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

[agp]

At 09:03 26/12/2009, MB wrote:

>I regularly stopped by Woolworth when I lived in Evanston Ill in 68-72,
>and got a wealth of stuff there.

That was something that I recall about my local G C Murphy's and W T 
Grants' stores. I recall the packs of 45s, in plastic bags. The top 
and bottom records where hits, drilled of course, but the stuff you 
couldn't see in the middle was usually junk. Not always though as I 
got some US releases of UK hits that I knew since I used to listen to 
Top 20 on the BBC World Service. Best was when the Apple records 
suspended business around 1976 or so. A whole whack of almost every 
non-hot single on Apple hit the bins for 25 cents a pop!


>On my first trip to Budapest Hungary in 1988 I came across a great
>record store that had Hungarian and Soviet cut-outs.


I went to a store like that in Prague in 2004. Got a bunch of 45s of 
Czech/ Slovak covers of western hits on Supraphon, and almost 6 45s 
by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich on German Fontana all for 1 Koruna each.

T