[Marbles]

well your really going to hate this one

Saw in the paper a guy advertising 20,000 Lps, must sell, in the paper today.

I called him up and he wanted $.25 each.

I went down to look and he owned an apartment complex, 3 units were filled wilth LPS!!  He said he had more like 50,000 LPS!!

They were in no order

4 hours, and over 200 lp's later and it cost me $40!!!!  He took .20 each

I was too burnt out to look any more, but I only hit about 20% of what he had.

Yeah, I'm going back

BTW, he would sell all of them for $3K

[mgalusha]

Very nice Rob. Your back probably hurts from bending over looking through them for that long.

I tend to like the 'made a good find' posts. I figure someday it will happen to me. I have had some good finds from time to time. Picked up a Thorens table at a garage sale one time for $20. I used it for quite a few years until it was just worn out. Every now and then fate smiles on you. A friend recently gave me 4 milk crates full of LP's and most were in very good condition.

[Marbles]

Very nice Rob. Your back probably hurts from bending over looking through them for that long.

I tend to like the 'made a good find' posts. I figure someday it will happen to me. I have had some good finds from time to time. Picked up a Thorens table at a garage sale one time for $20. I used it for quite a few years until it was just worn out. Every now and then fate smiles on you. A friend recently gave me 4 milk crates full of LP's and most were in very good condition.

     

[Tonto Yoder]

Nice score!
What kind of stuff was it???  And, most importantly, were there ANY White Tiger LP's????

[orthobiz]

Marbles,

Where do you live again?????

biz

[Marbles]

Fort Wayne, BTW, I might be in your town in a few weeks.

It's time for the annual drinking..I mean hunting trip

[Marbles]

Nice score!
What kind of stuff was it???  And, most importantly, were there ANY White Tiger LP's????

I didn't see any white tiger, but you never know!!!

I mainly picked up 60's,70's and 80's "classic" rock.

Most LP's were from the 50's 60's and 70's, NOT classic Rock.  Not Classical, Blues or Jazz either.

I'd call it early CRAP!!!

[Scott F.]

I'll add one of my greatest finds to the list just to make everybody sick.  

I visit my local indoor flea market about every other week. The guy that runs this place knows that I am into vinyl. Over the years I've probably bought 300-400 pieces from him. Anymore when he buys an estate out, he pulls all of the vinyl and electronics out and holds it aside for me. About two years ago I stopped by and the vendor said "I've got a box of records for you."

What I got was about 90 records. All of them were M/M. The vast majority of them were 70's rock but there were a fair number of Jazz albums in there too. Thankfully, very few of them were doubles of what I already had.

Here are the picks of the litter.

Yes - Close to the Edge - MoFi
Pink Floyd - DSOM - MoFi
Beatles - Abby Road - Mofi
Steely Dan - Aja - MoFi
Steely Dan - Katy Lied - MoFi
Genesis - Trick of the Tail - MoFi
Count Basie - April in Paris - MoFi
Billy Joel - The Stranger - Columbia 1/2 Speed Master
Kansas - Point of no Return - Columbia 1/2 Speed Master
Sheffield Drum Record - Sheffield Labs
Still Harry - Sheffield Labs
1812 Overture - Telarc (1st release recalled because of mistracking on 8hz bass on cannons)

and last but not least
Homer and Jethro - Strike Back (the one with... Does Your Chewing Gum Loose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?)

I also got a couple of picture discs and a couple of Nautalus 1/2 speeds but traded those in at Euclid Records.

Now for the kicker. I paid $50 for all 90 records.

These finds only come once every few years (if that often). The trick is getting out there and looking on a regular basis. Gotta be dedicated.

Oh, on a previous find I found some Furtwangler on WALP (super rare classical) at the same fleamarket a year or so earlier. I brought it home and checked on eBay and the pair of records were selling for over $300 each. I paid $.25 each for them.

Sometimes you just get lucky.

[mgalusha]

Here's another one I had forgotten about.

A couple of years ago we were in Estes Park Colorado, a very small, tourist type mountain town and I spied a used record store. It was combined with a dry cleaners and most of what they had was crap but.... They had one section of specialty discs such as MoFi's and the like. I came across a sealed copy of Frank Zappa's Joes Garage Acts I, II and III with an interesting red white and blue banner around it. It was marked $15.00 which seemed reasonable especially given the prices of the other discs in that section. After we returned from our vacation I took a closer look and gave in to the temptation of opening the record. Turned out to be a fairly rare Czech pressing with the records pressed on red, white and blue vinyl. Looking a little closer it was actually marked $75.00, not $15.00. I'm sure they owner wasn't pleased when he found out his wife sold it for $15.00.

On the other end of the scale in 1991 right after I was married the first time we needed money pretty badly. I sold all my LP's (about 850 of them) for $500 and there were lots of MoFis, JVC Japanese pressings, rare imports and the like including a near mint of Pink Floyd Piper At The Gates of Dawn. Looking back I should have kept the records and sold the wife.  

[Tonto Yoder]

My best buy came about a decade ago (maybe more);  I was living in Colorado and some guy was selling a bunch of his LP's  for about $500.
When I looked closer at his boxes of records, I realized there were all kinds of Mo-Fi's, Japanese pressings and the like.

To top it off, his wife was really cute!!  

[mgalusha]

To top it off, his wife was really cute!!  

That's the kicker, she was a knockout.  She was 1/2 black, 1/4 white and 1/4 Cheroke, very easy on the eyes. Ended up being mean as hell but it always takes 2.

[Marbles]

Mike, She reminds me of a favorite poem of my Fathers, The Ladies by Kipling

I've taken my fun where I've found it;
I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time;
I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts,
An' four o' the lot was prime.
One was an 'arf-caste widow,
One was a woman at Prome,
One was the wife of a jemadar-sais,
An' one is a girl at 'ome.

Now I aren't no 'and with the ladies,
For, takin' 'em all along,
You never can say till you've tried 'em,
An' then you are like to be wrong.
There's times when you'll think that you mightn't,
There's times when you'll know that you might;
But the things you will learn from the Yellow an' Brown,
They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!

I was a young un at 'Oogli,
Shy as a girl to begin;
Aggie de Castrer she made me,
An' Aggie was clever as sin;
Older than me, but my first un --
More like a mother she were --
Showed me the way to promotion an' pay,
An' I learned about women from 'er!

Then I was ordered to Burma,
Actin' in charge o' Bazar,
An' I got me a tiddy live 'eathen
Through buyin' supplies off 'er pa.
Funny an' yellow an' faithful --
Doll in a teacup she were,
But we lived on the square, like a true-married pair,
An' I learned about women from 'er!

Then we was shifted to Neemuch
(Or I might ha' been keepin' 'er now),
An' I took with a shiny she-devil,
The wife of a nigger at Mhow;
'Taught me the gipsy-folks' bolee;
Kind o' volcano she were,
For she knifed me one night 'cause I wished she was white,
And I learned about women from 'er!

Then I come 'ome in the trooper,
'Long of a kid o' sixteen --
Girl from a convent at Meerut,
The straightest I ever 'ave seen.
Love at first sight was 'er trouble,
She didn't know what it were;
An' I wouldn't do such, 'cause I liked 'er too much,
But -- I learned about women from 'er!

I've taken my fun where I've found it,
An' now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you 'ave known o' the others
The less will you settle to one;
An' the end of it's sittin' and thinkin',
An' dreamin' Hell-fires to see;
So be warned by my lot (which I know you will not),
An' learn about women from me!

What did the Colonel's Lady think?
Nobody never knew.
Somebody asked the Sergeant's wife,
An' she told 'em true!
When you get to a man in the case,
They're like as a row of pins --
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins!

-THE END-
Rudyard Kipling's poem: The Ladies