Unbelievable digs that you DID pick up that deserve to be bragged about.
Breez
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I found a sealed copy of RAMP last year for $1 at a Goodwill. (Wound up trading it to someone on here)
Whatnauts "Reaching for the stars" with 2 copies inside for $1 as well as a copy of Honey & The Bees "Love" LP at the same Goodwill, same day for $1.
Sterling Harrison "One size fits all" LP at a thrift store for $1. (Got damn near $500 for it)
Whatnauts "Reaching for the stars" with 2 copies inside for $1 as well as a copy of Honey & The Bees "Love" LP at the same Goodwill, same day for $1.
Sterling Harrison "One size fits all" LP at a thrift store for $1. (Got damn near $500 for it)
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Kool and the Gang - S/T mint for free
Meters - S/T mint for free
--- and those three were from the same place at the same time
Just off the top ---
Magnum for $19.00 -- totally weird price, have a feeling it was from a pricing guide
Denise LaSalle - I'm So Hot promo 12" for 0.95 (at the same place I got the Magnum)
Live Convention for 2.99
And then there's what happened on a daily basis at Aaron's records....oye. Don't even want to discuss, I'll just start crying. LA's usually good to me though. Hell, just got that Luie Luie last time I was there for $7.00.
Nilo Toledo- Jazz in the Sun
Percy Mays- Shine Your Love (Modern Xian Boogie)
The Remains- S/T (white label promo unplayed)
THIS ONE WILL BE HARD TO TOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O
Nice find mate.
Another fine find was mint doubles of the funky technician 12 by Lord Finesse for $3 each.
Not sure if i will ever top these, since it was long ago (pre-eBay/popsike etc)...
no raers, but for where i live, i was pretty happy to find these:
sealed Main Source - Breaking Atoms for less than ??1
mint Labi Siffre - Remember my Song for ??3 in a charity shop at the height of it's popularity. it was changing hands for ??200 apparently, i don't believe that though. how could it possibly be raer? it's Labi Siffre on EMI!!! i only bought it because i had seen the cover on Mo Majid's wall of fame, turned out to be an album i quite liked.
Wild Style OST never played $1
Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau LP $2
Mr. Magic - Gilligans Island To The Beat 45 $2
Velvet Underground S/T MONO vg $4
my biggest financial comeup was finding 5 copies of Courageous Chief for $4 each (after a former TSL employee had already taken a big stack out of the same boxes, haha). i kept the test pressing, sold the rest.
most recent was james mason for a dollar in June/July.
5 sealed copies of the Cobra Mcees 12" for a buck each
Mr. Magic - Potential 1980 for 10 cents
Amiri Baraka - A Black Mass for $5
Phil Flowers & The United Family (the psychadelic one on Longwood) - $1
5 mint Soul Toronados - "Crazy Legs" for $1 each (remember that dude Randy Darrah? He had some crazy stuff for sale on rec.music.marketplace back in the day, got this and a bunch of other mint dead stock 45s from him.. man, those were the days)
Thesda for $1
Those are the ones that really stand out to me.
Oh yeah, and that crazy collection of fake cardboard records for $2 each.
this was what I thought of as soon as I saw you post
Les DeMerle $1
Don Blacman 50 cents
Nathan Davis free
Each Ex condition at different times within the past year at stupid obvious spots in Austin.
I found on a market stall in Amsterdam a mint copy of Ben and The Platano Group : 'Paris Soul' on Barclay Records for 1 guilder (50 cents). Such a nice sleeve I had to take a chance on the record.
Not known on our scene at the time, played it down the phone to a few well known French DJs (Yellow & DJ BNX) and they went nuts. They started running around Paris and all over France looking for copies, but found it hard to locate.
I ended up selling it 18 months later to a collector in Switzerland for ??500, around $900 back then If I recall my exchange rates! Sweet....
Ol' Record Randy. There's a name from the past!
Twice.
Curious if you kept this - Doesn't seem like a Hook_up record.
My biggest digging screw up was not buying a sealed copy of Aposento Alto for $25 when laserwolf discovered them. I put lone on hold and he sold it to someone else accidentally. Ouch.
My biggest digging screw up was not buying a sealed copy of Aposento Alto for $25 when laserwolf discovered them. I put lone on hold and he sold it to someone else accidentally. Ouch.