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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
schipo
1,268 posts
 
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.
french_fries
815 posts
 
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.
french_fries
815 posts
 
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...
joe_in_seattle
114 posts
 
I found a signed Leontyne Pryce album for .99 at half-price books......sounds a bit scratchy, but how many signed legendary ablbums do I have?
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