Thickfreakness Is Coming To Your House (Photo credit: seventime)
It began innocuously on a Sunday afternoon. I had mentioned to my wife that I came across a series of local antique shops in Agoura Hills, right over by The Canyon Club. She said she wanted to check them out, so off we went. The first store we came across had lots of interesting trinkets, including an old Collier’s Magazine that was, unfortunately a bit out of our price range. We did find several old LPs, or vinyls or records. I hope you know what I’m talking about. They were the thing that was before MP3s, CDs and cassette tapes. I picked out a few. We bought them for around ten bucks each, after the 50% sale was applied. We figured we would use them as decoration for our game room.
Next thing we know we’re walking around the Oaks mall and we went into Urban Outfitters, where we found a whole section of records from mostly newer artists. There we found Thickfreakness by the Black Keys and Abbey Road by the Beatles. And we bought them. Thickfreakness may have been forgivable, as it came with a digital download, so we could actually listen to it. Abbey Road, well, we could have rationalized that as yet another decoration, right? Urban Outfitters sells turntables, several different brands. They are mostly portable with speakers included. They had a cool retro style with bright colors like orange and red. We didn’t buy one that day.
Collier’s The National Weekly (1902) … Don Towers of Cocoa, Florida..a/k/a Scrapdaddy (July 15, 2011) …item 2..The Solo (Carl Palmer) … (Photo credit: marsmet522)
The next weekend, we were buying gifts for my wife’s birthday and we went to Best Buy. Much to our surprise, they also had a section of LPs. I picked up an album by The Band, as Levon Helm had just passed and I thought it might be cool to have. I felt kind of ridiculous walking up to the counter and making yet another purchase of music I would never hear, so we decided to pick up a Sony USB Stereo Turntable. Later, we went to Hot Topic and they too had a record section. My wife picked out a Johnny Cash album and she also found The Artist in the Ambulance by Thrice, which just so happens to be my favorite band. I almost bought a Beastie Boys compilation. It was official, we had started a collection.
So, our journey continued as we checked out The Record Outlet, a store we had passed countless times going through town and spent about 80 bucks on a stack of records. We loved that place, and they even gave us free records because we bought so many. They also gave us an awesome map of all the record stores in California and surrounding states. Can you say road trip?
All in all, I’m really excited to add to our collection. I decided I’m going to attempt to review all the records I own over time. What do you think of that? I’m going to compile a list here of all the records I own and update it as I get more.
My Rec Collection:
- Thickfreakness – The Black Keys
- Abbey Road - The Beatles
- Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
- The Artist in the Ambulance – Thrice
- Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
- Nuthin’ Special – Lynard Skynard
- Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
- Why is There Air? – Bill Cosby
- Teaser and the Firecat – Cat Stevens
- Close to You - The Carpenters
- The Band – The Band
- Looking Back - Stevie Wonder
- Demo – Living Colour
- Whitney Houston – Whitney Houston
- Today’s Super Greats – Various Artists
- 2001 A Space Odyssey – Music from the Motion Picture Sound Track
- Greatest Hits Live - Heart
- Some Enchanted Evening - Blue Oyster Cult
- Labour of Love - UB40
- Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
- So Tough - Carl and the Passions
- Hot Space – Queen
- Spirit of America – Queen
- American VI: Ain’t No Grave – Johnny Cash
- Judy - Judy Garland
- The Game - Queen
- Desolation Boulevard - Sweet
- Come Around Sundown – Kings of Leon
- No Jacket Required – Phil Collins
- Brainwashed (Holland Import) - George Harrison
- The Barbra Streisand Album - Barbra Streisand
- In 3D - “Weird Al” Yankovic
- Electric Warrior - T. Rex
- Soldiers Under Command - Stryper
- In Currents - The Early November
- Beautiful Things - Anthony Green
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