{"id":29331,"date":"2021-12-11T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29331"},"modified":"2021-12-11T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:02:41","slug":"good-album-hunting-saturday-december-11-2021-christmas-shopping-done-wrong-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/11\/good-album-hunting-saturday-december-11-2021-christmas-shopping-done-wrong-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, Saturday, December 11, 2021: Christmas Shopping Done Wrong Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had a couple of hours today between dropping my son off at an event and picking him up, so I thought I would do a little Christmas shopping.  As such, I stopped at Mike&#8217;s Unique antique mall\/flea market.  I saw a Marine Corps emblem made of LED lights that I thought I&#8217;d get my brother, until I thought, &#8220;What kind of Marine would want a Lite Brite eagle on an anchor?&#8221;  And although I told myself, I would only go through the records at a single booth (and not the records-centric booth at the back), well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gah27.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>No\u00ebl<\/em> by Nana Mouskouri, a Greek singer.  The album itself looks to be German.<\/li>\n<li><em>Communication<\/em> by Bobby Womack.  I already have this one on CD; now I can spin it along with <em>The Poet I &#038; II<\/em> on the turntable.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Exciting Voice of Sergio Franchi<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>La Bella Italia<\/em> by Sergio Franchi, whose Christmas records I&#8217;ve been playing and enjoying this season.<\/li>\n<li><em>Romantic Love Songs<\/em> by Sergio Franchi.  And now when I see his other records, clearly I pick them up.<\/li>\n<li><em>Robert Mitchum Sings<\/em> by Robert Mitchum.  The tough guy actor.  One day, I will have all the songs from the Golden Throats series on the original records, werd.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lamp is Low<\/em> by Marilyn Maye.<\/li>\n<li><em>Made in France<\/em> by the Surrey Strings.  Which looks to be songs about France, not songs in French or French singers at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I did find a single gift at Mike&#8217;s Unique, but my ratio there of gifts for others\/things for me was 1\/9.  Far below the ideal 1:1 ratio I strive for.  In my defense, some people are hard to shop for, but I always know when I want something.<\/p>\n<p>The records ranged in price between $2 through $8 (the Bobby Womack record); most were $2 or $3, and some discounts were applied.  It&#8217;s becoming fairly standard, unfortunately, to find records by artists whose names you recognize at about $10.  But I&#8217;ll still find something inexpensive to take a flier on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had a couple of hours today between dropping my son off at an event and picking him up, so I thought I would do a little Christmas shopping. As such, I stopped at Mike&#8217;s Unique antique mall\/flea market. I saw a Marine Corps emblem made of LED lights that I thought I&#8217;d get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29331","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=29331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29333,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29331\/revisions\/29333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}