My 2009 Music Album Purchases
Submitted by rurikid85 on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 10:32
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- Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (2xLP)
- Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali (CD)
- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2xLP)
- Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (LP)
- Avalanches (The) - Since I Left You (CD)
- Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique [2009 Reissue] (LP)
- Bird, Andrew - Noble Beast/Useless Creatures (2xCD)
- Built to Spill - There is No Enemy (2xLP/CD)
- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (LP)
- Can - Ege Bamyasi (LP)
- Can - Tago Mago (2xLP)
- Caspian - Tertia (2xLP)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country [2008 Reissue] (CD)
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory [2008 Reissue] (CD)
- Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (2xLP)
- Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (LP)
- Decemberists (The) - Hazards of Love (2xLP)
- Diane, Alela - To Be Still (2xLP)
- Eluvium - Lambent Material [via Life Through Bombardment Box Set] (LP)
- Eluvium - An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death [via Life Through Bombardment Box Set] (LP)
- Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees [via Life Through Bombardment Box Set] (2xLP)
- Eluvium - Indecipherable Text/When I Live by the Garden and the Sea [via Life Through Bombardment Box Set] (LP)
- Eluvium - Copia [via Life Through Bombardment Box Set] (2xLP)
- Espers - III (LP)
- Feelies (The) - Crazy Rhythms [2009 Reissue] (LP)
- Feelies (The) - The Good Earth [2009 Reissue] (LP)
- Fennesz - Black Sea (LP)
- Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires (LP)
- Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (CD)
- Gifts From Enola - From Fathoms (2xLP)
- Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2xLP)
- Hauschka - Ferndorf (CD)
- Hecker, Tim - An Imaginary Country (2xLP)
- Husker Du - Zen Arcade (2xLP)
- If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk (LP)
- Isis - Wavering Radiant (2xLP)
- Jesu - Silver EP (LP)
- Jesu - Opiate Sun EP (LP)
- Lau Nau - Nukkuu (LP)
- Lowe, Nick - Jesus of Cool [2008 Reissue] (2xLP)
- Lykke Li - Youth Novels (2xLP)
- Mirah - (a)spara (LP)
- Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches [2008 Reissue] (2xLP)
- Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light (LP)
- Monks (The) - Black Monk Time (LP)
- Mono - One Step More and You Die/New York Soundtracks (2xLP)
- Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2xLP)
- Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (2xLP)
- Nirvana - Bleach [2009 Reissue] (2xLP)
- Oneida - Rated O (3xLP)
- Pains of Being Pure at Heart (The) - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (LP)
- Paper Chase (The) - Someday This Could All Be Yours Volume 1 (LP)
- Pavement - Live Europe 1997 [Record Store Day Release] (LP)
- Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx Part II (CD)
- Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid [2009 Reissue] (2xCD)
- Red Sparowes - Aphorisms EP (LP)
- Six Organ of Admittance - Luminous Night (LP)
- St. Vincent - Actor (LP)
- Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer (2xLP)
- Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (2xLP)
- Swan Lake - Enemy Mine (LP)
- Swervedriver - Mezcal Head [2008 Reissue] (CD)
- This Will Destroy You / Lymbic System - Field Studies EP (LP/CD)
- Tortoise - Standards (LP)
- Various Artists - Dark Was the Night (3xLP)
- Walkmen (The) - You and Me (LP)
- Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (2xLP)
Author Comments:
All the albums my brother and I purchased for 2009. My brother tends to purchase the post-rock stuff while I go for the common modern and older releases.
you really buy all that vinyl? do you think it is that much better of an audio format?
Yes, I buy that much vinyl. And no, I don't think vinyl is THAT MUCH better audio format (sound quality can still be sketchy, storage can be a pain, expensive, having to flip and switch records, etc.) compared to mp3s or to CDs. But I primarily like to buy vinyl because I love to listen to the music through my stereo speakers than through headphones, watching the record spin, that it comes in colors, and the album artwork stands out more since vinyl packages are bigger. Silly as it may seem, but it's just my preference.
fair enough, it seemed like a lot of vinyl for common releases. i guess i do not care much about the artwork - though i bought a few albums for their enlarged artwork alone, and absolutely hate flipping the record once i get into a groove, but it's all good. i would probably buy more vinyl if i had the money to spare.
one thing i have heard repeatedly from vinyl fans is that it is far superior than any other format, and all other formats are poor duplications, and i vehemently disagree (if one can afford a great sound system).
are all the albums BRAND NEW purchases? i just bout a copy of the Honeymoon Killer's Love American Style (from the 80's) and i am not sure what i may be getting in sound quality with it being an original pressing, 22 years old.
So far on this list, almost all of them are new purchases. Some older albums I purchased on vinyl (Can, Husker Du) were shrink wrapped and I believe are repressings, so I consider those new to me. There are a few purchases where I have purchased a used copy.
How were those Can reissues? I was close to buying them but I'm always suspicious of reissues that don't state it's a reissue anywhere. Tago Mago was not a gatefold on the one I saw.
The copy I purchased was not a gatefold. I don't much knowledge of the vinyl release of the album. I know they were reissued on CD, not sure if a vinyl reissue was done. My copy was in great shape, so I suspected it might be a reissue of some sort.