Music for Christmas

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Music for Christmas

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I always ask for music for Christmas. It's an easy one for people to get me. Never disappoints (unless it is a bad pressing). Last year i got some Buddy Rich stuff and a few Miles Davis to fill the gaps in my collection.

This year i asked for Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Count Basie and some other jazz stuff..I usually go to town with my wife and end up buying myself a Christmas present too :dance:
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Went in to York yesterday and bought a few Cd's. Looked at vinyl but the prices were a bit eye watering.Fancied a Stevie Nicks LP box set but eventually talked myself out of it.

Bought the following on CD

Ozzy Osbourne - Randy Rhoades Tribute (to replace the copy i lost :cry: - bet it turns up now :roll: )
The Comet is coming - Trust in the lifeforce of the deep mystery :shock:
Dinosaur - Wonder trail
The Raconteurs - Help us stranger

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I was in HMV earlier this week.

They had a 'special edition' box set of the Ramones 'It's Alive' double live album...£93.

I bought the original, the week it came out, for around £6, iirc...which seemed like a lot of money!
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You can also play the Last Christmas game with your friends and family.

Last person to hear Last Christmas by George Michael is the winner.

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Got some music for christmas, and bought music for people for Christmas.
My wife pulled a blinder this year though, she got me placebo without you I'm nothing on vinyl, and a very early 1979 Japanese pressed mofi copy of dark side of the moon..... Where the hell she got that from I don't know....

I got her souxsie and the banshees - juju, joy division-closer and the labyrinth soundtrack.
My mother in law got me placebos debut album and the cure torn down album for my wife.
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A MOFI DSOTM!!!!

Wow. That's true love for you.

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My grandchildren thought it would be funny to burn Grandad a copy of Stormzy's "Heavy Is The Head," after hearing me talking about his politics. It's not awful.
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slinger wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 10:35 pm It's not awful.
Yes it is.
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Jerry - unrepentant boxswapper 8-) Life's too short for boring hifi !

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