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What was your biggest vinyl surprise for $.99

This Saturday morning it rained, I couldn't work outside on the plants etc. I found myself at Goodwill checking out the 15 feet of records , always on the floor level shelves. Guys like me, 65 years old, would like them at waist height. Marketing puts the best goods at eye height so it is easier to spend money, even at Goodwill. I go to Goodwill after I have the dirtiest duds so I can sit on the floor, gravity pulls my back to the least common denominater.

To the point, I purchased 2 feet of lp,s almost classical, almost looking as new, for $74.

I bought an Angel DS-37744 recording, Strauss,Also sprach Zarathustra, Ormandy. I have many recordings of this work and none is better than what I bought today. I put it on my VPI cleaner first and I'm listening to it as I type.

My wife thinks I'm extreme in my pleasures, she's right , she should know that is why I asked her to marry me.

Have you had a similar musical experience for $.99, I hope so.

regards, Ken
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tarsando
578 posts
 
That LP's weren't $.99 any more!
wwwrecords
172 posts
 
My biggest surprise was a 7" 45rpm that I bought at the Salvation Army for 33 cents. I sold it on eBay for $2,850. Some of that Northern Soul stuff goes for silly money.
mjw55
82 posts
 
I got an unplayed Bob Dylan Biograph box set at a garage sale for $1, a great deal on some great music.
imin2u
392 posts
 
How 'bout for nothing! Multiple mint copies of the Concert for Bangladesh, The Last Waltz, and many other box sets PLUS six boxes of great diversified single albums saved by my dad from the yearly town clean-up along his Lawn Doctor routes! He retired ten yrs ago and I still haven't listened to everything. So far everything is mint and far better then the best that the Princeton Record Exchange offers. To top it off, a buddy at work has been giving me free albums being discarded by his sons school system. The best so far? - A mint first pressing of Bookends:)
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
I am also "GoodWill Hunting" and have found Jerman mono pressings of "The Rite Of Spring", last week I bought an un-opened pressings of Lambro, Lambardo and Cortes" wich I love several other Classical recording that were great.
Last month I bought 60 albums for $30.00 and only had to pitch 5 of them that couldnt be cleaned up, some have ticks and pops that are only noticable between tracks, or else I listen around them. While some records are not as silent as others it is a blast to shop for and find albums I desire, the ladies will let me in the back and look at tittles not yet put on the floor because they know I am a broke guy who buys to enjoy, not to re-sell as many do.
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