Now this blog covers the last 3 weeks or so and whilst there's not many albums added to my vinyl collection its been memorable for a slightly different reason.
Let me explain....

Now we drove into Swansea a few saturdays back, not specifically to buy an album, but to pick up a few family things that were required.  Of course I couldn't miss the chance to pop to Derricks Records but nothing doing there, so nipped in HMV on the off chance of something decent in the vinyl racks.  Picked up the excellent Razorlight "America" single (Vertigo spiral label!!!) and the new Meat Loaf single pic disc but my eyes spotted a copy of the new Motorhead album Kiss Of Death in the dance section (!).  Now after a few weeks of listening am I glad I spotted this - its one of the best releases of the year....  Sucker is a superb 'head opener and to be honest everything just rocks your head off but the real highlight is the near ballad God Was Never On Your Side.  Classic Lemmy lyrics and a solo by Poison's CC Deville.   All enhanced by the retro feel of buying an album brand new with a big album sized carrier bag and all! ***Highly Recommended***

A friday off two weeks back gave a rare chance to check out Discovery Book Store in Glanamman.  My current Motorhead mood was further fed with the classic Overkill - the excellent No Class, Damage Case and Metropolis all on the same side (2) -  and half a dozen Iron Maiden 12" singles added to the collection.

Finally a trip to Carmarthen today and my first visit to the indoor market and lo and behold, a record store!!!  50p each bargains in the shape of Pat Travers' Makin' Magic featuring an extremely young looking Nicko McBrain on drums, Gary Moore's Run For Cover and the best album by UK Bon Jovi wannabe's FM with their Desmond Child enhanced album Tough It Out.
Also purchased Bruce Dickinson's first solo album Tattooed Millionaire of which Son Of A Gun and Born In 58 are my favourite tracks, and the famous debut album Bad Company by Bad Company with the classic tracks Can't Get Enough, Bad Company and Seagull.

The highlight of this trip though was an album that I've been after for ages and which falls outside the usual classic rock buys.  I finally saw and purchased The Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. - mono version on RCA Victor and black label so I'm fairly certain its an original issue.  All of these market buys for a total of 15 pounds - I'll be shopping in Carmarthen again soon!!

Also of note this week but not vinyl related was The Who's performance on the BBC Electric Proms - really excellent stuff which brings the new rock-opera into clear sharp focus.  The emotion and feeling on both Roger and Pete's faces in Tea And Theatre was moving and the whole 30 minutes shown on the digital feed was excellent.

Finally spotted a nice sig on someone's avatar on one of the bootleg forums I frequent which I thought was good - "an analogue rocker in a digital world".

Till the next time..... keep it vinyl!