{"id":25440,"date":"2019-12-31T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25440"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:52:17","slug":"good-album-hunting-december-30-2019-relics-antique-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/31\/good-album-hunting-december-30-2019-relics-antique-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, December 30, 2019: Relics Antique Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my beautiful wife gave me some Relics gift certificates for Christmas.  Relics has gift certificates, not gift cards, and they do not offer cash back when you present a gift certificate, so if you don&#8217;t spend the entire amount of the certificate, the remaining balance is lost.  To account for this, she gave me four certificates valued at $25 each.  As I entered Relics, I thought about what I might buy for $100.<\/p>\n<p>And I bought records.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gah20.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I did not get $100 of records.  I could have if I wanted; heaven knows some of the dealers are starting to mark up the records above ten or twenty dollars each.  Fortunately, I don&#8217;t listen to that kind of crap.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Una Noche en Villafontana<\/em> by Jorge Ortega, Roberto P\u00e9rez V\u00e1zquez, and Arturo Romero<\/li>\n<li><em>It Looks Like Phoebe Snow<\/em> by Phoebe Snow.  Still no sight of the elusive <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/01\/good-album-hunting-november-30-2018-christmas-shopping-at-relics-antique-mall\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">self-titled debut album<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Jacquet&#8217;s Got It<\/em> by Illinois Jacquet and His Big Band.<\/li>\n<li><em>Live at the Whiskey A Go Go<\/em> by Herbie Mann.  Not listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discogs<\/a> except as part of a compilation CD.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bird in a Silver Cage<\/em> by Herbie Mann.<\/li>\n<li><em>Shandi<\/em> by Shandi Sinnamon.  I got her album <em>Shandi Sinnamon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/good-album-hunting-wednesday-october-16-2019-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in October<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lisa Dal Bello<\/em> by Lisa Dal Bello.  Latin pop from the 1970s with a Pretty Woman on the Cover (PWC).<\/li>\n<li><em>Carnaval<\/em> by Spyro Gyra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Collaboration<\/em> by George Benson and Earl Klugh.  The most expensive record I bought at $4 before discounts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Gallant Men: Stories of the American Adventure<\/em> Told By Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen.  Apparently, I am a sucker for legislators on LP as I bought Robert Byrd&#8217;s fiddling album in October.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Cantebury Tales<\/em> read in Middle English by J.B. Bessinger, Jr.  I haven&#8217;t listened to the copy that I bought in October&#8211;many of those LPs got shelved without a listen to make room for the Christmas LPs&#8211;but this one has a better cover.<\/li>\n<li><em>Holiday Cheer<\/em> by Dean Martin.  Upon further review, this is the same tracks as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/christmas-album-review-winter-romance-by-dean-martin-1964\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winter Romance<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Apollonia 6<\/em> by Apollonia 6.  The other female pop group created by Prince after the Vanity 6.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hideaway<\/em> by David Sanborn.  A promo copy not for sale.  Mine isn&#8217;t, unlike the vendor who violated the letter and spirit of this law.<\/li>\n<li><em>Skyway<\/em> by Skyy.  On the cover, the eight person band wears matching track suits.  So you know what you&#8217;re going to get: 70s Disco Funk.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Christmas Song<\/em> by Lawrence Welk.  Even though I didn&#8217;t get to listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/a-bit-of-a-scratched-christmas-season\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listen to Christmas records much this year<\/a>, I did feel that my collection was growing a bit stale, so I added, I thought, two records today.  Given that the Dean Martin is really just a duplicate, I have only added this one.<\/li>\n<li><em>Winner In You<\/em> by Patti LaBelle.<\/li>\n<li><em>Patti LaBelle<\/em> by Patti LaBelle.<\/li>\n<li><em>Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta<\/em> by Syreeta.<\/li>\n<li><em>Intimate Excitement<\/em> by Vikki Carr.<\/li>\n<li><em>Now<\/em> by Patrice Rushen.  PWC, and further evidence that I have completely turned the corner into collecting 80s pop as long as it looks to have an R&#038;B sensibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total came to $47 and change, which was not quite two gift certificates.  So I only used one certificate and paid for the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Which means, essentially, that the Christmas gift is four guilt-free trips to Relics to buy records.  Not that I felt guilty, well, <em>too<\/em> guilty when I found my way to Relics and then home with a dozen or so records.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, flipping though Discogs and eBay has shown me that I didn&#8217;t really overpay for these records, but I didn&#8217;t get any real steals, either.  So long as I enjoy them from time to time and can organize them when I build more record storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my beautiful wife gave me some Relics gift certificates for Christmas. Relics has gift certificates, not gift cards, and they do not offer cash back when you present a gift certificate, so if you don&#8217;t spend the entire amount of the certificate, the remaining balance is lost. To account for this, she gave me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25443,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25440\/revisions\/25443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}