are there yard sales in england?

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aka garage sales?

and if so, is there a copy of "breakfast in america" by supertramp available at every single one of them?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm.... sort of but they are not so common - a copy of that kylie album where she has that hat on with the hair coming out of the top of it is available over here instead.

― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Supertramp - no, not particularly. Leo Sayer's 'Endless Flight' is very common. I haven't seen a copy of 'The Best of Bread' for a while.

― David (David), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

how about the babs streisandt record where she's wearing a superman t-shirt and no pants? that along with neil diamond's 'hot august night' album cover are freakier than fetish porn

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c436/c436866bpl6.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e242/e242144ova5.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

stereo gold award hawaiian classics album with green cover from 72.
must have been heck of a cold winter - millions of copies sold all
over uk to conjur up that summery vibe we werent actually getting
in reality. hence littering of all 2nd hand record sales with said item.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.syberweb.net/kylie/images/albumcover1.jpg

― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

We don't have enough yards so instead we all drive to a field and put our wares in the boot (trunk). They usually spill out onto tressel tables. These events are called car boot sales.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

king of the carboot sales at the moment : 'carry on up the charts' by the beautiful south

― joni, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

car boot sales sound great.

england's fields vs america's lawns = a potentially interesting point of comparison?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually they're not just in fields. They have them in cities too - in schoolyards and things.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

oh let me pretend you hobbits are always gathering in fields

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

at least whenever gandalf passes through the shire

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a good one....

http://www.ddffairs.co.uk/ddffairs/aerial5.jpg

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes they're not very well organised:

http://markehrlich.com/images/womendrivers.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.diffusiononline.net/duke1.jpg

"cheap as chips!"

― colin o'hara (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

nick i had pints with andy m tonight, he says hello

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

At a car boot sale...

"I love to paint", saint etienne. £20

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 October 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.diffusiononline.net/duke1.jpg

"cheap as chips!"

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 10 October 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

mark grout you lucky SOB

i've known people to pay up to 300 pounds for that little disc

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 10 October 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I know. I sold that one for £370

About a year later, I found another one for £40 in Rec&Tape exchange, Camden. That went for £310. Both stateside.

Which was nice...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 October 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

-BBC Overflow Car Park, Shepherd's Bush on Sunday mornings, where I found that legendary crate of Basic Channel 12s". I'm the guy wandering round with an armfull of AOR (not wearing designer speks pretending to know nothing about music - but I think they're getting hip to me now)
-2nd Uxbridge turn-off on the M40 on Saturday Mornings. It's too big to get around.
-I'd be on the look-out for those infrequent ones in the Home Counties or 30 miles outside any major cities for fresh picklings(Bristol, Leeds, Brighton, Manchester have all been cleanecd out).

― nick.K (nick.K), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

is your 2nd tip the one in Denham Nick? my Mum was raving about it the other week

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 October 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Have bought many many great and pretty rare records at car boot sales but not for years and I don't have the patience for them anymore

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks kinda like a flea market, not so much a yard sale.

― scott m (mcd), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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