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Purchase log, 2024-10-22

[Jeremy Denk - Ives Denk]

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
  • Charli XCX, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat
  • Jeremy Denk, IVES DENK
  • Kylie Minogue, Tension II
Vinyl
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2

Catalog

CD
  • A Taste of Honey, A Taste of Honey (Deluxe Edition)
  • Emerson String Quartet / Barbara Hannigan / Bertrand Chamayou, Infinite Voyage
  • Fastball, The Harsh Light of Day
  • Feist, The Remainder
  • Gary Jules, Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets
  • Groove Amanda, Lovebox
  • Princess Goes, Come of Age
  • Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)
  • The Postal Service, Give Up (Deluxe Edition)
  • Tsubakiya Shijuusou, Shinku Naru Shozou
  • Yes, 90125 (Expanded)
Vinyl
  • Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet
  • Double, Dou3le
  • Gyorgi Ligeti, String Quartet No. 2 / Lux Aeterna / Volumina / Etude no. 1 “Harmonies”
  • Kylie Minogue, Tension
  • Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only

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Purchase log, 2024-03-12

[Kim Gordon - The Collective]

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
  • Kim Gordon, The Collective

Catalog

CD
  • Dawn Upshaw, I Wish It So
  • Heart, These Dreams: Heart’s Greatest Hits
  • The Sundays, Blind
  • They Might Be Giants, Apollo 18

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Body Language

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Purchase log, 2022-09-26

[Paula Cole - This Fire]

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
  • Andy Taylor, Man’s a Wolf to Man
  • Kylie Minogue, Tension

Catalog

Vinyl
  • Omar Apollo, Stereo

Reissues

CD
  • The Replacements, Tim: Let It Bleed Edition
Vinyl
  • Paula Cole, This Fire
  • Shakira, MTV Unplugged

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Purchase log, 2023-05-23

[The National - The First Two Pages of Frankenstein]

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
  • The National, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein

Catalog

CD
  • Broken Social Scene, Broken Social Scene
  • Earth, Wind & Fire, The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1
  • Nena, Original Album Classics
  • Rosanne Cash, King’s Record Shop
  • Various Artists, Living In Oblivion, Vol. 5
Vinyl
  • Kylie Minogue, Kylie

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Purchase log, 2023-01-24

[Miami Sound Machine - Primitive Love]

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
  • Arnold Schoenberg, The Complete String Quartets (New Vienna String Quartet)
  • Charles Ives, Symphonies No. 1 & 4 / Central Park in the Dark (Andrew Litton, Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
  • Daryl Hall and John Oates, Private Eyes
  • George Carlin, What Am I Doing in New Jersey?
  • Kim Kashkashian, Asturiana: Songs of Spain and Argentina
  • Kylie Minogue, Impossible Princess
  • Lou Harrison, Works for Piano (Keith Jarrett)
  • Max Richter, The Blue Notebooks
  • Robert Pollard, From a Compound Eye
  • Robyn, Honey
  • Samuel Barber, Vanessa
  • The Fixx, Greatest Hits: One Step Leads to Another
  • Vince Gill, When Love Finds You
  • Virgil Thomson, Four Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion / Violin Sonata / Praises And Prayers
Vinyl
  • Aphex Twin. Syro
  • Jayne Cortez, Unsubmissive Blues
  • Miami Sound Machine, Primitive Love

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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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Looking ahead: November-December 2022

[Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess]

Spice Girls, Spiceworld (Deluxe Edition), Nov. 4

This album was definitely rushed to capitalize on the Spice Girls’ fame, so you wouldn’t be faulted for perceiving it as Spice the Sequel. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Deluxe Edition), Nov. 25

For a 2002 album, Yoshimi definitely deserved its spot on critics’ year-end lists, but next to The Soft Bulletin, it didn’t quite satisfy the same itch.

Sigur Rós, () (Deluxe Edition), Nov. 25

I’m getting this deluxe edition because I’m a fan of the band, but I don’t really like this album.

Shiina Ringo, Hyakuyaku no Cho, Nov. 30

We’ve already had a tribute album, so let’s see what a remix album yields.

Vinyl

Kylie Minogue, Impossible Princess (Anniversary Edition), Oct. 21

Impossible Princess was never released in the US, but at least you can stream it now. For its 25th anniversary, the album gets a vinyl reissue. I’m hoping it’s not going to be as difficult to acquire as Fever vinyl reissues.

Death Cab for Cutie, The Photo Album (Deluxe Edition), Oct. 28

Death Cab for Cutie already released this deluxe edition digitally, and the vinyl edition is essentially the only physical version of this reissue. As a compact disc devotee, I’m disappointed, but if the enclosed download code gives me access to the Bandcamp FLAC files, I can get over it.

Duran Duran, Hammersmith Live ’82, Nov. 25
Marshall Crenshaw, Marshall Crenshaw (Deluxe Edition), Nov. 25
The Dead Milkmen, Metaphysical Graffiti, Nov. 25

For the past few years, Record Store Day Black Friday hasn’t been as financially ruinous as the main spring event, but this year, I’ll be braving the crowds for Duran Duran, Marshall Crenshaw and the Dead Milkmen.

Information Society, Peace and Love (Anniversary Edition), Dec. 2

I remember learning about the release date of this album back in 1992 and thought there would be a big push to promote it. Then I forgot about it. Evidently, so did Tommy Boy. It’s a rather underrated album.

Soundtrack, BLEACH, Dec. 14

Yes, I subscribed to Hulu just to catch BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War. And yeah, the moment this title was announced, I put in a pre-order.

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Purchase log, 2022-09-27

[Missing Persons - Spring Session M]

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
  • Built to Spill, You in Reverse
  • Chara, Strange Fruit
  • clipping., CLPPNG
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Concerto Grosso / Symbolon / Concerto For Trumpet And 5 Players / Double Quartet For Strings
  • Everything but the Girl, Adapt or Die: 10 Years of Remixes
  • Kylie Minogue, Kiss Me Once
  • Marvin Gaye, Here, My Dear
  • Missing Persons, Spring Session M
  • The Lilac Time, & Love for All
  • The Roots, Rising Down
  • Tim McGraw, Not a Moment Too Soon
Vinyl
  • Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique
  • R.E.M., Chronic Town EP
  • Whiskeytown, Strangers Almanac

Reissues

CD
  • Duran Duran, Pop Trash
  • Duran Duran, Red Carpet Massacre

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Purchase log, 2021-10-26

[John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Live in Seattle]

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, FUTURE PAST (Deluxe Edition)
  • FINNEAS, Optimist
  • John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
Vinyl
  • Duran Duran, FUTURE PAST

Catalog

CD
  • A Taste of Honey, A Taste of Honey / Twice as Sweet
  • Carlos Paredes, Guitarra Potugesa
  • Goldfrapp, Felt Mountain
  • Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
  • Goldfrapp, Supernature
  • Guns N’ Roses, The Spaghetti Incident?
  • Hugh Laurie, Let Them Talk
  • Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow
  • Johnny Cash, Unearthed
  • Kylie Minogue, Light Years
  • Meat Puppets, Classic Puppets
  • Robbie Williams, Escapology
  • Robbie Williams, Sing When You’re Winning
  • The Pretenders, The Pretenders
  • Vanessa Williams, The Right Stuff
  • VAST, Music for People
Vinyl
  • Howard Jones, Dream Into Action
  • Jack Wagner, Lighting Up the Night
  • Makaha Sons of Ni`ihau, No Kristo
  • Michael Jackson, Bad
  • Rolling Stones, Some Girls

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Tokyo Jihen, Kyouiku (Education)
  • Tokyo Jihen, Otona (Adult)
  • Tokyo Jihen, Goraku (Variety)
  • Tokyo Jihen, Sports
  • Tokyo Jihen, Daihakken (Discovery)
  • Tokyo Jihen, Ongaku (Music)

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Looking ahead: October-November 2021

[sungazer - PERIHELION]

sungazer, PERIHELION, Oct. 11

YouTube musicians Adam Neely and Shawn Crowder finally unveil their debut album after a pair of EPs.

Olivia Newton-John, Physical (Deluxe Edition), Oct. 22

This album was wildly successful at the time, buoyed by a nascent promotional tool called the “music video.” The deluxe edition of Physical includes one of the first video albums produced by a pop artist. Sorry, Beyoncé fans.

Spice Girls, Spice (Deluxe Edition), Oct. 29

In the UK, this deluxe edition of the Girls’ debut album is accompanied by five color vinyl reissues, each featuring a member the group. I’d probably opt for the Mel C one, but I already have this album on LP.

Jason Isbell and 400 Unit, Georgia Blue, Nov. 26

Jason Isbell makes good on his promise to record a cover album of Georgia artists if the run-off election in January 2020 sent a pair of Democrats to the Senate.

Vinyl

Kylie Minogue, Fever, Oct, 15
Sinéad O’Connor, So Far … The Best of Sinéad O’Connor, Oct. 15

National Album Day in the UK looks like Record Store Day Lite from a distance, but this year’s focus on women artists has some nice reissues in the pipeline. Honestly, Fever should just be perpetually available on vinyl. Every special pressing sells out fast and fetches exorbitant prices on Discogs. I have So Far on CD from when it was first released, and it’s an excellent compilation.

Old 97s, Fight Songs, Oct. 29

I would have preferred a vinyl reissue of Satellite Rides, to be honest.

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