Rummaging through 45's (am I the only one?)

[13th Floor Garage]

When ever you are at a thrift store, yard sale, flea market ect... going through 45's and come across one that has the labels missing (to faded to read, peeled off etc...)
if the records are cheap enough, do you buy the unknown 45?

So far, I've bought about 10-15. I've never struck gold, but curious if any of you also buy them and also if you do, have you found one that's worth bragging about?

 

[nadorozny2001]

painted ship-audience reflections

 

[franku]

I have a friend who collects beer cans, primarily by digging them up out of the ground from old trash dumps, etc. (he's able to recover the paint on some remarkably well using a chemical bath). He found a 45 buried one time with the labels totally gone, and gave it to me. Alas, it was an early '60s top 40 hit by Fabian or the like, not any kind of cool mystery platter.

On a happier scrounging-related note, just two nights ago I was visiting an old college professor friend and noticed he had a big rack of mostly-classical LPs on one wall. He said he no longer had a record player and offered me any I might want. In addition to a few interesting LPs, on top I noticed a small stash of 45s, one of which was an unplayed, signed copy of "No Use in Tryin'" by the Five Bucks on Afton. One of the better Ann Arbor garage 45s, which was nice to come home with! He had no idea why he had it, but I suspect a band member must have been a student of his, and was handing out copies in class.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

I grabbed some lost labels out of a box of decent 45s. Was going to risk it when I noticed the loose labels inside the plain brown sleeves.

First 3 The Wailers 45s on Golden Crest . All labels were unstuck.

Not any more nudes that were memorable.

 

[bosshoss]

No, but around 1975 I bought 3 mint copies of Teddy & His Patches "Suzy Creamcheese" from a massive warehouse sale just because of the song title. It could have been anything. I wonder what else might have been in that sale...?

 

[13th Floor Garage]

No, but around 1975 I bought 3 mint copies of Teddy & His Patches "Suzy Creamcheese" from a massive warehouse sale just because of the song title. It could have been anything. I wonder what else might have been in that sale...?

By a long shot, that beats any of my blind purchases. Although the titles or group name sound promising... mine usually end up being bad bubble-gum or horn-rock. Aside from the "Look Out for # 1" acetate, my only other blind score was Night Riders - Don't Say.

 

[cracker]

I have one of the "bucket copies" of Stereo Shoestring. sadly I wasn't the person to fish it out of the bucket, I actually had to cough up for a record with no labels! someone had subsequently glued labels onto it, still looks good