{"id":34992,"date":"2026-03-10T08:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34992"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:10:56","slug":"good-album-hunting-monday-march-9-2026-relics-antique-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/good-album-hunting-monday-march-9-2026-relics-antique-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, Monday, March 9, 2026: Relics Antique Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Brian J. was a good, good boy and completed all of his weekend chores, which included dusting and vacuuming the common areas of the house and doing a quick, expensive wipe of the hall and foyer.  After a martial arts class, too.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought I would head up to Relics and buy a couple records using the gift certificates I received for my birthday (like I did <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/01\/good-album-hunting-saturday-february-28-2026-relics-antique-mall\/\" target=\"_new\">the previous weekend<\/a>).  However: Relics had an event of some sort, and parking was at a premium, so I did not go in.<\/p>\n<p>But: I had an errand (coincidentally!) that took me to the area yesterday, so I stopped in for twenty or thirty minutes, just pawing through the same booth, and picked up 9 records.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gah03092026.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tubular Bells<\/em> by Mike Oldfield.  The song from <em>The Exorcist<\/em>.  Looking at it now, I think I might already have it.  Which so often happens.  But generally not at these prices.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Baddest Hubbard<\/em> by Freddie Hubbard.<\/li>\n<li><em>Surprises<\/em> by Herbie Mann featuring Cissy Houston.<\/li>\n<li><em>\u039c\u03b1\u03b6\u03af \u039c\u03b5 \u03a4\u03bf\u03bd \u03a3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7<\/em> by \u03a3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u039a\u03cc\u03ba\u03bf\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2.  Because I cannot tell the difference, at a glance, between Hebrew and Greek.  I thought I&#8217;d troll my oldest who is steeped in podcast politics and would be scandalized by a Jewish album.  But this is Greek folk music by Stamatis Kakotas.<\/li>\n<li><em>Low Ride<\/em> by Earl Klugh.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Changing of the Gard<\/em> by Stargard.  I told the young lady ringing me out that buying this made me the biggest Stargard fan in Springfield.\n<li><em>The Beginning and the End<\/em> by Clifford Brown.  Hard not to type <em>Jr.<\/em> behind it, but this is the DJ&#8217;s father.  Apparently, the booth was not rife with them&#8211;this is the only record they had.<\/li>\n<li><em>Reunion<\/em> by the Ramsey Lewis Trio.<\/li>\n<li><em>Land of the Midnight Sun<\/em> by Al Di Meola.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of trumpeters, a couple of jazz guitarist, a flutist.  Left behind: A couple of Moody Blues records.  A couple of David Sanborn records, as I mentioned.  No further Billy Joel records in evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The total was $73 and change, which is the <em>perfect<\/em> amount in one sense: As it was just under the total of the certificates I had, I paid two gift certificates plus some cash.  But I don&#8217;t expect to go next weekend.  Let&#8217;s let the stock turn over for a month or two.  Or I can find another booth and give myself permission to spend more than three dollars a record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Brian J. was a good, good boy and completed all of his weekend chores, which included dusting and vacuuming the common areas of the house and doing a quick, expensive wipe of the hall and foyer. After a martial arts class, too. 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