Most recent record/album you bought

[sockwithaticket]

A companion thread to the other one.

More than one album for me as I bought them all together while attempting to fill in catalogue gaps:

Bleeding Through - Declaration
Make Them Suffer - Worlds Apart
Kublai Khan TX - Nomad

[Slick]

Do we still buy albums?

I’ve only bought vinyl from charity shops over the last few years. Mainly Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and opera.

Actually, I did buy Happy Mondays, Thrills Pills and a bellyaches a while back

[laurent]

Do we still buy albums?

I’ve only bought vinyl from charity shops over the last few years. Mainly Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and opera.

Actually, I did buy Happy Mondays, Thrills Pills and a bellyaches a while back

Yes CD and vinyls

I put them in flac (or download if a vinyl)

[sockwithaticket]

Do we still buy albums?

I do, primarily digitally* these days, but it's still the full thing with all the tracks.

Every now and then I'll find a release where it's not all worth purchasing and I'll cherry pick the best songs, but even where there's a bit of filler it's mostly more cost effective to buy the whole thing or the songs i'm not wild about, despite being a bit average, work in the context of listening to the album all the way through. Some bands still construct a record with thought to it being a full track one to the end listening experience.

*Since it's not hard to find stuff in FLAC or WAV compared to even a few years ago where buying the CD and ripping in that format would've been necessary.

[boere wors]

Bought this on the cd but like most it's the exception these days. Vinyl collection was stolen years ago and hadn't the heart or energy to go again

WTF... who and how??

[assfly]

I think the last album I bought was a download from iTunes, can't even remember what it was.

[FalseBayFC]

Do we still buy albums?

I’ve only bought vinyl from charity shops over the last few years. Mainly Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and opera.

Actually, I did buy Happy Mondays, Thrills Pills and a bellyaches a while back

Same. After getting rid of all my CDs, I know find myself buying them again at charity shops. My daughter is a thrift fashion addict and I have to take her on a weekly round of buying old clothes. I spend the time going through records and CDs.

The last CD I bought was Catatonia's International Velvet. The last record I bought was Juluka's African Litany.

[clydecloggie]

Bought together. Satisfying my inner post-prog-classic rock fan.

Next purchase needs to be much heavier, I feel out of kilter.

[Insane_Homer]

don't 'buy' albums anymore due to Google Music/Youtube family subscription. I've really enjoyed Mark Lanigan playlists since learning of his demise on here

[FalseBayFC]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

[robmatic]

Do we still buy albums?

I’ve only bought vinyl from charity shops over the last few years. Mainly Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones and opera.

Actually, I did buy Happy Mondays, Thrills Pills and a bellyaches a while back

I still buy albums on CD then convert them to flac and stream them to my phone/computer etc. from a Plex server. I prefer the sound quality of a CD, although now I'm the parent of a toddler I don't really get the chance to sit in front of the hifi and enjoy music anymore. I'm also definitely more of an album listener than single songs.

Last couple of albums I bought were Pneumonia by Whiskeytown and The Golden Age of Radio by Josh Ritter.

[robmatic]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

I couldn't get into it until I discovered that there is a really specific period of jazz that works for me - late 50s/early 60s. Stuff before that isn't soulful enough and stuff after that is too 'noodly'.

[tabascoboy]

I still buy CDs as I like to own something physical, although ripping tracks for playlists on a USB stick for convenience ( still on hifi - don't listen to music on the move.) Every CD I bought for the last few years though is deeply uncool and anime related OSTs

[MungoMan]

I still buy CDs as I like to own something physical, although ripping tracks for playlists on a USB stick for convenience ( still on hifi - don't listen to music on the move.) Every CD I bought for the last few years though is deeply uncool and anime related OSTs

Yep, I still buy CDs as well and rip them via Apple Music (the former iTunes).

Last week I bought:
All the good times - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
The slow rush - Tame Impala
The essential Miles Davis
The modern medieval - Something for Kate
50 years of Blonde on Blonde - Old Crow Medicine Show.

[Torquemada 1420]

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jM8dCGIm6yc

[inactionman]

A couple of Nina Simone LPs.

I'm not a huge fan of live recordings in general, but these are actually OK.

Retailers - both for new and second-hand - are taking the piss with the price of vinyl. £25 for a re-release? That's been digitally treated anyway?

[Torquemada 1420]

Retailers - both for new and second-hand - are taking the piss with the price of vinyl. £25 for a re-release? That's been digitally treated anyway?

This is a minefield and depends on what other stuff has gone on with the remaster/re-release. A lot of it is sh*t and will either sound inferior (but usually louder!) to a good original or will sound different. The latter then opens the can of worms over what the artist originally intended it to sound like. Personally, I will look out for reissues that have been cut from the best of the original masters but only a few issuers do this.

[Oxbow]

Still buy CDs and occasionally vinyl, I much prefer having a physical product I can hold and look at than a download. Last CD I bought was Black Pearl by 50 Foot Wave.

[sockwithaticket]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

I couldn't get into it until I discovered that there is a really specific period of jazz that works for me - late 50s/early 60s. Stuff before that isn't soulful enough and stuff after that is too 'noodly'.

I've got a bit pf a penchant for New Orleans brass band stuff. Tends to be quite funky and fun, concerned with making a song people can dance to rather than sit in the dark and pontificate over. Other stuff that isn't purely about setting up a solo or running as many scales as possible is good too, but not all that easy to find when you're a genre dabbler. Charles Mingus' Haitian Fight Song is a favourite.

[robmatic]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

I couldn't get into it until I discovered that there is a really specific period of jazz that works for me - late 50s/early 60s. Stuff before that isn't soulful enough and stuff after that is too 'noodly'.

I've got a bit pf a penchant for New Orleans brass band stuff. Tends to be quite funky and fun, concerned with making a song people can dance to rather than sit in the dark and pontificate over. Other stuff that isn't purely about setting up a solo or running as many scales as possible is good too, but not all that easy to find when you're a genre dabbler. Charles Mingus' Haitian Fight Song is a favourite.

I have some Treme Brass Band and Rebirth Brass Band, but my wife is into it more than me. I've also got a fair amount of Mingus, favourite stuff of his is Blues & Roots and Ah Um.

[tabascoboy]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

I couldn't get into it until I discovered that there is a really specific period of jazz that works for me - late 50s/early 60s. Stuff before that isn't soulful enough and stuff after that is too 'noodly'.

Tried Frank Morgan?

[FalseBayFC]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

I couldn't get into it until I discovered that there is a really specific period of jazz that works for me - late 50s/early 60s. Stuff before that isn't soulful enough and stuff after that is too 'noodly'.

Tried Frank Morgan?

I do love Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis and many others. I just never became a jazz nerd and learned about the history and academic side of it. I don't know whether its swing or hard bop or whatever. Just like moody, atmospheric stuff.

[FalseBayFC]

I bought a turntable after I started watching Bosch, the detective who plays atmospheric jazz in his Hollywood Hills apartment. I tried but never really got 'into' jazz though. Like some of it. Call it a cultural midlife crisis.

I couldn't get into it until I discovered that there is a really specific period of jazz that works for me - late 50s/early 60s. Stuff before that isn't soulful enough and stuff after that is too 'noodly'.

Tried Frank Morgan?

Thanks for the recommendation. Just listened to some of his stuff on YT and that is right up my alley.

[Line6 HXFX]

The Extremist by Joe Satriani, around 1991.
Around this time I was only buying stuff I was going to buy the guitar tablature for too,, to learn note perfectly and basically impress my unimpressed guitar teacher in college at the time.and maybe gig with etc.

Think around that time my Mrs bought me an Alanis Morrisette album (Jagged little pill) and a bottle of Vat 69 whisky whilst at an airport.

They both kept me busy during "day one" of giving up smoking.

Day 2, I was back on the fags.
Turns out whisky and Alanis is a bad way to give up smoking!!

[Wyndham Upalot]

Two on vinyl:

The Best of the Specials (2 Tone Records)
Techno Pop (Coloured Vinyl), Kraftwerk

Suits my dated tastes.

[laurent]

Forgot to say What was latest CD... (2)

Samantha Fish / Kill or be Kind

Buddy Guy / Sweet tea

[Kiwias]

Dido - No Angel

[MoonBatto]

'Blue Weekend' by Wolf Alice.

Oddly subdued compared to their earlier stuff, less complexity in the arrangements and no obvious singles. I'm enjoying it though, it's a grower.

She'll never end with the 'I suck at love' lyrics.