Because we were already in downtown, we went to The Record Exchange instead. Every time I am there, I'd always check the International section hoping I'd find a Filipino record.
There was this one time that the mister found one, but it was not in Frederick. It was in Easton, Pennsylvania back in 2014. Bayanihan! The mister got it for $10. It's kind of pricey but you can't find this just anywhere. Everytime we play it, the boy would tell us that the music (tempo and stringed instruments) reminds him of old mafia movies.
Back to yesterday, I didn't find any Filipino records. Again! So, I just looked around the store hoping to find something that will interest me. There were old music magazines in one wall. I was interested with one, a copy of Rolling Stones 1995 with Drew Barrymore on the cover (Like this one.), but the condition was not excellent. The spine of the magazine was damaged. Some pages near the spine were also torn. It was priced for $1.50.
While the boy was looking for old games, and the mister was looking for vinyl records to add to his "enviable" record collection (as one blogger called it), my eyes caught a ((( FREE ))) sign in one corner of the store near the entry door.
I was only interested on the sign, and not on what was inside the pink bin. On the other side of the door was the Mario question block box with more free stuff.
The boy bought a pack of old PS2 games, the mister didn't find any, and I took home 7 freebies! Yey!
The Pointer Sisters -Their Greatest Recordings (This is compiled exclusively for military purposes), 1978; Donna Summer - A Love Trilogy (1976)
Andy Williams - Reflections (1977); Perry Como - Hello Young Lovers (1967)
Barbra Streisand's Love Songs (1986); Superman (1977); and Wet (1979).
There were a lot but I only picked those that I liked and were familiar to me. There was also this record Stay With Me by Kiki Dee (1980). I never heard of her, and I only took a photo of it because of her name, Kiki! Hehehe
Kiki is one of the countless Filipino slangs for vagina or its American equivalent, pussy.
Oh. By the way, last night I checked the songs of this record, and they were nice. I should have picked the Kiki one too.
2 comments:
Everyone loves Freebies! That shop is so interesting to browse and cart home something free. I used to love Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer during my school days. These days I would still croon their songs at the karaoke with my wife and she would laugh so much when I sang Donna Summer's Bad Girl and Hot Stuff while shaking myself like an old prostitute, exactly like Donna Summer danced. LOL
I'm curious about "bayanihan", especially when Jason says that it has a tone of mafia music.
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