Welcome to the March Edition of Purchases. If you are new to the site, this is my monthly wrap-up of my vinyl and CD purchases since not everything I buy makes it on to the site. Some of it does or already has or will in the future, but whose to say how long that will be. So, I thought why not share the love of music and let you see what I have been adding to the collection.
First up is something that I ordered in February, but didn’t make it until after the February post was written and I was too lazy to go back and update it. If you read the Billy Idol Series there was one album I reviewed that I didn’t actually have the album on vinyl…yet. Well that has changed. It is the Record Store Day release of Billy Idol BFI Live which is a 3 LP set. I think there were only 2000 released and I have 1,148. The price has been around $75-100 and I couldn’t see spending that much. I mean if it is was Kiss, no issues…sorry that is the way it is. I finally found it for $40, used and in what looks like mint condition to me. Here is it is.
And then on the first weekend in March, Hardy Boy Records released a collection of Kiss albums he scored and there were so many that I did not have in my collection. I got up to the store early as they opened at 10am, I was there a few minutes prior to that and there was only one other person waiting. Another gentleman showed up and we were after stuff in the Kiss collection. Luckily, we were really after different things. Great Kiss stories were swapped and as another person had the Vault as well, we had some good discussions on that too. It was a fun morning and I am happy to say, I scored a few things. I would have been happy with only one item I didn’t have, instead I got 6…plus a promo Whitesnake single.
First up is the Kiss Collection. I scored the following:
- 12″ Single Picture Disc of “God Gave Rock & Roll To You II (from Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey)
- 12″ Single Picture Disk of “Reason to Live”
- Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved
- 12″ Single Promo of “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”
- Bootleg – Kiss: The Tickler – (Lick it Up Show 1983 in Sweden)
- Bootleg – Kiss: Wicked Lester and Progeny Demo Sessions
And then one other thing I found was a 12″ Promo Single of the Whitesnake song “Is This Love”. I will need to go add it to the David Coverdale Series.
There is a website I use called MyPoints.com. They send you emails, you click on them and get points, you buy stuff from vendors and go through their site, you get points and after awhile those points add up and you can cash them in for a gift card. Ding!! No brainer. This is what the latest cash-in got me…Steve Vai’s ‘Passion & Warefare’…Awesome!!
Then I realized I was still missing one Whitesnake Studio album. I can’t finish the Coverdale Series without it. It was The Purple Album. And now I have it thanks to ebay and a cheap Deluxe Edition copy…$8.
Unexpectedly, I was looking at Facebook and Lunchbox posted they were putting out two used Billy Idol bootlegs and so I got up the next morning and went and was able to grab them. I won’t go into detail as I will talk about them in detail in later posts.
Next up is a Def Leppard Release. ‘The Early Years Box Set” which features a remaster of the first two albums, ‘On Through The Night’ and ‘High & Dry’ as well as some bonus material including a disk of B-Sides and rarities and two live shows. The review has already been posted!
And that is it. I have a bad feeling April won’t be as abundant with the Covid-19 crap going on. Amazon not sending vinyl or CDs for the short term and record stores closing. It might be a month where nothing gets bought and what a sad month that will be.
Here is everything I bought in March.
Thanks for stopping by…
At least you’ve got plenty to keep you busy in April then if you can’t buy anything!
My March buying… A Bert Jansch box set, a Metal Church set, a Blue Oyster Cult reissue, a couple of Marillion live things and the latest Who album.
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How is that Who album, Scott? A ton of hype about it before it came out then nothing after.
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I bought it cause it was really cheap. Listened to two songs and then had to put it off.
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Oh boy! That just about says it all.
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If I’m in the right mood I’ll try it again. I just couldn’t be bothered with it right now so I’ll reserve judgement.
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I was watching the making of that album on Youtube as Pete was posting clips so it intrigued me than when it was released I didn’t pull the trigger on it.
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I guess I should have read ahead before I asked about The Who??
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Haha. I wouldn’t take my word for it cause I bought it for the collection really. Cause it was cheap. When I’m in a Who mood I’ll probably give it a fairer shake.
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Sounds like you have a lot as well. How is the new Who? Still haven’t heard it and honestly forgot about it.
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Nice Scores Fella..
Scott called it with building up your collection in case April has zip to offer. Which is ok I suppose as May will be here before we know it.
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Thanks. But I am going through withdrawal. It has been over 2 weeks since I hit a record store. I am going nuts!!
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Nice purchases.
Maybe the Kiss bootlegs will take the place of the weekly Vault series.
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I know one of them will as I have already written it. The Wicked Lester one…might hold on to that to kick off the next series.
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Really nice finds! Especially considering what is going on. My March was pretty dry. April will probably be the first month of my life since grade 11 without new music. Crazy.
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Do you have that Wicked Lester demo bootleg? I know April isn’t shaping up to have any purchases and I am feeling a little sad about that. I might buy from Amazon as there are somethings they are delivering if in stock.
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I do have one Wicked Lester demo bootleg. I know there are others but I have the common 10 song one with the sound leakage.
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Cool. This will be my kickoff album for the Kiss Series
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Awesome. Take it from me, that will be a popular series.
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We will see. I am on #29 or 30 for Coverdale and still a bunch left. I’m getting a little tired. I’m ready for a new series.
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For a month that wasn’t so great in the world, at least it was a month of good music investments, John!
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I was stocking up for the drought of April.
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I had a real quiet March:
Pearl Jam – Gigaton and a coloured variant of Silversun Pickup’s second album, Swoon… I’d been holding off a little as I’d earmarked a fair few from this year’s RSD which was gonna bump April up quite a bit. ‘Was’ being the operative word
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A couple nice pickups. Yeah, April was going to be huge for me with RSD and another Leppard release. Now, June will be huge…hopefully!!
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