Vinyl is Hot...

That's the buzz anyway with many new releases being pressed and high end turn tables selling for a premium. You know I am always hip to then latest thing so here are some thrift store finds I added to my 500 plus (really haven't counted in about 20 years so it might be more) on our recent visit to Temple Texas.

With the strong Czech/Polish/German heritage of the central Texas area polka music is big. At one stop I picked up four polka records, priced right at $1 each. It tore my soul to think these fine records might lay in some dusty bin as a way station before the dump so I took them on. Note two records by the Makek's Orchestra (still in operation for over 100 years in the Corpus Christi area) Lee Roy Matocha ( passed in 2003) and Vrazel's Polka Band (just back from Europe, 55 years a going concern)

Plenty of accordion and tuba in these family bands that have carried on through multiple generations. These records I have purchased seem to be of 60s vintage with only one dated, March 9, 1968.

The other find is a Reader's Digest Box set of big band music covering the years of 1936-1945. This was a $5 purchase at Goodwill no date of issue. I have a real good selection of big band on cd and vinyl and in my prime I would not have been caught dead buying something from Reader's Digest but what the heck, I got old and didn't care anymore, except about the music.

So we are busy around here, listening to music. You never know about these old records, they may come in handy. These particular ones are big extra thick petroleum based 12 inchers. In the event of the end of oil I figure I melt them down I might have a decade or two of gas left while the ipodders walk everywhere.