Saturday, November 1, 2008

Chicago Record Store Adventure day!

Matt, Holly and I (Seth/tower) just got back from a 12 hour day of vinyl hunting. We'll post specific pics/reviews of every record store a bit later, but for now, I'm just going to post a list of what we got. We're watching High Fidelity right now, which I've never seen.

Matt & Holly aquisitions (17+2 cds):

The Beatles-Let it Be
The Beatles-The White Album
The Beatles-Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (yes, it was a good Beatles day for them. I've never listened to a Beatles album, and I don't really care).
Chipmunks Christmas
Snow Patrol-Final Straw (Import)
Dire Straights-Making Moves
Eric Clapton-461 Ocean Boulevard
The Who-Live at Leeds
Queen-The Game
Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes
U2-The Joshua Tree (original, not re-issue)
The National-Boxer
Frank Sinatra-20 Greatest Hits
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Okkervil River-The Stage Names
Eisley-Room Noises
Franz Ferdinand-Self Titled (used CD)
Franz Ferdinand-You Could Have it So Much Better (used CD)

Seth aquisitions (17 total):

Fleetwood Mac-Self Titled
Cover Me (artists covering Springsteen's songs...including Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, and The Hollies)
Kris Kristofferson-Me and Bobby McGee (yes, he had a singer/songwriter career before he starred in that one Vampire movie sequel)
John Denver-Back Home Again
Cheap Trick-at Budokan (live album)
2Pac-All Eyez On Me (promotional advance release)
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
Jay-Z-Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life
Kanye West-The College Dropout
Elton John-Greatest Hits (it was $.50)
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Gimme Back My Bullets
Special Advance Preview of Lynyrd Skynyrd's One More From the Road (promo record includes Gimme Three Steps, T for Texas, and an 11 and a half minute version of Freebird).
Bob Dylan-Slow Train Coming
Pat Benetar-Crimes of Passion
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Bruce Springsteen-Nebraska
Foo Fighters-One by One