Thrift Store Treasures

down-n-out said:
I found a copy of Elvis' Mystery Train on Sun yesterday at an estate sale. Can anyone point me to a good web-site that would allow me to confirm it's authenticity? It does not have 1973 etched in the run-off groove, but I'm not sure what else to look for.
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Does it have push marks on the label, most of them do?
 
I don't get it, a thrift store will keep boxes of awful albums filling the shelves and discard 45's as worthless. Good proactive attack for dumpster diving a gold medal for extreme thriftiness. Makes my find of this, a month or so ago, at 75 cents seem exorbitantly over priced.

HarvestmanMan said:
Some numbskull at the thrift store tossed about 100 45s into the dumpster. Among the 30 or so that were worth saving, and which I saved, was the Creatures' "It Must Be Love".
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down-n-out said:
Yes, I think I can...

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Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
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Very certain it is original press based on my experience with Elvis Sun's. The small defect on the label is a good indication (Sun's are notorious for label mistakes fakes are too neat), and I can read the matrix #'s, which matches my copies of this. I have had about 11 copies of Mystery Train, and it is easy to find. The others are certainly tough, and this was pressed with no pushmarks. I recall reading 25K were pressed of this, and when it hit regionally, another 25K were ordered. If it is thick vinyl, non bendable, it is real. I have never seen a Styrene press, but I have heard about them, as Perkins Blue Suede Shoes was pressed up in styrene also.
 
I WISH this was my find... a fellow I know from Lubbock pulled it out of a Hub City thrift for a quarter.

It is for sale if anyone here is interested... About VG- with "Painted Air" playing better than flip. PM if you've got some $$$ burning a hole in your pocket/paypal.

So sick....
 
One of my Elvis Sun Mystery Train 45 finds (fairly bad shape- scarcely playable) WAS in a trash bin behind a Christian Mission. I went in to ask for records, and the girl pulled out a box, of LP's. In there was Metallica LP's and other assorted Metal crap, that always brings good money- and she said, "SORRY- I CAN'T SELL THAT, IT IS DEVIL MUSIC...??!!" So she took the box away from me and tossed it in the dumpster out back! It amazes me, the complete idiocy of backward thinking in-bred's but hey, I didn't argue, I just asked why they sold T-shirts with pictures of, " ...'Lil Devil..." for toddlers in the same store! So I go out back and dig out the Metal LP's, and a handful of 45's apparently were also in the same box, and ta-da, a trashed Elvis Sun! Records they could have made $$ on, and used for their "ministry" but their thinking was stinking of 'puritan' thoughts, so less people could be helped....!!!

DSC03014.JPGDSC03018.JPG I would have gladly paid the prices they sell the records for.
 
I have a few dollars WESTEX but never enuff for that crazy monster... Such a sweet fynd.

Thought I'd had a decent thriftin' in WV day coming home with:
- Simon Stokes & the Night Hawks - Rhode Island Red for 50 cents, a crazily warped copy that plays damned good but it is nowhere near the fantastic "Big City Blues" ...well the '66 version.
- Blue Cheer's 1st Album a dollar. I tried to like these but too late and heavy for my ears.

Some goodness though in:
The Blendells - la la la la
wILBERT HARRISON - Kansas City
Billy Shears & the All Americans - Message to Seymour on Silver Fox. Slightly psyched '69er poop.

and the sleeveless urgghhh..
The Dragsters - Hey Little Cobra Drag City on Wing
Tyler king & the Twisteens - Twistin' Time. Appears I could have got me a sleeved one for 99 cents on ebay. Can't leave those stupid twistezers in the stores. Ya can't beat a crappy twist record for cheeriness and cheese.

In WV outer sleeves disappear like the mountain tops. Had a cache of Jerry Kole albums last year 5 or 6 of em... No freakin' revved up sleeves on any though.
 
In WV outer sleeves disappear like the mountain tops./QUOTE]

Yes the mountain tops are disappearing fast for sure! Let's hear it for big coal! In any case, ever been to Mountain Mission on 7th Avenue in North Charleston? That's where I went dumpster diving.... They get records there, but I think some of the drivers get 1st dibs on the LP's, they don't care about the 45's, they toss them, and I've asked them not to, but ya know, if it ain't skynyrd it ain't worth a dang!
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errrm yes... the impossible to find 7th street, half one way, half the other!, I stumbled on it once then tried to find it again for months to no avail. Just did not go out far enough I think, last time I found the miraculous disappearing 7th st mission (there i go the reason for losing it 7TH ST SHOULD BE 7TH aVE) it was chock full of 45's I got the usual pile of indie labels but left the 30 or so Square Dancing Hollering stuff on Hi Hat, saw no reason for a pile of these in the house!

Last time there most of them had gone. Maybe the thought of humans holding their partners hand, stepping back 4, spinning round and bowing was too much for the 7th ave supervisor and they were flung in that dumpster back to hell where that evil was spawned....

Rainelle was my trip yesterday another Xian thrift store. The lord being praised while you shop is rather disconcerting, gospel blasting loudly, "can you turn that racket down please I'm searching for the devils work"
 
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Holiday $1 goodies. Sorry for my lopsided shot.

Family vacation to Virginia Beach, brought forth these few fine grooves, luckily the hippy clothing & pipe store had a vinyl corner and a record player to weed out the pile'o'shitey late 60's lumbering I might have brought, could have made a buck or three maybe if I had the wad'o'cash I wish I had had.

I missed The Creation on the first visit hampered by Milo my 2 yr old record hunter. "No Daddee no more wecords...pleeease" (they had a drum kit set up that was a distraction for him for 5 minutes) but a return alone to browse the LP's (and 45's (again) turned it up, that Planet logo looks ...well so 80's my speed flicking missed it)

The Opals is a very good piece of Northern Soul from '65.

Also scored me some
Arrows - Bongo Party
Uniques - All These Things (should have played this first because it ain't their best)

A little side line Milo loved the fair ground nearby, we had to take him each day to ride the round-a-bout with cool 60's looking cars, motorbikes and fire engine.... The second day he took the driver seat of the Fire Engine, the carny showed him the buzzer and behind his seat was a fire bell on the end of a rope. Another kid took a seat in the fire engine. By Lap 3 Milo was buzzing and ringing the bell like the whole town was burning down steering wildly to save us all. The poor older kid passenger had both ears covered by lap 3, a girl in a pink racing car in front had theirs covered by lap 6. I wish I had proof in a photo but my wife was snapping away else where. The Carny agreed it was the funniest thing he'd seen in a while.

Undoubtedly Milo's favourite wecords were The Arrows - Blues Theme - "see daddee it's the motorbike song weeeeoooowww" and The Kingsmen - Little Sally Tease. He I believe is a lover of Fuzz.....

I now am listening to The Arrows for the fifth time in a row "is that fun? was that good daddee?"
 
Just picked up a few things myself in an antique store for 50 cents a pop, a couple dozen singles in decent shape including:

Blue Things "Twist and Shout" / "You Can Live In Our Tree" (RCA promo)
Souldjers "Lemon Sun" / "Would You Kiss Me (Boss)
Kingbees "Lost In the Shuffle" / "Heavy" (RCA promo)
Twiggy - "When I Think Of You" (Capitol promo - love this disc!)
Miracles - "I'll Try Something New" (Tamla w/ Pic sleeve)

Plus more soul items and a couple late 70s singles, both signed, by Jack Black ("Punk Rock") and Lance Long (which features Wayne Kramer and Scott Asheton).
 
franku said:
Just picked up a few things myself in an antique store for 50 cents a pop, a couple dozen singles in decent shape including:

Blue Things "Twist and Shout" / "You Can Live In Our Tree" (RCA promo)
Souldjers "Lemon Sun" / "Would You Kiss Me (Boss)
Kingbees "Lost In the Shuffle" / "Heavy" (RCA promo)
Twiggy - "When I Think Of You" (Capitol promo - love this disc!)
Miracles - "I'll Try Something New" (Tamla w/ Pic sleeve)

Plus more soul items and a couple late 70s singles, both signed, by Jack Black ("Punk Rock") and Lance Long (which features Wayne Kramer and Scott Asheton).
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I'd have had some pee seepage with those.:oops:
 
Westex said:
Hicksville Hogwash said: ↑

Found this WV obscurity a long time a go. Is this really Garage or really country? It is cool enough to keep me interested in posting and playing it. Nice mid 60's gar-edgey guitars with downer hillbilly vocals. What category does this belong?

Westex - I don't hear any garage here... just moody country.
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Sorry, I know this is from a few months back but realise now why this "country" song haunts me as some lost "garage" listen to the lead riff then listen to "Lovin on Borrowed Time" by half Pint & The Fifths. My Ipod shuffled them together and blammo exactly the same first seven notes.
 
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