Popped into Banbury on the way home from work the other day and picked up some decent CD’s. One shop had 5 for £1 so the below 19 CD’s worked out at about £8. I accidently bought a second copy of the Franz Ferdinand debut and Different Class by Pulp as Discogs has changed the way it updates your collection. It refreshes everything every time you open it and if you have no reception or poor reception it can take ages or not work at all. Anyway, I couldn’t check to see if I already had them and couldn’t remember. It does mean there were actually 21 CD’s of course.
1
Beth Orton
Daybreaker
2
Gomez
Liquid Skin
3
Caro Emerald
Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
4
Belle & Sebastian
The Life Pursuit
5
Teenage Fanclub
Thirteen
6
The Bees
Free The Bees
7
Various
Reservoir Dogs – Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
I took a quick lunchtime trip to the charity shops today and, at first, I thought it was slim pickings, but after some digging I managed to pick up some decent CD’s. They work out at £0.44 each (that’s 27 for £12). At those prices its easy to take risks and I found several albums that just looked interesting or that I had vaguely heard of, so I got them.
1
Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun
2
Milagres – Glowing Mouth
3
Underworld – Second Toughest In The Infants
4
The Ordinary Boys – Brassbound
5
Jonquil – Point Of Go
6
The Redwalls – De Nova
7
The Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
8
The Mooney Suzuki – Alive & Amplified
9
Diagrams – Black Light
10
INXS – Kick
11
The Horrors – Strange House
12
Mercury Rev – Yerself Is Steam
13
Tricky – Maxinquaye
14
Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood
15
Walter Schreifels – An Open Letter To The Scene
16
Kraftwerk – The Mix
17
This Mortal Coil – Filigree & Shadow
18
The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
19
Biosphere – Patashnik
20
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
21
Philip Glass – Glassworks
22
R.E.M. – Monster
23
Joss Stone – Introducing Joss Stone
24
Faithless – The Dance
25
Various – True Blood (Music From The HBO Original Series)
26
The Feeling – Join With Us
27
Basement Jaxx – The Singles
I’m currently listening to Biosphere – Patashnik, which is really very creepy, but I like it.
Some of the others I’ve never heard of but it looked like somebody had donated a set of rather obscure CD’s and I thought I’d give them a go, these being Stealing Sheep, Milagres, Jonquil, The Redwalls and Diagrams. It can be quite rewarding going into something cold, but it can also be the opposite.
Just after Christmas I popped into the local used record store, who don’t really do CD’s but had a box at 4 for £1 so I had a dig through that and came away with these;
1
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
2
The The – Mind Bomb
3
The The – Hanky Panky
4
The Kills – Keep On Your Mean Side
5
Juliette & The Licks – …Like A Bolt Of Lightning
6
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
7
The Fall – Code: Selfish
8
Stereophonics – Language.Sex.Violence.Other?
9
Supergrass – Supergrass
10
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
11
Santogold – Santogold
12
Radiohead – Pablo Honey
13
Blakroc – Blakroc
14
Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
15
Bent – The Everlasting Blink
16
The The – Infected
For £4 I was quite pleased, an emotion enhanced by the £15.99 HMV stickers on some of the CD’s.
The week before that I visited several charity shops in Banbury and picked up these:
1
Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
2
Tori Amos – Tales Of A Librarian (A Tori Amos Collection)
3
Blur – Leisure
4
Radiohead – Kid A
5
Blur – 13
6
Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
7
Plaid – Spokes
8
Moloko – I Am Not A Doctor
9
Seal – Soul
10
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
11
Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
12
Willy Mason – Where The Humans Eat
13
Dirty Vegas – Dirty Vegas
14
Paul Weller – Heliocentric
15
Robyn – Body Talk
16
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of
Orpheus
17
Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
18
Mystery Jets – Making Dens
19
Kate Nash – Made Of Bricks
20
Justin Timberlake – Justified
21
Eminem – Encore
22
Editors – The Back Room
23
Turin Brakes – The Optimist
LP
24
The Psychedelic Furs – Heaven (The Best Of The Psychedelic
Furs)
I can’t remember quite how much they were now, about £18 I think and there are many there I never would have picked up at full price but the album that I think I was most pleased with out of this lot was Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus.
I think it has now become a thing that, wherever I may be, I will pop into charity shops and have a dig around to see what CD’s they have on offer, there are often a lot of surprises waiting.
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