Goodwill: No Class, But Many Records

Ramona and I got lucky and our night class was cancelled a couple days ago, so we decided to go to the local Goodwill.

Now, we've started to shy away from this one. It switched to a new building across town, and their selection of records was the lethal mixture of both static and common. As the store settled though, they've gotten in some new stuff. Unfortunately, they're stacking them horizontally. *facepalm* and they have the shelves set up so that they can't stand them up straight. I'm seriously considering going in with a screwdriver and moving their shelves around. -_-

Anyway, we buckled down and went through them, and actually managed to come up with a few things worth shelling out the fifty cents a piece.

This is an interesting older compilation of Disney songs. Ramona likes Disney.

Ramona really, really loves Snoopy.

We're really into flamenco and classical guitar right now, 

hopefully this has some good songs on it!

This record is interesting, I picked up a Ferrante & Teicher record a couple days before this pick, I'm not familiar with the music but it had a really really cool blue cover. that post will be up soon, but when we got to Goodwill, Ramona pointed this one out and I was like, wow, they just have really cool minimalist covers with good pictures! So I picked it up. Might end up with a F&T collection before long, haha.

This is another one for our "exotica" collection, haha.

This is another one for my pretty expansive Tchaikovsky collection. Not my favorite piece, and I don't like Grieg, but it has a good cover so I made an exception.

Such an awesome cover! How could I say no??? and it's like, four LPs of whatever music this is.

If I see a copy of Whipped Cream, I buy it. It's a very simple plan.

This cover is kind of disconcerting in person. It looks like she is very, very close to you. 

It's a weird, cool effect though. Hilariously, someone donated this after buying it from 2nd and Charles.

Haven't had a chance to listen to this. It's a DJ record, from someone named zod.0, hopefully they were pre Tosh.0 as to not be a copycat...

Got all of these for less than $10 total, so it was a pretty good haul!

Fat Cats: Record store number two in Boone!

Fat Cats was the store we were originally trying to get to in Boone. This store was a little weird, a little crazy, and all cool. Big wall with record crates on the left side, and video rentals on the right of the store. Chatted for a good long while with a cool shopkeep in here, he suggested a great Thai place that we went to after.

Ramona: "This has Superstition on it. Enough said. Also, it has the braille inside."  

Ramona: "60s band, famous for Knock Three Times, and famous for from the movie Now and Then. Kind of like Ohio Express, very sing-along sixties style."

Ramona: "Never heard of this dude. On Vanguard, looks like early Baez and Dylan, one of those folk singers, dirty hippy in wingtips types. Should be interesting!"

Ramona: "Ike and Tina Turner Live at Carnegie Hall. Tri-fold, double LP, with lots of pictures of the happy couple, including one of Ike with machine gun bullets on a belt around his scrawny torso. Hopefully it has a lot of raw, live singing from Tina. Has Proud Mary, and Piece of My Heart."

Mr. Empty: "Picked this record up because I'm descended from Stonewall Jackson on my father's side, and I thought this guy might be related to me. Turns out that's a stage name, so, bummer. Anyway, Ramona tells me this is a rare record. It better be good or I'll just be disappointed all around."

Mr. Empty: "Found this record once in Fat Cat's for like $10, which isn't terrible but it's a little more than I usually am in the mood to pay for a Herb Alpert album that isn't Whipped Cream. So I put it back, and then when I went to their discount, "3 for $5" crates, I found it and got it for a lot cheaper. I haven't listened to this particular record but everything he did with Tijuana Brass is really great jam music."

Mr. Empty: "Classic BOC, not in the best condition, but I got it for nice and cheap, so I don't mind. "

Mr. Empty: "A later Carly Simon record, she started to get a little ragged with the hair but that's okay. I still dig it. :P"

Mr. Empty: "This is a Little Red Riding Hood record. Look at that scary-ass wolf! So many teeth!"

641 RPM: Our first record store in Boone!

This was the first store we found in Boone, we actually ran into it a little bit by accident, we were looking for another record store and saw this one first. We parked and ran up, the first thing we see is hand-made peppermint slipmats on a bunch of record players spinning in the front of the store. This was a good sign, and this store definitely had a chunk of good records for us. Not bad pricing either! We chatted with the shopkeep for a bit, he was cool.

Ramona digging in 641 RPM

Mr. Empty: "My Bonnie Prince Billy collection grows ever larger. This one is a split 7" between BPB and The Black Swans, and they're both doing covers of songs from Larry Jon Wilson, who recently passed on. I'm very excited to listen to it."

Ramona: "A promo copy of one of Melanie's first albums. Melanie was one of those folk singers from the 60s who were playing off Dylan's success, she had a hit in the 70s but she's extremely prolific. Saw her a couple years ago, too."

Ramona: "Just played a show with Jesse Colin Young a week ago, the frontman for this band. Sang a duet of their song "Get Together" with him. This doesn't have that track, but it does have their grammy-nominated song, "Darkness, Darkness" on it. Very cool, I'll have to see if I can get Jesse to sign this for me, too."

Ramona: "The famous Richie Havens from Woodstock. He's a hell of a guitarist, anything he puts out is worth picking up just for the guitar playing. He put out a lot of weird 80s albums that were weird, hopefully this isn't one of those though lol. It has covers of C.C. Rider and Boots of Spanish Leather."

Mr. Empty: "Okay...this is a weird one. This album is in EVERY book of album covers, and I've seen it over and over again but never actually seen a copy in person!!! No idea what this band sounds like, but the cover reminds me of King Crimson so...maybe they're similar? :P"

Mr. Empty: "This was my huge find! This is David Cross, doing stand-up. On vinyl. :O and and and the record is VELVET!!! and it comes with a DVD! :O :O :O DAVID CROSS!!!"

Papa Jazz: Spring Break Edition

Papa Jazz is one of the best record shops in the Southeast, always end up here when we have a free day. It's in Five Points in Columbia. We've found some awesome stuff here over the years, including some pretty awesome rare records at good prices. We were headed to the wild mountains of North Carolina and couldn't pass up the chance for a quick stop and found these gems.

(I also passed up on some non-color versions of two mewithoutYou records, they were a great price but I want the colored vinyl!!!)