So, I’ve been really good with curtailing my buying. I hadn’t bought anything off eBay since the first week of November, discogs since October, Reddit since June, online pickup at my local since July. I was gifted some gift certificates for Christmas for that local and grabbed a few things, but otherwise been really good. Really, just a few preorders & new releases (stuff I really want, much less than I’d been buying the last couple of years) over the last few months.
I done fell off the wagon this month
I’ve posted a few of these in the What’s Spinning thread. But it all started a couple weeks ago when I went on vacation in Miami. Hit up a couple of record stores and dug through most of their stacks. Really missed flipping through bins. Was fairly selective.
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UGK - Ridin’ Dirty promo
Heather B - Eternal Affairs
Chief Keef - Glotoven ($5!)
Nicolay - Glaciers
The Koreatown Oddity - A Beat At The Table
All used, clean, and fairly cheap. But it scratched an itch. Day I got home, I hit up my primary local. Still good, just grabbed a couple of CDs. Then I hit up the store by my place that I hadn’t been inside in 2 years.
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Dug through most of the racks, still good with being selective. Grabbed the Kellee Patterson new for $13. Grabbed a really clean copy of one of my favorite dollar bin yacht-rock-y albums for a buck.
Then today came. Planned to go to my primary to return a defective album, and to hit up another store I hadn’t been to during the pandemic to see how much they were selling some new releases for (Kaina, Summer Walker, Robert Glasper). Ended up grabbing all these instead:
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New:
Holy Hive - S/T
Al Johnson - Peaceful
Darondo - Listen To My Song
Used:
Steve Arrington - Dancin’ In The Key Of Life
Ennio Morricone - Marco Polo OST
Loose Ends - Look How Long
Irene Reid - Two Of Us
Somehow missed that Holy Hive when it came out. The Al Johnson is a long-time modern soul want, finally reissued. I got the Luv N Haight Darondo LP way back when, but didn’t know this comp that was put out a few years later existed until a couple of years ago. The Loose Ends is probably my favorite new jack swing album - another long-time want but this one’s not usually expensive, just doesn’t pop up much in the US.
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Also grabbed some unheralded late-90s to mid-00s rap - right up my alley.
Outsidaz - The Bricks (sealed)
2nd II None - Classic 220
The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
Oh, and also grabbed a bunch of shit from Reddit the last couple of weeks:
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Penrose Showcase
Pharoahe Monch - PTSD
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II
Kehlani - You Should Be Here
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Regretted not grabbing that Penrose comp that one RSD, so picked it up even though the standard press is coming out soon I think.
I’m planning on hitting up a couple of other stores next weekend to see what’s sitting in their racks. One is a store I haven’t been to in probably 10 years. I’m gonna need to finally sort through my sell pile to offset this
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