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Post by daniel on Apr 20, 2009 23:17:07 GMT -5
I stopped in at the Goodwill after work, on a whim. After digging through the stuff that was out there, (all crap) I spotted a few LP's on the cart of stuff they were getting ready to put out. I looked at them and they were "The Joey Heatherton Album" and Goldie Hawn's LP, STILL SEALED! For a dollar I couldn't pass them up!
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Post by gremashlo on Apr 21, 2009 6:08:09 GMT -5
I stopped in at the Goodwill after work, on a whim. After digging through the stuff that was out there, (all crap) I spotted a few LP's on the cart of stuff they were getting ready to put out. I looked at them and they were "The Joey Heatherton Album" and Goldie Hawn's LP, STILL SEALED! For a dollar I couldn't pass them up! COOL! It's great when Goodwill pays off! |
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Post by m c dornan on Apr 21, 2009 15:52:18 GMT -5
And that's how those LPs are best enjoyed- sealed... ;D
But congrats on your finds! I've found a fair number of LPs at the thrift shops.
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Post by Dawn on Apr 21, 2009 16:56:19 GMT -5
Cool finds! I imagine there aren't too many sealed copies of those albums around these days.
I occasionally find a gem in the Goodwill bins, but all too often it's Mantovani, the Firestone Christmas albums, Ferrante & Teicher and Herb Alpert. I like Herb, and have several of his albums, but he is ubiquitous in the thrift/secondhand stores! You're almost guaranteed to come across at least one or two of his albums at any given time.
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Post by daniel on Apr 21, 2009 21:35:35 GMT -5
Ha! Well, I don't plan to open them so it's all good.  (I only bought them for the novelty factor, although Goldie's LP seems to sell for about 20 bucks on Ebay...) Ugh! Those Firestone Christmas Albums! When I was in CA the WT Grant Christmas collections would turn up fairly regularly but I've yet to come across one here. Being in Cleveland I also come across lots of polka LP's. |
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Post by Ken on Apr 23, 2009 13:44:10 GMT -5
Actually, now that I think about it, I've seen a few of those Firestone Christmas albums around myself. That's cool Daniel, that you are able to find stuff. I've mentioned before that I have quite a few thriftshops around my area and there never seems to be anything worthwhile. Like Dawn, all I ever see are thrashed albums by James Last (that guy recorded a lot of albums, and I think I've seen every one) As well as Jim Nabors, John Denver, The Village People etc |
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Post by Dawn on Apr 23, 2009 19:00:39 GMT -5
Actually, now that I think about it, I've seen a few of those Firestone Christmas albums around myself. That's cool Daniel, that you are able to find stuff. I've mentioned before that I have quite a few thriftshops around my area and there never seems to be anything worthwhile. Like Dawn, all I ever see are thrashed albums by James Last (that guy recorded a lot of albums, and I think I've seen every one) As well as Jim Nabors, John Denver, The Village People etc James Last is another I see a lot of, too. Also Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis and Jim Nabors, and a fair amount of older Barbra Streisand albums. It seems like anything that was considered "easy listening" back in the day seems to turn up in the thrifts a lot. I've gotten lucky every once in a while - I found an almost mint copy of the Beatles Rock & Roll Music and Stevie Wonder's Looking Back multi-album set one day at a Goodwill. |
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Post by Ken on Apr 24, 2009 12:42:45 GMT -5
Actually, now that I think about it, I've seen a few of those Firestone Christmas albums around myself. That's cool Daniel, that you are able to find stuff. I've mentioned before that I have quite a few thriftshops around my area and there never seems to be anything worthwhile. Like Dawn, all I ever see are thrashed albums by James Last (that guy recorded a lot of albums, and I think I've seen every one) As well as Jim Nabors, John Denver, The Village People etc James Last is another I see a lot of, too. Also Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis and Jim Nabors, and a fair amount of older Barbra Streisand albums. It seems like anything that was considered "easy listening" back in the day seems to turn up in the thrifts a lot. I've gotten lucky every once in a while - I found an almost mint copy of the Beatles Rock & Roll Music and Stevie Wonder's Looking Back multi-album set one day at a Goodwill. Those Beatles and Stevie Wonder albums are excellent finds! I've never seen any Beatles albums at any of the goodwill stores here. I find that I have better luck at my local swap meets, although it's getting tougher to find stuff at them as well. What I've noticed at least locally is that the amount of people looking for vinyl is growing while the amount of vinyl is shrinking. |
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Post by daniel on Apr 24, 2009 22:03:50 GMT -5
I stopped in at the local St. Vincent's and they must've had 8,000 LP's on the floor! Needless to say, I only got through a few dozen boxes before my neck hurt and I had to call it a day. They had also put 5 or 6 milk crates full of 45's, which I went through first (I'm much more a 45 collector than an album collector). I found a few 80's promos in there, "I Want A New Drug", "I'm Alright", "Change Of Heart", "Material Girl" and some oddities like a promo copy of "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" by Joey Scarbury. There's no date on it, but it's on the Big Tree label (Distributed by Bell Records) so that one was released sometime between 1972 and 1974, as Big Tree switched to Atlantic for distribution in that year. Someday soon I'll have to get back other there and resume digging through the LP's!
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Post by Dawn on Apr 24, 2009 22:28:18 GMT -5
James Last is another I see a lot of, too. Also Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis and Jim Nabors, and a fair amount of older Barbra Streisand albums. It seems like anything that was considered "easy listening" back in the day seems to turn up in the thrifts a lot. I've gotten lucky every once in a while - I found an almost mint copy of the Beatles Rock & Roll Music and Stevie Wonder's Looking Back multi-album set one day at a Goodwill. Those Beatles and Stevie Wonder albums are excellent finds! I've never seen any Beatles albums at any of the goodwill stores here. I find that I have better luck at my local swap meets, although it's getting tougher to find stuff at them as well. What I've noticed at least locally is that the amount of people looking for vinyl is growing while the amount of vinyl is shrinking. I've heard that a lot of teens and college-age people are really getting into vinyl these days. It's pretty cool that almost 20 years after it was largely phased out, vinyl is making a comeback. |
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Post by daniel on Apr 25, 2009 12:20:09 GMT -5
I agree, it's strange to have people looking through the records with me at thrift shops. For so many years I had the bins pretty much to myself!! But, maybe with more people getting interested in vinyl, all my Journey and Kansas albums will finally be worth something!
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(I only bought them for the novelty factor, although Goldie's LP seems to sell for about 20 bucks on Ebay...)
