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i love thrifting.

today at lunch:

manitoba - up in flames - 99p
manitoba - hendrix with ko single - 99p
three-four-tens (rainbow quartz) - 99p
stand up and be counted (soul comp) -
willis (679 recordings)

― st cloud cool kid of death, Friday, 15 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I lived where you lived. Round here second-hand jobbies are $15-$20 (new cds are ~$35).

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Shop Boys Discography - £4
Orange Juice - The Very Best Of - £4
V/A - Sharks Patrol These Waters: The Best Of Volume - £2 (nostalgia rush!)
V/A - The Best Garage Anthems...Ever! - £2 (Pretty much every big UK garage pop hit up to 2000 or so on 2CDs, unmixed)
V/A - Now Thing - £4 (not sure about this one, dancehall instrumentals from Mo'Wax, but we'll see)
Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Slave To Love: The Best Of - £2 (very handy for Ferry solo and later Roxy hits)
V/A - Happy Hippie Hits - £4 (3CDs of 60s pop, at least 4 or 5 crackers on each disc and thats just the ones I know)

A good lunchtime's work.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got a lovely Nicole Fahri shirt for a fiver from Help the Aged.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Japan - Still Life
Sheila E - The Glamorous Life
some German record produced by Conny Plank
AR Kane - 69
House Nation 12"

all £1.50 over this last week at proper chazza shops.

this never happens to me. so probably never ever will again. but this thrifting felt like crime and that's why i'll never stop.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Orange Juice - The Very Best Of - £4

Bastard. There are never decent choices here. Although I got every Cure album 1980-1990 for £10 the other week.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

10 pounds total? My!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Slight exxageration - it was only up to Head on the Door. But I can live without Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, I think.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the Time Life Debussy LP box set for 4 bucks.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

V/A - The Best Garage Anthems...Ever!

tom, on certain days, this is my favorite record ever.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

stand up and be counted (soul comp) - 1.99
willis (679 recordings) - 59p

havent listened to them yet. there is an excellent oxfam around here. i've been buying a cd a day for like 49p ... (!!)

― st cloud cool kid of death, Friday, 15 August 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Where's that, Doomie?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i found the following for $1.50cnd each at Value Village(do you guys have those over there?)

fat boys - crushin
echo + bunnymeny - songs to sing and learn
new order - blue monday 12"
"" - confusion 12"
"" - theives like us 12"
clash - this is radio clash 12"
uk subs - different shade of blue
stiff little fingers - peel sessions
billy bragg - brewing up with
"" - lifes a riot
ian dury - do it yourself
kool + the gang - wild and peaceful

I found the story of the clash, 2 AC/DC lps and the Demics self titled lp at this other store for 50 cents each... Sometimes living in a small town has it's advantages...

― gs, Friday, 15 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Connely

I had been looking for it at expensive fancy collectors 45 shops for a few years. Got it for 50 cents at a thrift shop!

― ddd (ddd), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Best ever finds:

James Brown's _Sho Is Funky In Here_ for $1

Sun Ra's _Nidhamu_ (original Saturn private-press version) for $2

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Long ago: I bought my first copy of James Brown Live at the Apollo (in great shape) for 25 cents.

― Burr (Burr), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Best thrift store finds were probably a mint, color vinyl original of Al Casey's Surfin' Hootenanny at a thrift store in Cleveland for like a buck about 7 years ago. Also about seven years ago, a passel of old original KMS 12"s (Reese & Santonio, Inner City, etc.) for a buck. Also tons and tons of old funk 45s from back before anybody gave a shit.

Best used store (non-thrift) find - a mint (and I mean MINT) original of the lone Gandalf lp on Capitol for $4 at a store here in Chicago. A record I've seen go for $400. Somebody was sleeping on the job.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 15 August 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I found a 7" promo record for Thom Mcann shoe stores - capitalizing on the British Invasion (must have been pressed in ~66?). A bargain at any price - but I got it for 50¢.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 August 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I got the following for a total of £11 a month ago in a brief scouring of the junk shops of Southampton:
Giorgio Moroder; From Here To Eternity and Midnight Express
Phil Spector's Top 20
Abba: untitled album with S.O.S on
The Swingle Singers: Swingle II
Kraft and Alexander play Tchaikovsky on the Arp Synthesiser
Petula Clark's Greatest Hits
John Barry conducts his Greatest Movie Hits
Phil Manzanera: Diamond Head
The Nonesuch Explorer: music from distant corners of the world
and an Austrian sound effects LP and two dodgy Elvis albums ('Yoga Is as Yoga Does' indeed)

― Myron Kosloff, Friday, 15 August 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i've also gotten countless pop treasures, the latest of which being the pretty in pink soundtrack and Yaz's "you and me both" on record, for a buck each.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 15 August 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Some Stockhausen LP from the late '50s or early '60s at an antique shop in Delavan, WI for about $3 comes to mind...also, found the Afrika Corps' "Music to Kill By" for about $5 at a shop near London (this was 1990, though).

An old gf of mine bought the first Silver Apples LP in great shape for a buck. Found at the Village Thrift on Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago, too; how'd the hipsters miss that?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

My best find was the KLF's Chill Out on vinyl for 20p. Except it isn't really my best find because Chill Out works loads better if you don't have to turn the fucker over - but in terms of price:rarity it was a good one. And I love having the sheep full size.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 16 August 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite find occured when looking out of a bus stuck in traffic in Peckham and noticing that there was what looked like a Blondie biography in one of the indistinct furniture and general crap shops. I got off the bus on the offchance that it was Lester Bangs' bio. Which it was! This gave me such a warm glow of smugness I didn't even mind waiting another 10 minutes for the next bus.

― Myron Kosloff, Saturday, 16 August 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

C81 for a buck.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Saturday, 16 August 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

a dozen C86 12" and LPs for A$2-5 each, including the original "Colossal Youth" vinyl, a few 53rd and 3rd 12"s and "Strawberry Wine" 12", all mint of course.....

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 17 August 2003 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Got micronauts (french band) single for a quid. not sure if it's a bargain. anybody heard of the micronauts. i got their electro-compilation which was purdy cool for two quid a few months ago.

― LORD BOOGIE OF THE ANTI-HATERZ, Monday, 18 August 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

not necessarily thrift store finds but got danny krivitts - cuts and a antonio jobim greatest hits on cd for three quid each.

― LORD BOOGIE OF THE ANTI-HATERZ, Monday, 18 August 2003 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ABCEDERIANS - SMILING MONARCHS 12" on Factory for 50p.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 18 August 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

no finds today. : - ( tim hopkins probably went in and bought everything on the weekend.

― deathnight, Monday, 18 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I might have if you'd told me where it was. :( indeed.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I did! Drury Lane. But you didnt tell me exactly where Mr CD on Berwick Street was : - (

― deathnight, Monday, 18 August 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

HEIN? When did you tell me? And I don't remember being asked about Mr CD, sorry if I gave you incomplete information.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it's aol, tim. sometimes messages from aol get to yahoo and hotmail accounts and sometimes they don't...

have you ever been to that 50p cd shop in nottinghill? i have been itching to take a trip up there again.

― deathnight, Monday, 18 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I got the Kendra Smith back catalogue in the Nottinghill Shop for two quid.

― deathnight, Monday, 18 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

it only consists of about three things though

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Wonderful surprises and Bargains at flea markets

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this one is for tim hopkins - drury lane - oxfam - 49p... should have been there - i know have two copies of this and it's ace.

CHERRYSTONE'S ROCKS - VARIOUS ARTISTS

A psych / prog rock compiled from Cherrystones' own collection
embracing all four corners of the world. (Released on Lo Recordings 2002)

12" LP (LLP33) & CD (LCD33)

1. Pugh - Love, Love, Love

2. Taiconderoga - Speakin My Mind

3. Rolf and Joachim Kuhn and The Man Rockers - Funny Bird

4. Mecki Mark Men - Sweet Movin

5. Great Bear - Almost Grown

6. Frijid Pink - Crying Shame

7. Black Cat Bones - QE2

8. Rita Lee - Vamos Tratar Da Saude

9. Klaus Doldinger - Back In The Dark

10. Niagra - City Walk

11. Illes - Nekem Sly Mindegy

12. Sunbirds - Sunrise

13. The Mogol - Sunset In Golden Horn

14. Et Cetera - Lady Blue Play Sample

15. Breakout - Karate

― deathnight, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a thrift store, but I found the Replacements Shit Hits the Fans promo-only cassette at a record store that should've known better for $3 many years ago. I also got the first issue of Love and Rockets (two mentions of this by myself in the last ten minutes) for $1 at a swap meet. I later got it signed by both Gilbert and Jaime at a comics show.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I found Dwight Twilley's 'Twilley Don't Mind' in a the Goodwill while in St George Utah. I took it to the counter and the clerk said that everyone ther had wondered if it was any good, who it was, etc. I felt all cool and hip, and sht, 'til I got it home and found the Stephen Stills LP inside.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Yesterday at Goodwill I found what appears to be a 12-inch acetate of a Marian Anderson appearance on the Telephone Hour radio show from April 16, 1951. The labels on both sides are hand-written, and it has 3 tracks total ("Weep, Weep My Eyes" on one side, "Comin' Through The Rye" and "Ride On King Jesus" on the other). It does play, but I'm thinking it must be a 78 or something because even at 45 rpm (my turntable's fastest speed) it sounds like slow motion.

I can't find a single mention of this on the internet (there are references to her performing on different dates, but not 4/16/1951). Anyone know anything about this?

― Lingbertt, Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

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