[78-L] Shopping in places other than record stores

[David Lennick]

Value Village gets records..that's a chain of thrift stores (all stuff is 
donated and a lot of it is unsold store stock) around Ontario. But they stick 
the price tags right on the 78s. Salvation Army and Goodwill stores around here 
tend to think they have a fortune sitting under them and price them too high. 
Around Buffalo and Niagara Falls, records are rarely over $1 and at two Sally 
Anns they're 4/$1.

I've just come from a thrift store around the corner where everything is "buy 
one, second item is free". LPs are 99 cents and there are a couple of 
turntables including a 3-speed Garrard changer, the one with the white tone 
arm. Probably ten bucks. I should buy it and get the 4-slice toaster free (I 
just picked up some mugs my wife liked and since there were only 5 I needed a 
6th item and found a really neat 10-ounce glass with an enraged Donald Duck on it).

This was where I bought that Peter Leschenko LP the other day..that still 
stands as my worst sounding reissue, believe me.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "eugene hayhoe" <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>
>> When I was 17 back in the '60s, I bought many great records cheap in drug 
>> stores, grocery stores, every kind of discount and dept. store, 2nd hand 
>> stores, Sally Army stores, St. Vincent de Paul storefronts, Volunteers of 
>> America shops, even roadside stands,
>> By the mid' 70s, most of these had unfortunately dried up.
>>
> And I was finding really good 78-reissue CD's at Dollarama stores; I suspect 
> that
> you lovers of classical music can still do so! Note that many of the thrift 
> stores in
> the above list had TONS of 78's back in the sixties/early seventies...a LOT 
> of
> folks were getting rid of their "obsolete" 78's, since they were no longer 
> playable
> on turntables and record players. These thrift stores usually charged ten 
> cents
> (sometimes 25...?!) each for 78's.
> 
> Since I started collecting 78's in 1973, after inhertining my late father's 
> 300 or
> so 78's (no one else in my family wanted the dommed things...!), I carted
> home 78's by the milk box full...at those prices! I also bought 78's very
> cheaply from a store in Toronto...Don's Discs (Don Keele still sells used
> records...often 78's!). Don had an unusual pricing policy...the records got
> cheaper as they went unsold (he once GAVE me about 400 "leftover"
> 78's...!).
> 
> As far as used LP's, they still abound at most thrift stores; however,
> conditions vary from "well-used" to "beyond hope!"
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
>