I’m still slowly working my way through ripping all of my CDs to .ogg files. Yesterday it was the turn of Lou Reed. I’ve got some really good Lou Reed albums (Transformer, Street Hassle and New York) but I’ve also got some dross that I bought in the late 90s when I had too much money and just automatically bought new albums by people who I once liked. I doubt I’ll ever listen to Ecstasy again for example.
And then there are a couple of very good albums that went in the great cassette massacre of 2003 – Songs for Drella and Magic and Loss. So we’re straight off to Ebay to see if we can track them down…
Update: Well I found copies. And I’ve won the auctions :)
When the local college radio station was getting rid of it’s vinyl, I acquired (amongst other items) ‘Take No Prisoners’ and ‘Metal Machine Music’ (the collectible value of these was greatly reduced by the comments written on the covers by various DJ’s). MMM is, of course, utter crap (because it’s supposed to be), but TNP was cool. Alas, the only Lou Reed I have on CD is the VU banana album…and I have no working turntable :(