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Not online but some this seems to fit in this topic: Thursday I visited my public library’s main location and in their basement they have a flea market where they sell all books, CDs, DVDs etc. that they either get donated or remove from the borrowing catalogue for 1 Euro each. Lots of pop music, classical stuff and whatnot but I found two scores. I hadn’t them on any watch list but for that price…
– James Newton Howard PRINCE OF TIDES – Somehow didn’t have this at all but remembered the main theme being nice. Indeed nicely flowing score.
– And this compilation of German Youth drama movie scores or so. I had a vague memory of the main title from DER SOMMER DES FALKEN”. Some nice tracks with mostly small ensemble and and a bit pop flavor: https://www.discogs.com/de/release/10049085-Matthias-Raue-Martin-Cyrus-Der-Sommer-Des-Falken-Original-Filmmusik
For some reason I didn’t also take Ry Cooder’s PARIS TEXAS because I thought I had it somehow but so far I can’t find it so far. Well, you sometimes loose the oversight …;-)
Then I decided to visit two 2nd hand shops that were more or less on the way and where I hadn’t been for several years (we have still a few of these shops here). The first had only a very small row of uninteresting soundtracks.
The 2nd was bigger and had far more. They have CDs but focus is LPs. They have 2nd hand and new stuff, quite some new LPs score releases (expensive…). I bought a medium rare Mike Post score on LP for 3,- (well, 6 co-written songs plus 3 score tracks, never made it on CD or even digital – haven’t listend yet). This one I actually had spotted on their discogs page and was a primary reason for the visit.
Of course I also scanned around. As expected no real rarities but you could get some older release for under 10 Euros. Nothing I really really wanted so I resisted to buy anything more… for now… 😉
But, guys, it was so much fun to scan through LPs and CDs like in the old times again. I think I will do this more regularly from now on again. Interesting was that there were a lot younger people half my age and less. Even a boy around 13-14 maybe who was apparently known and allowed to unpack packages of new arrivals. I think I heard he told the shop clerk that Ska, Punk and Rock were his favorites 😉