Below is an incomplete, but perhaps revealing look at some of the many, many records I bought in the Boston area during the spring and summer of 1991, as told through a series of my old receipts. (Prices without artist/record noted are usually for cheapie records or things that for one reason or another weren't worth writing down.)

Second Coming receipt #1
July 27, 1991 / Second Coming Records
The C's have it here: Crowded House - "Chocolate Cake" single, The Clean - Vehicle LP, something by Alex Chilton and even though it says "Clean" I'm guessing the last item is in fact The Great Unwashed - Clean Out of Our Minds album.

In Your Ear receipt
April 1, 1991 / In Your Ear Records
This was Bob's funny way of indicating that two-thirds of the records I bought were on the New Zealand-based Flying Nun label. (Yup, starting to get predictable.) Ah, and there's the friend-of-IYE discount.

Nuggets receipt #1
June 19, 1991 / Nuggets
I'm not 100% positive of the store here, but I'm guessing this and the receipt below are both from Nuggets. Two items here: The Embarrassment - Retrospective cassette on Fresh Sounds and The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane album.

Nuggets receipt #2
August 5, 1991 / Nuggets
Given that the first Velvet Crush single was released the previous summer (and I remember buying it at IYE), this would have to be for the second single, "Ash & Earth."

Second Coming receipt #2
July 30, 1991 / Second Coming Records
More Flying Nun sounds and some classic off-kilter pop: The Bats - "Made Up In Blue" 12" single and Game Theory - Lolita Nation double LP.

Second Coming receipt #3
May 26, 1991 / Second Coming Records
This is the best receipt, a triple-whammy of Chills, Verlaines and Go-Betweens. Specifically, The Chills - "Part Past Part Fiction" 7" single, The Verlaines - 10 O'Clock in the Afternoon EP and The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood LP. I distinctly remember this particular shopping trip: fishing the single out from the plexiglass housing where all 7"es were kept, checking the label on the Verlaines to see that -- yup -- it's an original pressing, and jumping with joy over finding the Go-Betweens record, which was a bit pricey due to its being a brand-new, sealed Australian reissue on Red Eye Records.