SATURDAY SCOOPS
Scour shelves for your CDs
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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| Dave Zieroth, a Navy enlisted man, dropped off some of his used music CDs to sell at Cheapo's Music in Puck's Alley, 1009 University Ave. He's checking out a few of the used CDs for sale with his 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Natalia.
Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser Where to go for used music CDs Cheapo Music Jelly's The Original Rainbow Books And Records 99-185 Moanalua Road, Suite 100 Hungry Ear Records & Tapes |
Nobody had cared about it. Nobody understood my long search for it. I had been looking for it for so long, even I forgot I was looking for it. But there "it" was.
A used, semi-mint condition pressing of the 1997 CD compilation "This Is Alice Music, Vol. 1."
A friend (or three) would ask on occasion, "What the heck is so 'must-have' about a CD full of Sarah McLachlan, Sneaker Pimps, Semisonic, Luscious Jackson, Third Eye Blind and 10,000 Maniacs tracks?"
As I mentioned earlier, dear reader, no one understood.
San Francisco's adult-alternative-formatted Alice@97.3 FM is one of my favorite radio stations. "This Is Alice" is a series of benefit CD compilations the station has put out annually for the past seven years. Sold new and in very limited quantities only in the Bay Area and on Amazon.com, copies disappear weeks after release. Used copies of older volumes fetch die-hard bidders and high prices on eBay. (I had witnessed a "This Is Alice, Vol. 1" bidding war go as high as $60 for a used copy.)
But there it was. Hidden deep within thousands of used CDs at Cheapo's Music University ... unpretty, unwanted, and nestled between used copies of "Chipmunk Punk" and "Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks."
For $5 ... finally mine.
Used CD buying, to paraphrase Jack Black's "School of Rock" alter-ego Dewey Finn, is the sum total of the cat's pajamas and the bee's knees. Seriously, I have to question anyone calling himself a true music fan not stoked by the possibility of slogging through endless abandoned Paula Abdul and Spin Doctors CDs and finding a much-pursued disc.
Long the weekend pastime most loathed by major record labels as a drain on new CD sales (that is, before they moved on to free digital downloading), used-CD buying is still fun and better yet, 100 percent legal.
"If I'm not looking for anything specific, I could spend an hour just leisurely looking through CDs," said Erin Furuichi, 30, an administrative assistant at Lava Net. "Because of the lower price, I'm more likely to purchase an album from an artist I've never heard before, which could lead me to buy more from that artist or related artists.
"Also, it's like hunting for treasure. What one person might consider unlistenable might be what another person has been searching for."
Guess all those used copies of "Forever Your Girl" might find a home after all.
Furuichi checks out Cheapo's University every couple of weeks, usually right after payday, and right after work. Her most recent "finds"? An "All Virgos Are Mad" compilation with Lush, Dead Can Dance and Red House Painters tracks; and Massive Attack's "Inertia Creeps" import EP. The latter was just two bucks!
She confessed spending even more leisure time searching used CDs online at Amazon, eBay or Gemm "because one find usually leads to another, and another, and another."
She's still looking for Stereolab's "Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements" and "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night," by the way.
Now if I could only find volumes four and five of "This
Is Alice" with that rare Nelly Furtado acoustic track. ...
Reach Derek Paiva at 525-8005 or dpaiva@honoluluadvertiser.com.
Sunset festival goes to Schofield
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Tonight's featured film is "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," starring the versatile Johnny Depp. Tomorrow's is "Seabiscuit," the dramatic pony tale starring Tobey Maguire, right, and Jeff Bridges.
Hours are noon-10 p.m. each day at Sills Field. Admission is free. Be sure to have current photo ID and expect large packages and bags to be inspected before entering Schofield.
It's a bust-a-move spring-break warmup
Spring is breaking out all over ... especially if you're a student. The annual break begins next week for most (but you're gonna study anyway, right?). To launch the week, the United DJs of Hawai'i and 1043 XME present Suga Suga, an all-ages event 8 p.m.-2 a.m. tomorrow at Volcanoes nightclub. Three rooms of hip-hop, R&B, house, breaks and trance will take your mind off all that book work.
Admission is $10 before 10 p.m., $15 after. 479-3008, 296-1043.
Electric cars will race in Ford Island event
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Ford Island will open at 7:30 a.m. A race featuring drivers from the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy begins at 9:15. The high-school race begins at 10.
The event, sponsored by Hawaiian Electric. Co., the Navy and the state Department of Education, is free and open to the public.
All attendees must arrive before 10 a.m. for security reasons.
'Walk for Wili' will help fight diabetes
All those people heading for Kapi'olani Park early this morning are taking part in the "Walk for Wili," the 5th annual walk for diabetes, dedicated to the memory of radio deejay Wili Moku, who died in January.
You can walk if you register at 7 a.m. The 2.3-mile walk starts at 8. The event raises money for diabetes research and public education. There'll be entertainment and a health fair, too.
World of music , fun at Academy of Arts
"Music! Music! Music!" is the theme of tomorrow's Bank of Hawaii Free Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, featuring entertainment, make-and-take and treasure-hunts for youngsters plus gallery tours. Videos such as "Make Mine Music," and "Peter and the Wolf" will be screened 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Musical performances include Philip Gottling on shawm, curtal and rackett (medieval and Renaissance instruments); Darin Miyashiro on koto; Larry Ward on Turkish oud; and Roy Sakuma's Super Keikis on 'ukulele.
Admission is free. 532-8700. The Advertiser is a sponsor.
The Naval Academy Women's Glee Club is touring Hawai'i and offering a free concert at 7 tonight in Central Union Church. The singers' repertoire includes sacred, folk, patriotic, pop and Broadway songs.
Two malls will put fun in your shopping
If you're planning a shopping excursion at the malls this weekend, there are a couple of added attractions:
- A health, nutrition and fitness fair takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Ward Warehouse. Among the attractions: produce, massages, nontoxic cleaning products, food samples, free chiropractic health and spinal screenings. Tomorrow, nurses and pharmacists offer free consultations and blood-pressure screenings. Admission is free.
- The Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center hosts a Springtime Festival, 4-8 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Fountain Courtyard. Look for lei-making lessons, a bonsai exhibit, flower arrangements, a fashion show and lots of entertainment, including:
- Today: 4 p.m., steel-drum music by Greg and Junko MacDonald; 5 p.m., Abe Weinstein Jazz Quintet; 7 p.m., Azure McCall.
- Tomorrow: 4 p.m., Shaka Jambe (world-beat music); 5:30 p.m., Keahi Conjugacion & Friends; 7 p.m., jazz by Kale Imua.
Admission is free.
