Amanda and I took a trip to Yoshi Now! on Saturday and I was quite happy to score some new vinyl. Besides being cheap, the great thing about buying used vinyl is that you sometimes find treasure: I found a personalized & autographed sketching of Willie Nelson inside the
Greatest Hits (And Some That Will Be) album I picked up:
I also scored
Steve Reich's Tehillim (which is interesting in that there's no fixed meter for this piece, yet is quite rhythmic; very cool how the percussion accents the Hebrew text)
:
Volume 1 of Glenn Gould playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (already had Vol. 1, but in mono!):
Van Cliburn and Fritz Reiner (+ Chicago Symphony Orchestra) doing Brahms' Concerto No. 2, and an old school (on 78!) recording of The Boston Symphony Orchestra doing Ravel's
Bolero (too bad I didn't realize they were 78's until after I got 'em--my record player doesn't do those :-( ).
While looking for album cover pics for these, I also finally registered for
discogs.com--a cool site for buying, selling, trading, displaying and finding info out about albums--especially vinyl. I actually found out that the copy of
Abbey Road that I picked up from Amoeba in May is actually an original pressing, and that a couple other thrift store finds somehow made their way to Fresno from Canada at some point in time. If for some reason you feel the urge to take a gander at the collection, check it
here. Unfortunately, they don't have a lot of classical stuff up there that I have, but it's still cool nonetheless.
