@slaw, the feeling is quite mutual. "Get a room you two". ;-)
Great cheap LP's are still out there!
I recently received my monthly issue of Analog Planet (free on line, just sign up), which contains a write-up on the upcoming 2019 Record Store Day celebration. I clicked on the list of participating Indi record shops, and found a couple near me I was not even aware of. I visited them both this morning, and was pleasantly surprised. I had dropped off my sister at her hour-long doctors appointment, so had only enough time to give both a cursory looking over. Both were filled mostly with LP’s---CD’s, cassettes, and DVD’s were allotted far less floor space. I guess LP’s really are back!
Both shops had all their LP’s in plastic outer sleeves, and very well organized. At the second there was a "New Arrivals" rack, and I looked through the whole thing. To my surprise I found four LP’s I just couldn’t not buy. All were absolutely Mint, not a sign of having ever been played. And all very low priced, perhaps because my musical tastes are not exactly mainstream. They are:
- Emmylou Harris: The Ballad Of Sally Rose. Emmylou’s concept album, with an incredible lineup of musicians including Russ Kunkel, Larrie London, Emory Gordy Jr., Hank DeVito, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, and many more. $3.99
- Ricky Skaggs: Country Boy $1.99!
- Herb Pedersen (Chris Hillman’s partner in The Desert Rose Band): Southwest. Musicians include Jim Gordon, Leland Sklar, Larry Carlton, Al Perkins, David Lindley, Ed Carter, Linda Ronstadt on harmony vocals. $2.99
- Mike Auldridge: Blues And Bluegrass (on Takoma Records, a great label known for it’s sound quality). Musicians include Vassar Clements (a favorite of Jerry Garcia), Doyle Lawson, David Bromberg, Ricky Skaggs, a bunch of others. $2.99
Perhaps others want to share on this thread his or her recent finds of original-pressing LP's.