Thrift Store Treasures

[vinyl01]

Here's the other side showing where someone wrote ''good''.

 

[vinyl01]

They have their own website here:

http://mouseandtheboys.com/index.htm

 

[vinyl01]

One of my all-time fave tunes! Condition?

I was thinking that I know a lot of people who had 45s in the 50s and 60s wrote their names on the labels, but I don't think that anyone other than DJs or Music Directors made comments on labels. I'm thinking that this came from a radio station as there were a lot of promos in the box I got this from. Does anyone have a copy that says promo on it or a white copy?

 

[vinyl01]

Found this today. Does anyone have this with different bands?

 

[vinyl01]

found this one recently. Does anyone know what exact city location this band is from? TBM only says NY.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

I pulled this record out of some 45's yesterday in a hip little town that I've never found anything in before but I can get good coffee there.

https://soundcloud.com/agentugly/the-differences-five-minutes

A Soul disc from 1971 of some value? I would like to sell but I'm worried about grading, I sell infrequently and though I've not had a complaint before but when copies of this have gone for $500 - $1800 it gets me twitchy to over grade or lose a lot of bucks to under grade. If anyone can bear to listen through and give me their Aural grading I'd be grateful? I'm kind of at a VG- myself but please be brutally frank.

Thanks xx

 

[MopTopMike]

Since the soul folks in the UK are lousy over-graders anyway, I wouldn't be to concerned if you went with a VG grade.

 

[Mr.Segment]

I would have been satisfied with a VG grading for this. And I'm a bit fuzzy about condition. The most important thing, to me at least, is that the higher pitched vocals does not seem to distort at all. So, bar a few pops here and there, this is a nice playing copy to these set of ears.

 

[Michael W]

include the sound file with the auction so buyers know what they are getting.

 

[Monster Mike]

include the sound file with the auction so buyers know what they are getting.

I know this 45 very well and would put a VG copy at around $800, give or take $100. Clean copies demand a premium especially on this record as I think most copies are around VG condition.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Thank you all so much.

 

[Hicksville Hogwash]

Been a while since posting in here. Pretty dry on bargains. But a few weeks back I went to Charleston WV (Chemical Valley). The drinking water is tainted with chemicals and coal slurry cocktails. The local government says drink the water the people won't drink the water it stinks of licorice. Schools close, kids fall ill and the democratic governor takes campaign funds from the coal industry and thinks his voters should slowly kill themselves because his bad environment coal loop-holing laws approved by the state are useless.

Anyway

I did a fast run through the junk shops. A nice pile of commonish garage. Nice to find one collection donated with cool stuff in it.

The McCoys - Come on lets go
The Shadows of Knight - Shake
The Castaways - Goodbye Babe
Blues Magoos - Pipe Dream
John Fred and his Playboys - Agnes English - very cool IMHO

Chicago Loop - This Must be the Place - canadian press
Dave Clark Five - Small Talk - canadian press :)
Manfred Mann - dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron - canadian press

http://grooveshark.com/s/Dashing+Away+With+The+Smoothing+Iron/4QNzLw?src=5

ungarage but wonderful

The Olympics - The Slop
The Marvellettes Twisting Postman

 

[eleelandc]

Found this Thorens TD124 (built into a set of shelves) in a junk shop for $43.

Since then I have shipped it off to be re-built, gotten it back, bought a vintage SME3009 tonearm on ebay, and been building a plinth out of some purple heart that I found in a garage of an estate sale. Fingers crossed that I get the installation templates for the tonearm this week and can have it all plugged in!

 

[Dustin H]

Found this in Tacoma, WA last year..

Not garage, but definitely my favorite thrift find. I paid 25 cents for it.

Another interesting find was a folk/'psych' LP by Prentice & Tuttle. Found it for $1.. moments after a guy had flipped through the box and said quite matter of factly 'nothing here for me'.

 

[HarvestmanMan]

Thrifts have all but completely dried up around here.

One particular local record store, however, seems to have some local goodies in the dollar boxes each time I visit...

 

[Lagniappe Records]

 

[eleelandc]

Found this Thorens TD124 (built into a set of shelves) in a junk shop for $43.

After months of waiting for the mail away fixit man to re-do it, building the plinth and coating it in poly, just drilled the board and mounted the tonearm and installed the carts into the new headshells and got it up and running tonight.
Loving it!

 

[gregk25]

and as soon as you win the lottery, you can replace the 124 with one of these uber-kool Garrard 301 (using a less abnormally long arm)

 

[FuzzLord]

After years of digging, my thrift store finds can be counted on a mere two hands. Steeple Peeple (on B.T. Puppy), Counts (Rich-Rose), Cherry People (Hot Cotton), Fuzzy Bunnies (Decca), Fifth Order (Diamond), Maxx (Mainstream), Thee Midniters (Chattahoochee), The Masque (Master), In-sex (Hammer).

 

[Mr.Segment]

In-sex (Hammer).

Tough to find, congrats!