― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
I'd put the record up on slsk, but it's only on vinyl...
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
"No New York" at Jerry's for $3.00. Not a buck, but not too bad, either.
― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link
OMD - Architecture & MoralityReplacements - Pleased To Mee MeMiracle Legion - Me & Mr Ray (Anyone else actually like this?)Laurie Anderson - Big ScienceBeatles - Magical Mystery TourGang of Four - Hard (Eeek!)New Order - Substance
And dozens of classical things: Debussy, Penderecki, Ligeti, Bartok et al
...on vinyl for a round 50c or $1 ea.
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 04:40 (twenty years ago) link
this is the record my folks would take to every party they ever went to when i was a kid...handclappinsomethingsomrthingfonkybuttlive? the whole first side is like an intro..."geno! geno!"
mine might be the vinyl of parliaments chocolate city 50c aust in ashwoods!
― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 07:31 (twenty years ago) link
Charity shops, ahhhh
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 08:47 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― Applepie Baseball, Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:20 (twenty years ago) link
$1 in a record store in Key West about 10 years ago. The same store wanted $18 for a Men At Work album. I took the Neil record up to the counter: "You don't want to buy that, it is crap." I begged to differ.
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― Jack Burton, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Looking at You, Chaz Jankel Relight My Fire, Dan Hartman The Best of B.T.O. (So Far)
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Orpheus Records (formerly in DC, currently in Arlington) going out of business sale--vinyl for a buck
Grupo Sportivo- MistakesIan Dury-Lord UpminsterMickey Jupp's legendSkids-Scared to Dance
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 16 November 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Cool! Mistakes was by far Grupo Sportivo's best album (at least of the four or so I've heard), and one of the great lost new wave albums, period, as far as I'm concerned. Pretty sure, though, that it was actually a compilation of the best tracks from a couple import (Dutch, I guess?) LPs I've never actually seen. In the States it originally came with a free 7-inch 6-song EP called More Mistakes tucked inside. Key track on EP: "Disco Really Made It (It's Yucky And I Hate It)." Still have my copy. But the LP's a lot better than the EP.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 16 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I got the second God Machine album on CD for £1 once.Had various other good things, but nothing that springs to mind right now.
― MichaelJLambert, Sunday, 16 November 2008 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I found the Cure's Happily Ever After CD in a cutout bin for $1.00 in 1990. Its just a US compilation of 17 Seconds and Faith, which went out of print two months after its release (with, as I recall, 2000 copies outstanding). I sold it in 1997 on Ebay for $125 to some completist fanboy. Probably the best investment I've ever made.
― derelict, Sunday, 16 November 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
If the big-swayzak/john tejada-fan-back-in-2001 who sells all his old records to Sonic Boom, who sell them back for 2-3 dollars is reading this, keep 'em coming (although I generally associate Swayzak and John Tejada, much more so than anyone else, with prolific output of particularly mediocre material, you've given me some good stuff!)
― Their time's limited, hard rocks, too (mehlt), Monday, 17 November 2008 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Huh. Someone came up with the exact same thread idea/title five years before I did. Curse you!
― From Russia with Loveless (J3ff T.), Monday, 17 November 2008 06:33 (fifteen years ago) link
A friend of mine, who's a master digger, chanced upon a copy of The World of Cecil Taylor for pennies in the Salvation Army recently. It's pretty gubbed, but still, that's a rare and valuable record, not least cos it was reissued under a different name.
I've not managed any such finds, but I've picked up some nice stuff in that shop nonetheless, not least some 70s Dylan albums for 25p. Problem is that there are always diggers lurking there, waiting to pounce on any new donations.
My favourite £1 buy was a Rutles picture sleeve ep with Cheese & Onions, I Must Be In Love and A Girl Like You on it. It's not in the Record Collector guide, but it's not something I've ever come across.
― Stew, Monday, 17 November 2008 09:59 (fifteen years ago) link
quando quango - love tempo 12"space - magic fly lpfrom reckless records in chicagoplus tons and tons of shit from the dusty groove 35 cent bin
― sam york, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Crappy record store near the edge of the city that I haven't thought about in years, plays some of the worst music I've ever heard. Got 6 $1 records, including a copy of Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity LP which looks like it hasn't even been touched, and other assorted dance 12's with stuff like Svek, Mike Ink, Remixes by Mad Mike Banks etc.
A pretty who'd have thunk it experience. :)
― This time, or I'll perc you later (mehlt), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Vinyl I bought today. (Still like the specificity of this thread more than that catch-all rolling vinyl one.)
$2, thrift store, 46th and Queens Blvd, Sunnyside:
Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame I (Atlantic, 1983)
$4 total (= less than 50 cents each), vintage store, 48th and Skillman, Sunnyside:
Automatic Man Automatic Man (Island, 1976)The Stanky Brown Group If The Lights Don't Get You The Helots Will (Sire, 1977) (if the band is stanky and brown rather than Stanky Brown being somebody's name, this should be filed in the S's rather than B's obviously)Hoagy Carmichael Hoagy (RCA, 1981)Desmond Child And Rouge Desmond Child And Rouge (Capitol, 1979)Ducks Deluxe Don't Mind Rockin' Tonite (RCA, 1978) (already had this, but what the heck, I'm sure I'll find use for another one someday)Gazebo Gazebo (Baby Italy, 1983)Puhdys Das Buch (Pool West Germany, 1984)Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes This Time It's For Real (Epic, 1977)Randy Travis Old 8 x 10 (Warner Bros., 1988)
Probably not the first time I've tried those Desmond Child and Southside Johnny LPs. Maybe this time they'll sink in. Or maybe I am just a glutton for punishment.
Passed up a couple other 50-cent '80s Randy Travis LPs, but Xgau gave them worse grades than the one I bought, so maybe that was smart. Passed on a 50-cent 1987 Guadalcanal Diary LP too (what did they sound like?), and a $2 1989 LP by Joe Hardy-produced New York hard rock band Law and Order, though if George advises otherwise, I'll go back for that one.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 24 January 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic Man Automatic Man (Island, 1976)
Don't know if you'll like this. Requires more than one listen. Extension of Stomu Yamashita's Go, sort of, which was an experiment on jazz and middle of the road hard rock, the latter furnished by Pat Thrall, who made a lot more money with Pat Travers later but quit that, too, after co-writing "Smoking Whiskey, Drinkin' Cocaine." Anyway, Automatic Man is nothing like that. It's very spacey, often almost frictionless, sometimes veering into prog. One of the members -- singer/bassist, I think, is now much more famous as a songwriter/producer under another name. Plus Michael Shrieve's in the band as a kind of poor man's Jan Hammer. I like it but was there at the beginning. Definitely an acquired taste but not so convincing that you'd have stuck around for the second album, which was colored pink instead of blue, like this one.
Don't remember a great amount about Law & Order except that I had it on cassette, my band played with them in Allentown, and they were good guys. Kind of in the Circus of Power style but better although not that much so. They were part of the major label wave of second and third tier signings in the late Eighties of metal rock 'n' roll bands that were supposed to be more gritty and from-the-street than the hitmakers. Published about the same times as The Throbs and Vain and were in the same, uh, vein. About six months later, grunge washed them all away. Toss up whether it's worth 2 bucks. Depends on the whether and how much loose change you have in your pocket.
― Gorge, Saturday, 24 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
$2, thrift store, 46th and Queens Blvd, Sunnyside, today:
The Geraldine Fibbers Get Thee Gone (Sympathy For The Record Industry 10-inch EP, c. '90s I guess)
An extravagance, since I am a total fetishizing sucker when it comes to 10-inch EPs (even though it is impossible to find inner sleeves). Plus I've never liked anything by these '90s indie art roots nerds before (not that I've listened much), and why would this be any different? But I used to be (very) mildly curious about the Fibbers, and I figure, if I'm ever going to like anything by them, this'd be about the correct amount of songs. Plus they cover Dolly's "Jolene" on it; how bad could that be? (Pretty bad, but I'll probably keep it anyway.)
Of the last batch of cheapos I bought, I wound up liking Automatic Man more than George predicted. Also liked Arrington, Stanky Brown Group (its more pompy rocky Tully first side anyway), Hoagy, Desmond Child (a lot actually -- not sure anybody was ever more disco-metal), Gazebo, Puhdys (though '70s LPs I have by them rock harder), Southside Johnny (well that one's pretty darn marginal but I like when the Coasters show up at least), and Randy Travis. Which means I wound up liking the whole pile, I guess.
― xhuxk, Monday, 9 February 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been obsessed of late with all Patrick Adams productions and was thrilled to find an original 12" of Universal Robot Band "Freak With Me" for $1.39 at Other Music, of all the places.
― beta blog, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
god bless Value Village
Low - Things We Lost / Trust / Great Destroyer / Drums and GunsSpiritualized - Let It Come DownJeff Buckley - Sketches...Rye Coalition - The Lipstick GameThe Detroit Cobras - BabyWild Beasts - Two DancersArcturus - The Sham MirrorsFiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...John Cale - Paris 1919Lhasa - The Living RoadClinic - Walking With TheeSparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
Found this on CD
https://i.imgur.com/zN1ghIA.jpg?1
Ote Maloya comp of music from Reunion Island. Beautiful blend of African, French and Latin music sung in the local creole.
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
What great LPs are still available for a buck?
Wasn’t too long ago you could still find copies of “Rumours” and “Purple Rain” and “Lodger” and “Born in the USA” for a dollar, but that’s all out the window now... and for me, well, I have copies of those albums anyway. I passed on a copy of “Misty Blue” by Dorothy Moore for a buck the other day cuz I already have one, but I was inspired to spin it when I got home. What a great little record! Which got me thinking...
I realize this is pretty regional, but are there similar sleepers in your area dollar bins that a person should take a flyer on if they stumble across one?
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
Me, eight-plus years ago:
On a related note, I was browsing through all the ridiculously overpriced new vinyl at a mall store last week (actually situated right near the entrance now), seeing albums I bought 35 years ago and others I should have bought 35 years ago, and one question seemed obvious to me: who's going to buy this stuff? Maybe I'm way wrong, but my guess is no one--I'm looking forward to five years from now, when the bottom drops out a second time and all those records can be picked up for next to nothing.
Way wrong.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 February 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
basically this is a case of vinyl vs cd.even crappy vinyl is now £££/$$$.cds are still dirt cheap though some charity shops are getting wise to the situation.
― mark e, Friday, 7 February 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
I was looking at new records at a bookstore recently and thought "who's buying vinyl at $23/per?" but then I started thinking of when I last bought used vinyl regularly, trying to remember what I paid, and I kind of remember ~$12 in 1985, which by an inflation calculator is $28.50 today, so maybe prices are no different now.
― nickn, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
srs bragging but this is what i bought for less than $1 a couple of weekends ago:
Absolutely crazy 30p carboot find this morning among a pile of Perry Como albums - 1971 synth comp w/ Delia Derbyshire, Harrison Birtwistle, Dudley Simpson, David Vorhaus pic.twitter.com/ZazC3L1YWz— fell into a green dream (@Mount_Analogue) January 19, 2020
― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:50 (four years ago) link
What great LPs are still available for a buck?― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, February 7, 2020 3:04 PM bookmarkflaglink
If you're into 80's pop, there's still lots of great stuff in the dollar bin (at least in my area). The following routinely show up:- Bongos - Drums Along The Hudson- The first 2 Joe Jackson albums- Prefab Sprout - 2 Wheels Good- Diana Ross - Diana (the 1980 Niles Rodgers produced one)- ABC - Lexicon of Love- Heaven 17 albums- Squeeze - argybargy / east side story
This one is less common, but I picked up "Etceteraville" by Random Hold for buck, and I think that fits into the sleeper category -- it's somewhere between prog and post-punk, so fits on the Roxy/Gabriel/Wire 154 spectrum.
― enochroot, Saturday, 8 February 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
Ok, so since I can’t crate-dig, I made the crates come to me! Bought ~2500 random old records for $300 and have spent the past week sorting them. About 75% were total trash, just bunk, Percy Faith and Living Strings and James Last and the Norman Luboff Choir. A whole bunch more I can flip for maybe a buck apiece if I’m lucky, $20/box if no takers. There were a surprising number of half-decent things, stuff I can sell for $3-5 easy. I upgraded a few records in my collection that were in questionable condition, added a few nice staples (Bill Withers, Dusty Springfield, Four Tops, New Order). And I’ve been loving throwing random semi-interesting-looking things on to see what they are, something I haven’t really done for many years. I had almost given up on the magic of the bin find... this restores my faith in the Holy Crate.
Smith - A Group Called SmithThese folks must have been a hoot to see live, great party music. It’s all covers, but generally really well done. Well worth a fiver if you’re into finding the missing like between BB/Holding co and the J Geils Band. And if you don’t care that they don’t write any of their own material.
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature’s SonWeird jazzbo covers of songs from the White Album. Ranges from quirky to schmaltzy to downright sinister. I’m a sucker for Beatles cover albums (Holyridge Strings, Torero Band, George Martin & Orchestra) but this is by far the best one I’ve found. Bonus points for the cuckoo sleeve art.
There was an original Ella on Verve which sounds incredible (although it being Ella Sings Broadway I don’t really need to keep it). But the pick of the litter was a really nice copy of Thirsty Moon, a krautrock band on Brain. Total score!
Still sorting, cleaning & playing. Will post more finds if I dig any up.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
Aw that sounds like fun!!
― brimstead, Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:45 (four years ago) link
I remember Smith's song "Baby, It's you" from the 70s. An actual hit.
― nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 04:30 (four years ago) link
Weakest performance on the album! It was a hit, huh? I just assumed they were a no-hit no-wonder.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 18 April 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
I don't know how it charted but it got regular airplay on SoCal top 40 stations.
― nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
From wiki: The highest-charting version of "Baby It's You" was by the band Smith, who took the song to number five on the US charts in 1969.
― nickn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 04:38 (four years ago) link
to whoever left pristine copies of First Reformed, Xen Cuts and a whole lot of early aughts/late 90s emo and math rock, I thank you
also anyone in toronto who needs a CD copy of Leaves Turn Inside You, mcluskyism or The Rising Tide get your ass to the salvation army thrift store at lansdowne stn
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 4 July 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
Have bought a bunch of collections this year. Some of my favourite discoveries for a buck or two:Wild Tchopitoulas Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd St Rhythm BandMC Lyte - Eyes on ThisMoev - ZimmerkampfJane Fair Jazz QuintetBrother to Brother - Let Your Mind Be FreeBang Bang You’re Terry ReidLittle Richard - The King of Rock & Roll (absolutely bonkers)Montrose - s/tCarolyn Franklin (aretha’s sis) - Baby Dynamite Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature’s Son
― the thing that the angry Left forbids (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 28 November 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
Well in terms of classic albums, the other day I managed to get a full copy of Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life on Vinyl for $1 at a thrift store. Also got a copy of Jan Johansson's Jazz på svenska, which is something I usually wouldn't expect to find at a thrift store in Alberta.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COKE-BOYS-DJ-WYNTER-ONLYRAPPERHEARDWORLDWIDE-COKEBOY-30COKE/223639046864?hash=item3411ed0ad0:g:7dAAAOSwbdxdZI7k
― xzanfar, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
.@oryxofelia wanted to hit a thrift store so while she was perusing dated fashion at the local @GoodwillIntl I hit the CD section not expecting much. I found far more than I could have hoped for for only 99¢ a pop. pic.twitter.com/LGtQsqPyxm— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 27, 2021
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
The Sarah Brightman was for her; the Therapy? CD single was the most unexpected thing to find and the Willie Nelson tribute has some great bands on it.Already started listening to the Methods of Mayhem. Wow, does it suck, haha!— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) March 27, 2021
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Hardly obscure, but here I am listening to The Good, the Bad and the Queen for the hundredth time, got it for a dollar in some cutprice store a decade ago. I love the Allen/Simonon grooves so much.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 22 June 2023 03:21 (one year ago) link
At my local thrift store today I was able to pick up a copy of Sagittarius's Present Tense on vinyl for $1. It was missing its inner sleeve, and had a few scratches, but overall, pretty good condition.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 12 May 2024 04:33 (four months ago) link
Oh, Sagittarius, yeah! Curt Boettcher is a lost legend in pop apocrypha, I say along with Scott Miller, Fred Frith, you could add Paddy McAloon but that'd be pushing since he was so big as well... love all of them though.
To add something, I got the 12" repress of the Ice Hockey Hair EP from the Super Furry Animals a while back for free from this local shoppe. Insane they let me walk out of there with it having paid zilch, the T/T is still gold.
― PAPUS ADRIANUS, Sunday, 12 May 2024 04:58 (four months ago) link
wow! what a score, Marko
― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 May 2024 13:56 (four months ago) link
Had another wild vinyl record find on the weekend, this time at a church garage sale that was 15 minutes away from closing. In a pile of typical easy listening and Kenny Rogers albums, I managed to find the first three releases in Sonic Youth's SYR series: Anagrama, Slaapkamers Met Slagroom and Invito Al Ĉielo, as well as a copy of Bruce Haack's Dance to the Music, all for 50 cents each!
― MarkoP, Monday, 3 June 2024 17:25 (three months ago) link
that's borderline unbelievable O_O
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 3 June 2024 21:49 (three months ago) link
you are on fire!
― budo jeru, Monday, 3 June 2024 21:52 (three months ago) link