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The thread for records you found for free. Like on the street or something. Or in the record store's free box. Or when someone gave em to you.

i received pretty much all of prince's '80s work on vinyl for free from a former co-worker, along with pink floyd's 'the wall'. my fiancee's ex-bf gave us a ton of vinyl last year, including most of the replacements and husker du catalog, some gary numan, and virtually every single beatles album.

There was a big pile of FREE RECORDS on the street behind my apartment on Sunday, stoop sale leftovers I think, I took home four LPs but they were mostly disappointing

Synergy - Computer Experiments Vol. 1 <-- I love "Cords" but this is kind of a snooze
Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer <-- kinda groovy but nothing close to "Lowdown"
Shawn Phillips - Furthermore <-- prolly the best of the bunch, a lot more proggy than his earlier stuff
there was also a Drop the Lime 12", it was drum n bass with dancehall vocals, not bad I guess

xpost that's pretty sweet

people give me free stuff all the time. i wouldn't know where to start. most of it is crud. before i left the island someone i worked with at the hospital gave me, like, 400 albums and there was good stuff in there. jazz, R&B, good stuff for the store.

when we first moved here there was a library book sale and they had a cart with free stuff on it. mostly videos. but i noticed 5 or 6 records and they were all minty current 93/death in june/laibach records!!! sold them on ebay. what a treat!

the best haul I ever got was my friend Bob's old records, one big box full of mostly 1980s college rock stuff -- Television, Replacements, REM, Pylon, the Clash, some Who, some Beatles

and a different guy I worked with in Virginia gave me a big box of awesome jazz, mostly reissues and represses / best-of collections but a few originals. Coltrane, "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady," a bunch of big band, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, etc.

at the dawn of the cd age i used to see boxes of records on the curb next to the trash cans all the time. soooooo much thrown away.

i knew someone who went through the dumpsters behind one of the big classic rock radio stations in connecticut. they threw EVERYTHING away when they switched to CDs. this went on all across the country.

my favorite story might involve when i lived in an apartment 7-8 years ago, and while tossing some trash i saw that someone had placed an entire stack of rap LPs in the bin. i pulled the stack out and it was multiple copies of stuff like the 8 mile soundtrack, some posthumous tupac comp, the marshall mathers lp, the second jurassic 5 album, and tons of 12-inches. i didn't really want any of them so i took them to amoeba for a shitload of credit.

just mentioned this on the cleaning thread, but more detail is appropriate. About two years ago we were cleaning out a house for work and my boss said "oh, you should come early and look through the records in the basement". So I did. It went: crap, crap, crap, a dozen Dylan bootlegs, crap, crap, sealed original copy of Pixies Dolittle, crap, crap, first Last Poets LP, etc. I walked away with five or six really nice things besides the Dylan. I also got one of those great all-in-one library A/V record players that you can switch to 78.

Only two times has this happened to me. First, a girl in college gave me three Fall 45s since she had no turntable and had broken up with the dude who left them with her. I hadn't heard anything from this era of the group at that point so it was a revelation.

Totally Wired 7"
Lie-Dream of a Casino Soul 7"
Look, Know 7"

And another girl who was living with us after college dropped off a big box of records from some guy she was dating who was moving to the west coast and had whittled these off his collection.

James White & The Blacks - Off White lp
Mars ep
Blurt ep (on red flame)
...and bunch of other then-unheard stuff I can't remember here at work (this was 13 years ago).

"crap, crap, crap, a dozen Dylan bootlegs, crap, crap, sealed original copy of Pixies Dolittle, crap, crap, first Last Poets LP, etc."

haha, this reminds me of the time in philly where this woman who used to come into the store where i worked said: you like records, feel free to take what you want from our basement. and it was the same thing. crap, crap, crap, mint copy of the first neu! album, crap, crap, mint copy of the first pere ubu album, crap, crap, beautiful bonzo dog band records, crap, crap...

i was a happy guy, lemme tell you.

yo dudes,

so my mom's friend's brother just died. serious bummer. she knows i like records, so she told her friend that i like records, so he told me i could have his brother's records.

his records = 4 boxes of unopened promo disco 12"s and LPs, all from 1978/79. i haven't even had a chance to look through them all yet, but so far i've picked out a bumblebee unlimited LP, a candido LP, a TON of salsoul white labels, and a lot of other badass stuff. to judge from a few of the stamps on the labels, he was the lynchpin of the greater baltimore record pool, whatever that was. now am i curious (vinyl).

nice! R.I.P. unknown B-More deejay. Respect.

i don't know how but a rare powerpop 45 by jack & the beanstalk ended up in my collection. i didn't buy it, nobody gave it to me specifically, it's like it magically appeared in the stacks somehow

dude once sent me a mint copy of The Fall's LATWT. someone who was once in the fall also sent me a LATWT tshirt also for nix. good times.

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best fucking band ever

i love free with all my heart. so beautiful. the essence of soul music.

i bought that record on the cheap and was pissed to discover that somehow i'd overlooked the fact that a tiny hole was drilled into the record in the middle of 'woman' on side 2 (it didn't go through to the other side at least) while the rest of the record is pristine. pfft.

it's kinda the best record ever. i recommend seeking a keeper copy

Stormy Davis A+++ poster 4 alltime

Haven't heard these tracks in many, many moons... ashamed to say I forgot how great this record is.

i had a nice friend in college park who knew how much i liked eno, and gave me like 20 eno records after his basement flooded. they werent too damaged; i just think the flood pushed him out hard-collecting, and he could see me just startin out.

i got my another green world, music for films v1 and v2, discreet music, budd/eno, airports, laraaji, etc. from that.

if you're in a highly trafficked urban area i can't recommend enough leaving out records for people. i had some too good for wfmu donation but not good enough to sell to a shop i just laid out and watched.

like bob marley kaya, live\dead, johhny lewis feelings VG- type shit

they'll be gone within two minutes and it's fun to watch the expression on the finder's face

skot and I have been yakking about it on other threads, but might as well document it here for posterity...

huge recycling dumpster bin with 1000s of LPs right on of the main streets in town!!! they were piled on top of old carpets & books & junk, so judging from all the mold I'm wiping off, my guess is that someone's basement flooded and the contractors hauled it all out. total old man collection - classical, showtunes, ez-listening, vocalist, country - w/ notes of price guide info slipped in. most look like they were played once if at all. then you have the kids' records - 60s-80s rock & singer/songwriters. As luck would have it, I had planned to have a garage sale this weekend so I hauled out about 800 records!! lots of great stuff - will list the best as I build the keeper pile. bless you, O Record Gods!!

Pile I found on the street in NYC last winter:

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