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

Tyray 

I also found head hunters in the Sally Army.... lol

I have 7 thrift stores within easy reach. My favorite sells vinyl LPs 10/$1. So it’s not uncommon for me to lug home 40 or 50 LPs at a time. 

Fortunately, I have wide-ranging tastes! My last trip I snagged 4 pristine RCA Red Seal Stereo LPs from 1958-1962. About 9 from 1959-1960, Hawaiian Music. Then Frank Sinatra, Moody Blues, Eric Clapton, Floyd Cramer, Steely Dan, Jim Reeves, The Kinks, Cream, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band...  But my best surprise find was grabbing 11 dbx discs and 6 Nautilus Super Discs. 50 for $5! 

Im still cleaning and listening. The dbx discs are just unreal! I still have my 1981 Technics dbx deck with a disc decoder. The Nautilus discs look like they’ve never been played—no fingerprints or smudges, no scratches.

Just recently found the who's Tommy on the decca label with all the inserts intact and a very good gatefold cover. The record sounds near pristine! Paid a buck!

Every once in a while I find an early issue Led Zeppelin II or LED Zeppelin III album with Pecko Duck etched in the trailing vinyl.

If that’s the case, you probably never should have mentioned it, but that’s fine.

If that’s the case, you probably never should have mentioned it, but that’s fine

Sorry but I fail to see the relevance of what the album is compared to sharing my find and the principle of it?

But its no biggie, lets just agree to disagree.

Peace!

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.

Wrongo sammmmmmy. Lots of good stuff to be found there if you're patient.

Now at a major city large charity shop there maybe a person like that who has some ideas on records.

I can tell you now around me they don’t know a record from a cd from a book!

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/cost-of-shipping-records/post?postid=1642644#1642644

Speaking of discogs, I had never used it until (2018) I read the thread above on gon, and as you would expect I lost my mind and have found and bought  beacoup lp's from that site of music I had never seen nor heard before and others I had fond memories of and didn't even know where to get them or if they were even in print!...It's, it's like a drug!

sammmmmmy,

I volunteered at a Goodwill working in the sorting area going through stuff to put out on the floor and I found a whole and complete boxed set of about 15 Beatles albums on cd’s.

Since I was a volunteer I was ’technically’ working there and could not buy the boxed set! Man, talk about crestfallen! And that was the last time I volunteered at that store!

The stores where your chances of finding something nice will always be in the areas where the incomes are the highest. That goes without saying though.

"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.

Right you are tyray. There's plenty good to be found in every kind of Goodwill neighborhood. I frequent seven different stores, and in one here in Sun City West, an upper income retirement community in AZ, I just bought 8 really good jazz CDs, Evens, Getz etc. from one man's immaculate collection (each with his name and address label) for 2 bucks each. 

Oh it is definitely an addiction!
Decided to visit a Goodwill in a slightly different area to my normal haunts and while still not a fantastic selection I did come away with three Concrete Blonde albums.
Had to get two other albums as well because they were a whopping 5 albums for $1...
Hard to handle!

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.

I hated every single aspect of London even when I lived there so not surprised at all.

But by inference I was primarily talking about USA charity shops.
That is my present scope of reference.



btw, chazzas must be relatively new slang as nobody ever called them that when I lived there which was right up to about November 2000.

In my neck of the woods the charity shops are still open so in my enforced downtime still picking em up.
Few more this morning.
Hopeless case I agree!

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.)

Only one local charity shop still open today.
Soon be pretty much total lockdown here, shopping malls closed.
Hopefully these measures have the required effects.

However still scored 3 LP.
Jaco Pastorius, Al DiMoella and Smokey Robinson.

Cleaning them now.

Be safe out there!

Uh, those measures might be too little too late, especially in your state. Should there be a poll for the dumbest state?

I think Washington D.C would win that comfortably GK.....

Ouch! Very ouch! Of course Washington DC is not a state. 🤗

Yeah you got me there....
As it is a Federal District.
But good enough for me.... Lol.
Still got all the Looney Tics in it!

I am Jonesing for a return to normalcy by searching for CD's, and an occasional LP, e.g. Al Hirt at Carnegie Hall.  One place has them for 25 cents or 10 for a dollar.  Some really unusual things, and some pleasant surprises have gotten total to 10. The main store has the for 50 cents, with a 25% senior discount on Wednesdays.  The $5.00 B&W DM 23's were a big surprise. 

Al Hirt.

Right.

Looks like our Sally Army stocked up on lps and cds overnight.
Walked in and there larger than life to greet me was Get The Knack.
Well as it contains the very topical "My Sharona" yep I just had to buy it, along with several more choice items of course.
Another good day for me and helps the Sally Army stay afloat.

No more charity shop bin diving for a while, all stores locked down here in NE Florida.
Its getting serious here.