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I smashed Secret Santa at our work Xmas party yesterday!

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Posted on December 20, 2024 at 14:46:57
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8 LPs, all in mint condition and all pro cleaned, in new sleeves and pouches.
Our Secret Santa limit is $20, and I think the other vinyl lover at work who managed to draw me, probably paid a sum total of $8 max for all of these ❤️
Worth it for the sleeves and pouches alone 😁


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OMG!, posted on December 20, 2024 at 14:57:48
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Val Doonican signed by Val Doonican!
May be worth more ....
$5 ??


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RE: I smashed Secret Santa at our work Xmas party yesterday!, posted on December 20, 2024 at 16:00:39
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 Wow! That's great.

Someone put a lot of thought, planning, and execution into that ...- or you just inherited some of their culls. Either way it was a thoughtful gift.

The patina on the plinth of your LP12 is beautiful. I can tell it's been well loved.

 

I agree. A lot of thought went into curating that cull collection ;-), posted on December 20, 2024 at 16:03:40
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I don't do much to the LP12. The patina develops by itself! But it's taken about 50 years.



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Great pic! And I'm sure there's at LEAST..., posted on December 20, 2024 at 16:15:55
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 15-20 minutes of decent listening there!

I'd say from there it will be proportional to how many cocktails are consumed per side.

Really, the best thing would be to stack 'em on the the record player of the
console and see how many of the tunes you can sing along with. Make it a
family thing, more live voices to help... temper... the recorded ones.

The signed record IS a nice bonus...



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Boy, Someone emptied the bin at Salvation Army, and the shiny sleeves really help. nt, posted on December 20, 2024 at 19:26:19
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RE: Great pic! And I'm sure there's at LEAST..., posted on December 20, 2024 at 23:59:39
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 Yes, this is one set of records I wouldn't hesitate to thrash on an ancient auto changer rig!


I couldn't believe my eyes when I googled Val Doonicans signature.
Definitely a bonus!


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Amazing that somebody bothered to clean a Jim Nabors LP., posted on December 21, 2024 at 03:50:28
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 And Englebert.



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25 Polka Greats, posted on December 21, 2024 at 09:26:27
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 Does that one sound like there is a skip and you're just playing the same song over and over?

I can ask since I'm one-quarter Polish. ;^)

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho

 

RE: 25 Polka Greats, posted on December 21, 2024 at 12:58:37
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 No, far from it.
One of the best records I've ever played!
Highly recommended, special to those with Polish heritage!


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Good for the new sleeves if nothing else!, posted on December 21, 2024 at 13:00:42
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 I'm in no hurry to play them ;-)


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This guy lives at the Salvation Army, posted on December 21, 2024 at 13:10:25
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 He has a fairly lucrative side gig selling vinyl, CDs and cassettes for sometimes 200 x cost.
He carefully curated this collection of culls over a period of hundreds of thrift store visits. The best of the worst ;-)


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Most interesting about it is that..., posted on December 21, 2024 at 15:29:30
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 Crappy, bland, commonplace, use by date titles such as those posted
have filled the bins of thrift stores for decades, and NOT JUST IN THE USA.

Same crap you see at too many garage sales too.

How many have passed over those titles endlessly (except for JDK's friend
- who's way OK IMB) knowing they offer little in musical fulfillment?

In that respect it's reassuring to know that listening tastes transcend borders.

It also points to the excess of record companies exploiting their greed by
distributing that pap globally.



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Kamahl and Barry Crocker are Australia's fault, posted on December 21, 2024 at 19:55:40
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 Millions of their LPs are choking the shelves of thrift stores around the country.
The rest of them are a global scourge.


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Had an ex-GF who was an Englebert fan., posted on December 22, 2024 at 03:59:16
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 Probably why I developed tinnitus. Protective move.



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RE: I smashed Secret Santa at our work Xmas party yesterday!, posted on December 22, 2024 at 07:56:03
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 OT maybe but i just scored 80 CD's in a thrift/Goodwill store here in the Netherlands for 14 euro. 10 classical and pop, the rest is modern jazz, no Dixieland no swing orchestras. No compilations on iffy labels, all albums on labels like ECM, Blue Note, Timeless, Pablo, Pacific. Bebop, hardbop, cool, even some avantgarde (Albert Ayler!), jazzrock, fusion (John Scofield, Yellowjackets).

I just cleaned up 15 dupe records, put them in new inner sleeves, outer sleeves, and priced them from 5 euro and up a piece. My sister is going to sell them on a flea market. I told her NOT to lower the price until the last hour of sale. Yes, Jethro Tull (Thick as a brick with newpaper cover!), Dylan etc.

"The torture never stops"

Greetings Freek.

 

He's pretty bad, but Jim Neighbors held the record for causing..., posted on December 22, 2024 at 13:39:29
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 more accidents per spin (APS) right up until Tiny Tim kinds caught on.

Many APS are generally considered to be attributable to sudden, unbridled
and vicious laughing leading to spilled beverages, dropped fondue, peed
pants, slapping someone on the back or one's own self on the forehead,
severe dropping of jaw, frightening loss of breath and... intense befuddlement.

There are more serious reports of APS involving hospitalization and even
the morgue separate from the easy listening vocals (male) genre.

Many of those involve some 16 sub genres of hard rock as of 2021.






"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

"Surprise, surprise, surprise !" (nt, posted on December 22, 2024 at 23:55:34
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My reaction is more along the lines of pouring Drano in my ears., posted on December 23, 2024 at 06:23:25
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 That ex-GF also loved hair metal. Poison, Cinderella, et al.
She was also partial to "Achy-Breaky Heart" type songs, where the verse and chorus share the same melody.
Ugh.



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Nana Mouskouri ..., posted on December 23, 2024 at 12:57:43
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 She's released over 200 albums !

I heard her greatest hits fit on a 45.

Dean.




reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

Needlessly cruel post, posted on December 23, 2024 at 15:13:13
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 Heh heh heh ;-)


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RE: I smashed Secret Santa at our work Xmas party yesterday!, posted on December 23, 2024 at 15:15:34
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 Find the right shops and be there at the right time and you can still do ok!


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