Thrift Store Finds

I've gotten lucky at Goodwill many times recently. Their local price for CDs is approximately $2.50, but their pricing has colored stickers and certain colors are half price on certain days of the week. I bought this yesterday for about $1.25 in pristine condition... Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

I thought it might be fun to have a thread sharing some of these gems.

Top three finds over the last 18 months would have to be - The Beatles - Revolver

Found a copy of Love Is Colder Than Death's Teignmouth for 2€ a few years ago. http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Love-Is-Colder-Than-Death-Teignmouth/release/554628

All records are $.79 at mine, so I occasionally get really good deals like a close to nm bitches brew by miles Davis

I used to clean a charity shop circa 2007 so used to spot 'donated' items before they went on sale. Managed to get The Congos - Heart Of The Congos with the hand painted sleeve/different mix. I didn't actually know it was worth much at the time. As the shop didn't actually sell music it would have been forwarded to another store. So I took it and put £1 in the charity box, still feel a pang of guilt!

Rarely find any bargains nowadays, not into CD's and even charity shops seem know the value of rarer vinyl due to internet.

Goodwill doesn't seem to bother checking the value. I got this a few weeks ago in VG+ condition for $0.79
Paul Misraki - And God Created Woman

Not a thrift store/charity shop find...but in the summer I bought a collection of 12" singles for 20p each.

Amongst them I found:
Cristina - Is That All There Is? sold for £10

Records are $1 here.
In the few years, I found
The Wind Harp - Song From The Hill
most of the time it's a miss around here though, unless you can go every day.
I'm convinced a few people buy everything before it hits the floor.

Biggest score ever was The Harvey Averne Dozen - Dynamite / Never Learned To Dance. $.50.

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band* - Diddy Wah Diddy 7" for less than $1...bought it at a goodwill outlet that charges by the pound...

ditto Gene Carter (2) / The Essence (16) - Ring Around My Rosie / Mary Mack

discosanddragons
I'm convinced a few people buy everything before it hits the floor.

It definitely happens....I did volunteer work in my local Oxfam a few years ago and stuff was picked over by the staff first, also stuff was pulled from auction sites if a staff member wanted it.

I can listing a giant Oasis concert poster on eBay and being told to pull it because someone wanted it for there son.

Um :( My local charity stores charge more than Discogs

Though my location doesn't help

People giving for charity and staff stealing :(

DIFFO
Though my location doesn't help

Whenever I'm in Manchester I pop into vinylexchange, they normally have bags of 20 CD albums or 40 CD singles for a couple of quid...I sold a promo CD out of one of these bags for £40 once!

I used to frequent a lot of charity shops back in the day but then they wised up and started to have a copy off Record Collector's RRPG under the counter (This was pre-internet). I was in one shop and spied a copy of A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) which brought back memories so I duely took it to the old dear behind the counter.
She took it off me, looked at it and started laughing. Next minute she was shouting "Michael Michael come and look at this!" Next second out pops a guy from the back with a cup of tea in his hand. Yep it was Mike Score who was in there visiting his mum. Give him his due he was a good sport about his song ending up there. Even signed it for me. Oh and he didn't have that haircut if anyone re it ;-)

progcode
I've gotten lucky at Goodwill many times recently.

The one by my parent's house has been good recently for letting low-interest privates build up recently. No omg super rares, but I've pulled some marginally interesting stuff there over the years.

The junkshop by my appartment, however, seems to produce a semi-steady supply of oddball stuff and occasionally some really interesting.

I found Lycia ‎– Live on cassette for £1 at an Oxfam store in Glasgow. I was very shocked since I wasn't even aware it was released on cassette at that point.

Here in our Thrift Stores you also can find sometimes acceptable stuff for 1 €, last year i found a nice item on a local flea marked for 0,50 € The Deviants in NM/VG+ and was more than pleased about that. :)

The flipside is charity shops that think they know what they're doing. Oxfam in my home town were asking £30 for this The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency! on the apparent grounds that if the LP is worth that much then the CD must be worth that too.
Yes, you read correctly: they believed that the compilation was the first album.

Hard to find really good stuff nowadays, but I've been lucky with private people selling their records as job lots on an online flea in Finland. Recent finds from there; Bart Spero - New York Jazz Vol. 2 (NM, sold these both for 110).

Charity shops round my way are generally hopeless for anything other than boy band cds and MOR vinyl, Max Bygraves, Mantovani etc. I know for a fact that one particular guy has most of them 'in his pocket'.
But - a while ago I did find about 100 brand new release cds of good quality in one charity shop. They must have come from a reviewer and it was all very interesting stuff. £1 each. Some of it I kept but most of it I sold. That was my one and only good charity find. I never bothered with them in the 80s - that was when the real big scores occurred. You could buy all the avant garde electronic stuff there for pennies. Oh well.

discosanddragons
I'm convinced a few people buy everything before it hits the floor.

andygrayrecords
It definitely happens...

The thing is in the U.S., it's not supposed to happen . I've known a few people who worked at the Goodwill and one of them got in trouble for taking things before they hit the floor.
He also told me that you can report stores where you think they are selling things before they hit the floor.
I also know another guy who hasn't said it, but his house is full of so much stuff, he can't just be digging pieces here and there.
I think he just tells a certain one, he'll take everything. That store almost never has new records and if they are new, they are usually crap.
He has a lot of records, but not a lot of good ones, so I'm not that jealous.
There's some I'd like, but I don't want everything to get them.

The funny thing is, if the stores ever try to charge more than $1 for things, they are usually later pressings of Elvis records, or Beatles records that look like they were dragged across the parking lot first.
Any sort of private, promo, weird lp...still just $1.

One last thing about Goodwill / flea market / thrift store shopping....it was a lot more fun for me before the I phone.
Now every new jack collector or ebay seller can just look stuff up. They have no real knowledge.
So a lot of good stuff disappears quicker.

andygrayrecords
DIFFOThough my location doesn't help
Whenever I'm in Manchester I pop into vinylexchange, they normally have bags of 20 CD albums or 40 CD singles for a couple of quid...I sold a promo CD out of one of these bags for £40 once!

I still pop in now and again, I go down straight to the basement for the vinyl, I dont spend as much in the place nowadays though back in the day I was in the place nearly every week, never had any bargains though :/

The vinyl section is definitely quieter than it was back in the day

Scraped the junk shop in town again. Didn't find anything and then on the way out, they asked me if I had been in the basement yet.

Scored me some rare shirley temple.

Cool finds. These are first or very early pressings that I found over the past year or so:

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!

and a very nice, early CRC version of Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

discosanddragons
I've known a few people who worked at the Goodwill and one of them got in trouble for taking things before they hit the floor.

When I worked there it was a firable offense. Also we couldn't buy anything that hit the floor for three weeks. Worst plan to score records ever. :(

Also, like no records came in anyways while I was there. The best thing I scored was a Rico Suave 12". Bleak.

My local Goodwill no longer sells cassette tapes. Best I can tell is that when they are donated to the store, they simply throw them away.

tsivihcra
My local Goodwill no longer sells cassette tapes. Best I can tell is that when they are donated to the store, they simply throw them away.

Yup. :(

DIFFO
The vinyl section is definitely quieter than it was back in the day

Not surprising given their pricing is like the internet hasnt happened.

15 charity shops here in this little town. I get the occasional score - varies between stuff worth selling on and oddities. Or indeed both:
Rajasthan Folk Vol. 2 - Langas And Manganiars

As mentioned above - some of their prices for vinyl are stupid thanks to reading Record Guides too literally. The prices in there are for mint copies for a start.

My two biggest c.shop scores in recent times were a DVD box set of The Brittas Empire (bought for 5, sold for 50) and two Swindon Town FC football/soccer jerseys from the 1990s (bought for £8, sold for a total of £140).

tsivihcra
My local Goodwill no longer sells cassette tapes. Best I can tell is that when they are donated to the store, they simply throw them away.

My local Goodwills don't even sell CDs anymore, they are selling them online according to the staff. Maybe they are doing the same with cassettes now?

I've found some good Goodwill deals on Amazon, actually.

Biggest profit I made was for the LP version George Michael Older (1996). Bought 50p, sold £40 and could have got more if I didn't need a quick turnaround: having seen some asking prices over £100.

Jayfive
Not surprising given their pricing is like the internet hasnt happened

Yes, though their prices are usually the going rate so I dont mind paying, plus they always have something I want as their stock is good with lots of styles and genres

Plus they're a lot cheaper than Oxfam and the British Red Cross down the road, ha

Clogwhistle
Charity shops that think they know what they're doing. Oxfam in my home town...

Oxfam in my experience are bloody awful... I've seen vinyl which if it was in good nick would be worth something but in terrible condition for NM/M prices.

Biggest overprice I saw was a Jim Reeves 70s Camden re-issue for £20! Don't know where they got that price from as it's not even in the RRPG (original either). My Oxfam has the best records in of quality artists and saleables, but are above the 'normal' charity shop rate. I don't mind if means if I can get a £10 record for £3 or even one that is normally hard to find and online postage makes it more expensive than over the counter.

Another Oxfam further afield takes the piss though, plucking prices out of the either, again thinking they are a record shop and not a charity shop with FREE stock!

My local charity shops to of their unsold to other local charity shops or different branches around the county. Presumabably they get dumped eventually.

Jayfive
two Swindon Town FC football/soccer jerseys from the 1990s (bought for £8, sold for a total of £140)

Personally, I'd have put them on a guy and burned them on a bonfire!

And you would be an Oxford er perchance?

How'd you guess?

djcarbines
My local charity shops to of their unsold to other local charity shops or different branches around the county.

Yep, when I worked at Oxfam they sent their unsold stuff over the road to the Age Concern shop

Plastic-Man
Oxfam in my experience are bloody awful... I've seen vinyl which if it was in good nick would be worth something but in terrible condition for NM/M prices.

Just back from a weekend away at a quaint, Scottish seaside get-away (they do exist). Toured the local places and Oxfam was by far the worst. Good quality artists & albums, but priced in hope rather than any basis in reality Just because its Dark Side of the Moon, does not mean you slap £50 price tag on it. Tried to point out it was in less than Mint condition and was a far later pressing than they thought (and sans any inserts etc..).

Problem is, they are a Charity Shop, and any negotiation sounds like *you* are the one with the problem, not them. There was no room for negotiation and actually a sign on the wall saying as much!! I guess someone must be paying their prices.

Walked away and found the Red Cross shop had a box priced at £1 a pop. Got an Elvis Costello LP and a couple of US pressings of Ella Fitzgerald originals on Verve.

The Oxfam shop in my town is a good source of CDs and the odd good vinyl. Both are usually prices at 2 euro. My pet hate, though, are the price stickers they put on everything. They are stuck with some kind of industrial strength super adhesive that is a nightmare to get off CD cases and impossible to remove from record sleeves. I did find this a couple of days ago. http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/sell/item/199292770

Unfortunately, I live in a major city where everyone collects "vinyl," so the Goodwill stores here sell Barbra Streisand cutouts for $3 or more, and the best I can find is scratched-up DJ 12-inches. But I managed to score a few picks when I lived in a smaller metropolis:

Various - Original Sounds & Tracks: Jazz, Funk, Rock And Soul Originals Used By People Under The Stairs (sealed!)

My best thrift store finds, 1 € each:
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Nosferatu-Nosferatu/release/3363004
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Out-Of-Focus-Wake-Up/release/1977532

Best fleamarket find was a Vertigo swirl album which sold for 800 something, forgot which one.
Those are the days :)

Once I walked in a record shop and they had 6 or 7 fresh crates on the floor, packed with mint 80's Electro, Hip Hop and Funk....all 5DM. Heaven !
When they opened WOM mega-chainstore in Cologne (around 1990,91), they had thousands of US 12"es for like 1 to 3DM as opening special. LOTS of Detroit and Chicago. Transmat, KMS, Metroplex, Trax, Warehouse, Marcus Mixx, Armando.....I bought hundreds of those.

Nowadays visiting stores is no longer of big interest for me, as I use to buy big collections regulary.

Profoundemonium
I found Lycia ‎– Live on cassette for £1 at an Oxfam store in Glasgow. I was very shocked since I wasn't even aware it was released on cassette at that point.

I found a few decent items in the Oxfam shop in Royal Exchange Square as well.

Walter Steding And The Dragon People - The Joke / Chase The Dragon
Condition: Near Perfect.
Price: $1.25

johnantmoo
They are stuck with some kind of industrial strength super adhesive that is a nightmare to get off CD cases and impossible to remove from record sleeves

I found a nice selection of CDs recently but some of them had a price sticker on the front of the actual booklets which were impossible to peel off.

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/music-films-video-games/music/traitors-gate-devil-takes-the-high-road-bolt-12-hd_100305030

Fair play to whoever donated this. Lol.

Probably my greatest find of all time was a Hammond A100 Organ for $50.

It worked for 48 glorious hours before something blew and now it makes a humming noise and we don't know how to fix it. :(

(Also, if anyone's interested, will trade for records.)

Profoundemonium
johnantmooThey are stuck with some kind of industrial strength super adhesive that is a nightmare to get off CD cases and impossible to remove from record sleeves

I found a nice selection of CDs recently but some of them had a price sticker on the front of the actual booklets which were impossible to peel off.

The CDs in my local charity shop are taped closed because people keep stealing the discs from the box, despite the fact they're only 50p each.

Disco_Ste
The CDs in my local charity shop are taped closed because people keep stealing the discs from the box, despite the fact they're only 50p each.

Most of our local stores keep all the CDs and DVDs up front in a binder and when you buy, you bring the empty case up to the counter and they match the disc with it.

Roandy
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/music-films-video-games/music/traitors-gate-devil-takes-the-high-road-bolt-12-hd_100305030 Fair play to whoever donated this. Lol.

Some poor sod probably pegged it and the family got shut of their collection without knowing what was in there.

I've already instructed my family that if I die they have my vinyl collection catalogued here so they can find out if any of it's worth anything.

I just bought The Leathercoated Minds - A Trip Down The Sunset Strip the other day; if I learnt that it'd been donated to Oxfam I'd come back and haunt whoever did it.

Jeepers... http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/music-films-video-games/music/on-stage-with-benny-goodman-and-his-sextet-benny-goodman-and-his-sextet-dkl-41-hd_100310489

Slightly more affordable here...

Benny Goodman Sextet - On Stage With Benny Goodman & His Sextet Recorded "Live" In Copenhagen

Seriously? The Oxfam shops in Ireland don't resort to these tactics (yet). Everything is priced to sell quickly, the stock turnover keeps funds coming in quicker than holding on to vastly overpriced stuff. I live in a mid-sized regional town (pop. approx 16,000) and we have 5 charity shops. 2 accept and sell records, they all accept CDs. Vinyl is usually 2 euro per LP and 50cent per 7", CDs are usually 1 euro. Yesterday I walked out with 26 CDs for 20 Euro. Average Discogs valuation was about 8 euro so very pleased.

I found Various - Top Clan № 1 today for $.50 as a guy was walking away from the records grumbling about "the same old crap".

Picked up two gems back to back. Armando Trovaioli - Bande Sonore Originale Du Film : Le Sexe Fou (Sesso Matto) VG++ for .95....it was a good weekend!

Diognes_The_Fox
Probably my greatest find of all time was a Hammond A100 Organ for $50.

It worked for 48 glorious hours before something blew and now it makes a humming noise and we don't know how to fix it. :(

(Also, if anyone's interested, will trade for records.)

...this deserves a pretty serious WOW...! It's the same beast as B-3. Get it fixed and sell for $5000.

Elukkae
...this deserves a pretty serious WOW...! It's the same beast as B-3. Get it fixed and sell for $5000.

Almost the same, this is the back breaker edition. ;)

Someday. It's pretty safe for now at least though.

Found this recently Various - Rare Rock Tracks (11 Previously Unreleased Performances)
I think it should be worth more than the sales history here (one sale) suggests.
I've made scans and will be editing in a bit.

Diognes_The_Fox
Almost the same, this is the back breaker edition. ;)

^ Accurate description, with the speakers & amps in the organ... I can testify, I've participated in the task of carrying one down the stairs in 1989, in a stage manager job for The James Taylor Quartet gig. Memorable. Very.

Elukkae
^ Accurate description, with the speakers & amps in the organ... I can testify, I've participated in the task of carrying one down the stairs in 1989, in a stage manager job for James Taylor Quartet, The gig. Memorable. Very.

Nice!

We tried to make a ramp to get it up the porch stairs and into the house. The board splintered while the dolly was on it. Not the first time I've almost been killed trying to preserve the music I love so. ;)

I think my greatest finds could be Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness found in a flea market, around 2 euros.

For me it's not always about getting a record cheaply. Yes the money is going to charity and you may have made a saving but often its nice to find something worth listening to, not just because you know you can flog it on here for a profit.

Like a copy of this The Drones - Further Temptations

€0,25 for At The Roundhouse

streppe
€0,25 for At The Roundhouse

Gah! Amazing.

streppe
€0,25 for At The Roundhouse

Earjerk...
Gah! Amazing.

Could well be contender for find of the week / month...top effort sir!

Found these sealed copies the last couple weeks at the local Salvation Army shop

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Levi-John-Feel-Like-Dancing-Black-Ivory/release/1123973?ev=item-vc

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Lime-Sentimentally-Yours/release/3745323?ev=item-vc

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/sell/item/152293497

I found this yesterday in near mint condition, just incredible. I haven't played it yet but it looks like it's been played once and the cover is in great shape. Anyone know it's worth? It's never been sold on the site..

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Various-Dance-To-Trinidad-Calypso-Music-Steel-Orchestra/release/4464883

PM me.

Bought recently a Miles Davis - Twenty Classic Albums box new and sealed, with 20 albums over 10 CDs, for 2,50€. :)

That Miles Davis set is a very nice find. Kudos.

I found 2 of these at a charity shop for 50p each. Both used but clearly worth more than paid. http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Models-Talking/release/6270191

My best find ever and this will make some of you cry was a nm 1st pressing of Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of secrets.
Paid 50p, sold for £700. I do go to 2 or 3 bootsales a week through the summer then 1 in the winter so pick up a lot of good deals. Just have to make sure you dont balance out the bargains with overpriced gambles that go wrong.
I found 6 sealed Detroit techno records last year on the Metroplex label, they were all pence each. Kept a few of those for myself.
Just got to keep hunting really, as they say youve got to be in it to win it and those moaning about others finding the deals are likely the ones staying in bed watching tv while others are out hunting.

due to the dwindling amount of proper records shops nowadays charity shops are good as there are 3 or more in every small town, i have found many a bargain but they are usually records i have always wanted or dupes of rare records i already own which i either keep for myself or trade for records i am after :))
one of my happiest days was finding this
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Sugar-Minott-Session-In-Session-Good-Thing-Going-Bad-Things/release/1513968
i'd seen a few beaten up copies in 2nd hand reggae stores going for 10 pounds or more over the years and owned a 7'' version since my youth (still do )
and i found this in a junk shop near me in NM or better and the guy didn't want to charge me for it as i knew him, he pointly refused the money as i was always taking items for them to sell on and browsing the place myself as it is huge,
in the same place a few years later i pulled a few ornaments out for my mum to sell at a boot sale and she ended up getting 100 pounds on ebay for them, good on her as they cost me 50 pence an item!

I pulled a copy of this for a quarter at a portland thrift shop:

Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart

I occasionally pick up short stacks of interesting stuff in pretty good shape at a couple of thrift shops in Milwaukee. Records are always between 50 cents and a dollar. It's hit or miss, but the hits are worth it. Some examples: Memphis Slim Featuring Buddy Guy / Junior Wells - South Side Reunion.

Found my 2nd copy of this Celine Dion single. ....Who knows how many times i have skipped over this record in my digging frenzies

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Céline-Dion-Unison/release/2068187

VinylReserve
Found my 2nd copy of this

Hi! Do you know what is so special about this record that somone would pay so much for it? Obviously someone paid $125 for the only copy on Discogs in September and now some other guy is trying to sell it for $300+... And looks like he has the generic sleeve version listed for sale instead of the picture sleeve on top of it all. Haha. Did something happen between the time when all those copies before it sold for $7-$8 this last September? Maybe there was a big news story about all Canadian promo copies of Celine Dion singles being destroyed by Canadian Mounties? What's up with it? Not a fan but if I can flip it for a cool Franklin...

Earjerk...
Hi! Do you know what is so special about this record that somone would pay so much for it? Obviously someone paid $125 for the only copy on Discogs in September and now some other guy is trying to sell it for $300+... And looks like he has the generic sleeve version listed for sale instead of the picture sleeve on top of it all. Haha. Did something happen between the time when all those copies before it sold for $7-$8 and this last September? Maybe there was a big news story about all Canadian promo copies of Celine Dion singles being destroyed by Canadian Mounties? What's up with it? Not a fan but if I can flip it for a cool Franklin...

Perhaps that $8 sale was for a G copy or one that was totally destroyed, or perhaps a "sleeve only" sale. We'll never know.

tsivihcra
We'll never know.

Actually it is simple to look at the sales history on Discogs. Just go to the release page and to the right you will see the link. All those copies before September 2014 were sold as VG+ and NM...

It really could be rare. I see no other copies available. But I just have a hard time believing that it really is.

Earjerk...
BennyILLFound my 2nd copy of this

Hi! Do you know what is so special about this record that somone would pay so much for it? Obviously someone paid $125 for the only copy on Discogs

I sold that one, had it up for $200 because the other guy had it at $300. Someone offered me $125 and i couldn't click Accept fast enough. Ha!

Can't match any of the above stories, but I was in a rather obscure second-hand shop earlier today and picked up the Beatles White Album and Sgt Peppers for a quid each (as well as a few other bits n pieces like Strawberry by the Damned and Fire Dances by Killing Joke). I'll be going back there in a few months, for sure.

Latest...
The Curbstones - Kid Power (The Original Soundtrack Album)

Ex/Ex copy of Saddhu Brand- Whole Earth Rhythm. First (and probably only) New Zealand issue. Not currently in the DB.

Found a 2010 Target promo christmas comp that's not in the DB?
Also a bunch of weird private classical and stuff.

Some of the thrifts are better stocked than the record store around here. :S

I made a great haul at an Oxfam charity shop during the summer.Og 90s vinyl presses of Depeche Mode Violator,LFO Frequencies,Talk Talk :Laughing Stock(which I sold for a nice profit).Also The Cure first two albums og,Tangerine Dream Rubycon and in a different charity shop I got Nic Jones Penguin Eggs ex first press and Stockhausen 20th Century Music II also ex.

Not very valuable but I am glad to now own these for $0.77 each:
John Williams (4) - Raiders Of The Lost Ark: The Movie On Record

I got this for free -- I find stuff like this all the time :) Comic books, as well, sold a $2 one for $800 recently lol

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/sell/history/3448917

My last find was the French 1st pressing of Kraftwerk's The Man Machine for 0.75€.
Some ass had the bright idea of drawing wigs and moustaches with a blue marker, on sleeve and insert. Vinyl is almost immaculate, I bet it was played a couple times tops. I bought it of course but almost cried in despair.

Well, years ago i found this 2 times in NM/M condition for 1 or maybe 2€ each and sold it the average price here:
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Dave-Davis-Transfiguration/release/113693
Funny thing is, i found it recently in another 2nd hand store (3,5€) and selling it again. It is a classic but somehow not mine...

From another 2nd hand store (all singles always 2,50-3,50€; the highest selling price (1 and 3) in the history line is mine):
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Final-Fantasy-Controlling-Transmission/release/167693
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Jones-Stephenson-The-First-Rebirth/release/1077198
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Aspiral-Heavenly/release/5130757

Flea market 2 times for 1 or 2€:
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Various-IDT-95/release/374820

This were my tops cause i generaly have a god hand in finding records :)

Scanner
i generaly have a god hand

seriously?
'God hand' or good hand ? …

elchicofritto
seriously?
'God hand' or good hand ? …

Haha! If Scanner isn't claiming it, I will. I definitely have a god hand at the thrifts. Gonna start using that term.

Haha, well this was not my intention ^^ and i'd say Diego Maradonna already claims this for himself ;)

NOTHING. I GOT NOTHING.

The thriftstore by my folks place was terrible. There weren't even not-in-db polkas! Also, they no longer sell tapes.

These are bleak days. :(

Diognes_The_Fox
. There weren't even not-in-db polkas!

My deepest expression of condolences.
Don't lose heart brother, there will be better days :)

Today was a big record fair just 1 hour away from here which i planned to visit to get some new stuff - but i spent most of my christmas time in the hospital and now i have to take care that i don't get back there.

But i think - that's life :)

Don't worry Diognes, there will be better days ;)

Pioneer SX-3700 for just over $10.

Found this promo over the weekend at a Goodwill store for 35 cents. Before there was The Lettermen, there was an unsuccessful R&B group that went by that name. And they weren't in our database yet.
The Lettermen (2) - Hey, Big Brain

Read and weep people, best 50p i'll spend this erm decade.
Ive found nothing in a few months but this makes up for it.

http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Wild-Boys-Last-One-Of-The-Boys/release/2245049

Carboot sale about a mile from Coventry where the the band were from.

If you check my submissions page, I just added a bunch of stuff from this label: The Children's Record Guild , which I just scored at a thrift... I see Diogenes has added a few of these in his day. This likely coulda went on the "Database Fodder" thread as well. :P ... I still have a good pile to add...

Edit: And they had the covers intact, which is why I even bothered. Great stuff... Unfortunately it didn't include the Raymond Scott one... Raymond Scott Quintet And The Gene Lowell Chorus - By Rocket To The Moon

in last month
US$4 http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Silver-Apples-Silver-Apples/release/906717
$2.50 http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/GTOs-Permanent-Damage/release/1719508
$2.50 http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Blondie-Blondie/release/5239953

I also found a Silver Apples album a few weeks ago
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Silver-Apples-/release/3656737
the same day I found these in the same 1 euro crate
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Clark-Hutchinson-AMH%C2%B2/release/1148400
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/Asterix-Asterix/release/3719482
http://www.discogs.sitioby.com/West-Coast-Pop-Art-Experimental-Band-Vol-2/release/6400055

Not a thrift store, but I just bought two of these for a penny each on Amazon.
National Youth Jazz Orchestra - Hallmark
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000024E1H/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

Two big sellers undercutting each other down to a penny :)