Return to the Charity Shops

I took a quick lunchtime trip to the charity shops today and, at first, I thought it was slim pickings, but after some digging I managed to pick up some decent CD’s. They work out at £0.44 each (that’s 27 for £12). At those prices its easy to take risks and I found several albums that just looked interesting or that I had vaguely heard of, so I got them.

1	Stealing Sheep – Into The Diamond Sun
2	Milagres – Glowing Mouth
3	Underworld – Second Toughest In The Infants
4	The Ordinary Boys – Brassbound
5	Jonquil – Point Of Go
6	The Redwalls – De Nova
7	The Black Eyed Peas – Elephunk
8	The Mooney Suzuki – Alive & Amplified
9	Diagrams – Black Light
10	INXS – Kick
11	The Horrors – Strange House
12	Mercury Rev – Yerself Is Steam
13	Tricky – Maxinquaye
14	Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood
15	Walter Schreifels – An Open Letter To The Scene
16	Kraftwerk – The Mix
17	This Mortal Coil – Filigree & Shadow
18	The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust
19	Biosphere – Patashnik
20	Pulp – This Is Hardcore
21	Philip Glass – Glassworks
22	R.E.M. – Monster
23	Joss Stone – Introducing Joss Stone
24	Faithless – The Dance
25	Various – True Blood (Music From The HBO Original Series)
26	The Feeling – Join With Us
27	Basement Jaxx – The Singles

I’m currently listening to Biosphere – Patashnik, which is really very creepy, but I like it.

Some of the others I’ve never heard of but it looked like somebody had donated a set of rather obscure CD’s and I thought I’d give them a go, these being Stealing Sheep, Milagres, Jonquil, The Redwalls and Diagrams. It can be quite rewarding going into something cold, but it can also be the opposite.

Just after Christmas I popped into the local used record store, who don’t really do CD’s but had a box at 4 for £1 so I had a dig through that and came away with these;

1	PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
2	The The – Mind Bomb
3	The The – Hanky Panky
4	The Kills – Keep On Your Mean Side
5	Juliette & The Licks – …Like A Bolt Of Lightning
6	Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
7	The Fall – Code: Selfish
8	Stereophonics – Language.Sex.Violence.Other?
9	Supergrass – Supergrass
10	Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
11	Santogold – Santogold
12	Radiohead – Pablo Honey
13	Blakroc – Blakroc
14	Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
15	Bent – The Everlasting Blink
16	The The – Infected

For £4 I was quite pleased, an emotion enhanced by the £15.99 HMV stickers on some of the CD’s.

The week before that I visited several charity shops in Banbury and picked up these:

1	Erykah Badu – Mama’s Gun
2	Tori Amos – Tales Of A Librarian (A Tori Amos Collection)
3	Blur – Leisure
4	Radiohead – Kid A
5	Blur – 13
6	Catatonia – Equally Cursed And Blessed
7	Plaid – Spokes
8	Moloko – I Am Not A Doctor
9	Seal – Soul
10	Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
11	Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
12	Willy Mason – Where The Humans Eat
13	Dirty Vegas – Dirty Vegas
14	Paul Weller – Heliocentric
15	Robyn – Body Talk
16	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
17	Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3
18	Mystery Jets – Making Dens
19	Kate Nash – Made Of Bricks
20	Justin Timberlake – Justified
21	Eminem – Encore
22	Editors – The Back Room
23	Turin Brakes – The Optimist  LP
24	The Psychedelic Furs – Heaven (The Best Of The Psychedelic Furs)
25	Michael Bubl̩ РCrazy Love
26	Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D
27	Gorillaz – Demon Days
28	Jarvis Cocker – The Jarvis Cocker Record
29	White Town – Women In Technology
30	Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
31	Cast – All Change
32	The Hoosiers – & The Trick To Life
33	Oasis (2) – Don’t Believe The Truth
34	George Michael – Patience
35	The Beatles – 1
36	Various – Juno (Music From The Motion Picture)
37	Jason Mraz – We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
38	Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts
39	Kasabian – Empire
40	Suede – Singles

I can’t remember quite how much they were now, about £18 I think and there are many there I never would have picked up at full price but the album that I think I was most pleased with out of this lot was
Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus.

I think it has now become a thing that, wherever I may be, I will pop into charity shops and have a dig around to see what CD’s they have on offer, there are often a lot of surprises waiting.