Archive for the 'Music; LPs' Category
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
A dozen recent listings of interest at: . . . https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=51238921 Click title to reach original listing (with further illustrations) or to buy.
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Friday, May 20th, 2016
Post title pilfered from this Reason “Hit and Run” blog post. Images mainly stolen from McAfee’s F***book pages, here and here.
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Sunday, November 8th, 2015
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Monday, October 5th, 2015
Cat’s Curiosities also sells vinyl LP records, by the way — nearly 200 offered online, at last count. Simply go to our online ABE store at www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=0&vci=51238921 and enter the word “LP” or “vinyl” or “record” — results may differ slightly, but any of the three will do — in the “Search Within these Results” […]
Full Article Categories: Collectibles, History, Media, Music; LPs
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
So, there you are at the yard sale, confronted by boxes of old books, records, and miscellany. What do you look for? “Buy what you like,” has long been good advice. Until you learn to grade for condition — and to tell a first edition from a later reissue or even (God forbid) a book […]
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Friday, December 5th, 2014
As models on photo shoots generally go by their first names only, and the agency sending them out (“Ship us a redhead, a blonde, and a brunette, will you?”) would have little incentive to ask or keep track of the artist whose LP was in the process of being “jacketed,” I know of no definitive […]
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Thursday, November 27th, 2014
And so another holiday season arrives, another season we’re not supposed to call “Christmas” because we might thus offend . . . well, not exactly sure. Non-Christians who don’t realize how funny it is that the church simply grabbed up the pagan Winter Solstice holiday, co-opting it complete with mistletoe and “Yule logs,” and announced […]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Years ago, good-looking young people hoping to break into careers on stage or screen often started out as models, posing for fashion ads or even for record jackets, while waiting to be “discovered.” (James Garner started out modeling bathing suits.)
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Saturday, October 11th, 2014
Yes, we now have Korla Pandit!
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
There are thrift shops in town with signs up, seeking to buy Michael Jackson LPs and other “related material.” They do this because people have been coming in since the “King of Pop’s” untimely demise, asking to BUY Michael Jackson stuff. I understand.
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