GREAT Finds of the Week!

Boy, oh boy, finding any one of these two albums would be incredible. So you can imagine how I felt when I found both of them at Value Village for a whopping $0.99 each!

Marius Cultier records are highly collectible vinyls, so you can bet I jumped on those the second I found them.

Great Caribean music from a musician/singer who had made a name for himself back in the 60s & 70s. The albums he put out in Québec are highly sought after and worth the cost.

Really great stuff!

Long live vinyl!
:)

Gary Bartz/Ntu Troop -- Harlem Bush Music/Taifa, Part 2

My $0.10 Find of the Week from last week is turning out to be quite a gem. There isn't a bad track on this amazing piece of wax.

Produced by the legendary Orrin Keepnews (who most notably produced Monk's wonderful albums on Riverside) it features some really great  and groovy playing by the likes of Gary Bartz himself (on soprano and alto saxes), Andy Bey (vocals), Juni Booth (bass), Nat Bettis (percussion) and Harold White (drums, awesome,awesome drums!).

Check out this INCREDIBLE track:

Long live vinyl.
:)

GREAT Find of the Week!

Gary Bartz/Ntu Troop -- Harlem Bush Music/Taifa

Hard to believe, but this cost me a whopping $0.10! What a steal!

A fairly rare record of contemporary Jazz featuring great pieces, such as "Drinking Song" and "Du (Rain)".

A keeper, for sure!

Here's a sampling:

Long live vinyl.
:)

GREAT Finds of the Week! Cost: $0.00

Well, we didn't find 'em, they found US! A close friend of my wife and me came by yesterday with a surprise: 5 boxes of 33RPM records, AND a box of 45s!

We had a ball sorting through everything, naturally.

Here's what we kept:

Here's what we'll be giving away:

And here's what we'll be throwing away:

Out of this whole mess, we did manage to find a few gems, including these:

MC5 - Back in the USA

MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

The Fendermen - Mule Skinner Blues

Wilburn Brothers - Side By Side

The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey 

Alan Stivell - Journée à la maison

The Troggs - Wild Thing

Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis - Together

We're still sifting through the piles, and we'll probably end up throwing away and giving more stuff away.

The 45s box had a few nice Beatles singles and other cool stuff, inlcuding a very nice copy of Zeppelin's "Black Dog/Misty Mountain Hop" single.

Nothing better to make your day than getting a surprise crapload of vinyl!

Long live vinyl!
:)

Finds of the Week

Not much happening this week, as crate-digging goes, but I did manage to get a beautiful copy of Jackie Mittos's "Reggae Magic":

I got it for $7.00, which is a GREAT deal, considering it usually sells online for $50.00-$100.00.

Sort of a cheesy-sounding instrumental reggae album, but it does have some great break beats. I can see why it's such in demand among turntablists.

Also picked up two AMAZING Deutsche Grammophon box sets for $2.00 each... a steal!

The boxes and the vinyl records are in pristine condition, and they feature the old DG Tulips labels.

Great collectibles!

Long live vinyl.
:)

My $0.25 Find of the Week

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

Found this Mono copy a few weeks ago, actually... for under $0.25.

Contains their classic hits - "Somebody to Love" & "White Rabbit" - but I keep coming back to the Marty Balin ballads: "Today" and "Comin' Back to Me". And "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" still sound pretty cool.

Great find.

Long live vinyl.

:)

My $0.25 Find of the Week -- New Feature

Actually, this one cost me $0.20 (they were 5 for a buck).

Great Maxi-Single by long(?)-forgotten alt-rock Australian band, Died Pretty.

A keeper, for sure.

Long live vinyl.

:)

More info on Died Pretty 

Here's a video of it: