anthology

I've purchased a lot of music lately (this covers several weeks):

On CD:

Metal Health -  Quiet Riot

(http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4407/metalhealthquietriot.jpg) (http://img337.imageshack.us/i/metalhealthquietriot.jpg/)

Tooth and Nail -  Dokken

(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6339/dokkentoothandnail.jpg) (http://img201.imageshack.us/i/dokkentoothandnail.jpg/)

The Snapdragons - The Snapdragons

(http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9547/snapdragons.jpg) (http://img840.imageshack.us/i/snapdragons.jpg/)

Ain't had Enough Fun - Little Feat

(http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/5325/thadenoughfunlittlefeat.jpg) (http://img823.imageshack.us/i/thadenoughfunlittlefeat.jpg/)

Cosmic Thing - The B-52s

(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5788/cosmicthing.jpg) (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/cosmicthing.jpg/)

On Cassette:

Don't Look Back - Boston

(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2505/tlookback1978.jpg) (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/tlookback1978.jpg/)

Don't Tread - Damn Yankees

(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3804/albumdonttread.jpg) (http://img4.imageshack.us/i/albumdonttread.jpg/)

Endless Summer - The Beach Boys

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3899/endlesssummer.jpg) (http://img266.imageshack.us/i/endlesssummer.jpg/)

For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - Van Halen

(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7172/forunlawful.jpg) (http://img255.imageshack.us/i/forunlawful.jpg/)

Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits - Jim Croce

(http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8922/jimcroce.jpg) (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/jimcroce.jpg/)

Night in the Ruts - Aerosmith

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8392/nightruts.th.jpg) (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/nightruts.jpg/)

Pump - Aerosmith

(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9436/pumpx.th.jpg) (http://img228.imageshack.us/i/pumpx.jpg/)

Van Halen Live: Right Here, Right Now (Only cassette 2 of a 2-cassette set) - Van Halen

(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5359/rightherek.th.jpg) (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/rightherek.jpg/)

Combat Rock - The Clash

(http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/5310/theclashcombatrockcover.jpg) (http://img819.imageshack.us/i/theclashcombatrockcover.jpg/)

Red Hot 80's: Six Great Hits - various artists

Point of Know Return - Kansas

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7820/albumpointofknowreturn.jpg) (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/albumpointofknowreturn.jpg/)

The Power Station - The Power Station

(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/299/albumthepowerstation.jpg) (http://img571.imageshack.us/i/albumthepowerstation.jpg/)

24 Nights - Eric Clapton

(http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6995/24ec.jpg) (http://img840.imageshack.us/i/24ec.jpg/)

2400 Fulton Street: An Anthology - Jefferson Airplane

(http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4661/2400fult.jpg) (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/2400fult.jpg/)

Hysteria - Def Leppard

(http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8068/hysteriadefleppard.jpg) (http://img443.imageshack.us/i/hysteriadefleppard.jpg/)

Pyromania - Def Leppard

(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8677/pyromaniadefleppard.jpg) (http://img508.imageshack.us/i/pyromaniadefleppard.jpg/)

The One - Elton John

(http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3381/theoneeltonjohn.jpg) (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/theoneeltonjohn.jpg/)

Sports - Huey Lewis and the News

(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6147/sportshueylewisandthene.jpg) (http://img97.imageshack.us/i/sportshueylewisandthene.jpg/)

Their Greatest Hits: 1971-1975 - Eagles

(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/8606/theirgreatesthits197119.jpg) (http://img837.imageshack.us/i/theirgreatesthits197119.jpg/)

Hotel California- Eagles

(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/7999/hotelcaliforniaeagles.jpg) (http://img411.imageshack.us/i/hotelcaliforniaeagles.jpg/)

10 From 6 -  Bad Company

(http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9885/10from6badcompany.jpg) (http://img43.imageshack.us/i/10from6badcompany.jpg/)

The Wild the Willing and the Innocent - UFO

(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/8068/thewildthewillingandthe.jpg) (http://img259.imageshack.us/i/thewildthewillingandthe.jpg/)

16 Greatest Hits - Steppenwolf

(http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6935/16greatesthitssteppenwo.jpg) (http://img812.imageshack.us/i/16greatesthitssteppenwo.jpg/)

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

(http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5199/andersonbrufordwakemanh.jpg) (http://img196.imageshack.us/i/andersonbrufordwakemanh.jpg/)

Cloud Nine - George Harrison

(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9961/cloudninegeorgeharrison.jpg) (http://img710.imageshack.us/i/cloudninegeorgeharrison.jpg/)

New England - New England

(http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/4185/newenglandnewengland.jpg) (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/newenglandnewengland.jpg/)

The Last Waltz - The Band

(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1522/thelastwaltztheband.jpg) (http://img291.imageshack.us/i/thelastwaltztheband.jpg/)

Rocket (Single) - Def Leppard

(http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7015/rocketcassettesingledef.gif) (http://img180.imageshack.us/i/rocketcassettesingledef.gif/)

Greatest Hits - Lovin' Spoonful

(http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1795/spoonful.jpg) (http://img843.imageshack.us/i/spoonful.jpg/)

Dang! I'm tired just from posting all this!

A few hours ago I ordered 2 more CDs from Amazon.com (they should arrive between September 20th and October 5th):

Angels Egg - Gong

(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/4417/gongcover.jpg) (http://img521.imageshack.us/i/gongcover.jpg/)

The Last Command - W.A.S.P.

(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/4377/lcwy.jpg) (http://img175.imageshack.us/i/lcwy.jpg/)

Do you get a bulk discount Sleepyskull?

No, but I've also been ordering from different sites. Mostly Amazon, but Dokken and Quiet Riot are coming from Deep Discount (My first order from there). However, everything else I've bought in person from stores nearby. Mostly thrift stores, which is the only reason I can afford all this. Also, cassettes are always cheaper in thrift stores.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61btrFFIYQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5135TMGeZEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

3 CDs from Amazon.com should arrive sometime between October 7th to October 25th:

Tyranny and Mutation - Blue Oyster Cult

(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2323/tamz.jpg)

Cultosaurus Erectus - Blue Oyster Cult

(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4831/blueoystercultcultosaur.jpg)

Scary Monsters - David Bowie

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2466/smsc.jpg)

Wale - Attention Deficit. I've been meaning to pick this up for a while. Good hip-hop influenced by go-go music.

The first 2 are actually birthday gifts:

CDs:

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2448/darksiden.jpg) (http://img72.imageshack.us/i/darksiden.jpg/)

Rubber Soul - The Beatles

(http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7456/90741234.jpg)

Believe - Cher

(http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2134/herq.jpg)

Strange Days  - The Doors

(http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2975/sdays.jpg)

L.A. Woman - The Doors

(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/683/doorsd.jpg)

Volumes 1 and 2 - The Soft Machine

(http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8906/vol12k.jpg)

2 - Led Zeppelin

(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5792/lz2q.jpg)

3 - Led Zeppelin

(http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/517/lz3l.jpg)

Cassettes:

OU812 - Van Halen

(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6876/ou812.jpg)

Helluva Band - Angel

(http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5316/angelhelluvabandfrontco.jpg)

In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8963/srvadt.jpg)

Whitesnake - Whitesnake

(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/783/92765202.jpg)

I forgot 2 CDs earlier:


God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8958/godctd.jpg) (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/godctd.jpg/)


Heavy Nova - Robert Palmer

(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/5488/rphn.jpg) (http://img593.imageshack.us/i/rphn.jpg/)

I've really got to start saving money, but before that happens, I've made 3 CD purchases:

Amazon.com orders which should arrive between December 3rd, 2010 and December 20th, 2010

Free-for-All - Ted Nugent

(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3148/tnffa.jpg) (http://img696.imageshack.us/i/tnffa.jpg/)

Scream Dream -  Ted Nugent
(http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/7192/tnsd.jpg) (http://img508.imageshack.us/i/tnsd.jpg/)

Secondspin.com order which should arrive in 1 to 3 weeks:

Cat Scratch Fever -  Ted Nugent

(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2897/tncsf.jpg) (http://img19.imageshack.us/i/tncsf.jpg/)

waiting for these to arrive......

Loop - Fade Out
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/loop_-_fade_out.jpg)

The Beatles - Abbey Road (for my mum)
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/The-Beatles-Abbey-Road.jpg)

I ordered 2 more CDs from Amazon.com using a birthday gift-card and they should arrive between: December 3rd, 2010 and December 20th, 2010:

Symphonic Rock: The British Invasion - The London Symphony Orchestra
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4436/lpo2.jpg) (http://img214.imageshack.us/i/lpo2.jpg/)



Queen's Rhapsody: The Hits of Queen - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (This has the Flash Gordon theme song! I can't wait to blast it!)

(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9097/queen1z.jpg) (http://img718.imageshack.us/i/queen1z.jpg/)

I've almost finished off the birthday gift-card with one more CD purchase from Amazon.com:

90125 - Yes
(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2879/317jp1sj6flsl500aa300.jpg) (http://img560.imageshack.us/i/317jp1sj6flsl500aa300.jpg/)

It should arrive between December 3rd, 2010 and December 20th, 2010!

I finished off the gift-card (every last cent!) with a CD purchase from Barnes and Noble.com:

Back for the Attack - Dokken
(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1541/badokkken.jpg) (http://img710.imageshack.us/i/badokkken.jpg/)

It should arrive in 2-6 business days.

Motley Crue-Girls Girls Girls

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-3nP7-f56XY/Si0e76mejMI/AAAAAAAAArY/1bty_55mUP8/s320/Motley+Crue+-+Girls+Girls+Girls+(1987).jpg)

W.A.S.P.-The Last Command

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CvAgMMGRTbE/TEUeryzOFBI/AAAAAAAAAYM/a1wlIuDw6r8/s1600/1799%5B1%5D.jpg)

I'll reveal my online purchase from Amazon.com as soon as it arrives.


I found 1 CD in a thrift store recently:
Train of Thought -  Dream Theater
(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/458/dreamtheatertrainofthou.jpg) (http://img143.imageshack.us/i/dreamtheatertrainofthou.jpg/)
It was brand new and never opened!


I bought several CDs at a local music collector's show yesterday:

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver Messenger Service
(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8472/quicksilvermessengerser.jpg) (http://img5.imageshack.us/i/quicksilvermessengerser.jpg/)

Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/835/fholly.jpg) (http://img510.imageshack.us/i/fholly.jpg/)

Dr.Feelgood - Motley Crue
(http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6972/motleycruedrfeelgoodr.jpg) (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/motleycruedrfeelgoodr.jpg/)

The Warning - Queensryche
(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2102/albumcoversqueensrychet.jpg) (http://img405.imageshack.us/i/albumcoversqueensrychet.jpg/)

Black Moon - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
(http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5779/elpblackmoon.jpg) (http://img69.imageshack.us/i/elpblackmoon.jpg/)

Liquor in the Front - The Reverend Horton Heat
(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9445/lfront.jpg) (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/lfront.jpg/)


Eliminator 0 ZZ Top
(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6361/zztopeliminatorf.jpg) (http://img510.imageshack.us/i/zztopeliminatorf.jpg/)

Relayer - Yes
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9973/yesrelayer.jpg) (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/yesrelayer.jpg/)

Night Songs - Cinderella
(http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9090/cinderellans.jpg) (http://img834.imageshack.us/i/cinderellans.jpg/)

I also pointed out some CDs to my Mom, and I'm pretty sure that I'll be getting them for Christmas!

Greatest Hits Volume 1&2 by Billy Joel.  All the good songs: The Entertainer, Piano Man, Captain Jack, New York State of Mind, Scenes from An Italian Restaurant, Just the Way You Are, Movin' Out (Anthony's Song), Only the Good Die Young, Big Shot, Pressure, Allentown, Uptown Girl, The Longest Time, Tell Her About It and quite a few others.

(http://www.rockcandyrecords.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Raging%20Slab.jpg)

Raging Slab (1989)
Great debut album of southern infused hard rock, very fresh sound and now one of my fave all-time albums. "Get Off My Jollies" is kick ass along with mellow stand-out "Love Comes Loose". The picture is from the Rock Candy re-issue this year, as the band hated the original cover shot.  :thumbup:

I got a WalMart giftcard for Christmas, so I purchased 2 CDs, which should arrive at my local store soon:



Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister  [25th Anniversary 2-Disc Edition]
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1032/twistersisterstayhungry.jpg) (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/twistersisterstayhungry.jpg/)

Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
(http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/1230/zztopv.jpg) (http://img815.imageshack.us/i/zztopv.jpg/)

(http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d310/d31023y60ie.jpg)

"Mutations" by Beck

All of these are on CD, unless otherwise noted:

(http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7076/journeyescape.jpg) (http://img375.imageshack.us/i/journeyescape.jpg/)
Escape - Journey

Vinyl: (http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/638/meatloafbatoutofhell1.jpg) (http://img337.imageshack.us/i/meatloafbatoutofhell1.jpg/)
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf

(http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2871/jarflyaic.jpg) (http://img513.imageshack.us/i/jarflyaic.jpg/)
Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/56/pokemonkq.jpg) (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/pokemonkq.jpg/)
Pokemon the First Movie: Music from and inspired by the motion picture - Soundtrack/Various Artists

(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9305/rocksheadrd.jpg) (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/rocksheadrd.jpg/)
Rocks in the Head - Roger Daltrey

(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/7673/grinchhorton.jpg) (http://img683.imageshack.us/i/grinchhorton.jpg/)
Dr.Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who! - Soundtrack

(http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/5521/pyromdl.jpg) (http://img815.imageshack.us/i/pyromdl.jpg/)
Pyromania - Def Leppard

(http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/7642/badreptl.jpg) (http://img717.imageshack.us/i/badreptl.jpg/)
Bad Reputation - Thin Lizzy

(http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/5179/obro.jpg) (http://img602.imageshack.us/i/obro.jpg/)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack/Various Artists


(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/705/genesiswecdance.jpg) (http://img146.imageshack.us/i/genesiswecdance.jpg/)
We Can't Dance - Genesis

(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/7830/joyofatoykevaye.jpg) (http://img714.imageshack.us/i/joyofatoykevaye.jpg/)
Joy of a Toy - Kevin Ayers

(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5141/zookmusicaccumul.jpg) (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/zookmusicaccumul.jpg/)
Music from the Accumulator - Zook

(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8057/roxymusiccountry.jpg) (http://img222.imageshack.us/i/roxymusiccountry.jpg/)
Country Life - Roxy Music

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3479/bellydre.jpg) (http://img152.imageshack.us/i/bellydre.jpg/)
I Wanna See You Bellydance - The Red Elvises

(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8743/aladdinsane.jpg) (http://img198.imageshack.us/i/aladdinsane.jpg/)
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie

(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/2685/hwdoremifl.jpg) (http://img714.imageshack.us/i/hwdoremifl.jpg/)
Doremi Fasol Latido - Hawkwind

(http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8710/tltl.jpg) (http://img255.imageshack.us/i/tltl.jpg/)
Thin Lizzy - Thin Lizzy

(http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4308/wildplanetb52.jpg) (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/wildplanetb52.jpg/)
Wild Planet - The B-52's

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/880/b52s.jpg) (http://img263.imageshack.us/i/b52s.jpg/)
The B-52's - The B-52's

(http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/9159/sopranossoundtrack.jpg) (http://img546.imageshack.us/i/sopranossoundtrack.jpg/)
The Sopranos: Music from the Original HBO Series - Various Artists

(http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1680/thebandband.jpg) (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/thebandband.jpg/)
The Band - The Band

(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4159/groovinredelv.jpg) (http://img405.imageshack.us/i/groovinredelv.jpg/)
Grooving to the Moscow Beat - The Red Elvises

(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/4492/shleeprobwyatt.jpg) (http://img203.imageshack.us/i/shleeprobwyatt.jpg/)
Shleep - Robert Wyatt

(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/866/splitenztc.jpg) (http://img256.imageshack.us/i/splitenztc.jpg/)
True Colours - Split Enz

(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/322/lovetoofastmc.jpg) (http://img151.imageshack.us/i/lovetoofastmc.jpg/)
Too Fast for Love - Motley Crue

(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3985/carscars.jpg) (http://img341.imageshack.us/i/carscars.jpg/)
The Cars - The Cars

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5848/egslsgold.jpg) (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/egslsgold.jpg/)
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence Sing the Golden Hits - Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence

(http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4084/flyingtepogong.jpg) (http://img130.imageshack.us/i/flyingtepogong.jpg/)
Flying Teapot - Gong

(http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8325/walbahd.jpg) (http://img407.imageshack.us/i/walbahd.jpg/)
Bad Hair Day - Weird Al Yankovic

(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1457/aerobo.jpg) (http://img267.imageshack.us/i/aerobo.jpg/)
Big Ones - Aerosmith

(http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/7384/thecuredis.jpg) (http://img830.imageshack.us/i/thecuredis.jpg/)
Disintegration - The Cure

(http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/3338/newordertechnique.jpg) (http://img808.imageshack.us/i/newordertechnique.jpg/)
[Technique/i] - New Order

(http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/1407/16362214482538890382710.jpg) (http://img703.imageshack.us/i/16362214482538890382710.jpg/)
Love in Outer Space: Live in Utrecht - Sun Ra and his Arkestra

(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6067/bnlme.jpg) (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/bnlme.jpg/)
Barenaked Ladies are Me - Barenaked Ladies

(http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2160/buddyholly.jpg) (http://img515.imageshack.us/i/buddyholly.jpg/)

Buddy Holly (3-Disc set) - Buddy Holly

(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3801/lordsongs.jpg) (http://img696.imageshack.us/i/lordsongs.jpg/)

Songs the Lord Taught Us - The Cramps

(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6337/areyouexperienceduscoveo.jpg) (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/areyouexperienceduscoveo.jpg/)

Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience


All of these CDs should arrive at my local Wal-Mart sometime from 2-3-2011 to 2-9-2011.

3 CDs:

The Finest 'Arvest of The Wurzels - The Wurzels

(http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8256/wurzels.jpg) (http://img340.imageshack.us/i/wurzels.jpg/)


Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos

(http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/5935/laylab.jpg) (http://img404.imageshack.us/i/laylab.jpg/)

These two should arrive between 3-16-2011 and 3-29-2011.

March or Die - Motorhead

(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/451/mordie.jpg) (http://img80.imageshack.us/i/mordie.jpg/)

Should arrive between 2-24-2011 and 3-11-2011.

(http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/c/chastain-for_those_who_dare.jpg)
(http://image.betamonline.com/sdimages/upc09/5013929776821.jpg)

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/amorphistki.jpg)

I've been on a bit of a CD buying binge lately since we got our tax refund... this is what I've obtained lately...

Metallica - BEYOND MAGNETIC EP
Scorpions - COMEBLACK
Accept - RESTLESS & WILD
Cinderella - NIGHT SONGS
Deep Purple - DEEPEST PURPLE: THE BEST OF
Overkill - THE ELECTRIC AGE

And a bunch of discs from the uber-cheap budget price "EXTENDED VERSIONS" live series from BMG/Sony... Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice Cooper, and Motorhead.

Three more CDs today... and at least three more comin' in the mail from GoHastings.com this week.. woohoo!

Guns N Roses - CHINESE DEMOCRACY (a buddy picked this up for me at his local dollar store, of all places...hahaha. For a buck, it actually ain't a bad spin.)

Motorhead - 1916

Sex Pistols - EXTENDED VERSIONS

Once this binge is over I will have to stop for a while, before my wife staples my nuts to my forehead. ("You ordered MORE #$%&ing CDs?")

I'm still waiting for the new Overkill record to arrive.  :bluesad:

I got lucky, my local "cool" independent record store had it out on the shelves a couple of days before the official "street" date so I snapped it up. I love when shops do that. :teddyr:

Anyway, it's a bad-ass record and I think you'll dig it when you hear it!!

The local public library was having their annual Book Sale today so in addition to some cool geeky stuff like Star Wars and Aliens Vs. Predator paperback novels and a bad-ass "Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man" reprint compendium (the first 31 issues all in one book!), I scored a couple of CDs as well:

Heart - DOG & BUTTERFLY (1978, remaster w/bonus tracks)
Heart - JUPITER'S DARLING (2004)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - THE BEST OF ELP (never been much of a prog-rock fan, but the last track is Greg Lake's solo Christmas single "I Believe In Father Christmas" and I love listening to that one at holiday time...)

New Accept album, along with new Overkill album. Both easily the best metal releases of the year so far.

Picked up the new Joey Ramone solo disc, "YA KNOW?" today.

(http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Kreator-Phantom-Antichrist.jpg)

For these...you've now become my best friend.

When's the party?

Picked up a few CDs today at the local animal shelter's yard-sale fundraiser:

Def Leppard - YEAH!

Rush - MOVING PICTURES and COUNTERPARTS

Rainbow - STRAIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES

Pink Floyd - ANIMALS

(http://www.blistering.com/fastpage/images/CATID_5/testamentdarkbigger.jpg)

Pre-Order baby!  :tongueout:

I bought a stack of 45's at a yard sale yesterday.

Beatles: Hey Jude/Revolution
George Harrison: My Sweet Lord/Isn't It a Pity
Ringo Starr: It Don't Come Easy/Early 1970
Mary Hopkin: Goodbye/Sparrow
The Original Caste: One Tin Soldier/Live For Tomorrow
The Poppy Family: Where Evil Grows/I Was Wondering
Herman's Hermits: Mrs. Brown You Have a LOvely Daughter/Sea Cruise
Tommy James: Crimson and Clover/Some Kind of Love
The 5th Dimension: Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In/Dontcha Hear Me Callin' to Ya
The Royal Guardsmen: Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron/I Needed You
Elton John: Daniel/Skyline Pigeon
The Archies: Sugar, Sugar/Melody Hill
Neil Diamond: Song Sung Blue/Gitchy Goomy
The Harry Simeone Chorale: Little Drummer Boy/Oh Holy Night

...and more Neil Diamond, Bobby Sherman, Jay and The Americans, The Cowsill's, Tom Jones, Wishbone, Tommy Roe, The Flaming Ember, Bill Cosby...I got the whole stack for $2. They are pristine: it was like opening a time capsule.  Somebody's collection set aside and forgotten until now.  And they sound great.  I'm pleased and excited!   :teddyr:

Coupla used-CD bargains...

Misfits - WALK AMONG US
Cinderella - HEARTBREAK STATION
Def Leppard - ON THROUGH THE NIGHT
Motorhead - OVERNIGHT SENSATION

...with these four purchases, I have officially bought more CDs in the first half of 2012 than I did in all of 2011. Yay me! Please don't tell my wife.  :teddyr:

Just about to set off to buy my girlfriend the new Fear Factory album.

Scored a used copy of this oldie but goody today:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/89/Misfits_-_Legacy_of_Brutality_cover.jpg/220px-Misfits_-_Legacy_of_Brutality_cover.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/archive/2/2c/20100322142649!Behemoth_-_The_Apostasy.jpg)

I was in the dollar store with my kids over the weekend and picked up this oddity... as a longtime KISS fanboy it was simply too weird to resist...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Hayseed_Dixie_-_Kiss_My_Grass-A_Hillbilly_Tribute_to_Kiss.jpg)

Country/bluegrass versions of KISS classics. And y'know what? It's effin' hilarious!! Well worth the buck I paid for it.  :bouncegiggle:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zwz8P1DFA-I/T6QkjsIsQ3I/AAAAAAAAAEM/0R_TzJuHWNk/s1600/Jeff+Loomis+-+Plains+of+Oblivion.jpg)

Modern guitar wank heaven!  :thumbup:

Got this stuff a short while ago!

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Hitomi_yaida_single_collection_cover.JPG)(http://www.6dft.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Ozric-Tentacles.jpg)(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_itVIFAU0u2A/RolvGjKAm2I/AAAAAAAAAA8/H6ze9iZUx00/s400/B000000QGP.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7074/7310986264_115dc1250f_m.jpg)

CD:
Hitomi Yaida - Single Collection

Vinyl:
Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent
Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Goblin - Zombie

my favourite releases of 2012 so far.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61GQhgZjvVL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKZFrdwSKls)  (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n7eIT8KqL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaDiwoACJ2Q) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518d5fEmlqL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYw86HUFZVA)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NRBK12b%2BL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNWwDEon86I) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518ycznzw7L._SL500_AA280_.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdV099d42Gg)

I've linked each pic to my favourite track off that album on youtube.

Prong - Carved Into Stone
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/prongcis.png)
(waiting for it to arrive in the mail....)

That is Prong's best album, ever, IMO and one of the best releases of this year so far.  :thumbup:

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7t6LrxfSR0g/TQ403tQpzII/AAAAAAAAOy0/aMjeJLMlyTg/s1600/Weather%2BReport%2528Heavy%2BWeather%252CLP%252Cfront%2529.jpg)

Weather Report - Heavy Weather on vinyl in excellent condition for a buck.

Hit a garage sale today and made these pickups for a grand total of $2:

U2 - The Joshua Tree and Live Under a Blood Red Sky
Loverboy - Big Ones
Various - Have A Nice Day: Super Hits of the '70s Vol. 13 (random Rhino Records comp that I grabbed cuz it had Golden Earring's "Radar Love" on it, as well as Reunion's "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)," which my friend's band used to cover...)

Nirvana - Bleach, Incesticide, Unplugged In New York
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

...finally getting around to upgrading some of my Seattle sounds from cassette to CD. Hey, better late than never. :D

John Lee Hooker - The Classic Early Years

(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/jlh.jpg)

Death In June - The Rule Of Thirds

(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/dij.png)

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/talktalk.jpg)

Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture '80-'83

(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/Einsturzende-Neubauten-8083-Strategies-Against-Architecture.jpg)

I picked up the new Dokken CD, Broken Bones, a couple of days ago...haven't had time to give it more than a cursory listen yet, though.

Now That's What I Call Christmas!- two disc set of Holiday tunes.  Disc one, classics, Disc Two...newer songs.
Phobia by Breaking Benjamin
Sublime by Sublime
Alvin & The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Motion Picture Soundtrack

Picked up KISS' new one, Monster, today.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/KissMonsterAlbum2.jpg/220px-KissMonsterAlbum2.jpg)

I got the Best Buy "exclusive" version which has a ginchy-cool lenticular 3-D thingy on the cover so it looks like Paul's hand is reachin' out of the picture to grab your soul! Woooooo!

Steve Von Till - If I Should Fall To The Field

(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/If_I_Should_Fall_To_The_Field-Steve_Von_Till_480.jpg)

Bump... this thread hasn't seen much action in a while. Am I the only one who still purchases music? (Shudder) That's a scary thought.  :teddyr:

Anyway, this past week I picked up this pair from WalMart...

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BO8Vqv-%2BL.jpg)
I figured it was about time I owned me some of Unca Ted's material aside from his work with Damn Yankees and this was a nice cheap starter...

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61cuM2%2BIRmL._SY300_.jpg)
I usually skip compilations but this one has a couple of unreleased tracks on it, including "Electra," which would've been on RJD's concept album "Magica II" had he lived to complete it.

I also ordered a bunch of cheap as hell used CDs from GoHastings, the first batch arrived today:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/The_Donnas_-_Gold_Medal.jpg)
The Donnas - Gold Medal
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Airbourne-Runnin%27Wild.jpg)
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Tesla_Bustanut.jpg)
Tesla - Bust A Nut

yeah I just bought 2 CDs on lunch break earlier today

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpaS1z3p1L6CXpE8NbTZHRYvDc2lXXOzIww-sb-V4lBiZAMv47)
Goldie/Rufige Crew - Memoirs Of An afterlife. Not bad although pretty average and nowhere nears as good as Timeless. ("well obviously", I hear you say)

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Irv Gotti - The Inc. this was cheap. not surprised, its horrible. from 2002, and proves my theory that hip hop/rap stopped being good in 1998

'nother one from GoHastings arrived in today's mail....

Ace Frehley - Anomaly
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I ordered a "Used" copy for $2.49, but it arrived new & still sealed...I love when that happens.  :teddyr:

The CD case is some kind of goofy ass digi-pak that unfolds into a pyramid shape, presumably so you can use it to contact Ace on his home planet of Jendell, or whatever.

Cool album, dumbest gimmick packaging ever.

yeah same thing's happened to me before when buying off amazon. a nice surprise.

That's the second time it has happened with this batch of orders from Hastings (the other being the Donnas' Gold Medal), and it's happened a couple of other times when I've ordered from them in the past too.

Anyway, three more arrived in today's mail:
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AdrianGale FEEL THE FIRE - '80s style melodic hard rock, ala Dokken or Firehouse.

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Sloppy sounding live tape of the short lived "Mark IV" lineup of Purple (w/David Coverdale and Tommy Bolin)

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Live gig from 2005

Still waiting for two more from this batch to arrive, hopefully by Monday.

Scorn - Zander
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Last two stragglers from my GoHastings.com order arrived a few days ago...
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Solo debut from the guitarist of Savatage. I ordered this "used," but it arrived new and still sealed... and it was even the special deluxe 2-CD edition with a bonus disc full of extra tracks, all for a mere for $1.74. This is why I love ordering used stuff from this site.  :teddyr:

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Career-spanning compilation of the Christian pop-punk band that basically picked up where the Ramones left off.

I bought the deluxe edition of the new David Bowie album "The Next Day" last week on iTunes on release day.  Great to have him back!

Coupla oldies but goodies receiving long overdue upgrades from cassette to CD:

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The rest of my cheap heap from GoHastings arrived today. There's a whole bunch so I'll refrain from posting pix.

Spinal Tap - Back From the Dead (CD/DVD)
Aerosmith - Honkin' On Bobo
Warrrant - Born Again
Deep Purple - When We Rock, We Rock and When We Roll, We Roll
Firehouse - Hold Your Fire
Ramones - Greatest Hits Live
Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like s**t...Deja Vu

EyeHateGod - In The Name Of Suffering
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Abbey Road by The Beatles
Becoming X by Sneaker Pimps

Abigor-Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom) / Orkblut - The Retaliation

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I was in Walmart this morning before work and picked this up...

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For the unaware, this technically isn't a "Queensryche" album... this is their lead singer Geoff Tate, who was fired earlier this year, and a gang of hired guns he put together to crank out a quick record using the Queensryche name before he and the rest of the band go to court to decide who owns the rights to it later this year.

The "other" Queensryche, with new lead singer Todd LaTorre, will release their album late next month... then things should get very interesting, very quickly...  :question:

Masonna - Inner Mind Mystique

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Picked up God Bless Tiny Tim yesterday.

Robert Rich & B. Lustmord - Stalker
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Fields Of The Nephilim - Mourning Sun
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I picked up a greatest hits compilation by MC Lars

Finally got around to picking up the new self-titled Queensryche album (with new lead vocalist Todd LaTorre) today.

The only copies Best Buy had were the super-duper "deluxe mini box" set version which contains a digi-pak version of the CD (with three live bonus tracks) plus a Queensryche logo patch, some pin-back buttons, a sticker and a Queensryche guitar pick. Neat-O.

Cool thrift store pickup of the week: 2-CD remastered edition of Deep Purple's legendary live album Made In Japan ... for only fifty cents! Woohoo! :teddyr:

Bored today @ work, took a lunch time trip to Best Buy (whose CD selection gets smaller and smaller every time I visit) for the sheer hell of it and came out with Stryper's newest disc, Second Coming.

Random thrift store pickups. Kind of an odd mix of styles.

Jackyl - S/T

Yes - Fragile

The Queers - Beyond the Valley...

L.A. Guns - Covered In Guns

Sara Evans - Real Fine Place (Lately I've discovered that I have a weakness for country/pop music sung by hot women...)

Picked up Heavy Metal Music by Newsted (new band featuring former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted) at Wal-Mart today.

A few more thrift-store pickups:

Various - Powermad 2000: The Fourth Legacy (2CD) - power metal compilation (given to attendees of the "Powermad" prog/power metal festival) featuring Jag Panzer, Raven, October 31, Overlorde, and loads more.

Extreme - II: Pornograffiti

Rainbow - Long Live Rock N Roll

Picked up the new Motorhead album, Aftershock, at Best Buy today. Their version comes with a bonus live DVD. Sweet!

Amber Asylum - Bitter River
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGcCwb_TCAs

Three albums by The Ocean Blue: The Ocean Blue, Cerulean, and Ultramarine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-JZE9EeE68

Another thrift store score: 1994 remastered version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon for a buck.

Got a couple of Best Buy gift cards for Christmas so today I picked up...

Megadeth - Super Collider (Best Buy special edition w/3 bonus tracks)

Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi - Seventh Star (random pickup from the five-dollar bin)

Leash Law - Dogface
Sole album by a shortlived heavy metal "super group" of minor leaguers like vocalist Wade Black (Crimson Glory), drummer Richard Christy (Death, Iced Earth) and a couple of former members of the early 90s prog/death metal band Nocturnus.

This past week I celebrated my one-year anniversary of giving up tobacco, so I rewarded myself with some cheap used CDs...

Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (2002 reissue w/2 bonus tracks)
Stryper - Extended Versions (live)
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Dokken - Yesterday & Today (live)
Prong - Cleansing
Motorhead - March or Die
HammerFall - Threshold

Damn Yankees - Extended Versions

Suzanne Vega - Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles

Suzanne Vega — Fool's Complaint (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUyNEVdAd0#ws)

Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Beau Nasty - Dirty, But Well Dressed

KISS - Killers (import greatest-hits comp from '82, with four "new" songs that are unavailable on any other album)

Tesla - Into the Now

Lvcifyre - The Calling Depths (British occult metal)

Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way

Not my usual meat, but it was only a buck in the thrift store, and it features their post-backlash anthem "Not Ready To Make Nice," which is such a great F-you song.

A few more recent pickups:

Dead On Arrival - Alive and Kickin' (1995) This was just too weird to pass up, it's an independent release by a New York area hard rock band. It sounds pretty much like I expected - a low budget recording of some local yokels copying KISS, Priest and Motley Crue. Song titles include "Hot Babes" (yes, really!), "The Girl Next Door," "Honey Dipper" and "Hot Blooded/Cold Hearted." This would've been hopelessly out of date in 1985, never mind 1995.

Bad Company - 10 From 6 - greatest hits compilation from the classic rock band

Krokus - Extended Versions - Yet another entry in the never-ending budget price line of concert discs, this time by the Swiss hard rock/metal band. Sounds like they're aging well.

Bigtime garage sale score today...

Led Zeppelin - S/T, II, III, Houses of the Holy
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Recent pickups:

Dokken - Live From the Sun
Skid Row - Revolutions Per Minute
The Clash - The Story of the Clash, Vol. I
Rush - Test For Echo
Various - Forrest Gump soundtrack
Sin City Rebels - Sin City Rebels

Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls (2CD version w/bonus tracks)

AC/DC - Rock Or Bust (2014) and Stiff Upper Lip (2000)

Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg

Pentagram - Last Rites CD (2011)

Sanctuary - The Year the Sun Died CD (2014)

BIG TIME Metal score at the thrift store today! Some possible trade bait but a few keepers as well. I haven't hit a motherload like this in awhile...

Testament - Low, Practice What You Preach and Demonic
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains, Blood Rooted, Against and Roots
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... (Combat Recs.copy, sadly a later press w/o "These Boots")
Various - Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (soundtrack)
Death - Live In L.A.: Death & Raw
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual
Green Jelly - Cereal Killer
Down - NOLA

Back to the thrift store yesterday for a few more pickin's. I think I've snapped up all the good stuff by now:

Biohazard - Urban Discipline and State of the World Address

Picked these up in a trade with a fellow CD fiend out in Washington State:

The Sword - Warp Riders
Pentagram - First Daze Here Too (2CD)
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
King Zebra - Greatest Hits

A couple of used-CD pickups:

Metallica - Death Magnetic
Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again
Warrior Soul - Classics

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picked up a goody via BestBuy.com earlier this week... deluxe reissue of Twisted Sister's 1982 debut Under The Blade, with the four-track Ruff Cuts EP added as bonus tracks, plus a DVD of TS's breakthrough performance at the 1982 Reading Festival. An absolute steal for 3.99!!

More used-CD goodies from my new favorite web site, SecondSpin.com:

Twisted Sister - Club Daze Vol. I: The Studio Sessions
Various - Thunderbolt: A Tribute to AC/DC
Various - Not the Same Old Song & Dance: A Tribute to Aerosmith
Saigon Kick - Devil in the Details

Aww jeez, I forgot this thread was real. Anyway, this is a big list:
The Agonist - Eyes of Providence
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods
Astarte - Doomed Dark Years
             Rise from Within
             Quod Superius, Sicut Inferius
Epica - Design Your Universe
Havok - Time is Up
Holy Moses - Agony of Death
Melt Banana - Fetch
Municipal Waste - Massive Agressive
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness

A bunch of recent pickups:

American Angel - EP '92

The Cars - s/t

Shotgun Messiah - s/t (reissue)

Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming (reissue)

Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)

Krokus - Original Album Classics
(3-CD box of the Swiss band's Metal Rendez-vous, Hardware, and One Vice at a Time albums)

Raven - ExtermiNatioN

More recent pickups. I have now officially purchased more CDs in the first half of 2015 than I did in all of 2014. (Please don't tell my wife. :D )

Sweet & Lynch - Only To Rise
Prong - Ruining Lives
Riot - Fire Down Under
Hatchet - Awaiting Evil
Various - Leppardmania: A Tribute to Def Leppard

Today I got to do something that I haven't done in a couple of years (yes, I said YEARS!)... visit a real, live, honest to frickin-Gawd RECORD STORE (remember those?)!!

... I had to visit my company's main office for my annual review today. I don't get out that way very often anymore so when I passed a hole-in-the-wall mom & pop record shop (which I last visited in probably 2012 or so) naturally I had to stop in for a peek... and I am glad I did.  A few minutes of scrounging and I came up with these:

Tora Tora - Surprise Attack
Helloween - I Want Out! Live (I haven't seen this on CD in... well, ever!)
Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad

I've purchased a crap-ton of CDs recently. Off the top of my head:

In Solitude - Sister
Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Cattle Decapitation - Humanure
Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
King Diamond - The Eye
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Mortician - Hacked Up For Barbecue/Zombie Apocalypse
Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
Twisted Sister - Love is for Suckers
Repulsion - Horrified
Candlemass - Nightfall

Another visit to the home office this week (twice in one month, I think that's a record), another stop @ the record store on the way home:

Deep Purple - Burn
Twisted Sister - Come Out and Play

As a Godflesh fan from years back I felt that what I'd heard from A World....was kinda sad for me. There's nothing better than an older band coming back out there and showing the young'uns how it's done. Unfortunately from what I've heard of this one was pretty mediocre and tired. I think a big problem is Justin's newfound infatuation with an 8-string guitar which is somewhat pointless and unnecessary. Godflesh for me were THE ultimate marriage of metal metting industrial (f**k Ministry, Fear Factory(POSERS!) and the like). They were the first and the best at what they did. Everybody points to Streetcleaner as their defining moment but it was the Pure album which did it for me. I loved how they started to incorporate melodic elements and clean vocals into the mix. Speaking of mix - the production on that album was fantastic given the fact that it was recorded on an 8 track cassette machine. The Selfless abum - while still fairly good - was an all digital recording and it's the reason why I say I don't prefer digital recording these days. Nowadays I'd rather listen to Jesu rather than pulling out their early classics so I have absolutely no idea what I'm ranting on about. Sorry about the little tirade DWV. The namedrop just sparked something I guess.

That's okay, voltron.

Recently bought:

Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Death - Vivus!
Alice Cooper - From the Inside
GRINDCRUSHER (It's an old compilation of several death metal, thrash metal and grindcore songs. They even have Godflesh's Streetcleaner song on here).

GoHastings.com was having a "buy 2, get 1 free" sale on used CDs over the weekend so I jumped on a couple of cheapies... the first one arrived today.

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I recently dug this one outta my age-old cassette stash and have been playing it quite a bit so I figured it was time to give it an upgrade.

I've had a pretty good run o' luck in the thrift-store CD bins over the past couple of weeks...

KISS - Gene Simmons, Peter Criss and Paul Stanley (1978 solo albums)

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits

Weird Al Yankovic - Off the Deep End

38 Special - Flashback

Dixie Chicks - Fly

Quarterflash - Harden my Heart: The Best of Quarterflash

Motorhead - Motorizer

New American Shame - self titled

Thrift store mojo still risin'! Got this for a buck today:

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Greatest Hits (2CD)

Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls

(Got it one day prior to the official release date too! This is why I support indie record stores! Haha)

As of a few days ago:

Death - Leprosy

Fantastic album. Raw, eerie and downright evil sounding at times. Definitely an old school death metal classic.

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Death - Human

Arguably their finest hour. Every song is diabolically catchy and well crafted.

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Six Feet Under - Crypt of the Devil

Definitely a better release than Warpath, True Carnage, Bringer of Blood, Commandement and the Graveyard Classics but not as awesome as Undead, Haunted and Death Rituals. As good as it is, Crypt of the Devil should've been an EP because the first three songs (Gruesome, Open Coffin Orgy, Broken Bottle Rape) and Lost Remains are without question the strongest on the CD.

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Recent pickups from the thrift store and elsewhere:

KISS - Alive! (2CD)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Unvarnished
Warrior Soul - Stiff Middle Finger
Queensryche - Condition Human

Dokken - The Anthems

Offspring - Smash (at the thrift shop for a buck)

Cyber Monday deals from DeepDiscount.com:

Stryper - Fallen
Armored Saint - Win Hands Down
W.A.S.P. - Golgotha

Ordered some used goodies from GoHastings on Cyber Monday, most of which arrived today. Still waiting for one more, and then I think that'll do me for CD shopping for the rest of the year:

Various - Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper
Twisted Sister - Club Daze Vol. II: Live in the Bars (paid "used" price but it came as a new & sealed cut out)
Prong - Rude Awakening
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Helmet - Meantime

Last one of my Cyber Monday haul came today:

Various - Metallic Assault: A Tribute to Metallica

Not my usual kind of listening fare, but last night I randomly decided to pick up a copy of ELO's greatest hits.

First pickups of the new year:

The Cult - Born Into This (2007) and Love (1985)

...filling in a few outstanding gaps in my Cult discography.

Megadeth - Dystopia (Best Buy exclusive version + 2 bonus tracks)

99 cent CD pickups from the Goodwill store:

Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
Various - The Best of Bond, James Bond (all the 007 themes up to Sheryl Crow's "Tomorrow Never Dies")
Heart - Bad Animals
Heart - Brigade
R.E.M. - Green

Anthrax - For All Kings

Humble Pie - Rock On

Jet - Get Born

'nother Goodwill Store pickup. CDs were half off on Friday so instead of the usual 99 cents, I got this one for 50 cents!

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I figured the song "Why Can't I" and the cover photo alone were worth that much.  :teddyr:

Bought a Credence Clearwater Revival CD the other day at Best Buy, I think it was about $5.

My car has the ability to copy music from CDs over to an internal hard drive, so I copied the music over so I'd have it handy.

More Goodwill pickups, 79 cents a pop:

Van Halen - OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
R.E.M. - Out of Time
Pat Benatar - Wide Awake in Dreamland
Poison - Flesh and Blood

Even more Goodwill pickups...

Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Days of the New - self titled (aka "1" or "yellow" apparently, because all three of their albums were self titled. Pretentious much? Haha)

From Goodwill:

Marvelous 3 - Hey! Album
Bush - Sixteen Stone

From Best Buy:
Metal Church - XI

A bunch of indie metal goodness from CDBaby:

Rocka Rollas - The War of Steel Has Begun (reissue +5 bonus tracks) and Pagan Ritual
Cold Steel - America Idle
Blazon Stone - No Sign of Glory
Rychus Syn - Rebirth
Sacred Guardian - S/T
Brothers of Sword - United For Metal
Starborn - The Dreaming City EP
Lunar Shadow - Triumphator EP

And a few cheapies from GoHastings:

Kingdom Come - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
Various - Covered Like a Hurricane: A Tribute to Scorpions


aaaaaaaaannd one random rummage-sale pickup:
Words and Music: The Best of John Mellencamp (2CDs)

Yeah, I know... interesting mix. :D

I've been on a bit of a tear recently with CD purchasing... my collection is rapidly creeping up on the 1000 mark so I'm trying my damnedest to reach the magic # as soon as possible :teddyr:

Heaven & Hell - Neon Nights: Live in Europe
Triumph - Extended Versions
Forgotten Disciple - Last Train to Heaven
Reign of Fury - World Detonation
Steel Horse - Wild Power
Rychus Syn - Deadly Syns
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
Avtograf - Tear Down the Border
Petra - Wake Up Call
Aversion - Fit to Be Tied
Faith No More - The Real Thing: Deluxe Edition (2CD)
Exodus - Impact is Imminent

...phew! And I'm still waitin' for two more to come in the mail!! :D

I recently snagged a copy of the 3CD reissue of Swans "White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity" and "Love Of Life". The third disc is all rarities. Signed by M. Gira no less!  :smile:

I drove home from work in a gully-washer of a thunder and lightning storm tonight. It was raining so hard that it was tough to see where I was going, so I decided to pull off the road and root around the Goodwill Store for a while in the hopes that it would give the storm time to blow over. CD pickin's there have been slim the past few times I'd visited but I scored some goodies this time out...

U2 - War (West German green/purple "Target" disc-print version)
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Heart - Greatest Hits
David Lee Roth - Eat'em And Smile
The Pretenders - Learning To Crawl

Part one of what will likely be my last used-CD haul from GoHastings (because their corporate demise is imminent) arrived today ... a few more are still in transit:

L.A. Guns - Hollywood Vampires
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Van Halen - Fair Warning (remaster)
Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth

Wait, how are you ordering these?  I went to their site and all they have a message telling me they're going out of business. Did you place the orders before they announced their closing or something?

Yep, I placed my last order with GoHastings about a week before the closings were made official. I received the last CD from that batch in the mail on Wednesday, July 20th - and they announced their liquidation the very next day, on Thursday the 21st. Timing is everything :D

I picked up four more from Goodwill on the way home from work the other day:

War Babies - s/t (autographed!)
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Marc Bolan and T-Rex: 20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection
Various - Rock Star: Music From the Motion Picture

Stopped at the Goodwill Store again on my way home from work tonight and boy, was I glad I did!!

($1.99 each; buy 4, get 1 free)

Metallica - The $9.98 CD: Garage Days Re-Revisited (been looking for this one for-damn-EVER!)

Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash

Jimi Hendrix - Cry of Love

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Steelheart - Good 2B Alive

Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

One of these things is not like the other...

Well, I've bought a few CDs from Hastings.

Pulp Fiction soundtrack (had the cassette, but hadn't ever had a chance to get the CD)

Goldfinger-Stomping Ground bought it for their cover of "99 Red Balloons" (which is, IMHO, is REALLY good), that's really only thing I knew from the band, but it had a few other cool songs too.

From Zero-One Nation Under - I really know nothing about this band, I bought the CD because the cover caught my attention and it was less than two dollars after a discount.  So, I figured what the heck.  

After Dark: The Alternative Gothic Rock Collection - Again, of the 14 or so bands on this CD, I've only actually heard of about three of them.  Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but I figured, again, at less than $2 I'm sure I'll find at least one song I like.  

For the curious, the CD has groups like The Jesus and Mary Chain (heard of, but don't think I've ever heard of their tracks), The Cure, Nightwish, etc.  

Yeah, I know... weird combo, but the DC's are sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. :D

More recent pickups @ Goodwill Store:

Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!
Europe - Out of this World
Jethro Tull - Original Masters
Rush - Fly By Night
Boston - Don't Look Back
Rolling Stones - Rewind 1971-1984

Perris Records (an '80s style hard rock/metal web store) is having a clearance sale so I wandered over there, took a peek and gambled on a handful of ultra cheap unknowns, which arrived today...

Crawler - Knight of the Word

Hammered - The Beginning

Rising Dust - Taste of Fire

Icy Steel - Kronothor

Crawler was $1.95, the others were 99 cents apiece, I figured that was cheap enuff to risk on some unfamiliar names. Rising Dust are French stoner rockers (the cover of Motörhead's "Iron Horse/Born to Lose" sold me) and the rest appear to be Italian power/trad metal bands. Perris threw in a couple of their trademark freebie sampler CDs as well. Neat-O.

Now I got me some listening to do...

Goodwill Store pickups:

Temple of the Dog -s/t

Various - Masters of Metal: Wreaking Havoc 1975-85, Vol. II

I bought the Reality Bites soundtracks and Smashmouth Fush Yu Mana (or something like that)

Even tho it was my day off, I had to go in to work this afternoon for some software training. I managed to squeeze in some CD shoppin' while I was at it. :D

99 cents each at Goodwill on my way to the office...

Van Halen - 5150
Liz Phair - Juvenilia (EP)
R.E.M. - Eponymous

aaand a couple of used store pickups on the way home:

Motorhead - Bastards
Accept - Balls to the Wall

Picked up a bunch of cheapies from the "sale" section of Perris Records' web site... this whole pile only cost me $20 incl. shipping! Can't beat that with a stick....

Thy Gate Beyond - Enemy at the Gates

Broken Teeth - Viva La Rock, Fantastico

Serpent Saints - All Things Metal

Phantom-X - This Is War

Hells Domain - s/t

Shadowdance - Future Negative Fantasy

The Prowlers - Point of No Return

Tarantula - Spiral of Fear

Since my last post:

Metallica - Hardwired... To Self Destruct (3CD deluxe edition)

Michael Sweet - One Sided War

Serpent Saints - Leather Lucifer (EP)

Nasty Whores - s/t

Di'Anno - Nomad

Eddie Ojeda - Axes 2 Axes

Woslom - Time To Rise

Various - Aerosmithsonian: A Tribute to Aerosmith

Billy Squier - 16 Strokes: The Best of Billy Squier

Uniform Choice - Early Demos

You know, I love the song, "When World's Collide" but whenever the chorus comes on, I can't help but sing it as, "I need to clear my throat!  I'm need to clear my throat! I'm need to clear my throat! Baby, baby!"

First thrift shop CD haul of 2017 -- got all these for $10 total  :teddyr:

Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo (2CD in old school 'fat boy' double sized case)
Yes - Big Generator
Various - Punk You Vol. I: Music For the Discerning Slacker Punk
David Bowie - Let's Dance
The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Hole - Ask For It (EP) and Live Through This
Nirvana - In Utero
Weird Al Yankovic - Even Worse
Helmet - Betty

Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings From Patient O.T.

Picked up quite a few this past week:

From Goodwill:
Testament - The Ritual
Flotsam & Jetsam - Cuatro

Through the mail from a trade buddy in Washington State:
Cellador - Enter Deception
Krokus - Hoodoo
Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On
Girlschool - s/t
Edguy - Hellfire Club

Used CD store pickups:
Prong - X: No Absolutes
Scorpions - Return To Forever
Angel Witch - Resurrection

While visiting my Mom yesterday, my brother took me a few towns over to a cool "pop culture junk shop" (comics, used CDs/vinyl, video games, action figures, etc.) he's been meaning to show me for a while - cool little hole in the wall place with a lot of neat stuff, but everything is so haphazard (boxes upon boxes of stuff piled everywhere) that it would've taken me all day to do a halfway decent scrounge... there were a few racks of CDs I couldn't even get to cuz there was so much crap in the way. Still managed to come away with these for five bucks a pop:

Guns N Roses - GnR Lies and Use Your Illusion I
Deep Purple - Slaves and Masters
Sebastian Bach - Kicking and Screaming (w/bonus DVD)
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Ramones - All The Stuff (And More) Vol. 2

...plus, my 9 year old scored three Green Day CDs. That's my boy!

Some recent Goodwil Store scores:

Cinderella - Once Upon A...
Bon Jovi - s/t
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper (best-of)
Loverboy - Classics
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Clutch - Transnational Speedway League...
Offspring - Americana

I picked up the "Shock treatment" ost...and now I cant stop singing catchy and woefully underrated showstopping tunes  :teddyr:

That Goodwill Store CD rack keeps payin' off so I keep coming back... recent pickups....

Salty Dog - Every Dog Has its Day
Queensryche - Promised Land
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Lost Christmas Eve
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Priestess - Hello Master
Bon Jovi - s/t
Cinderella - Once Upon A...
Loverboy - Classics: Their Greatest Hits
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper: The Best Of Blue Oyster Cult

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This bad boy!

I also managed to find this in a charity shop for £2...dont mind if I do!
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Recent Goodwill Store scores:

Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Foreigner - Records
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle Vols. 1 and 2
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Sinner
21 Guns - Salute
Rattlebone - self titled (EP)
Sweaty Nipples - self titled (EP)
The Clash - London Calling

2 more Goodwill scores today:

Blondie - The Best of Blondie
(I've wanted this one for awhile...but till now, every one I've come across in the thrifts turned out to be an empty CD case, a wrong disc in the case, or a beat up, scratched-to-hell copy. Victory at last! Haha.)

Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors

The first one sounds great! 
The second one sounds blech. 

brian setzer's rockabilly riot,absolutely FAULOUS!

Thus far in 2018:

Fear Not - self titled (reissue)
Babylon A.D. - Revelation Highway
Warrior Soul - Back on the Lash
Cheap Trick - Lap of Luxury
Aerosmith - Nine Lives
Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
Various - The British Invasion: The History of British Rock, Vol. I

More recent additions:

The Who - Who's Next
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Billy Idol - Vital Idol
Great White - The Best of Great White

Nuclear Assault - Something Wicked*
Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes*
Pantera - Power Metal*

*These three are long out of print, hard to find and usually command ridiculous collector's-item prices, so when I found them dirt cheap on noted bootleg haven iOffer dot com I knew that they had to be Eastern European counterfeit/pirate discs... but as I get older I find I'm less picky about that kinda stuff. Besides, I have given up all hope of ever finding legit copies of them out "in the wild." :D

It's been a Motorhead kind of week - cuz you can never have enough Head :D

Ace of Spades (1980)

Sacrifice (1995)

Live (King Biscuit Flower Hour, 1983)