Today's post is about buying music, a topic I like to cover here from time to time. This time it isn't so much how to buy it or what it costs, but it's about where to buy it. And, more to the point, where I've bought it over the years. While I was born in …
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Today I'm going over the two Metallica singles I have in my collection, both on cassette. These are the early singles Creeping Death and Jump In The Fire. Both were released in Europe when Metallica was distributed by Music For Nations over there, I don't think these singles ever got North America releases. These are …
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Today's single is a curiosity from the early 1980's. This is a band that never wound up recording a proper album. They released one single, featured here today, as well as a handful of songs on compilation albums. A retrospective CD would come many years later, long after the band called it quits. There are …
Today's single is a CD from 2003 and it gives a wealth of stuff to talk about – we have a singer change, an album theme that got hated on, a (very rare) autograph in my collection, oh and something decades later about the band's leader attempting to overthrow the US government. First, the single. …
Back to my singles collection. I'm winding down on it, though there are still a handful to go over. I'd expect to be done sometime mid- to late-November, then I'll pause for a moment to re-calibrate before launching the Iron Maiden singles series. Today I'm looking over a 2012 single from long-running doom merchants Saint …
Today's single is a relic, both of my collection of the death metal renaissance of the early 1990's. I originally purchased this record via mail order in 1992 or '93, not sure exactly. And it's in my collection today, though it spent a very long time not in the collection. It's a story I'll tell …
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Today's single is a massive force from one of the most innovative and pioneering bands in the punk and hardcore scenes. Bad Brains wrote the book on fast, ferocious music and one of their signature songs is the feature of this single. Also I chose not to air the title of the song out in …
Today's single is from one of the heaviest bands in the world and is a very interesting prospect – the group had split 14 years before the single's release. The single marked the return of a death metal institution, with the band still going today. Autopsy were an early force on the death metal scene …
From time to time I like to revisit the topic of vinyl record prices. I talked about them not too long ago and, while returns are still early, it looks like the bottom might not be falling out of the market after all. There's also a huge piece of news for a highly-coveted album from …
Today's single is my most recent acquisition – I saw info floating around about it and I made the purchase. It's as much a curiosity as anything but it's cool to have one of the most influential figures from my era on a recorded piece of music for the first time (that I know of). …
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