Fresh Grabs

After many years of pining for it, a copy of a personal grail of mine popped up for a not that horrible price on Discogs and so I bit. Atrocity Exhibition is in my opinion a masterpiece and among the best albums of the 2010s. And pink is my favorite color. So this being added to the collection was inevitable. I'm happy to have checked this off the list after so long and looking forward to giving it a spin tomorrow 🤗
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Selaws said:
So this is my birthday haul from Monday. Its a mixture of presents and a couple of packages which just so happen to arrive over the weekend.

Original Peter Utrecht Record Hunting Bag
Lee Morgan Sextet - Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1957 First Mono Pressing)
Tubby Hayes - Tubbs (Fontana, 1961 First Mono Pressing)
Tubby Hayes - Tubbs In N.Y. (Fontana, 1962 First Mono Pressing)
Donald Byrd - Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill (Transition, 1979 Japanese King Pressing)
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me (Blue Note/Analogue Productions 2012 Pressing)
Nathan Davis With Georges Arvanitas Trio - Live In Paris (Sam Records, 2018 Promo Pressing)
Bobby Jaspar - S/T (Barclay/Sam Records, 2019 Pressing)
Jef Gilson – Jef Gilson a Gaveau (SFP/Sam Records 2020 Pressing)

The bag is a fantastic gift from my amazing girlfriend, it holds 40 LP's, is made in England with real leather, double-layered canvas and has internal dividers - its just incredibly well made and looks fantastic. I will definitely be using this a lot at carboot sales, markets ect. The Lee Morgan Sextet is a HUGE find for me, it's his 3rd album as lead (after Indeed! and Introducing) and is really tricky to find at an affordable price, I completely lucked out with this one. I was talking to an Instagram user about how tricky it is to find original Tubby Hayes records and a day later a seller I had been chatting to previously, offered up these 2 at a fraction of their usual sale price. They are in stellar condition and the music just shows why Tubby became one of the UK's biggest jazz stars. I have been wanting to get a copy of Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill for ages but the original is just unobtainable. I found this Japanese King pressing at a great price (shipped from Japan as well) and its just an amazing session. On to a fantastically generous gift from our very own @Skalap. I was asking about the Nora Jones AP pressing on the Jazz thread the other day and Skalap swooped in and offered up this copy free of charge. He then covered the postage from France himself and even threw in a really nice note with some masterful artwork! Thanks so much again buddy! Finally, a package arrived from Sam Records to fill in the missing gaps in my collection, with a 3lp Nathan Davis Promo set, Bobby Jaspar's S/T, and their latest release of Jef Gilson (actually meant to be released at the end of August but this came early). Phew, what a great day!

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That's a great haul. The lIve in Paris is amazing, the rest I imagine are amazing :)

Who made the bag? it looks cool
 
I bought some cheap used CDs recently, and one was a copy of an older version of Slowdive's debut, which I was surprised to find like this:

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The seller was one of those big used CD sellers on eBay, so there's no way to know the story behind this or if it's legit, but I looked on discogs and there are no versions there of the album with signatures as part of the design, and it looks like ink... so I think I may have got a copy of a CD someone got signed at a show or something back in the day then sold or gave away later. I've had this happen with used books before, but it's a first for me for music.
 
LeSamourai said:
I bought some cheap used CDs recently, and one was a copy of an older version of Slowdive's debut, which I was surprised to find like this:

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The seller was one of those big used CD sellers on eBay, so there's no way to know the story behind this or if it's legit, but I looked on discogs and there are no versions there of the album with signatures as part of the design, and it looks like ink... so I think I may have got a copy of a CD someone got signed at a show or something back in the day then sold or gave away later. I've had this happen with used books before, but it's a first for me for music.
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It is weird that they didn't put that in the listing. In Nashville records stores I find all kinds of signed CD's. My best find though was a personalized copy of Joey Lawrence's Self Titled record. That has to be worth a ton right.
 
Twentytwo said:
It is weird that they didn't put that in the listing. In Nashville records stores I find all kinds of signed CD's. My best find though was a personalized copy of Joey Lawrence's Self Titled record. That has to be worth a ton right.
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I bought it from one of those pages on eBay with thousands of listings- I think they buy used CDs in bulk, then quickly inventory them and list them, with minimal checking- my guess is nobody even noticed. Definitely would be something a record store or individual seller should have noticed.
 
New 2XLP of Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura. I have heard this album... a few times in the last twenty years or so. In fact, it was one of only two cassettes I brought with me on a five-week Euro backpacking trip back in the '90s.

This pressing sounds fantastic. It always needed two discs on vinyl, and now HERE THEY ARE. Recommended, even if you already own a copy.
 
Bloodlemons said:
New 2XLP of Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura. I have heard this album... a few times in the last twenty years or so. In fact, it was one of only two cassettes I brought with me on a five-week Euro backpacking trip back in the '90s.

This pressing sounds fantastic. It always needed two discs on vinyl, and now HERE THEY ARE. Recommended, even if you already own a copy.
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I hope this mean I will be receiving mine soon too. Did you order direct from Matador?
 
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