Best ever charity shop record purchase (musically or purely from a profit point of view)

Buck Owens Live in New Zealand LP - mint promo for 50 NZ cents. Apparently worth about US$100

A friend of mine sold a copy to H3nry R0llins for over 100 bucks a few years ago.

Also U2 - One Tree Hill 7" + insert which apparently is worth something.

As for musically - too, too many to mention

My best find musically was Saints - 1234 EP, Pork Dukes - Bend and Flush 7", Some Chicken - New Religion 7", Rezillos - Top of the Pops 7" plus 2 obscure post-punk 7"s by a band called the Twilight Zoners which I've never been able to find anything about, all for 15p each.

- geno washington and the ram jam band - Hand Clappin' Foot Stompin' Funky-Butt...Live! on orig heavy vinyl. for a massive 50p.

fantastic saturday night record .. totally perfect in so many ways.

financially - i wish, but i never get into that side of things, i wouldn't know a rare slice of black plastic if the fucker bit me hard.

Apart from that I bought a green vinyl 12" promo of an Alice In Chains single for 70p and sold it for £8, but that's about the extent of my charity shop -> Ebay action. I usually just buy stuff cos I want it, not to sell on.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hymnen (Deutsche Grammophon original 2LP), £2
- in the "religious music section"(!)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Complete Piano Music (CBS, 3LP box set), £2
- closing down sale

... errrrrrr, and lots of others

And let's not forget...

Daniel Barenboim, Complete Beethoven Sonatas (there's 32 of them and there's a lot of records) £2
- same sale

From other shops:

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gesang der Junglinge/Kontakte (Deutsche Grammophon), £1
- inside I found a contemporary newspaper clipping, one side of which was a review of "Kontakte", the other was a review of the latest Carry On film

Pierre Henry, Le Voyage
- in Oxfam or sumthin' for a £1. Last time I saw this secondhand they were asking &70.

Profit : OMD - Sugar Tax LP mis-press with All She Wants Is Everything instead of Neon Lights. Sold on ebay for £30.

Worth around £50 thesedays, but this was the best musically. Put it on expecting a lame copy of the monkees version, heared the intro, went "BLimey, that's good!"

No. Sadly I got the info off the top of my head. (which is why it is incomplete and a little mixed up) The North West of England used to be the best place in Europe for finding old Punk/post punk rarities and I actually made a living buyimg and selling records for 2 years between college and Uni.

-- mark grout (mark.grou...), February 17th, 2006.

It's a good single but their best one was "The magic Train". I think all their singles were released on a compilation album a couple of years ago. I seem to remember Record Collector giving it a pretty good review.

They Also have the distinction of being Pink Floyd's main support band in their early days and appeared at the Technicolour dream event in London although no footage of their performance, to my knowledge, survives.

Thesedays, charity shops are way too savvy to sell anything for too much less than it's worth, which is fair enough in one way, but in another they won't raise any money by having a copy of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" 12" for sale at £30, just waiting for the one goth that doesn't have it. (i.e. price cheap to sell it)

If a car boot sale counts, I got "I love to paint" a few years ago for £20, sold it on e-bay, became an 'ebay story'.

The Cancer Research shops in Muswell Hill tend to overprice their vinyl a lot, but the Oxfam & Sue Ryder are good for bargains.

really?? not in the U.S., thank goodness. almost everyplace I go is a flat rate, $1 or $2 per album.

my best financially was that self-pressed ESG single that has "Standing in Line" on it. got it for $2, sold it for $50

I hardly ever turn around and sell stuff like that, usually I wanna keep em for myself ... but I didn't really think that record was that good. definitely not worth 50 bucks IMO.

musically, I dunno, maybe this Serge Gainsbourg compilation I found that has Jane B, Annee 69 Erotique, Je'Taime and some other stuff on it. that's probably the one I've listened to the most. I guess it's a good "financial" find, too, but I ain't gonna sell it.

payed $1 for Colourfield "Virgins & Philistines" CD, it's priced at $150 or something on amazon (although apparently going to be re-released so not really), but cool musically.

for pleasure-Sun City Girls - Midnight Cowboys from Ipanema for $5. Almost shit myself, old SSG is more rare than pictures of the pope's cock.

Anything especially noteworthy?

Oxfam, especially in the big cities are quite clued in as to what will make a few bob.

My local Cancer Research Campaign shop sells it's vinyl at overinflated prices. Usual 80's stuff which goes in the 50p box (Thompson Twins, Alison Moyet etc) at record fairs is usually sold for £5 or £6.

As for bargains at boot sales/charity shops, musically I wouldn't know where to start. Profit wise, some of the early Now Cd's which I sold for £40-50, Mike Hart Bleeds on Dandelion for 50p, another £50 and the Divine Comedy's Promenade w/ bonus CD for £1.50 sold for £45.

Well, I didn't know any of the bands apart from one was a Bikini Kill tour single with Team Dreschler, sold for £30 ebay. Most of the others sold for a couple pounds. Oh yeah, one was a various artists one that had a version of "I am a rock", that sold nicepricely.

maybe for profit too!

Sold on eBay for $555.00.

New Junior Boys record on CD and Zed Bias "Sound of the Pirates" mix for the princely sum of £4. Hooray!

Albrecht D Endless Music (on the NWW list, hence....) bought for €1, sold for €110.

recently, i was happy to find perfectly perfect original pressings of: scritti politti's skank bloc balogna single and the 2nd peel session single with "messthetics" on it. got them for 25 cents a piece. i was just gonna sell them, but i might actually keep them cuz i like them so. also got some nice beat singles and some aztec camera singles (pillar to post picture disc!), and a zillion teardrop explodes singles (which is why i started a teardrop explodes poll). um, not my best ever finds, but recent ones. i just got some really nice old country albums the other day in perfect shape. just beautiful condition.

I spent several years looking for the one excellent album released in 1994 by The Grays, the band briefly formed by Jason Falkner after his departure from Jellyfish. I soon found that it would be hard to find, because it was obviously deleted, but then I found it in a discount bin for 10 Norwegian kroner (about 15-20 dollars).

Your conversion needs a couple of decimal points, Geir

I got Captain Beefheart, "Strictly Personal" Original Mono version, £10.

I'm considering heading over to epsom or some other commuter town this week to see if the charity shops there are holding some bargains.

"There Must Be Thousands" by The Quads, 10p.
"Know Your Product" by The Saints, ditto.

The b-side of the Quads single there is classic.

Circa 1984, I bought copies of With Sympathy by Ministry and Manifest Destiny by the Dictators from the Ronald McDonald House on East 86th Street between 1st & York Avenues.

I just bought "New York Tendaberry" Laurie Nyro (orig US LP) about 10 minutes ago, £3.99

I've had Tusk for years on CD, but one day as I was going to Salvation Army to look for a coat or something, I thought to myself "I'd really like to find myself a copy of Tusk on vinyl - yeah right."

So I'm digging through their record bin and I find one of the Tusk inner sleeves - with nothing in it! So I spent the next 15 minutes carefully going through and managed to find both of the records (pretty much unscathed) as well as all of the packaging. Paid the guy $2 and took it home for a very pleasurable listening experience.

I got OC's Word... Life at the Salvation Army on Bedford St in Williamsburg, where I assume there's 7828759 record nerds who know better

"I'd really like to find myself a copy of Tusk on vinyl - yeah right."

i feel like i find 2-3 copies in great shape at most thift stores!

Mostly I just find like, Andy Williams and Dolly Parton.

I picked up unplayed copies of the Weekend album, and three Wah! 12 inches (two versions of Come Back, plus Story of the Blues) for 50p each the other day. From a secoindhand dealer, too - one of whose staff had just put them in the wrong bin. I had to stand and listen to him bawl out his hapless underling before he'd let me leave.

Was killing time @ Goodwill after getting a little too tipsy at brunch this saturday and found a bunch of neat (if not all that rare/valuable) stuff: The Original Cast Recording of Melvin Van Peebles' "Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death," Funkadelic - "One Nation Under A Groove" 12," Joe Tex - "Buying A Book," The Crusaders - "1," and Modern Jazz Quartet - "The Comedy."

Yorkshire Records Folk Box Volume 1: bought it for $2, worth about 75!

I managed to put together a NM edition of the Capitol Sgt. Pepper (with cutouts and inner sleeve) composed of separate components all found at thrift stores for a dollar or so. It took a while...oddly enough I found the vinyl first, but it took forever to get the inner sleeve.

"I'd really like to find myself a copy of Tusk on vinyl - yeah right."

i feel like i find 2-3 copies in great shape at most thift stores!

― 69, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:51 (11 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah the 2nd hand store i go to has about 20 copies i think

xpost that inner sleeve is very hard to find, I've only ever seen one.

On Saturday: Rolling Stones No 2, German seventies reissue hence no flipback cover but inclusive of Oldham Distress A Blind Man sleevenote - eight quid!!

Nice one.

I'm supposed to be getting a new turntable via ebay shortly.

I care not re profit, but from a purely musical point of view, yesterday I had a cracking day.

The Power Station : s/t ( original 1985 edition)
Death Grips : The Money Store
Jenny Lewis : Acid Tongue ( cardboard promo edition with 3 photos inside)
The Shins : Port of Morrow (skinny promo, with the name of the music exec who had it originally !)
Metallica : .. And Justice For All
School of Seven Bells : Disconnect From Desire
John Williams : Star Wars Episode 3 (includes 70 min dvd of 5.1 audio/visuals from the films !)
Snowpony : The Slow Motion World Of Snowpony
Santana : Abraxas (remastered legacy edition)
Filthy Dukes : promo dj mix from 2008

such a wonderful, varied chunk of cds, all for £6.
long may the hatred of cds continue.
so far the fave is the death grips as I was not in the right place for them in 2012, whereas its totally hitting the spot now.

long may the hatred of cds continue.

Cheers.

cosign

vinyl is totally fucked at thrift stores now. saw a VG- Bob Seger "Live Bullet" for $9.99 the other day (I'm in Oregon).

I got a 7" by called Northern Death Song by Dave Swain on Gore Infidel about ten years ago. I bought it purely because I thought the name was cool and I vaguely remembered John Peel playing tracks from that label.

I think it's the only piece of music I own that isn't available on Youtube or Discogs and the Gore Infidel home page is the only place on the internet that has any record of it so I guess it might be worth something (it almost certainly isn't worth something)

It purely depends on who wants one.

Crazy bunch of (Aus)$5 records at charity store today - lots of 70s Jazz on ECM, enja, BYG - Dewey Redman, Mal Waldron, Eberhard Weber, Anthony Braxton, Henry Cow - plus some random fun 80s stuff like Colourbox and Propaganda - was too hungover to really process it all properly so just bought the lot

John Coltrane's Giant Steps, based on the blue/green Atlantic center label I'm pretty sure it was the second press from 1961. Bought it for $2 and flipped it for $50 on ebay. This was during the several years I wasn't buying records to own and didn't even have a stereo. Shoulda woulda kept it otherwise.

I found Radiohead "Pablo Honey" in Barnardo's in Woodley for £1, sold it on via Discogs for £99, that was nice.

Musically, The Feelies "Crazy Rhythms" for £2 probably the cheapest to happiest ratio. Maybe happier was finding "La Dusseldorf" on Decca for £12 in Henley Oxfam

Crazy bunch of (Aus)$5 records at charity store today - lots of 70s Jazz on ECM, enja, BYG - Dewey Redman, Mal Waldron, Eberhard Weber, Anthony Braxton, Henry Cow - plus some random fun 80s stuff like Colourbox and Propaganda - was too hungover to really process it all properly so just bought the lot

Probable RIP to the probable bloke who originally owned the collection!

Ages ago I saw a book in a charity shop which had a compass on the spine that made me think of the cover of Sasha & John Digweed's Northern Exposure, and I thought oh how I'd love to find that cheap in a charity shop that doesn't know it fetches for like £60 or so on eBay. And then two charity shops later I found that same album for £1.99. The biggest, even eeriest coincidence of my entire life?

A few years later I found the original Renaissance: The Mix Collection for the same price in a different charity shop. Very nice.

Several other unlikely CDs I've come across:
- The Orb's 2018 album No Sounds Are Out of Bounds. Who of the very few people buying that are then going to sell it on so soon?
- Sunn O)))'s Black One (okay this was actually at a bootsale but same principle applies)
- A bunch of American indie things like Animal Collective's Feels (2CD edition), Tortoise's Millions Now Living, Battles' Mirrored. I saw the 1996 Modest Mouse album once but I'm not a fan so I left it.
- I don't come across many Doctor Who Big Finish audios but I found the entire first series box set of niche spin-off series Jago & Litefoot very cheaply. I bought it knowing I'd probably not listen to it but my belief is that because Christopher Benjamin is local that may be partly why it was there.

It's not a super rarity as far as I know, but finding the Walker Brothers Shutout 7" promo for 49p in a house clearance shop was a major WTF moment, considering everything else they had on offer was useless.

Found a minidisc player a few years ago.. $5, flipped on eBay for $100. Music... Always so picked over, wherever I've been, even before the vinyl resurgence really took off. Just like some good condition mass market stuff (e.g. Springsteen "Tunnel of Love") that I can't even manage to score anymore. No huge flips I can recall.