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

You have more chance of getting a common rock lp from a religious person's "collection" than you have of finding one a Goodwill.
(In my experience Value Village is even worse.)

Everyone knows the guy in charge of the book/records section scoops up ALL the rock records before they even hit the floor.

Leaving you the Bob Denver, "Spanish Train" and Nana boners.

James Last for miles...but never "Voodoo Party" or "Best Kept Secret".

Thrift game is a total time-waster.

Wrongo sammmmmmy. Lots of good stuff to be found there if you're patient.

Now at a major city large charity shop there maybe a person like that who has some ideas on records.

I can tell you now around me they don’t know a record from a cd from a book!

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/cost-of-shipping-records/post?postid=1642644#1642644

Speaking of discogs, I had never used it until (2018) I read the thread above on gon, and as you would expect I lost my mind and have found and bought  beacoup lp's from that site of music I had never seen nor heard before and others I had fond memories of and didn't even know where to get them or if they were even in print!...It's, it's like a drug!

sammmmmmy,

I volunteered at a Goodwill working in the sorting area going through stuff to put out on the floor and I found a whole and complete boxed set of about 15 Beatles albums on cd’s.

Since I was a volunteer I was ’technically’ working there and could not buy the boxed set! Man, talk about crestfallen! And that was the last time I volunteered at that store!

The stores where your chances of finding something nice will always be in the areas where the incomes are the highest. That goes without saying though.