Record Buying Blunders

The 45 of "Do You Believe in Magic" that I bought is too worn. Sounds terrible. I wanted to hear the mono mix. It was a dollar.

About a week ago, I bought a 12" single at the thrift store because it was from Italy and had an Italian name on it and I thought it said it was from 1981. Thought it was maybe an instrumental Italo record. Looked it up on discogs when I got home, and it turned out that it says 1991 and not 1981. It's a techno record. (I don't hate techno but I goofed.)

This happens all the time when you buy every record with a stock photo from the 60's and 70's. Like this, 'A Reason To Sing' a compilation by the Mexia State School Sunshine Group, which was a school for the mentally handicapped. Thought for sure there would be something interesting but it's odd, a very uncomfortable listen at times.
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I have found great weirdo folk or lounge/jazz records with stock covers, but mostly it's religious garbage.

bought micronauts "the jag" 12" bcz i mixed them up with psychonauts. killer track, nonetheless.

few months back bought an organ funk/exotica record (on the phase4 label) at the enthusiastic recommendation from a friend. was too caught up to remember to check condition... about half the tracks have nasty scratches :(

i devoted a thread to that micronauts thing. not a blunder at all!

The Micronauts - The Jag (Science/Virgin U.K. 1999)

yeah it ended up being a blessing in disguise

Bought a nice copy of Nilsson the point! for cheap five years ago in Colorado. The sun warped it during drive to CA.

Gonna go vote night in that poll. Fucking day.

Most of the RSD stuff that I did want nobody else did, so I paid day of prices and now I come across stores trying to get rid of the very same for much cheaper. Oops.

I'm sure some people are incredulous that you can find italo at a thrift, but if you shop in cities where there are a lot of clubs, you might find that stuff. Sometimes someone will dump a load of 12" and you just take the whole pile home, always some gems to be had.

I don't know how many times I thought I found a precious item from childhood - like that Gary Lewis and the Playboys record I found and you get it home and it's a shit re-recording -- or worse, IT'S THE WRONG RECORD ENTIRELY!