I'm sure every collector can relate to this?
You go past a thrift shop/second hand record store/garage sale/trash & treasure market - nothing better to do with your time, so why not kill 30 minutes or so and take a look....
There's a small pile of vinyl records jammed between a few books and at first look they're the same old junk you always see (granny's castoffs, Mario Lanza sings about drunken princes etc.). You're just about to put them down with disgust when suddenly a familiar record label / cover catches your eye - your first thought is, it's going to be interesting to me, but probably not the one I've been searching for since forever - but your blood suddenly races when you realise what you're holding is worth all the tea in China to you - don't get your hopes up too soon, though - you'll look at the condition next and find it looks like it's been laser etched (but not with a laser, more like a razor) ....
You hold your breath and take a careful look at the condition - absolute mint!!!!
Drinks all round! You feel like you've just fallen in love again (if only for an hour or two).
Does the above ramblings remind you of some earth shattering find?
Tell us about it, true collectors love to brag.....
You go past a thrift shop/second hand record store/garage sale/trash & treasure market - nothing better to do with your time, so why not kill 30 minutes or so and take a look....
There's a small pile of vinyl records jammed between a few books and at first look they're the same old junk you always see (granny's castoffs, Mario Lanza sings about drunken princes etc.). You're just about to put them down with disgust when suddenly a familiar record label / cover catches your eye - your first thought is, it's going to be interesting to me, but probably not the one I've been searching for since forever - but your blood suddenly races when you realise what you're holding is worth all the tea in China to you - don't get your hopes up too soon, though - you'll look at the condition next and find it looks like it's been laser etched (but not with a laser, more like a razor) ....
You hold your breath and take a careful look at the condition - absolute mint!!!!
Drinks all round! You feel like you've just fallen in love again (if only for an hour or two).
Does the above ramblings remind you of some earth shattering find?
Tell us about it, true collectors love to brag.....
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Re: What was your greatest find .....
Wed, October 19, 2005 - 9:27 AM"Grey Scale" by David Cunningham, who later went on to fame with Flying Lizards. I'd been a huge Flying Lizards fan, obsessed to some degree, having spent time on two continents and i think about seven countries trying to find things by them.
In 1996 or so, I was at a small garage sale in the Sunset or the Haight and saw the above mentioned album in among some random record selection. As is the way of garage sales, it was a buck. For me it was simply a personal coup, but just a week or two ago, I stumbled across this web page, check out the final paragraph:
home.netcom.com/~logan5/fl...yscale.html
hands down, this is my best find to date and it will remain in my collection. -
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Wed, October 19, 2005 - 4:18 PMSpot on, Chris.
Even the Flying Lizards stuff is getting a bit hard to find now, so this album was a real piece of hidden treasure. It makes finding such things so much better when you discover just how much they end up being worth, and you paid almost nothing to acquire it!
Love what the guy on the website said about the "snotty" record shop assistant - I've known a few of them in my time...
Vinyl Greg
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Wed, October 19, 2005 - 11:28 AMMy first great record score happened when I was driving down the street in Berkeley when I spied a stack of records that someone was throwing away on the curb. I pulled over and within the stack I found a Mono "Butcher Cover" Beatles Yesterday and Today, Two Leonard Nimoy albums, and the William Shatner 'Transformed Man' album.
My greatest record score of all time happened when I was working in a record shp and these people came in to sell their aunt's records who had just passed away. There was Jakie Wilson on Brunswick, Ike and Tina Turner on Sue, etc. The real find was the singles. Just ablout every Fats Domino on Imperial, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters on King and Federal (min book value $25 some worth $50), James Brown on King and Federal, Muddy Waters on Chess including a couple of White Label Promos, Buddy Holly and the Crickets on Bruswick, Chuck Berry on Chess, etc. It was pretty much every 1950's artist on original 45's most of which looked as new as the day they were pressed. I just about shit myself. In short for the price of about $50 I got easily $2,000 worth of records. -
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Wed, October 19, 2005 - 4:24 PMHey Greg,
Bloody brilliant, I say! Finds like that really make life worth living.... I bet you had trouble stopping your hands from shaking while you were checking the records, right?
Anyway, I can't stand here any longer after reading that - I'm off to search the curbsides right now.... -
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Wed, October 19, 2005 - 6:11 PMI had one of the other employees look at the 45's and walked out of the room, as there was no way on God's good earht that I would have been able to maintain any semblance of a poker face. We gave them like $50 a box for the 45's with each box containing about 250 45's. Certainly the best deal I've ever had. There were records labels I'd never seen in there. Also, almost forgot I got two Jerry lee Lewis on Sun - WHITE LABEL PROMOS - MINT!!!! -
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Wed, October 19, 2005 - 6:58 PM.. I H-A-T-E you .... !!!
I would have gone out & bought a lottery ticket after that went down .....
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Wed, November 30, 2005 - 1:54 PMIts interesting what is considered the best find. I have been telling my friends about a magnificent find on my trip to portland. There tired of hearing the story. In a vintage furniture store I found a handful of records, the 2 gems were Jean Michel Jarre's 73' release of Oxygene, and a 77' release on Peter Pan records Spooky Stories - Ghosts from outer space. Paid a buck a piece. Unfortunately they aren't in mint condition, but in very good. Which passes for me. The 2 records together played like they were meant to be together. When I got back to the bay I recorded them, dropped them on top of each other for an MP3. So no it isn't a limited edition white album or an out of print masterpiece, but these 2 records together have changed my view on music. Which to me is worth more than just a single find. If you would like to hear the MP3 you can find it at www.guerrillasoul.com its called spookyjarre.mp3, maybe it will change yours as well.
