{"id":35416,"date":"2026-07-04T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35416"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:47:11","slug":"good-album-hunting-july-3-2026-the-remaining-relics-gift-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/good-album-hunting-july-3-2026-the-remaining-relics-gift-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, July 3, 2026: The Remaining Relics Gift Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after a couple of morning BJJ classes which were humbling <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/03\/the-pop-pop-schtick-will-continue\/\" target=\"_new\">in more ways than one<\/a>, I decided to prove that I&#8217;m still a young hep cat by going to Relics and spending the remaining gift certificate I received for my birthday (I got four, and I spent the others in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/01\/good-album-hunting-saturday-february-28-2026-relics-antique-mall\/\" target=\"_new\">February<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/good-album-hunting-monday-march-9-2026-relics-antique-mall\/\" target=\"_new\">March<\/a>.  As they only are good six months, I had to spend this remaining one before the end of August, and I hoped for some exercise, since two hours on the BJJ mats and having my youngest son dig his hands into my kidneys don&#8217;t count because I take my watch off.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, but no.  For there&#8217;s a new record booth in the first row, and it had an organized and fairly well-stocked Jazz section.<\/p>\n<p>I made it to K before realizing I&#8217;d overshot my $25.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gah07032026.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sleeping Gypsy<\/em> by Michael Franks.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cross Currents<\/em> by Eliane Elias, whose name I can pronounce correctly.  I got one of her CDs back in the days when I bought them because I liked a song on KCSM or WSIE.  But not this one, which is from&#8230;. 1988?  How is that possible?<\/li>\n<li><em>More Stuff<\/em> by Stuff which was in the &#8220;bargain&#8221; crate, not the jazz crate, but it looks to be jazz anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Two(?) by Dave Gruisin: <em>Dave Gruisin &#038; the NY-LA Dream Band<\/em> (the original 1982 release) and <em>Piano, Strings and Moonlight: The Many Moods of Dave Gruisin<\/em> (from 1962?  It fits the cover).  He&#8217;s the &#8220;Mountain Dance&#8221; guy if you listen to WSIE, but he&#8217;s much more, and I suppose I&#8217;ll have to look for him in the wild now.  I guess I almost consider Relics to be &#8220;the wild,&#8221; but at $5 a record, that&#8217;s a safari-style wild.<\/li>\n<li><em>Living Inside Your Love<\/em> by Earl Klugh.<\/li>\n<li><em>Twice the Love<\/em> by George Benson.  A promotional copy, not for resale.  Which I likely won&#8217;t, but my heirs, yeah, likely so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent about $14 in cash on them.  Now that I&#8217;m out of gift cards, it&#8217;s back to $3 and under records for me.  These were $5-7, so not <em>terrible<\/em>, and they were in much better shape than the ratty ones I fish out of estate sales and on Saturdays at the Friends of the Library book sale.  So I suppose I should go listen to them now (and by the time you&#8217;re done reading this, I will likely have listened to one or more, but not all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after a couple of morning BJJ classes which were humbling in more ways than one, I decided to prove that I&#8217;m still a young hep cat by going to Relics and spending the remaining gift certificate I received for my birthday (I got four, and I spent the others in February and March. 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