Finding the content of a box was better than expected, when the expected content would also have been good...

Playlist

Vivaldi - Concerti per Oboe, Archi e Cembalo

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - Someday World

Deadmau5 - 4x4=12

Morrissey - Low In High School

Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Deluxe Edition)

Pet Shop Boys - Super

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - High Life

The National - High Violet

Paul McCartney - New

Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires

Fehlfarben - Über... Menschen

Marillion - F. E. A. R. (Fuck Everyone and Run) 

Soft Machine - Hidden Details

Pet Shop Boys - Elysium

Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor (Limited Deluxe Version)

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

Spock's Beard - Noise Floor

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Adel Tawil - So Schön Anders

Soft Machine - Hidden Details

Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Robyn - Body Talk

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik III

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame

Various Composers - Classic Experience II

Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke

Trentemøller - Into The Great Wide Yonder

Pet Shop Boys - Electric

Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Laura Pausini - Inedito

Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Complete Original Mahavishnu Orchestra Columbia Albums Collection

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Dimitri from Paris - A Night At The Playboy Mansion

Genesis - Live at the Rainbow 1973

Koko Taylor - What It Takes: The Chess Years

Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky (Special Edition)

Il Gardellino - Concert Life in 18th Century Berlin

The Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

Aretha Franklin - Respect : The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin

Sharon Shannon - The Diamond Mountain Sessions
Loscil - Lifelike

Out and down the hill, the new album having been released into the wild...

And garnering good initial reactions...

The view from the office this morning...

I...

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III...

IV...

V...

The view from the office later on...

...as I made my way for a rare trip all the way up to Morningside and trawled the many charity shops up there...

This for £2 - originally bought in the summer of 1990 and subsequently sold but I have it again, joining the replaced this year Nos I and III in the collection...

Some dancy music, for £1...

This, which it turns out I already had as a download, also for £1...

Some blues for £1.50...

Oxfam's prices are always a bit higher so, for £3.99, this CD/DVD set by Efterklang added to my growing Efterklang collection - again I already had this as a download but nice to have the actual thing...

Justified...

A tasty disc of obscure German composers of the 1700s - a fave period of mine...

£2.99...

And, final find, a 5CD box of Mahavishnu Orchestra for just £2.50...

I thought I had all these albums already...

But, on the bus back, checking over the purchases, I realised this has a whole disc of previously unreleased concert recordings from 1973...

Tasty in the extreme...

And, on Amazon, all of the above would have set me back around £300...

Mainly because the Berlin disc was priced at £156...

Hmmm...

Tasty tea from the EP was followed by some ripping and listening and compiling of tomorrow's podcast...

Then, a drive to the other side of Edinburgh to buy some toys for Grand-nephews for their Xmas...


Back home around 9 and "Have I Got News For You" and something else I've already forgotten 8 hours later, entertained...

Not to worry...

At 11, recorded and edited the links for the podcast while Anne painted...

To bed with the podcast mock up on the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Bargains...