What was your biggest vinyl surprise for $.99

I was at a store today that sells new and used vinyl and CDs - primarily hip-hop and alternative rock. However, they usually have a few boxes of classical LPs priced at $1 per LP. As I was flipping thru the box sets, I came across EMI SLS 841, Beethoven's Symphonies No. 8 and 9, Giulini and LSO. The box, booklet, inner sleeves and both LPs are in mint condition. The LPs may never have been played. It cost me $2 or $1.00 per LP. Not a bad find. You don't often find mint black and white postage stamp EMIs sitting in the dollar bins.

About 3 yrs ago I met a fellow at the Habitat store while looking through the albums. I was looking at classical and he asked me if I liked classical. I told him that I was pretty new to the genre, but liked it fairly well. He said he had a lot of classical for sale. Turns out that he was a collector who had purchased these albums and was unable to unload them. I ended up buying the whole lot of them (about 800) for about $80 or $100. The reason I'm not sure of what I paid for them is that I went the first time and only bought about 150 of them for $25-$30. I went back again after doing some research and bought about 150 more. I left a lot of box sets sitting. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I should just buy them all. He was trying to get me to take them all anyway. I knew they were good pressings, but I knew little or nothing about the artists or music. So I went back and bought the rest of them. There ware lots of London FFRR red label as well as STS, Phillips (Dutch), EMI's, Telefunkens, DG's, MHS, Melodya, and of course the RCA and columbia, Angel and turnabout. There are library markings on them and most of them are imports in NM conditions.
He was glad to get rid of them. I was glad to get them. Being new to classical, I didn't really know what a treasure I was getting. He didn't either. There may not be any high $$$ records in the lot, but they are quite nice pressings for the classical listener.

Picked up dozens of mercs,londons,deccas,rca,and numorous jazz on verve and pablo from a great thrift called the sheriff thrift in Clearwater FL. for a price iof ready boys .25 yes thats it.

my dad finally bought a stereo system for the family many years ago, and started bringing home alblums, such as montovani, sara vaughn, streisand, and a brubeck alblum on columbia called "My Favorite
Things" played by his classic group (p.desmond on sax of course). i played it a couple of thousand times, but i was careful with it, so it's still listenable. and also, very OUT OF PRINT. i haven't a clue why a major alblum of brubeck playing super interpretations of r.rogers has not appeared on cd, SACD, MFSL, the works. but then, how many other thousands of GREAT records have become distant memories, never to be seen or heard again..? it boggles the mind.
oh, btw, i DID find another copy in a used record shop many years later. I had to pay more than a buck for it, maybe $5.
but i wasn't complaining, since my brother has confiscated the 1st copy for HIS collection.

well, guess what (regarding the d.brubeck alblum "My Favorite Things") that i thought was unavailable? it has been re-issued as a japanese import- 20 bit remastered- in 2006. Amazon wants $35 for it but then there's other sources. if you like paul desmond's playing this is a terrific alblum. only drawback is that it's too short. the recording is very good btw, especially on vinyl...