Another month gone by and a lot more purchases. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but my CD purchases have skyrocketed over the last few months. I have been to a bunch of shops that have CDs and have them cheap so I can’t help myself. However, this first batch of CDs is not from a shop. They are mostly from Amazon as my kids gave me an Amazon gift card for Father’s Day as they weren’t sure what I didn’t have (which is a valid point). So with these cards I continued my Jeff Scott Soto Collection and picked up 6 more discs (okay, one was from ebay).
I picked up Jeff Scott Soto – “Essential Ballads”; Soul Sirkus – “World Play”, W.E.T. – “W.E.T.” and “Earthrage”, SOTO – “Orgami” which is the last of the SOTO collection, and Talisman – “Talisman”. This brings me up to over 20+ now in the JSS collection and still about 20+ more to go.
Next up, my wife wanted to run back to 2nd & Charles as she needed some books and I of course wanted to tag along as they have a great used CD collection and I always find something interesting and this time was no different. I picked up a Bootleg Robbie Williams 2 CD compilation from Japan. It is called Sexed Up and it has been outlawed for sale by Discogs, but I saw one an eBay for about $30+. I payed about $3. It is an HDCD, whatever that means.
But that wasn’t the only thing I bought from there as they had a sale where you buy 2, get one free. I picked up 8 more discs including 2 more Robbie Williams CDs, 3 Oasis CDs, Ozzy’s Just Say Ozzy E.P., Candlebox’s “Lucy” and Jude Cole’s “I Don’t Know Why I Act This Way”. Not a bad haul.
And on the way home, my wife saw Noble Records and asked if I wanted to stop in, and of course I said yes. She is so awesome!! I did a little damage there as well. I picked up 2 more CDs – Cheap Trick’s “At Budokon: The Complete Concert” CD set and Thriving Ivory’s “Through Yourself & Back Again”.
I did get vinyl while I was there as well. I picked up Deep Purple’s ‘Machine Head’ and ZZ Top’s “La Futura” because I saw the documentary on Netflix and needed this album as I didn’t have it as I’m now on a ZZ Top kick.
The next thing that was purchased was neither vinyl nor CD. I have started my new obsession, Kiss Tour Books and first up is this one…not going to talk about it as I already have a post coming in August going in full detail…
And that is it…until next month
2 Loud 2 Old Music 
Excellent effort, combining both old (shop) and new technologies. Aren’t gift cards wonderful!?
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Yes, gift cards are great. I try to do most from local record shops, but sometimes the deals on Amazon are too good to pass up.
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Some good deals here. The Ozzy’s the pick of the bunch to me. I got Deep Purple Live in Newcastle just recently
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Deep Purple live is always a good thing.
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The world and artists need more buyers like ya.
Thriving Ivory hey. Now that’s a band I haven’t heard in ages.
Some great scores man.
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Thanks. Yes, I am keeping the economy moving.
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Great Scores Indeed!
La Futura is an excellent ZZ album and your Jeff Scott Soto collection just keeps ongoing. I think you should change your name to John Scott Soto! JSS sounds good, doesn’t it?
Great stuff as always dude. Special bonus points for Be Here Now by Oasis. Thats a great record as well.
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Thanks. I think I’ll keep my name for now as I would need to change the monograms on all my towels and underwear. And I didn’t realize I was getting pints for my purchases. Nice.
And next month I believe it will be vinyl heavy month as I’ve bought a few already on my vacation plus all the ones on preorder that are coming during August.
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Towels and Gitch with your initials!
Course what was I thinking!!
Look forward to your August scores
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Ha! 😂
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Nice to see a few oasis cds join the collection!
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I used to have them all years ago and I figured it was time to add them back, plus CDs are way cheaper than their vinyl.
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Man, I hear you on the CDs. They are so cheap now! And eBay is OK if you can find a deal. I picked up two CDs from my teen years for $1.20. I had to pay $10 shipping, but shipping in Canada is insane. So many albums from the ’90s only got a limited pressing on vinyl and they are so expensive now. Actually, all vinyl has become crazy expensive now.
I do still need to get that ZZ Top album. It’s 8 years old already!
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NICE Oasis scores. That brings a smile to my face. You got two great albums and one that I don’t have any impressions of. Be Here Now takes TIME. Took me at least 5 years to like it.
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Ha. I like that one so It won’t take me five years.
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That Robbie Williams, that’s the one with Nicole Kidman?
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That song is on it. Something Stupid is the song I believe.
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