Posted in Featured CDs on June 30th, 2007 Comments Off
I just obtained a disc that I had been searching for for a very long time. It is the first CD issue of the outstanding Rush album Moving Pictures. The disc was pressed in West Germany by Polygram and bears the original “green-arrow” design. This design was used for a short period for the earliest [...]
Posted in Featured CDs on June 28th, 2007 Comments Off
I’ve been busy lately, buying both new and used stuff. Here are a few of the used discs I’ve purchased recently:
Huey Lewis and the News Sports: Japanese JVC pressing for the Canadian market with catalog number VK 41412. I did not know that this pressing existed until finding it in the bins. It looks like [...]
Posted in Featured CDs on June 14th, 2007 Comments Off
The story goes like this. Back around 1983, Warner Bros. released Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly as a West German Target CD. Word got back to Warner Bros. that something was wrong with this release. The sound was not right. It has even been said that Stevie Wonder was so displeased with the sound that he [...]
Posted in Featured CDs on June 13th, 2007 Comments Off
I don’t only collect first pressings and other out-of-print CDs. Here are some new discs I’ve bought recently. Many of them are still sealed, as I’m too busy to listen to everything!
The Traveling Wilburys deluxe and regular edition box sets
The Police two-disc compilation
Sly and the Family Stone box set
The Doors 40th Anniversary remasters (all six studio albums)
The [...]