I hope you guys have had an excellent Christmas break, mine's been pretty dope as you can see. On the 21st, I started driving back home to the East Coast from Minnesota, and throughout the two days it took to get home, I took a couple stops at used bookstores and record stores. This post will detail every release I either picked up or received in the mail from the 21st to now, the beginning of the new year. I'll also list things that are still coming, but I won't be able to have in my hands until I go back to Minnesota, because Buyee is on break until the 5th, and I begin the trip back on the 8th.
IN-PERSON PICKUPS (aka my stuff from America)
Primus
Green Naugahyde
Primus & The Chocolate Factory
(I meant to grab Green Naugahyde back when it first came out, but never got around to it. Better late than never.)
De La Soul
Buhloone Mindstate
Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump
(It's insane how hard it is to find De La Soul CDs around here. I was especially bummed that I couldn't find a copy of my favorite DLS album Stakes Is High, but that's life.)
Wu-Tang Clan
A Better Tomorrow
(Jesus fuck, that chorus on Miracle... whyyyy, RZA? WHYYYY?)
Das EFX
Dead Serious
(LOVED this album when I first heard it, glad I finally have it.)
The Roots
Phrenology (CD/DVD Special Edition)
(Didn't top Things Fall Apart or Illadelph Halflife for me, personally, but still really cool.)
Mos Def
Black On Both Sides
(This would have been a much better introductory album to Mos Def than The New Danger, it's much more musically consistent. I mean, I still like The New Danger fine enough, but this is objectively better.)
Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue
(It's kind of a necessity to own this album in some form if you're a music collector, so here we go with that. Amazing stuff.)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Journey Of Dreams
(Easily my most out of left field pickup during this trip... it's quite soothing to listen to, actually!)
A Flock Of Seagulls
A Flock Of Seagulls (US Tracklisting)
(It was a ridiculous challenge finding any new wave anywhere here... and I didn't learn until it was too late that this is actually a screwed-around-with tracklisting. Oh well. I'll track down the remastered edition later.)
MAIL PICKUPS (aka my stuff from Japan)
Up Hold
The Unbleached
Answer
Water
Fork
Engine
(As usual with my Japanese stuff, expect more in-depth articles on these soon.)
Back Drop Bomb
The New South Hand Blows And North Kick Blows
Micromaximum
(Ditto for this, especially with the AA= connection.)
STILL INCOMING IN THE MAIL
To Be Continued
Bitter Sweet Love
Beyond The Light...
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Chicken Zombies
Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter
In addition to all this, I found a Record Store Day cassette edition of Awesome Mix Vol. 1, of course better known as the soundtrack to Guardians Of The Galaxy. Since Guardians was one of my favorite movies of the year, I was really stoked to grab this for the price I grabbed it at.
It's very unlikely that I'll be doing any articles about most of my in-person pickups, because outside of doing a review of the album, I wouldn't really have that much to talk about/space out the pictures. I've been in the process of uploading a bunch of Up Hold's stuff to YouTube, so I can fill the upcoming articles on those with music links, so check those out as I get ready to begin this new year with a buttload of fresh writeups.
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