The other day, after posting about I Remember Yesterday, my friend Mark commented that he still had the original vinyl copy he'd bought new back in the day. I was about to send him an email stating that while I no longer had my original, I did have a vinyl copy and was going to email him a photo.
Well imagine my surprise when I went to the shelf and it was nowhere to be found. And then I remembered: I'd never actually replaced that particular release. I had it on CD, and I had an MP3 copy, but no vinyl.
A trip to Discogs took care of that post haste, and it arrived today.
Another record that's been on my radar for a couple years after seeing it on Instagram a while back was the Eurythmics picture disk pressing of Sweet Dreams are Made of This. Slowly making my way through my Discogs wish list, I actually ordered a copy of this back in February from a seller in France, but it never arrived, so he refunded the money. The offerings that showed up subsequently were uniformly graded VG or VG+, but I was holding out for NM (near mint) or—as unlikely as it seemed—M (mint). A NM copy at a very reasonable price finally showed up online about a month ago, so I went ahead and ordered it. This seller was in the UK, so I dropped some extra coin to get a tracking number this time. It only took about three weeks to get here, and it was exactly as described. Definitely "near mint" as described and worth the wait.