May 2020 Record Challenge Thread (PRIZE RAFFLE AT THE END!)

Day 4: An album from your senior year of high school

Weezer - Pinkerton

Technically this was released a few months after I graduated, but it really became important to me a few years later. At this point I feel like I've outgrown it, but it meant a lot to me for a good decade. Also, this VMP copy is pretty, but it's warped to shit.
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GritNGlitter said:
Day 4: An album from your senior year of high school

Weezer - Pinkerton

Technically this was released a few months after I graduated, but it really became important to me a few years later. At this point I feel like I've outgrown it, but it meant a lot to me for a good decade. Also, this VMP copy is pretty, but it's warped to shit.
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LOL, I thought ya were gonna say this was your Spanish pick due to “El Scorcho”.
 
Day 6: Play a budget bin album

Told this story before, but it's too good to pass up.

Was out and about one Saturday morning with the wife and mother in law. We passed a yard sale. The ladies wanted to stop. I wasn't really into it, but I always keep mama happy so in we went. It was your usual run of the mill yard sale stuff and I wandered aimlessly as they looked around. I noticed one box of records half hidden under a table. Started flipping through them and was met with the usual fare - easy listening, gospel, etc. There were a couple I'd mildly consider buying mixed in but they were absolutely trashed.

I get to the last record. Whoa - what's this? Jacket has some wear, but is structurally sound. Says it's a mono pressing. It's probably the wrong record in there. And if it is in there, it's gonna be trashed. Hey, this record is in OK shape! Little edge warping but nothing that shouldn't play. It's the mono pressing. And I'll be damned - it's a white label promo copy. And it's 50¢.

Although this has no value on Discogs (it's apparently so rare one has never been sold), it's probably my single most valuable record. On the 'Cogs 17 people have a copy and 787 have it in their wantlist. The best 50¢ I ever spent.

The Doors - S/T Mono WLP

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DAY 6 - BUDGET BIN ALBUM
Blondie - Parallel Lines
A reminder that theres always gold to be found in budget bins. And that Blondie rocks. This pressing is 40+ years old, clearly used by the looks of the cover, and blows some pressings I've bought brand new recently out of the water. Truly a classic! 💙
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Day 5: Cinco de Mayo. Play an album by a Spanish speaking artist
It's still Cinco de Mayo here on the a West Coast

Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits

This should also be my budget bin spin, because it's a dollar record I got for free from the vinyl fortune teller at Jackpot Records on RSD 2016, but my other Ronstadt record is inaccessible right now.

No Spanish on this album, but she's a Spanish speaker/singer.
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Day 5 - bargain bin

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Sometimes buying records is just mystifying. I had long been looking for a proper zip cover of this record of this when I found this in the 99p bin in a London shop many years ago in fantastic condition for both cover and record. It's a very early 1971 UK pressing but not a first pressing. Sounds blooming great.

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Here’s my bargain bin album. I’ve played this albums a lot over the past few weeks. Andrew Gold - All This And Heaven Too. When I got it (for £1) it had a sticker on it from the 70s which said ‘SALE £1’ so it’s value hadn’t increased in over 30 years with inflation. Ridiculously it was still sealed, mint condition. And it is an AMAZING album, full of power pop classics. Two genuine hits, Never Let Her Slip Away and Thank You For Being A Friend, amongst a line up of brilliant Beatlesy songs. This one is my favourite



But really the whole album is awesome. I got his album before this, the one with Lonely Boy, in a similar condition for a similar price.

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Murfocakes said:
Here’s my bargain bin album. I’ve played this albums a lot over the past few weeks. Andrew Gold - All This And Heaven Too. When I got it (for £1) it had a sticker on it from the 70s which said ‘SALE £1’ so it’s value hadn’t increased in over 30 years with inflation. Ridiculously it was still sealed, mint condition. And it is an AMAZING album, full of power pop classics. Two genuine hits, Never Let Her Slip Away and Thank You For Being A Friend, amongst a line up of brilliant Beatlesy songs. This one is my favourite



But really the whole album is awesome. I got his album before this, the one with Lonely Boy, in a similar condition for a similar price.

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Awful album cover and title though. What must he have been thinking? No wonder it’s not given the credit it deserves.
 
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Day 6 Budget Bin Album

This is hard for me just because I have so many to choose from between the 10 for a dollar bin at the Philly flea market and my 1st experience with a record store ( was there for 37 years but just closed ) It was intimidating and a bit gross. Piles of records everywhere , not alphabetical, not by genre just random stacks 5 for 20 bucks. Some were scratched to hell most crackled and popped. It took hours to dig through for five clean records that Id play. This was one of my favorite finds because I love this album.EDD6C556-97A5-42A2-95E4-7C2843ED47C8.jpeg
 
Rahawk2 said:
Day 6 Budget Bin Album

This is hard for me just because I have so many to choose from between the 10 for a dollar bin at the Philly flea market and my 1st experience with a record store ( was there for 37 years but just closed ) It was intimidating and a bit gross. Piles of records everywhere , not alphabetical, not by genre just random stacks 5 for 20 bucks. Some were scratched to hell most crackled and popped. It took hours to dig through for five clean records that Id play. This was one of my favorite finds because I love this album.View attachment 45241
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Nothing sounds like Bat Out Of Hell.

Nothing....

.... except maybe Bat Out Of Hell II
 
Day 6: Play A Budget Bin Album

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong ‎– Ella And Louis (Verve, 1956 First US pressing) & (His Masters Voice, 1956 First UK pressing)

I was struggling what to choose for today, whether to take it as a commonly found budget record or a rarer record I found in a 'budget bin'. I have a near or complete collection of Queen, Bowie, etc records all of which I have paid around the £1 mark at carboots (I paid around 20p for a rare 'Hammer To Fall' 7" which was recalled and its now worth around £50). Instead I decided to hedge my bets and choose a record which is relatively easy to find at a low price, but which in itself should really be considered a prize find. The coming together of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong was such a big game changer in the world of music. The story goes that in 1956 Ella and Louis performed seperately a JATP performance at the Hollywood Bowl, which became the best-attended event of the venue’s history. A few days later and Noman Granz (founder of Verve) organised them to meet up, perform and record together for the first time and these recordings became 'Ella & Louis'. It rekindled interest in The Great American Songbook. Its a killer album and one which I imagine most people would be familiar with, even if they were not aware that the music came from this album. Both of my copies were picked up at carboot sales over the years for around £1 each, and I have in the past had several more copies from these carboots that I end up buying just to give away as gifts......everyone should have a copy!

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Day 6: Play a budget bin album

I don't do much digging, mostly all online shopping. This is one I did pick up at an antique shop that had a bunch of records.

Motown At The Hollywood Palace
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Jackson 5
Mary Wilson
Stevie Wonder


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Day 6: Play a budget bin album
Kate Bush - Never For Ever = Nunca Más (1980)

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Today was a tough one, because I don't usually buy used vinyl (I can count them with my hands), and I certainly don't check the bins here because they suck. They usually have Fausto Papetti, Julio Iglesias, shit like that nobody buys.
One day I went to a record store here, in Buenos Aires, that have only used stuff, usually expensive, most of the times not well cared. And suddenly i found this, Kate Bush's third album, Argentinian edition, with the titles translated into Spanish, for 3 dollars or something.
 
Murfocakes said:
Nothing sounds like Bat Out Of Hell.

Nothing....

.... except maybe Bat Out Of Hell II
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Have you heard any of Jim Steinman's solo albums? Sound just like Bat Out Of Hell - 1 and 2.

Some of the songs on his album Bad For Good eventually made it to BOOH 2. Meatloaf has actually covered most of the tracks on that album between BOOH 2 and 3
 
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