Bruce J. Richman
June 30th 03, 11:52 PM
Ted Van Norman wrote:
>On 29 Jun 2003 19:42:44 GMT, Gene Poon > wrote:
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>>Ted Van Norman wrote:
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>>> And stay the hell out of my thrift stores. All of you. There is
>>> nothing but worthless junk in them contributed by people with bad
>>> taste in music. What little good vinyl there is has already been
>>> secured in private collections and kept in vaults. When you pay 50
>>> cents for a LP, you get what you pay for.
>>>
>>==================================
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>>The charities are sometimes blessed by people who clean out their
>>relatives' homes after they pass on. People who look at the dusty old
>>record albums and figure nobody will want them. When this happens, a
>>lot of stuff may show up all at once.
>>
>>One time I found a minor treasure trove of classical LPs in a thrift
>>store. Somebody must have donated all of these at once, because they
>>were all the same kind of music: late classical, Romantic orchestral and
>>chamber, mostly in European pressings, immaculate condition. EMI,
>>Decca, Philips, DGG...with "LAST" labels on the covers and a playing log
>>on the back of each one!
>>
>>Then I ran out of money.
>>
>>I sorted out what I could pay for. Asked if they could hold the rest
>>for me. "No! First come, first served, too many people ask us to do
>>that and never come back." Okay, I went back and quickly stashed the
>>rest of the LPs in the bottom of a bin with used clothes in it. Went
>>home, got more money, and dug them out about two hours later, from what
>>turned out to be the used lingerie bin. I got some strange looks from
>>other customers who saw me pawing through used bras and panty girdles to
>>get the records out...
>>
>>-GP (male)
>
>It's urban myths like these that create unnecessary competition.
>
>There are about 20 thrift stores in the urban area that I live in and
>I have a regular weekly schedule for visiting each and every one of
>them each week. I ain't saying one more word about this. NADA.
>A $24.99 DVD-Audio of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon sounds way
>better than a 50 cents thrift store LP copy of the same. Thats just
>technological progress, right? Inevitable, right? And complete opera
>sets starring Victoria de los Angeles and Bjoerling for a $1.50 are
>just a waste of time and money when newer versions of the same opera
>with modern artists on digital perfection can be had for $39.99.
>(Ever noticed how immaculately kept LP opera sets usually are? I think
>a lot of people bought them and never played them.)
>
>Gawd I wish I had gone back to vinyl sooner. By the way, if 50
>cents an LP isn't cheap enough, all thrift stores that I go to are
>more than happy to bargain like a flea market. Buy 20 or more LPs
>and they'll drop the price to 25 cents an album. It's a dirty
>disgusting job but there is always some poor sucker like myself
>willing to do it. But I must admit that I like the employees of
>thrift stores, they are always characters with personality and soul.
>Try getting that at your local digital perfection music chain store.
>
>Ted
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You had better never go to a thrift shop in Baghdad. If you do, God will roast
the stomachs in hell of you and the rest of the vinyl-buying infidels!!!!!!
Bruce J. Richman
>On 29 Jun 2003 19:42:44 GMT, Gene Poon > wrote:
>
>>Ted Van Norman wrote:
>>
>>> And stay the hell out of my thrift stores. All of you. There is
>>> nothing but worthless junk in them contributed by people with bad
>>> taste in music. What little good vinyl there is has already been
>>> secured in private collections and kept in vaults. When you pay 50
>>> cents for a LP, you get what you pay for.
>>>
>>==================================
>>
>>The charities are sometimes blessed by people who clean out their
>>relatives' homes after they pass on. People who look at the dusty old
>>record albums and figure nobody will want them. When this happens, a
>>lot of stuff may show up all at once.
>>
>>One time I found a minor treasure trove of classical LPs in a thrift
>>store. Somebody must have donated all of these at once, because they
>>were all the same kind of music: late classical, Romantic orchestral and
>>chamber, mostly in European pressings, immaculate condition. EMI,
>>Decca, Philips, DGG...with "LAST" labels on the covers and a playing log
>>on the back of each one!
>>
>>Then I ran out of money.
>>
>>I sorted out what I could pay for. Asked if they could hold the rest
>>for me. "No! First come, first served, too many people ask us to do
>>that and never come back." Okay, I went back and quickly stashed the
>>rest of the LPs in the bottom of a bin with used clothes in it. Went
>>home, got more money, and dug them out about two hours later, from what
>>turned out to be the used lingerie bin. I got some strange looks from
>>other customers who saw me pawing through used bras and panty girdles to
>>get the records out...
>>
>>-GP (male)
>
>It's urban myths like these that create unnecessary competition.
>
>There are about 20 thrift stores in the urban area that I live in and
>I have a regular weekly schedule for visiting each and every one of
>them each week. I ain't saying one more word about this. NADA.
>A $24.99 DVD-Audio of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon sounds way
>better than a 50 cents thrift store LP copy of the same. Thats just
>technological progress, right? Inevitable, right? And complete opera
>sets starring Victoria de los Angeles and Bjoerling for a $1.50 are
>just a waste of time and money when newer versions of the same opera
>with modern artists on digital perfection can be had for $39.99.
>(Ever noticed how immaculately kept LP opera sets usually are? I think
>a lot of people bought them and never played them.)
>
>Gawd I wish I had gone back to vinyl sooner. By the way, if 50
>cents an LP isn't cheap enough, all thrift stores that I go to are
>more than happy to bargain like a flea market. Buy 20 or more LPs
>and they'll drop the price to 25 cents an album. It's a dirty
>disgusting job but there is always some poor sucker like myself
>willing to do it. But I must admit that I like the employees of
>thrift stores, they are always characters with personality and soul.
>Try getting that at your local digital perfection music chain store.
>
>Ted
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>
You had better never go to a thrift shop in Baghdad. If you do, God will roast
the stomachs in hell of you and the rest of the vinyl-buying infidels!!!!!!
Bruce J. Richman