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today, in a Chicago alley, a broken vinyl copy of
Genesis--Wind & Wuthering

― nonthings (nonthings), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

that's genuinely poignant.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a cd of that awful mighty mighty bosstones album that had the ubiquitous single in the mid 90s laying in my backyard when i was in college.. nevertheless, it stayed in that backyard for a year and a half.. then i moved out.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I found the Rushmore soundtrack on the ground by a parking garage.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i got 'appetite for destruction' on cassette in junior high because my friend's backyard abutted a major road in our neighborhhod and it must have been thrown from a vehicle and thus meant for me as i went to retrieve my BMX and go home that day.

― duke guns, Friday, 30 July 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Back around 1980 when i was ten years old, i found (and subsequently kept) a copy of the first Specials LP hidden in a hedge at the top of my road (probably nicked and stashed for later recovery)

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've taken vinyl that was left out on the curb by music stores that no could no longer sell it. Is this the same thing? The last time this happened, I got a couple of classical records and the 12" version of "Do They Know It's Christmas"!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 July 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
I Still Have It
Never Listened to It

― My Underwear Is Melting (My Underwear Is Melting), Friday, 30 July 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

My grandfather recently found, lying in the middle of the road, one of those booklet CD holders with around 50-100 CDs in it. Like somebody had left it on top of their car and drove off.

It contained mostly generic alternative/classic rock crap though. Still, my 84 year old grandfather insisted on "trying" to listen to all of them to see which ones he liked and wanted to keep. This is a guy who only listens to classical for the most part. I imagine him listening to Rage Against the Machine, Darkness, Linkin Park, etc., hearing one note and covering his ears in horror. (Come to think of it, that would be my reaction, too.)

Suprisingly, he did end up keeping the Beatles and Doors albums.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

when i was in fifth grade i found a homemade mixtape of RUSH songs crammed between the seats of a grayhound bus on my first trip ever away from home.

i still like 'the trees'

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i found a copy of Tim Buckley's Goodbye and Hello LP on the street (check eBay to see its current wherabouts)

my buddy Nasa is always finding valuable / expensive records in the trash

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Search "Ypsilanti All Stars" / Found Magazine

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Friday, 30 July 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man. have we done a thread on Found yet? I don't care, I'm starting one now...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 31 July 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I found Cat Stevens' Greatest Hits in the CD player of a rental car - I put it in the glove box.

― wetmink (wetmink), Saturday, 31 July 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i found the volume comp wasted and a geraldine fibbers cd in a garbage bin...i like them both!

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 31 July 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.homeofheroes.com/news/archives/recipients/stockdale.jpg

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 31 July 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I came across a Martika CD jacket in a place where lovebirds tend to go parking. Inside was a real neat Allman Bros. comp. I still got it and listened to it a few weeks ago.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 31 July 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Once in the University library I found a "Music has the Right to Children" CD, in perfect condition but with no case, just sitting on a shelf (it was in with the books about German film). I took it.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 31 July 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother found a Fat of the Land CD in good condition, no case, at his school. I stole it from him and still listen to it now and then.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Saturday, 31 July 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
I Still Have It
Never Listened to It
-- My Underwear Is Melting (Lookingatathinginaba...), July 30th, 2004.

And You're Not Missing Anything.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 31 July 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

This will make everyone weep!

Someone I know once found a complete radio station record library in landfill next to a rubbish tip.

There was boxes and boxes of thousands of vinyl 12"s, LPs, 7" singles, radio serials, American top 40 radio shows, cartridges, interview discs, etc. The vinyl that was pulled had mould and dirt stains all over, thus redeeming it to the dumper anyhow as it looked as if it had been there a while.

This was music cultural vandalism on a global scale and from a historical perspective, the radio station concerned (there was still station imprints/catalogue numbers on corner of records) should have went down for wanton destruction of historical artefacts or something?

I dare anyone to top that in terms of quantity of records "found" though? A shocking endictment of our disposal times and big media's greed to just think "out with the old, in with the new"!!!!

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

most recently was Raekwon's "Ice Cream" 12" with the shrinkwrap still on it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was a kid, I found the Newcleus cassette in a high school parking lot (don't remember the title, but it contained "Jam On It").

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 31 July 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This was kinda amusing. I was walking to work and saw a discarded CD with swirley colours. It looked cool and I needed a coaster for my coffee cup so I pick it up & see that it's by Jamiroquai (sp?) whom I'd never actually heard but knew that he supposedly sounded like Stevie Wonder. Later that very day a co-worker's got the radio playing quietly. We'd never, EVER talked music; but out of the blue she asks me "Hey Scott, do you like this guy?" I listen close, hear a Stevie Wonder-ous voice and instantly realize that (yep!) I'm hearing Jamiroquai for the very first time. "Jamiroquai, right?" "Yeah, what do you think of him?" I didn't need to answer, just grinned & lifted my cup to show her. (Actually I have no opinion about the guy's music either way - only heard him for a few seconds that day and never since, not enough to make a judgement

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 31 July 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, out of curiousity I just did a bit of checking to see if I was spelling "Jamiroquai" properly, and only now discovered that it's actually the name of a band, and not the singer, who is in fact named Jason Kay. Oh well, it doesn't really affect my story. And at least I was spelling it right!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 31 July 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hillbilly Frankenstein's Hypnotica

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 31 July 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I once found a Corey Hart cassette lying in one of those big circular, step on the bottom, hand washing fountains. The tape was still dry as a bone though - as most well knew, those fucking things never worked.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

now THAT's what I call poignant!

― andy glib, Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I left a copy of ZULU TIME by caspar brotzmann and page hamilton on a public bus, for someone to find. because i thought it was mediocre.

― Russignon, Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

My daughter found disc two of a burned copy of "Death to the Pixies" lying in the street. The underside had a horrible case of road rash, but remarkably still played!

Helping a friend move, I saw a brown paper grocery bag on the basement floor of the new house. I picked it up to find it was a near-mint copy of Jefferson Airplane's "Bark" still in the original bag-style slipcover. This was in the late 90s.

― briania (briania), Saturday, 31 July 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Last time I looked out the window of my upstairs room, I was amused to see a Rentals cassette lying in the gutter. Certainly it was never mine, and I don't recall ever seeing it there before so I can't figure out how it got there. Retrieving it would be risky as I'd have to climb down the roof to get it.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternatively, if I had a high enough ladder...but it really isn't worth it.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f468/f46835wqal4.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i have found at least two copies of nas' it was written on the sidewalk in the last couple weeks

― jess, Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a cassete of KLF's "the white room" as well as an empty case of britney spear's first CD.

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

which reminds me, I wonder if anyone ever found my copy of massive attack's mezzanine after it fell out of my bag a few years ago.

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the person who found my copy of mercury rev's "yerself is steam" which i lost in the winter 92/93 near club 5 in luxembourg can keep it. i rebought the album. and i never listened to it again, i think. crap.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 1 August 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i do wish it were me who found alex's copy of that merc.rev but... hell, i've never even been to luxembourg

well i actually never have found any record on the ground.
otoh, i do suspect that a couple of years back someone did find a coupla sonic youth rec's under my window

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 1 August 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i found metallica black album ages ago behind the garages, just the cd it was all scatched up, i was going to sell it but they wouldnt take it..still got it somewhere. aparantly metallica fans just leave cds lying around the place.

― whos_step, Sunday, 1 August 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

um..i was like 12 at time, going through a stage of trying to sell anything i could.

― whos_step, Sunday, 1 August 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was a freshman in college (1982) my roomate and I, in desperate need of food(most money went to beer) hit upon the brilliant idea on Halloween of trick or treating the dorms. I don't think we did much for costumes, but we got some cans of tuna, macaroni and cheese, candy, and I got an Ian Hunter album. I don't know where that album went. Easy come - easy go.

― Davlo (Davlo), Monday, 2 August 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

seventeen years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/RoNszo8_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

― quiet coyote (morrisp), Sunday, 28 November 2021 07:12 (four years ago)

Amazing revive

― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 28 November 2021 07:26 (four years ago)

one year passes...

https://i.imgur.com/7xys5ie.jpg

― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:44 (three years ago)

Amazing revive

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:53 (three years ago)

one year passes...

https://i.imgur.com/jDVf5eD_d.webp?maxwidth=1520&fidelity=grand

― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Friday, 5 January 2024 17:31 (two years ago)

The guy who broke into my car 30 years ago took half a dozen CDs, one of which was Kurt Scwitters' Ursonate, and I hope it broke his brain.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:11 (two years ago)

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