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 Bublé – Crazy 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.