I arrived in LA in the evening of RSD. Did not make it to any shops that evening. Tired as fuck after not been able to sleep on the flight over.
On Sunday we went to Amoeba records. Impressive :-) Not much RSD stuff left and definitely not what I was after (OWS releases and Bladerunner picture disc).
My companion loved the store and bought some stuff I had never heard of. Those young'uns :-)
The fact that I am not a crate digger was again established. If I don't know what I am looking for I get lost. I cannot focus and cannot find anything and get irritated by records that are to tightly squeezed together. Their soundtrack selection consists of a lot of wel know new releases from all the labels we love. But they seemed to be so expensive...
We went to another nice store and a lot smaller. They still had a copy of the Andromeda Stain, but it being the beginning of my trip, the record costing $50 and it not being at the top of my want list I passed on it.
In the next ten days that followed we visited some more record stores in California without much success. I just wasn't feeling it.
The day before we went back home we found a nice shop on Haight Street in San Francisco: Groove Records. They had a lot of jazz records. And I found and bought this:
So at least I got to take something home :-)
