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Johnny C:
What do Bachman Turner Overdrive, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, Streetheart, Fleetwood Mac, The Official Soundtrack Of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Queen, Dire Straits and The Police have in common?
I found their best records in a Salvation Army vinyl rack for 99 cents apiece! Yep, you read that right. Not Fragile, Thriller, one of the original pressings of Talking Heads:77, some Streetheart album which I have not listened to yet, Rumours, the aforementioned soundtrack, News Of The World, Brothers In Arms, and Synchronicity, all for 99 cents each. Cost me about nine bucks. I was incredibly excited, as I got a combination stereo (radio/cassette/CD/vinyl) for Christmas but had no records to play on it other than Raffi's ill-advised attempt at adult-contemporary folk-rock, Adult Entertainment.
Anybody else have any real good finds on vinyl?
muffy:
My vinyl finds tend to be really exciting at first (cyndi lauper - £2, The Clash - £4, Tears for Fears - £2 and a bunch of other great things), but then I get them into the great outdoors and discover them to be warped or generally really fuzzy sounding. Then again, I was never brought up on vinyl and still don't have my own record player, so don't know what to look for. My most embarassing moment was trying to play Duran Duran - Girls on Film at our freshers ball and listening in horror as the record made this loud 'swooshing' sort of noise every 3 seconds. I blamed the equipment, as every person should if in that situation...
nickyandthefuture:
I got a whole bunch of old Sugar Hill 12" singles (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, .etc) at a Salvation Army a while back. That was probably my most awesome find.
I get all of my classical music from there, too.
Along those lines, were "Sing Along With Mitch" records the most popular things ever pressed into vinyl, or do they just show up disproportionately at thrift shops?
muffy:
I did forget my favourite ever Vinyl purchase -
The Shampoo album.
Complete with 'Trouble'.
Five english pounds.
Worth every penny...
Two people have already tried to steal it from me.
Beano:
You can get U2 really cheaply on vinyl, certainly cost you a lot less than it would on cd.
Some of the 60s and 70s stuff even reeks of stale smoke.
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