Artists/Bands you NEVER find in the used bins

Maybe Derek Bailey.

So he's out, I suppose.

never seen a used Yoshi Wada LP.

Heck, I even saw Loveless in the used bin. In San Francisco!

Being one of those people who has never sold back a record, I don't get it. But I guess sometimes people just liquidate all their possessions.

All time favorite dollar-bin record: Recoil Bloodline

I never see the Pop Group in used bins (nor very often in new ones).

I've never seen Muslimgauze in a used bin, but then again, the only place I've ever seen Muslimgauze for sale was Kim's Video on St. Marks Place in NYC (and they had a lot of their music!).

Considering how many bazillion cd's they have in print, I don't see Beatles discs in used bins in very big numbers except those outtake collections. I picked up a bunch of Warp cd's as they came out new this way back in the mid 90s.

A good chunk of my collection of music is out of used bins. I used to roam like a vulture over Luna Music in Indianapolis used cd's for promos cds, as they tended to get a bit of everything.

There are a couple of places in Louisville (EarXtacy) and Bloomington (TD'sCD's&LPs and CD Exchange -- before TD opened his own store), where I would find all sorts of good indie/punk stuff in the used bin. A Bloomington band called Pencil of the early/mid 90s had a song on their cd with lyrics about buying and trading for used CDs at Tom Donahue's store. It was a really cool place.

I will rain on ALL of your parades.

-- scott seward (skotro...), January 30th, 2005.

How about copies of Brave New World's Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley and Hosono & Yokoo's Cochin Moon? Can you help a brutha out, Scott?

You don't always necessarily trade in something because you don't like it/never want to hear it again.

"White album" CD second hand £3

"The Pop Group" at a library second hand £2 (very used)

Both CDs.

Anyhow, my entry for the question:

The Libertines.

Bought two pop group CDs for £4 each in the same shop.

I constantly see Trout Mask Replica second hand.

I bought all my Joy division second hand. Ditto My Bloody valentine.

I think my finest find was several Sarah Records compilations for £2 in the Ipswich Cash (Crack) Converters a few years ago (all sold for £15+ on Ebay recently).

Amen.

They also seem to be ludicrously cheap, I always assumed because the sleeves are so damn underwhelming.

Obv, things may be different now.

And I would probably freak out in giddy excitement if I ever saw Souljazz or Cafe Apres Midi CDs in the used bin. Those albums are so expensive in the first place, I guess people know what they are getting themselves into when buying it.

(I can only remember having seen *one* Souljazz CD in the used bins of NYC and Boston in the past 5 years.)

Yeah, that makes sense, but then I used to see free improv stuff from Emanem in the used bins all the time at Amoeba, and those tend to be $20/disc new, don't they?

(Souljazz compilations/reissues have an incredible consistency of quality)

Does this thread just count "used" bins? There's a lot of esoteric stuff where yeah, anyone who bought it has obviously gone out of his/her way and clearly wants it; but you still see this stuff remaindered into bins, because stores order it in and can't get a damn person to shell out for it. Factor in a distributor or label that doesn't take returns, and the best anyone can do is knock down the price and throw it in the "used" bin.

hehe... the merzbox. or more hard to imagine... any of the revenant box sets...
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Good point. I got the original version of Planet Waves on Asylum for a dollar, still sealed, and the Brotzmann/Laswell Low Life new for a dollar also.

-- Bretty ([email protected] ), January 30th, 2005.

your going to the wrong used bins.. i see them all the time. in fact, i own every pre-1986 kraftwerk album, thanks to 2nd hand stores

WRONG. I see those ALL THE TIME. ESPECIALLY AT PAWN SHOPS.

I also can't find the Jefferson Starship's Modern Times, which I suspect has been out of print for some time.

Coincidentally, I very rarely see any Fall CD's.

Maria, I bought my copy of Medicine's 1st album used!

To the best of my knowledge, I've never seen a Cocteau Twin album in the used bin. I'd love to say I've never seen a Killing Joke album in one, but we all know that's simply not true.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 31st, 2005.

I've seen some copies of Heaven or Las Vegas floating around Portland, but absolutely nothing else.

I've seen This Heat, but it wasn't one of the good records; all five of my vinyl James Chance records were bought used (2.5 of which are Contortions albums).

I don't understand the Beatles name repeatedly coming up. Have you people never stepped into a used record store? You can get the whole catalogue for next to nothing.

Though there is the "Got My mInd Set on You" 45 that just went up on the wall over the weekend...

oh, and i have never ever ever seen 1000 Years of Trouble - Age of Chance in a used bin, the fecker is damn rare, i have it, but always check the bins for others .. if you see it etc etc ..

"Lot 74 - Solo Improvisation": vinyl - car boot sale in Glasgow

"Music Improvisation Company": vinyl, 2nd hand, Glasgow

"Company 7": vinyl, 2nd hand, Glasgow

"Figuring" (with Barre Phillips): CD - charity shop in Kentish Town

None of them cost more than 2 quid

Picked up Head Over Heels used. Same with Loveless and Joy Division's Permanent.

Has anyone ever found Swell Maps used?

Munster has been doing a ton of Swell Maps reissues on vinyl... nice job on the presentation and all, but I'm still pissed that you can only get "Let's Build A Car" on the 7" box, and that the version on the 7" box still has the intro guitar noise din TRUNCATED like on the Alive compilation version. ("Let's Build A Car" on the Jane From Occupied Europe CD on Mute as a bonus track doesn't have this problem.)

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I think this question applies not as much to bands, but record labels.

You don't see too many Infinity Zero CDs in the used bins these days.

a) going to Amoeba records
b) going outside your country (to name a few: Canada, England, Iceland... You just don't see Rick James too often in the used bins, but I was able to find the Bustin' Out Of L Seven CD the last time I was at Zulu in Vancouver.. That album is impossible to find in the U.S. on CD)

The version of Let's Build a Car on the Jane CD is the single version, while train out of it opens with an alternate version of Let's Build a Car with an equally amazing but totally different guitar intro, this time brilliant and ambient as opposed to raw and noisy.

you can ALWAYS, however count on finding skinny puppy/front 242/ministry cds in any suburban pawn shop/garage sale/or used cd bin in the US. plus the breeders' last splash.

I totally agree.

I was referring to the well remastered but fucked up culling of the single version of "Let's Build A Car" on the International Rescue compilation CD. It's missing two seconds of the fuzz at the beginning.. I wouldn't bitch too much about it if it was anything other than THE GREATEST FUZZ GUITAR SOUND EVER MADE.

And since this song is not on the vinyl counterpart of the compilation, you have to get it reliably via the Munster 7" box. And it was just so disappointing that the Munster 7" box used THIS version.

YOUR RECORD COST $3.99
YOUR RECORD COST $2.99
YOUR RECORD COST $1.99
AND THEN IT GETS RETURNED

YOUR BAND'S IN THE CUT-OUT BIN [X4]

YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT TO HALL AND OATES
YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT TO THE COMMODORES
YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT TO CAMEO
YOU'RE A FUCKING HOMO
YOUR BAND'S IN THE CUT-OUT BIN [X4]
CUT-OUT BIN, CUT-OUT BIN, CUT-OUT BIN, CUT-OUT BIN

YOU'RE IN THE RETURN LINE
THEY DON'T TAKE BACK RECORDS UNDER $3.99
THEN YOU START TO FUCKING WHINE
BUY A REAL ALBUM NEXT TIME