Your Prog Bargains

Pink Floyd

Gentle Giant, Octopus....... 10 Cents  

Back in 1977 I bought the first five Ange albums for 99 cents each at a record store that was ridding itself of its import section. Also picked up Camel's first album that day for the same price.

I ordered National Health's two-disc set Complete and spent weeks waiting for it. I checked with the vendor and he couldn't tell me where it was. After more than two months' waiting I cancelled my order. The vendor refunded my money.

The set arrived the next day.

I found a copy of Zappa's "Freak Out" vinyl album for $2.  It was so cheap because the vinyl was not in very good shape, but I bought it anyway, as many of us would have, just for the cover art.

A few years later, I lent the LP to a guy I went to college with, who was visiting Atlanta to see a Phish concert (that I was also attending) - he said he was going to make a T-shirt out of the cover art.  I never saw him or the LP again.  Don't do drugs, kids.

Last week--Journey to the Center of the Earth, Ricks original version--$3.99---I thought it should be cheaper

lazland wrote: Nice topic Off the top of my head, the answer I will give is a very vague, but true, one. That is that this site has opened me up to a world of prog which I would otherwise not have accessed, and that is a wonderful bargain.

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: He's the one I got those gorgeous Jefferson Airplane `Takes Off' and `Bless It's Pointed Little Head' from at Camberwell with you that time, right? For a bargain price too, and they were pristine - record AND cover/sleeve. I may skip the Kew fair, because the Camberwell/Box Hill one is only two weeks later. Hopefully some bargains there this time....but I can't help feeling the well has dried up at that fair....

I don't recall Jack having any JA - but he had amazing stuff, almost entire discogs of Guru Guru, Amon Duul, Magma, Clearlight, Hoelderlin, Heldon, Novalis, Mythos, Banco, Le Orme, PFM, Can, Grobschnitt, Pulsar, Kraan (and that's only the tip of the iceberg)............and nothing over 35 bucks !!!  Ever since he passed on, it's slim-pickings at those fairs.....

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: At the time, I probably had no idea what it even was! That's the second album, isn't it? If so, that's the one I really like, so I feel it's your moral duty to do the right thing and pass it on to me lol!    Actually, the Kew record fair is coming up just after I finish nightshift in a week or so, did you ever go to that one, and if so, was there much in the way of prog?

They never had a Kew fair when I was living down your way.....

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Tom, you wouldn't mind passing on your `Zao - Osiris' to a good friend, would you....?

Sorry, but NO !!  Hell, you were with me that day, it was at that Prahran Town Hall down Greville St.  I found it in a crate that was on the floor.  I also got Bruce Cockburn's debut S/T, which I got signed when I saw him perform at Joe's Tavern, Eumundi (near Noosa) several years back.  Those were the days.......