Artist: The Breeders
LP: Mountain Battles
Song: "Walk It Off"
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Happy New Year! I escaped America for a few days and zoomed up to Victoria, British Columbia on the Victoria Clipper for a bit of rest and relaxation. Plus records! The Turntable is a neat-looking little store situated in the famously quaint and narrow Fan Tan Alley, near the city's Chinatown neighborhood. Oh, did I say store? Record museum is what I actually meant, since the prices at The Turntable generally discourage purchasing by anyone who isn't a nutty collector or an unfortunate tourist who has absolutely no idea what they're doing when shopping for vinyl. Here are a few unfortunate examples:
- Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits = $20. You can find three copies of this at just about any thrift store for $1 apiece.
- Frigid Pink LP you can see on the wall in the photo below = $45. I paid $6 for mine and have seen it around pretty regularly for a similar price.
- Tom Waits' "Foreign Affairs" LP = 2 copies at $45 apiece. Records this expensive should be ones that you aren't likely to find available for sale ever again...especially not three seconds later right there in the very same bin.
- Berlin "Love Life" LP = $12. OMG. Take my breath away! Are you nuts?
For one thing, that's $30 Canadian, which equals about $25 US. For another thing, The Breeders are one of my favorite bands and you don't see this one around too often on vinyl. For yet one more thing, it features a song, "Regalame Esta Noche," sung entirely in Spanish! For a last and final thing, it was just about the only reasonably-priced LP in the store and I desperately wanted a souvenir from this place! You can read about "Mountain Battles" on Wikipedia here and go here to find a 2008 Pitchfork review that seems pretty spot-on to me.
[ The Breeders, circa 2008 ]
[ The Turntable — Victoria, BC, Canada ]
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