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Purchase log, 2024-02-27

[Nakamori Akina - CRUISE]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment
  • Big Star, Third / Sister Lovers
  • Daniel Bedingfield, Gotta Get Thru This
  • Janelle Monáe, The ArchAndroid
  • Marilyn Manson, Smells Like Children
  • Matt Pond PA, Emblems
  • Robbie Williams, Rudebox
Vinyl
  • Olivia Rodrigo, GUTS
  • The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
  • Tyler Childers, Rustlin’ in the Rain

Reissues

CD
  • Nakamori Akina, CRUISE (2024 Lacquer Master Sound)
  • Nakamori Akina, Fushigi (2023 Lacquer Master Sound)
  • Taylor Swift, Midnights (The Late Night Edition)

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Purchase log, 2023-10-31

[Bruce Springsteen - Japanese Singles Collection]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Duran Duran, Danse Macabre
  • Jamila Woods, Water Made Us
  • Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
  • The Streets, The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light
Vinyl
  • Duran Duran, Danse Macabre
Files
  • Eponymous 4, Kenboushou

Catalog

CD
  • Lucinda Willians, Ramblin’
  • Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint
  • The Donnas, Bitchin’
Vinyl
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Yanqui X.O.
  • Slint, Tweez

Reissues

CD
  • Bruce Springsteen, Japanese Singles Collection
  • Prince and the New Power Generation, Diamonds and Pearls (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyl
  • Prince and the New Power Generation, Diamonds and Pearls

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Purchase log, 2023-04-25

[Carlos Ponce - Carlos Ponce]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Everything But the Girl, Fuse
Vinyl
  • Amanda Shires, Live from Columbia Studio A
  • Hüsker Dü, Tonite Longhorn
  • Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, The Sound Emporium EP
  • Taylor Swift, folklore: the long pond studio session

Catalog

CD
  • Carlos Ponce, Carlos Ponce
  • Maná, ¿Dónde Jugarán los Niños?
  • Moya Brennan, Two Horizons
Vinyl
  • Anderson .Paak, Venice
  • Outkast, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
  • Radiohead, OK Computer

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Craig Armstrong, As If to Nothing
  • Duran Duran, Rio Carnival
  • M, “Pop Muzik”
  • Nena, 99 Luftballons (40th Anniversary EP)
  • The Donnas, Early Singles 1995-1999
  • The Magnetic Fields, I
  • Tom Tom Club, Tom Tom Club (Expanded Edition)
  • TV Mania, Bored with Prozac and the Internet?
  • Wilco, Crosseyed Strangers: An Alternate Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

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Purchase log picks, fourth quarter 2022

[Taylor Swift - Midnights]

Hilary Hahn, Eclipse

Jesus, that Ginastera concerto is a monster!

Taylor Swift, Midnights

I don’t know if Taylor Swift has a Dirty Computer or Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana in her, but it feels like she’s tip-toeing in that direction. I doubt she’d ever go fully weird because her branding is too big to fail.

Judy Tenuta, Buy This, Pigs!

I’ve known about Judy Tenuta since high school, but my media consumption somehow managed never to cross paths with her stand-up. YouTube has since rectified that, and upon hearing the news of her passing, I felt compelled to seek out her comedy debut album, which has so far never been reissued on CD or fully digitized on a streaming platform.

Huey Lewis and the News, Picture This

Sports is the 800-pound gorilla in the Huey Lewis and the News oeuvre, but Picture This is no slouch either. I rather thank it’s been unfairly overshadowed by its immediate descendant.

Hajime Chitose, Shima Kyora Umui

It’s taken me 20 years to purchase an actual physical copy of this album. Hajime’s major label career has mostly ignored these earlier youthful recordings, but they’re super informative on her singing style, let alone how well she adapted it to a pop setting.

Royal Wood, What Tomorrow Brings

Wood calls this album the first he’s didn’t abandon, paraphrasing the quote: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” It definitely shows. He makes some slight but adventurous tweaks to his sound, incorporating more synths and drum machines without losing his folk crooner vibe.

Miami Sound Machine, Primitive Love

The singles from this album were ubiquitous at the time, which dissuaded both my brother and me from staking claim on it. Enough time has passed to reveal those singles to be incredibly durable and fitting well with the album on the whole.

The Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I

You kinda need to have this album if you remotely like Changes.

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2022 Year Final:

  • Charlie Puth, CHARLIE
  • Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 1

And one more pick can be found in the Favorite Edition Catalog 2022:

  • Club Nisei, Japanese Music of Hawaii

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Purchase log, 2022-11-08

[Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Luke Evans, A Song for You
  • Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 1
Vinyl
  • Taylor Swift, Midnights
  • UA, Are U Romantic?

Catalog

CD
  • 10cc, Original Soundtrack
  • Dismemberment Plan, Emergency & I
  • Grace Jones, Island Life
  • John Vanderslice, Life and Death of an American Fourtracker
  • Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave
  • Miami Sound Machine, Primitive Love
  • The National, High Violet
Vinyl
  • Madonna, Music

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Chris Isaak, San Francisco Days

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Purchase log, 2022-10-25

[Hajime Chitose - Shima Kyora Umui]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Taylor Swift, Midnights

Catalog

CD
  • Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath
  • Brodsky Quartet, Brodsky Unlimited
  • Brothers Johnston, Greatest Hits
  • Club Nisei, Japanese Music of Hawaii
  • Hajime Chitose, Shima Kyora Umui
  • Sarah Brightman, The Songs that Got Away
  • Tim McGraw, Everywhere
Vinyl
  • Everything But the Girl, Love Not Money
  • Prefab Sprout, Two Wheels Good
  • RJD2, Deadringer
  • Queen, The Game
  • We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Going to User It, “What’s the Point (The Boisterous One)”

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Impossible Princess

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Purchase log, 2020-09-29

[Keola and Kapono Beamer - Honolulu City Lights]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

CD
  • Taylor Swift, folklore
Vinyl
  • Brandi Carlisle, A Rooster Says
  • Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters
  • Son Volt, Live at the Orange Peel
  • Suzanne Ciani, A Life in Waves

Catalog

CD
  • Cat Power, Moon Pix
  • Cat Power, You Are Free
  • Cloud Nothings, Life Without Sound
  • DJ Shadow, Preemptive Strike
  • Keola and Kapono Beamer, Honolulu City Lights
  • Mogwai, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
  • Simple Minds, Real Life
  • Son Volt, Wide Swing Tremolo
  • The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour
Vinyl
  • The Dismemberment Plan, Change

Reissues

CD
  • Prince, Sign O the Times
  • Wire Train, In a Chamber / Between Two Worlds / Ten Women
Vinyl
  • Nas, God’s Son
  • The Replacements, The Complete Inconcerated Live

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Purchase log, 2020-03-10

[The National - Boxer]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

Catalog

CD
  • Björk, Selmasongs
  • Bill Frisell, The Intercontinentals
  • Herbie Hancock, Future Shock
  • Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters
  • Julieta Venegas, MTV Unplugged
  • Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift
  • Teresa Stratas, The Unknown Weill
  • XTC, Mummer
  • Soundtrack, The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast)
Vinyl
  • Michael Kiwanuka, Home Again
  • The National, Boxer

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Purchase log, 2019-12-17

[Various Artists - Rubáiyát]

I catalog my music purchases on Collectorz and Discogs, but they don’t give me a sense of change over time. So I’m noting them here weekly as well.

New releases

Vinyl
  • Shiina Ringo, Sandokushi
Blu Ray
  • Shiina Ringo, Seiteki Healing Sono Go~Nana

Catalog

CD
  • Bob Mould, The Last Dog and Pony Show
  • Digital Underground, Sex Packets
  • Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell!
  • Midnight Oil, Earth and Sun and Moon
  • Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More
  • Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz)
  • Old 97s, Satellite Rides
  • Philip Glass, Low Symphony (Brooklyn Philharmonic, Dennis Russell Davies)
  • Roxette, Look Sharp!
  • Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd (2005 Broadway Cast)
  • Sting, If On a Winter’s Night …
  • Tag Team, Whoomp! (There It Is)
  • Taylor Swift, Speak Now
  • Technotronic, Trip on This: The Remixes
  • Various Artists, Living In Oblivion, Vol. 2
  • Various Artists, Rubáiyát: The Originals
Vinyl
  • Chic, Risqué
  • Conlon Nancarrow, Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. 2
  • Conlon Nancarrow, Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. 4
  • Foreigner, Agent Provocateur
  • Hüsker Dü, Land Speed Record
  • Sonic Youth, Confusion Is Sex
  • Soundtrack, This Is Spinal Tap

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