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I got this record at Cracker Barrel after breakfast.
was tagged for $25, was on sale for $7.95.
it was like buying lp’s in the 70’s again.
it has Dave Dudley’s six days on the road.
my late uncle’s favorite.
keep on trucking !
 

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Yesterday on a whim I went to a record store in a college town roughly 2 hours away. I found out once I was there they had a 50% off sale on a bunch of stuff too. I found a grail (to me) that I'd been hunting for years. Top three pickups listed with *

LPs

Hinds - I don't Run
Faye Webster - Car Therapy Sessions
Clear Plastic Masks - Nazi Hologram
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
The Pathetx - 1981
Champagne Superchillin - Beach Deep (A French band born in Nashville, TN highly underrated *)
Princess Nokia - Girl Cried Red (this is the grail and made the trip worth it, ***)

7"

Better Days - Good Luck Tonight
James Williamson And Carolyn Wonderland - Open Up And Bleed
Staring Problem - Staring Problem
Juned - So White
Comeonfeel - Red Heart Beat E.P. (Japanese punk, **)
The Brokedowns / Sass Dragons - The Brokedowns / Sass Dragons
The Dead Records, Laura K Balke* - Winter Clothes / I Can Only Run
Shang-A-Lang - Waiting For The End
 
After getting my copy of Techno Animal's Brotherhood of the Bomb from Relapse (left) I also got myself a copy of the clear variant that wasn't made available to the public.

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Aside from those I also pre-ordered Dalek's 2LP reissue of their debut EP Negro Necro Nekros from their bandcamp. I do hope this is a confirmation that they will eventually reissue their first 3 full-length albums too because they became sought after in recent times and I wouldn't mind having reasonably priced backups to my original pressings.
 
I had to work 13 hours of overtime for all this.

Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds
Radio Dead Ones - AAA
Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe - Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe
The Sermon - Volume
Pacific Standard - Timeless
White City Graves - One Of Us
Andrea Schroeder - Blackbird
Masterminds - Stone Soup
Blue-Eyed Son - West Of Lincoln
Madraso - Van Horne
Beat Radio - HARD TIMES, GO!
You Can Be A Wesley - Heard Like Us
Colin Bradford - Sings Colin Bradford
Chandos - Rats In Your Bed
Colossal Yes - Charlemagne's Big Thaw
Victor Villarreal - Sleep Talk
Little Racer - Modern Accent
Mark St. John - Beyond The Sky
Our Dead Fathers - Picture The Moon
Natural Sway - Sweet Life
Tawny Peaks - In Silver River
Walls - The Future Is Wide Open
Montessori Dads - Black & White & Pink
Worthitpurchase - Truthtelling
Parasol - Not There
Pay The Man / Crack Babies - Pay The Man / Crack Babies
Straightjacket Nation - Live On PBS 8/3/07

Tawny Peaks, Andrea Schroeder, and Marissa Nadler are probably the top 3 but honestly several of these have been wants for a while.
 
Picked up a Japanese sample pressing of Get Happy by EC and the Attractions, and after careful comparison with the original USA Columbia, MOFI 45RPM, made in Germany F-beat pressing, I have decided that this one is the best sounding. The MOFI copy has some sort of “phase distortion“ If you can imagine how a wrinkled tape sounds as it plays. I am not saying that is what is wrong, but when compared with the original USA Columbia, and Japan F-Beat pressings, the sound is more pronounced. The German copy is just crap with distorted highs and sibilance. Unbearable to listen to in my opinion. The Japanese copy has more lows, more dynamics, and that phasing distortion is minimal. That distortion could very well be on the master recording, almost like an over-saturated compressor or something and the Half speed mastering of the MOFI copy makes it more pronounced. The MOFI copy is also lower in pitch by a few cents when compared with the other copies. So to conclude. This Japanese pressing has more bass, more dynamic range, and the overall sound is quite pleasing. Oh, the USA Columbia copy sounds great as well, but is a little bit brighter in EQ than any of the other copies.
 
It has been some time and many additional vinyls to the collection since I was here. Decided to beef up my Classical vinyl library and have been focused on that the past few months. Fortunately most used Classical titles get overlooked in thrift stores and record stores so I have been able to add some Mercury Living Presence, RCA Living Stereo as well as European pressed London and Phillips titles for not a lot of money.

Having said that, when I learned of the Blue Note End of Summer sale I got caught up on some great Jazz re-issue series titles.
 

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