Welcome to my monthly wrap-up of all my purchases for the month. Now I am cheating as there are a number of items that came in at the end of August after I had already done my August post and I wasn’t about to go update that and have to change a few pictures so they will start out our September update.
First up is an brand new album from one of my favorite bands, Needtobreathe. Their new album came out on Friday, August 28th and luckily I got release day delivery and it came with a CD. I have already done a review (Click Here) and an update to their Album Rankings will be coming shortly.
August 29th was the first 3 of RSD days for 2020. As you know, due to Covid the April Record Store Day was delayed until June and then split in to 3 days in hopes of decreasing the # of people showing up on the day of release. The first one of these 3 days was August 29th and there will be one in September and October and if I am not mistaken, November will still see the normal Black Friday RSD. I tried to keep this one simple and I only bought 4 albums, one of which was for my daughter. I bought an Ace Frehley album, Collective Soul and a Def Leppard one. The album for my daughter was a live album by Billie Eilish (I will probably listen to it as well as she is quite interesting.
And I guess it wasn’t the only thing I bought as it was raining and he let everyone come in early, but he couldn’t actually ring us up until 8 and it was around 7:30. So after we got to pick out or RSD items, I had time to walk around the store and see if there was anything else. I wasn’t going to actually buy anything else as I spent enough on the above. If you follow the site you know I have started collecting Kiss Tour Books. I picked up a Bon Jovi one when I was out and I wasn’t looking to do anyone else other than Kiss. Well, Repo Records had a Bon Jovi Tour Book from 2011. And you guessed it. I bought it. I will do a full review of this soon.
Normally on Record Store Day, Repo Records gives us a goody bag. This year he didn’t have a goody bag (Sad face)…No, he had a goody album cover…WTF? He had old useless album covers and inside he had a Record Mat for your turntable, a sticker, an RSD guitar pick and a button of someone but I have no idea. And that was it…wasn’t much.
And that was it for RSD, but on the same day I had delivered another item from Needtobreathe. I was on eBay only about 3 days earlier and checking to see if any of their rare Fan Club Insider CDs were for sale. You can only purchase these if you sign up for their fan club and pay the annual premium of like $60. I hadn’t done that up until this year so the new one will come in December, but I have been trying to find these on eBay or Discogs at reasonable prices (something less than $60…and I did). I got my second one, Volume 5, for $25…yeah me!! And within a week, I found another one for $27 after eBay was kind enough to give me a $25 Off coupon for being a member since the beginning of eBay. That is two for less than a year membership for one. Not bad!!!
Next up was an album I ordered back in June or so and when it was released in August, Amazon apparently ran out so I had to wait and wait to finally get it. My local record store had it but sold out so I kept waiting, plus Amazon’s price was only $16 so I was willing to wait. It is the self-titled album from Collective Soul that was finally issued on vinyl to celebrate its 25th Anniversary.
I forget what day, but the kids wanted to get out of the house and so we took a ride over to 2nd & Charles, the whole family, and we all searched for books or music or movies or whatever floated our boat. I found one item that I needed for my collection and at $8, it was a steal. Peter Criss’ book ‘Makeup to Breakup’ another book in my long list of Kiss books I have to get through.
Next up is an autographed copy of the Storm Force album ‘Age of Fear’. My fellow bloggers Deke and LeBrain have raved about this album and then during LeBrain’s live stream on Facebook, the boys from the band joined him and Deke and talked for an hour on a fun-filled Friday night. I thought that was really cool of the guys so I supported them by buying this. You should do the same.
And then something else popped up. I was on Amazon and I saw Art Alexakis’ solo album for only $8 and free shipping so since I am fan of Everclear, I jumped on it. It came quick and is below…
And finally we get to the 2nd Record Store Day and this was just this past Saturday on Sept. 25th. I picked up three things including The Alarm’s Celtic Folklore Live, a Mott the Hoople compilation called The Golden Age of Rock and Roll and then a live album from Hootie & the Blowfish. That one wasn’t on my list, but when I saw it and that it was from 1995, their heyday.
And like last time at Repo, they let us in before they could check us out and it gave us time to look around and shop. Let me tell you that is never a good thing. The first thing I found was a 7″ Kiss single for Beth and Detroit Rock City and then it was a bootleg from Van Halen for the Women And Children First Sessions full of the demos. I’m a sucker for that stuff….
And Repo gave out his typical swag….at least the mat was a different color this time…
And that is everything…yes, that was plenty. Here it all is in one big picture…
Thanks for stopping by. I already have a few things coming for October and there is another Record Store Day so shaping up to be another big month.
Age of Fear was a great album. I will be raving about it too.
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Yeah, it looks like you liked it!! Me too! Great review btw!!
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A great haul!
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Thanks
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Great stuff Sir!
Really am pleased you took the gamble and purchased Age of Fear John. Awesome stuff and hey at least you can get out to a RSD…
Lots of good stuff let’s see what October brings..
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I read the Peter Criss book…I really liked it.
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I hadn’t read it before and saw it and figured, why not!
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I’ve read his and Ace’s…those are my two favorite members.
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How is the Van Halen bootleg? Is it a good soundboard recording?
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It is awesome. I’m actually listening to it now. It is demos mostly from the Women & Children First Sessions and I love demos. Plus 3 bonus tracks of covers and rare demos from other albums. It is pretty cool.
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Nice! I’m going to have to check it out.
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Love your work. Great stuff.
The Collective Soul album finally came in.
And the Storm Force record is pretty good.
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Thanks. Yes, the CS album finally arrived and is still as great as ever!!
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The Bon Jovi tour book looks interesting, especially knowing that Richie was still in the band back in 2011. I know he went to rehab a few times, but I can’t remember when.
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I believe it was around 2011-2013.
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Oh I thought those tour books only cover one year?
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They toured red for a couple years and I couldn’t find another book that was different so that is why I gave a couple years as the range as I wasn’t sure.
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Either way, you picked out some great stuff in September. I love these album and vinyl purchases posts, with the technology age, I’m glad people still buy those things.
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Someone has to buy it, so might as well be me.
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How do you still have money for concerts though? I mean I know there are none right now, but how do you have money to buy those records and concert tickets all together?!?!? Especially since it looks like you have a massive collection.
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Luckily, no concerts right now. And then I don’t buy as much when there is a show. I had tickets to see Sammy Hagar/Whitesnake in July and got a refund on that so that went to good use on music.
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Ah I see! So the money never went to waste, sorry you didn’t get to see Sammy and Whitesnake this summer, that would’ve been a good show!
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You sir had a darn good month. When I break in to steal the Vault, I’m taking that Leppard too.
I’m going to have to pay what toy collectors call the “Late Tax”. That’s the price you pay on the secondary market if you didn’t get one the day it came out.
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I’m still waiting on you to take it. Yeah, I end up doing that “late tax” on occasion. Especially on some CDs I’m trying to get back in my collection that are out of print now.
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The collective soul album, a nice record at a nice price!
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Can’t beat that price.
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