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Purchase log, 2025-09-30

[Robin Holcomb and Peggy Lee - Reno]

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
  • Amanda Shires, Nobody’s Girl
  • Robin Holcomb and Peggy Lee, Reno
Files
  • Eponymous 4, “Untold Demons”

Catalog

CD
  • Jack Johnson, Brushfire Fairytales
  • Kathleen Edwards, Back to Me
  • Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze
  • The Little Willies, The Little Willies
Vinyl
  • Fabulous Krush, Fabulous Krush
  • Haim, I quit
  • Ransom Wilson, Vermont Counterpoint / Facades / Stonehenge / Syrinx / Ascèses (I)
  • Ta Mara and the Seen, Ta Mara and the Seen
  • The Killers and Bruce Springsteen, Encore at the Garden
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Sigur Rós, Takk … (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • The Sundays, Blind

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Purchase log, 2025-06-03

[System of a Down - System of a Down]

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
  • America, America
  • k.d. lang, All You Can Eat
  • Bruce Springsteen, The River
  • Sigur Rós, Hvarf / Heim
  • Soundtrack, Immortal Beloved
Boxed Set
  • Sly and the Family Stone, The Collection
Vinyl
  • System of a Down, System of a Down

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Purchase log, 2025-04-22

[Painkiller - The Great God Pan]

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
  • B2TSM, Maestros
  • Painkiller, The Great God Pan
Vinyl
  • Shakira, Live in Paris

Catalog

CD
  • Boredoms, Super Roots 6
  • Shakira, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran
  • Various Artists, Studio One Women
Vinyl
  • Nena, Feuer und Flamme
  • Sigur Rós, Valtari

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, Peel Sessions 1979-1983
  • Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd.: First Issue
  • Starship, “We Built This City”
  • The Dream Syndicate, Sketches for Out of the Grey
  • Soundtrack, Top Secret!

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Purchase log, 2023-10-17

[The Drums - Jonny]

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 Drums, Jonny
  • Troye Sivan, Something to Give Each Other
  • Soundtrack , BLEACH: THE BLOOD WARFARE

Catalog

CD
  • Division of Laura Lee, Black City
  • Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain
  • Helmet, Monochrome
  • Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós, Englar Alheimsins
  • Monks of Doom, Forgery
  • Pearl Jam, Benaroya Hall, October 22, 2003
  • Raekwon, Only Built for Cuban Linx …

Reissues

CD
  • Electronic, Get the Message Out: The Best of Electronic
  • Sugababes, The Lost Tapes

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Purchase log, 2022-12-20

[Soundtrack - TV Anime BLEACH]

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
  • Steve Reich, Runner / Music for Ensemble and Orchestra

Catalog

CD
  • Davíd Garza, This Euphoria
  • Kenny Chesney, Lucky Old Sun
  • Madonna, MDNA (Deluxe Edition)
  • Natalie Merchant, Live in Concert
  • The Jets, Magic
  • The Beatles, Beatles for Sale
Vinyl
  • Billie Holiday, Lady in Satin
  • Don Caballero, Don Caballero 2
  • Explosions in the Sky, Big Bend
  • Fairport Convention, Liege and Leaf
  • John Coltrane, Crescent
  • The Human League, Dare
  • The League Unlimited Orchestra, Love and Dancing

Reissues

CD
  • Spice Girls, Spiceworld (Deluxe Edition)
  • Sigur Rós, () (Deluxe Edition)
Vinyl
  • Utada Hikaru, “First Love / Hatsukoi”
  • Soundtrack, TV Anime BLEACH

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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, 2020-01-14

[Soundtrack - Death Note]

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
  • Billie Eilish, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
  • Clipse, Lord Willin’
  • Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
  • Metallica, Garage Days Revisited
  • Sigur Rós, Von
  • Soundtrack, Death Note
Vinyl
  • Duffy, Rockferry
  • Kronos Quartet, In Formation
  • TLC, Fan Mail

Reissues

Vinyl
  • Soundtrack, Death Note

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Purchase log, 2019-08-13

[Solange - When I Get Home]

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
  • Solange, When I Get Home

Catalog

CD
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats (Original London Cast)
  • Band of Susans, Here Comes Success
  • Band of Susans, The Word and the Flesh
  • Band of Susans, Veil
  • Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
  • RADWIMPS, RADWIMPS 4 ~Okazu no Gohan~
Vinyl
  • John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (Maro Ajemian)
  • John Coltrane, My Favorite Things
  • The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Reissues

CD
  • Sigur Rós, Ágætis byrjun (20th Anniversary Edition)

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