Charity store bin diving? Am I the only one that suffers this addiction?

Try finding good rock lps in London.
I've never been there but record-hunting-day-adventure posts to vinyl-collecting forums like VeryGoodPlus  - pictures and all -  paint an extremely dire picture.

The thrifts in England are called "chazzas". Oxfam stores are particularly brutal when it comes to pricing Nana Mouscouri.

I hated every single aspect of London even when I lived there so not surprised at all.

But by inference I was primarily talking about USA charity shops.
That is my present scope of reference.



btw, chazzas must be relatively new slang as nobody ever called them that when I lived there which was right up to about November 2000.

In my neck of the woods the charity shops are still open so in my enforced downtime still picking em up.
Few more this morning.
Hopeless case I agree!

I just come home with maybe 50 FREE lps. Most common  rubbish like Benetar and such, but I got 12 different Lightfoot titles.

The record store's lease is up and they have declared all non-essential stores have to close down by midnight today.

All used vinyl  there was 50% off .
$40  got  me:

Swegas (Uk press)

Joe (not Jeff) Beck - Nature Boy (a $50 lp. Interesting story on the making of this lp.)

Rakfogo (Hungarian fusion band which none of youse heard of)

Weather Report -Black market (shit band but I can trade this off and...only cost me $2.50)

Manfred Mann - Up The Junction (rare soundtrack that is excellent)

Jeremy Steig -this is (Jazzrock flutist that doesn't give the other great musicians in the band a chance to solo.  Hey I just realized a connection: Joe Beck was in Steig's band ,Jeremy & the Satyrs!)

New York Rock & Roll Ensemble (baroque rock - not that good)



And for a friend I got these lps:
Wolf -saturation Point (UK)
Crow - Crow music
Colosseum - Daughter of Time
Candy ( great psychish-pop soundtrack with Ringo Starr,Peter Sellers,etc.)

Only one local charity shop still open today.
Soon be pretty much total lockdown here, shopping malls closed.
Hopefully these measures have the required effects.

However still scored 3 LP.
Jaco Pastorius, Al DiMoella and Smokey Robinson.

Cleaning them now.

Be safe out there!