{"id":26428,"date":"2020-06-27T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26428"},"modified":"2020-06-26T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:40:57","slug":"good-album-stuff-hunting-june-26-2020-relics-antique-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/27\/good-album-stuff-hunting-june-26-2020-relics-antique-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album<\/strike> Stuff Hunting, June 26, 2020: Relics Antique Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry to continue with the conspicuous consumption that is the hallmark of these pages, but after we got back on Wednesday night from our trip to Branson, I went looking for my most recent annual pass to the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield to see if I needed to get one before my boys and I take to bike the loop. <\/p>\n

I could not find a pass, but I did find the remaining gift certificates for Relics Antique Mall that my beautiful wife gave me for last Christmas which apparently only have a six month shelf life. They were scheduled to expire on June 30. So I was very glad to have found them this Wednesday instead of next Wednesday. They were $70 worth of gift certificates. I would say “I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve been to Relics,” but Relics was closed for a bunch of that time.<\/p>\n

I find it hard to spend gift certificates in the best of circumstances, but I really felt challenged to spend $70 at an antique mall. I mean, I don’t collect a lot of tchotchkes; I don’t have a lot of wall space for art (or furniture); and even with house money, I don’t want to spend the new-normal of seven to ten dollars on a record (!) because I’d get peeved if it skipped when I got it home. Also, as I had my boys along, I could not spend hours poring through the records anyway.<\/p>\n

But I did get a couple.<\/p>\n

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Yes, I got Phoebe Snow’s debut album<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As you might remember, gentle reader, I first spotted a copy of this record at Relics whilst Christmas shopping in 2018<\/a>, but I could not buy it as it did not have a price on it. And I have not seen another copy since. Today, I found two: One at $7.99 with 20% off and the second later at $1.99. Instead of taking the expensive one back, I bought them both. In case one skips.<\/p>\n

I also got a couple other albums: Twilight Time<\/em> and My Reverie<\/em> by The Three Suns; The Sounds of Silence<\/em> by Jane Morgan<\/em>; and In A Mellotone<\/em> by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.<\/p>\n

The selection of the antique mall records is starting to run towards 60s, 70s, and 80s rock and pop as well as country instead of the older stuff I like to accumulate. I guess my parents’ generation is reaching that dying or downsizing age, which is bringing that stuff to market, and it’s the stuff people my age in the album-buying mood wants to buy, which is why the records are so much more expensive. But I can generally still find things to buy in my mellow, easy listening genres that’s under $4 a record.<\/p>\n

But, Brian J., that doesn’t add up to $70 even with the expensive Phoebe Snow album,<\/em> you might notice.<\/p>\n

So what else did I get? Say hello to my other little friend:<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned when I got my guitar<\/a> in February 2018, I noodled around on a bass a bit in college. So now I’ve picked up a bass to mess around with again.<\/p>\n

How’s that guitar playing coming, Brian J.?<\/em> you might ask.<\/p>\n

Shut up, Ted. That is, it has not gone well. I took lessons for a while and quit because I wasn’t finding a lot of time to practice between lessons, so I was not advancing much at all. So I discontinued the lessons and found even less time to practice. So it went kind of like the worst possible way short of electrocuting myself with the E string.<\/p>\n

But now I have two such instruments in my office which will go much better.<\/p>\n

But at least I got something for the gift certificates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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