2023 Charity Shop Purchases #19 - Billy Bragg - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
My second charity shop vinyl purchase in St Andrews was Brewing Up With Billy Bragg his second album on Go! Discs from 1984.
It was bought from the Salvation Army shop as opposed to the British Heart Foundation so thankfully it was on a rack as opposed to being attached to a skirt hanger a la Nick Lowe. Some of the albums were priced but this one wasn't . When I asked the price the lady said if they were not priced they cost £5. I resisted the temptation to point out the bottom left of the album sleeve which reads "£3.99 or Less".
Like the Nick Lowe one it is in excellent condition. I have long had a copy on CD but it was a no brainer to pick up a vinyl copy which will fit neatly in between his first album Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy and his third Talking With the Taxman About Poetry which up to now were the only two I had on vinyl.
It's early Billy Bragg which meams that it is tremendous and which also means that I could have chosen any of the 11 tracks to feature today. These two will not disappoint.
What a great album to find in a Sally Army shop - good to know it didn't suffer the skirt hanger fate too.
ReplyDeleteBilly's got a re-issue thing coming out to help him celebrate / finance a big birthday. Top of the range is a box set he's flogging for a hundred and twenty quid. Socialism forever!
ReplyDeleteWas just coming in to mention the same thing Rol has highlighted. A box set of seemingly everything being issued a few years after two volumes of a previous box set series that was supposed to have included everything. Disappointing stuff.......
ReplyDeleteBut yes, 'Brewing Up' is a great charity shop find. And £5 is a fair price what with inflation these past 40 years.