I visited all these on Tuesday afternoon! and then spent about an hour in Plastic Wax, before taking my tube amp (which blew up) to a guy who fixes them nearby. Only checking CDs, came away with: Paul Mcartney - Pipes of Peace (1983 Japan CD) Some early 80s Iron Maiden CDs Some nice classical on DG, EMI, Philips & Pearl Gregory Isaacs - Boom Shot
Hello all, I’m new. I’m a keen teenage charity shop music hunter. Here is some of what I found recently, all a pound each: Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend. Fantastic compilation, wish I’d heard it sooner. It’ll be even better in the summer. Elton John - Ice on Fire Shine A Light - The Rolling Stones. Very punchy two-CD live album from 2008. Harry Nilisson - A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night Greatest Hits - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Wow! I brought this only knowing a few of his songs. I’m so pleased I did, it’s amazing. Anything That’s Rock and Roll is my favourite.
A mixed selection today Sly &Robbie - Reggae Stylee (2CD of Black Uhuru in Dub and Osbourne in Dub I think) £1 Black Uhuru - Brutal ( came in 2CD case with random Dread 3 CD) £1 Santana - Borboletta £1 Clannad - Macalla 99p AfroReggae - Favela Uprising ( picked it up cos it was on Mr. Bongo label) BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba - Film music of Ralph Vaughan Williams volume 2 Last 2 were part of 5 for £1 so I got some with sealed/clean cases as well.
After my slagging them off re old vinyl earlier today.... well on the CD front a Dog's home charity shop had a box of '3 for one UK Pound' CD offer Pinball Wizzard - The Who 2012 Spectrum The Ultimate Collection - The Small Faces 2CD set 2003 Sanctuary All Right Now - Free 2012 Spectrum From The Cradle - Eric Clapton 1994 Duck/Reprise Another String of Hot Hits - The Shadows 1987 MFP (EMI) Foxtrot - Genesis 1994 Virgin The Best of Blondie - Blondie Chrysalis 1983 The Red Shoes - Kate Bush 1993 EMI Manifesto - Roxy Music 1999 Virgin Brothers in Arms remastered - Dire Straits 1996 Jersey's Best - Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons 2CD set Rhino 2008 Just Enough Education To Perform - Stereophonics V2 records 2001 plus CDs by Andy Williams, Glenn Campbell and Peggy Lee not bad for five UK pounds ! Good old Dogs I say !
Sorry, but lets hear it for the felines....!!! My local cat protection place was doing 10 CDs for a pound..... Bon Jovi - Cross Road Art Blakey - Best of.. Swing Out Sister - Kaleidescope World Chicago - Soundtrack from Miramax Movie EBTG - Acoustic Duran Duran - free thing from The Mail on Sunday Ash to Ashes - Music from TV Series 2 Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say.... Sting & Police - Best of Dirty Dancing Soundtrack Kasabian - Empire Johnny Cash - hits comp RHCP - What Hits Louis Armstrong - hits comp Madonna - GHV2 The Coral - Invisible Silence Crowded House - Woodface Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving Brandon Flowers - Flamingo k d lang - Absolute Torch & Twang Twilight New Moon - soundtrack Walker Brothers - Hits Collection Cat Stevens - Greatest Hits CD & DVD Kooks - Konk Various - Dark Was the Night (4AD collection) Kings of Leon - Only By The Night Jarvis Cocker - The JC Record Trainspotting - music from film #2 Twin Peaks - Music from Ltd Event thing U2 Best of 1980-1990 Biffy Clyro - nearly a whole discography (Opposites 2CD digipak, Infinity Land, Blackened Sky, Vertigo of Bliss, and some others) ...all grabbed and more over last 2/3 weeks for 10p each. Nothing too groundbreaking or collectable, but great collection fills for pennies Meeeow..!! (EDIT - forgot to add they were doing 10 DVDs for a pound too - filled up a Morrisons bag with 45 DVDs for £4 to donate them to a local youth film club too...!!)
Welcome! Nice little haul there. The Elton album is good, but hit and miss. The second half falls away somewhat.
Which DVDs? If you have time, maybe you can list them or share a pic here: Charity (thrift) shop DVD hunting
Number of teen, action, comedy & classic movie titles (nothing with an age cert of 15+ due to the target audience). With the film club now, so no longer to hand. Sorry!
Nah, it was all pretty run of the mill stuff. Don't think anything on my list warranted a £1 buy (maybe the 4AD comp). Just a lucky hit when the shop was clearing shelf space after Xmas/NY. Was in the other day and everything back up to 50p and £1 - just left with all the Robbie and Dido CDs too. All the semi-good stuff now gone.
Fond memories of starting at one end of the Gloucester Road and walking all the way along to where the shops finally peter out - although it looks like there might be even more shops now as it's some years since I regularly visited there!
If you're ever planning to be in Canberra Australia, a charity called Lifeline has three weekend sales each year, mostly used books, but also other things including used CDs, which are usually A$2 (£1). I was after what I don't have already, and also replacing remastered CDs, so today I picked up Style Council, S&G, Nirvana, Bob Marley Legend, Talking Heads Naked, Van Morrison Astral Weeks, Rolling Stones GHS, Chris Rea R2H, Police, Beatles HDN and Blue, M83, Neil Diamond, A Camp, Smoke Fairies, Warren Zevon, Gillian Welch and so on. It's always pot luck, but everyone's a winner. The sales open at 9am, but people start queueing up at 7am or so. I also bought a few Blu Rays for A$3 (£1.50) such as Black Panther and Shine A Light (the Scorsese Rolling Stones doco - they also had the CD, but I didn't get it). It's my favourite time of the year.
the last month has been a pretty good for random finds - all of this lot for £17 Maximo Park - Too Much Information Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X (V2) Damian Marley - Return to Jamrock Sade : Diamond Life Sade : Stronger Than Pride Sade : Lovers Rock Kesha : Rainbow Interpol : Turn On The Bright Lights The Milk : Tales From The Thames Delta All Time Low : Nothing Personal (extra tracks) U2 - The Joshua Tree (Remaster) The Rakes - Ten New Messages Phoenix - Alphabetical The Damned Things - Ironiclast Robyn- Body Talk Pt2 The Roots - Home Grown! Volume One Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin' Sinead O Connor - Faith And Courage Ludovicio Einaudi - In A Time Lapse Bloc Party - Four Goyte - Making Mirrors The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History Marxman - 33 Revolutions Per Minute Various - UKF Dubstep 2013 most chuffed with : robyn, and the sudden appearance of a lot of the 2005 punk funk stuff (maximo park, the rakes, interpol, bloc party etc) as i have been really enjoying that stuff again recently. the album i have enjoyed the most is probably the Phoenix album, not heard any of their music before, but this album is an absolute delight. also, had no idea of the involvement of the On-U Sound crew on the sinead o' connor album .. its a subtle presence, but its definitely there in the mellow grooves, so very chuffed to have found that.
I've picked up a few target CDs over the years from charity shops: Al Jarreau High Crime (PDO variation), ZZ Top Eliminator, Bilitis soundtrack (later Alsdorf variation), Elaine Paige Cinema and Stages (2 copies of the same PDO variation from the same charity shop!). I've left Best of The Manhattan Transfer and Donald Fagen The Nightfly targets (the latter trashed). I did see six one time in a record store in Cornwall. Freddie Hubbard Sweet Return Foreigner Agent Provocateur Grover Washington, Jr. Paradise Grover Washington, Jr. Come Morning Ry Cooder Borderline (later PDO copy) Eagles Greatest Hits Vol. 2 I took the last two plus Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come (Japan 35DP) Oscar Peterson Trio Nigerian Market Place (Pablo) Freddie Hubbard Born To Be Blue (Pablo) Sonny Stitt Groovin' High (Atlas) MJQ Echoes (Pablo) Herb Alpert Blow Your Own Horn (Japan for US) Herb Alpert Rise (Japan for Europe) The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk (Japan for Europe) Journey Frontiers (Japan for Europe) They had a black face Getz/Gilberto, but it was trashed. I used to think George Winston CDs were common in charity shops, but I haven't seen one in a while.
Just one today (Sue Ryder) Paul Young No Parlez (Japan for Europe) The LP is a bit of a charity shop regular, but the CDs aren't too common. Always love spotting these early CBS CDs because you never know what CD variation is inside. They also had a copy of Genesis ...And Then There Were Three, which I don't think I've seen in a charity shop before. It was a pre-remixed EMI Swindon copy, not that I needed it.
Yes, as Eric Generic says, Alphabetical is brilliant. Their best album is reputed to be Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, but it's not a patch on Alphabetical IMHO. From memory, my CD copy is one of those weird ones that can't be ripped, and it won't play in the car either, which is a bit irritating. I also have the original vinyl, which is a lovely sounding thing.
These cost £2 each, which is more than I usually pay these days. But they were quite interesting selections – I’ve never seen any of them in a charity shop before: Yoko Ono – Yes, I’m a Witch Bob Dylan and Tom Petty – True Confessions (on the Swinging Pig label) David Bowie – Labyrinth The Bowie and Yoko are going for silly prices online.
