靜止的哀愁

成軍於二十五年前的Vintage Vinyl（幹！我不是在介紹樂團！重來……）

成立於二十五年前的Vintage Vinyl，是我赴美求學兩年的精神食糧，每星期的探索，也讓店員習慣於每週都會有一個亞洲人小夥子會去那邊呆個兩三個小時，而身為聖路易當地最大也最具代表性的獨立唱片行，這間店自然有它特殊之處。

早期以大量的龐克音樂收藏聞名的Vintage Vinyl，現在已經擴充成一間散佈各式獨立廠牌的音樂重陣，大量便宜的黑膠充斥著店面（可是我把我唱機搞砸了，所以就沒碰黑膠了），加上便宜的二手唱片，令人流連忘返。

更重要的是店員，長相古怪但是卻又各自有著獨立聆聽領域的店員，都是交朋友很好的對象，這兩年我也認識了不少朋友，搞的我好想去intern，幹他碼的我學法律，只能從事法律相關工作，王八蛋！

星期六是他們的25週年慶，請來了十七個樂團表演並且有著特價活動，想當然爾我不可能錯過。只見室內室外各架了一個舞台，每個樂隊分別表演三十分鐘，二手唱片今天全部只要一元，只見一堆人發揮彈指神功開始翻翻翻，希望在一堆二手唱片中挖到好貨。

購買戰果：

正價版唱片 –

Little Annie – Songs from the Coal Mine Canary

Maritime – We, the Vehicles

Russian Circles -- Enter

World Party – Dumbing Up

二手唱片 –

The Aluminum Group – Happyness

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Post Historic Monsters

Feeder – Polythene

Floraline – Floraline

Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Make Love, and War (The Wedlock of Equilibrium)

Spring – Tokyo Drifter

V.A. – Out of Our Heads on Skelp (Chemikal Underground Compilation)

V.A. – Lemonlime Volume 1 (spinArt Compilation)

Meredith Monk -- Turtle Dreams

Morelenbaum/Sakamoto -- Casa

意外收穫：

原本主要是要去看最近也很火熱的Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s，卻意外發現了Russian Circles這個好團，重型的吉他聲響帶點後搖滾融合重金屬的味道，是喜愛長篇後搖滾的人可以嘗試聆聽的對象。Margot xxxxxx反而令我大失所望，他媽的一樣大編制卻自以為很屌，專輯普普通通還可以聽，但現場對觀眾的態度著實令人無法忍受，自從Belle and Sebastian之後越來越多大編制樂隊了，也許吧，這也是潮流阿……..

以下為相關Vintage Vinyl網頁相關介紹，有興趣的可以往下拉去各樂團的網頁試聽，請特別留意Russian Circles，很不賴的樂隊！

VINTAGE VINYL'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY BLOCK PARTY MAY 13TH!!

Vintage Vinyl wants to invite all of you out to our big 25th Anniversary Celebration when we turn 6610 Delmar into a big all day music festival and block party. Featuring some of the best up and coming local and national acts, the music will be flowing and free starting at 12noon on May 13th. Throughout the day Vintage Vinyl will be having sales, contests and giveaways so come early, stay late and please be our guest as we celebrate the "silver anniversary" of being St. Louis' biggest and best independent record store. Thank you St. Louis (and the rest of you national and international customers) for 25 years of great loyalty, we look forward to seeing you all at the 50th Anniversary in 2031!

12:00PM  Tobi Kai & The Strays

 www.tobikai.com

12:30PM  Johnny O & The Jerks

 www.geocities.com/jerkstrashabilly

1:00PM  Love Experts

 www.myspace.com/loveexperts

1:30PM  LaPush

 www.lapush.net

2:00PM  Magnolia Summer

 www.magnoliasummer.com

2:30PM  Geoff Koch

 www.geoffkoch.net

3:00PM  Russian Circles

 www.russiancircles.net

3:30PM  As Fast As

 www.asfastasmusic.com

4:00PM  Margot & The Nuclear So & So's

 www.margotandthenuclearsoandsos.com

4:30PM  Mason Jennings

 www.masonjennings.com

5:00PM  Mellowdrone

 www.mellowdrone.com

5:30PM  Casey Reid

 www.myspace.com/caseyreid

6:00PM  Strays Don't Sleep

 www.straysdontsleep.com

6:30PM  Shawn Mullins

 www.shawnmullins.com

7:00PM  Murder By Death

 www.murderbydeath.com

7:30PM  Alexi Murdoch

 www.aleximurdoch.com

8:00PM  The Bronx

 www.thebronxxx.com