Topic: Being broke has never been this fun (Read 49504 times)

Misereatur · « **on:** 05 Mar 2007, 13:25 »

I wanted to bump one of the Recent Purchases threads, but then I thought it would be better to just start a new one.

So, what have you bought recently?

I bought today:

Faun Fables - Early Song

Acid/Freak Folk Dawn "the faun" McCarthy's first songs re-recorded. Amazing low-fi folk with four traditional songs. Khar, you'd probably love this, imagine David Tibet, only female.

Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

Univers Zero - Implosion

Expirimental Prog Rock/Avant Grade

Matthew Shipp - Harmony and Abyss

I love Shipp's groovy free jazz when he's with William Parker on Bass and that dude FLAM on samplers and programing. I dont really like his solo piano pieces and duo with Parker.

celticgeek · « **Reply #1 on:** 05 Mar 2007, 14:57 »

I recently purchased an interesting set of music:

World's Greatest Guitar Music (various artists)
500 Years of Guitar (John Williams)
Carter Family Together (The Carter Family)

Also, an Avengining Unicorn Play Set:

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11554.html

Kai · « **Reply #2 on:** 05 Mar 2007, 15:00 »

The other day I bought the Patti Smith Group's Easter for a quarter on vinyl.

Gridgm · « **Reply #3 on:** 05 Mar 2007, 16:34 »

a regularily go through a process of downloading a fuckload of albums and then after several months of consideration going out and buying the good ones

finally got round to buying the postal service last week (i've been meaning to do that for 2 years now)

greenMonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** 05 Mar 2007, 17:19 »

Oh man, this past week I received my latest order from Dischord. Ironically, it was all bands that had/have Ian Mackaye in them. I didn't plan it that way. But:

Minor Threat Complete Discography on CD

Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing, In on the Kill Taker, End Hits, The Argument

The Evens - The Evens

And I am enjoying every single one of them.

Scytale · « **Reply #5 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 00:47 »

I bought Sunn O))) & Boris's Altar, had a few interesting moments but not as good as I thought it would be...

Abattur · « **Reply #6 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 03:53 »

Recently i have bought:

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Darkness - One way ticket to hell
Kingston Wall - Tri-Logy

Inlander · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 04:06 »

Man, gees, okay. In the last couple of weeks I've bought:

- "I Love My Jean" single by Camera Obscura;
- "Teenager" single by Camera Obscura (both this and the above at a C.O. gig, because I probably wouldn't be able to get them in Australia otherwise);
- "If Looks Could Kill" single by Camera Obscura (because after seeing them three times in four nights I was on a bit of a Camera Obscura bender);
- Wolf Parade's self-titled (I assume?) E.P. (the first one, from 2004);
- The End of History by Fionn Regan;
- The Greatest by Cat Power (because it's been re-released at budget price: I was a bit lairy about buying it before, because I was a bit underwhelmed by You Are Free - although that may only be because I have an almost irrational love of Moon Pix)
- Neon Bible by the Arcade Fire;
- Sound As Ever by You Am I (because it was part of the soundtrack of my youth and I've been waiting forever for it to drop from full price - today I found it incredibly cheap);
- The Specials singles compilation (see above).

I've been buying a little more than usual. A little.

EDIT: Also, Misereatur, enjoy that Silver Jews album. That's some good shit. (Though given it's a Silver Jews album I guess that kind of goes without saying!)

valley_parade · « **Reply #8 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 06:06 »

I think the last album I bought was NOFX's "Never Trust A Hippy" EP.

Luckily I'll be buying the Sundowner album next week. Chris McCaughan is awesome.

McTaggart · « **Reply #9 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 06:18 »

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Mar 2007, 04:06

- "If Looks Could Kill" single by Camera Obscura (because after seeing them three times in four nights I was on a bit of a Camera Obscura bender);

And we get one show, which is/was sold out. I hate you melbourne.

Valdemar · « **Reply #10 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 09:11 »

I have recently bought:

Jesu - Conqueror

More electronic and melodic than I thought beforehand but definitely good. I object to the length though.

D?lek - Abandoned Language

Something different than their masterpiece Absence. Great in its own little subversive way. I enjoy the horns.

Suzie LeBlanc - La Mer jolie: Chants d'Acadie

Barock period singer interprets folk traditionals from Acadia(which is in Canada apparently). Ordered but not received.

Burning Spear - Man in the Hills

Roots reggae legend. I couldn't find a decent copy of his classic Marcus Garvey so I ordered this instead.

Pumpkin · « **Reply #11 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 10:54 »

I just bought the Horrors' album, Strange House.

Bloody brilliant, but they raped Jack the Ripper and slowed it down by a fifth. It's gotten some really mixed reviews, though.

Inlander · « **Reply #12 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 19:58 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 06 Mar 2007, 06:18

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Mar 2007, 04:06
- "If Looks Could Kill" single by Camera Obscura (because after seeing them three times in four nights I was on a bit of a Camera Obscura bender)

And we get one show, which is/was sold out. I hate you melbourne.

Hmm, that is pretty shit. They played here at the Laneway Festival, the first one of which was sold out so a second was announced (at which they also played). After all, Laneway did start in Melbourne. C.O. also played the night before the first Laneway, at a gig that sold out pretty quickly. Then, because their gigs had sold so well and because they had a two or three day gap in their schedule the band announced at very late notice a poorly-publicised second non-festival gig at a venue I'd never heard of before.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #13 on:** 06 Mar 2007, 22:53 »

Quote from: Valdemar on 06 Mar 2007, 09:11

Jesu - Conqueror

More electronic and melodic than I thought beforehand but definitely good. I object to the length though.

I had no idea this was out.

What do you mean the length? Is it pretty short? This sounds like a download-before-I-buy deal

McTaggart · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 07:07 »

They were here for the Perth International Arts Festival; we don't have a laneway festival. As far as I know they didn't play any other gigs here.

Coming Home · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 Mar 2007, 10:02 »

the last CD I bought was "As Daylight Dies" by Killswitch Engage...damn good CD, too.

Valdemar · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 Mar 2007, 05:09 »

Quote

I had no idea this was out.

What do you mean the length? Is it pretty short? This sounds like a download-before-I-buy deal

It was out on the 20th, the 4th if you got the extended Japanese version. Which is what I would have get if I hadn't pre-ordered the standard version first.
No, it is not at all short, actually it is very long and personally I have an ambivalent thing with longish albums. It is a good album though and I imagine you would appreciate it.

Thrillho · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 Mar 2007, 15:33 »

My most recent purchase (I just got a big cheque from my late gran, so i'll have one big-ass spree coming soon) was Late Registration by Kanye West. It's quite good, but there's way too many skits on it. Luckily the good songs make up for it. Some stunning productions. 'Diamonds From Sierra Lione' especially, because he also doesn't overplay his hand, the song lasts just under four minutes, and at the end when it could have gone on forever, it pays its respects and then it's done. Great stuff.

Kai · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 Mar 2007, 16:00 »

I got a tape with Run DMC's Raising Hell on one side and the Wu Tang Clan's first album on the other side from a friend of mine for my car. Does that count?

Misereatur · « **Reply #19 on:** 12 Mar 2007, 11:06 »

Dont you guys buy music?

iTunes doesnt count.

valley_parade · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 Mar 2007, 12:04 »

Only when I have money.

So..no.

Valdemar · « **Reply #21 on:** 12 Mar 2007, 12:34 »

I bought this the other day:

Borbetomagus - Barbed Wire Maggots

I am eagerly awaiting it's arrival albeit in a slightly masochistic way because I know it is noise terrorism of the highest order. Performed on a guitar and two saxophones, mind you, which makes the whole thing more cool or daft depending on your p.o.v. Anyone know them?
I got some promos too but I don't think they count. On a sidenote both the Suzie LeBlanc and the Burning Spear cd are ace. Man in the Hills is very idyllic stuff. It is mostly about home, family and self-awareness along with Winston Rodney(a.k.a. Burning Spear though not on this album) boasting/rejoicing about how black he is. And as is customary for the reggae albums I own it makes me sleepy in a most serene way.

Misereatur · « **Reply #22 on:** 12 Mar 2007, 12:41 »

That album sounds interesting.

Have you got any song samples?

Valdemar · « **Reply #23 on:** 12 Mar 2007, 12:50 »

Not for that album, no, they are quite obscure. Allmusic has some samples for their other albums.
It is basically, as far as I can understand, N.Y. free jazz gone batshit crazy.

Misereatur · « **Reply #24 on:** 12 Mar 2007, 15:06 »

Quote from: Valdemar on 12 Mar 2007, 12:50

N.Y. free jazz gone batshit crazy.

Is there any other kind?

Anyway, I'll look them up. Thanks.

Recent Vintage · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Mar 2007, 00:26 »

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

and

As Tall as Lions - As Tall as Lions

Both very high quality.

Brian Majestic · « **Reply #26 on:** 13 Mar 2007, 07:38 »

Quote from: Pumpkin on 06 Mar 2007, 10:54

I just bought the Horrors' album, Strange House.

I saw that all over London when I was there last week and gave it a full on listen at one of them Virgin listening booths and I really wanted to like it, but couldn't justify 10 quid.

Things I did buy, though (mostly replacing cds that I lost somehow...)

The Stranglers - Collection
The Jam - All Mod Cons
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley - Elvis
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile/Wild Honey w/bonus tracks
Stompin' at the Klub Foot vol 5 (live psychobilly collection from the late 80s)
Guana Batz - Electra Glide in Blue

and one or two others that I can't recall.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #27 on:** 13 Mar 2007, 13:57 »

There's a great record store near my house called the Princeton Record Exchange. On top of selling all sorts of good records and such, they also have an entier wall of super cheap CDs. I found there the following:

Helios-Eingya (awesome ambient stuff a la eluvium)

Tarantula A.D.-Book of Sand (Very cool post rock. On Silent Ballets Top 50 Insturmental albums of 2005...or 4. I forget)

Destoryer-Destroyer's Rubies

By the End of Tonight-A Tribute to Tigers (More great post rock)

The best part of it was, all of those CDs were only $2 each!

Valdemar · « **Reply #28 on:** 13 Mar 2007, 14:52 »

Madness! madness I say! I would be satisfied with just having a record store in my town but alas; no such luck.
Not much charm in buying via the interwebs but, I might add, I have been thoroughly disappointed with almost every records store I have been in so maybe I am just hard to please.

Joseph · « **Reply #29 on:** 19 Mar 2007, 19:35 »

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Mar 2007, 04:06

- Wolf Parade's self-titled (I assume?) E.P. (the first one, from 2004);

I'm guessing you mean the second EP (they've had three), but if it really is the first one, you are a lucky lucky man.

Anyhow, I bought a fair bit of stuff today, went rather crazy with my spending, but I'm happy with it.

Spritualized - Amazing Grace

Eric B. And Rakim - Paid In Full

Jay Dee - Donuts

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps

Besnard Lakes - Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

Inlander · « **Reply #30 on:** 20 Mar 2007, 05:53 »

Quote from: Dark Flame on 19 Mar 2007, 19:35

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Mar 2007, 04:06
- Wolf Parade's self-titled (I assume?) E.P. (the first one, from 2004);
I'm guessing you mean the second EP (they've had three), but if it really is the first one, you are a lucky lucky man.

Huh, I thought they'd only had two plus the album. Shows what I know. A quick check of a Wolf Parade discography site reveals that it is indeed the second one. Still, I feel pretty chuffed: it's harder than you'd think to get hold of this stuff in Australia (unless you order it specially, and by and large I don't believe in doing that).

EDIT: oh, and enjoy Rust Never Sleeps. That's a pretty bitchin' album.

valley_parade · « **Reply #31 on:** 20 Mar 2007, 07:18 »

Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music split and Sigur Ros' single for Saeglopur.

Both incredibly good. Both also only $9.99.

Misereatur · « **Reply #32 on:** 20 Mar 2007, 07:48 »

Quote from: Dark Flame on 19 Mar 2007, 19:35

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Congratulations, You have just graduated from the music forum. Bitches Brew is one of the best albums ever recorded.

Did I mention I have the 4 CD box set? And that it is amasing?

Kai · « **Reply #33 on:** 20 Mar 2007, 10:20 »

Dark Flame, I heartily approve of every single one of those purchases.

Especially Bitches Brew.

and Rust Never Sleeps.

Jenno · « **Reply #34 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 00:29 »

Recent purchases:

Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Swan Lake - Beast Moans
Jim O'Rourke - Halfway to a Threeway EP
Sigur Ros - Saeglopur EP

All vinyl. Friend Opportunity included all the alternate album arts with it as well, which I thought was a nice bonus.

anditsdiscontents · « **Reply #35 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 00:58 »

Recently?

Die! Die! Die! - Locust Weeks EP

The Evens - Get Evens (from I. Mackaye himself when they played Glebe Town Hall the other week!)

Juliana Hatfield - Only Everything

The Drones - Gala Mill

Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Joseph · « **Reply #36 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 15:59 »

And, of course, because I didn't buy enough on Monday, yesterday I went and picked up:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

Low - Drums And Guns

SensoryOssuary · « **Reply #37 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 16:39 »

Quote from: Valdemar on 12 Mar 2007, 12:50

Not for that album, no, they are quite obscure. Allmusic has some samples for their other albums.
It is basically, as far as I can understand, N.Y. free jazz gone batshit crazy.

I saw Borbetomagus at the 2006 No Fun Fest (it's a noise festival in NYC) and they fucking slayed, especially for a bunch of old dudes. One of the coolest shows of the 'fest.

Recent purchases:
Fred Frith / Chris Culter - The Stone: Issue Two
Not as mindblowing at the last Stone fundraiser album, but really solid guitar 'n' drums free improv.

Odd Clouds / Wigwam - (Untitled)
Amazing split tape release. Odd Clouds does quirky electronic noise, Wigwam does heavy organic drone.

Peeled Heart Paste - Plover Brand
Insane harsh noise from Justice Yeldham, made on this thing.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 18:19 »

Let's see... recently I bought...

Casper and the Cookies - The Optimist's Club.... Who were so awesome live that I had to buy it. They had this guy playing with them with mutton chops so magnificent that I couldn't take my eyes off of him.

Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun.... because I still can't stop playing Fatso Forgetso and had to find more

The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus ... because I listened to it in the store... and it was good.

timehat · « **Reply #39 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 20:54 »

Misereatur, Univers Zero is a great band, I'm glad to see that you like them. I saw a guy in one of my classes with a shirt that had the cover of Heresie on it a few days ago and I was pretty fucking surprised.

Anyway, I've purchased these in the past coupe of weeks:

Fall of Troy - Doppelganger
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War
Blame Game - s/t (They're local, so if nobody recognizes the name, that's probably why)
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Mew - Frengers
Dahlia Seed - Please Excuse all the Blood
Soft Machine - Vols. 1 and 2
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Pyroclastics
5uu's - Hunger's Teeth

Johnny C · « **Reply #40 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 21:22 »

I bought a copy of Talking Heads 77 for a dollar.

McTaggart · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 Mar 2007, 23:47 »

I just picked up a copy of Ryoji Ikeda's +/- based on a reccomendation I got about six months ago. I'm not really in the right headspace for it right now, but I'll get to it tonight.

Will · « **Reply #42 on:** 22 Mar 2007, 11:06 »

I recently ordered Gospel's "the Moon Is A Dead World" and Pg99's masterful "Document #8." I feel they were both money well spent.

McTaggart · « **Reply #43 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 02:01 »

+/- is great by the way. Where + +, and +,, get fast and - -, and -,, get slow almost at the point where they change how you operate.

Today I picked up Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's Ettiquite (which will need two or three more listens before I really start to love it) and SunnO))) and Boris' Altar. The guy at the checkout looked at me funny after looking at what I was buying.

Valdemar · « **Reply #44 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 08:07 »

Quote from: SensoryOssuary on 21 Mar 2007, 16:39

I saw Borbetomagus at the 2006 No Fun Fest (it's a noise festival in NYC) and they fucking slayed, especially for a bunch of old dudes. One of the coolest shows of the 'fest.

Tinnitus ensured after that no doubt. My copy of Barbed Wire Maggots hasn't arrived yet. Don at Opposite Records was temporarily out of stock.

I just ordered Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup from Spinefarm. I am predicting it will make every other release this year seem like crap.

Misereatur · « **Reply #45 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 11:13 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 26 Mar 2007, 02:01

The guy at the checkout looked at me funny after looking at what I was buying.

I love it when they do that.

I am going to a Faun Fables concert in Jerusalem this Frieday. I hope I'll have enough money to buy a few albums.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #46 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 14:07 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 26 Mar 2007, 02:01

+/- is great by the way. Where + +, and +,, get fast and - -, and -,, get slow almost at the point where they change how you operate.

Today I picked up Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's Ettiquite (which will need two or three more listens before I really start to love it)

Heh, I saw +/- open for the Wrens and rather liked them. Nothing spectacular, but they were pretty good. Better than the albums anyway. As for the new CftPA (who I also get to see with Xiu Xiu in April!), I'm loving that cd a lot. I found it at the same record store I mentioned above for $10 and bought it right away. Great stuff. I also found some random Animal Collective eps for only a few dollars each just the other day.

Kid Carnival · « **Reply #47 on:** 26 Mar 2007, 15:19 »

I'm buying len- can't stop the bumrush tommorow...

McTaggart · « **Reply #48 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 04:56 »

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 26 Mar 2007, 14:07

Heh, I saw +/- open for the Wrens...

I was talking about an album I mentioned in an earlier post there.

Also, after about four or five listens Etiquette really has grown on me. A lot of the tracks that I was unimpressed by before (Holly Hobby and Scattered Pearls) are now some of my favourites.

Inlander · « **Reply #49 on:** 27 Mar 2007, 06:18 »

I'm pretty sure that "Scattered Pearls" is my absolute favourite song on that album. (As I may have mentioned elsewhere . . .)

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