Ep. 12 – One Mans Trash… – July, 11, 2008

…is another man’s treasure.  So the saying goes… well over the past few days i proved that true.

I have bought a lot of cds this week.  The first bunch i bought off ebay.  Hey Music Hunter, i thought you said you were going to hunt in stores and stay off the internet?  Yes, i was but i was curious so i checked ebay to see if they had anything rare by my favorite band stavesacre and sure enough they did.  I also found someone who was selling a bunch of cds i liked rfor really checp because they bought them intending to start a store.  I guess that fell through.  That sucks for them but it was good for me.

“Absolutes (Advance)” – Stavesacre

Someone on ebay was selling an advance copy of Stavesacre’s album “Absolutes” and i couldn’t pass that up.  The album was released in 1997 so i bet an advance copy is pretty hard to find.  It’s a really good album and it was on the hunt-list, so it’s a Double Whammy.  Price Paid: $5.98 (including shipping)

“Catch For Us The Foxes” – Mewithoutyou

One of my favorites bands.  This album is dark and ambient, heavy and beautiful.  Perfect experimental post-hardcore.  I really recommend this album, and i think the track “My Exit, Unfair” is my favorite mwy song.  Bought on ebay, new.  Price Paid: $5.79 (including shipping)

“4 Wall Blackmail” – Dead Poetic

Got really into these guys freshman year of high school (maybe a little before that).  This album was really good and i listen to it many, many times.  These guys have remained one of my favorite for years so when i saw this album on ebay brand new for cheap i snapped it up.  Price Paid: $5.99 (including shipping)

“No sir, nihilism is not practical” – Showbread

Their first album and what got me interested in them in the first place.  I think they have matured musically since this release but it is still a good listen.  The voice of Reese Roper (formerly of Five Iron Frenzy) is featured on two tracks on this album.  Found on ebay, new.  Price Paid: $1.04 (including shipping)

I also made a trip to record time today and picked up a few things:

“New Way to be Human” – Switchfoot

i like this sound much better than the newer popular switchfoot.  I noticed it the last time i went to record time and i decided to get it this time. Price Paid: $6

“5 score and 7 years ago” – Relient K

The best release by Relient K in my opinion.  The song Deathbead is to die for (no pun intended).  the whole record is a nice return to Relient K’s christian roots where their waws not much evidence of them in “mmhmm.”  Price Paid: $6

“Fall + Winter” – Jon Foreman

Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman’s solo project.  4 ep’s in one year, one each season; these are the first two.  His music is passionate emotional folk.  It’s really well written and a little sad, but for this sad is good.  Give it a listen even if you don’t like switchfoot.  I liked it and at first i didn’t even realize who Jon foreman was.  Price Paid: $13.99

Also, today i was driving around and i stopped at an estate sale to see if they had a record player for sale.  Turns out they did.  It was stuck in some back room, still plugged in with cords running behind cabinets and such.  I helped them dig it out and talk them down to $20.  So i got me a record player today!

Ep 3 – Third Trip to Record Time – June 13th

Yesterday i made my third trip to record time. First i traded in a Michelle Williams album for $3 store credit. The owner just looked at me when i handed him the disk and said, “Christmas Gift?” I chuckled and told him that i had won it in a raffle for my senior high school all night party. He looked at me again and said, “I don’t mean to stereotype, but you just didn’t look like the type to be listening to Christian Black Gospel.” It was pretty funny.

Armed with $3 in store credit I went straight to the Used indie rack and found a few albums i had considered last time, but put back in favor of others:

“Age of Reptiles” – Showbread

I think the only reason why i passed this album up not once but twice was the mere fact that i hadn’t listened to it in a long time. It was on the hunt-list, but i just wanted the other albums more. Well, i went straight for it yesterday after deciding i should buy it before someone else does. I’m sure glad i did, after putting it in my cd player i remembered just how much i love this album. Definitely show bread’s best so far. Price Paid: ($6 – $3 store credit = $3)

“Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice” – Starflyer 59

Jason Martin writes all music for this band. He also plays guitar and sings for them (and i also believe he is guitarist for Neon Horse) I definitely had this cd downloaded a few years ago, I’ve always really liked SF59, very good music… very ethereal and vast… hard to describe the sound, definitely worth checking out. I passed up this album a couple times since it was priced a little higher than the rest of the used ones, but it was in really good condition. Price Paid: $8

That was all i was going to get, but i was there with a friend, so we browsed around for a little while longer and that’s when i noticed the listening station… you could listen to any used cd you wanted… I jumped at the chance. I went back over to the Indie rack and grabbed an old SF59 album I’d been passing up since I’d first came to record time. I grabbed it and stuck it in the cd player:

“Self-titled” (A.K.A. “Silver”) – Starflyer 59

This cd blew me away. I had only passed it up because i had never heard it, and had never even seen it before. I suck it in the player and was blown away to hear not only the floaty ethereal melodies of later SF59 albums but heavily distorted guitar reminiscent of older Pink Floyd. I was dumbstruck by the sound, this was an album that i needed in my collection. After i got home i did some more research and found out that the album was SF59’s first recording and that it had been out of print for quite awhile. They had re-released it a few years ago but the re-release included different cover art and lacked the original booklet that is full of really interesting images and is very artistic. I was happy to find out that the album i had just got was pretty rare! Price Paid: $6

Again, a great success at record time. Next time i think i might try Hot Hits, another record store just a few miles down from Record Time on gratiot, since i may have cleaned them out of most of their good stuff for a while… i need to give them some more time to get new stuff in… so i will start exploring other record stores in the area, who knows what i will find then?!