Just joshin'. ;):D Anyone who says they've not been there is lying. I, for one, wasn't exactly hip enough to know Nick Drake until the Ryko/Hannibal reissues of the early '90s...

Leaaves - Death Metric

Dere Moans - Brain Mountain Disciples

Phoned Nil Trio - Gets Nasty

'Lectric Workers - Robot Is Systematic 12"

Wonderful Italo track from 1982. Check it!


https://youtu.be/WEXZc3MWaP0

Autolux - Future Perfect - CD - 1 dollar used

Ha, not bad! :) Carla Azar is an amazing drummer (I'm more familiar with her from her work on Sam Phillips' Fan Dance and A Boot And A Shoe) but Autolux I've never been able to really dig — too derivative for these ears, maybe.

Not familiar with the albums that you mention; I'll have to check them out. Agree that they're derivative, but I couldn't pass on a 1-dolllar CD copy. Love how the album opens with Azar's drums, and her drumming in general.

Polyvinyl Records sent me a coupon for 10 dollars. Already have all the Deerhoof they have to offer. So I ordered Xiu Xiu's Girl with Basket of Fruit on CD, which was 10 dollars, so basically free. I just had to pay 4 dollars shipping. Don't know this band, but they were recommended to me. Input on Xiu Xiu? Could stream their music, but going to wait for the CD.

Listened to one of their albums, can't remember which one. Think I was intrigued, but not enough to explore further.

You should chat with d.sound, she's the one who recommended them to me.

Thanks. Listened to it. Good, but have to be in the mood, perhaps a dark and despondent mood. Can't decide if great or weird for the sake of weirdness, not sure. Still digesting, but definitely intrigued.

Unit (Regurgitator) and the PUSA self-titled.

Nobody is! I mean, some people are, it's not like she releases her music on 3" CDs that you have to buy from the back of a van down by the river; for the most part she's been on major labels and "only" during the last decade she's been DIY-ing it. But the woman makes one flawless album after another, she's got a distinctive style and voice, unforgettable melodies and heartbreaking lyrics, and yet you never see her records on those goddamn best-of-the-year lists, as far as I know she never gets invited to perform on late night talk shows, Christ on a stick what the living hell is wrong with people. The highest level of notoriety she's reached over the last twenty years is composing and performing the incidental music for Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and I don't know what size of those shows' audiences give a serious flying fuck about music.

Going to Wash DC for a couple days. Hoping to go to some of the famed music stores. Will see what I get.

But recently, got:

Lee Ranaldo Live at Rough Trade East LP
Mission of Burma Peking Spring LP

This performance kicks all kinds of ass (and the download code is hi-res :)).

hah, is buying an album digitally frowned upon in this thread? Just wondering cause I bought myself a few things. Nothing too left of center, just stuff I've been meaning to get for some time.

Of course not. These days just buying the freakin' things is something positive, all in all. Broke as hell as I am (I'm getting evicted from "my" apartment for fuck's sake), I try to buy them in the best format they're available, and sometimes their only availability is virtual/download (terms I prefer over "digital" in this context because CDs are of course digital as well — them ones and zeros and whatnot :)). If I'm not mistaken (hipster_bebop_junkie should correct me if I am), Low's cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" never made it to physical or lossless, so I had to buy it from Amazon or iTunes or summat in m4a format.

I think I prefer this over the studio album.

Well, in that case, I got some iTunes gift cards for my birthday, so went on a mini shopping spree.
Nada's- Luna In Piena. Nada is an Italian singer I've really gotten into lately.
Oningo Boingo's Boingo album. I've always liked Oningo Boingo's singles I'd hear on the radio but its only recently that I've been buying their albums.
Unkle-Psyence Fiction Album's just a classic.

Oingo Boingo, eh? You know, months ago I was checking out Wikipedia to find out what's been up with Bridget Fonda (when was the last time you saw her?) and it says she's a "former" actress now. Retired. So, being married to Danny Elfman, she's being oingoboingoing this whole time! ;):D

Bill Callahan's Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest - LP pre-order

NOICE. Did you pre-order it after I posted about it or...? ;):D