Made a quick trip to a nearby antique shop on my lunch break today which surprisingly has some decent, well priced crates of records, and picked up the following for a grand total of 20 quid:
Stone cold classic that I’d just never got round to picking up before. Wasn’t going to leave it behind for a tenner.
Only just a VG copy (hence the price) but nice to have on a 12”.
Nowhere near as good as the other Hudson People cut that everyone knows, but pleasant enough for a couple of quid.
Oddball dubby new wave 12” from a local band to me, have known about it for a while and had been meaning to pick it up but never came across it until today.
I only went once. By the door was a record case full of disco 12’s. They were mint and looked unplayed, I think they were very cheesy or I already had them, got a mint copy of Kool & Gang Open Sesame and `Roller Skating Mate’ (for those roller boogie gigs…). My mate pulled out ‘you know how to love me’ which Rob considered a modern mover of a tune, that was £10, the disco pair were a £1 each. Last time I made a very long journey to it and found it was closed. It works on the tradition of quite a few shops I know of having no forms of comunication such as landline, mobile, internet etc.
There is a personal story going on with my life as we speak to raise a chuckle perhaps…onwards with the hauls. These are from yesterday, I’ve been off work for two weeks but have limited record funds now as the squeeze gets tighter, full cold turkey up to this point.
The usual pound each, I edited out the less hot records I found, but all were good. Miquel Brown has to be an essential bargain bin find for disco lovers. The rest are explained on the discogs.
Just picked a selction up after playing on a battery powered turntable. £2.50 each but swings and roundabouts on pricing, this is the shop with the filthy records. A vacuum record cleaner has to be a friend of any one hauling hauls.
Ability is a bit hammered, will keep it as a reference copy until a better one turns up, this is a hot potato of a tune.
I’m playing records at the next Letchworth record fair. on the 14th of May. I’ll be using the Bozak (CMA 2DL) and some enormous JBL monitors (C50 S8 for the audio nerds) which were once used at Abbey Road (no proof). I bought them from the drummer in the Bootleg Beatles and spent about 1k on them to restore. Not sure if this will be a ‘one deck’ or two. You can play records and network if you want.
Street player is unplayed and mint, not a boot. First play ever now, sounds ridiculous!
I left out the £2 piano screamer guilty pleasure.