My thoughts are with those in Boston tonight.
Yesterday, T-Rev, Wes and I attended the The Toronto Musical Collectibles Record & CD Sale. T-Rev went specifically hoping to find Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces, on vinyl, with the original round cover in displayable condition. He came home with that record for the price of $30.
I hit paydirt. I came with $200 and I left with $0 (there was a $5 entrance fee). I also left with seven (7!!!) Japanese import rock albums all with bonus tracks, five 12″ records, a 7″ single, and a rare book. Today I’ll show you the CDs, which I am most excited about! You can see the rest another day.
You can’t find Japanese imports anymore around here. And many of these are long out of print. I’ve been looking for the Pistols’ Filthy Lucre Live since 1996. Blackmore’s Rainbow is one that I’d seen before. The HMV store at Fairview Mall in Kitchener had one…in 1995. Rob Vuckovich used to try to goad me into buying it, but I couldn’t pay the $50 price tag for just one bonus track. $15 though? With obi strip intact? Hell yeah!
So here’s the list of Japanese imports and what I paid. I believe most of these have to be half of retail.
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Harem Scarem live album from 2002,that’s cool Mike!
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Deke I could do an entire post of just Japanese imports from Harem Scarem. I have a lot of stuff, other live albums from Japan.
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Cool, do it…..
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Wait until you see some of this vinyl I picked up. No spoilers…except to say that two are obscure Canadian bands that I am sure you remember. One may in fact be some kind of god of thunder….
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Awesome,look forward to it Mike!
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Brilliant haul. You just never see Jap Imports here anymore, and certainly not at those prices!
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Dude, it was a no-brainer. Even the ones I wasn’t sure about, like Harem Scarem, at that price, even if I had a double of it, I could make money.
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Yeah $15 for Jap imports is nothing. That’s a whole bunch of tracks there that very few people will have!
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Yeah, and I presume if you can’t get an album like that Rainbow anywhere anymore, that means it’s probably out of print in Japan. I am assuming.
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So cool, great haul. I went to one of these shows in Windsor, back in my university days. It was almost all bootlegs, and WAY too much money for what they had. You did better, on this trip. Can’t believe you left the Telly vinyl…
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Out of money dude! I actually spent every dollar I came with, down to the loonie!
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So the question is: did you get all you wanted, or could you have spent more if you’d had it on you? ;) What did you leave behind? Any regrets?
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The only thing I was regretting was another Ozzy single. But it turns out I didn’t need it, so it’s all good. Nope, no regrets. I bought every single Japanese import that I wanted, at those prices it would have been stupid to leave any behind!
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That’s awesome. Usually at these things, it comes down to choices and things have to get left behind.
So, no KISS Chikara, huh?
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Also, your computer should play that Gillan DVD – they’re usually region-free, these days.
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My bedroom player will play it but I don’t watch TV in there. It doesn’t matter, I have the domestic DVD. May as well hang onto it. My old work would only give me $5 for it anyway.
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Nice haul!
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Man, it was heaven! I could have spent $500…if I had $500…
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Absolutely – good thing the record shows are cash only for that reason, booths accepting credit cards would be trouble!
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They take credit cards now! At least some vendors did. There were two rooms, with the more expensive items/vendors in one room. They all took credit cards. But they were more about selling photographs and memorabilia.
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