Discs

I got a few Christmas-gift-card cds in the mail yesterday: v/a: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Richard Hell and the Voidoids: Destiny Street Complete, and Gal Costa: Índia. With the Columbia-Princeton one, I never have to be a poser while wearing my shirt that has the album cover on it! Sure, I've had other C-PEMC related albums and I have much of what's on this one spread across other things, but now I finally have a version of the o.g. thing. Okay! And hopefully the Richard Hell one just isn't too much. It's pretty much four versions of the same album: original; 2009 version where Richard (who wasn't satisfied with how dense the original version was) had an old cassette of the backing tracks (without vocals or guitar solos) and since the master tapes were lost they used these backing tracks to re-record vocals and guitar solo stuff (since Robert Quine had died before this was done, they had Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, and Ivan Julian fill in); 2021 version where MOST of the master tapes had been rediscovered (except for a couple songs) and a proper remix with the original tracks and guitar parts was able to be done (though using the 2009 version for the few missing songs); and demos. Okay! Enough blathering about cd purchases!