Local Goodwill had records for $.50, found about 20 in Disckeeper sleeves!...mostly classical, some soft rock, figured they'd all be in good shape if the owner spent the $ and time to resleeve them,..and they all were like new..I love a cheap sure thing!:banana:

Aren't they all 50 cents?
Best LP I ever found: Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade SEALED BRAND NEW FIFTIES COLUMBIA MONO!

Aren't they all 50 cents?
Depends. The places I frequent charge anywhere from $.25 to $2.00.

Hmmm...All i have ever seen is 50 cents. I must be just lucky.

Hmmm...All i have ever seen is 50 cents. I must be just lucky.
Where are you located? Add your location to your profile so it will show up in your posts. Here in SE PA area it varies from .50 to $1. In NJ they are $2. Each GW store sets its prices differently.

Stopped by the Goodwill this morning.

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy - I've never heard him but I recognized the name.
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Charles Aznavour - Bravo! Bravo! - The only song I've heard by him is I Drink from Bob Dylan's Radio Show.
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good - Had to buy it.
The Cars - Panorama
Pete Townshend - Chineses Eyes
Dean Martin - I Take A Lot Of Pride in What I Am
Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven

Where are you located? Add your location to your profile so it will show up in your posts. Here in SE PA area it varies from .50 to $1. In NJ they are $2. Each GW store sets its prices differently.

I am in good ol' Saint Louis, Missouri.:banana:
My goodwill has been jacking up prices on everything recently and here's why:
THE GOODWILL ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN CALLING FOR MORE MONEY!!!
I talked with a few workers there that I am friends with and that is what they said. The manager said that, too. EXAMPLE: I bought JBL 4311 Studio Monitors in great sonic but fair physical condition for $35 this summer :yes: :thmbsp: :yippy: :jawdrop: yes... I know. Now, there is a pair of the Smaller Advents for $50, they look perfect, but there was spider webs under the grilles. The surrounds look perfect and passed the "finger poke test" pretty well. I don't want too pay the goodwill that much for those, and I have no money anyways (High schoolers NEVER have and $$$ in pocket:tears::dammit:). I have bought about 500 records from them, though and the quality of most things are high, as it is located near a very rich area and the often get rid of their "obsolete" stuff to the goodwill :thmbsp:

Stopped by the Goodwill this morning.

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy - I've never heard him but I recognized the name.
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Charles Aznavour - Bravo! Bravo! - The only song I've heard by him is I Drink from Bob Dylan's Radio Show.
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good - Had to buy it.
The Cars - Panorama
Pete Townshend - Chineses Eyes
Dean Martin - I Take A Lot Of Pride in What I Am
Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven

Man, you are lucky! Last time I checked my local (Windsor Ont.) Sally Anne, the best I could do was a decent copy of The Knack's "Get The Knack". It was among about 20 Hawaiin music lps!

Out here on the other end of Missouri records are a buck. Doesn't matter; Salvation Army, Goodwill, DAV, Council of the Blind, they're a buck. If you ever get out to KC it's worth looking around. Funny thing about the Goodwill stores specifically is that they never have any electronics there. Someone told me that they sell all that stuff on Ebay.
HOWEVER....cassettes are usually 50 to 75 cents, and are sometimes 4 for $1. Now I keep having to buy those 3-drawer tape holders when I find them; usually they're $2-3.
One of the places I haunt sells records 4/$1, however, there's so much cheesy religious music (no offense) and Manilow/Streisand schlock in there that frequently I can't FIND four records I'd want.
This weekend I picked up (in five different stores) about 30 records, about 20 cassettes, and six CD's, plus an Onkyo cassette deck. Total was about $45. The gal at one of the stores hooked me up with the "good buddy" discount on about 20 of the records. Gotta love it. So the weather sucks and the expectations are low but the analog music deals are superb.
(to Hakaplan) Last time I was visiting home in the Philly 'burbs I couldn't even FIND a thrift store. But I did find an autographed copy of the Hooters' first album, 'Amore' at a used CD store in Levittown.
Dan

Several Goodwill Thrifts in my area (s/e Conn) and prices for LPs range from $.75 to $1.50. My last two hauls included (but not limited to):
Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going (like new) (1982)
Elton John - Victim of Love (unmarked) (1979)
Anne Murray - Greatest Hits (unmarked) (1972)
Kenny Rogers - Kenny Rogers (like new) 1976
Bob Seger - Night Moves (unmarked) 1976
It really doesn't get any better than to score one of those, take it home and clean it up and then enjoy.

I hit up a thrift shop a few weeks back and found an unopened copy of Willie Nelson's Angel Eyes. I haven't opened it yet. It's got a really 80's cover and features guitar by Jackie King. Whoever he is. I also got a copy of Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection in pretty good condition.

I find some good deals at the Salvation Army shops and another local charity thrift shop (no Goodwill here in Hong Kong), but almost NEVER see any audio stuff in them. I guess that stuff all ends up at the wholesale market, instead, which is fine with me! :yes: :D

Usually I donate more stuff to the thrifts than I buy. ,Donating to them makes me feel MUCH better than throwing out unwanted stuff would. However, I still look there regularly for things worth buying.. Some companies donate new/unopened sample stuff to them, too, so it isn't always used junk. I've saved a lot of money and got some great (useful and/or decorative) stuff from thrifts...just no audio gear, ever (yet).

Our local Goodwill is pretty crummy and unseamly. They decided to save space a couple of years ago and removed the fairly large record bin and went to a narrow shelf set up that holds 5 to 10 lps deep max. So the records can only be looked at by removing a pile, or what most people do is to physically bend the jacket. All the 78s snap in a matter of hours. The records get destroyed. They also started to mark them individually by sticking a large bar code sticker on the front of the jacket. Even worse the guys in the back are on the take of some local dealers, so anything good gets pulled and sold out the back door. I know for a fact they do this, as I have personally witnessed them doing it. They charge a buck and the only things that get through the system are their mistakes. I watched them load stuff in a dealers van in the donation area.

They have ok audio stuff, but nothing with a tube gets to the floor. Someone has made a financial arrangement to stop that. They do let a lot of good things go though. A couple of younger guys come in every morning and load up the shopping cart, and I can never get there before them. I think they sell on ebay.

The "good" charity place ( for retarded adults and children ) refuses all audio gear that drives up. They only take it if it comes in an estate donation that their trucks take in. Last year they sold an Empire turntable to a friend for $20, and I bought my Dual 1009sk for $7 there. Last weekend I was donating some furniture there, and they wouldn't let a woman donate her audio stuff. I offered her $20 for an Onkyo receiver and a pair of Infinity speakers that had no foam rot. She was happy. So was I. Then I went inside and bought some vinyl. They don't back-door-sell to dealers yet.

My SA has nothing but garbage in the record bin, except for a very very rare score. There's another thrift in town that used to have much better vinyl, but they are tapped out now. But one of our record stations just had a used record sale, and I picked up a brand-new-never-opened Glenn Miller and the US Army Air Force Orchestra ~ The Complete V-Disk Sessions. That one I just sit and turn over in my hands. $1.

Stopped by the Goodwill this morning.

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy - I've never heard him but I recognized the name.


One of my all-time favorite LPs. ...Put the opening track on your best system with the volume at 1/2, and leave it there through the 1st and 2nd sides of this fine LP. :thmbsp::music:

One of my all-time favorite LPs. ...Put the opening track on your best system with the volume at 1/2, and leave it there through the 1st and 2nd sides of this fine LP. :thmbsp::music:

Johnny Strikes Up The Band is a great way to start an album.Once you listen to this album,youll be hooked on Zevon.His first album is equally good,IMHO.
Jimmy

My local GW charges $1 per disc and the 2 record sets are $2, You havbe to get there early for the Jazz records, but classical items stay until they are thrown out. They would probably move them quicker if they were $.50!

The local Goodwill here is 2.99 per record while 10 miles away in another town they are 1.99.

The local Goodwill here is 2.99 per record
Oh, the records must be flying out of that place. :no:

Of the 2 I visited in Richmond area, one charges $2 and the other normally $1, but had a hand written sign all records 1/2 off. I figured the Disckeeper sleeves alone were almost worth that! Both have relatively small collections tho..a lot of Xmas, Conway Twitty, Anne Murray and such. Actuall picked up Mountain's - Nantucket Sleighride, and some Pat Benatar and Cat Stevens I hadn't seen in years. I wish I hadn't sold so many of my albums 14 years ago when I strapped for cash after a nasty divorce, all mine were Soundguarded and had the dates bought & number of times played on each sleeve...but I kept most of my faves.

Of the 2 I visited in Richmond area, one charges $2 and the other normally $1, but had a hand written sign all records 1/2 off. I figured the Disckeeper sleeves alone were almost worth that! Both have relatively small collections tho..a lot of Xmas, Conway Twitty, Anne Murray and such. Actuall picked up Mountain's - Nantucket Sleighride, and some Pat Benatar and Cat Stevens I hadn't seen in years. I wish I hadn't sold so many of my albums 14 years ago when I strapped for cash after a nasty divorce, all mine were Soundguarded and had the dates bought & number of times played on each sleeve...but I kept most of my faves.

'Nantucket Sleighride' is a killer album. I bought a good copy of the vinyl after finding it on a 10 cent 8-track. However, I keep finding myself playing the tape because it's kind of fun. :screwy:

My experience is whenever I go into a thrift store all I run into are old classical, lounge and pop vocal albums. Rarely will I see any rock, bubblegum, disco, soul albums...if there are any they are all beat up and trashed. Go figure. I once found a still shrinked wrapped album of Donny Osmond's 1971 album "To You With Love, Donny" but when I saw the lp it was scratched all over and had chips....I was disappointed and didn't buy it. Oh well maybe next time....

My experience is whenever I go into a thrift store all I run into are old classical, lounge and pop vocal albums. Rarely will I see any rock, bubblegum, disco, soul albums...if there are any they are all beat up and trashed. Go figure. I once found a still shrinked wrapped album of Donny Osmond's 1971 album "To You With Love, Donny" but when I saw the lp it was scratched all over and had chips....I was disappointed and didn't buy it. Oh well maybe next time....
When I go it's normally 99% classical, christian, pop and lots of other stuff I don't listen too. Theres a girl called Evie or Eve and I see this one album by her in every thrift store I go into. One I was in this weekend had 2 copies. I think I may even have a copy from some old records I got from my aunt. You'll always see at least one Barbara Streisand album and one copy of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack also.

Picked up a copy of Elton John's Honky Chateau today. It's an original UNI copy. The sleeve folds over in the back with a tab that slides in and holds it shut. Elton John's pic on the front is a thick sticker and the writing is all raised. I already had and MCA copy. It has a regular sleeve. The only bad thing is somebody wrote their name on the top left hand corner. You can tell Bonita Keith she isn't getting it back if you run into her.

I also got Metallica's Black album and U2's Achtung Baby on cassette. They will probably end up on ebay. I haven't owned a tape in a long time.

When I go it's normally 99% classical, christian, pop and lots of other stuff I don't listen too. Theres a girl called Evie or Eve and I see this one album by her in every thrift store I go into. One I was in this weekend had 2 copies. I think I may even have a copy from some old records I got from my aunt. You'll always see at least one Barbara Streisand album and one copy of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack also.

Yeah, I see Evie a lot too. Also Andy Williams. Lawrence Welk. Ferrante & Teicher. Herb Alpert. Barb is a given. Roger Williams. Andre Kostelantz. Manilow, Reddy, and Goulet. And dozens and dozens of copies of "The Sound Of Music" and "South Pacific" in film, B'way, and "1001 Strings" versions.
Makes it more worthwhile when you DO find a gem...