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What did you buy today?
This is what I came back with today from the secondhand record shop and charity shop. So what did What did you come home with today and how much did you spend?
Vinyl:
Live at CBGB's double LP - £1
The Members - At the Chelsea Nightclub LP - £1
The DB's - Repercussion LP - 49p
Bluesville Folk Blues Volume 1 LP - £1
Chaz Jankel - Looking At You LP - £1
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk About The Blues 12in - £1
Elvis Costello - Green Shirt 12in - 49p
Mekons -Hole In The Ground 12in - 49p
Jesus and Mary Chain - Sometimes Always 10in - £2
CDs
The Ruts - Best of - £1
New Order - Best of - £1.50
Little Richard - Live - £1
There were half a dozen books as well to add to the unread pile. I don't buy his much every weekend, but I thought I had a decent haul today, and just wondered what everyone spent their hard earned on this Saturday.
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4 cinema tickets
to Alvin & the Chipmunks 2.
£36.00
The kids enjoyed it, money well spent.
me too
- second time for the movie. Nando's for lunch before. Some new shoes for the boy Lid and a couple of tops for the girl one - and well over a hundred quid gone just like that. Expensive, kids. Expensive and noisy and troublesome. And hilarious and lovely.
Alvin...
DIdn't expect to like it, but found it quite charming & amusing.
My trippy haul.
Truly This Must Be Heaven - 24 tracks of mental psychedelia from the Morgan Blue Town label. Seven quid.
Psychedelia At Abbey Road - Lots (22 tracks!) of whacky EMI gems from 1965 to 1969. A fiver.
Insane Times - 25 more mad British loopy gems from EMI. Another fiver.
Needless to say, we are sitting be-sandalled by the fire wearing our beads and kaftans this evening, having a salad and lentil dish while watching Tonight Let's All Make Love In London and smoking strangely perfumed cigarettes. Watch out for the purple alligators, and smell those groovy colours, man.
Insane Times
Was just listening to that the other day. Brilliant compilation, I hope you're enjoying it!
Fantastic isn't it?
It's also illustrated the weirdness that surrounds those lost labels from way back; I have a copy of the Chiitra Neogy album The Perfumed Garden, which I hadn't spun for years. Reminded by the inclusion of a track from it on this comp, I dug it out only to find that it's on something that calls itself the 'Gemini' label, and not Morgan Blue Town at all.
Hmmmmm.
I get the feeling that lots of this stuff has been, essentially, stolen, by lots of slightly iffy publishers in the intervening years, and put out on all sorts of dodgy labels. There's another surprisingly openly publicised CD reissue label I can think of that's been doing this, even using 'needledrop' copies mastered directly from old vinyl.
It's good that the music is available, but even better when it's being made available by the people who actually own it or made it in the first place.
Exactly...
Although I *think* - am not sure, but wasn't Gemini one of those EMI imprints dealing with golden oldies?
I know what you mean, though, so much of this stuff has seeped into cheap, shoddily repackaged albums its hard to figure out who owns what. So when lovingly compiled and beautifully presented albums like this come out, they are a real joy.
Paid for it Tuesday..
..but it arrived today from Play.com. Except, instead of the remastered, expanded edition of Violator I ended up with The Best of Echobelly. Not happy.
Echobelly have a best of!
Was it a CD single etc...
In an ideal world..
..but would you believe that it boasts 18, (count 'em) tracks? Hasn't made it out of the cellophane, nor will it. Not here anyway.
A pair of padded cycling shorts- £45
(paid for with Evans vouchers I got for Christmas though)
Supermarket shop - £36
Not a sexy day of purchases really.
Amazon for all your Northern Soul Needs
4 volumes of Northern Soul at £3.48 each :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Soul-Story-Vol-Twisted/dp/B000RB6UUQ/re...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Soul-Story-Vol-Golden/dp/B000RB6UV0/ref...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Soul-Story-Vol-Blackpool/dp/B000RB6UVA/...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Soul-Story-Vol-Casino/dp/B000RB6UVK/ref...
and some Terry Edwards (inspired by me remembering his tattoo story in another thread, and realising that my copies of his records have disappeared - I found his record company have an ebay store so I got the Plays / Salutes / Executes EPs for £4.99.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/681-at-THE-SOUTHBANK-Plays-Salutes-Executes_W0QQit...
All the above was my reward for getting my tax return in on time! At a litle under £20, a sensible and suitable incentive.
Twenty quid's worth of groceries...
...and a lottery ticket
Twiglets
Toffee Yum Yums
Box Of Shreddies
Two Pints of Milk
Thats me sorted for the week
Are you...
... Steve Lamacq? (can't spell the name, but not an aspiring pop star so I'm not worried)
The Word Magazine
160 stickers - surreal, psychedelic animals
a 1st birthday card for the first-born
comics for niece and nephew (Dr Who and Girl Talk)
chocolate coins for above
some biscuits and coffee for brother and sister in law
a coffee from Starbucks (caramel macchiato)
Lunch
at Strada on Battersea Rise
A swimming session for Mrs B and our little one
And a bag of M&S Wine Gums
Gallagher & Lyle
The Best of Gallagher & Lyle from Amazon Downloads
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Of-Gallagher-Lyle/dp/B001KUQ8U0/ref=sr_...
Loaf and 4 buns, Spiderman and Barbie magazines (..."free cute pencil!"...)
In spite of just about pipping the Church Mouse...
...in the poverty stakes I managed:
1 large Americano & 1 blueberry scone at the local caff (£3.40)
1 copy of The Times (£1.50) - because it looked as if all the caff's free-use papers were taken (but then, of course, by the time one gets back from the nearby paper shop, one finds acres of free papers suddenly strewn about the place...)
1 lottery ticket (£1) - because "it could be me", and I could really use that being the case one of these days
1 Mahavishnu Orchestra T-shirt from ebay (£10) - because you only live once and what the hell...
2 pairs of school shoes
from M & S for the twins £22 each
An I pod in car charger gizmo fro TK Maxx £7
Dress for Mrs R from Next £ 9.99 sale
£150 on groceries and stuff
Including a pregnancy test kit which turned out to be positive!
A second Wheaty baby within 19 months...might need to move.
Congratulations!
A second child draws on additional skills - one child, you are a parent, two you are a referee. As well.
19 months?
Are you a family of elephants?
:-)
Edit... Oh no, hang on, I have woken up now. I *see*!!
Congrats!
congrats to you Uncle W
and to Auntie W too of course.
Congrat......
...hang on, he hasn't said who tested positive yet.
Squeeze
Your comment reminded me of an excellent Difford lyric in Piccadilly:
A man behind me talks to his young lady
He's happy that she is expecting his baby,
His wife won't be pleased but she's not been round lately.
Congrats Uncle and Aunty.
Congratulations!
Excellent news
Congrat's to you all.
Nappy day's!
Tickets for the panto
Our annual trip to the Alhambra, Bradford - Billy Pierce (again!) Gaynor Faye. Excellent & good to see our 14yo come out of his teen-shell when he thought no-one was watching. £38 well spent.
Oh, and a new watch.
Congratulations!
That's beautiful... and as you know it's ALWAYS worth it...
The Saturday Big Shop at Asda
which I won't list.
£5 on "Songs from the West Coast" by Elton John (Amazon) as I recently saw the excellent video for "This Train Don't Stop" and suddenly felt an urge to own.
Shopped at Tesco on a saturday afternoon
'Cos the Wanderers are at home and it will be quiet after 3pm...
Except the game is tomorrow. So it was packed. £40 groceries, £50 petrol. My trawl aroung the charity shops for CDs was yesterday.
Hicks & Morecambe & Wise
A fifth copy of Bill Hicks' 'Love All the People All of the Time' - last four have been donated to US-based Irish/ British expat visitors to our khazi.
Two Morcecambe and Wise DVDs for our nine-year-old daughter who is absolutely in thrall to the great duo since Christmas viewings. I have no problem whatsoever with this purchase or constant repeated viewings.
She's also showing a great appreciation of Porridge - it's just difficult explaining some of the gags when she demands. Now naff off you nerks.
What...
...with these feet?
caught the end of
the 73 Xmas special and was disappointed not to find it on iPlayer-we didn't have a TV between 72 and 77 so I think I'd missed that one--sounds like I need to see "Windmills of your mind".
[edit: that turned out to be easier than I thought, here at 5:14 in
]
Any recommendations re DVDs ?
I bought
A second hand fridge and a bottle of Tabasco, some chocolate and tomatoes to put in it.
then later, exploring an English second-hand bookstore, I found a lovely old Penguin Shakespeare copy of Macbeth, printed in 1950. It was originally three shillings and sixpence, according to the front cover.
I think everything came to around EUR200 (plus three shillings and sixpence!)
Robin Hood & Jungle Book on dvd
Weird
I didn't buy anything at all on Saturday 16th January and I am such a consumerist whore!
Not even petrol.
Oh tell a lie, a bacon buttie on the 10:40 from King's Cross to Doncaster (bought the ticket on Thursday). Probably cost more than all the stuff so far combined!
I bought absolutely nothing
I bought absolutely nothing yesterday but my small contribution to getting the economy back on its feet will be a trip to Halfords for a rear windscreen wiper and the local papershop for a copy of (cough) The Mail on Sunday for the free Macca cd. I'll obviously hide the paper inside a copy of Razzle.
I went out with my mother-in-law and bought....
(this sounds like the start one of those shaggy dog stories...anyway...)
2 coffees
Garlic Bread for her and Octopus and Salad for me
2 tickets to "The Lovely Bones"
Now about to buy a bottle of Merlot
Thank you and good night.
I purchased (yesterday)
1 pair of Chelsea Boots (previous pair finally collapsed on 2nd January)
Powell and Pressburger DVD box-set
The Country of the Blind and Other Short Stories of HG Wells
Stumptown #2
Alan Moore's Neonomicon
The Unwritten #9
You must have ...
... the best charity shop in the world!
I put ...
a downpayment on a hangover last night. I collected it this morning.
Spent the money on Friday night
so as to get my Tesco shopping delivered on Saturday. Unfortunately, yet again, Mr Tesco cocked it up, this time failing to put any of our meat purchases on the wagon.
Anyone else do their supermarket shop online?
We thought we were being
We thought we were being really clever getting Tesco to deliver to the holiday cottage we were renting. The man called to say he couldn't find us, nor could anyone else he asked in the local pub and post office (we managed to find it!). As he was clocking off and I hadn't answered my phone first time (I was unpacking) he refused to turn back the three miles and deliver it. We were still charged the delivery fee! Every little helps...
2 cds and 2 papers
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible and J.S.Bach St Matthew Passion Choruses and Arias - £2 each from Cancer Research.
Saturday Times and Saturday Guardian - couldn't choose so bought them both.
More Bach
Magnificat (recommended by R3 here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ps0p0
and indeed it's a great performance)
and the Linn Nigel North 4 CD lute set http://www.linnrecords.com/artist-nigel-north.aspx
that someone recommended here a while ago.
And soup, toastie and 2 capuccinos for lunch---and an M&S laksa for dinner ...
I'm singing that
I'm singing the Bach Magnificat in March. It's a fab piece.
A nice
framed print of Audrey Hepburn for £50 and a hardback copy of "The Blair Years" by Alistair Campbell for £1 from Poundland.
I went to Ikea
to buy some flooring ending up with the flooring and a £400 wardrobe - £500+ ouch!
Double espresso
Chocolate Brownie
Red food dye (for son's biscuit icing)
Ian Rankin - Resurrection Men
Magnolia Electric Co - Josephine
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days.
Don't tell the wife about the last two!
Sunday and Monday purchases
Sunday - The Mail - sorry, sorry - for the free Macca cd
Today - Retrospectacle - A Supertramp Anthology - £3 - Cancer Research again
- The Go! Team - £2 - ditto
Didn't buy anything on Saturday...
...beyond some cups of coffee. But today I bought the new book by Jasper Fforde - "Shades of Grey". He was doing a signing at Forbidden Planet so I popped out in my lunch break and got him to sign one for my wife (who also loves his books).
Bah, double post!
Hurmph!
Saturday.
First time visit to the Bluewater uber-shopping mall, en route back from Disneyland Paris.
Needed a new battery for my watch but jewellers don't seem to provide this service any more, so ended up spending the princely sum of £15.99 on a Casio W-59 (the second most basic watch they produce, fact fans - its only difference to the F-91W being 50m water-resistance, like I'm ever going to need that!).
This was inspired by Russell M. Davies' piece in the latest Wired about the absurdity of spending a small fortune on a mechanical Rolex for example, when the humble Casio will do the job incomparably better, and the fact that said timepiece has become something of a geeky cult object.
Then went to Pizza Express and had a typically January choice of a 500 calorie 'Leggera' (the rather genius idea of a pizza with a salad in the middle).
No music, books or DVD purchases to report, unfortunately...