03/05/18: Life for Rent (Emmaus)

Emmaus, Chipping Barnet. Dido's Life for Rent (2003) sold 12 million copies. Quite a few of them can now be seen in UK charity shops.

22/03/17: Mountain of CDs (Emmaus)

Emmaus, All Saints, London, E14. The best ever charity shop visit. When they saw me scrutinising the shelves and piling up a shortlist of possible purchases, the kind staff brought out two large crates full of discs and let me work my way through them. I entered a state of high excitement when I saw the diverse riches on offer. My eyes were spinning round like a madman's. Eventually, after narrowing it down a bit, I bought 24 albums for 50p each (total: £12):

• The Beatles – 1
• Blur – The Best Of (2-CD version with live disc)
• Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad
• Dexter Gordon – Go!
• Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
• Echo & The Bunnymen – Songs to Learn & Sing
• Elvis Costello – My Aim is True (Demon version with 22 tracks)
• Elvis Costello – When I Was Cruel
• Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint – The River in Reverse
• Elvis Presley – Elvis: NBC TV Special
• Joe Jackson – Look Sharp
• John Coltrane – Coltrane / Lush Life (two albums on one CD)
• Johnny Cash – American III: Solitary Man
• Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around
• Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow (still shrinkwrapped)
• King Creosote – From Scotland with Love
• Lloyd Cole – Lloyd Cole
• Love – Forever Changes
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (two CDs)
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nocturama
• Ravi Shankar – Portrait of Genius / Sound of the Sitar (two CDs in a slipcase)
• Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power
• The Who – Who's Next
• The Who – Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

Also bought one book for £1:
• Mick Houghton – I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny.