Charity shop random music buying

[ICBM]

I buy a lot of music on CD in charity shops. It's not only cheap - £1-£2 for an album, some are asking £3 now but I'll only pay that for something I really want, or a double album - but you get to find lots of music that you would never normally think of looking for, in many cases because you had no idea it even existed. I'll often buy anything that looks interesting - I've found you very often *can* judge a CD by its cover, and my success rate is very high - about 90%, even for artists I'm totally ignorant of. I've been turned on to a huge amount of good music this way - it does help that I have a fairly eclectic taste, admittedly.

This week was a bonanza - one of the local shops was having a January clear-out, four CDs for a pound! The quality was unusually high too, not too many Blue albums and X-Factor winners. I bought 24... for less than the price of one album on iTunes .

Anyone else like to do this?

[daveyh]

My local town has four charity shops within 5mins of each other so I visit them in turn every time I go there. It always amuses me how you find the same albums in most of the shops.

[stickyfiddle]

I once got Physical Graffitti and Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl for £12. That was pretty good.

Used to get a fair bit when we were in Oxford. London's less good for charity bargains

[Lustycourtier]

My local morrisons (as are all I think) are doing used CDs for £1-£2. Not crap either. So far, Ive had the entire 'phonics and entire Norah Jones back catalogues for a quid a CD. Lots of Compilations too.

[erictheweary]

Nothing very exciting when I've looked. Various Now cd's normally.

Crack Convertors used to do cd's and then cleared them out. I got a few quite obscure blues cd's at £1 each but this was a few years ago.

[RocknRollDave]

B*witched come up more often than not whenever I look in charity shops.

And there's always some album I've not heard about or seen anywhere for years that mysteriously appears in more than one charity shop in the same town. How does this happen? Is there some flyer sent out to the local residents that says "If you have Toploader's CD...you know the one with that one you used to like that they played at Julie's wedding?...you must take it to a charity shop in Harborne THIS WEEK"

[daveyh]

B*witched come up more often than not whenever I look in charity shops.

I know one of B*witched

[RocknRollDave]

I know one of B*witched

I didn't realise you worked in McDonalds...?

[erictheweary]

B*witched come up more often than not whenever I look in charity shops.

And there's always some album I've not heard about or seen anywhere for years that mysteriously appears in more than one charity shop in the same town. How does this happen? Is there some flyer sent out to the local residents that says "If you have Toploader's CD...you know the one with that one you used to like that they played at Julie's wedding?...you must take it to a charity shop in Harborne THIS WEEK"

Harborne? Have you been sending your kids around Waitrose on vintage tricycles again?

[RocknRollDave]

Harborne? Have you been sending your kids around Waitrose on vintage tricycles again?

Ahem, I am trying to maintain the illusion that Waitrose Harborne has been closed down and has fallen into the hands of a badger baiting club who use it as the HQ for their regional office.

It's not true, but so far it is having more of an effect that my previous story, which was:

We can't shop at Waitrose, honey..it's too expensive and we're skint.