Best Surprise Find on the $4.99 rack at the grocery store

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No, really, this is about records.
What worthy surprises did you stumble across in the $4.99 rack at the local grocery store. Sure, 98% of it is utter, utter rubbish...but have you ever found anything exceptionally amazing in the remaining 2%?
I found the following:
- A copy of Parallel Lines for $6.99
- A 2-CD comp of "Techno/House" music for $4.99

Also: Back in the early 90s, I saw (what I thought was) a Bob Marley album in what looked like an old fashioned longbox, for $6.99. I didn't investigate further. I should have. I saw the same record in the shop for $44.00 ...it was a 4CD set with a booklet in the middle.
DAMN!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 26 June 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought a John Fahey Christmas tape and a New Kids on the Block tape at Office Depot for 99 cents each.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 26 June 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement-Wowie Zowie for $1.99 at .....The Bay!!!! in the pants department. My friend got a Bratmobile cassette for 99cents from a pawnshop once.

― ddd (ddd), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a record store in Orono, Maine called "Dr. Records." It is a guy who buys used records at yard sales across this great state. It takes the LPs home, and then puts a hardcore, highend nitty gritty record vac to them.

He then sells these LPS for 1.99 to 3.99.

Oh, it's probably lost of Nilson Schmilson crap, you say.

Nay! He has had more than a dozen to date that made my jaw go boing boing.

Including, um, Klaatu.

― gage o (gage o), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the wherehouse in corte madera, california circa 1997

built to spill - perfect from now on
palace - lost blues and other songs
three mile pilot - the chief assassin to the sinister (geffen)
galaxie 500 - today (rough trade)
the good lovechild CD that i forgot the name of

5x$.99(+8.25%salestax)=$5.39

i gave them all away as random gifts of kindness to friends in need.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

you are insane, borrible. both love child's are good, though the first one is best. take your prescription medicine.

just bought physics2 on gravity for a buck.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, i just checked it was witchcraft which i remember listening to more than 2 times which is all i could say for the first one!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

my bloody valentine's loveless, $7.99 at london drugs (the canadian equivalent of boots).

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 26 June 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Biz Markie The Diabolical Biz Markie
$1.00 at a supermarket.

― Rem Lezar, Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Uncle Tupelo-Still Feel Gone (The Rockville version)for $1.99
and
The Pogues-If I Should Fall From Grace With God (American version)for $.99

Both @ a Hastings

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 26 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

albums i've gotten for under a buck:
the wedding album-duran duran
the cure-wild mood swings
nina hagen-street
consolidated-friendly fascism
nitzer ebb-ebbhead
War of the Worlds Sdtrk. (Vinyl!)
Biography of jesus box set (12 records for 10 bucks)
Songs about firetrucks
songs about dinosaurs
laurie anderson-mister heartbreak
talking heads-little creatures
billy idol-rebel yell
the best of culture club
etc. etc.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 26 June 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Does finding a Japanese copy of Ornette's Of Human Feelings at Best Buy count?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 26 June 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i got Julee Cruise's Floating into the Night at a thrift store for like 15 cents

― momalley, Friday, 27 June 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the Hurrah retrospective on Revola for a fiver.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 27 June 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

At the 24 Hour grocery store down the street from me, I got both Paranoid and Master of Reality for $5 apiece.

At the dollar bin at the record store the other day, I got a Johnny Cash The Walls of A Prison, The Best Of The Marx Brothers and Back in Black

― Ian Johnson, Friday, 27 June 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinks-Celluloid Heroes mis-priced @ $2.99 @ WHerehouse.
Velvet Underground-The Quine Tapes mis-priced @ Borders for $13.99.
Missing Foundation-s/t cassette, GREAT industrial stuff! (since devoured by car stereo) @ Woolworth's for $.49.
Hawkwind-Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin, $4.99, i forget where...

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

today i got the cassette of get rich or die trying at the werehouse for 2:99 (new zealand dollars, worth about half US ones), it got uh umm "accidentally" mis-priced heh heh

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 27 June 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Muffy the Vampire Layer. A porn DVD my mate bought for £4.99 in a shop in Whitechapel. HSA insisted we watch it last night, thinking it would at least be funny. No such luck.

― kate (kate), Friday, 27 June 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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