THE place for your Sisters-related comments, questions and snippets of Sisters information. For those who do not know, The Sisters of Mercy are a rock'n'roll band. And a pop band. And an industrial groove machine. Or so they say. They make records. Lots of records, apparently. But not in your galaxy. They play concerts. Lots of concerts, actually. But you still cannot see them. So what's it all about, Alfie? This is one of the few tightly-moderated forums on Heartland, so please keep on-topic. All off-topic posts will either be moved or deleted. Chairman Bux is the editor and the editor's decision is final. Danke.
having not 'been there' all my tsom is from fairs (bar VS etc)
i've only got one of each mind...not every release of everything, it all sounds the same
the most i haven't paid for a record was £25 for adrenachome i saw in a 'certain basement second-hand shop' in LS6, but it was six months after SGWBM was out... six months earlier and i would have shelled out for it, probably
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don't exactly know what they are!"
This has reminded me, there was a shop near the Corn Exchange in Leeds (apologies to non Leeds peeps as you prob won't know it) called Vinyl Demand or something. It shut a few years back.
I got SSV from there on CD, paid £25 for it. They had the Dr Jeep & Detonation Boulevard CD singles in there for £30 each!
(No I didn't by the way, I got them from eil.com)
“I got lost in the mirror, wondering what could have been, I couldn’t help but kill her, but I couldn’t kill the dream.”
Purple Light wrote:This has reminded me, there was a shop near the Corn Exchange in Leeds (apologies to non Leeds peeps as you prob won't know it) called Vinyl Demand or something. It shut a few years back.
They used to have great stuff, but I also remember it being quite pricey.
There was another shop in the same area which was pretty good, but I can't remember the name. More reasonable price-wise and a good deal of bootlegs.
I'd end this moment to be with you
Through morphic oceans I'd lay here with you
Purple Light wrote:This has reminded me, there was a shop near the Corn Exchange in Leeds (apologies to non Leeds peeps as you prob won't know it) called Vinyl Demand or something. It shut a few years back.
They used to have great stuff, but I also remember it being quite pricey.
There was another shop in the same area which was pretty good, but I can't remember the name. More reasonable price-wise and a good deal of bootlegs.
poss' Racks of Wax?
VT certainly knew the 'list' price, but also had good condition stock, bought ToL 7" and Space by Space LP there (a whopping £25, a lot of money in them days)
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don't exactly know what they are!"
I got it for a very fair price from another Heartlander!
I had never been in this place, but knew about it.
Then I bought Tom's spare copy and passed by his place to pick it up (I remember quite well because it was raining cats'n dogs that night and my lovely Suzuki ZR gave the ghost a few miles further down the road)...
The only high price i will pay for sisters material is future material. Thinking of silver shining discs, golden sleeves, covers with LED-lights (like Pink Floyd) etc.
The only high price i will pay for sisters material is future material. Thinking of silver shining discs, golden sleeves, covers with LED-lights (like Pink Floyd) etc.
If I was a Sunn O))) fan then probably, definitely, yes. Unfortunately, I don't believe I've heard them, and am currently concentrating on Earth. Im not buying them because they have a value, i'm buying them because i'm a "completist" when it comes to bands I very much like. One day i'll get round to buying an authentic Damage Done and possibly even a Red Vinyl Belgian Temple of Love.
Luckily I'm a confirmed bachelor with no children and no mortgage, so after putting beer token's and food stamps aside, i've got some spare cash for self indulgences
i just paid (GULP!) £200 for a copy of 'the blood' on 7" by the cure, there are only 300-400 in the world and go for a LOT more than that generally! and i now don't need much by them to get everything i want by them, my sisters collection is by comparison rather sad although the i have the songs. my mate used to have 'damage done' and 'body electric' but sold it on ebay, the rotter!
Purple Light wrote:This has reminded me, there was a shop near the Corn Exchange in Leeds (apologies to non Leeds peeps as you prob won't know it) called Vinyl Demand or something. It shut a few years back.
They used to have great stuff, but I also remember it being quite pricey.
There was another shop in the same area which was pretty good, but I can't remember the name. More reasonable price-wise and a good deal of bootlegs.
I did get a signed double 7" of The Lorries Crawling Mantra from them, back when I had disposable income
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."
markfiend wrote:what was the one that used to be on Lower Briggate called?
I think that's the one I was referring to.
without wanting to get into some strange-forum-loop
was it not Crash b4 it moved...Leeds and it's mobile Secord Shops ! or Leeds Record Shop Bingo?
but it could have been Polar Bear; that ended up as a kak second-hand CD single shop in the County Arcade
aaargh! my head hurts
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don't exactly know what they are!"
markfiend wrote:what was the one that used to be on Lower Briggate called?
I think that's the one I was referring to.
without wanting to get into some strange-forum-loop
was it not Crash b4 it moved...Leeds and it's mobile Secord Shops ! or Leeds Record Shop Bingo?
but it could have been Polar Bear; that ended up as a kak second-hand CD single shop in the County Arcade
aaargh! my head hurts
I don't think it was Crash. The shop I'm thinking of had a copy of Damage Done on the wall for all the time I knew of the place.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
I bought body electric at a record fair at the NEC, some time in the early 90's, paid £60 for it. Bought Damage Done at the same time for £150. I had obsessive completist disorder back then, thankfully it’s cleared up now. £210 on two 7 inch singles is still my most pointlessly extravagant purchase. There's no way I'd spend £60 or even £35 on Body Electric these days. I'd spend it on videogames instead
If I went off the smokes for a while, I could easily invest the same amount of money in a BE, and a lot of people (most people?) would likely call it a better use of money.
Fortunately I'm not the type to agonize too much over these things.
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
