Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #6 – Call Me Burroughs LP – The English Bookshop (1965). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. Your finger runs along a series of spines searching for a hot track. Ah, there is one….
Tag: Vinyl
Velvet Underground Acetate
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting On the first Saturday in December, I rang the buzzer at Own Guru Records in Fells Point hoping to find some Beat vinyl. Alan, the owner, directed me to a copy of Listening to Richard Brautigan issued on the Harvest label in 1970….
Ten San Francisco Poets
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting When it rains it pours. In the space of a week, several wonderful LPs fell into my lap. I found a beautiful copy of Jack Kerouac’s second record on Hanover, Blues and Haikus, at a bookstore in Washington DC. On eBay, I won…
Nothing Here Now But the Recordings
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting A true Burroughs vinyl rarity just sold on eBay: a signed copy of Nothing Here Now But the Recordings issued by Industrial Records ($330/9 bids). This gets into territory I know little about, but it seems to me that signed Burroughs LPs are…
William Burroughs on Cassette
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For the past several months, pieces from the estate of Allen DeLoach have been auctioned on eBay. These items, including photographs, small press chapbooks, little magazines, and manuscripts, chronicle the counterculture literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In my opinion, they rank…
Beatnik Vinyl at Auction
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting EBay is a fantastic place isn’t it, if place is the right word for it. For example, the vinyl fanatic or budding fanatic can supplement or create an entire collection of some note in just a click of the mouse. Just Kids Nostalgia…
Beat Vinyl
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Did you know that Neil Young and Rick James were in a band together? I had no idea. I stopped in a local record store to take a look at a beautiful copy of Timothy Leary’s first LP, The Psychedelic Experience, on Broadside,…