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

Pretty much as the title says, lol.
I frequent a number of local charity store or thrift shops if you prefer.
There are good and bad days for lp,s and cd,s.

Today was an exceedingly good day!

4 original Deep Purple albums, Billy Cobham, Grand Funk, Styx, Animals, Live, Metallica. etc etc

22 albums total for just $12.

Anybody else addicted to the thrill of the hunt?
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tyray
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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!
tyray
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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.
sammmmmmy
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"The stores where your chances of finding something nice will always be in the areas where the incomes are the highest. "

I disagree. The wealthy are too busy with their snouts in the stock-market to listen to music. Their knowledge is:Fleetwood Mac,Sabbath,Zep and Young. (That is if they know even that much.)

My friend used to tune pianos and was often in the mansions of the rich. He would snoop at their bookshelfs or music collections when no one was looking. Conclusion: the rich have abysmal taste. They like coffee-table "books" and music that has been funnelled down their throats. They do not seek the music on their own.


(Also, they are cheap:Generally I find better things/prices  in garage sales of the non-rich.)


I said previously that  the religious have no musical taste. Neither do the rich, the sports addicts or the audiofools.
tyray
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'Thrift game is a total time-waster.'

And yet you seem to visit those stores. I think that's called hypocrisy.

My post said nothing of the rich or wealthy. 'where incomes are the highest' indicates a group of people that work for a living.

The OP started this thread with fun, honest humor of a simple hobby of - discovery - just maybe to spread a little cheer out here in gon land while the corona virus is spreading. 

Since you have only 7 posts, and a few are here, plus the content of your posts, I find you completely suspect as nothing more than a troll on a serious buzz kill mission.


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roxy54
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Right you are tyray. There's plenty good to be found in every kind of Goodwill neighborhood. I frequent seven different stores, and in one here in Sun City West, an upper income retirement community in AZ, I just bought 8 really good jazz CDs, Evens, Getz etc. from one man's immaculate collection (each with his name and address label) for 2 bucks each. 
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