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Posted by WholeHogg on 31 January 2012 - 8:59pm.
A friend of mine hosts a radio show called Charity Shop Classics (http://www.mixcloud.com/CharityShopClassics/ if you're curious) - which got me wondering what the best vinyl purchases from charity shops might be.
Over the years, I've found The Idle Race's second LP for 75p, This Charming Man on Rough Trade 7" for 25p and an original copy of Bowie's "Low" for 50p (not all at the same time). Some decent music and good value for money at £1.50. I sold the Idle Race LP a few years later (when I was a penniless student) for £25.
In poker terms that's probably the equivalent of 3 of a kind - can anyone do better?
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High card?
The joker in the pack
though undoubtedly listed on eBay as "rare"
Mint copies
Of the debut Faust Album on clear vinyl with see through sleeve, "DoReMeFaSo" by Hawkwind with the inner sleeve and poster and "In Search Of Space" with fold out sleeve and log book. Same shop, same time. Fifty pence each.
"Cyclotron"/"I'm Agitated" by The Electric Eels. Ten pence.
About fourteen scarce hi-nrg/gay disco obscurities on 12" from 1983-6, twenty pence each. My neighbours hated me that night!!
I do believe
we have a winner. I don't know whether I'd have been more excited by Faust or Bobby O, but either way, that's one hell of a haul.
A Pair
Stevie Wonder's Talking Book and Innervisions, both original mint pressings, Innervisions with single included. £1.
Princess Royal Hospice Shop, Strathbungo.
Best find ever
50 cents...Flea Market. One of my favorite albums.
That's a good one
The film's original title was "Giu la Testa", which backs up my theory that everything, I said EVERYTHING, sounds better in Italian.
you gotta know your stuff!
In the early eighties through to the late nineties i earned a bit on the side record dealing,specializing in anything i could make get my hands on.At the time iwas working at Chelsea College.
My best buy was 'delaney & bonnie' on Apple Records....scratched to bits without a sleeve (there wasn't one issued) bought from a blue cross charity shop down the side of the odeon cinema kings rd chelsea...this cost me 50p ( i cant even say that was a lot of money then)....i sold this to a guy in Yemen for £750 quid.Other great buys from this shop were Elton John's 'goaldiggers song' single and Led Zeppelin's 'Whole lotta love' withdrawn atlantic single.As you can imagine i visited the shop daily.
Royal Flush
right there, ladies and gents, a royal flush
Jonathan Richman's Rockin
Jonathan Richman's Rockin and Romance for 75p. For all I know that's the going rate, but it's priceless to me.
I had a nice pair once...
... found Heads, Hands & Feet's first in pristine gatefold sleeve and an original Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds for a quid a piece.
I immediately walked over to the record fair at the Town Hall and 'traded' my original SOTR for the Edsel reissue plus 20 quid!
50p, Sue Ryder
Mandingo AKA John Gregory & His Orchestra.
A bloody bargain for The Sound Gallery fan in 1995.
Bargains no more?
These days charity shops seem to have wisened up to this, haven't they? I'm also presuming that the bigger chains have some kind of price guide, as I'm surprised at some of the high prices I see for the some of the older albums these days.
The thing is, I think they may be shooting themselves in the foot a bit as I think that the prices don't take into account the disruptive technology that has been the bane of many a second hand record shop, i.e. eBay.
I saw one of Elvis' 70s Vegas albums (can't remember which) in the window of a shop a while back with an asking price of 12 quid or so. I thought that was optimistic.
Great Record Surpluses
On a similar point, what's the most copies of a single record that someone has seen in a second hand record or charity shop? I saw five copies of Dream Evil by Dio in the racks of Metropolis Rock in Rome a few years back. Five! Go on, beat that!
In the early 80s
Sellanbys second hand records in South Harrow (think Championship Viny) wasn't alphabetically arranged so only a long browsing session would unearth multiple copies of albums. However, there were more than 5 copies of the Blind Faith album, Ogdens Nut Gone Flake and ELP Brain Salad Surgery. No one ever bought them in the 5 or so years I went there.
Not a Charity shop
But when we cleared my nan's house after her death, her record collection consisted of Pero Como, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crossby, lots of stuff on MFP label bought in Woolworths Birkenhead. A James Last or two, a couple of novelity records brought back from Spain. A Carpenters record she'd heard at my mother's. A few Top of the Pops records. All quite worthless. An in the middle of them. A mint US Cartoon cover copy of David Bowie's Man who Sold the World. Nobody has the first clue how or why it got there. She never visited the US
When Easy Listening and Lounge was popular in mid-nineties
certain North London record and charity shops hiked up the prices. A James Last album went from 50p to £12. in a week. James Last albums are not rare in the slightest.
James Last in his Dylan period?
How many Albums did the guy put out? A hundred? Some of it is not bad...his Bach interpretations and stuff.Would make a good feature in Word..Easy Listening Million sellers of the 70's...James Last..Nana Mouskouri..Roger Whittaker...Theodore Bikel...;-)
Voodoo Party is a corker!
who copied who?
Maybe this one..
Fresh Maggots
Sole album by ISB-type duo from Nuneaton, 1969. Got it for 75p in a charity shop in Leith, sold it to a belgian bloke on ebay for £125. Scratched to buggery as well.