Entertainment For Lively Minds
Self satisfied and smug
Posted by simontyler on 5 March 2009 - 5:16pm.
Like a good many of the massive, i am a frequent shopper at the local charity shops, mainly books and CDs.
i often pick up the odd bargin and here & there some interresting stuff.( Danny Thompsons Solo Cd a while ago)
However today, i have hit the motherload!
Julian Cope's ,long out of print, The Modern Antiquarian, in pristine condition, for £12. ( about £80 on Amazon Market place!!)
so a cup of earl grey, some chocolate tea cakes and dive into the world of Megalithic Britian.
see ya later.
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Good Find
It's a wonderful book - my girlfriend and I drove around Scotland a few years ago using it as a guide. He's done one of Europe too which I'm sure is still available.
The big prize for me would be his Krautrocksampler book.
I thought you were
refering to julian himself! I believe professionals are wary of his mad mythology and interpretation of the sites but it's really handy for finding them in the first place.
Make sure you listen to some heavy rock music...
whilst you're reading it! (Bang of drum and crash of cymbal)
Jehovahkill ( deluxe edition)
was the only choice.
in support of charity shops
I'd like to join your epic finds....
Got Bjork's Play Dead on 12" for £2 in cancer research, and an epic 1964 LP of an old guy reading the books of Daniel and Esther from the Bible.
Hardly an epic find....
......but I got Bob Dylans "Love And Theft" for £1 at DEBRA today.
I have in front of me
one of the more bizarre relics of my bookselling days. It a letter printed on almost flourescently bright yellow paper which was sent to bookshops when the arch drude was about to publish The Modern Antiquarian. The letter is signed by Cope and contains a peculiar mixture of drude speak and mundane practicality.
'Dear Waterstoners', it begins, telling us how he hopes to 'shine a light into the shadowy history of a modern island people who have been hoodwinked into believing that thier history began with the Roman Conquest', before taking a sensible turn with the information that, 'it has been designed and packaged to be pratical for the outdoors, housed in a high gloss wipe-clean slip case', the bidding us farewell with a cheery 'Love onja'. It's that word 'housed' which somehow seems so straight.
Lacking a copy of The Modern Antiquarian I keep it tucked into my copy of Head On.
Dix points
for Droolian's TMA, null points for Danny Thompson's solo outing. The reason why it's in a charity shop is because it reeks worse than week old fish. This is from someone who is on an extended Jansch/Thompson/Martyn jag at the mo. and who rates Thompson up there with the Jack Bruce's and the Jaco Pastorious's.
Pastorius's (sp.)
Pastorius's (sp.)
A pedant rights
Pastoriuses, I think, unless you're a greengrocer.
My Dad once found
All the Velvet Underground albums on vinyl in a second hand bookstore
I wonder...
...i once left a box set of all the velvet underground albums on the train, somewhere between waterloo and Surbiton.
I picked up
a copy of Ian McShane's CD for a mere £1 the other week. Rather good it is too - Roxy's Avalon, The Police's Every Breath You Take. You get the picture.
Rather good at making other people cringe. I'm a sadist like that.
I hate to brag
no actually I love it.
I picked this up in a charity shop.
I had a huge bunch of singles and the woman couldn't be bothered calculating how much I owed so she said "Five dollars for the lot love" Since I had roughly fifty it worked out at about $0.10c for this little beauty.
http://www.popsike.com/YOUNG-IDENTITIES-EP-Brisbane-KBD-punk-Fun-Things/...
Follow the link to see what it fetched on ebay a few months back. I knew it was rare but that is ridiculous.
It proves two things (mostly B)
A/ I am very lucky
B/ People are insane
If I was drinking tea
it would all be over my monitor now!
As a long-time Ebayer I just love those moments of madness - as long as it is other people's madness.
did you give any of the money
to the charity shop after your windfall?
Poorly explained by me
That wasn't my copy for sale. So I POTENTIALLY can make that much.
I stumbled across that item when the bidding was at $200.00US and was gobsmacked. The final result was stunning.
The good news is I can say with a straight face my copy is mint condition. I will sell it "one day."