I Heart My Local Library

Wow, gems I found at my library (I didn't order them)

Triumvirat-Illusions on a double dimple & Spartacus

Hawkwind- In The Hall of the Mountain Grill

It's A Beautiful Day- (self-titled)

Uriah Heap - Demons & Wizards

They have ordered for me

The Flower Kings

Univers Zero

Van Der Graff

Gentle Giant

Yes

Amon Duul II

King Crimson

Trey Gunn Band

PFM

Deus Ex Machina

Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso

Anekdoten

Anglagard

My library is a prog treasure trove

Why is the library ordering Prog????

Why can't you just buy them instead???

Anyways, All my Jazz, half of my classical, Dark Side of the Moon, Some the Who, Some Vai and some Satriani comes from the library too!

My library music is mostly crap and no prog at all

Friend of mine found KC's Red as well. She's now addicted to KC and comes to me for her fix

All my local branch has is Mike Oldfield's Voyager. But maybe it's a societal thing (my neighbourhood has a lot of New Age-listeners!) and I should head into the main branch (the city has, like, twenty local branches of the same library, not including the bookmobiles).

Thanks for the suggestion, Tiresias! if my library has even half of what yours has, I'll be ecstatic.

Library has always been more important to me than record shops. The united libraries in Helsinki area (including Eetu's Vantaa) have always something to be reserved (to be picked up from a libary you choose) when I visit Helsinki. My town Lahti is not as good, especially in prog - though it has almost each King Crimson release, stupidly!   

 and  to libraries!!!!

Matti wrote: The united libraries in Helsinki area (including Eetu's Vantaa) have always something to be reserved (to be picked up from a libary you choose) when I visit Helsinki.

Yep! It's a great service, that you can order something from the other libraries of the area with out costs. When I got interested about RENAISSANCE f.ex., I just ordered all of their records, and I got them for my listening within the following month.

There's also great collection of VdGG records in Vantaa. Most of their studioalbums are found on both CD's and LP's, and they bought their "The Box" for loaning on the same week as it was released in Finland!

Through the library I go to I can borrow cd's from a sort of library in Rotterdam ( Holland ).

They have some amazing stuff, f.e.  Comus, T2 and loads more early seventies stuff.  Great !!

I agree wholeheartedly!!!

My local library had the following:

Spock's Beard - Octane

Dream Theater - Octavarium, Train of Thought, Six degrees..., Live at Budokan

Flower Kings - Adam and Eve

Stratovarius - Elements Pt.1

Yes - Ultimate Anthology

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Delicate Sound of Thunder, Wish You Were Here, Collection of Great Dance Songs, Momentary Lapse of Reason

Rush - Different Stages (Box Set Live)

Genesis - Lamb Lies down on Broadway, Live - The Longs and Shorts, Archive #2 Box Set, Genesis (mama album), Invisible Touch,

Peter Gabriel - Pretty much all the main studio albums plus Passion soundtrack and Plays Live

Iced Earth - Glorious Burden

Cocteau Twins - BBC collection

Tool - Lateralus

Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

Muse - Absolution (was Dream Theater influenced by the vocal style of this band on a few songs on Octavarium?)

...anyway, I know that I've missed some, but yes it is worth it to check your local library to see what they have. It's free!!!

Sebastian