Charity store bin diving? Am I the only one that suffers this addiction?

Try finding good rock lps in London.
I've never been there but record-hunting-day-adventure posts to vinyl-collecting forums like VeryGoodPlus  - pictures and all -  paint an extremely dire picture.

The thrifts in England are called "chazzas". Oxfam stores are particularly brutal when it comes to pricing Nana Mouscouri.

You have more chance of getting a common rock lp from a religious person's "collection" than you have of finding one a Goodwill.
(In my experience Value Village is even worse.)

Everyone knows the guy in charge of the book/records section scoops up ALL the rock records before they even hit the floor.

Leaving you the Bob Denver, "Spanish Train" and Nana boners.

James Last for miles...but never "Voodoo Party" or "Best Kept Secret".

Thrift game is a total time-waster.

I just come home with maybe 50 FREE lps. Most common  rubbish like Benetar and such, but I got 12 different Lightfoot titles.

The record store's lease is up and they have declared all non-essential stores have to close down by midnight today.

All used vinyl  there was 50% off .
$40  got  me:

Swegas (Uk press)

Joe (not Jeff) Beck - Nature Boy (a $50 lp. Interesting story on the making of this lp.)

Rakfogo (Hungarian fusion band which none of youse heard of)

Weather Report -Black market (shit band but I can trade this off and...only cost me $2.50)

Manfred Mann - Up The Junction (rare soundtrack that is excellent)

Jeremy Steig -this is (Jazzrock flutist that doesn't give the other great musicians in the band a chance to solo.  Hey I just realized a connection: Joe Beck was in Steig's band ,Jeremy & the Satyrs!)

New York Rock & Roll Ensemble (baroque rock - not that good)



And for a friend I got these lps:
Wolf -saturation Point (UK)
Crow - Crow music
Colosseum - Daughter of Time
Candy ( great psychish-pop soundtrack with Ringo Starr,Peter Sellers,etc.)

"The stores where your chances of finding something nice will always be in the areas where the incomes are the highest. "

I disagree. The wealthy are too busy with their snouts in the stock-market to listen to music. Their knowledge is:Fleetwood Mac,Sabbath,Zep and Young. (That is if they know even that much.)

My friend used to tune pianos and was often in the mansions of the rich. He would snoop at their bookshelfs or music collections when no one was looking. Conclusion: the rich have abysmal taste. They like coffee-table "books" and music that has been funnelled down their throats. They do not seek the music on their own.


(Also, they are cheap:Generally I find better things/prices  in garage sales of the non-rich.)


I said previously that  the religious have no musical taste. Neither do the rich, the sports addicts or the audiofools.

Al Hirt.

Right.