Best Finds You've Found For $3 and under

[Big_Stacks]

Hey,

A lot of my collection was bought on the cheap (back in the 80s and early 90s). Here are some highlights:

-"Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs"-Eddie Hazel
-"Excursions"-Eddie Harris
-"S/T"-S.O.B.
-"Investigation #1"-Carl "Sherlock" Holmes
-"S/T" and "Songs"-Rotary Connection
-"S/T"-Ripple
-"S/T"-Eddie Fisher and the Last 100 Years
-"S/T"-Shades of Joy
-"Stop and Go"-Bohannon

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[pickwick33]

Why not make this thread a little more challenging huh? Seeing how we're all record collectors, finding $$$ records for cheap is basically the name of the game.

How about what record from your state or city have you found for under $3

- "Santa Came Home Drunk," Clyde Lasley (45)
- "Shotgun Rider," Bo Dudley (45)
- Rock & Roll Mass - Exceptions (7" EP)
- "Handle It" - Soul Suspects (45)
- "Destructo Rock" - JT IV (7" plays at 33)
- Here They Are - Venturas (LP)

 

[corsic]

Nothing super rare but off the top of my head ...

James Brown - Ain't It Funky - $1
Curtis Mayfield - Back To The World - $2
Hampton Hawes - Northern WIndows - $1
Can - Ege Bamyasi (og Spoon Issue) - $3
Donald Byrd - Ethiopian Knights - Free
John Fahey - America - $3
Electric Prunes - Mass In F Minor - $1

 

[LoopDreams]

Why not make this thread a little more challenging huh? Seeing how we're all record collectors, finding $$$ records for cheap is basically the name of the game.

How about what record from your state or city have you found for under $3

Found my Lee Gagnon: Jeremy for 5$ back in '98 in Mtl. Not 3$ I know, but damn, made my day... it used to float around that city a little back then. And hell, back then 5$ canadian was like 2.50$ american.

 

[faux_rillz]

Thread over, you poptarts

Pack it up and go home

 

[high_c]

I bought this the other day and didn't see what the fuss is about... ???!

 

[holmes]

I just sold my copy, 2 ok cuts, the rest was underwhelming. Cover is the best thing about it.

 

[Sweet_Premium]

This one for $2.50 a couple of months ago:

And this Lee Moses on eBay for $3 a couple of years ago

 

[AKallDay]

This one for $2.50 a couple of months ago:

a lie you a tell.

 

[Big_Stacks]

Hey,

Here are some more I thought of:

-All the Funkadelic Westbound LPs
-"Osmium"-Parliament
-"What's Up from that Counts"-The Counts
-"S/T"-Rasputin's Stash
-"Construction #1"-Ten Wheel Drive
-"Dawn of a New Day" and "Breeding of the Mind"-O'Donnel Levy
-"Lost Man"-OST
-"Grass is Greener"-Grassella Oliphant
-"Come Into Knowledge"-Ramp
-"Ptah the El Daoud" and "Journey to Satchidinada"-Alice Coltrane
-"S/T"-The Persuaders
-"Doin' What We Wanna"-Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers

Peace,

Big Stacks from Kakalak

 

[Gnarliament]

baba yaga $2

 

[spivy]

gary davis and his professor- chocolate star ep (super clean og) for 1 dollar at a bronx goodwill back in 2005.

 

[Swayze]

1/3 of my collection

 

[Reynaldo]

It's local, too...

 

[luck]

Can - Ege Bamyasi (og Spoon Issue) - $3

I've got bad news for you, bud...

 

[holmes]

Lee Moses

lucky motherfucker

 

[button]

-Little Beaver- Do Right Man on Saadia

of the century.

As far as people bragging about never spending more than $3 bucks for a record... I dunno, seems like kind of a bizarre philosophy to me. When I first got into the record game, I was content with bringing back stacks and stacks of $1 LPs to check out. Eventually though you just end up a handful of nice things, and mountains of crap piled up in some corner you don't look at.

Shouldn't a good collection be more curated? Mine is probably like 50% dug/found/cheap random pickups and 50% targeted buys from shops or ebay. If I'm looking for a $10 45, and a shop has it for $10... I'll buy it. If I'm looking for a $50 psych LP, I'll save my pennies and take a stab at one on ebay, not cross my fingers and hope I happen across it at Goodwill before I'm 80.

I obviously understand digging thru nasty stacks of cheap records and occasionally finding grails, killers, and things you never knew about, but having your entire collection dictated by the randomness of what some other person happened to consider refuse that week? Just seems kind of haphazard.

 

[mistermayo]

Scored all these when I first got into records...

Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping

$1




$1




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... recent bonus



$1 sealed w/book

 

[mistermayo]

having your entire collection dictated by the randomness of what some other person happened to consider refuse that week? Just seems kind of haphazard.

Depends on where your priorities are, I guess.
I lack the resources/time to dig seriously or score on ebay.
Part of the fun for me is happening upon something good for cheap.

Good music is good music... there's nothing haphazard about that.

Peace,
-e.

 

[The_Hook_Up]

having your entire collection dictated by the randomness of what some other person happened to consider refuse that week? Just seems kind of haphazard.

uhhh...have you ever considered how a used record store acquires its stock?