walked to the shopping center just next to the office park i work in
went to go draw some money and while i was there, thought i’d go check out the Cash Converters
(essentially your good ole pawn shop, except they dont pawn, they just buy and sell 2nd hand stuff and think that because they’ve franchised the chain and have clean carpets, they’re something special.which they are. (same chain i bought
these )
i have in the past found some pretty decent CD’s on their CD rack.
i picked up pink floyd’s ‘dark side of the moon’ for R20 (the equivalent of a pack of cigarettes and a can of coke - remember that conversion, we’ll come back to it).
but nothing could’ve prepared me for my good fortune today
a jimi hendrix bootleg called ‘woke up this morning and found myself dead’ (live in new york)
nothing major to get excited about?
well,
maybe,
did i mention it’s the only known recording of jimi hendrix and jim morrison performing live on stage, together?
did i mention i’m a rabid ‘DOORS’ fan?
(ok, for the purists out there, it may not quite meet your criteria for ‘perform’. morrisson was very drunk and screamed vaguely rythmically rhyming obscenities over an improvised guitar part. a masterpiece as far as i’m concerned, but since u may disagree, i thought i’d qualify it)
and i paid R20 for this lil’ gem
yeah, a pack of smokes and a coke
i’m still buzzing
(to add insult to injury, but in a good way, i also picked up an 8CD set of all nine beethoven symphonies, a bunch of his piano concertos and -sonatas, a couple of violin concertos and some other stuff, are u sitting down?
R30 (2 packs of smokes)
mint condition
and jus to wrap up my shopping spree, i bought a pogo stick
one must have balance in one’s life
)
ps. anybody have a link to a website where i can find the ‘collector’s value’ of the hendrix bootleg? dont get me wrong, i think it should be in my collection but if someone will pay me something stupid for it…
)