avast ye starbuck!

so i picked up some more records yesterday and i think that i did fairly well.

I was waiting and waiting, what would have probably have been in vain, for my copy of the Arcade Fire's new album 'funeral' to arrive at lovells. i had ordered it about a month ago, so that i could make sure that it would come in and be in my greedy little hands the day that it came out (which was last week sometime). Apperntly though my album was now on backorder, and by the best estimations of a kid named andy at lovells, it could be a couple of MONTHS before it arrived. My greedy little hands, i must confess to you, began to sweat and slowly curl into large block shaped meats.

thankfully andy, noticing my meat-fisted distress, quietly let me know that he had seen a copy of the very vinyl i sought on-sale at penny lane records just down the street. he then graciously refunded my five dollar deposit on said album, and wished me good luck. good luck was to be mine that day indeed, as evidenced by the albums i subsequently found resting quietly (as albums do when not spinning) in the used racks, back and to the right, in the store.

i picked up a copy of Big Country's album 'crossing time' from it's original 1983 release. many of you may think me the fool for picking up, and actually buying this album, but you would be mistaken. this album kicks double double ass, even earning the distinction of this little number of an article by you-know-who. this was a personal pick for me. i have big country tracks on my itunes, and i really wanted this one. it's worth about a dollar more than i paid for it, so that's cool too. but here comes really good stuff.

i picked up a copy of yves montand's album 'one man show' recorded live at the theater de l'etoile, paris, 1958. the vinyl is in M- condition. plays perfectly, very little noise, and the cover shows super little wear, mainly at the corners as to be expected. i think i piad two dollars for this guy, and it's selling at an average of $45 on the couple of high-end record collector sites i checked. not too shabby!

i guess i am a francophile because after i found the montand album i spied a little number by a french singer named mireille mathieu. i thought the cover looked nice, though it's a little different from the one above. the picture is cropped a little bit tighter, and the text is absent from the lower right hand corner. this particular copy was released on Capitol in france and the logo is really sweet. the album and sleeve are in awesome shape. i paid a dollar, and the sites are selling it for about $63, give or take a couple bucks. awesome!

the sad thing, or the good thing i suppose, is that i wont be selling these. i like em too much. so maybe someday in ten years if i get hard up for cash or something, maybe they will make their way to ebay or something, but not for the time being.