at the copa.

posted by Debbie

Some of the best-loved members of my choking-on-dust collection (the player is having some trouble, and it'll have to wait to see the doctor until later in the year, when there is ample [ha!] money for such capricious repairs).

(If you leave, don't leave now.  Please don't take my heart away.)

(Sadly, the bonus 45 lp's *wrapper* was present and accounted for within the envelope, but not the actual disc.  Not surprising; it was a collector's item.  Still.  Sigh.  And yet, my complaints are thin; while the sticker says it cost $2.98, it was 70% off day, and I paid a mere $.99 for this double-album lp.  Which doesn't quite compute, but then, thrift store prices at the register have generally, if not always, been sketchy at best.)

(I purchased this disc at a thrift store in Anchorage, Alaska.  There was a type-written sticker with the name and address of the original owner still attached to the centermost portion of the record; the address was on Glisan Ave. in Portland, a street I ended up living on not quite a year after I returned to Portland from Alaska.  I thought it appropriate.)

(This album was sold to me by the, yes, THE Sean Croghan, of Crackerbash fame.  He spent a short portion of his working career at Jackpot records back when they first opened up shop.  I haunted the joint for some time because of it.  Sean used to be good friends and housemates with Elliott Smith.  Just writing that makes me sad.  I met Elliott through Sean and his friends, in fact.  Oh.  Sad.   This is,  by the by, an official thrift, because it was a used record - they traded in used and new.  I suppose they still do.  I don't shop record stores much these days; that is the purview of the younger set.)

(This was my favorite from my mother's collection when I was a kid.  I would sit and drink in its sultry details, from the high-heeled slippers to the menacing kitty and the ornate, dangly chandelier.  I suppose it explains my mid-twenties coiffe at one point, now that I think of it.  It mirrored that of the woman in the photo.)

Comments

[motherbumper]

That ventures album cover is rockin' though I'm not sure about slaughter on tenth avenue. Is that a lullaby? CD covers will never replace the beauty of vinyl - NEVER.

[nonlineargirl]

I knew I loved you.

[Marla]

Oh, do remind me to post about my "Organ Fantasies" album sometime, okay?