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Purchase log, 2025-02-04

[At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out]

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
  • Madvillain, Madvillainy Demos

Catalog

CD
  • At the Drive-In, In/Casino/Out
  • Enigma, The Screen Behind the Mirror
  • India.Arie, Acoustic Soul
  • Nanci Griffith, Other Voices, Other Rooms
  • Nicolas Gombert, Magnificats 1-4

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Purchase log, 2025-01-27

[Sam Amidon - Salt River]

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
  • Sam Amidon, Salt River

Catalog

CD
  • Arcade Fire, Arcade Fire
  • DJ Krush, Code4109
  • Kim Richey, Glimmer
  • Level 42, World Machine
  • Thievery Corporation, The Mirror Conspiracy
  • Thievery Corporation, The Richest Man in Babylon
  • Wilco, The Whole Love
Vinyl
  • Frank Ocean, Unreleased, Misc.
  • Ms. Dynamite, A Little Deeper
  • Tyler, The Creator, Flower Boy

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Purhcase log, 2025-01-14

[Tweet - Southern Hummingbird]

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
  • Cherrelle, High Priority
  • Clannad, Themes
  • Cocteau Twins, Echoes in a Shallow Bay
  • Cocteau Twins, Four-Calendar Café
  • Cocteau Twins, Milk & Kisses
  • Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  • John Zorn / Masada, Live at Tonic 2001
  • Monty Python, The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail (Executive Edition)
  • The Cure, Seventeen Seconds
Vinyl
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto, Beauty
  • Tweet, Southern Hummingbird

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Purchase log, 2024-12-31

[Ludwig Van Beethoven - George Szell Conducts Beethoven]

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
  • Adeem the Artist, Anniversary

Catalog

CD
  • Bruce Springsteen, Human Touch
  • Bruce Springsteen, Lucky Town
  • Gillian Welch, Soul Journey
  • Laura Branigan, Branigan
  • Molotov, Solo D’Lira
  • X, More Fun in the New World
  • Various Artists, Rave New World

Reissues

CD
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven, George Szell Conducts Beethoven (Cleveland Symphony)

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Purchase log picks, fourth quarter 2024

[Linda Ronstadt - Live in Hollywood]

Linda Ronstadt, Live in Hollywood

Rhino released the full concert on YouTube, so do yourself a fever and watch it whlie it’s still available. Ronstadt filmed this concert for HBO around the time she released Mad Love.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2

Many of the tracks on this second edition of live recordings from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville come from Weathervanes, probably Isbell’s best album since Southeastern. So I’m inclined to rank it favorably over the first volume.

Various Artists, Club Epic

This compilation of remixes has some top notch hits from the ’80s: “Fantastic Voyage” by Lakeside, “Saturday Love” by Cherrelle and Alexander O’Neal, “Lover Girl” by Teena Marie, to name a few. I didn’t realize how much I missed hearing these songs.

Painkiller, Samsara

Mick Harris has traded live drums for electronics on this album reuniting the former Napalm Death drummer with bassist Bill Laswell and saxophonist John Zorn. It’s no less frenetic and still mixes well with the wild abandon for which Painkiller is known.

Ray Chen, Player One

I can’t confess to being any sort of video game soundtrack listener, so those tracks which bookend this album are pretty much adornment for the Erich Korngold Violin Concerto, the crunchiest piece of repertoire I’ve heard Chen tackle so far.

Tim McGraw, Standing Room Only

I don’t mind that Tim McGraw engages in a bit of gay-baiting, and he doesn’t move in the same creative circles of Jason Isbell or Sturgill Simpson. But I have to admit Standing Room Only sounds like an album that could imagine a Venn diagram where McGraw, Isbell and Simpson intersect.

Marshall Crenshaw, Field Day

I hadn’t explored much of Crenshaw’s early albums till a number of them showed up at the thrift store. Now I understand how the press was flummoxed that Crenshaw just never stormed the charts.

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2024 Year Final:

  • Perfume, Nebula Romance: Zenpen

These fourth quarter picks can be found in the Favorite Edition 2024 Catalog:

  • Princess Goes, Come of Age
  • Shannon, Let the Music Play
  • SZA, CTRL

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Purchase log, 2024-12-24

[The National - Rome]

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, Rome
  • Soundtrack, BLEACH THE BLOOD WARFARE, Pt. II

Catalog

Vinyl
  • Daryl Hall and John Oates, Private Eyes
  • Nakamori Akina, Fu*Shi*Gi
  • Nakamori Akina, Stock
  • Ohta Hiromi, Little Concert
  • Sleater-Kinney, The Center Won’t Hold

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Purchase log, 2024-12-10

[Various Artists - Club Epic]

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

Files
  • SYML, Infinity
Vinyl
  • Tiffany Poon, Diaries Schumann

Catalog

CD
  • Richard Pryor, … Is It Something I Said?
  • Taylor Swift, evermore
  • Various Artists, Club Epic: A Collection Of Classic Dance Mixes, Volume 1
Vinyl
  • Ministry, ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ
Files
  • SYML, Meant to Stay Hid
  • SYML, Mr. Sandman
  • SYML, Take Me Apart
  • SYML, The Dark
  • SYML, The Walker

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Purchase log, 2024-12-03

[Carl Stalling - The Carl Stalling Project]

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
  • Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues
  • Painkiller, Samsara
  • Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology
Vinyl
  • Angelo Badalamenti, Music for Television and Film
  • Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (Isolated Vocals)

Catalog

CD
  • BTS, Love Yourself: Her
  • Crowded House, Crowded House
  • Enigma, Le Roi est Morte, Vive le Roi!
  • Lang Lang, Live in Vienna
Vinyl
  • Faith No More, Angel Dust

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Carl Stalling, The Carl Stalling Project, Vol. 1
  • Helmet, Betty
  • King Missile, Happy Hour
  • Olivia Rodrigo, Guts Spilled
  • Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters
  • Thievery Corporation, Richest Man in Babylon
  • U2, How to Reassemble an Atomic Bomb

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