Yesterday I decided to go on an impromptu journey to London. I've been wanting to go for weeks, it's one of the few places I can go music shopping and actually find something I want to buy. Except the internet, but that's not a really a place as you can't get the train there.
So after a quick stop off at Trafalgar Square to reaffirm why I hate tourists/people in general, I went to Camden to visit All Ages Records. It's pretty much the perfect record store - excellent prices and an awesome selection of punk/hardcore stuff that takes in everything in between from thrash to ska to grind. The vinyl especially is very well priced, most records being only a tenner. Go to HMV and you're confronted with prices of £15 and upwards for a single LP, absolutely retarded. But my hatred for HMV will be saved for another post....
After flicking through everything on display I finally narrowed my selection down to everything I had picked up. Totally blew my budget of £35 but it was worth it. I could've spent a lot more money in there, manged to found a couple of dozen albums I wouldn't mind owning, but I picked up the eight records pictured. Half of them I already own on CD but I love them so much I wanted to get them on vinyl - and besides, I can always shift the CD copies for a couple of quid.
When I got out the store and checked through them all, I noticed they had forgotten to charge me for the Leftover Crack record, so being the thoroughly nice chap I am I went back and paid for it. After all, independent record stores need every penny they can make, and I'd be shooting myself in the foot by stealing from them as I wouldn't have a decent place to buy music from.
I'm still in the process of listening to them all and poring over the liner notes, but when I'm done rest assured I'll be posting about them and letting you know my thoughts.

Thanks.