F**k a find - weekday haul
NeverEnoughMoney
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Bought a crazy collection today. 600+ records with custom shelves. All came from an older man who, it turns out, was in advertising back in the day and, as a result, was serviced with many of these records due to his job. Many are unplayed and, from what I saw as I packed them, all were in pristine condition. Really interesting guy. He was not only responsible for the music used on commercials (thus the record servicing), but he also wrote and recorded many jingles. I packed all the records up from a room that he used for his studio. (He has been living in the same apartment for 30+ years). He and his wife are remodeling and she told him it was time for all his records to go. He said he hadn't played them in years anyway.About 500 of the records were his and they are all soul, funk and jazz. If he had one record by an artist, he was likely to have their whole discography. The remaining records were his wife's. She is orginally from Europe, so a bunch of her records European. The remainder of her records were the usually stuff that you see at thrifts. She had a few classical vinyl sets as well. And he had about 70 45s.The collection also came with shelves that he had custom built to store his vinyl. The stack on top of each other and, with a little cleaning, they look like they'll be pretty nice. Here's a few pictures of the haul:
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bring some of that over cheah!
nice shelves, too
Everything cost me less than a Dakar's weekend finds.
Can you hip us to some title highlights of what you'd looked thru so far?
yeah, those shelves are
i'm seeing the Slaughters OST, a good reggae comp, some classical box sets and a bunch of boxes.
floss!
K.
Oh shit. My bad "Feel Like Making Love"? So rare I've just heard about it, but never actually seen it. Wow, there it is. I wonder what's in that garbage bag covered box?
Come on dude. Unpack them shits!
After getting it all in, I finished off the last episodes of 6 Feet Under and went out with my girl on her last night in NY before taking a vacation. Then a shitstorm at work hit and I've been unable to even look at the boxes, let alone unpack them.
Hopefully tonight.
could be alot worse!!!!
crusty classical comes to mind.
ouchy
Otis Redding - Amen
Otis Redding - Dock Of The Bay
James Brown - Hot Pants
James Brown - The Payback
James Brown - Black Caeser OST
James Brown - Hell
James Brown - Live At The Apollo II
James Brown - Revolution Of My Mind
James Brown - Slaughter's Big Rip Off OST
James Brown - Revolution Of My Mind
Kool & The Gang - Kool Jazz
Lamont Dozier - Out Here On My Own
Lamont Dozier - Peddlin' Music On The Side
Edwin Starr - 25 Miles To Go
Curtis Mayfield - Short Eyes
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis x2
Curtis Mayfield - Back To The World
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Curtis Mayfield - Live!
Curtis Mayfield - And Here's Something To Believe In
Gil Scott Heron - Winter In America
Gil Scott Heron - First Minute of a New Day x2
Gil Scott Heron - From South Africa To South Carolina x2
Gil Scott Heron - Bridges
Gil Scott Heron - Secrets
Gil Scott Heron - 1980
Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love
Undisputed Truth - S/T
Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo
Donald Byrd - I'm Trying To Get Home
Donald Byrd - A New Perspective x2
Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow (along with all his post Ethopian Knights 70s LPs)
A mix of french and US Stax releases
A handful of french Wilson Pickett albums
All of Marvin Gaye's albums (particulalry happy to have nice copies of I Heard It Through The Grapevine and That's The Way Love Is)
All of Al Green's LPs
All of Stevie Wonder's LPs
All of J5's LPs
All of the 70s Temptations LPs
Etc...
I've still got 2 or 3 more boxes to go through and I don't feel like typing anymore of these titles
Yeah, you're right Mackster.
10+ boxes of minty classic and quality albums plus sturdy storage bins for cheap is severely unimpressive.
Anyway I just wanna say that Donald Byrd - A New Perspective is great!
Forget the hatters, the clean james brown LPs and the bins alone made your cost back. Nothing to be said against clean, quality albums.
The cost apparently wasn't much....
File under: getting rich off old folks...