MUSIC HAUL (CD / VINYL / DVD Purchases) 2015

Oh, I used my Dimple points and got that Deluxe edition for $7!!!!

Iron Maiden - Book of Souls
Doro - True at Heart

007 wrote:

Me too - both the deluxe and vinyl versions.

Sabaton - Carolus Rex

Like a slot machine with a broken handle, my local yokel thrift store keeps payin' off:

KISS - ALIVE! (2CD, old school version in "fat boy" double sized jewelcase - when's the last time you saw one of those?)

Also, this is kinda weird but kinda cool at the same time: when we walked into the store, there was a big pile of random junk in the front lobby. This is usually the so-called "free crap" pile, i.e. non-sellable stuff that's on its way out to the dumpster. Anyway, on top of the pile was a stack of albums. I noticed KISS' Rock and Roll Over sticking out and said to my 8 year old son "Cool, check this out dude, it's one of Dad's favorite KISS albums." I then realized that the sleeve was empty - no LP in it. The guy behind the counter sez "Yeah, they're all empty." I'm like "Who the hell donates record covers without the records?" My son suddenly pipes up "Can I take some? I can hang them on my bedroom wall!" That sounded like a neat idea (and a way to save some of these covers from becoming landfill) so I let him grab a handful (the counter guy was gonna give'em to him for nothing but I insisted on paying a quarter apiece for 'em). He came home with the covers to Maiden's Number of the Beast and Maiden Japan (!!), Twisted Sister's Ruff Cuts (!!), and KISS' Rock and Roll Over and Love Gun

Even cooler is when we got 'em home and were hanging them on his wall, we found vintage merchandise order forms inside the Number of the Beast and Love Gun sleeves. Way cool! Hey, there's no expiration date on this coupon for KISS merch - think I can still get a year's membership in the KISS Army for five bucks, a patch for a dollar, or the 1977 Tour Book for $3.00?

Cool little eBay vinyl haul that cost me £4+postage for the lot!

Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Raven - Stay Hard
Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes - Survival of the Fittest Live.
Reckless - Reckless
Mother's Finest - Another Mother Further
Pat Travers Band - Snortin Whiskey EP (this EP features both Tommy Aldridge and Nicko McBrain on drums on different tracks)
Metal Killers - Comp featuring Sabbath, UFO, Priest, Diamond Head, Accept, Twisted Sister, Tygers of Pan Tang, Nazareth & Quartz

Fat Freddy wrote:

Like a slot machine with a broken handle, my local yokel thrift store keeps payin' off:

KISS - ALIVE! (2CD, old school version in "fat boy" double sized jewelcase - when's the last time you saw one of those?)

Also, this is kinda weird but kinda cool at the same time: when we walked into the store, there was a big pile of random junk in the front lobby. This is usually the so-called "free crap" pile, i.e. non-sellable stuff that's on its way out to the dumpster. Anyway, on top of the pile was a stack of albums. I noticed KISS' Rock and Roll Over sticking out and said to my 8 year old son "Cool, check this out dude, it's one of Dad's favorite KISS albums." I then realized that the sleeve was empty - no LP in it. The guy behind the counter sez "Yeah, they're all empty." I'm like "Who the hell donates record covers without the records?" My son suddenly pipes up "Can I take some? I can hang them on my bedroom wall!" That sounded like a neat idea (and a way to save some of these covers from becoming landfill) so I let him grab a handful (the counter guy was gonna give'em to him for nothing but I insisted on paying a quarter apiece for 'em). He came home with the covers to Maiden's Number of the Beast and Maiden Japan (!!), Twisted Sister's Ruff Cuts (!!), and KISS' Rock and Roll Over and Love Gun

Even cooler is when we got 'em home and were hanging them on his wall, we found vintage merchandise order forms inside the Number of the Beast and Love Gun sleeves. Way cool! Hey, there's no expiration date on this coupon for KISS merch - think I can still get a year's membership in the KISS Army for five bucks, a patch for a dollar, or the 1977 Tour Book for $3.00?

That is seriously awesome! I have been trying to decide on an album to frame and hang up in the music basement at Sentinel HQ here, but I can't decide. Dang it! I only want to do one or two as I don's want to pepper the walls with albums. Plus the frames are like ten bucks a piece.

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That is seriously awesome! I have been trying to decide on an album to frame and hang up in the music basement at Sentinel HQ here, but I can't decide. Dang it! I only want to do one or two as I don's want to pepper the walls with albums. Plus the frames are like ten bucks a piece.

These covers were pretty well beaten up already so I am not gonna bother buying frames for them -- besides, they're in my 8 year old son's room. A thumb tack in each corner will do just fine. A month from now he'll probably be tired of looking at them and taken them down anyway

I still can't believe there were no LPs in any of those sleeves... I told my son if there had been records in the Maiden Japan and Ruff Cuts covers, I would've been buying them for ME!

Oceans Of Slumber - Blue

The Book Of Souls - Iron Maiden

Alcatrazz- No Parole for Rock n Roll
Alcatrazz- Live Sentence
Accept- I'm Rebel
Accept- Breaker
Joe Lynn Turner- Live in Germany

Some recent additions:

Circus Diablo - Circus Diablo
Alice Cooper- Hollywood Vampires
Free - The Best of Free
Hardcore Superstar - HCSS
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (Deluxe ed.)
Imelda May - Tribal
Orchid - Sign of the Witch
Red Lamb - Red Lamb
Reverend Horton Heat - The Full Custom Gospel Sounds...
Slayer - Repentless
Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper

Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox (Deluxe Edition 2 Discs)

the sentinel wrote:

Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox (Deluxe Edition 2 Discs)

Awesome. That's my favorite Thin Lizzy album.

Black Trip - Shadowline - Digipak
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls

A few more thrift store scores for a buck apiece:

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Unvarnished
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk

Slayer - Repentless (Limited Edition w/ dvd)

Barren Cross - Atomic Arena
Cavern - Outsiders
Deceased - Cadaver Traditions
The Fixx - Greatest Hits
Spiritu/Village Of Dead Roads - Human Failures
Starz - S/T
V/A - Hell's Headbangers Compilation Vol 8

Foreigner- Best of 4 and More ( re-recorded classics by the current line up)
Red Hot Chili Peppers- By the Way
Alice in Chains-Greatest Hits

Fat Freddy wrote:

A few more thrift store scores for a buck apiece:

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Unvarnished

Nice man. Such a killer record, and was easily in my top 3 of...was it 2013? Feels like it just came out last week. Ha. But yeah, love that album.

ZombieHavoc wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

A few more thrift store scores for a buck apiece:

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Unvarnished

Nice man. Such a killer record, and was easily in my top 3 of...was it 2013? Feels like it just came out last week. Ha. But yeah, love that album.

Yup, 2013. It looked like it had never even been played. There was even a little sheet of stickers (pix of some of Joan's past album covers) tucked inside the cover.

I gave it a first spin during this morning's commute, and Joan sounds just as bad-ass as ever.

nevermore wrote:

Oceans Of Slumber - Blue

How is that one?