Anyone know where I can find 80's hair band albums?

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:02 am

I'd try used CD stores. Music genres that people think of as "dated" (like Hair Metal, Disco, 80's pop...) tend to be in pleantiful supply in used CD stores as people who move on to the next musical fad dump their old collections. All the better for people who develop a taste for these styles after their popularity has waned.

They also tend to have a lot of good (and not-so-good, so it's nice to know what you're looking for) Jazz and Classical music sold off by people who bought them trying to develop a taste for "intellectual" music (bad idea - listen to it if you like it, don't try to shove it down your own throaght it you don't), or who received them as Christmas gifts and listened to them once. Just avoid the "new age" sections and any Classical album that's packaged like a pop compilation (like "Mozart's Greatest Hits", this stuff tends to pick just well-known [not necessarily the best, and often well-known as a result of play on Looney Tunes or TV commercials] works, and then often has abridged versions recorded by unenthusiastic ensambles). It's hard to go wrong with some of the "big-name" modern classical performers like Yo-Yo Ma, Hillary Hahn, and Glenn Gould. For Jazz, try some old standards (Miles Davis, John Coltraine, and Glen Miller are three good places to start), and experement with albums that look like they might be doing something different (one of my favorite finds was "Jaqcues Loussier plays Bach" - Baroque music, as performed by a jazz trio that really knew how to translate it from one style to another without butchering it in the process).

And the biggest positive point of Used CD stores - they're cheap. Buy three albums for the price of one, and don't worry about wasting $20 on a record you may or may not like when you listen to it. Some kind owners even let you take out a diskman and preview the tracks before you buy, if you're tight on cash and don't know what to choose.

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:00 pm

Yay! More 80's metal fans! Anyway, if there are any pawn shops around in your area, you can try those out. They usually have something that you weren't expecting.

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:38 am

In addition if you get desperate or lazy there's always Ebay...
Bah, are the CD's that you're trying to find somehow sparce or unavailable?
Most CD's, even music originally available in 8-tracks (Oh Yeah!) and vinyl are around now.
Pawnshops? That could work.
80's Hair Metal, rock on.

Iamshadowkiller · Post by **Iamshadowkiller** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:45 pm

do not mock metal kajino rei

*eyeroll**eyeroll* *mock* *pretend metalhead*

/says kajino rei

/end

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:55 pm

Iamshadowkiller wrote:do not mock metal kajino rei

*eyeroll**eyeroll* *mock* *pretend metalhead*

/says kajino rei

/end

Are you stoned?
Or just trying to make a joke?
Eh, never mind.
Metal forever, right Korova?