Welcome to the November 2022 Purchases update. You will notice that my cover picture is a little different this month. Normally, I have all my purchases stacked on top of the turntable, but there was a problem this time around. My cat, Chandler, decided it was nap time and wouldn’t move. Actually, Chandler naps up there a lot when I am working from home so no big surprise. So, I didn’t want to disturb him as he needs his beauty sleep so I took a picture of him instead. Believe it or not, he is still a kitten as he is only 9 months old. Once full grown he will be 20-25 lbs and won’t be able to fit on the turntable so I am letting him enjoy it while he can.
Okay, enough of that. Let us get to the real reason we are here…the music. And what did I get this month. I will say it was a better month than last one as I went a little nuts on the vinyl this time around and very little on the CDs. First up, I have been holding off on buying Def Leppard stuff on vinyl because I want to see what is in the Collection, Volume 4, but I’m tired of waiting and I realize it is generally not any one specific live album that has already been released, so I bought these three things so I finally had them on vinyl.
Now, I did hit one real record store this month, but didn’t score a bunch. The only thing I picked up from Mad Jack’s are a couple of Asia albums that I didn’t have in my collection for some strange reason. And they were clean!
I was going to buy a cassette from Mad Jack’s as well, but instead he gave it to me for free…see if you can figure out why that was the case…
And then my daughter and I hit up 2nd & Charles as she wanted to find some more books to read (and not for school, just read…wow!!). I grabbed a couple of CDs missing I am not sure why I didn’t already have and yes, the Rush one is upside but I’m too tired to fix it.
And then I grabbed a bunch of albums from Disturbed…does that make me disturbed…which I am…
Now, as you know, I’m a Billy Idol fan and his latest E.P., The Cage, is finally out on vinyl. The CD and digital versions have been out for a couple months, but I needed the vinyl. And it is awesome, btw!!
The next thing I got was a total surprise. My brother-in-law, Ryan, works with Stone Temple Pilots, and he has helped mix a lot of the live songs for these reissues they’ve been doing (amongst other things), he received from the band a handful of these boxsets and being the great BIL he is, he brought me a copy. It is the 4 LP Deluxe Box Set of the STP album Core and let me tell you, it is sweet!!! It was a very pleasant surprise!!
And lastly, it is the Super Deluxe Box Set for one of my favorite Kiss album, ‘Creatures of the Night’. I will get to this eventually and give you all the detail as there is so much great stuff in this thing. I can’t wait to show it off…
And that is everything for November. I already have a few things on pre-order for December, plus a few things on order that haven’t come in yet and then hopefully I’ll get stuff for Christmas, so we will see what December brings us…I have high hopes.
Here is everything in one shot as I like to do that…
2 Loud 2 Old Music 
The Kiss, Idol and STP stuff is like Xmas in November. Looking forward to your Creatures box set post.
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Ho Ho Ho! It did feel like an early Christmas.
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Christmas came early! Great stuff and those Lep records are sexy. I just got the Creatures set the other day so I’ve been delving into that. I got the Celtic Frost box set a while back and the recent Hendrix in LA thing but I think that’s been about it for Nov.
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Sounds like you had Christmas a little early as well. Great stuff!
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I hope you enjoy Rush. Many of us feel it is the best final album by a band.
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Nice! I look forward to playing it and finding out.
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I really sincerely hope you like it. Pay attention to the song The Wreckers — absolutely love that one. It’s the part of the story when the protagonist is lost at least and encounters a group of scavengers called The Wreckers.
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Awesome that your daughter likes to read physical copies of books! Awesome scores as I’m still going through that KISS set. Massive
Lots of cool finds here John!
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I’m stunned and so proud that she is in to reading now. Way earlier then when I got in to it.
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Funny, I just listened to Asia yesterday..Spirit Of The Night: The Phoenix Tour Live In Cambridge 2009.
Cool finds. Looking forward to your Creatures review.
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I haven’t even done the Destroyer Box Set review. I will get to both of them soon enough. In December, there will be a show diving in to the Creatures set though.
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those Def leps I might have to add to my list! and Asia! always forget about them
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Yeah, you might need to do that. I have the CD box set of those, but with Lep, I am collecting both Vinyl and CDs (and cassettes, laserdiscs, vhs, dvd…okay anything I can get).
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Chandler Bing is sooo cute, hope you’ll find a kitten named Monica later. How comes the K7 is in the wrong case ?
I love the STP one, the KISS one, and the Leps ones. These live albums really rock
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Thanks. Chandler does have a brother…and he is Joey!!
Don’t know why the Kiss tapes were screwed up and neither did the owner which was why he just let me have it.
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That’s some quality and quantity there.
I picked up both Billy Idol EPs this month, as well as Rebel Yell and the self titled remasters. Good call on those EPs. Billy is in fine form.
My Flaming Lips and Cure reissues finally arrived. I’ll be blasting them in the CD player tomorrow. Enjoy your November haul!
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Sounds like you had a good month too. Glad you like the Idol stuff. Not a Flaming Lips fan, but the Cure reissue sounds like that might be good to get. Let us know how both of those are.
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Great scores. The STP box is lovely.
Also, KITTEH! 20-25 lbs? Maine Coon or something? Our kitten, Lucy, is about 5-6 months old and still bonkers. Hoping she calms down at some point, it’s exhausting lol
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Chandler is a Ragdoll. His uncle who we also have is a month younger and we named him Joey! They will both be pretty large and are so much fun. Wild and Crazy at times.
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Wait, the uncle is younger?
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By a month.
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It must be early because that hurts my head lol.
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It’s easy. Chandler’s Grandfather is Joey’s dad. Chandler was born in February, but Joey wasn’t born until March. Therefor the Nephew is a Month older than the Uncle. Easy!! LOL!!
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Geneaology fries my brain. I’m more from the Spaceballs school: “I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.” What does that make me? Absolutely nothing, er, absolutely unable to think through familial connections.
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LOL!!
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Chandler is beautiful!
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Thanks. Sadly, he knows it.
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DEF LEPPARD!!!! 🙂
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No. What was you most listened to artist of 22?
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Oh screw Spotify! I love Def Leppard more lol.
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That is coming but BJ will start first.
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So you are doing a Bon Jovi review series? I know you ranked their catalog a few years ago, that’s why.
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I did, but never did a full on review of their albums and figured it was about time. It will have all of Richie’s stuff too!
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You mean Richie’s solo albums?
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