Charity Shops!

Posted by: ECM on 10 July 2006

Hi,

Going back to vinyl has it's unexpected compensations.

OK, there is a lot of boring vinyl in charity shops, but you only have to hit lucky once, when a good, clean, collection has just come in.

Mine was today.

What was your best charity/junk shop find?

Cheers, ecm
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by erik scothron
A video film about Glenn Gould the pianist and a video documentary about the building of the new opera house at Glyndebourne - £1.

Mint 2nd edition of the Lord of the Rings bought for £3 and sold for £270. (A mint first edition hard back 3 vols went for £100,000 recently). First editions of The Hobbit (which are for more rare than the LotR)go for more than that.
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by ECM
Hi Erik,

I notice that you mention Glenn Gould before Tolkein. I think I would do the same. LOL

Cheers, ecm
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by erik scothron
quote:
Originally posted by ECM:
Hi Erik,

I notice that you mention Glenn Gould before Tolkein. I think I would do the same. LOL

Cheers, ecm


Hello ecm,

LOL. I was merely saving the best till last Winker

Cheers,

Erik
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by JWM
Some nice fresh American pressings of Grateful Dead 'Working Man's Dead' and 'After the Flood' are amongst my most treasured charity shop finds.

These days I find the problem with some of the best known charity shops is that they get out their copy of Record Collector, and ask mint 1st edition prices for some scratched-up wobbleboard 4th pressing...

(But then I guess they have to, their income having plummeted so much since the arrival of the Notional Loitery...)

James
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by erik scothron
I am reliably informed that there is a skip at the back of the British Library Sound Archive stuffed full of unwanted vinyl. People donate whole record collections almost on a daily basis. Most of it is unwanted. It gets binned. Its all there for the taking. Free, gratis and for nothing.

British Sound Archive
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by ECM
JWM,

Yes, certain better known charity shops do the research and others don't. I didn't used to bother with charity shops, but it doesn't cost anything to have a look.

Cheers, ecm
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by ECM
quote:
Originally posted by ECM:
JWM,

Yes, certain better known charity shops do the research and others don't. I didn't used to bother with charity shops, but it doesn't cost anything to have a look.

British Library! Good grief, I have a daughter in London. This can be her next project.

Cheers, ecm
Posted on: 10 July 2006 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by ECM:
JWM,

Yes, certain better known charity shops do the research and others don't. I didn't used to bother with charity shops, but it doesn't cost anything to have a look.

Cheers, ecm


Oh I agree totally!

- But what's offputting, I find, is having some very very standard vinyl in the window display at £15-£20 a pop, and that really is the best they have, and overpriced by x4 or x5.

J