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Purchase log, 2025-09-23

[Soundtrack - Brokeback Mountain]

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
  • John Zorn, Prolegomena
  • Perfume, Nebula Romance Kohen
  • Various Artists, Dreams Never End: ART-SCHOOL 25th Anniversary Tribute Album

Catalog

CD
  • Basia, London Warsaw New York
  • Beulah, The Coast Is Never Clear
  • Dir en Gray, The Marrow of the Bone
  • Henri Dutilleux, Metabolés / Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 2 (Ludovic Morlot, Seattle Symphony)
  • k.d. lang and the Siss Siss Boom, Sing It Loud
  • Longwave, There’s a Fire
  • MJ Cole, Sincere
  • RJD2, The Third Hand
Vinyl
  • Tyler Childers, Purgatory

Reissues

CD
  • Descendants, Milo Goes to College
Vinyl
  • the brilliant green, the brilliant green
  • Soundtrack, Brokeback Mountain
  • Soundtrack, Pride and Prejudice

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Purchase log, 2025-08-19

[Various Artists - Pacific Breeze 3]

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
  • ABC, Up
  • Dirty Three, Horse Stories
  • John Adams, Girls of the Golden West
  • Julia Bullock, Walking in the Dark
  • Julia Fordham, Julia Fordham
  • k.d. lang, Hymns of the 49th Parallel
  • Minutemen, What Makes a Man Start a Fire?
  • Rachel Grimes / Angélica Negrón / Shara Nova / Caroline Shaw / Sarah Kirkland Snyder, The Blue Hour
  • Ringdown, Lady on the Bike
  • Velvet Underground, Another View
  • Velvet Underground, VU
  • Wayne Horvitz / Sara Schoenbeck, Cell Walk
Vinyl
  • Pearl Jam, Vs.
  • Various Artists, Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1975-1987

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Purchase log, 2025-05-27

[Gang of Four - Songs of the Free]

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
  • Mono (UK), Formica Blues
  • Various Artists, Global Underground Afterhours
  • Various Artists, Vhutemas Archetypi
Vinyl
  • Gang of Four, Songs of the Free
  • John Coltrane, Coltrane’s Sound
  • Soundtrack, The Empire Strikes Back
  • Soundtrack, Return of the Jedi

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Purchase log, 2025-05-20

[Do As Infinity - EIGHT]

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
  • Danny Tenaglia, Presents Back to Basics
  • Do As Infinity, EIGHT
  • George Winston, December
  • Josh Rouse, Home
  • Kuriyama Chiaki, CIRCUS (Deluxe Edition)
  • Perfume, Perfume ~Complete Best~
  • Pink Lady, GOLDEN BEST: Complete Single Collection
  • Various Artists, Carte Blanche, Vol. 3
  • Various Artists, Ultimate Dance Mega Hits

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Purchase log, 2025-05-13

[98 Degrees - Full Circle]

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
  • 98 Degrees, Full Circle
Vinyl
  • Jason Isbell, Foxes in the Snow

Catalog

CD
  • 7 Seconds, Live! One Plus One
  • Black Sabbath, Black Box: Complete Black Sabbath
  • BTS, Proof
  • D’Angelo, Live at the Jazz Café, London
  • John Vanderslice, Cellar Door
  • Jules Massenet, Thaïs
  • Nine Inch Nails, Broken
  • Rammstein, Mutter
  • Various Artists, Essential HI-NRG Classics, Vol. 1
  • Various Artists, The Perfect Beats, Vol. 4
Vinyl
  • A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauders

Reissues

CD
  • INXS, Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Edition)

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Purchase log, 2025-04-29

[w.o.d. - AI]

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
  • Sting, Live 3.0
Vinyl
  • w.o.d., Ai
Files
  • Service Pack Three, “If My Luck Ran Out”

Catalog

CD
  • Bill Hicks, Dangerous
  • Makaha Sons, Kuikawa
  • The Beatles, Please Please Me
  • The Beatles, Yellow Submarine Songtrack
  • Various Artists, Muting the Noise 01

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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, 2025-04-15

[Emmylou Harris - Spyboy]

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
  • downy, untitled (eighth album)
Vinyl
  • Kelela, In the Blue Light
  • Post Malone, Post Malone Tribute to Nirvana
  • Sting, Sting 3.0 Live

Catalog

CD
  • Blind Idiot God, Cyclotron
  • Lounge Lizards, Live in Berlin, Vol. 1
  • Ned Doheny, Ned Doheny
  • Various Artists, Studio One Classics
  • Various Artists, Studio One Funk
  • Various Artists, Studio One Kings
  • Various Artists, Studio One Rude Boy
Vinyl
  • D’Angelo, Voodoo
  • Queens of the Stone Age, In Times New Roman …
  • SYML, In My Body

Reissues

Vinyl
  • a-ha, Hunting High and Low: The Demos
  • Charli XCX, Number 1 Angel
  • Dead or Alive, Youthquake Remixes
  • Duran Duran, DANSE MACABRE DE LUXE Bonus Tracks
  • Emmylou Harris, Spyboy
  • Hindu Love Gods, Hindu Love Gods
  • Lianne La Havas, Is Your Love Big Enough?
  • Neurotic Outsiders, Neurotic Outsiders
  • Passengers, Original Soundtracks, Vol. 1
  • Paul Hardcastle, Paul Hardcastle
  • Prince and the New Power Generation, Live at Grand Slam
  • Rage Against the Machine, Live on Tour 1993
  • Shudder to Think, Pony Express Record
  • Slint, tweez (tweethan mix)
  • Talking Heads, Live on Tour
  • Thievery Corporation, The Cosmic Game
  • Throwing Muses, Live in Providence

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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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