you should do stand-up.

...prompted by the fact that I discovered from wikipedia this morning that Rafe Spall has worked with a band called Arkane.

...and I thought, thanks for telling me about them, coz I may have seen their stuff in the record store and bought it thinking it was a previously unknown A R Kane album!

oh shit yeah. pil’s ‘That What Is Not’

never played it

Nah, but I’ve bought records at second hand shops and found that the record in the sleeve was not what it should have been. ARGH! And I checked! Honestly, I checked (mainly for scratches) but when I got it home it was not what I thought it was at all.

I remember buying some one euro super bargain CD thinking it was rap, because it was on Def Jam. Turns out it was crappy nu metal. Oh well, it wasn’t that big of a loss anyway.

my former landlord once bought an album he thought was by Simon and Garfunkel only to find when he got it home that it was some other duo covering their songs! And they were really, really lousy! In really small print it said “These are not the original Simon and Garfunkel recordings”.

I bought what I thought was a super rare Love and Rockets album, only to find out it was some tedious 70s dreck called Love Transfusion by Rockets.

I once bought a CD single called “Indie Yarn” thinking it was Arab trap’s “first weekend of summer” single (I’d heard it once only, and that’s an ‘indie yarn’ if I ever heard one). It was some indian music.

any fans of the three bands in the late eighties bands called Horse to thread!

also there has been more than one band called each of the following:

Primitives

New Order

Nirvana

The Beat

The Charlatans

(and I’m sure there are lots of other e.g.s)

i went on some online shopping spree a few years back trying to buy up everything this early 90s NYC indie group called monsterland ever released, and ended up buying some mislabelled 7“ by monster magnet along the way. but i love monster magnet, so it was okay.

when I was in Piccadilly Records in Manchester I bought what I thought was the new Broadcast album and it turned out it was actually a band called Fear of Music and this was just because the style of writing on the cover was similar. Luckily—similar sitn to Stevie—I liked Fear of Music.

I bought the first Gossip album out of HMV, took it home and unshrinkwrapped it to find a pristine copy of Magic And Medicine by the Coral inside. Luckily I both saw the funny side.

you lose either way there Marcello!

Some time last year I bought what I thought was T Rex’s The Slider from the little record shop down that weird little lane in the middle of Banbury, only to discover when I got home that it was something by Lostprohets. I keep meaning to take it back, but I don’t often go to Banbury (and when I do, I forget to take it with me).

I bought, um, a 13 Engines album on an out of town used-Cd-store binge, and they put the wrong album in the case, and I already had that album on cassette, but I never went back to that store, even though I thought I probably would. I don’t know what I did with the CD.

Also, last week I bought a box of “large” garbage bags that turned out to not be large at all.

I once bought curtains that didn’t look as nice as I thought they would look.

E.Miller OTM

I once accidentally bought Now And Zen by Robert Plant. It made a great pass the parcel present.

What did you mean to buy?

parachutes by cold play

I recently bought (what I thought was) an Add N To (X) CD that had some Anti Folk compilation in it instead.

This happens more often with vinyl though.

What did you mean to buy?

a plant?

maybe this one:

One of the Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble CDs turned out to be by some South American chanteuse.

I can’t recall ever buying an album that I thought was something else, but I once bought Nick Cave’s Live Seeds album, walked out the shop, looked in the bag and discovered that they had given me Paul Weller’s Wild Wood by ‘mistake’.

I remember being in a car with my friend’s mom listening to a really weird casio-d out version of Chumbawumba’s ‘Tubthumping.’ I looked at the CD case she had, and it turned out that she had purchased a fake re-recorded CD single of the song by a band called Chucklebutt!

Those re-recorded CDs are so odd. What a weird, elaborate way to trick someone out of their money!

What did you mean to buy?

Manic Nirvana, by Robert Plant. I don’t know why one seemed like a good idea and the other did not.

A friend of mine once bought a CD of Wayne Shorter’s album Ju-Ju that, when he went to play it, turned out to be Don McLean’s “American Pie” (or whatever album that’s on). Mix-up at the pressing plant, clearly, as the disc/label art was correct.

i got a curtis mayfield cd and the liner notes were for a diff artist. that’s the only example i can think of, sorry.

a friend bought the album by Paris Hilton, but when he got it home the sleeve had pictures of her in the nip and with animal heads and stuff on it.

Lucky friend, those one’s go for £500+ on ebay.

my dad tried to buy me damien rice’s first album as a gift. somehow he managed to get a uk import of the single, expensive enough to think it was a full album. i didn’t have the heart to tell him.

i didn’t have the heart to tell him.

.. that damien rice is shite?

that too

When you are going to buy a new CD or record, and you tell someone

what you are going to buy, why do they always say “Yes, if you like

that singer/group, you’ll like the album”. If you didn’t like that

singer/group, why would you be buying the albumn in the first place?

I bought a CD once by the experimental band Noir Detreusse and it turned out to be an irish folk singer called Niall Thomas. I won’t buy CDs drunk again, thats for sure!!!

niall thomas is the MOST UNDERRRATED IRISH FORK SINGER....OF ALL TIME, THOUGH!!!! PROBABLY

Summer 1998: I bought what I thought was Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert from the $2 section in The Sound Garden in Baltimore; got to the car and realised that inside was a 1979 Cars album. Tried to return it, got “read the sign” (it said “no returns, no bitching”) and snapped the Cars CD in two. I tell this story every six months or so at charity functions.

I once also bought an It’s Immaterial LP for £1 at Virgin on Oxford Street (years before I lived in London), reckoning by the weight that it was a double album and I was about to land myself 90min of polished Scouse pop for the price of Cornetto. Got it home and discovered the second disc was a Bruce Hornsby album. Oh no!

i bought online “the wire season 2” when drunk and ended up with some bbc show “WIRE IN THE BLOOD” season 2!!!!! furious!!!!

I bought the greatest hits of The Corrs and when i got it home a dove flew out and smashed straight into my window

It wasn’t injured though! We call that ‘doing a dove flying into the window’!

sounds like you may have been doing a dove full stop, there

I bought the White Album and when I got home and took it out of the box it was a copy of the bible and a swiss army knife.

i thought tales from topographical oceans would never end but it did and i was sad :(

ah the superior remastered edition (xpost)

I bought a copy of Algeria and it was too big to fit in my pocket!!

i bought ‘Psychocandy’ but when i played the CD it sounded really quiet and hissy! i thought my speakers were broken but then i played my Killers and it was fine. waht gives?!

I bought a carton of apple juice and i drank it all in one go!

did you get limited edition apple juice with bonus carton?

I took some anti-depressants and told my neighbours i was Larry King!