Your most embarrassing record purchase

[blueg33]

Billy Joel - Uptown girl

[mellowman]

Bras on 45 by Ivor Biggun

Je t'aime by Judge Dread

Out of the Blue by the King's Singers

Beat that!

[vixen1700]

mellowman said:

Bras on 45 by Ivor Biggun

Had to look that one up as all I can remember from Ivor Biggun were 'The W*nker's Song' and 'I've Farted' from the '70s.

'Bras on 45' sounds awful.

[toasty]

boyse7en said:

When I was was a student, HMV in Coventry used to do "bargain bundles" of three or four 12" singles wrapped up together for a couple of quid.
Some joker put a Fields of the Nephilim disc one side, a The Mission disc on the other, sandwiching a copy of Diana Ross doing Chain Reaction in the middle.

I love me a bit of Chain Reaction!

[Colonel Cupcake]

Riley Blue said:

Sometime in 1967 I went into a record shop and asked, "Do you have 'The Laughing Gnome' by David Bowie?"

Fortunately that day has been erased from my memory and I have no idea where or precisely when the incident took place. Can anyone top that for an embarrassing purchase?

BTW, I played it this afternoon. Probably for the first time since 1967.

Don't ever play it again and look after it.

The 1967 pressing of this song is easily worth £100 in it's original Deram sleeve.

[Cotty]

Stan Ridgway - Camouflage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo

[s2kjock]

When I was about 17 and my mother was pestering me about what she should get me for my birthday I said I had heard a song on the radio that I liked and could she get me the single - I think I had heard it on the saturday/stereo sequence on Radio 1 and never heard it again - t'internet hadn't been invented at that time, but I had remembered the track and band. Not sure I had really listened to and understood the lyrics though,

She didn't seem too keen when I told her, but fair play to her, she did go into the local independent record store to ask ...........

2 nice girls - 1989

I think she gave me money or tokens to buy records myself after that until Amazon became a thing.

[DoctorX]

[anonymous-user]

Cotty said:

Stan Ridgway - Camouflage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo

That's a great song! Well, it's okayish. I still like it after all these years.

I think the Outthere Brothers album posted earlier can't be beaten.

[Roaringopenfire]

Baron Greenback said:

You lot are screwing up my recommending youtube vids!

[siovey]

Wham - Freedom
Dead or Alive - you spin me round

Luckily, I discovered heavy metal shortly after so was redeemed!

[spikeyhead]

BVSMP - I need you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D-cupU7EeI

wibble cb said:

I was only 11 at the time, but tell myself it was for the golf Convertible on the cover( bikini clad women had nothing to do with it..) !

I've got that too