Thanks to the magic of the internet (hooray for Amazon Third Party Sellers and eBay), I now have a complete set of the deluxe editions EMI released of Duran Duran’s first five albums. I had originally picked up their self-titled debut and Seven and the Ragged Tiger but missed out on getting the ones for Rio, Notorious, and Big Thing while they were still readily available. Now I have them all. Yay!

My OCD goes a little wild when looking at these stacked together. I am not sure why they did a book style package for Rio and clam shell boxes for all the rest. Consistency, people!

Vinyl (and CD) reissues of This Mortal Coil‘s three albums are coming next month! *drools*

Love is Magic, the new album from John Grant, will be released one day before my birthday. Yay! Get thee to pre-ordering. Deluxe 2XLP for me, please!

And … John Grant is another artist like that will be touring nowhere near me. Oh well.

Things have been a bit busy this week and I am way too easily distracted.

In the meantime, listen to this excellent new track from Róisín Murphy!

The new single from The Twilight Sad has dropped … and I am really digging it. Though I am totally bummed they are not touring anywhere close to me. Oh well …

After spending way too much money on them, I am super excited to have added the following original pressings to my collection:
– Cocteau Twins‘ Treasure
– Cocteau Twins’ Victorialand
– This Mortal Coil‘s Filigree & Shadow

I am especially knocked out about getting Treasure. It’s been on my want list for a long time and I just happened to get hold of it through sheer luck. Thanks to that mystery customer who had it on hold and then (for some reason) decided not to buy it and thus allowed me to. Woot!

Over the weekend, I stood in line an hour and a half for Record Store Day excitement. I did end up getting the RSD Belly 10″ Feel EP that I was after. Pretty sweet. But, more importantly, I found an original pressing of the Cocteau Twins‘ debut album, Garlands! I have been wanting this for quite some time, so I am totally knocked out that I finally found a copy. *squee!*

I have never been an emotional eater (thank goodness) but I have always been an emotional spender. Thanks to my mood (and my completionist OCD issues), I now have the last two Miles Davis “Complete Sessions” box sets that I needed to have the full series. I was able to find new and sealed copies which was pretty awesome. I really should have bought these back when they first came out as the collector’s market has made the pricing a bit crazy. The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions was originally put of as a metal-bound book in a slipcase and then later released in a standard long box edition, so I suspect that is why the pricing isn’t so bad for this set. The Complete On the Corner Sessions is a whole other issue. It was only released as a metal-bound book in a metal slipcase. So it seems like this release is much harder to find … thus the really high secondary market pricing. And I am now eyeing getting The Cellar Door Sessions 1970. Yeah. I apparently have more money than brains and should probably have my eBay and PayPal accounts taken away from me. Either that or spend the money I just spent on these Miles Davis sets on a therapist.

Diamanda Galás at Big Ears. Can’t. Fucking. Wait.

OMG! A NEW ALBUM FROM THE BREEDERS IN LESS THAN TWO MONTHS!!!

1/10 UPDATE … *DROOLS*

Well … we survived the first snow of the season. It came down all day (and night) on Friday and all morning on Saturday. That was when the clouds broke and the sun came out. When it was all said and done there ended up being 10″. Whoo! Not so “Whoo!” was not getting a snow day on Friday since I work from home. Also not so “Whoo!” was shoveling out the driveway and cleaning off the cars. I will give the town and county kudos for keeping the roads scraped and clear. We were able to get down the road by mid-day (and even tripped to Asheville yesterday). I love snow, but Bowser has been less than thrilled with it.

Some fun snow weekend things:
– We started watching Godless on Netflix.
– Acquired a talking Dug Ornament for the tree. It’s awesome!
– Watched Krampus for the first time. It’s a pretty fun movie.

But the BIG fun thing for the weekend was finding an original pressing of Prince‘s Sign O’ The Times album … and it’s in pristine shape! I might have pranced around the living room with Housequake playing as loudly as possible.

Tomorrow night, Glenn and Stephen and Judy come over for egg nog and gingerbread cookies. Yum!