hi fidelity

being a regular at a record shop is really great. i sold some records the other day at amoeba and got much less than they were worth. but hey i needed the cash at that point. anyway, i was feeling kinda sad about it, but just a little because the stuff i sold were recent releases that i will be able to find again. i digress.

being a regular at a record shop is really great.

amanda and i had to put some letters in the mail tonight, so we walked to the post office. it was starting to cool off, and the walk was nice. wednesday nights they have the street fair during the summer in whittier, and we decided to walk around a little bit. i got an iced coffee and thought it might be fun to pop into the record shop and see if there was anything worth getting. im not going to tell you which one though because i don't want to get anyone in trouble. this will become clear, i promise.

being a regular, i know most of the kids that work there, and i used to give them free drinks whenever they came down to starbucks to buy coffee. this was a good way to make friends with them, and i knew it would eventually pay off. it's been at least six months or so since i quit starbucks, and they still hook me up with REALLY good deals on records. usually, they pretend i have a full punch card and give me ten dollars off, but tonight must have been a special evening.

amanda and i looked at a couple of nice records that were on the wall, and had them take them down for us to check out. a nice copy of Hwy. 61, and Never Mind The Bullocks. we thought about it for a minute, but decided against those and went to the racks in the back to check out the used vinyl. i was really hoping that they would hook us up a little, so i picked out almost every record that i liked and didn't already have that was worth actually having. they have pretty decent prices on used stuff, but my stack was getting really close to the fifty dollar mark because the records were all in really good shape, and original issue. i told amanda if they didn't give us a deal we could just put some of them back. the lord smiled upon us tonight though.

with tax the total, as far as i figured it was going to be about $56, and i ended up paying a grand total of $17 and some change. here at the records i got that i will be playing in the next couple of weeks with a sweet smile on my face, possibly dancing with my wife:

Miles Davis 'E.S.P.'
Miles Davis 'Quiet Nights'
CCR 'Green River'
CCR 'Cosmo's Factory'
CCR 'Bayou Country'
Simon & Garfunkel 'Wednesday Morning, 3am'
Donovan 'Donovan's Greatest Hits'
Echo & the Bunnymen 'Porcupine'
Bob Dylan 'New Morning'