MUSIC HAUL (CD / VINYL / DVD Purchases) 2012

All this talk about CD repair made me forget why I opened up this thread.

Movie Trading Company (used music/movie/video game store) had a buy two get one sale and despite the fact I shouldn't buy anymore stuff I took advantage of it. Spent $180 but I did get $75 worth of free CDs. No more CD spending for the rest of the month (except one more and only if Wal-Mart has it on the cheap) and I'm limiting purchases to a minimum. Not listing any prices but I got these:

Slayer-World Painted Blood
Emperor-In The Nightside Eclipse
George Bellas-Turn Of The Millenium
Chickenfoot-s/t
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Overkill-Coverkill
Sepultura-Roots
Cryptopsy-Once Was Not (WOW! listened to some of this and it must be some of the most brutal death metal I've ever heard)
Yngwie Malmsteen-Eclipse
Steely Dan-Can't Buy A Thrill
Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards
Uriah Heep-Magician's Birthday
Gamma Ray-No World Order (out-of-print, had to buy two DVDs to get this one for free)
Testament-The Gathering
Anacrusis-Suffering Hour
Graveworm-Engraved In Black
Hurricane-Over The Edge
King Diamond-House Of God
Evergrey-Monday Morning Apocalypse
Lou Gramm-Ready Or Not
Celtic Frost-To Mega Therion
Control Denied-The Fragile Art Of Existence

Bought this new:

Epica-Requiem For The Indifferent

DallasBlack wrote:

Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Steely Dan-Can't Buy A Thrill
Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards
Uriah Heep-Magician's Birthday
Anacrusis-Suffering Hour
Celtic Frost-To Mega Therion
Control Denied-The Fragile Art Of Existence

All of those albums are great there DB!

Hella nice haul there DB. Good thing you're single. If I dropped that much $$ on CDs in one shot my wife would staple-gun my nuts to my forehead.

If I may return to the CD-repair topic for a brief moment... the defective Alice Cooper disc seemed to rip to my PC with no problems, weirdly enough. So I figured if I had a copy ripped to my computer I had nothin' to lose by trying the urban legend about toothpaste buffing out CD scratches. So I busted out the Pepso-Dent, gave it a good buff, and rinsed it off...at the moment the disc is drying off and I'll report back on whether or not the surgery was successful when I get a chance.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Hella nice haul there DB. Good thing you're single. If I dropped that much $$ on CDs in one shot my wife would staple-gun my nuts to my forehead.

Yeah, being single does has it's advantages. However, if my dad, sister, or mom knew I spent Unemployment money on those, I'd be ripped a new one. They'd be right to do so, but luckily there is no way for them to find out unless I tell them, and I ain't saying nothing. I still wouldn't have spent all that had it not been that huge buy 2 get 1 sale. I need to reel in my spending and learn some dicipline. Luckily the amount of music I got today will hold me for quite a while and I don't plan on doing anything like that again for quite a long time (no more for the month and sparingly until I get a job).

Fat Freddy wrote:

If I may return to the CD-repair topic for a brief moment... the defective Alice Cooper disc seemed to rip to my PC with no problems, weirdly enough. So I figured if I had a copy ripped to my computer I had nothin' to lose by trying the urban legend about toothpaste buffing out CD scratches. So I busted out the Pepso-Dent, gave it a good buff, and rinsed it off...at the moment the disc is drying off and I'll report back on whether or not the surgery was successful when I get a chance.

...well I'll be damned. Believe it or not, I think this may have actually worked. Yes, folks, after a light buffing with some Pepso-Dent, a brief rinse, and some drying time, I put the CD in my DVD player (as I don't have a "plain" CD player in the house anymore), cued it up to the track where the skipping began, and...lo and behold, it played thru right to the end of the disc without any skips whatsoever.

I suppose the "true" test will be next time I play the CD in a "real" CD player, i.e. my car stereo or the (notoriously picky) portable player on my desk at work, but for right now I can give the toothpaste method a conditional "thumbs up." I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't tried it myself!!

DVD and blu ray players generally have better error correction than CD players.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

If I may return to the CD-repair topic for a brief moment... the defective Alice Cooper disc seemed to rip to my PC with no problems, weirdly enough. So I figured if I had a copy ripped to my computer I had nothin' to lose by trying the urban legend about toothpaste buffing out CD scratches. So I busted out the Pepso-Dent, gave it a good buff, and rinsed it off...at the moment the disc is drying off and I'll report back on whether or not the surgery was successful when I get a chance.

...well I'll be damned. Believe it or not, I think this may have actually worked. Yes, folks, after a light buffing with some Pepso-Dent, a brief rinse, and some drying time, I put the CD in my DVD player (as I don't have a "plain" CD player in the house anymore), cued it up to the track where the skipping began, and...lo and behold, it played thru right to the end of the disc without any skips whatsoever.

I suppose the "true" test will be next time I play the CD in a "real" CD player, i.e. my car stereo or the (notoriously picky) portable player on my desk at work, but for right now I can give the toothpaste method a conditional "thumbs up." I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't tried it myself!!

You should make a copy on CDR if you can. The bonus - it was free \m/

S.D. wrote:

DVD and blu ray players generally have better error correction than CD players.

Yeah, I kinda figured, which is why I am only giving the method a conditional "thumbs up" at the moment. We'll see what happens in my car stereo tomorrow.

thejokeriv wrote:

You should make a copy on CDR if you can. The bonus - it was free \m/

Oh yea, if I have to sh*tcan the actual disc, I plan to do that, just to have something to put in the jewelcase. Why let the inserts go to waste?

3 Inches of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal - Limited Edition with 3 bonus tracks

Jan-April 2012

Grave - Into the Grave
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Megadeth - Thirteen
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Anthrax - Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax
Anthrax - Worship Music
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death
Overkill - Under the Influence
Overkill - The Electric Age
Rainbow - Rising
White Wizzard - Flying Tigers

Shinedown - Amaryllis

Overkill - The Electric Age, CD/DVD
Accept - Stalingrad - Brothers In Death, CD/DVD
Lullacry - Where Angels Fear

Wargod

Lightin' Hopkins - Lightin's Love

Lately

Frehley's Comet - Live + 1
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Cranberries - Roses
Taylor Hawkings & The Coat Tail Riders- Red Light Fever
Beth Orton - Central Reservation
Skillet - Comatose Comes Alive

Power Quest- Blood Alliance

UFO - Phenomenon
UFO - Force It
UFO - No Heavy Petting
UFO - Lights Out
UFO - Obsession
UFO - Walk On Water

These are still in the mail....

UFO - Strangers in the Night
UFO - The Wild The Willing and the Innocent
UFO - Mechanix
UFO - Making Contact
UFO - Covenant
UFO - Sharks
UFO - You Are Here
UFO - The Monkey Puzzle
UFO - Seven Deadly
UFO - Misdemeanor

Heart - Little Queen
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Alice Cooper - School's Out

w/ Terry Brock on vocals

Addy wrote:

Lately
Taylor Hawkings & The Coat Tail Riders- Red Light Fever

I love that album. Kinda slipped under the radar, seeing how popular the Foos are. The debut is equally as good. If you haven't heard that one, grab it.

Queensryche- Dedicated to Chaos (deluxe)

Finally found it really cheap on amazon and picked it up with a gift card I got so I didn't actually have to spend money on it lol.

All Vinyl:
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - In Chicago (used, for a $1.99)

These others were 10 dollars for the lot at a yard sale, ya can't beat that!!!!
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin [IV](1971)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III(1970)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II(1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin(1969)
Neil Young - Harvest(1972)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King(1969)
Unicorn - Unicorn 2(1976)
B.B. King - Live in Cook County Jail(1971)
B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds(1970)
Love - Da Capo(1967)
Love - Love(1966)
Asia - Asia(1978)
T. Rex - Electric Warrior(1971)
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy(1976)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid(1970)
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality(1971)
Black Sabbath - Vol 4(1972)
Jack Teagarden & Bobby Hackett - Jazz Ultimate(1957)
Rory Gallagher - Photo-Finish(1978)

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine

Royal Hunt - Show Me How To Live

Somehow I missed the fact that DC Cooper is back in Royal Hunt.

tohostudios wrote:

Royal Hunt - Show Me How To Live

Somehow I missed the fact that DC Cooper is back in Royal Hunt.

I was wondering why you didnt say anything...

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Royal Hunt - Show Me How To Live

Somehow I missed the fact that DC Cooper is back in Royal Hunt.

I was wondering why you didnt say anything...

Too busy listening to glam/sleeze.