01. Seven LPs for seven dollars
Made another thrift run at lunch with Sherie today, only this time it was to the Jefferson Highway Flea Market - open FRI/SAT/SUN, unlike most flea markets which leave off the FRI. Apart from looking for a really bad velvet painting of a cat we had seen there before, we only checked out records, and pretty much in just one shop. Left to right, top to bottom:
01. Nytro - Return to Nytropolis (1979) I only got this for the wacky sci-fi album cover, really. I have no idea what Nytro sounds like... but there is a song named "High On Disco", so I can make an educated guess. I don't wanna open it because it's still shrink-wrapped, and it's gonna be worth MILLIONS ON EBAY ONE DAY!!
02. A Clockwork Orange soundtrack (1972) I'm sure you all know about the movie, but what you may not know is that Walter/Wendy Carlos of Switched-On Bach fame performed all of the original music for it on his/her tricked-out Moog synthesizer.
03. The Cars - Candy-O (1979) I might as well tell you now that I bought the last five albums specifically for their cover art - as if you couldn't guess from a quick glance at the above photo. I've seen Candy-O billions of times in thrift stores, but now that I've realized I'm a collector of sexy album covers, I figured I should finally buy a copy. Features art by famed hottie illustrator Alberto Vargas!
Special Bonus!! This album is facing the wrong way in the photograph above.
04. The Ritchie Family - American Generation (1978) Three hot young black women wearing bikinis and miscellaneous sports equipment is all you need to know about this album. (It's lame disco.)
Special Bonus!! Sherie would rather make out with the football player in the middle, while I'd go with baseballer on the left. The hockey player is making a weird face, but I do like her thigh-highs.
05. Ted Nugent - If You Can't Lick 'Em... Lick 'Em (1988) The album with the worst title of all time redeems itself by having one of the sexiest covers of all time. Yeah, I know it's Ted Nugent, but what could I do... this is hot shit, folks! Have a closer look:
Take away the Ted Nugent (please!) and this is basically one of those naughty posters you see at Spencer's Gifts with a cheezy caption like "Knockout!" or something about hitting below the belt. It's not a poster, though - it's an album - and that magically removes all of the stigma of owning something a 13-year-old boy would hang on his wall. That's what I tell myself, anyway.
06. Ohio Players - Fire (1974) Ohio Players always had sexy album covers, and this is one of the best. The songs aren't half bad, either. Includes "Runnin' From the Devil" - a full four years before Van Halen ran with the nefarious evildoer.
07. Love and Kisses - s/t (1977) More lame disco pap, but the cover features a bunch of guys tearing some poor girl's shirt off Hulk Hogan style. Two sides, two songs: the first is 17 minutes long, the second, 16. Disco-prog?
02. 2 Sega CD games, El Dorado board game
After getting off work early (thanks Terry!), Sherie and I decided to swing by Red White & Blue and check out the goods...
I don't own the much-maligned Sega CD system, but after playing some of its better games on emulators, I've been looking for a cheap one. Unfortunately, since there are only a handful of good Sega CD games, I'm aware that these two aren't among them. Space Ace was an awesome laserdisc game at the arcade, with character designs from Don Bluth - the man who brought you such movies as The Secret of Nimh and All Dogs Go To Heaven... as well as the arcade classic Dragon's Lair. The Sega CD version apparently cut out a lot of scenes and was generally a lame port. As for World Cup USA '94, well... it's soccer. BOOOOORING. Still, at three dollars a piece, I just couldn't pass these up.
I bought El Dorado because I like the little guy on the box with the crazy headress. He looks like a superdeformed version of Superman villain Darkseid.
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