Bad Choices

Tbh, most auto purchases of solo Roger Waters and David Gilmour. I felt obligated, in a way, to buy them.

ghost_of_morphy wrote: I gave up on Yes after purchasing Talk, as I was quite underwhelmed by that album.  I remember walking into a Besr Buy a few years later, overcome by a sudden whim to catch up with my favorite group.  I had a choice betweem something called Keys to Ascension II and another disc named Open Your Eyes. I made a BAD CHOICE!!!!

Purchasing horrible sound quality bootlegs at insane prices during my youth.

Sold most of them at fairly good prices at the right time, though.

Barbu wrote: Purchasing horrible sound quality bootlegs at insane prices during my youth. Sold most of them at fairly good prices at the right time, though.

This why I can never be a true socialist. I love this about the capitalism! You always have a shot a breaking even!

Good point about "autobuys" that keeps coming up. Rush was the biggest one for me. Everything after Signals was just wasted cash. There was also a time that Dream Theater was an autobuy. Really only find 2 albums listenable.

Spending far too much money on an original vinyl pressing of Pawn Hearts only to find that it sounded like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music had been recorded over the album. No refunds the store said. Bad choice...especially considering I already had the cd

Almost every record fares I just haven´t got enough money to buy everything I want and I think I will buy some album in the next one. Of course the seller doesn´t have that anymore in the next fares after half year. Mostly I have found those albums later from discogs.

1) "A".  After buying every Tull album the day it hit the store from Warchild on, "A" was the first time I really felt let down.  Not just by the music, but the personnel changes as well...I could not imagine a Tull without Barrie on drums or John Evan on keys.  It became the 1st Tull tour I didn't attend in 4 years.

2) "90125".  Same story as Tull, I bought every Yes album from Relayer on (including the Anderson, Howe, Squire and Moraz solo albums...I had the good sense to steer clear of Ramshackled :-) the day they hit the store and loved them all.  90125 seemed to be such a 180 degree change of concept and direction...hated the album cover art, hated Squire's new tone and restrained approach and most of all, hated Trevor Rabin's style, sound and vocals.

3) "Discipline".  Not that it's a bad album, but to me it just wasn't a King Crimson album.  I hated Adrian Belew's vocals, it's like he was trying way too hard to seem weird...like a poor man's David Byrne.  Fripp & Bruford's playing were so restrained as to be nearly unrecognizable, though they do cut loose in a couple places.  And Tony Levin in place of John Wetton was a major disappointment.  I love Tony's stick playing but have never cared for him as a bassist.  Also never got into the whole guitar-gamelan thing with disciplined interlocking parts.  I've always thought they should have followed their original plan and named both the album and the band Discipline.   

4) "Masque".  Ah yes, my love/hate relationship with Kansas :-)  It's really more hate than love...anyway...when I was 1st getting into prog in '75, I had a 'prog mentor' who turned me on to a lot of great bands.  He was a huge Kansas fan and was constantly raving about the Song for America and Masque albums.  One day I saw Masque at the record store and checked it out.  Prog cover art?  Check.  Long songs?  Check.  Proggy looking musician pictures on the back cover?  Check.  Purchase.  So I get home and drop the needle on "It Takes a Woman's Love to Make a Man"...WTF is this?  Are there maybe 2 bands called Kansas?  Must be true cause this one isn't the prog Kansas I thought it was :-)  Then I sit through "Two Cents Worth" and didn't need to hear any more.  Took it back and got my money back.  Years later I discovered the cool prog songs on the album and learned to just skip over the Don-Kirschner-says-this-will-get-us-on-the-radio rubbish that always tainted Kansas albums :-)


Edited by The.Crimson.King - January 31 2018 at 12:45

Yeah, must have been quite a shock at the time but 'A' is a pretty strong Tull record...hope you've come to enjoy it somehow.

Guldbamsen wrote: Spending far too much money on an original vinyl pressing of Pawn Hearts only to find that it sounded like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music had been recorded over the album. No refunds the store said. Bad choice...especially considering I already had the cd

 
That's exactly what happened to me!! My 1st pressing Pawn Hearts skipped on Man-Erg in one section, and because I spent so much money on Discogs, I was upset. The guy said "THAT'S VERY GOOD CONDITION", something in very good condition should NOT skip then!! 

At least I can look at Paul Whitehead's work and appreciate it as a wonderful painting..