{"id":27990,"date":"2021-04-02T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27990"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T22:59:45","slug":"good-album-hunting-april-1-2021-relics-antique-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/02\/good-album-hunting-april-1-2021-relics-antique-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, April 1, 2021: Relics Antique Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got two $25 gift certificates to Relics Antique Mall for Christmas.  Relics&#8217; gift certificates are unique in two ways to Relics&#8217; favor: They expire in a mere six months, and you have to spend the total amount on the gift certificate as they give no change and they&#8217;re not gift cards that can carry a balance.<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of minutes between picking up the oldest from his after school activity and picking up the youngest from his after school activity, so I stopped by to see if I could find anything.  When I was in during the Christmas season, I had spotted a set of fencing equipment which I believe had two vests, two helmets, four gloves, and two foils, and I would have been all over that if I saw it again.  I mistakenly thought I had two $30 gift certificates, so I thought I would almost afford the fencing set which was $75 if memory serves.  But I didn&#8217;t see it.  I started browsing records though, thinking if I could find $30 in records in fifteen minutes, I would spend one of the certificates, and if I only found a couple bucks&#8217; worth of records, I&#8217;d pay.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as I have lamented before, record prices have been rising.  Not so fast for the old and the obscure stuff I like as much as for more popular fare, but where records would have been a couple bucks a couple years ago, now they&#8217;re five dollars and way, way up.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was playing with house money.  And in about twenty minutes, I found enough to spend both certificates.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gah24.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Torch Songs for Trumpet<\/em> by Doc Severinson and His Orchestra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Catching the Sun<\/em> by Spyro Gyra.<\/li>\n<li><em>All Access<\/em>, a two record live album it looks like, by Spyro Gyra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hollywood Byrd<\/em> by Charlie Byrd.  A jazz musician who the people who price records for antique malls don&#8217;t seem to have heard of as both his records were on the low end of the price scale.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Touch of Gold<\/em> by Charlie Byrd.  Of course, both records are &#8216;pops&#8217; more than jazz maybe.<\/li>\n<li><em>One of Those Songs<\/em> by the Fluegel Knights.  It looks to be a compilation; the name would seem to indicate a fluegelhorn somewhere, ainna?<\/li>\n<li><em>Here&#8217;s Jody<\/em> by Jody Miller.  She looks very country, but she&#8217;s PWOC (Pretty Woman On Cover), and the record has a version of &#8220;Won&#8217;t You Stay (Just A Little Bit Longer)&#8221; that I want to hear.<\/li>\n<li><em>Organ Moods in Hi-Fi<\/em> with Buddy Cole at the Pipe Organ.  C&#8217;mon, man, can you have too many organ records?  I mean, I have bought Klaus Wunderlich new on CD.  You know how I would answer.  Plus, this record was fifty cents.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Best of Tim Weisberg<\/em> by Tim Weisberg.  Two bucks; on the low end of the price scale, and I already have several Tim Weisberg albums.  Again, I guess this is the obscure stuff I accumulate.<\/li>\n<li><em>Impressions for Flute<\/em> by Ransom Wilson.  He looks much more serious than Tim Weisberg.<\/li>\n<li>A Nonesuch record with works by Francis Poulenc.  I have no idea who he is, but I know Nonesuch records.<\/li>\n<li><em>Around the World<\/em> by Frankie Carle.<\/li>\n<li><em>Feels So Good<\/em> by Chuck Mangione.  Because it has a better cover than the other one that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/20\/why-i-shop-for-records-at-antique-malls\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I recently bought at another antique mall<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Golden Classics<\/em> by Ace Cannon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I carefully estimated and thought I&#8217;d picked out about $65 in records (profligately).  It was only when I got to the register that I re-discovered my gift certificates were for $50 total.  But with the discounts applied, the total came to $53 something.  <\/p>\n<p>Which means that the records I got only cost me $4.  Many of them came with their own mylar sleeves, which is further savings.<\/p>\n<p>However, as my recent <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/27\/chores-you-didnt-know-existed\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">tidying of my record shelving<\/a> has indicated, I really need to build more shelving.  Especially with the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale coming up later this month with its fifty cent records on the Saturday.  Ay, if only I had a pickup truck to easily haul lumber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got two $25 gift certificates to Relics Antique Mall for Christmas. 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