Flea Markets C/D?

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I go to these to find things to add to my collection but I find them depressing. I have never been to one and not seen some groups indie hipstaz there appreciating it ironically.

― mjfan, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

collection of what?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Classic = for SK5 Casio keyboard for $5, vintage porn collections, old Black Panther stuff.
Dud = for pretty much everything else.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh snap, I meant this for ILX.

I collect beer glasses.

― mjfan, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm too busy sniffing out records to see what anyone else is doing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

in philly, all the other record geeks would jump ten feet in the air when they turned around and saw me coming. that was always good for a laugh.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I have never noticed indie hipsters at flea markets -- but yeah, maybe like Scott said, I'm too busy looking around for cool vinyl. (And I have no idea why anybody would like flea markets "ironically" anyway. I'm not even sure what that would mean.) Anyway, I go to them all the time. I could even give you a list, if I wasn't so lazy.

― xhuxk, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

classic, I even worked at one for years. Gotten most of my furniture there, including a 100+ year-old Chinese armoire for $300 and awesome tables and lamps and a guitar(which qualifies as furniture at this point haha). 99% junk but it's fun sifting through until the heat gets to you.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I have never found anything good music-wise at flea markets. I must go to the wrong ones for that.

The hipstaz I see are always in groups of 3-4 and never seem to buy anything (no bags). They just walk around all cool-like and gawk.

― mjfan, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

They gawk at the people? The clothes? The knick-knacks? The World War II paraphenalia? Or what? (I'm not being difficult; I'm actually clueless; I can imagine hipsters going to flea markets and buying work shirts or old magazines, I guess, but to me that's not ironic - they probably actually like the shirts and zines. And while they're doing it maybe gawk at *other* stuff, maybe, but hey, who doesn't do that? To go there and not buy anything seems wasteful, though!) Where are the flea markets you go to, mjfan?

― xhuxk, Monday, 2 May 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

They gawk at the people and the stuff. Maybe they are just hanging out. I go to semi/rural flea markets, so perhaps they have nothing better to do there.

― mjfan, Monday, 2 May 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I went to one yesterday and bought 2 Mick Ronson LPs (did he have more than Slaughter On 10th Ave and Play Don't Worry?) for $2 each. I like going to look at weird stuff and people-watch, but I'm no hipster.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

There's a crew of CD bootleggers around here that pop up at the flea markets selling burned copies of current chart albums with all the grafix done on inkjet printer. I can't believe they get away with that shit.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Two Sundays ago: CLASSIC when I found a copy of Bill Cosby's Badfoot Brown and Bunion Marching Band in the first crate of records I thumbed.

Two Sundays ago: DUD when I wasted another hour+ in the rain panning for more gold.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

this is all over ebay too.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

If I threw a baseball from my apartment I could probably hit two or three different camps of of these guys. They sell bootleg DVDs, too.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

right on the street, i mean. they just hang out.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

i haven't been yet, but in northwest portland, in st. johns, there's supposedly an indoor (well, naturally) flea market that also has amateur wrestling! i cannot fucking wait to go...

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

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