Good lord those Gabriel sacds were an amazing find. As a fully masked up member of the isolation police I hereby demand that you hand them over.
Cracking haul!! Anyway, my allotted cycle ride today took me near a branch of Poundland, so I thought I'd take a detour. Came away with Tori Amos, Strange Little Girls REM, Life's Rich Pageant (original 1986 press, I think) Deacon Blue, Fellow Hoodlums Chvrches, The Bones of What You Believe Mercury Rev, The Secret Migration Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits (again, I think this looks like a 1980s vintage disc) Am listening to the Tori Amos one just now. Very impressed so far. Its a covers album and some of these versions seem unique and beautiful.
Is that Life’s Rich Pageant a Nimbus disc? I have Fables, LRP and Document on Nimbus, all sound great. I seem to recall from deep in the forum’s past that Fables has a bewildering number of CD masters and that the Nimbus is quite unique - don’t know if that’s the same for the others.
Lots of houses round here with help yourself boxes outside, mainly books but a few CD's, seen absolutely nothing I'm remotely interested in though. Dubmart you done good.
Yes it is a Nimbus. I've just looked it up on Discogs and it doesn't look unique. It's actually a 1994 reissue.
I have 2 versions of the CD now, an IRS Masters one from the 90s (I think) and one on Columbia/Epic from the 80s. I bought the latter simply for the novelty (to a UK fan) of REM on that label with the in-house spine design. EG.
Hello, hope you are all well, just thought I would share my Discogs list of all the CDs I've found in charity shops over the years. Charity Shop CDs by biilyedwards | Discogs Lists I miss rooting through them dearly!
When this is over I'll enjoy the chuggers on my way to the charities When immunity passports come about we could visit and root through each other's collections
Just back from a successful trip to the post office, no SACDs, but my local garden walls are like a giant spread out free boot sale, tons of books, games, puzzles, toys, plants, shoes including what looked like barely worn Timberlands and a load of other stuff, I'm not planning to leave home the rest of the week, but it is getting tempting. Actually I've been to boot sales with less stalls and worse stuff.
I'm going to have to move to Bristol, but until then, how about we give each other a little therapy over Zoom?
I just passed a nearby row of houses and picked up a nice Mexican Fender Tele and a lovely Martin acoustic. Oh, and three Bowie boxsets. Thought I'd let someone else have the Gibson SG seeing as I already have one.
Lots of nice music collections in St Werburghs, but I'm near Gloucester Road, that box was in Bishopston which along with Redland is a cornucopia of free stuff on walls, no idea about anywhere else as I'm staying very local, plus there are lots of garden walls around here which seems to help.
Nice, I haven't spotted anything like that around me though people do it with fruit, veg, eggs, etc when they have excess in the summer. I think I am going to try doing it on my garden wall and see if it catches on.
Ah bait, good idea, a note always helps, especially if people aren't used to it locally, also remember that just like fishing only take what you really need/want, (yeah I grabbed all the discs, but I've left everything else).
There's a bit of it going on in York too, my mum has picked up a few books for my kids that way, and we got rid of our glut of strawberry plants in about 2hrs by just popping them on the end of the drive with a note. It would be nice if it stuck around after lockdown, but I'd imagine it's dependent on the higher footfall.
It's always happened around here, just not to the same extent, my biggest regret was about fifteen years ago, long before I had a flat screen TV, someone put a TOTR 36" Panasonic TV out near me, fully working to take, I would have loved it, but being CRT it was huge and not only too big to move on my own, but likely too big for my room, I did get my brother one of those TV/DVD combos, last year I got a Dual record deck, I've also had a big Target Hi Fi rack and best of all the wild west fort Lego set, still waiting for the Garrard 301 though.
It's nice that people are putting stuff out free for others to give a new home to. I never cease to be amazed and appalled at what some will throw out. With council dumps shut (I think some have been opening up again very recently) and people at home to spring clean it's been on mind about how much kit will end up wasted in landfill. Stuff staying away from the dumps and getting used is more than good with me. Even if I don't get to enjoy of it myself.
Never seen this phenomenon round here, only some fruit or whatever at certain times. I won't be giving all my CDs and DVDs to charity, so if the small store I visit (and plan to donate this stuff to) go under, then I will have to look at other avenues. EG.