dwaller131
Well-Known Member
No photos yet, but had a nice haul from my local thrift. Backstory:
I've been going to this small, local thrift store for over 4 years, and I sometimes find some LPs but it's usually other things that my wife and I buy (crock pots, coffee makers, etc). A few weeks ago, the fellow that runs the place (it's a charity shop) took my number in case any LPs came in (he knows I'm always looking for older, REAL country music, plus late 70s rock). Well, yesterday AM I get a call, and here's the extent of the message he left on my VM:
"Hey, it's Donald from your (redacted) thrift store, uh, we just got in a ton of records. You might want to bring a pickup truck. There are 5 boxes, maybe [someone yells something in the background]....sorry, SEVEN boxes, each box has about 100 records, may--[someone yells again] each box has almost 150 records? [long pause] .....[mumbling between the two of them] so, it looks like we have probably 800 records here, and I will leave them where they are in our back room area if you'd like to come and pick what you want. I should reiterate that you may need a pickup truck."
Needless to say, I headed up there and went through all that they got in. It was really fun, and after I had removed what I wanted (and I was constantly encouraged to "take more, PLEASE") I went through each LP, checked for correctness, damage, inserted them all into their sleeves the proper way, and tidied them all up into categories as best I could. Don introduced to the fellow workers as "our Record Volunteer Guy for the day". After 4 hours or so going through all of them, I wound up with about 175 LPs (for $48). I wasn't able to bring them home yesterday (rode my bike over there), so I head back today to get some of them (walking there today) and the rest tomorrow (when my wife is home so I can use the car). The one that really sticks with me was a still in shrink zipper cover copy of "Sticky Fingers".
Seems this was a collection of some sort, and mixed in were a few damaged LPs and maybe someone else's stuff. But the majority of the LPs, probably 500 or so, were all still in shrink and looked to have had minimal play. I'm guessing they were owned by someone who transferred them to tape and then listened to that instead of the record. The curious part of it was that there were about 30 Beatles records, but no Beatles jackets (???). Just the LP in a generic clear plastic sleeve. I did find 2 jackets, but they were so damaged as to be almost unrecognizable. I told Don that they would most likely still sell to someone who wanted a good copy for listening (most were on the orange Capitol label).
All in all, a really great record day. Photos to follow!
I've been going to this small, local thrift store for over 4 years, and I sometimes find some LPs but it's usually other things that my wife and I buy (crock pots, coffee makers, etc). A few weeks ago, the fellow that runs the place (it's a charity shop) took my number in case any LPs came in (he knows I'm always looking for older, REAL country music, plus late 70s rock). Well, yesterday AM I get a call, and here's the extent of the message he left on my VM:
"Hey, it's Donald from your (redacted) thrift store, uh, we just got in a ton of records. You might want to bring a pickup truck. There are 5 boxes, maybe [someone yells something in the background]....sorry, SEVEN boxes, each box has about 100 records, may--[someone yells again] each box has almost 150 records? [long pause] .....[mumbling between the two of them] so, it looks like we have probably 800 records here, and I will leave them where they are in our back room area if you'd like to come and pick what you want. I should reiterate that you may need a pickup truck."
Needless to say, I headed up there and went through all that they got in. It was really fun, and after I had removed what I wanted (and I was constantly encouraged to "take more, PLEASE") I went through each LP, checked for correctness, damage, inserted them all into their sleeves the proper way, and tidied them all up into categories as best I could. Don introduced to the fellow workers as "our Record Volunteer Guy for the day". After 4 hours or so going through all of them, I wound up with about 175 LPs (for $48). I wasn't able to bring them home yesterday (rode my bike over there), so I head back today to get some of them (walking there today) and the rest tomorrow (when my wife is home so I can use the car). The one that really sticks with me was a still in shrink zipper cover copy of "Sticky Fingers".
Seems this was a collection of some sort, and mixed in were a few damaged LPs and maybe someone else's stuff. But the majority of the LPs, probably 500 or so, were all still in shrink and looked to have had minimal play. I'm guessing they were owned by someone who transferred them to tape and then listened to that instead of the record. The curious part of it was that there were about 30 Beatles records, but no Beatles jackets (???). Just the LP in a generic clear plastic sleeve. I did find 2 jackets, but they were so damaged as to be almost unrecognizable. I told Don that they would most likely still sell to someone who wanted a good copy for listening (most were on the orange Capitol label).
All in all, a really great record day. Photos to follow!