awesome not really bragging but maybe kind of bragging recent goodwill/salvation army/thrift record hauls (under $5 lets keep this honest!)

Exotic Percussion (Crown)
Fabulous Ping***Pong Bongo Percussion (Coronet)
Songs and Dances of Yugoslavia (Colonial)
Popular Music From Poland (London International)
Transformer - David Stoughton (Elektra) (i have no idea wtf this is going to sound like but the cover is AWESOME)
FANTABULOSO - Rodgers organ promo record w/latin theme (Lift Music Company?)
Dimensions In Sound - Stanley Black and the London Festival Orchestra and Chorus (demo of "phase 4 stereo", awesome bizarro liner notes, London Records)
Hulaj Bracie - Stefan Kubiak i Jego Orchestra (polish gypsy dance weirdo on Fiesta Record Company)

I never get anything good at thrift stores. Not records anyway. I get good books at thrift stores.

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others are unfindable on GIS. will at least take a picture of FANTABULOSO when i get a chance

xpost: MN thrift vinyl is totally ripe for the picking! i have no idea why, but if you find a good suburban SA or whatever, they can be a gold mine, the city folks just dont make the trip i guess. to be fair, you arent prob going to find valuable shit, but i have gotten a ton of super bizarro private press stuff - also tons of russian/eastern bloc stuff, which i have kind of an unhealthy obsession with.

even if i manage to find good albums in these places, then the vinyl is totally unplayable :(

i found great disco records yesterday at the salvation army. i'll post a full list when i get to the store.

I have Hulaj Bracie! It's on the wall in my store. I don't want anyone to buy it. I like it up there.

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found nona hendryx _nona_ for $1 @ salvation army a few months back, which i was extremely pleased to find

others too but i can't remember now

i have been digging into thrift stores for years here in l.a. and maybe i just have bad luck, but i've struck gold on maybe 4 or 5 records. killing joke's debut, 2 copies of eels' 'electro-shock blues' (which i picked up for $1 apiece and then turned around and sold for a shitload on ebay), 'the raven' by the stranglers....and that's it. i think thrift stores in big cities are both picked over really well + people are more likely to take their records to a big record store. i would love to find a store which consistently has one or two interesting records but it's literally all barbra streisand, battered classical lps, strong persuader by robert cray, and '80s chicago lps.

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^^^ found monday, $.15, cut corner but vinyl is perfecto

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Krishna disco, rotting away in every thrift stack of records anywhere. they must have been handing out copies of this back in '78 as their 'literature', otherwise it would have to be the best selling LP of all time.

haha so cool that you have that record scott - haven't listened to it yet, but the storybook cover art was just undeniable.

btw if you ever see any records by Bela Babai and his Fiery Gypsies they are a must have.

okay, yesterday at the salvation army (the big one outside of town):

norman connors - invitation

belly dance au go go - music of the middle east - artie bersamian and his orchestra

sealed glass menagerie boxed set on caedmon with monty clift and julie harris

great movie sounds of john barry (clean too on 360 sound columbia stereo)

pablito and his pachanga (on masterseal)

salvation cast recording (bad hippie musical on capitol)

johnny nash - let's go dancing (great record. disco johnny stuff. van mccoy production. "closer" is afro-caribbean awesomeness)

frantique - s/t (great disco on philly international. white label promo)

charlene - songs of love (soulful stuff on motown label Prodigal. a little warped though. DOES NOT AFFECT PLAY. LOL.)

emotions - rejoice (maurice white-helmed gal soul/disco)

stephanie mills - for the first time (motown record she made with bacharach & david. sounds phat.)

steve hackett - cured

sos band - sos (nice tabu promo pressing)

dan hartman - relight my fire (has his great disco version of his already great "free ride")

john stewart - fire in the wind

bud shank - brazil brazil brazil (with almeida, chet baker, joe pass, joao donato)

keith jarrett - g.i. gurdjieff/sacred hymns