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What was your biggest vinyl surprise for $.99

This Saturday morning it rained, I couldn't work outside on the plants etc. I found myself at Goodwill checking out the 15 feet of records , always on the floor level shelves. Guys like me, 65 years old, would like them at waist height. Marketing puts the best goods at eye height so it is easier to spend money, even at Goodwill. I go to Goodwill after I have the dirtiest duds so I can sit on the floor, gravity pulls my back to the least common denominater.

To the point, I purchased 2 feet of lp,s almost classical, almost looking as new, for $74.

I bought an Angel DS-37744 recording, Strauss,Also sprach Zarathustra, Ormandy. I have many recordings of this work and none is better than what I bought today. I put it on my VPI cleaner first and I'm listening to it as I type.

My wife thinks I'm extreme in my pleasures, she's right , she should know that is why I asked her to marry me.

Have you had a similar musical experience for $.99, I hope so.

regards, Ken
kftool
hdm
1,062 posts
 
I've had lots of them, but one memorable day I picked up a dozen albums at 50 cents each plus 45 unused Nagaoka anti-static sleeves for another 50 cents. Pretty much all the records were great but I remember in that batch the Band's "Last Waltz" (mint complete 3 record set with booklet for 50 cents!), mint copies of Oscar Peterson's "Hello Herbie" and a Japanese pressing (with OBI) of Oscar Peterson plays the Gershwin Songbook and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "Live in Stockholm".

It's a lot fun to find stuff like that.
dopogue
1,773 posts
 
Ralph Towner's "Diary" on ECM -- the German pressing to boot -- in near-mint condition. Exactly $.99.
tarsando
578 posts
 
That LP's weren't $.99 any more!
wwwrecords
172 posts
 
My biggest surprise was a 7" 45rpm that I bought at the Salvation Army for 33 cents. I sold it on eBay for $2,850. Some of that Northern Soul stuff goes for silly money.
mjw55
82 posts
 
I got an unplayed Bob Dylan Biograph box set at a garage sale for $1, a great deal on some great music.
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