Welcome to the May Purchases review. I was worried that there wouldn’t be much to discuss as all the Record stores were closed, Amazon mentioned they wouldn’t be delivering records, but all that started to end and the world started opening back up. Now, I didn’t make as many purchases as usual and that is okay. One purchase this month was rather large and has kept me busy.
First up for this month is another Kiss album. Believe it or not, I haven’t bought them all yet. I am down to about 6 or 7 vinyls that I do not have and this month I picked up one of them. The album is ‘Sonic Boom’ and I have been searching for this one for a while. If you find one of the original pressing, it is well over $100 as there were so few of them. Thankfully, I finally discovered that there was a special release done by KissOnline a few years back and the price of those is so much better at around $30 (with shipping). So, I grabbed a nice one unopened, green vinyl. It is sweet!!
Then a week or so later, I was snooping around on eBay and I found a seller that was selling a bunch of CDs by Jeff Scott Soto and I am a huge fan of his. I used to have a bunch of his CDs, but gave them away years ago when we moved from one state to another….Dumb move…the CD part, not the actual move. I bought as much of his collection as my budget would allow. It had 13 CDs, but there were actually 15 separate albums as some had 2 albums in one. Do you want me to list them all?? Of course you do…
- Talisman – Life
- Talisman – 5 Out of 5
- Talisman – Live at the Sweden Rock Festival
- Talisman – Humanimal (2CD set)
- Talisman – Cats & Dogs
- Talisman – Truth
- Jeff Scott Soto – Live at Firefest 2008
- Jeff Scott Soto – Believe in Me E.P.
- Jeff Scott Soto – Prism
- Jeff Scott Soto – Love Parade
- Human Clay – Human Clay
- Human Clay U4ia
- Soto – Inside the Vertigo
- Soto – Divak
And there is another I picked up on Amazon, not pictured…Jeff Scott Soto – Retribution. That is a lot of Jeff and sadly, only a small sampling of what he has done. I am still missing 15-20 more that I want of his since he has more solo stuff, more Talisman stuff, more Soto, there is W.E.T., Eyes, Takara, Axel Rudi Pell and Sons of Apollo still waiting to be bought.
And that is it. Not much vinyl this month, but that is okay. I will make up for it in June I am sure when I go out and finally do some crate digging for some old vinyl. Plus, I have some Def Leppard coming and a new Whitesnake that will be in my June collection as they are already pre-ordered. Until next month! Happy collecting!
I love Sonic Boom. So consistent all the way through.
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It is better than I remember.
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Lots of Soto John. That green KISS vinyl is cool. Great stuff. So much Soto, so little time. lol
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That is a true statement. I am still not through all of them yet. I still have a few live albums to get through, but priority are albums I am writing about for the blog.
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Excellent scores! Also, “Do you want me to list them all?? Of course you do…” Haha you know it!
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Thanks. And yeah, of course you do.. Why’d I even ask!!!
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Only missing 6 or 7 Kiss vinyl? Well done, that’s not an easy task to be a Kiss collector.
And when you can find a version of the LP for a fraction of the price, and in green no less, even better!
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I now have all the Studio albums except an alt cover of Creatures (I have the original). Everything else is either Live or a Greatest Hits set. And what is left is quite pricey…well some of them are and those will be holy grail items.
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Nice find on JSS. He’s had such a journey hasn’t he.
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Yes he has. And I would say most of it his catalog is solid. Not too many misses for me.
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