The Hunt for Red Roses - obsessive Pogues buying

by **Low D** Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:59 pm

Anybody in Vancouver, there's a signed copy of the Red Roses... LP for sale for $48 at Audiophile on Commercial Drive. Rather out of my price bracket, but i'd be happy to have you over to play it on my turntable & look at the pictures...

by **Fr. McGreer** Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:33 pm

firehazard wrote:
philipchevron wrote:Cassingles totally sucked. They were of inferior quality to the point of being unlistenable and the ones that did not, mercifully, disintegrate into piles of magnetic tape after a few plays, hung around, uncherished, unplayed and indestructible on our shelves to forever taunt us for our follies.

As far as I can remember, I never bought a cassingle. Used to stick to vinyl for 45s. But I did go through a misguided student phase of buying albums on cassette, which I now of course regret. The horror of hearing your current favourites being torn apart and jumbled into an unlistenable tangle still haunts me. The hours spent fruitlessly trying to straighten up and rewind the tape into the cassette (with the aid of a pencil, as I recall)...

I think the only Pogues album I bought thus was Waiting For Herb. Which may still survive, I believe.
The surviving cassette I do still treasure (though rarely dare to play in case it self-destructs after all these years) is the NME's Pogo a Go Go. Which is a brilliant compilation.

When Peace and Love came out in summer 1989 i was on holidays in Tralee. I had to buy the cassette version so i could listen to it straight away on the car's tape deck :lol:

The only other Pogue cassettes i bought were the bootleg gig recordings from street vendors about two days after the gig. They always sounded great on their Walkmans but shite on a hi-fi when you got them home. :roll:

by **Irishrose** Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:24 pm

or... "But look! This is the original Red Roses for Me CD on the Stiff label"
or... "But look! This Russian version has cyrillic writing on the back cover"

I've mostly stopped looking, because I might just find something I hadn't managed to win in a bidding war on eBay.

well about two months ago i was able to finally bid and win one of those Pogues Irish flag colored pins, after about ten attempts and bidding them up through the roof and making the seller a lot more cash i was able to get one relatively cheap from the same buyer for about about a third to half of what the past bids reached??

must have caught e-bay on a slow Pogues interest bidding week??........i guess patience does have its virtues??.. :mrgreen:

territa..............will you be fortunate enough to be making the trek to NY in Mar, and i hope all is well for you??

Irishrose

by **Irishrose** Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:14 pm

DzM wrote:
Low D wrote:[I]'m not really THAT strange and obsessed. Or at least, not as strange and obsessed as i COULD be, if strangeness & obsession are graded on a curve scale.

I have scaled back on my obsessive Pogues buying by quite a bit. Gone, for the most part, are my days of pay >$80 for the "German Promotional Waxie's Dargle DJ Vinyl in Original Sleeve" or >$100 "If I Should Fall From Grace With God original Fillmore Tour Poster." Having a mortgage has caused me to strongly re-examine my spending habits.
"Yes i bought the vinyl 7' even though i have the cd single honey, but listen to this...

"But look! The cover art is two-inches larger between the 5" jewel case and the 7" vinyl 45! That's totally worth buying it again ... for the third time!"

LOL........................i recall our discussion last year @ Roseland about the search for or rather "obsessive Pogues buying" of any and all things Pogues related??........................and yeah i have still been at it, and yeah i have simialr discussions with my dearest??.............. :lol:

....................but honey its very rare and i was able to scoop it up on the cheap??.............hah........................but this CD has two more songs, and that poster is from such and such a year??

anyway the latest procurement i have that is presently winging its away across the "great big sea" is a rare copy of "The Lyrics of Shane MacGowan"??.........................well i have not seen too many of these available??

yes honey this is the last item i promise??.............................. :roll:

well at least until the next time i see sumpin i want of course??.................HAH

Irishrose

by **territa** Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:58 am

DzM wrote:
Low D wrote:[i]'m not really THAT strange and obsessed. Or at least, not as strange and obsessed as i COULD be, if strangeness & obsession are graded on a curve scale.

I have scaled back on my obsessive Pogues buying by quite a bit. Gone, for the most part, are my days of pay >$80 for the "German Promotional Waxie's Dargle DJ Vinyl in Original Sleeve" or >$100 "If I Should Fall From Grace With God original Fillmore Tour Poster." Having a mortgage has caused me to strongly re-examine my spending habits.
"Yes i bought the vinyl 7' even though i have the cd single honey, but listen to this...

"But look! The cover art is two-inches larger between the 5" jewel case and the 7" vinyl 45! That's totally worth buying it again ... for the third time!"

or... "But look! This is the original Red Roses for Me CD on the Stiff label"
or... "But look! This Russian version has cyrillic writing on the back cover"

I've mostly stopped looking, because I might just find something I hadn't managed to win in a bidding war on eBay.

by **DzM** Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:27 pm

soulfinger wrote:
firehazard wrote: Digitising... now there's a thought. I should do that. I should get the equipment.

A long, tedious but worthwhile process. USB decks are very cheap nowadays....and it'll soon be Xmas - time for subtle hints!

Something I've been doing is just hooking up my old turntable and/or tape deck line-out RCA jacks and into my laptop's stereo-mini input. Then I use Audacity (free audio software) to capture, eliminate noise, and export to high quality MP3 or AAC (or FLAC if I'm really worried about lossless long-term preservation).

Using the old equipment I have lying around has been working much better than $100 for this thinger and $100 for that thinger.

by **soulfinger** Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:53 pm

firehazard wrote: Digitising... now there's a thought. I should do that. I should get the equipment.

A long, tedious but worthwhile process. USB decks are very cheap nowadays....and it'll soon be Xmas - time for subtle hints! :wink:

by **soulfinger** Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:49 pm

Clash Cadillac wrote:
soulfinger wrote:This is completely rational however compared to the barmy things I have done (and sums I have spent) in pursuit of obscure sixties soul releases.

Did you acquire one of the two known copies of Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) on the Soul label?

Out of my league that - £15K for a single?? :shock:

I do have it booted as by Eddie Foster from when it was first discovered by Russ Winstanley - princely sum of £1. I paid an embarassing amount for both Gonna be a Big Thing - Yum Yums and I'm Stepping out of the Picture - Johnny Maestro but I'm all grown up and don't do stuff like that any more.

by **firehazard** Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:57 am

soulfinger wrote:I have still have lots of the NME cassettes. I have digitised them now so don't have to actually play them any more...

Inspired by this, I went on a search and found quite a few more of mine lurking in a drawer. There was some good stuff on some of those NME cassettes. Also located some of the free vinyls that used to occasionally be stuck to the front cover of the magazine. Digitising... now there's a thought. I should do that. I should get the equipment.

by **Clash Cadillac** Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:08 pm

soulfinger wrote:This is completely rational however compared to the barmy things I have done (and sums I have spent) in pursuit of obscure sixties soul releases.

Did you acquire one of the two known copies of Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) on the Soul label?

by **soulfinger** Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:19 pm

firehazard wrote:The surviving cassette I do still treasure (though rarely dare to play in case it self-destructs after all these years) is the NME's Pogo a Go Go. Which is a brilliant compilation.

I have still have lots of the NME cassettes. I have digitised them now so don't have to actually play them any more. One day they'll be worth thousands and then we'll see if Philip has anything to say about sucking cassettess.....yes nurse, I'll need a double dose tonight.

by **soulfinger** Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:15 pm

philipchevron wrote:Cassingles totally sucked. They were of inferior quality to the point of being unlistenable and the ones that did not, mercifully, disintegrate into piles of magnetic tape after a few plays, hung around, uncherished, unplayed and indestructible on our shelves to forever taunt us for our follies.

No, no, no, no, no, no.........oh OK, you're right. I won't buy any more. :oops:

by **Clash Cadillac** Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:14 am

firehazard wrote:But I did go through a misguided student phase of buying albums on cassette, which I now of course regret. The horror of hearing your current favourites being torn apart and jumbled into an unlistenable tangle still haunts me. The hours spent fruitlessly trying to straighten up and rewind the tape into the cassette (with the aid of a pencil, as I recall)...

Yes I remember those days (especially the pencil part) although I don't remember buying any of my current favorites on cassette. Living in a small town in South Dakota, I played The Cars (Eponymous), Harder Faster - April Wine, and Ted Nugent (all of them) until the printing wore off the cassettes. Then I moved to Rapid City, SD got involved in the college radio station and discovered the Pogues among others....

by **firehazard** Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:59 am

philipchevron wrote:Cassingles totally sucked. They were of inferior quality to the point of being unlistenable and the ones that did not, mercifully, disintegrate into piles of magnetic tape after a few plays, hung around, uncherished, unplayed and indestructible on our shelves to forever taunt us for our follies.

As far as I can remember, I never bought a cassingle. Used to stick to vinyl for 45s. But I did go through a misguided student phase of buying albums on cassette, which I now of course regret. The horror of hearing your current favourites being torn apart and jumbled into an unlistenable tangle still haunts me. The hours spent fruitlessly trying to straighten up and rewind the tape into the cassette (with the aid of a pencil, as I recall)...

I think the only Pogues album I bought thus was Waiting For Herb. Which may still survive, I believe.
The surviving cassette I do still treasure (though rarely dare to play in case it self-destructs after all these years) is the NME's Pogo a Go Go. Which is a brilliant compilation.

by **Exapno Mapcase** Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:25 am

I've got the Rainy Night In Soho re-release on cassette and all The Beatles singles and the shittiest tape player so they never come out of the box

Can't believe McClaren would read the future wrong :shock:

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