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Purchase log, 2026-06-09

[sungazer - Perihelion]

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
  • Aaron Copland, The Modernist (Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony)
  • Andreas Vollenweider, White Winds (Seeker’s Journey)
  • Arctic Monkeys, AM
  • Billy Bragg, Workers’ Playtime
  • Godley & Creme, Collected
  • Israel Kamikawiwo`ole, Ka `Ano`i
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter, Come On Come On
  • Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
  • Samuel Adams, Current
  • The Bad Plus, Activate Infinity
Vinyl
  • Cody ChesnuTT, Landing on a Hundred

Reissues

CD
  • Camper Van Beehoven, II & III
Vinyl
  • sungazer, Perihelion

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Purchase log, 2026-04-21

[John Wesley Harding - Here Comes the Groom]

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
  • Dead or Alive, The Youthquake Tour
  • Deafheaven, Live on KXEP: Under the Blue Valley
  • Johnny Blue Skies and the Darkclouds, Castaways
  • Slint, untitled (Albini Rough Mixes)
  • Talking Heads, The CBS / Columbia Demos
  • XTC, Live Boots
  • Weezer, 1192

Catalog

CD
  • boy genius, the record
  • Iris DeMent, The Way I Should
Vinyl
  • Don Caballero, American Don
  • LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Art of Noise, The Seduction of Claude Debussy
  • Bob Mould, Body of Song
  • Camper Van Beethoven, Tusk
  • En Vogue, EV3
  • John Wesley Harding, Here Comes the Groom
  • Gay Dad, Leisure Noise
  • Iris DeMent, The Way I Should
  • Kaji Meiko, “Urami Bushi / Shura no Hana”
  • Madonna, The Confessions Tour
  • Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, All the Roadrunning
  • The Power Station, Power Mad
  • Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear

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Purchase log, 2025-11-18

[Tiffany Poon - Nature]

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
  • Tiffany Poon, Nature

Catalog

CD
  • Elliott Carter, Sonata for Flute, Oboe and Harpsichord / Sonata for Cello and Piano/ Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Orchestras
  • Pyotir Tchaikovsky, Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky (Herbert Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic)
Vinyl
  • Eugene Chadbourne and Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Van Chadbourne
  • Casiopea, Mint Jams
  • Sudan Archives, Natural Brown Prom Queen

Reissues

CD
  • Everything But the Girl, The Best of Everything But the Girl
  • Kate Bush, The Best of the Other Side
  • Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair (40th Anniversary Edition)
Vinyl
  • La Ley, Invisible
  • La Ley, MTV Unplugged

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Purchase log, 2025-09-09

[Wayne Horvitz - The President]

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
  • Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again
  • Depeche Mode, Speak and Spell
  • Hilary Hahn, Elgar: Violin Concerto / Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
  • Ray Kane, Punahele
  • Sonny Chillingworth, Sonny Solo
  • System of a Down, System of a Down
  • Vagabon, Infinite Worlds
Files
  • SYML, DIM

Reissues

CD
  • Camper Van Beethoven, Telephone Free Landslide Victory (40th Anniversary Edition)
Vinyl
  • k.d. lang, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Files
  • Donald Rubinstein and Zony Mash, A Man Without Love
  • Wayne Horvitz, In Absentia
  • Wayne Horvitz, The President
  • Wayne Horvitz, Wayne Horvitz European Orchestra
  • Wayne Horvitz / Butch Morris / William Parker, Some Order, Long Understood

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Purchase log, 2024-09-17

[Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa]

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
  • Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess

Catalog

CD
  • Ben Platt, Sing to Me Instead
  • Clannad, The Best of Clannad: In a Lifetime
  • Gillian Welch, The Harrow & the Harvest
  • M People, Elegant Slumming
  • Soundtrack, Come from Away
  • Soundtrack, Wicked
Vinyl
  • Camper Van Beethoven, II & III
  • Doja Cat, Planet Her
  • Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Message

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Arvo Pärt, Tabula Rasa

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Purchase log, 2022-08-30

[Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream]

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
  • Kendrick Lamar, Mr. Morale and the Right Steppers

Catalog

CD
  • Camper Van Beethoven, La Costa Perdida
  • Sinéad O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (Limited Edition)
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees, Juju
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Scream
  • Smashing Pumpkins, Lull
  • Steven Wright, I Still Have a Pony
  • U2, War (Deluxe Edition)
  • Wire, 154
  • Wire, Chairs Missing
  • Wire, It’s Beginning to and Back Again
Vinyl
  • Alexander O’Neal, Hearsay
  • Amanda Shires, To The Sunset
  • Christine and the Queens, Chaleur Humaine
  • Eugène Ysaÿe, Six Sonatas for Violin, Op. 27
  • Guadalcanal Diary, 2 x 4
  • Patrick Cowley, Muscle Up
  • Prince, Chaos and Disorder
  • Sam Hunt, Southside
  • The Faint, Danse Macabre

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Silk Sonic, An Evening with Silk Sonic

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Purchase log, 2022-01-11

[Soundtrack - Lost in Translation]

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
  • Bill Calahan, Apocalypse
  • Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Van Beethoven
  • The Rolling Stones, Tattoo You
Vinyl
  • KMD, Mr. Hood
  • Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Soundtrack, Lost in Translation

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Purchase log picks, August 2021

[Ashanti - Ashanti]

Deafheaven, Infinite Granite

I bet the metal fans hate this album. Since I’m more of a post-rock / shoegazer fan, I find it brilliant. Also, gutsy. It takes bravery to risk change that alienates a portion of your fan base.

Ashanti, Ashanti

I sold this album when cash got short, but “Foolish” is one of those songs that just pop into my head for no reason. So on a recent trip to the thrift shop, I welcomed this album back in my collection and discovered how well it’s held up since its release. Yeah, it’s a bit long — as albums of the CD era are wont to do — but the best bits overshadow the filler.

Gang of Four, 77-81

This sprawling boxed set of Gang of Four’s first two albums contains a full live album, an EP of singles and a cassette tape of early demos.

I bought the vinyl version back in March, but I also wanted to pick up the CD boxed set as well. The packaging is stark but beautiful. My only objection is the digital downloads that accompany the CD set. The sides of the digitized cassette are not broken down by track. But I have to admit, that is punk as fuck.

Jam and Lewis, Volume 1

Yeah, it’s about damn time Jam and Lewis took top billing. There are singers of whom I probably would never have heard if they hadn’t worked with Jam and Lewis.

Cyndi Lauper, True Colors

Similar to ZZ Top’s Afterburner, True Colors followed an immensely popular album, and while its predecessor had more hits, this album is the better collection of songs. Despite incredibly corporate covers of the title tracks in subsequent years, the original has some daring arrangement choices, particularly the fake ending with just percussion, an underrated technique in pop production.

Jeff Mangum, Live at Jittery Joe’s

If you are a fan of On Avery Island or In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, there is little you’ll find objectionable on this solo live album.

Camper Van Beethoven / Cracker, The Virgin Years

The compilation was only made available as a promo, but it’s one that ought to get an official release. As the title indicates, it compiles tracks from two Camper Van Beethoven albums and two Cracker albums, all released by Virgin in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

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Purchase log, 2020-03-17

[Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing]

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
  • Andy Gibb, Shadow Dancing
  • Bauhaus, Burning from the Inside
  • Caifanes, La Historia
  • Camouflage, Greyscale
  • Camper Van Beethoven, II & III
  • Camper Van Beethoven, Camper Vantiquities
  • Henry Kaiser, Those Who Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It
  • Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
  • Jay Som, Anak Ko
  • Meat Puppets, Meat Puppets II
  • Melveen Leed, Melveen’s Hawaiian Country Hits
  • Mindy Smith, Long Island Shores
  • Post Malone, Hollywood’s Bleeding
  • Shakira, Pies Descalzo
  • Talking Heads, True Stories
  • The B-52’s, Party Mix / Mesopotamia
  • The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
  • The Dismemberment Plan, A People’s History of the Dismemberment Plan

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Spice Girls, Spiceworld

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