Ted Van Norman wrote:

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.

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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








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