man, I spent way too much money on records today!

[ButterflyBlood]

around $80 got me all this:

sky falls down/parades end split 7"
coliseum/lords split 7"
nation of ulysses - the birth of the ulysses aesthetic 7"
tunes for bears to dance to/jesse washington split 7"
placebo comp 7"
four hundred years - the new imperialism 10"
cross my heart - temporary contemporary lp
cave in - tides of tommorrow lp
q and not u - no kill no beep beep lp
life at these speeds - s/t lp
end of the line - s/t lp
education comp lp
give me back comp lp
get up kids - eudora 2xlp

man, where am i going to get the time to listen to all of these?

[leftist_rebel1569]

1. Ah, nice list

I just picked up Q and not U's "No Kill No Beep Beep", except it's on CD and now on my computer. I'm hopefully gonna see them live in a week or so (10/11), too :)

[ButterflyBlood]

2. You live in Minnesota too?

ever been to Extreme Noise or Treehouse Records in Minneapolis? That's where I got all this stuff.

[leftist_rebel1569]

4. No, I haven't

I'm going down to Minneapolis soon to pick up tickets for the Death Cab for Cutie show that's coming up, so I might stop by a couple of those places to see what they've got.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Welcome back to DU, leftist_rebel1569!

Still listening to Rage Against the Machine, are you?:evilgrin:

[leftist_rebel1569]

5. Thanks!

and yes, I still do listen to the awesomeness that is RATM :)

[Rhiannon12866]

7. You're welcome!

I liked RATM, as well, even though I'd never heard them before. Fleetwood Mac is more my speed, LOL!:D

[no name no slogan]

6. Oh you kids...

It brings back memories.

Back when "alternative" really was alternative (i.e., it was NEVER played on the radio), I used to head down to Northern Lights in downtown Minneapolis. It was on the corner of Hennepin and 7th, just down the street from First Ave.

There we could buy records (yes, RECORDS) by all those weird obscure English bands that we'd only heard about from our older brothers and sisters in college-- bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, the Cocteau Twins, Killing Joke, Wire,....

If it was all-ages night at First Ave (typically Sunday), we would go there and hang out before the doors opened. If it was Sunday, you were assured of seeing Soul Asylum playing the Entry, if nothing else.

It was one of the few escapes for geeky kids from the 'burbs who hated the "cool" kids and had better things to do than play JV football.