u/Dadaismisastratagem

... and a few other things. I buy more or less any music book I see, biographies etc. Always interesting. I was really happy to see the Moon Zappa book for £1 from the RSPCA, what a great find. The David Cavanagh book on Peel is good. I know the Castenada books are fiction but I still find them convincing somehow.

The Dave Marsh '1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made' is a bit strange, he's great on the 50s, 60s and 70s but by the time he hits the 1980s his choices are frankly embarrassing. It's a good history of early pop music though and he writes well.

That Saints 12" is good, The Fall covered This Perfect Day, one of the best songs from the first punk era. Felt "Space Blues", this band were so good and Lawrence is still making great music. The first two Suicide albums. Psychedelic Horseshit "Shitgaze Anthems". Two Peaking Lights. Someone gave me that first Ramones album as a gift, they said they used it to get rid of people at the end of the night. First UK pressing. And some other stuff.

Some decent bits found in a box of records. Y Records used to be my favourite label so it was great to find The Slits and The Pop Group in there. Everybody likes The Frogs. Sonic Youth and MBV promos. Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. I used to live near Genesis P. Orridge and met him a few times. Strange guy. That Tame Impala is quite scarce I think. The Finnish compilation of weird noise "Mykistäviä Välikohtauksia / Dumbstriking Incidents" has some amazing stuff on it. Test Dept, Psychedelic Horseshit, Angelfood Electronics, New Lou Reeds, Steve Treatment and YMG....

No one wanted to take responsibility for this insane masterpiece. Levitating alien in silver winged module.

I bought 10 boxes of CDs from a guy who needed them out of his house pronto. There's good, bad and ugly really. A lot of stuff I don't really like but I can funnel those back into charity shops or take them to the 2nd hand place for a trade.

The Impossibles was my favourite cartoon show as a kid. They were a pop group but they also were a crime-fighting team with super-powers: Multi-Man, Fluid-Man and Coil-Man.

For years afterwards I used to ask ppl if they remembered The Impossibles but no one ever did until sometimes in the '90s a friend had a Huckleberry Hound Annual and this contained an Impossibles strip. Then a couple of years ago I found this Impossibles annual in a charity shop.

I've read 7 of these already. The James Blish was good. The PKD Alas book I had back in the 80s but foolishly lent it to someone and it was never returned. I saw it in Oxfam in a glass cabinet, the first copy I've seen for decades so I snapped it up, sadly it wasn't £1 (nothing is £1 in Oxfam). It was £8 but it's a good book.

Went out today to get some groceries and a pharmacy prescription and thought "might as well call into a few charity shops while I'm out". Found these CDs.

The ones priced at £1 are actually three for £1 from the hospice charity shop. The rest were as priced. The Culture Two Sevens Clash CD was 25p. That's the bargain of the week.

The Blaxploitation doubles are full of great funk and soul and despite the fact they look a bit cheap and nasty... they sound great and all the tracks are full length versions. I think they were TV advertised when they came out, could be wrong.

The Dances of Uruguay CD is on Smithsonian Folkways and comes with a big thick booklet. They guy on the front looks a bit like Ricky Tomlinson or perhaps Gerry Adams.