So seeing as I travel all over the country for business, and find myself with down time, I undulge my hobby of records (I actually bought a vintage turntable and receiver on the road last summer so I could listen to my finds). Most of the time the shopping is a big dissapointment as I go home with 1/2 dozen Lp's or none at all. I have been surprized by a few places, Milwaukee,WI and Seattle, WA among them for very good vinyl shops...but Vegas just outdid both. No I didn't go to the infamous Wax-trax that I have heard so many horrible things about (I refuse to reward an ornery shop owner with my money, and I don't think getting attitude makes you cool...I'm an adult) but I did visit both Zia's records locations for a decent selection of $3-4 records and all 3 Record City locations for the more collectible things (jazz among them) and the famous dollar bins. All were VG+ to M- condition for the vinyl and G-VG+ for the covers (I care more about listening the the album than the cover), so many are replacing copies of albums I either have re-issues of, or are in lesser condition.

So...I am now looking at these two stacks and realizing that I over-did it a little bit, but considering I could have been blowing my money on slots or the Black-Jack tables, I think I'm going home a winner...you tell me..

Rock:
Neil Young & CH-Zuma
Paul Simon- GH's
Springsteen-Darkness on edge of town
Quicksilver Msr Band- Just for Love
Creedence-Willy & the poor boys (Fantasy blue label)
Creedence-Bayou Country (Fantasy blue label)
Creedence-Green River (Fantasy blue label/re-issue)
Creedence-Cosmo's Factory (Fantasy blue label)
Marshall Tucker- Carolina Dreams
Elton John-Self titled
Elton John- 11-17-70
Elton John- Madman
Cream-Goodbye (Atco)
Dire Straits- Communique
Dire Straits- Love over Gold
Dire Straits -Self titled
Dire Straits-Making movies
ELO-Time
ELO-Out of the Blue
ELO-Discovery
ELO-A New World Record
ELO-Face the Music
Supertramp-Even in the Quietest Moments..
Supertramp-Crime of the Century
Robert Palmer- Some People Can Do What...
Rush- Fly by Night
Blood Sweat & Tears- Self Titled
Foghat-Fool for the City
Foghat-Self titled
Kinks-You Really Got Me (Reprise color steamboat)
Kinks-History of British Pop (Pye)
Van Morrison- Tupelo Honey
Eric Clapton- Clapton (Polygram)
Eric Clapton- Self titled (Atco)
Blind Faith- Self titled (Atco)
U2- Unforgettable Fire
Stills/Young Band- Long may you run
Elvis Costello-Armed Forces
Elvis Costello- Trust
Pink Floyd- Animals
Peter Gabriel-So
Guess Who-Share the land
Sting-Sould Cages
Bob Dylan-New Morning

Jazz:

Tony Williams-Spring (Blue Note-pre zip)
Jimmy Smith-The Sermon (Blue Note-pre zip RVG)
S. Turrentine w/Three Sounds- Blue Hour (Blue Note-Cap promo)
G. Mulligan & S. Rogers- Modern Sounds (Capitol German import)
Wayne Shorter-Adam's Apple (Blue Note-zip, pre bar code RVG)
Shelly Manne-Swinging Sounds (Contemporary re-release)
Mangione Bros.-The jazz Brothers (Riverside black label)
Ahmad Jamal Trio- Self titled (epic)
Ahmad Jamal-all of you (Cadet)
Jackie McLean-Makin' the changes (New Jazz, re-release)
James Moody-Moods (Prestige, re-release)
Art Taylor-Hard Cookin' (Prestige green label-pre zip)
Sonny Rollins-Tenor Madness (Prestige green label-pre zip RVG)
Sonny Rollins-Jazz Classics (Presitge purple label-RVG)
Brew Moore- Self titled (Fantasy pre-bar)
Wayne Shorter- 'Juju' (Blue Note pre-zip, RVG)
Horace Silver-Finger Poppin' with (Blue Note-pre zip)
Horace Silver- The stylings of.. (Blue Note, pre-zip RVG)
Horace Silver- and the jazz mesngrs (Blue Note, pre zip)
Lester Young-Memorial album (epic)
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue (Columbia-70's re-issue)
Ernie Henry-Last Chorus (riverside, zip, pre bar)
Phil Woods-Pairing Off (Prestige re-issue)
Phil Woods-Woodlore (Prestige re-issue)
Red Garland-Revisited (Prestige purple, RVG)
Wardell Gray-Memorial Album (Prestige purple label, RVG)
Stan Getz-The brothers (Prestige re-release)
Gene Ammons-The Happy Blues (Prestige re-release)
Gene Ammons-Funky (Prestige purple label, RVG)
Gene Ammons-Jammin' in hi-fi with..(Prestige re-release)
Gene Ammons-Blue Gene (Prestige purple label RVG)
Jazz Messngrs-At cafe Bohemia (Blue Note pre zip)
Jackie McLean-Mclean's scene (Prestige re-release)
Herbie Hancock-The Best of (Blue Note pre-bar)
Sinatra&Basie- A Historic musical first (reprise, color label)
Sinatra&Basie-It might as well be swing (reprise, color label)
Earl Grant-Spotlight on..(Decca)
Earl Grant-At Basin street (Decca)
Lionel Hampton-Soft Vibes soaring strings (columbia 6-eye, stereo)
Ray Charles-The Ray Charles Story (Atlantic, purple/red label)
Ray Charles-The Ray Charles Story II (Atlantic, white label)

Now I have to ship these suckers back home.....guess it's gonna cost more than I paid for the lot..oh well...can't wait to spend a long weekend at home with this stack...make that a long week!

James R.

Great haul James, I see some killer titles in there, enjoy. :thmbsp:

No I didn't go to the infamous Wax-trax that I have heard so many horrible things about (I refuse to reward an ornery shop owner with my money, and I don't think getting attitude makes you cool

He is actually one of the BIGEST A-Holes on this planet. I remember him from our teenage years in N.Y . I hand left the world of record collecting and about 12 years ago went into his shop at that time in the Pocconos and recognized him and introduced myself . I related some memories of years gone by. All well and good. He had a RnB record I had lusted after and never had the bucks to buy. My wife offered to buy it for me for my birthday and he offered to sell for $200 less than the posted price!!.
I declined but my wife knew I really wanted it. She called him to next day and wanted to buy if for me at the reduced price and he rudely informed her that was ONLY the price for right then , if she wanted it ,it was going to be full price.Obviously no sale. What a rude S.O.B. He was actually lucky I didn't call him and confront him him with his B.S lies when he was doing a radio show. Happy you spent no $ there.

Very Nice Haul! Way better than the tables and lots more satisfying.

Wow... you're going to be busy and happy for awhile methinks...

Sweet ass haul! :thmbsp:

You have A LOT of great music to spend the week with! :music:

Sounds like my old haunts are still thumping.

Sounds like my old haunts are still thumping.

Indeed they are! Thanks again for the advise, and I'm glad I steered clear of Wax Trax. The experience of dealing with such a nasty person would have tarnished the otherwise sweet taste in my mouth right now. Zia's was just like "Record and Tape trader" back at home where all the albums are tagged with a fixed price, regardles of how rare. These stores usually have a plethora of albums we all already own (how many copieds of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits do we need), but sometimes there are a few gems tucked in, thus it's worth the dig (that's where I found the UK Kinks album, as well as Dylan's New Morning...for $2.99 each).

Record City was very unusual as all three locations offered something different. The main store (the one by the strip is now the main store as the one on Charlston is now the "budget store") has the best stuff. The uber rare, great jazz, full selection of classic rock titles (originals not just the 80's represses), and the prices are fair (between $4-15 for most) unless it's super rare. I didn't pay more than $15 for any title as they were having a "buy 4 or more and get 25% off" sale. The one two blocks from there was odd as they had a fair selection of rock, crap for jazz, and one of the best classical selections I have ever seen in a vintage vinyl store (although all the TAS titles and labels of course were cherry picked). The one on Charlston had more DVD than I could fathom, fair to medicore rock section, crap again for jazz, no classical, but fantastic dollar bins (about 2k records to pick through). Many of the dollar records I picked up were perfect except for a torn spine, or ring-wear, or a light non-audible scratch on the Lp. I guess the owner has figured out what sells in what parts of town.

So...all three are worth checking out.

Thanks again for the prod in the right direction,

James R.