April 2021 Challenge Thread

Day 16: Family Ties

Play a record/artist that was introduced to you by someone in your family or a close friend

My dad always had a big-ass radio on the kitchen counter and more times than not, it was tuned to WJRI on the AM dial every morning. That's where I discovered CCR.

Here's that big-ass radio and here's one of those CCR LPs I bought way back when,,,

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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country

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Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store

Showing love to independent shops on the day this year’s RSD was originally scheduled for (which I was gonna celebrate with RSD Past and Present themes for today and tomorrow, but this’ll do instead).

Play a record you bought from your local independent record shop!

Beck - Colors

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The indie-exclusive variant with a different cover on yellow vinyl.
 
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Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store
Play a record you bought from your local independent record shop!

I'm dumbly stubborn about how I get older records. Like it would be way easier to just buy a new pressing but there's something really fun about digging through an unsorted used bin and seeing what you want. Even better when you get a nice price cut off the usual probs. Thursday had a ridiculous drop. I grabbed a bunch of goodies, and had to leave some really bargain priced metal and jazz behind for my wallet's sanity. However, this one was under 10 in nice condition and it was time.

The Beatles - Abbey Road

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I remember my mom getting this on cassette back when it came out. Being quite young I didn't necessarily think too much of it at the time, but a dozen or so years later I became pretty obsessed with it and would play her tape every chance I got. This was a few years before they reissued the catalogue and Mom was worried about me wearing through her cassette so she dropped $50 on a used copy of the (then OOP) CD for me that Christmas. I was so shocked I'd emitted an instant, "Fuck off!!!" of surprise before remembering where I was and apologizing and thanking her at the same time. Fortunately she thought it was funny.

Since getting the record player last year, I've been coveting my Stepdad's immaculate OG pressing of the album, but he's not about to give his records up yet. In a bittersweet turn, my folks' neighbours of many years passed over the holidays and I inherited their small record collection which included this immaculate OG Canadian pressing. A sad circumstance to obtain it, but it brings many happy memories with it and keeps the legacy of longtime family friends with me.

Also, it's an absolutely amazing album.
 
Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store - Play a record you bought from your local independent record shop!

Scanned through my collection and ended up on this one. I went to one of my locals in Ottawa (Compact Music in the Glebe neighborhood to be specific) with the express purpose of getting this record shortly after its release. That would make it 2016 in April or May. Good people at that store and it's been too long since my last visit. Also, I wanted to spin this.

Parquet Courts "Human Performance" (2016 Rough Trade)

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Day 16: Family Ties
play a record/artist that was introduced to you by family/a close friend

Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs

This is an example of a recommendation that took a few years to have full effect. I was hanging out with one of my friends freshman year, and he was playing Pinback's "Penelope" on his guitar, and said I should check them out. I downloaded a few songs on Audiogalaxy, but then kind of forgot about them the next few years (in my defense, two of those years were a mission in a foreign country where I couldn't listen to music at all), but Summer in Abaddon came out right around when I got back to the U.S. and the name made some neurons and synapses do their things, and soon I was a big fan.

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Had to take a few days off from life lol but now I'm back and ready to catch up!!

Day 14 - Nice Package bro!

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Concernedape - Stardew Valley Soundtrack

Soundtrack to arguably my favorite game of all time. Love the amount of details from the game are on the package. Beautiful art perfectly fits the feel of the music
 
Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store
a record you bought from your local independent shop
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc
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I shop at my local record store here in Tacoma quite frequently and they a really solid shop but my favorite is Waiting Room Records in Normal, IL. They were my local records store back when I lived in Bloomington. I spent a lot of time back when I first started record collecting at Waiting Room, at the time the majority of the shop was CDs, they had a decent selection of used vinyl and a super tiny section on new vinyl. Most the new albums I picked up from them were special orders because that’s how things went back in the mid to late 2000s. I used to ride my bike over the Waiting Room and just kinda hang out for hours shooting the shit with the owner, Jared and his few employees. It was wonderful way to burn through a Saturday afternoon while my Girlfriend was working. I also ended up with lots of great records too!
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Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store
a record you bought from your local independent shop.

Paul Chambers Quartet - Bass on Top

One of my local stores usually has several Tone Poet pressings in stock. Picked this up a couple of weeks ago. One of my favorite TP reissues.

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Had to take a few days off from life lol but now I'm back and ready to catch up!!

Day 14 - Nice Package bro!

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Concernedape - Stardew Valley Soundtrack

Soundtrack to arguably my favorite game of all time. Love the amount of details from the game are on the package. Beautiful art perfectly fits the feel of the music
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This is neat! My wife used to play this game a lot a few years ago. I loved listening to the music as she played.
 
Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store

I picked this up a few years back from my local - it's not a store that usually carries things like Daevid Allen/Gong related stuff, so seeing it there in the new used bin was surprising.

Daevid Allen & Euterpe ‎– Good Morning
Virgin ‎– V 2054, 1976

Cut by Pete Norman
Plated by Eddy Gorecki

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Day 17: Support Your Local Record Store

Humphrey and The Dumptrucks - Six Days of Paper Ladies
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This was the first record I ever bought from my local shop (though I'd been buying CDs from them for years) - I was browsing the bargain bin after work one day and this piqued my interest, particularly the fact that a couple songs featured Canadian place names in the title (Calgary and Manitoba). A $7 risk that paid off - a lovely piece of Canadian prairie musical history. I have since acquired a couple more of their albums and very much enjoy them. Although, when I went to get a copy of this for a friend who enjoyed it immensely, hers cost me $24! But worth it.
 
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