"Tales from Turnpike Hotel" -- Saint Etienne

"The Upper Cuts" -- Alan Braxe & Friends

High Llamas: retrospective and rarities 2 disk set.

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

The first time I heard the first two tracks it didn't quite click with me, then I heard them again and it did.

Edan - Beauty and the Beat

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

The 2 Tone Collection - A Checkered Past

Liars - They Threw Us All in a Trench...

Otis Taylor - Below the Fold

Recent pickups:

Cracker: Live at Wavefest

Sophia: People Are Like Seasons

Marah: Let's Cut The Crap and Hook Up Later Tonight (reissue)

Embrace: Out Of Nothing

The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Behind The Music (2-disc import version)

found the library near my new place and started raiding their cd section. You're only allowed 5 at a time, so it will take me a while to get through all of their stuff.

Today I picked up:

Drive-By Truckers: Dirty South.
Bruce Springsteen: Live in New York City
Sun Ra: Greatest Hits
Skip James: The Complete Early Recordings
Karlheinz Stockhausen: dirigiert Haydn & Mozart

some new things and some long overdue catching up:

white stripes - get behind me satan, destijl (their two best albums
kraftwerk - minimum-maximum
arcade fire - self titled ep
tv on the radio - young liars ep
gorillaz - demon days
underworld - 1992-2002

Feist - Let It Die

I had ten minutes to kill at Barnes & Noble and it was the only thing on my radar under $15.

Found used:

Art Tatum, Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 1
Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand (I'm really sorry I never gave this the time it deserved)

Air - Moon Safari

It was only $5; too cheap not to buy, really.

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Originally posted by keylimetrev:
found the library near my new place and started raiding their cd section. You're only allowed 5 at a time, so it will take me a while to get through all of their stuff.

Today I picked up:

Drive-By Truckers: Dirty South.
Bruce Springsteen: Live in New York City
Sun Ra: Greatest Hits
Skip James: The Complete Early Recordings
Karlheinz Stockhausen: dirigiert Haydn & Mozart

Wow, klt. If that's only the first batch, it sounds like your library has a great collection.

Is that Greatest Hits the Evidence collection? If so, it's a good one. For an artist with a varied and complicated a career as Sun Ra, that may be about as close as you're going to get to a career overview. I hope you enjoy it.

Now Playing: "Superman" Benny Goodman V-Disc Recordings

Biggles, Moon Safari is Air very best!!! $5? lucky duck. Talisman is the best track. Air's Talkie Walkie was one of my favorite albums of 2004. You should give that a listen if you haven't already.

Latest CD buys...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
13&God: s/t
Quasimoto: Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Best of the Talking Heads
Yo La Tengo: Prisoners of Love

Went to check out a used music store today. Ended up being pretty terrible, but I found a couple good albums in their $1 budget bins.

Morrissey - You Are the Quarry
The Clumsy Lovers - Smart Kid

Also got my next set of 5 from the library.

Ted Hawkins - The Kershaw Sessions
McCoy Tyner - Illuminations
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Bo Diddley - His Best
Devo - Pionerrs Who Got Scalped Anthology.

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Is that Greatest Hits the Evidence collection? If so, it's a good one. For an artist with a varied and complicated a career as Sun Ra, that may be about as close as you're going to get to a career overview

Yes, it is the Evidence G.H. I'm really enjoying it a lot, and don't know why I waited so long to hear him.

Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Smiths - Queen Is Dead
Bright Eyes - Lifted

The former two are on my 1981-1986 list and the latter was motivated by his amazing performance at the Newport Folk Festival.

Edit: I also just picked up Holopaw - Quit +/Or Fight. I was trying to get Mount Eerie - No Flashlight, but for some reason nobody had it yet.

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"Black Mountain" -- Black Mountain

"Super Soul Sister" -- Erma Franklin

"The Back Room" -- The Editors

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Originally posted by cpa13:
Biggles, Moon Safari is Air very best!!! $5? lucky duck.

The best part is that that's $5 Australian: the price of most singles. Seems rather like predatory pricing to me, but maybe I'm just too suspicious

Also, I've heard Talkie Walkie (on loan from a library). It's pretty good.

I just got

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Jawbreaker - Dear You
Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good

Im really starting to get hooked on the 13 and god cd. Nice pics

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Originally posted by cpa13:
Biggles, Moon Safari is Air very best!!! $5? lucky duck. Talisman is the best track. Air's Talkie Walkie was one of my favorite albums of 2004. You should give that a listen if you haven't already.

Latest CD buys...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
13&God: s/t
Quasimoto: Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Best of the Talking Heads
Yo La Tengo: Prisoners of Love

I scoured the used bins for Fruit Bats' Spelled in Bones, but no luck. Instead I came back with:

Loudon Wainwright III, Unrequited
Pulp, This Is Hardcore
Muddy Waters, The Father of Chicago Blues
Feist, Let It Die
Dungen, Ta Det Lugnt

The Magic Numbers, The Magic Numbers
Cuff the Duke, Cuff the Duke
Suicide, Suicide

I guess I'm on a bit of an eponymous kick lately...