Sorry if this has been done to death but we have all rooted around those CD basement shops in the hope that a gem will appear,so what have been your gems and how much did you pay?
Last year i picked up 'Justamustache' by Thunderbirds Are Now 'Stay Afraid' by Parts and Labor and 'What the hell do i know' by Illinois all for the mighty five quid!
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Love - Forever Changes
for £2 ages ago I freakin love that record.
£1 for an old electro compilation was ace too.
^ace
record that!
love it
Whole RATM backcatalogue
for £7.
Yeah, I got the first RATM album
for £1.99
Fieldy's Dreams - Rock n Roll Gangster =
1p.
The La's BBC sessions
50p!
^ also ace
!
In Rainbows =
Zilch!
for the CD?
didn't think so
Songs in the Key of Life
£2.
TWO QUID.
Went to a library CD sale
and picked up about 20 ace CD's for £2 each. Best discovery was Holger and Czukays Flux/Immutability.
lol
Sylvian and Czukay*
Violent Femmes - S/T
For a quid. Still one of my favourite albums of all time.
69 Love Songs
for a fiver. I remember thinking someone had stuck the wrong price label on it at the time.
Pulp - Different Class
£1.50. :D
His n Hers
50p
But it had '50p' scrawled across the inlay in permanent black marker.
Win/lose.
i get lots of 'promotional use only ones'
for £2/3. do other record shops do this?
I get loads of them from Music & Video Exchange in London
They are my lifeblood.
I just got
Songs For A Dead Pilot by Low.
For three quid. I rule!
where where...
i want it!
You can't have it.
It's mine, not yours! :)
There was only one copy. Sorry.
now that is v.disappointing....
would have been an unbelievable bargain...
vinyl exchange singles bin ftw
sleeping years - you and me against the world EP
TTNG/Catsx3 split
BSM - Record label schmecord label
untitled musical project EP/album
eighties matchbox B-line disaster - In the Garden EP w/ ouija board
33p each
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
£1.20 in a charity shop.
Propaganda
A Secret Wish for £2.40.
Quite good, ja?
Ja
For sure
I bought a CD
by a band called Bobgoblin a couple of years back for 50p. Impulse purchase cos it had a cool cover. Now easily one of my top ten albums.
idlewild-the remote part for £1
from a charity shop.went in hmv and it was £14 :D
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew
for TWO POUNDS
I bought two and gave one to my friend. Best price to awesomeness birthday present ratio ever.
GZA - liquid swords
for £2.99
steal of the century
my friend just gave me one of these
for the same reason
Not a CD
but I recently ordered 100 random 7" singles for £20 (including postage) from the Pure Groove closing down/ moving sale. Have been having loads of fun having a few drinks and going through them all and there are loads I like and others I have now heard for the first time - Ladyfuzz, Youth Movies, The Hot Puppies etc. etc.
The bundle did also include that Reverend & The Makers single, but hey it was fun!
I found
At the Drive-in - El Gran Orgo
and
Desert Sessions 5&6
for a fiver each :D:D:D:D:D
Jarcrew
1p + postage or something silly like that. Worth every penny!
I'm sure I've told this story before
but I do like to show off about it - my mate worked for Andy's Records when it went bust, and they were selling all CDs to employees for a pound each. I bought 80.
That's ace
I used to like Andy's Records
Yeah, they were really good
which is why robbing their store blind was so much fun!
Andy's Records ...
ah the memories ! Spent most of my first ever wage packet there in 1979 - I can still remember what I bought, worryingly. Couple of Buzzcocks singles were in there as was Kate Bush's Lionheart. I was a strange teenager.
My Latest Novel - Wolves
99p in Rounder records
liberty 37 - the greatest gift
for a dollar.
not a cd
..but i got Michael Jackson's 'thriller' and 'Off the wall' on LP for 25p each once.
all my favourite albums i got cheap on sale
Nirvana - Nevermind ?5
The La's - The La's ?3
Stone Roses - Stone Roses ?4
Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks ?2
quite standard.
Yeah
i shouldn't have put CD i meant all music,it's just i buy mainly CD's and forgot that many people like the vinyl.
music and video exchange last week
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tom Waits - Swordfishbones
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Killing Joke - Pandemonium
Kate Bush - The Whole Story
all that for £2
Asobi Seksu - Citrus £1
If anyone can beat...
'The Songs of Leonard Cohen' for 30p on vinyl, then I will be pretty impressed.
I also once stole 'Iowa' by Slipknot from HMV when I worked there, but I guess that doesn't count.
I got that Leonard Cohen free on vinyl!
But that's because it was in my mum's old record collection ;-)
Got In Utero
off my mate for a pound. Then began singing making him realise that he actually really liked it.
Soulbossa - Love Amongst the Stars
for 30p. In a record shop last year as well, not a charity shop. The Velocette album was also 30p. I felt a bit sorry for both bands.
Ah....
I’ve got some ace cheap stuff at the library CD sale too – in one bash recently I got Bert Jansch, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, The Orb, Ooberman. For £50 or £1 each. Nice.
starsailor -
love is here - 2.50 (when it wasnt v old)
and a double disc funkadelic collection for a quid.
but by far the winner (of my collection, and quite probably the thread)
was my discovery of the honda cd. with the 'hate song'
'Grr song' by 'be nice to the pigeons'
for only 50p.
if i could only listen to one song ever, it might be that. + it came with a load of other cool stuff on it too.
Recently
Scott 3 for a quid. It was worth that just to see the little HDCD sign flash up on media player.
RICHARD BLACKWOOD - YOU'LL LOVE TO HATE THIS
http://tinyurl.com/6fqna8
0.01p
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions...
..rattlesnakes for £2.
Plus just won PJ Harvey's Rid Of Me off ebay for £1.50.
Bullet Union - Dominos Ruin
For about £3 off play.com the other week.
Within the last week £1 or less
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury (Fopp CD)
Lonnie Donegan - Lonnie (Fopp CD)
Donald Fagin - The Nightfly (R&TE LP)
Michael McDonald - Greatest Hits (R&TE LP)
All are ACES!!!!
loads
James Brown greatest Hits - £3 from Fopp most recently - he was great wasn't he?
The Record Shop in Cardiff is a goldmine
Have gotten
Rage Against The Machine - S/T
Mansun - Attack Of The Grey Lantern
& others for a quid each. Also got Mogwai's Kicking A Dead Pig Remixes thing, two discs, for 10p, but I don't really listen to that so I'm not sure it counts.
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
For £3.99 in a sale in Virgin a while back
the divine comedy
liberation for a quid.
and its well out of print now.
Sonic Youth - Goo
£3 on play.com :D
the la's album for 10p
off ebay, but still.
hot hot heat - knock knock EP
50p from sainsbury's
bauhaus singles 79 - 83 double gatefold vinyl
in near mind condition car boot sales - £2.50. bargain.
vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
£3.99 from John Menzies. Before they sold out to them WH Smiths beggars. Actually in the BARGA'IN BIN too.
re:
-Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - $2
-Beck - Odelay - $2
-Bright Eyes - Cassadaga - $8
-Eels - Blinking Lights & Other Revelations - $6
-Cibo Matto - Viva! Woman - $.99
-Pearl Jam - Vitalogy - $2
-Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet - $6
-Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker - $6
-Pavement - Wowee Zowee - $6
I know there are PLENTY more... now ask me about my record collection, which, excluding Sgt. Pepper's, has probably cost me $20 total. And I have a fairly big collection considering I've only been collecting since August.
Ooh!
Shit, I forgot:
-Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane EP box - $7
-At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - $2
cearly..
your math(s) int up to much because straight away i can see this adds up to more than $20.
now ask me how much i'd give you for your collection;
£5. and thats for wowee zowee and odelay, you can keep the rest cuz its cack.
hmm
excluding Fopp, i found Loney, Dear's Sologne for £1 and the limited edition picture disc of The Holy Bible by the Manics for £4 a while back... its got Jesus on the CD
i miss that album
(THB), tis under my brother's bed at me ma's like, if you're inneressed.
Viva Hacienda: 15 years of Hacienda Nights
3CD boxset mixed by Dave Rofe, Jon Dasilva and Pete Robinson. Stunning compliation that is rare as hens teeth too. Price = 50p in an Our Price closing down sale. Bargain.
Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
£1 in Borders
In the nice vacuum formed box too.
got a couple of Steely Dan albums
for £3 each, but my best ever is when i bought Music In Mouth by Bell X1 for 10p
got the second shooting at unarmed men album
for 2.99 from rounder in brighton. i bought it thinking "meh, the 1st album was a bit rubbish... but 2.99... nice"
its fookin' awesome :)
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
cash converters in Grimsby, 10p.
It was in the singles bin cos it was the proper one with the record sleeve style thing going on (cardboard sleeve thing)
I saw this band Future Kings of Spain
support Biffy Clyro like 6 years ago and then a few months back their album was in Jumbo in Leeds for 25p promo. They were doing some sort of clearout
I also got Songs of the Blackbird by William Eliot Whitmore for free the same day, that was the best
ALIGATOR
the national - aligator - ONE POUND
sorry
99p