Showing posts with label records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label records. Show all posts

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Record Store Day 2016

It's Record Store Day and I couldn't resist stopping by Record Archive to see what they had going on. Their celebration was bigger than ever. Not only did they have live bands but they had food trucks too.

Inside were the $1 record bins I enjoy sorting through.

Wedding music seemed to keep popping up this time.

Here are a few of the $1 records I picked up. One for my Bert Kaempfert collection and... well... I like banjos.

I've been looking for these Mitch Miller holiday records for a few years now. Mitch Miller is originally from Rochester, NY! I was pretty happy to find them and for $1!

Friday, March 11, 2016

New record cabinet & collecting vinyl

My parents gave me my birthday present a couple months early. It's a vintage record cabinet! Ever since my old record player broke, I've had my eye out for something like this. Now I have a record player for the living room and the dining room.

The front of the cabinet opens to reveal the record player, stereo and even an 8 track! This record player can hold multiple records which is so nice. I don't have to keep flipping a record or swapping it out every few minutes.

Hugo wants to know where the dog treats are stored.

When I posted to Facebook how excited I was about my new record cabinet, someone who was looking to grow their record collection asked me to share my vinyl collection. Well, I couldn't fit it all into a Facebook comment so here it is...

These are not all the records I have but rather the types of records I collect. Here are a few of my current artist records. Basically if I really like an album, like almost every song, then I get the vinyl record of it.

Most of my records are vintage and found at yard sales and thrift stores. I like a lot of oldies... particularly folk groups... like Kingston Trio and Peter Paul and Mary. That is why I find the movie A Mighty Wind hilarious.

And I love this particular type of instrumental music... I don't know what the name for it would be... trumpets and guitars I guess. Billy Vaughn, Bert Kaempfert, Herb Alpert and The Ventures.

I also love albums that are instrumental but not from any particular band. More so, they have a theme, such as Music for Dining or Fiddles by Firelight. They are perfect background music to have playing while I'm puttering around the house.

The last type of records I look for are soundtracks. I love soundtracks in general (See here, here and here), so that has carried over to my record collection.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Valentine's Gifties

I was super pleased with the gift I pulled together for Aaron this Valentine's Day. It has a theme! I love themes! It's a Survivalist Valentine's Day Pack!

I filled a miliary A.L.I.C.E. backpack with everything needed to survive a zombie apocolypse - a handbook, fire starter kit and a pocket knife. So romantic.

Aaron's gifties weren't too shabby either. Wyatt is practically drooling over the balloons.

He got me a new turntable and two Lana Del Ray records! So cute!

Plus there were flowers.

And chocolates.

And another total surprise... a Gemma Correll doodle book and scented pencils! It was one of those gifts that I opened and thought "How do I not have this already?!"

Friday, February 5, 2016

Mood music

Whenever I am home I like to have music playing. Especially when you are puttering around the house you need some background music. This is when I really enjoy playing my vinyl colleciton. There is something about the process of going through the albums and pausing to flip a record. I love this vinyl set of "Mood Music". And I love that it is for "listening and relaxation". I would think the listening part was a gimme but okay.

There are ten records for different occasions. Music for dining, Fiddles by Firelight...

This is one of my favorites. Perfect for weekends working around the house.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Christmas Vinyl

This summer I organized my record collection so all my holiday records were pulled together and ready for action this Christmas. A few of my favorites are Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Burl Ives. And I love, love the cover design of the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas album.

This record is from when I was a kid! I remember listening to this over and over when I was sick, whether it was Christmas or not. Funny thing is, I got a stuffed Snoopy from my office Secret Santa, dressed up as a World War I Flying Ace complete with a red scarf!

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Record Store Day 2013

Today is Record Store Day. I started the day off by going through my collection and playing some favorites.

This one brings back a lot of memories.

When Aaron got home from class we went to Record Archive and picked up a few $1 records and Mumford and Sons on vinyl. It was great to see the place packed.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Vinyl

My mom gave me a stack of soundtracks on vinyl. It doubled my soundtrack record collection.

She also gave me some of my records she was saving from when I was a kid. These bring back a lot of memories. Chipmunks singing "My Sharona"!