Long suffering readers will remember me featuring artists from The Blues Collection over the years
This is a set of 93 CDs which where released together with an associated magazine between 1993 and 1997.
Initially I picked up between 30 and 35 of them in two job lots in my local charity shop.
Subsequent purchases took my total up to 44.
However I was beginning to come home with doublers or worse still not acquiring ones that I thought I had but didn't.
So I took a note of the numbers of the ones I didn't have and stuck it in my wallet.
Fast forward to Barnardos in Stranraer last week where I spotted the 1st CD in the collection Boogie Man by John Lee Hooker on the shelves.
A quick check told me that I didn't have it and the 45th out of the 93 was duly acquired.
John Lee Hooker - Crawlin' King Snake
John Lee Hooker - I'm in the Mood
Buying cds/records one already is has is an occupational hazard. A man at HMV once looked at me like I was certifiable after trying to explain why I was returning a Neu! album, sealed and unopened.
ReplyDeleteSaw JLH at the Long Beach Blues Festival in 1991. If I've seen anyone who epitomized cool more than him since then I can't imagine who it would be.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to my music, I have always had a mind like a steel trap... until the last year or two. I have purchased a couple of records I already had, and there has been a time or two or three where I have seen something in a shop and passed thinking I already had it only to come home to find out I didn’t. This is not because I have too many records.
ReplyDeleteWhat was I talking about? Man, getting old sucks.
I once purchased a gospel compilation from Reveal Records in Derby, then a few weeks later, in the same shop, bought it again. I'm sure I posted that second purchase to someone in Glasgow.
ReplyDeleteDoublers - ha ha I didn't know there was a name for that! That's something I specialise in. My CD spreadsheet list is much too big for me to print off and take around with me, consequently I often come back with a duplicate (that's my word for them!) I never think about taking 'em back tho' as the financial hit is usually only a few quid. I used to get really annoyed with myself but it's happened so many times now I take it on the chin. A couple of times I've had the experience of taking a clutch of CDs to the counter and, as you do, ask which track is currently playing only to be told it's from one of the albums I'm purchasing, Now that IS embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteI think somewere (ie in a box under my bed) Ive a lot of these
ReplyDeleteIf you send the missing numbers and I have a look for them
Appreciate that Jules and I may well come back to you.
DeleteMeanwhile I am enjoying the thrill of the chase!