u/Dadaismisastratagem

.... and one LP. Not going to set the world on fire with this clutch of soundtrack 45s but I find them quite attractive. Pity about the stamps and writing on some of the labels. There's a ton more but these are the most interesting, to me anyway.

There's a few more LPs but the films are quite dull (Dr Dolittle, Paint Your Wagon (with blood!?!), Star, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Detective, Thoroughly Modern Millie. These LPs are radio station promos; open-ended interviews, ie, just the actor's answers and silence between and you get a script for the presenter to voice the questions. Some of these would be good for sampling.

Oxfam usually specialise in high price CDs. In one branch 'round here they keep CDs in locked glass display cases for £10 - £20. Not bottom end stuff obv. The more interesting CDs are always out of my price range. But, there's another Oxfam where they put it all out for 99p, it's on the other side of town so I don't go every week but maybe I should start.

There was a load of other jazz in there but it was a bit mainstream and not to my taste. Pleased with Mingus; a double and the Alice Coltrane. Gene Clark and Cale are doubles too.

I thought the Ghosties and Ghoulies shop was in Polperro.... but the reverse of the pic says Fowey. Where is it exactly - and is it still there?? Thanks.

Anyway - 1951 - Angela was one of my dad's girlfriends. Then me and my sister enjoying the same place, around 1967.

There's also a pic of a young Sean Connery and Lana Turner enjoying the ghosties too in the exact same place, if you search around for it.

The radio tin actually looks like a real radio, quite natty.

Cookie & the Crumbles record tin on the Dunkit label. Look at the songs titles, quite witty; "The Tea's Too Wet Without You".

Homer Simpson and several dog and cat tins. I'm actually trying to kick the biscuit habit atm.

I used to earn a living playing these records. Hard to believe perhaps. I spun a mix of house, indie, hip hop, soul, funk, rock, disco, DnB & so on. I had a great time and it was a lot of fun. I never took it seriously but I did manage to scrape a living from 1985 - 2015. I was happy to hang up my headphones as things were changing and I wasn't in a changing mood. I wouldn't do it now as the hours were killing me and the things I managed easily aged 25 became tragically difficult at 55.

My sister lives in Chelmsford. Very exciting place.

Some of these records are quite good. And some of them...... aren't (Eddie Grundy 'The Ferret').

Some 7"s from my collection

From Thailand, Yemen, Greece, Germany, France, Turkey, Iran, Africa, Bulgaria, UK, US... all over the place really

Box of records from around 20 years or so ago when I would buy anything that looked interesting in this one particular shop. They had a turntable there so I checked some of em out, but on the other hand I was drinking a lot at the time and my record purchases were out of control. I didn't really have an off switch back then.

This shop was called Edgeworld and you had to know where it was to even find it as it was tucked away in the back room on the first floor of a multi-part unit. They guy who ran it stocked a lot of great stuff, he always had limited editions, low runs; mainly experimental, out-there indie, electronic, dub, punk, noise and whatnot.

Eventually he decided to get out of the game and he had a closing down sale. The first week - 10% off everything, the second week 20% off and so on until week nine when it was 90% off everything.

I held my nerve and waited for the last week. Of course, a lot of stuff was gone by then but I made him an offer for everything that was left and he accepted, so I came away with a ton of amazing records and CDs for pennies in the pound.

This coincided with a couple of other large purchases and I managed to fill my flat up with boxes of records and CDs. This wasn't a particular problem but it freaked the cat out, who found herself in a disorientating maze of cardboard. Eventually I got rid of it all but that's another story.

Mainly reissues and boots. Quite attractive items all the same.

Some great songs but condition on the originals is a bit iffy and the rest are boots and reissues but buying OPs of some of this stuff is out of my range and I'm not a purist in any way, I just like 45s and they don't have to be mint for me to enjoy them. I have got a few original psychedelic 60s but they are in another box.

One of these days I'm going to put my records into some sort of logical order. On the other hand, I like flipping through boxes of random 45s.

Terrible camera work.

I paid £2 for the Chubby Checker as it has three Northern Soul bangers on there: The Fly, At the Discotheque and Do The Freddie. The rest were £1.

Locksmith has the funk track Far Beyond that Basement Jaxx sampled for Red Alert. Unlock The Funk is also good.

There's a song by Paul Revere & the Raiders called Gone that was covered by the UK psychedelic 60s band The Factory. It's like proto Glam, really good song.

But thin pickings really. The shop has a mountain of vinyl but it's almost all charity shop regulars.... easy listening, big band, classical, comedy and 60s and 70s pop of the weedy variety. Frankie Laine fans would be happy - I must've seen around 20 LPs in there.

A neighbour's father sadly passed away and she cleared his house. He had thousands of books. She didn't want them all, so passed some to us. They are mostly art books. We have had several deliveries over the past few weeks but they've been kind of absorbed into the rest of our stuff. These arrived last night. A couple of mixed bags.

The father's ex is moving into the house (they tried to sell it but no joy). She apparently has 5000 books, so the house will be filled with books again.

My Velvet Underground / Andy Warhol collection. I remember buying the Popism and From A To B And Back Again books back in the 70s so I've been acquiring these over several decades. I don't really search for them - they find me.

Bonus pic of the amazing Gerty Molzen 45. Her version of Walk On the Wild Side remains one of the greatest Lou Reed cover versions. Check it out if you haven't heard it. She struggles with the 'Doo-Doo-Doos' but that just adds to the charm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14rNqhuVj5A

Got these this morning. I'm diving straight into 'Wittgenstein's Poker - The Story Of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers'.

I'm now thinking about the books I left - there was a Richard Feynman book 'The Character of Physical Law' and a Jack Black book, can't recall title. I could have got 10 for £5. "It's not the ones you buy - it's the ones you didn't buy" as a wise man once said to me.

Here's some of them. Nothing to set the world on fire but fun to flick through.