Over the weekend I went to a resale shop to poke around and I found these discs:
John Mellencamp - Dance Naked - This was funny because it had a placard announcing the 1994 summer tour
John Cougar - American Fool - Haven't listened to that in forever
Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl - I saw her years ago when she opened for Stevie Nicks. Shawn was much better. This release is all covers. There's a great Steve Earle one and a great version of "Killing the Blues"
VanZant - It sounds a lot like '90s Skynyrd
Cream - The Very Best Of - I found this interesting because the songs are so short. I have some amazing live Cream from '69 & '70 and the songs last forever
Thorogood - Boogie People - Hey, it's fun
My bill out the door:
$2.47 
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$2.47! Â Who'd have thought that 20 years ago! Â Still love my cds and buying/finding them too. Â When it's time for me to go to Valhalla, someone is going to have quite the cd/music find. Â May he/she/they have as much fun and vibe as I did. Â Cheers!
Thats a low price for a lot of music. I don't have any shops near that sell them for less than $1
I like the liner notes, who played on what, who was a guest background vocalist, etc. Who knew Jim Keltner & Kenny Aranoff have seemingly played drums with everyone? I know most people these days don't want them but I like 'em. You can download them to your computer so you don't have to reach for them all of the time anyway. But you can if you want.Â
A buck a disc is still a good deal. Cheaper than paying an extra $3.99 to have one shipped to you.
You never know what you might find in a thrift shop. My wife found me a cashmere Cardinal of Canada overcoat recently for $14. The thing is brand new and warm as hell.
(Just don't tell her I shop for her Xmas presents there). 
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Recently discovered a used record/CD shop on a weekend getaway to Napa, Ca. And what should I see but a bundled CD set of the Rascals first five albums on Atlantic. The Rascals were the first concert I attended (1966). They rocked and it wasn't just "Good Lovin". Felix Cavaliere was absolutely one of the best "blue-eyed" soul singers besides being a groove-master of the Hammond B-3. Their songs always received major cover play at my high school dances.Â
BTW, the Rascals were the first white band signed by r&b oriented Atlantic. Wonder how much the Rascals successful run on the label led to Atlantic adding some other white rock, blues and r&b oriented groups to their label. I can think of one right away.
One of their great minor hits, guaranteed to get you movin'.Â
The place I went to had cassettes and 8-tracks. It would have been neat to find something just for its collectability. I have a lot of cassettes that I can't play and even some 8-track ABB albums including a cool Eat A Peach. Those are hard to find.
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Music gifts at Christmas have always been my favorites both giving and receiving. Â Fortunately, we're still keeping the vibe alive! Â Jr. got David Gimore's latest CD while Jr. gave me Ryan Bingham's Red Rocks download (no CDs). Â Suffice to say, the house has been Rockin'!
No intent to hyjack but seems like a related question to raise here.
I haven't googled anything yet, but our family has some of those Bose Wave radios. My Mom has one, the kids have one, we have one that I got out to use in the garage and the CD player is clicking and making some noises when I try to play CD. My Mom told me the last time she tried to play a CD in her's it did the same thing. So 2 of the 3 we have around developed this problem. Not sure the kids even use theirs anymore, doubt they play CDs. Anyone have similar issues with CD players like this ...I assume there is a belt in there, maybe I should take one apart.
I have hundreds of Cd's from over the years and was always a firm believer in playing them. But I listened to some recently for the 1st time in a long time,and its hard for me to listen to them as music that is downloaded sounds way better now.
