Zaf has restocked 17 days for anyone of you that still want to get one
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this was one of those that i streamed a couple of dozen times without thinking too much about it and then finally was like âyou know, youâll be mad if you miss it and buy it years later at a premiumâ. so i bought one, and it wasnât cheap, but i think itâll be worth it.
slightly disappointed that it has a hint of top spine blowout but thatâs what happens when they travel as far as this one did.
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Been away for just under a month for my Five - 0 and got a bit click happy online and came back to thisâŚ
After looking through threads and recommendations these got purchased.
I think I may need to calm down this month.
Still waiting on some parcels 
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Got this book too
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I got lucky in an Oxfam with a US original of Azymuth âLight As A Featherâ on Sunday.
They had it at ÂŁ22 which I thought was steep, but I can see itâs more on Discogs.
All for charidee, so I guess itâs ok.
Also got some Seinfeld-esque bass slapping very caucasian jazz funk. The track is called Collossus, and I was confused with Collosseum, and thought it might be good.
Itâs not.
ÂŁ1.99 for the 12â.
Oxfam getting expensive though!
Loads of bits I might have taken a punt on, but not for their prices.
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Thatâs a nice present to yourself!
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Yes Oxfam prices are generally not far off shop prices for most rare ish LPs though occasionally bits slip through the net at one near me. Most charity shops these days either seem to me to have been stitched up by a dealer or people are just selling on eBay and so itâs just the chud nobody will ever buy. Or over priced if itâs even remotely not Mrs Mills/James Last rubbish. I go in charity shops far too frequently and the good stuff I find in them is becoming less and less frequent.
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Yeah the âmultinationalâ charity shops donât really have much going⌠better chances and cheap prices only really in the local concern type places these days
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In some ways itâs a good thing that they professionalise (more income) but yes, always feels like the good stuffâs been picked clean, or stuck on the wall for ÂŁ55.
And for some reason (someoneâs read an article about ViNyLS) they are even pricing up the shit Cliff Richard / Johnny Mathis stuff at a fiver in some places.
Generationally you can tell that a good chunk of the population is dying off, there are so many old peopleâs records around now. And not in a good way.
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I do feel like saying sometimes - you will never sell these ever, all the people who would ever have bought this music are dead now. Chuck it in the landfill!
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Shame they canât be melted down and recycled or something.
There must be fucking millions of them.
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It does make you realise just how many copies of South Pacific, the Sound of Music, Mathis/Cliff/Jim Reeves/James Last must have sold at the time
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I did some volunteer work for Oxfam a few years back - basically pricing the boxes of vinyl (and some books, mainly academic stuff) that they got donated. My good friend was the manager and they were trying to make it a bit more boutique. I usually just went for the Discogs lower ranger price. No idea if it actually worked out in the end for them financially. She left not long after and the shop is no longer there AFAIK.
I did get first dibs on some of the nice records (although I did always give a donation towards them even though I was giving them a good few hours of free labour).
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In all seriousness there is a really good James Last disco tune amongst the dross isnât there? Canât remember which lp itâs on thoughâŚ
Summertime on Well Kept Secret is decent and then there are few funky ones on Voodoo-Party
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A record shop owner once told me South Pacific is the best selling album of all time me.
It must be up there
Nowhere near Thriller surely? !
Biggest selling album in the UK ever is Queenâs Greatest Hits (a record I almost never see in charity shops or car boots weirdly).
A local to me Oxfam music shop once had a âvolunteerâworking there who just happened to have 1000s on DiscogsâŚ
Youâve got to be in it to win it of course, but i hardly bother these days, similar with car boots but keep meaning to step it up.
My best find (in amongst the South Pacific/Mrs Mills) was the Linda Hoyle LP on Vertigo that I got about ÂŁ600 for
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nice pile! reminds me i need to get those nala sinephros, been meaning to for a long time.
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