What is the oddest way you have acquired a record?

I used to have the flexi but haven't listened to Shutov for a while.

 

Lol sorry, am I allowed to lol at that? Classic..

 

Were there any Dennis Wilson and Charlie Manson records in the box...?

 

I was at my country club one summer evening and they had a DJ spinning records. He announced that he was going to have a contest - he would ask a music question and give the winner a prize. There were probably 200 people there. He asked 5 questions and I answered 3 correctly. I won the Ramones' 1st album, The Beatles' Revolver and The Rolling Stones' Aftermath. I still have them.

 

I don’t have any stories that rise to the level of what I have read in this thread already.

Gotta tell you OP you have set the bar pretty high for yourself and all of us. Great thread. For a first ever thread has to be in contention for the best!

Thanks, and welcome.

 

No odd acquired but I did once accidently drop the 7 inch single of Wings With A Little Luck between two old floorboards in the Victorian flat I was living in a the time. Probably still there between two flats as I lived on the top floor, hopefully someone will come across it in 100 years.

 

I owned a house with river frontage in the 90's, and one morning the current had carried a CD and deposited it in the shallow water in my back yard, no jewel case or artwork, just the disc. It was The Grateful Dead's Greatest Hits, scratched to hell but it played fine.
I often wonder exactly what the story was with the disc...how far upriver was it lost, why was it lost in water, etc.

 

I think you have to at least consider the possibility that somebody winged it into the river. I’m not making any statement about justification just to be clear

 

Very true. In that eBay listing, it is clear that he is selling
Number 2 of the series. Maybe I can still hope to get an
Egypt Station download link in my Mueslix!

 

Fixed that.

 

Circa 1983, I found a 1976 Sire/ABC original pressing of the first Ramones album (w/typo on the label) as a $1.99 cut-out in a little country grocery store in Bellefonte, PA. I guess some rack jobber brought in some flop records to unload.

 

All I ever found in the woods was porn.

 

What was the deal with that, anyway? That seemed to happen a lot when I was a kid. Was it just a Boston thing?

 

Isn't Jamesway famous for shipbuilding and suffering grievously during the blitz?

 

No, this was when I was growing up in Colorado. Google "woods porn," it was a whole known thing when we were kids. It's like the Little Free Libraries, only with the pages stuck together.

 

Nope. I grew up in a somewhat rural area in Pennsylvania and it happened to me too. Back in the mid 70’s.

 

I'd have thrown that away too.

 

I made a similar discovery at the site of the St. Francis Dam in L.A. about 20 years ago, among all the rubble, there was porn.

 

Marlboro, MA here. Me too!

 

I'm envious of the folks who can find their favorite records just leaning against a lamp post, I don't seem to have the same luck in suburbia. I've found plenty of CDs & CD-Rs in the gutter, but they've never been to my taste.

 

8 hour drive home from college 45 years ago. Stopped into a little country store in the middle of nowhere. Only place open in town. There, in a pile by the door, I found a sealed 8 track cartridge of music by John Cage for 20 cents! (I was a Cage fanatic at the time). I finally opened it up a couple years ago to find a melted punch roller but I’ve since had it replaced. I must have the only copy in existence. 35 years ago I met the producer and he had no idea about it being released in that format. Can’t find any info about it anywhere. Oh, the composition was Cartridge Music. Really.

I don’t think I’ve properly responded to the topic but I just had to tell the story. Mea culpa.

 

That's how I get rid of all of my duplicates and rejects. They're gone in minutes usually.

 

I was at my country club one day after it had just closed down. I was just exploring. I found the jukebox still there and the glass was not locked. I took all the 45s. Beatles on Tollie, VJ, , Kinks, Stones etc. This was in 1965.

 

This LP. I saw it at a record store and it was an expensive sealed import, the clerk knew nothing about it and they had neither a TT or were authorized to play them, or so he told me. I bought it with all the pocket money I had thinking how crazy GN looked and that it would be a punk rock record. It wasn't but opened me to electronica AND new wave at the same time. A real epiphany. Youngsters take risks and sometimes they result in epiphanies.

 

Happens in the UK too. Very strange.