Recent Music Purchases

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[diamondwaspvenom]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[voltron]

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

Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire

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.

[diamondwaspvenom]

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).

[FatFreddysCat]

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.



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.

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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)

[diamondwaspvenom]

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.




Death - Human

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



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.

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

Dokken - The Anthems

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[FatFreddysCat]

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