Big thankyou to LittleM for the heads-up on Anarchy. Fab shop - didn't find much of interest (think you nabbed the best stuff, son) but this was £4 with 'surface marks' (that's dust and some record brush scrapes to you and me). Playing it now and it sounds great.
I'd of picked that up myself. Shame there wasn't much for you to buy on the day but that's the way it goes + I would have been peeved had you come up with gold on my stomping ground!!! Did you get down to Rob's or Big Apple records whilst you were up here?
Didn't unfortunately - only an overnight visit and didn't get into town until 4.30, so only had time to visit Anarchy (which from your description in the Top 100 On Vinyl thread sounded like the pick) before heading to Rough Trade to see darling Suedeswede. Due back there soon so will certainly take time to check 'em out if I can.
Today kicks off a rather decent few days of vinyl hunting: Guildford Record Fair today, Portobello/Honest Jons/Rough Trade West tomorrow, then Bristol and Cardiff on Wednesday and Thursday. Got these today:
Second UK pressing on Big Life (not the first, which was on brown marble colour wax and worth a packet). Picked up off Gumtree from a fella in Slough. Don't think he was overly impressed with my bartering tactics, but I knocked him down £15 so happy days
Got this as well... For a bit of father/son time before bed 😁
Rock on!!
Oh, and thanks to a certain special someone I'll soon be getting my hands on a record which means that BEA members own precisely 1% of all copies of this record ever pressed. More once I get my grubby mitts on it... _________________ 'Reggae' & t'ing Folk 'n Stuff SHAMELESS RECORD DEALER PLUG
72/100. I swore I'd only buy this record if I found an original Big Cat press and it was in excellent nick with the lyric insert. After seeing it on my last visit to Portobello Market, passing it up and then regretting it by the time I drove back home through Shepherd's Bush I was somewhat shocked it was still there over a month later. Knocked £5 off the price as I have a habit of doing whenever dealing with market traders.
Currently my favourite album of 2016. Had a load of trouble picking it up on wax, further compounded by Rough Trade Nottingham only having it on CD when I went there earlier in the week. Luckily had phoned ahead to Rough Trade West and they put it to one side for me
Knitting Factory Repress, picked up in Honest Jon's from the friendliest record store dude I've ever met (and who always thinks everything he hears is 'fucking amazing' - then again he does work in the coolest record shop ever)
Also picked up from Honest Jon's. Sold my CD copy of this earlier in the week on Discogs for the same price as it cost to get this brand spanking new repress with the original LP and all the vocal cuts on a second disc (albeit labelled as "Junjo Presents Wins The World Cup" - Scientist has licensed the LP to some Russian label, but these are from the original masters I think). That's all the Greensleeves Scientist LPs on vinyl now.
2-fer press on 'Harvest Classics' bought whilst wandering down Portobello towards Notting Hill. £3 off this one. Vinyl looks amazingly clean. I've been after Shooting At The Moon for a while and amazingly saw a first press of it yesterday going for over £100. Yeah right.
Just back from a couple of days in Bristol and Cardiff, where I picked up this little lot:
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The SOTL LP is a first press - not bad for a fiver. Been after the Marine Girls record for an age and finally found it after seeing it over the weekend going for the scandalous price of £25. Chuffed to find the Marcia Griffiths record too.
Amazingly the above haul was all from one shop - Plastic Wax in Bristol, which has to be one of the finest emporiums of the black stuff I've come across in ages. Bristol had about a dozen shops and after spending an age in the aforementioned Plastic Wax I didn't have much time to check the rest out, although the 4 I visited in St.Nicholas Market in the City Centre are all worth a look (even if I found nowt in any to tickle my fancy apart from an overpriced Ragga Twins LP. By that time I'd blown my budget anyway). _________________ 'Reggae' & t'ing Folk 'n Stuff SHAMELESS RECORD DEALER PLUG
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