Recent Music Purchases

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[AoTFan]

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?

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Steelheart - Good 2B Alive

Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

[AoTFan]

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Steelheart - Good 2B Alive

Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

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

[AoTFan]

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.  

[FatFreddysCat]

Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Steelheart - Good 2B Alive

Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces

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

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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...

[FatFreddysCat]

Goodwill Store pickups:

Temple of the Dog -s/t

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

[AoTFan]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[AoTFan]

Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!

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!"