When I bought a lot of Music at Cheapo (and Ernie November's before that), I used to love buying used tapes. They cost about half of a used CD, so you could gamble even more on things you may not have been willing to drop even $8 on. I also picked up a few cutout tapes for even less at Sam Goody. One of those tapes was Yello Zebra. I don't even know if I connected them with "Oh Yeah" at the time, but I think I did know that they were someone the Orb had remixed. I might have confused them with Yellow Magic Orchestra.

I listened to the album in my car driving home from Rosedale that day and wow, Zebra was really good. Like what if Carl Craig had a Latin Swing jones and some weird dude vocalist and wrote songs instead of tracks? It's not all great, I'm less fond of the songs that were singles "How How" and "Do It", with all the vocals. But "I... I'm in Love" and "Night Train" and some of the others were definitely worth the risk of the five $2.99 tapes I picked up that day.

I write this because I just saw the tape last weekend and decided to find a download of it. It's most of what I've listened to this week.

You got any unexpected little gems you've found because they were cheap enough to make a gamble on?