I had to go pick up my wife's daughter from school in Philadelphia today. She will be crossing the pond to do the Spring Semester at Cambridge so not only did we have to get her, but we had to empty her dorm room and take everything home with us. Since all of us now have small cars it took two of us to carry all her stuff. She rode home with her father and I stuffed my car and started to travel back solo. Well by the time we hit the road it was raining pretty hard and getting close to rush hour and the traffic was backing up fast. So faced with an extra long ride home in bumper to bumper traffic I came up with a plan....... Take some side roads and travel from Philadelphia to long Island via Princeton. What better thing for a tired road warrior to do than wait out the traffic by taking a break from driving at PREX? :rock (Yeah, like I really need an excuse.
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Vinyl picking are starting to get thin, even at Princeton
Record Exchange, As Blu-ray discs are starting to squeeze out a lot of floor space that used to house LPs. But I guess if it helps pay the rent and keep the record shop open (even if they do keep less stock than they used to) I can't complain all too much.
Even though I only found 1 LP (I probably would have found more if I had crawled around on the floor looking in the dollar bins, but that area was pretty crowded and I did not have all that much time. I had to be on the road in two hours and a full out assault on the entire PREX inventory can take 6 - 8, and yes I have done that many times.
Anyway, here is a list of what I came away with:
Gould: West Point Symphony - Fennel/Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mercury Golden Imports LP
John Pizzarelli with The George Shearing Quintet: The Rare Delight of You, Telarc CD
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Erich Kunzel/ Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Telarc CD
Mighty Sam McClain: Blues for the Soul, Telarc CD
Mahler: Symphony No. 4: Reiner/Chicago Symphony, RCA Living Stereo CD
Leonard Bernstein, Total Embrace: The Composer, Sony Legacy 3 CD Set
The Turtle Creek Chorale: Postcards, Reference Recordings HDCD
Bernstein: Candide Suite Etc: Oue/Minnesota Orchestra, Reference Recordings HDCD
Clark Terry: Express, Lark/Depaul University Big Band, Reference Recordings HDCD
Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love, Verve CD
Ella Fitzgerald: The Very Best of the Duke Ellington Songbook, Verve CD
Ella Fitzgerald: Music & Music, Songbook Selections 1956-1959, Hear Music CD
Peter Cincotti: East of Angel Town, Concord CD
Ray Brown Trio: Live from New York to Tokyo, Concord CD
A Sheffield Christmas Collection, Sheffield Labs CD
Nancy Bryan: Neon Angel, Analogue Productions Originals CD
California Guitar Trio: Pathways, Discipline Global Mobile CD
Charlotte Church: Enchantment, Columbia CD
And guess what, by the time I finished shopping the traffic had dissipated enough that I did not hit one slowdown all the way home.