Yeah you and I need to practice tantric CD shopping. So far I've been to two stores this week and haven't bought anything, but I saw three CD's that I really wanted today so grrrrrrrrr.

this should keep you happy Jimbo and let you know I'm not slacking up here-

making their way back across the river from Minnesota this weekend were these fellas-
Josh Ritter- The Animal Years
Peter Walker- Young Gravity
Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise (finally got around to getting it)
and snared these out of the used bins also
Red House Painters- Down Colorful Hill (I'm a completist, so had to get it, and it was cheap)
Elbow- Leaders of the Free World
Willy Mason- Where The Humans Eat
Haley Bonar- Lure the Fox (local artist from Duluth and SD- as in South Dakota, Alan Sparhawk of Low helps her out on this one)
Will Johnson- Murder of Tides (from Centro-Matic, South San Gabriel fame)
plus a few other odds and ends (Fine China, Mark Kozelek, and a David Mead EP)

C.H. kent

Elizabethtown soundtrack... Volumes 1 &2...

Well its tax and new shoe time(I think the guys who named Air Shox were prophetic if you have looked at the prices lately), so I could only get these:

from the used bin
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers-"Like Someone In Love" RVG remaster. Slowly I'm closing in on having all of the Art Blakey/Lee Morgan/Wayne Shorter combo albums.

from the music club:

"Chet Baker Ensemble"
"Mulligan Meets Monk" K2 remaster

nice

Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses... LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS...

from the very first track to the last...... amazing........

It is indeed, just like her other 5 albums! Judging from what I've heard in concert recently, the next one will be yet another classic.

Fred just sent me Richard Shindell's live Courier CD. Thanks Fred!

live from nowhere (paste, of course)

the best of bowie (ebay, i'm new to it and enjoying it)

...got them both today

and just before that, i picked up the little willies (thanks to cher's and bill's glowing reviews, from amazon)
and
jenny lewis' rabbit fur coat (another ebay find)

Careful, eBay can become an addiction. Take it from someone who knows allllll too well. But it is really cool all the good stuff you can find on there. Just make sure you do your homework and set a maximum price that you will bid, and stick to it. Don't get sucked up into bidding wars just to win. You can usually get a good idea of what price you should pay by looking at the normal retail price/used price on Amazon.com or Pricegrabber.com, or Half.com. Good luck. Happy bidding!

From the used and new bins:
Modest Mouse-The Lonesome Crowded West
Kaiser Chiefs-Employment
KT Tunstall-Eye to the Telescope
R.E.M.-Dead Letter Office

Guess I'm trying to balance out my collection with some more rock albums. Now if I could find the Red House Painters around here, grrrrr.

Your turn Cheesehead Kent™

And you did well on the rock side there Jim.
Every collection SHOULD have a Red House Painters album in it.

Now for my weekend finds-
Josh Rouse- Subtitulo
and in the used bins-
Sufjan Stevens- Greetings from Michigan
Wilco- Kicking Television- Live in Chicago (for less than 10 bucks, yah)
Ride- OX4- The Best of (one of my fave bands from late 80's-early 90's)

Today:

Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame ( 2 song sampler, 2 bucks).
Ladytron - Extended Play (basically the Bonus material from the UK version of "The Witching Hour."

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Out of Season (used)

Pink Martini -- sympathetique (dont quote me on the spelling)

Today-

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris- All the Roadrunning

The New Amsterdams- Story Like a Scar

what do you think? i'm lovin' it.

Patty Griffin
-1000 Kisses
-Flaming Red
-Living with Ghosts

I'm surprised how different Flaming Red is from the other two. Good... but different.

I heard that too, but I haven't seen them in stores yet. (at least for the few titles I'm looking for) It's possible that not all stores will return them and just hope they can sell copies to people who don't notice, since it's probably a pain in the arse to return inventory to the record company.

I bought Imogen Heap's Speak For Yourself for $7.99 (why can't they sell all CD's at that price? Greedy bastards) and apparently it's one of those "protected" CD's as well (although not marked on the packaging). I really wanted to return it and claim it was "defective" but didn't think that would work.

Naturally, the album was released in the rest of the world months ahead of the U.S. release and so it's extremely easy to download with a few clicks...nice to see their copy protection working so well.

It makes me sad though...I wish I could tell everyone in the world to run out and buy that album, it's so f'ing amazing, but...I've actually told people not to buy it because of the protection that's installed with the disc.

O yes, I feel the same way. Absolutely amazing. Do you have a copy of Silver Bell? I like that one a lot too!

Nope, Don't have it yet (only because the store didn't have it).

Did you try Encore Records? or Wazoo?

Nope.... never heard of those joints. I was at Borders which acts like they're all music savvy, but in truth, charge way too much for the stuff they DO manage to stock and, therefore, suck.

They are great music stores in Ann Arbor. Worth the trip. Just don't bring your credit card and make sure you only have what you can afford to spend in your pocket. I can't usually escape without laying out some Cheesehead Kent™ type jack on albums.

Another option is online shopping: Amazon.com and half.com usually have some fairly decent deals. And there is always eBay too.

Never been to either one... I'll check it out.

Ghostwriter! WTF is wrong with you??!!?? You live in Ann Arbor and have never been to Wazoo or Encore?!? Holy Freakin' Shit... dude, you need to get out and see the town more. I live over an hour away from there and have made trips to Ann Arbor just to visit those music havens (and the used bookstores).

BUT... Silver Bell is only available as a bootleg on one of a thousand vines out there. Steve started one here. I got mine from some kind soul at Patty's site. you won't find it at any record store. so get on a vine and get it NOW. it's frickin great. and free!

If you only have time for one...go to Encore. It's amazing. Wazoo is okay but they have a smaller selection and browsing there is a pain in the arse. Encore is the shit though...one of the few things I miss about Ann Arbor. My bank account is glad I left though. :lol

Hey Steve! I was just about to ask you to back me up on that!
The dude LIVES in A2. he's got time to do both.
for some reason, I really like Wazoo. It has a genuine indie record store feel to it. the used CDs ARE a pain in the ass to "flip" through. but he's usually got a pretty good selection (especially new), with probably the best new prices anywhere, including Best Buy. I usually leave there with something.
but yes, Encore is hands down the BEST used CD store anywhere. the only thing I don't like about that store is knowing that something I'm dying to find is probably buried in that enormous mountain of unfiled CDs on the counter.

I can't remember, which is Wazoo and which is Encore?? Is the one that you go down the stairs Encore and the smaller one upstairs Wazoo??? I actually like the smaller one better.

Wazoo is upstairs.
Encore is the massive (and messy) used store down by Borders (across the street), on street level.
The downstairs one? I think you're thinking of SchoolKidsRecords underground, which is in the basement of that clothing store (right by Wazoo). they're cool too, but certainly a 3rd choice of the three (plus they're all new).

The smaller one upstairs is Wazoo. Yeah it is a pain to "flip"through the Cd's. But there are some great deals there. I got mint condition DCC versions of "Chet Baker in New York" and "Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders" for 30 bucks. You can't find those even on eBay for that much in that great of shape.

But yeah Encore Records is the shit. I have to always pare down from the stack of 20 or so CD's I end up having. Plus its nice being around other music lovers/fellow obsessed music collectors. And they play pretty good music too.

No, Wazoo is the one I'm thinking of that I like the best. I am not sure if I can remember Encore now and SchoolKidsRecords is the one downstairs I was thinking of. I am now having vague recollections of Encore but I don't think I've been there in a while or it was just too much to process.

Brook-
Was SchoolKidRecords the one with the really loud music playing last time we were there? Now this is all bothering me and I must straighten it out apparently before I sleep!

Yeah, I'm actually about 15 minutes out of AA.... but, yeah, your criticism is warranted. Must be the "married with four kids and a job (or used to have a job)" thing getting in the way. I've fallen victim to the "massive electronic chain store mentality". The used book stores sound great to. Unfortunately, the "not having a job thing" will be getting in the way of that trip for awhile. But... thanks for the "push"....

the massive electronic chain stores (where I also shop rather frequently) absolutely do not have the same kind of selection as Ann Arbor's used record stores. like yojimbo noted, some stuff they have you just can't find anywhere else.

i love ann arbor! when are we goin', brook?

I'll let you know...
I usually make it out there for some concert in the evening (usually at the Ark, or Michigan Theater, sometimes Blind Pig), and just get there in the afternoon sometime for pre-concert town-browsing.

Keep me posted you two.... I'm in.
J

You might try seeing if any of the used bookstores have a trading policy. I go to a place where you can do a 2 for 1 paperback trade. Good way to get rid of some books you never read. And at least the used books are cheaper if you buy them.

sorry... hope you were able to get some sleep despite my lack of response!
all my trips there sort of blend together, and they've all been blasting something at one time or another, so I don't really remember who was doing that last time we were there. my subconscious is telling me it was SKR for some reason though.

Oh wait, I thought this was a "latest CD purchased" thread.

Latest CD purchased: "Having" by Trespassers William.

I didn't know you were appointed the thread police. I was just trying to help someone out. Its not like I"m the ONLY one who has ever hijacked a thread temporarily.

oh man, I'm sorry. I was just making a joke. I really didn't mean for it to sound all "get back on topic." Really sorry.

Aaron, how do you like it? It took a few listens (since I was expecting more of the same as 'different stars') and this one has just a little different feel to it (seems like more fuzz/feedback/electronics), but I've really come to enjoy it. Ya gotta love Anna-Lynne Williams' vocals.
Thanks also for the link to your friends show with them.
kent

Considering I've only known about this band for a few weeks! and this is my first purchase of their music (asides from the live I-tunes), I'm really digging it. Actually I bought it at an in-store performance yesterday, and saw them the night before.

I'm in on the Ann Arbor run too. Then I can post the latest cd's I will buy after going there!

My last big CD purchasing fling of the winter season yielded these yesterday..
(hey it rained all weekend, needed something to do)

The Weepies- say i am you
Josh Rouse EP- bedroom classics vol. 2
Norfolk and Western - A Gilded Age
Tina Dico- Far (a 6-song EP from 2004)
and a couple of Beth Orton import EP's in the used section
concrete sky and anywhere, both from 2002

Now I shift to the gardening season and head over to the native plants nurseries and garden centers on Saturdays
although I will still go to the CD stores, just with a little less passion
plus I lost THE LIST. THE LIST had 60-70 or so CDs/bands on it, things I look for
I need THE LIST before I go to Chicago for OtR at the end of May....
kent

don't you keep your LIST on your COMPUTER? that's where I keep mine for easy retrieval/printing and modification. (Carrie is currently rolling her eyes at the fact that I'm not the only one who has such a list!)

whew, found it, it was in a garden nursery catalog (how did it get there?)
Am putting THE LIST on the computer right now!
That was bad, a day and a half, no LIST...............

Please, that's nothing. There's an application for keeping track of such things.

tsk tsk. I have one word for you: Excel.

Then again, that shareware that Steve linked to looks pretty damn cool too.