|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
24.3.103.49
An Everest 35mm Patsy Cline album??? I recognize the titles of one song, don't know the rest. In stereo, looks to be VG++. $1.00.Another Everest, this time Aaron Copeland conducting the LSO doing Billy The Kid. Stereo, gold label. Looks like new. $1.00.
Sviatoslav Ricther On Tour, DG "red" stereo. Has "Alle Hersteller" at the one o'clock position on the label. Again, looks like new except for the gook that oozed out of the polysleeve. $1.00.
Warner Brothers two-record set The 1969 Warner/Reprise Songbook. Both albums look clean, they're both green-label Warner. I think this is one of the Loss Leaders that Warner/Reprise used to hawk on their innersleeves. $1.00.
Basie (aka The Atomic Basie) Roulette mono. I've already got a copy of this, but this new copy is much much cleaner, looks almost unplayed. $1.98.
Oh, yeah...an 1841 Broadway copy of Fragile...
____________________________
Neck Deep in the Big Muddy and the Damned Fool Yells, "Push On!"
Follow Ups:
Can you shop for LPs at their site online? I must be really tired, I cannot figure out how to search for anything other than books.
They sell whatever people bring in. They have good inventory control of everything but the LPs.
Example is that Yes album I picked up today. They had a later pressing in rough shape for $3, but my copy was an older pressing that just needs a good clean for $1.
Last time I was there, I talked to the album guy and he doesn't even know what he has.
____________________________
Neck Deep in the Big Muddy and the Damned Fool Yells, "Push On!"
I shop at 8 different Half Price stores in three states
during my days off. Some stores (Album) guys don't know what
they have and some do. Bargains mixed in with overpriced
yard sale stuff. Half tries to take everything that people
bring in ...they will just make some nominal offer like a $1
for stuff they don't want or need.I have acquired a lot of really good LP's from Half over the
years...All of Chicago's lp's (NM) for a $1 per record. I had to
buy some lp's two to four times to get a VG++/NM copy...I do screen first but you can't always tell by looks. I have paid as much as $8-10 for some popular titles like Pink Floyd...picked up a mint copy of The Wall for $3 (great sounding copy!!!)I even seen a mint copy of the Beetles MFSL box set once at Half
for $600...they knew what they had in that case.On a negative note...many Half's are cutting back on vinyl
inventory lately...but others are not. It just depends.
I've gotten a good buy there or two, not that cheap. One album set me back $6 and it was in very, very nice shape.Whether it's half price books, GoodWill or other thrift store or even a good used vinyl shop, it's a roll the dice game as to whether what you bought is really all that good or not shape wise.
Even if you get to audition them, sometimes the cart/styli/'phones combo won't reveal the "true" nature of the vinyl's shape.
I got a copy of Steely Dan's Aja (MFSL) from Half Price Books
for $5. The album cover looked like it did time in someone's
old basement but the vinyl was a solid VG++ and played like
near mint (Not eBay NM a real near mint).You can find some really nice LP's in the dollar bin at Half
Price as well. However, it's always a numbers game. Roll the
bones!!
I'd pass on the Everest Copland. It is a third pressing. Pretty average in sound. The collectible versions of that recording are the 1st and 2nd pressings, which sound spectacular or the DCC reissue.
I've already got it.
But hey it was only a buck.
____________________________
Neck Deep in the Big Muddy and the Damned Fool Yells, "Push On!"
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: