Last music you acquired

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

Man Or Astro Man - Defcon 5...4...3...2...1

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Cheap records:

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Madonna - Madonna
Styx - The Grand Illusion

Oingo Boingo was the one I was particularly excited about, and the other two were impulse buys. My minimum requirements for purchasing cheap records that I haven't already heard are either 1) it has an interesting or So Bad, It's Good cover or title or 2) it has at least one song I already know I like. The Madonna has four (even though I'm not much of a fan of hers overall) and the Styx has one ("Come Sail Away").

edited 2nd Jul '14 8:17:57 PM by MikeK

Ockham's Razor - Wolves in the Walls

The first two Volcano Suns (a Post-Punk / Post-Hardcore band formed by one of the members of Mission Of Burma) and the remaster of Munki by The Jesus And Mary Chain. Good stuff. Will probly buy the deluxe edition of Spiderland by Slint later this week...

Downloaded the entire discography of the obscure 80's Dada pop collective Steaming Coils, uploaded long ago with Brad Laner's blessing. 'Tis good.

The Spiderland remaster by Slint, plus the three Pulp remasters they did a few years back (His 'n' Hers, Different Class and This Is Hardcore). All classics...

• My Bloody Valentine: mbv
• Pet Shop Boys: Very Relentless
• Mike Oldfield: The Songs of Distant Earth
• Chris & Gileah: s/t
• Chris Taylor: Take Me Anywhere
• Orquestra Aragón / Sonora Mantacera: Cuba y su Musica
• DJ Shadow: Endtroducing...

The Beatles - Rubber Soul (US) and Yesterday and Today

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

I kind of have a folk rock state of mind currently.

Seriously thinking about those Blur remasters, and maybe the Ocean Colour Scene ones as well... In a bit of Brit Pop mood as of late...

edited 30th Jul '14 12:28:32 AM by sharkcrap11

• Hellhammer - Demon Entrails
• Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales, To Mega Therion
• Triptykon - Shatter, Melana Chasmata (with Eparistera Daimones scheduled to arrive...uh, sometime)

Yes, I'm on a binge.

Recent albums I've bought:

The XX - Coexist

Threshold - Extinct Instinct

Mike Oldfield - Voyager

IQ - The Wake

Marillion - Somewhere Else

edited 31st Jul '14 8:41:41 AM by TT454

The 2011 collection from PinkiePieSwear.

• The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
• Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted
• Tame Impala - Lonerism
• The Velvet Underground - Squeeze

Squeeze? Isn't that one super out-of-print because everyone besides Doug Yule would rather pretend it never happened?

Anyway:

• Alex Torres y Su Orquestra: Elementos, Entre Amigos, 25 to Life
• Pet Shop Boys: Alternative
• One Wolf: One Wolf II: Secret of the Wolf
• X: Los Angeles
• Various: Cowabunga: The Surf Box

Yeah, that's the one. But some label decided to reissue it on CD a few years back.

Pixies - Surfer Rosa and Johnny Cash - American Recordings. I totally had the Pixies album already, but this was a dirt cheap thrift store copy that was in better condition than my old one (and still had the case).

I recently got The Notorious Byrd Brothers. As far as I know, this is the greatest Psychedelic Country album ever released.

Edit: I didn't actually expect that psychedelic country was a real thing. According to this list, it is.

edited 18th Aug '14 3:22:04 PM by ColonelCathcart

Purchased:

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire and Battle Of Los Angeles
Miike Snow - Miike Snow

Library'd:

Lady Gaga - The Fame / The Fame Monster
Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code
The Weepies - Say I Am You

I now own almost every Rage Against The Machine studio album ^note The one I don't is Renegades, the Cover Album, and all of them were found at thrift stores.

edited 20th Aug '14 9:05:08 PM by MikeK

The first two albums by Men At Work, original CD releases, printed in Austria. Used the original masters, sound delicious.

Just downloaded:

• The Statler Brothers: "The Class of '57"

• Gorillaz: "Feel Good Inc."

I believe that is the very definition of musical whiplash...

The three 80s King Crimson albums (Discipline, Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair) remastered. Probly gonna go get Heritage and Pale Communion by Opeth sometime in the next few days- Pale Communion just came out today, to boot, and has good reviews...

And I now have the newest Opeth (Pale Communion, for those of you who didn't know). A day early. Being on a First-Name Basis with the owners of the local record store'll do that. I didn't even hafta beg or anything, I just asked and they gave it to me...

Me at the thrift store yesterday: "Hmm, I think it'd be funny if I saw a Gorillaz album here... nah, that's crazy talk. That kinda music never shows up at this store."

Two minutes later, I walked out with Gorillaz, D-Sides, AND Plastic Beach.

Beach House - Bloom

Thanks to whoever posted Lazuli on the "Rate the song above you" thread, their music is truly beautiful. Perhaps the only current act I know that comes even close to rivaling the Cocteau Twins on their own turf, something I previously thought impossible. Now after a few months of listening on youtube I finally came across the album at a local shop. Looking forward to sit down and really listen to this thing.

edited 6th Sep '14 5:48:16 PM by Akalabth

I believe I also got my copy of the self-titled Gorillaz album out of a thrift store. But that seems like the most likely find of the three because it's the oldest.

edited 7th Sep '14 7:09:30 PM by MikeK