Best Finds You've Found For $3 and under

having your entire collection dictated by the randomness of what some other person happened to consider refuse that week? Just seems kind of haphazard.
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well, ive been blessed with wide-ranging tastes and living in a city with a decent used-record scene (even if it is shrinking, compared to 10 years ago). so spending $10 or more for a rekkid is something i do occasionally, not every damn time. besides, as hook-up just hinted, even when you do pay big bucks for a collectible record, YOU'RE STILL having your collection dictated by the randomness of some other person's refuse. its just marked higher.

and another thing (which im sure will get me The Big Ban from Soulstrut):
I am not afraid of the reissue...
 
having your entire collection dictated by the randomness of what some other person happened to consider refuse that week? Just seems kind of haphazard.
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uhhh...have you ever considered how a used record store acquires its stock?
Yeah, but it's the store's job to sift through shitty collections. I also don't mind paying stores the market value on records, so I don't have to get my fingers dirty every waking hour of my life, hoping to score certain titles before I turn 80.

Here are some cheapies and freebies off the top of the dome:

Milton Hamilton "My Love Supreme" 12" - Free
Steve Parks - All in a Day 7" - 50 cents
Trinidad 12" 75 - Cents
Thunderbolt "Love Is So Funny" 12" - $1
Sun Palace - Rude Movements 12" - $1
That Sergio Mendes 12" - $1

The list can go on for a long time...

Much of my classic disco 12" collection I caught for $1-$2, but then again a good deal of my deeper rares were paid Market Value, so shit balances out.
 
having your entire collection dictated by the randomness of what some other person happened to consider refuse that week? Just seems kind of haphazard.
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uhhh...have you ever considered how a used record store acquires its stock?
Probably the same reason 99% of the used record stores in the country suck.
 
For a used record store in 2009, you either pay REALLY fair for good stock or you are the only guy in your locale buying collections or the store probably sucks. It's no coincidence everybody's like, "yeah found this rare local funk 7" for $1 at this shop where nothing was over $5 and the owner didn't care about anything but doo-wop, it's not around anymore though"

Probably my favorite rare record I ever found for under $3 was the Pataphysics LP for $2, but I sold it and then bought it again for 100 times that several years later. Same dig yielded the Michael Boothman 12" and The King James Version on ABC. But overall I can't think of anything too incredible that I found for dirt cheap. I mean, beyond standard stuff. Plenty of amazing stuff came in collections that sorted out to a few bucks/each, but that's different.

I've always kind of hated these threads though. It's cool finding stuff for cheap, but I could care less how much I paid for my most cherished records. I honestly don't even think about it. If pressed, I could probably remember... but it's just far less important to me than it seems to be to others.
 
thrill of the hunt, hommie.
youre mixing the appreciation of great music and the thrill of venturing into the unknown fog of dollarbins and thrifts and emerging with something worthwhile. i love hearing of peoples comeups. i'm also happy to drop loot on something ive wanted for awhile (cough byrdiegreengiceitup cough cough)
 
There's so little unknown fog these days.

And so many people (some in this thread) that just flip the stuff they find there.

Grumble grumble.
 
the unknown fog would be venturing into bins,fleamarkets,thrifts that have no guarantee of having hot records. going to your store is not an unknown fog, cause i know there is going to be a lot of heat contained within. its not much of a hunt...its like shooting fish in a barrel. i go to your shop when i want some dope records, musical expertise, and to see a storeowner who has been burnin trees on lunch break. i go to the fleas to get that exhilirating "what if the hands of fate dropped off a dope collection here this morn" feeling...although i usually leave empty handed. thrill of the hunt. one is a music based joy, the other's joy lies mostly in surprise and the satisfaction of bargain hunting redeemed.

DONT F*ck WITH ME JONNY!!!
 
A couple of weeks ago I hit it lucky and found a copy of "the deirdre wilson tabac" for ??2.

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$$$-wise, I picked this up for $1:

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I pick up all my records for under $3.
 
Purple Fox -Tribute to Hendrix
Love- Out There
both for free and some NfL and SOundStage Libraries that were a couple of bucks each
 
I've always kind of hated these threads though. It's cool finding stuff for cheap, but I could care less how much I paid for my most cherished records.
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it can get kind of grueling. especially seeing guys at academy look at their friend's listening stack, go: "got that, got that for 50 cents, got that for a buck", then everything gets put back and nobody buys anything.

at a certain point, you have to put a dollar amount on your time. it is probably no coincidence some of my best come ups have been during brief periods of unemployment.

but in the spirit of the thread:

incredible bong band s/t
amiri baraka - it's nation time
pandit pran nath on shandar

and loads of musical terds that are somehow coveted by others
 
Afrique Soul Makossa (no record)
TODD (this is a 2500 US record.)
Earl Klugh on Blue Note
Leo Sayer Endless Flight (doubles)
Big Busey Doin' Thangs
Tuffy
CSNY Deja Vu
RAMP
Litefrost (actually this was $3.99)
Miles Davis Kind of Blue (80's press. I hipped Yuichi to this.)
Joe Farrell canned funk on CTI
Keith Jarrett records (YES, PLURAL.)

So many more...
 
I had this one spot (a thrift store that has since shut down) here in town that had sealed grails, and all their records were $1.69...I used to hit the spot about once a month

some highlights:

James Mason "Rhythm of Life" 2 sealed 1 Unsealed

James Conwell on Guinness 4 sealed copies

Formula One on Guinness 1 sealed copy

Weldon Irvine "Time Capsule" 1 Sealed copy


plus pulled about 7 OG Mono Deepgroove Blue Notes among other things...
 
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