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October Vinyl Finds

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These are some of the albums that have made they way into my grubby hands in the last couple of weeks. I hit Northampton pretty hard the other week, I was only there a couple of days but still crammed in a boot, one auction and several charity shops. The best stuff turned up on my doorstep when I got home when a bloke answered my ad and rang saying he had a load of singles. I went round to his fancy static caravan and although the records were alright but nothing special and as I was saying my thanks but no thanks he asked if I liked The Beatles. Yeah sure, I said, so he pulls a record case out full of fab four and solo albums, “I want a fiver each for these, no offers” erm, OK so, I bought the lot, it’s what he wanted. Nice original UK 1st mono pressings, although there was a White Album with only one disc but it had the bits, lovely copies of Ram, Walls & Bridges etc, and…

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  1. https://i.imgur.com/nkfNF86.jpg
    A first press gold & black 1H/1H in quite incredible condition. I have only had 2 other copies in 40+ years of collecting, both came from car boots and both were scratched to hell and one never even had a sleeve, so this was gold indeed.

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    A pile of Lindisfarne and folk albums in an auction win also included this 2016 release which turned out to be nice surprise.

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    Also included was this short but delightful album which clocks in at less than 25 minutes. I saw Jarvis Cocker talking about it in the latest edition of Record Collector mag too.

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    Karma is most likely real, I dropped a box of albums off at a charity shop in Milton Keynes and flicked through their album selection in the racks and came across this wee beauty, case closed.

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    I’ve not heard Jarvis or anyone talking about this album I picked up in a charity shop in Morpeth on the drive home, I bought it for the sleeve art. Lady in the shop said the school is in the Newcastle area..

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    I paid a fiver for this one-sided interview disc, Ian explains the stories behind the songs.

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    I found a bunch of nice classical records on my travels too. Blagging access to the back of the shop I found 3 boxes they had all priced up at a fiver each (can’t believe they actually looked any of them up tbh) and in with them were 2 copies of this box set but I chose this one which had an undamaged box. A fiver a record seemed to be the magic price on this trip, spooooky.

    Ahh, but these albums were a pound each so I guess that blows that theory.

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