Paul Ashby
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Shit. dunno. buncha 7" singles when I was about 7 years old, but... Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Deja Vu" LP is probably the only thing I'd go on record about. It was some tiny record store in Sepulveda, CA. Don't remember the name. "
* Shulman - "Endless Rhythms of the Beatless Heart" CD (Aleph Zero)
* Kiln - "Dusker" CD (Ghostly International)
* Robert Wyatt - 2xLP/CD "Comicopera" (Domino)
* Terry Riley - "Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan" CD (Elision Fields)
* Terry Riley - "Reed Streams" CD (Elision Fields)
* Lisa Germano - "Lullabye for Liquid Pig" CD (Young God)
* Harry Shearer - "Dropping Anchors" CD / Le Show (Courgette/Syndicated)
* Angels of Light - "We Are Him" CD (Young God)
* Biosphere - Live at Recombinant SF, 9/15/07
* Matmos/Zeena Parkins - Live at Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, 9/8/07
Potsie U. Belcher
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" The mighty Huey Lewis and The News Sports on cassette from The Record Works in downtown Eureka, CA. "
* Michio Kurihara - "Sunset Notes" CD (20/20/20)
* Andre Ethier - "On Blue Fog" LP/CD (Blue Fog)
* Harry Nilsson - "Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)" Documentary (LSL Productions)
* Emperor Machine - "Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise" CD (DC Recordings)
* The Mantles - "Burden + 3" 7-inch (Dulc-i-Tone Records)
* Dragons - "B.F.I." CD (Ninja Tune)
* Burning Star Core - s/t LP (Ultra Eczema)
* Bad Trips - s/t LP (Rocketship Records)
* Murcof - "Cosmos" 3xLP/CD (Leaf)
* Giant Skyflower Band - "Blood of the Sunworm" CD (Soft Abuse)
Cameron Blackwell
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Kiss Rock and Roll Over LP from The Rcord Bar In Raleigh, NC. "
1. My wife!
2. "King of Kong" - Top documentary since a long time. See it!
3. Better Beatles - "Mercy Beat" LP (Hook or Crook) The better men and women have spoken!
4. George Coleman - "This Old World Is in a Terrible Condition" 7-inch (Mississippi) Heavy, bang-on-a-can crazy-man gospel!
5. V/A - "Life Is a Problem" LP (Mississippi) I like exclamation points!!
6. V/A - "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Any More" LP (Mississippi) These Mississippi comps kill. This one most!
7. "No Country for Old Men" - New Cohen brothers masterplan. See it!
8. King Khan & BBQ - s/t 2xLP (In The Red) My precious pig!
9. Paula Frazer - "Now It's True" CD (Birdman) The saddest!
10. Pylon - "Gyrate+" CD (DFA) Go Georgia!
Cristian Ceia
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Abba, "Arrival" vinyl LP (PGP RTB/Yugoslavian pressing), downtown Timisoara, Romania, on the street, just in front of the pastry shop, from a Serbian "black market" record seller. "
1. Robert Wyatt - "Comicopera" 2xLP/CD (Domino)
2. Burial - "Untrue" CD (Hyperdub)
3. Von Sudenfed - "Tromatic Reflexxions" CD (Domino)
4. Butcher Boy - "Profit In Your Poetry" CD (How Does It Feel To Be Loved?)
5. Distance - "My Demons" 2xLP/CD (Planet Mu)
6. V/A - "I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore" LP (Mississippi)
7. Efterklang - "Parades" 2xLP/CD (Leaf)
8. Dominik Eulberg - "Heimische Gefilde" CD (Traum Schallplatten)
9. Melt Banana - "Bambi's Dilemma" CD (AZAP)
10. Ergo Phizmiz - "Things To Do And Make" (Ergo Phizmiz)
Jerry Connolly
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" kiss Destroyer LP purchased from the Gitfiddler in Northville, Michigan. On the way to buy the record I stopped at the local Burger Chef for lunch and watched Bob Seger scarf down a Super Shef. "
* Fucked Up - "Year of the Pig" 12-inch (What's Your Rupture)
* Tyvek - "Summer Burns" 2x7-inch (What's Your Rupture)
* Deerhunter - "Cryptograms" CD (Kranky)
* White/Lichens - s/t CD (Holy Mountain)
* The Ponys - "Turn The Lights Out" LP/CD (Matador)
* Weasel Walter Quartet - "Revolt Music" CD (UgExplode)
* White Savage - live
* Words Fail Me - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
* Hot for Teacher - Nog Gallery, London
* Foccacia di Recco - Farina Focaccia and Cucina Italiana
Thee Mike Doyle
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Michael Jackson "Off the Wall" cassette, Wherehouse, Redwood City. "
* White Magic "Dark Stars" 12-inch (Drag City)
* Diplo & Tripledouble "AEIOU 2" CD-R (Money Studies)
* Terry Riley "Les Yeux Fermes & Lifespan" CD (Elision Fields)
* Factums "Alien Native" LP (Siltbreeze)
* LCD Soundsystem "Sound of Silver" 2xLP (DFA)
* Sarolta Zolatnay "s/t" LP/CD (B-Music)
* Jay Reatard "I Know A Place" 7-inch (Goner)
* Earth "Hibernaculum" LP/CD (Southern Lord)
* Panda Bear "Bros." 12-inch (Fat Cat)
* Glass Candy "I Always Say Yes" 12-inch (Troubleman)
Rachel Drozdowicz
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" The Pogues Hell's Ditch on cassette from a bargain bin of some record store in Washington DC. "
1. V/A - "I Don't Feel at Home in This World" LP (Mississippi)
2. White Magic - "Dark Stars" 12-inch (Drag City)
3. Soul Merchants - "1985-1987" 2xCD (Smooch)
4. Dog-Faced Hermans - "Mental Blocks for All Ages" LP (Mississippi)
5. V/A - "Bold Beginnings" CD (Noise Pollution)
6. Pylon - "Gyrate+" CD (DFA)
7. Roky Erickson - "You're Gonna Miss Me" DVD
8. Legends - "Public Radio" 2xCD (Luna)
9. Digital Leather - "Blow Machine" LP (FDH)
10. Mika Miko - "666" 12-inch (Post Present Media)
Uli Elser
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" It was a live Neil Young album in the late 70's - just checked the discography and couldn't find the name of it. It may have been CSNY... Tower Records, Campbell CA (next to Taco Bravo). I don't have the receipt
anymore. "
* Tocotronic - "Kapitulation" CD (Vertigo)
* Spider Bags - "A Celebration Of Hunger" CD (Birdman)
* A-Trak - "Dirty South Dance" (50-second mix)
* Erik Enocksson - "Farväl Falkenberg" CD (Kning Disk)
* Panda Bear - "Person Pitch" 2xLP/CD (Paw Tracks)
* Diplo - pitchfork mix AUGUST final (1:08 mix)
* Beirut - "The Flying Club Cup" CD (Ba Da Bing)
* Octopus Project - "Hello Avalanche" CD (Peek-a-Boo)
* Port O'Brien - "The Wind And The Swell" CD (American Dust)
* Bracken - Bracken's Autumn Podcast (mix)
Thurston Graham
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Kiss "Destroyer" 8-track tape mail ordered from Columbia House Record & Tape Club. "
* Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - October 4-6, 2007 (Speedway/Marx Meadows, Golden Gate Park, SF CA)
* Waking up!
* Soul Merchants - "1985-1987" CD (Smooch)
* Espresso Grande - Four shots! (Cafe Trieste, North Beach, SF CA)
* Mudboy - "Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors!" LP (Not Not Fun)
* Panda Bear - "Person Pitch" CD (Paw Tracks)
* Distance - "My Demons" LP/CD (Planet Mu)
* V/A - "After Dark" CD (Italians Do It Better)
* A Place to Bury Strangers - s/t CD (Killer Pimp)
* LCD Soundsystem - "45:33" 2xLP/CD (DFA)
Dave Gulbis
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" My first record I bought was Nirvana "Nevermind" on CD from Zia records in Tucson. My mom had to approve of it before I could buy it so I covered the baby's penis with my thumb when I showed her the cover. SNEAKY! "
1. A Sunny Day in Glascow - "Scribble Mural Comic Journal" LP (Notenuf)
2. Pumice - "Pebbles" CD (Soft Abuse)
3. Alex Delivery - "Star Destroyer" LP/CD (Jagjaguwar)
4. Angels of Light - "We Are Him" CD (Young God)
5. Soft Location - "Diamonds and Gems" LP (Senseless Empire)
6. Whitehorse - s/t 2xCD (20 Buck Spin)
7. Times New Viking - "Paisley Reich" LP/CD (Siltbreeze)
8. Finches - "Human Like a House" CD (Dulc-i-tone)
9. Basalt Fingers - s/t LP+CD (Three Lobed Recordings)
10. Life Without Buildings - "Live at Annandale Hotel" CD (Absolutely Kosher)
Reissue of the Year: Slits - "Return of the Giant Slits" 2xCD CD (Blast First Petite)
Hubbs
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Guns 'n' Roses - "Use Your Illusion 2" on tape, most likely purchased at Tower Records in the Burlington Mall, Burlington, Massachusetts, circa 1991. "
1. Totalitär - "Vi Är Eliten" LP (Prank)
2. Sex Vid - "Tania" EP (Dom America)
3. Tranzmitors - "We're All Alone With You/Between Planets" 7-inch (Seeing Eye)
4. Pylon - "Gyrate+" CD (DFA)
5. Complications - "Blindness/Coffin" 7-inch (Feral Ward)
6. Numbskull - "Final Days of Torture" LP (My Mind's Eye)
7. Giant Kawai (Sandwich Place)
8. V/A - "Last Kind Words" LP (Mississippi)
9. The Gits - LP reissues (Broken)
10. Wire - "Live at the Roxy" 2xCD (Pink Flag)
Kyle Kramer
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" First musical purchase with my own chore money... It was most certainly a cassette. Can't quite recall if it was Aerosmith "Draw the Line" or Men At Work "Business as Usual". Either way it's pretty boss.
Things that make me hate myself for leaving out the first time... "
Things that make me hate myself for leaving out the first time (print version)...
Nordvargr + Drakh - The Betrayal of Light CD (tUMULt)
The Besnard Lakes - ...are The Dark Horse LP/CD (Jagjaguar)
Profanatica - Profanatitas De Domonatia LPs (Hell's Headbangers)
Emma Pollock - Watch the Fireworks (4AD) ...still geeked that I got to open for her last month.
10. Buried at Sea - "Ghost" (Neurot) I've done drugs that would blow your mind tonight
9. Winterblut - "Das Aas Aller Dinge" CD (End All Life) Going outta my mind tonight
8. The Vaticans - "Guardia Svizzera Pontificia" CD (Pure Filth) Blow you blind tonight
7. Cloudland Canyon/Lichens - "Exterminating Angel" (Holy Mountain) Where you going, man?
6. Lifelover - "Erotik" CD (Total Holocaust) Out of the mist, there's a pimp
5. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Dandelion Gum" CD (Graveface) How could I miss you with your druggy ways?
4. Deerhunter - live and "Cryptograms/Flourescent Grey" LP (Kranky) Out of the mist, there's a hooker
3. The Octopus Project - "Hello Avalanche" CD (Peek-a-Boo) Would you like to come along?
2. Inquisition - "Nefarious Dismal Orations" CD (No Colours) Where's your pimp friend and your priest?
1. The Raveonettes - "Lust Lust Lust" CD (Fierce Panda) I kissed your lovely drug-filled lips
Event of the year: Yankees vs. Giants, first time since '62.
Earl Kuck
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Ray Stevens "The Streak" 7-inch @ Ben Franklin Five 'n' Dime Madison, Connecticut. "
* Factums - "Alien Native" LP (Siltbreeze)
* Klangmutationen - "Wiesse Messe" LP (Holy Mountain)
* Sunroof - "Panzer Division Lou Reed" CD (VHF)
* Graham Lambkin - "Salmon Run" CD (Kye)
* Jason Lescalleet - "Pilgrim" LP+CD (Glistening Examples)
* Hair Police - "Blind Kingdom" LP (Ultra Eczema)
* xNo BBQx - s/t picLP (Pulled Out)
* Naked on the Vague - "Blood Pressure Sessions" CD (Dual Plover)
* MB - "Evidences" 5xLP (Vinyl on Demand)
* Sun of the Seventh Sister - "Farben Raum" CD (Heard Worse)
Matthew G. Lammikins Jr.
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Shit, I can't remember! It was one of these three I think: UTFO's "Real Roxanne" 12", Prince's 'Erotic City' 12" single or that JFA live LP where they're all sitting on top of the bus on the front. I only really ever listen to the live version of the their 'Charlie Brown' cover."
* Tyvek - live and "Summer Burns" 2x7-inch (What's Your Rupture)
* Caribou - "Andorra" LP/CD (Merge)
* Home Blitz - s/t CD (Gulcher)
* Vashti Bunyan - "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" 2xLP/2xCD (DiCristina)
* Factums - "Alien Native" LP (Siltbreeze)
* Miss Alex White - "Space & Time" LP/CD (In The Red)
* Pumice - "Pebbles" CD (Soft Abuse)
* Eat Skull - s/t 7-inch (Meds)
* Mantles - "Burden + 3" 7-inch (Dulc-i-Tone)
* Circle - "Katapult" LP/CD (No Quarter) But really, the whole live staged wrestling act must be seen
Matt Likens
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Easy-E Eazy-Duz-It on cassette from Tower Records in Fremont, CA. "
1. Storm Bugs - "Supplementary Benefit" LP (Vinyl on Demand)
2. Mudboy - "Hungry Ghosts! Those Songs Are Doors" LP (Not Not Fun)
3. Absolute Body Control - "Complete ABC Tape Recordings" 5xLP (Vinyl on Demand)
4. Soul Merchants - "1985-1987" 2xCD (Smooch)
5. Rhythm and Sound - "The Versions" CD reissue (Asphodel)
6. Weakling - "Dead as Dreams" 2xLP/CD (Tumult Laboratories)
7. John Maus - "Songs" LP/CD (Upset the Rhythm)
8. Mythical Beast/Pocahaunted - split LP (Not Not Fun)
9. Factums - "Alien Native" LP (Siltbreeze)
10. Odd Nosdam - "Level Live Wires" CD (Anticon)
Murph
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Too $hort "Raw, Uncut & X-Rated" on cassette from Sundance Records in San Marcos, TX. "
1. Common Eider, Greater Eider - "How to Build a Cabin" CD (Yik Yak)
2. Soul Merchants - "1985-1987" 2xCD (Smooch)
3. Denver Gentlemen - "Introducing" CD (Smooch)
4. Jay Munly - "Galvanized Yankee" CD (Smooch)
5. Current 93 - "Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre" CD (Durtro/Jnana)
6. Omar Souleyman - "Highway to Hassake" CD (Sublime Frequencies)
7. Mudboy - "Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors!" LP/CD (Not Not Fun)
8. Death in June - "The World That Summer" 2xCD reissue box set (NER)
9. Faust - s/t LP reissue (Lilith)
10. Pantaleimon - "Mercy Oceans" CD (Durtro/Jnana)
Ken Olsen
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" The first record I ever bought was "Fox on the Run" 7" by Sweet. I bought it at a stoner record store in Portland, OR called Crystal Ship Records - it's true! "
1. Soul Merchants - "1985-87" 2xCD (Smooch)
2. Bags - "All Bagged Up" LP (Artifix)
3. Stormbugs - "Supplementary Benefit" LP (Vinyl on Demand)
4. Heart Attack - "God Is Dead" EP (Broken Rekids)
5. Mudboy - "Hungry Ghosts! Those Songs Are Doors" LP (Not Not Fun)
6. Absolute Body Control - "Complete Tapes" 5xLP (Vinyl on Demand)
7. Demons - "Frozen Fog" LP/CD (Aryan Asshole)
8. Sex Vid - "Tania" EP (Dom America) / Surrender "Last White Flag" EP (self-released)
9. V/A - "Northwest Passage: Portland Punk History" DVD / Dead Moon - "Unknown Passage" DVD
10. Factums- "Alien Native" LP (Siltbreeze)
Jacob Peña
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Mötley Crüe "Dr. Feelgood" on cassette from Sam Goody in Lakewood, CA. "
1. Ice Cream Man visits Revolver!
2. V/A - "Columbia" 2xLP/CD (Soundway)
3. Caetano Veloso - "Irene" LP/CD (Lilith)
4. Colleen - "Les Ondes Silencieuses" LP/CD (Leaf)
5. V/A - "Motel Lovers" CD (Trikont)
6. Deerhunter - "Cryptograms" CD (Kranky)
7. White Rainbow - "Prism of Eternal Now" CD (Kranky)
8. Vashti Bunyan - "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" 2xLP/2xCD" (DiCristina)
9. Pylon - "Gyrate+" (DFA)
10. Sunburned Hand of the Man feat. Four Tet - "Fire Escape" LP/CD (Smalltown Supersound)
Tim Soete
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" Billy Joel "Glass Houses" LP at Tower Records - Spots Arena San Diego, CA. "
* Harmonia - "Deluxe" LP (Lilith)
* Mark Fry - "Dreaming With Alice" CD (Sunbeam)
* Ariel Pink - "Scared Famous" CD (Human Ear Music)
* Cadence Weapon - "Breaking Kayfabe" LP/CD (Upper Class)
* Digital Leather - "Blow Machine" LP/CD (FDH)
* Chromatics - "Night Drive" CD (Italians Do It Better)
* LCD Soundsystem - "45:33" 2xLP/CD (DFA)
* Buried at Sea - "Ghost" CD (Neurot)
* Mammatus - "Coast Explodes" LP/CD (Holy Mountain)
Toppe
What was the first piece of music you purchased with your own money?
" The first peice of music I purchased was the 7" "Funkytown" by Lipps, Inc. at Shopko. "
* Panda Bear - "Person Pitch" 2xLP/CD (Paw Tracks)
* Lamps - "Lamps" LP/CD (In The Red)
* Eluvium - "Copia" CD (Temporary Residence)
* Matthew Dear - "Asa Breed" 2xLP/CD (Ghostly International)
* Battles - "Mirrored" 2xLP/CD (Mirrored)
* Ratatat - "Classics" CD (XL Recordings)
* White Williams - "Smoke" CD (Tigerbeat6)
* Milanese - "Barry Dub 2007" 12-inch (Planet Mu)
* Chris Garneau - "Music for Tourists" CD (Absolutely Kosher)
* Fiery Furnaces - "Widow City" 2xLP/CD (Thrill Jockey)
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