Thrift Store Treasures

Had a couple of beaten-up but decent finds today - the Nova Local's "Games" and a psychedelic tune, Scrugg's "Will The Real Geraldine Please Stand Up And Be Counted". 49 cents each at the Salvation Army...

As the Scrugg is a Philips pressing, there's quite a bit of distortion...but perhaps it adds to the "psychedelic experience" or some bullshit like that.

From the same store, I picked up what appeared to be two sealed indie (homemade) cassette releases from someone I'd never heard of. A dollar later, I checked and saw that they each were worth about thirty times that...who says cassettes are useless? ;)
 
Car needs working on, swapped my van for my father in Laws Pick up, and there is a new thrift store, 30 miles away, in their town.

Got me some of this rockabilly head fucker.


Dig that killer trombone lead break.:boggle: Ghost Train Virgil Holmes on Atlantic

Also some of this


Don and Dewey on Speciality.

A nice handful of cool R n' B and early soul and one of those fuzzy breast bobblers by Les Brown Jr on GNP Crescendo


Gotta go back and double check my rejects. Sure I never missed anything but my stack was so good, there may be more.
 
Close enough to a thrift store...took a trip to an antique mall outside of Nashville over the weekend. There, sitting on top of stacks of beaten-up, sleeveless 45s in an old bookshelf, was the Affection Collection on United Artists.

Not anywhere close to mint condition, sadly - I'm just hoping it plays okay. Happy to bring it into the collection for a dollar.
 
Another Nashville find that I discovered while sorting out my buys from the trip...

I paid a visit to McKay Used Books to browse through their single selection. Ended up being a bunch of 70s-80s pop dreck from some radio station, which didn't interest me at all. However, I did get a single for a quarter that had blank white labels - on one side was reverse silver lettering from Every Mother's Son's "I Believe In You". Despite that being a very common record, I thought "what the hell" and paid a quarter for it.

As I was looking at it again today, I took out my copy of Every Mother's Son to see if it was as I suspected - a test pressing of that single. But the master numbers did not match up...so what in the world was it?

Slipped it onto the turntable to hear garage! Turns out that it is actually the Fountain of Youth's "Hard Woman"...in excellent shape minus the Sur-Speed labels.
 
HarvestmanMan said:
In Spring 2008, I found two New Lime 45s, "Ain't Got No Soul" (the first pressing) and "The Perfect Girl", as well as the Glass Harp's "Where Did My World Come From?" for 50 cents each at a thrift store.

I've found several good records at a separate store in the past few years. Mostly LPs, like the Electric Prunes' eponymous LP, but a few good 45s like Protozoa and Half A World Away. At that same store, though they aren't garage LPs, I found the "Lodestone" LP, a 1981 private pressing, and a very rare NM jazz LP entitles "New Herd" by Toshiyuki Miyama and the New Herd. It's great if you like jazz/big band stuff, and is a so-called audiophile pressing. $1.50 for the LPs, and 50 cents each for the 45s.

The majority of my stereo equipment - four tape decks, a turntable, two sets of speakers, and a receiver - has come from church sales or thrift stores, and no single piece of equipment has cost me over $20. I've become a master of hunting on a budget.
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Turns out the independent thrift store close to me has 45s now. And they appear to be from...drum roll please...Don Parker. They had a few boxes at 99 cents per record, so I welcomed the opportunity to do a little digging.

Ended up with two copies of Billy Batson on Decca (both promos). No idea if it's really garage or not, but a topic from the old forum did mention the record...
Does this go for anything nowadays? Not really believing the one copy for $250 on MusicStack.
 
HarvestmanMan said:
Turns out the independent thrift store close to me has 45s now. And they appear to be from...drum roll please...Don Parker. They had a few boxes at 99 cents per record, so I welcomed the opportunity to do a little digging.

Ended up with two copies of Billy Batson on Decca (both promos). No idea if it's really garage or not, but a topic from the old forum did mention the record...
Does this go for anything nowadays? Not really believing the one copy for $250 on MusicStack.
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/BILLY-BATSO...719444?hash=item3ab2abfe94:g:7VQAAOSw0HVWCCOS
 
HarvestmanMan said:
Well that answers that! Thanks for the link.
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It's a decent folk rock single. Some years ago a blog called "Peach Fuzz Forest" had the low down on him including photos. It's still online although the blog writer no longer bothers with it anymore.
 
EXPO67 said:
It's a decent folk rock single. Some years ago a blog called "Peach Fuzz Forest" had the low down on him including photos. It's still online although the blog writer no longer bothers with it anymore.
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Yeah, that's where I saw most of the info on it. Seems to have been comped somewhat recently as well.
 
Some fairly recent-ish Thrift-ish finds:

Bought a box of about 300 misc. 45's at a local Chicagoland flea market for $20.00
Found:
Perpetual Motion Workshop - Infiltrate Your Mind - (PsychFuzz) on Rally Records
Jimmy Burns & The Fantastic Epics - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (NorthernSoul) on Tip Top
Alan Knight - Chills - (Popcorn) on Tide
A bunch of cool NorthernSoul - Sam & Kitty, Lee Edwards & The Continentals, The Intruders, The Ideals, etc.

Chicago Thrift Store:
The Cherokees - Wondrous Place/Seven Daffodils - (Freakbeat sorta thing) on MGM
Ronnie Rice & The Gents - Warm Baby, on Quill Records

Found a copy of Ron Haydock's "Maybelline" on Cha Cha at a Northwest IN thrift store.
 
My thrift shop finds have been evaporating since the vinyl resurgence. I used to clean house in TN, but those days are gone, hahah. Great finds, Mr.Westex!!
 
Had a cool antique mall find yesterday. 75 cents for this...
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From a thrift store I'd not been to in over a year.

Sitting waiting there was:-
The Leather Boy - I'm a Leather Boy / Shadows - MGM (with an edge chip, plays great)
The Attack - Hi Ho Silver Lining / Anymore Than I Do - London
The Shaprels - Dare I Weep, Dare I Moan - Checker (one sided DJ Copy)
The Chosen Few - Asian Chrome / The Earth Above the Sky Below - Liberty

The Hi-Lites - Twistin'Pony / Twistin' Time - TwisTime :yup:
Bo Diddley - Wrecking My Love Life - Checker (one sided DJ Copy)

A bunch of cool soul too

looks like the local DJ from way back off loaded their old radio station copies for me.

50 cents each.;)
 
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