I still find interesting records at Thrift stores, but not the amazing stuff I used to find years ago. That being said, if you're into CDs and/or DVDs, there's still gold in them thrift store hills... You did good for sure with that haul.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
I have noticed that CDs and DVDs are still very affordable, and there tends to be a much better selection. I’ve been so tempted, but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. That might be next though! Thanks for writing!
@happyhippythevinylguy
10 ай бұрын
Wow! What a great deal bro, that was a wonderful day for you man. And thanks for the shout-out bro I appreciate it
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Absolutely! I can’t look at that album without thinking of you, man! Thanks so much! Feels good to get a little deal every once in a while. 😊
@jasonarsenault3791
10 ай бұрын
Love the Supersession album Bloomfield rocks.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Yes! Bloomfield was the man!
@reedrobins170
10 ай бұрын
I use thrift stores, garage and estate sales to dollar cost average my record collection down. That was a great score you got!! You have to know your areas thrift stores, and what they do with their records. Some are worth checking on a regular basis and others might put them online (goodwill). There are still some good finds out there but you have to check on consistent basis, it's like treasure hunting.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tips! Yeah, I just kind of ran out of steam after decades of thrifting. Especially recently when the good stuff is becoming increasingly uncommon. But this little haul proves there’s still finds to be had! I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Now the fear of missing out is back!
@brendo69rock92
8 күн бұрын
Best find for me was a Bad Company album.
@spinzvinyl
4 күн бұрын
I know the feeling. I just got lucky on this particular day.
@RubenEditIT
7 ай бұрын
I don't listen to Genisis alot but i did see an Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation album in the Thrift Store 3 weeks ago and i thought why not take it because it was only 1 euro and i had never seen it before. Turns out that that album is really good! "Am I Very Wrong" is an great track. I also found out later that if it has not the face on the cover (the one i got) is pretty rare. anyways good finds! Grateful Dead is scarce around here.
@spinzvinyl
7 ай бұрын
Very nice! Yeah, I guess that’s an older title. Cool that you picked up the more rare edition as well! Congrats!
@RubenEditIT
7 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinyl yeah this is with Peter Gabriel and i think Phil Collins was not in the band yet. But im not sure about that.
@victorbloom8286
Күн бұрын
The Excitement of the Bu t gets Us All
@mrhoffame
10 ай бұрын
Great vid my friend. A bunch of classics here!
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thanks! I’m so used to seeing Burl Ives and Jim Neighbors that I was a little shocked to find anything at all!
@robbiedetroitstigermanviny8883
10 ай бұрын
Enjoy, Its always exciting to catch a break on albums. Records are so hyped they are priced well above what they are worth. If an Audiophile gives their blessing or raves about an album watch it will go way up in price.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, vinyl is certainly trending heavily right now. Makes it very difficult to find the same kind of deals we used to see. This little Goodwill hall, helps to sort of balance things out a little bit.
@manolokonosko594
6 ай бұрын
When I was in LA, I found a couple of CDs for $1 which I played in the rented car. But as far as records, it's been 20 years and I still have to find that "rare" record among the pile of Jimmy Swaggart albums and other country or christian stuff. I did find a great pair of running tights for $8 though.
@spinzvinyl
6 ай бұрын
Haha! Yeah, finding good records at a thrift store is like finding a needle in a haystack these days. I think it can happen, but the hobby being what it is today, someone is going to snag them quick. I was just in the right place at the right time on this day!
@happyhippythevinylguy
10 ай бұрын
Holy moly U2 unforgettable fire!! I agree with you about that Asia album cover I've never really like their music but they always had really cool ✌️🎸. Fantastic video my friend
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much, Rod! That means a lot! 🙏🏻
@shovedhead
7 ай бұрын
My best thrift score was finding the Henry Cow debut for like a dollar. Abacab is a dope album.
@spinzvinyl
7 ай бұрын
What the hell?? I’ve never heard of that album until this very moment, and now I’m buying one! Thank you so much for your comment!
@shovedhead
7 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinyl Cambridge UK scene, Henry Cow and Genesis!
@spinzvinyl
7 ай бұрын
I’m on their wiki now. Not surprised to see connections/influences with Zappa, Beefheart, and Soft Machine. Great stuff!
@ConcertBuddie
10 ай бұрын
Duuuuuude! Thrift gold - WHOA! I can’t even remember the last time I hit at the thrift. I gave up hope! Happy for you man - plus, Huey is the undisputed best record you copped…after the Dead 😂 Happy belated bday! 🎂🎉🎈
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thanks, Chance! It feels like finding a needle in a haystack! But now I have to make an effort to stop there every weekend! We’ll see how long that lasts… 🤣
@davidmorgen4558
10 ай бұрын
I have found obscure Euro progressive rock from Gong to Steve Hillage to Klaus Schulze in Good shape so one never knows!
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Very nice! It certainly is hit or miss. I guess persistency is the name of the game!
@happyhippythevinylguy
10 ай бұрын
Happy birthday bro
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thank you, brother!
@bosco7837
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, I've been burnt out on thrift stores for a while as well. They are too unpredictable. You can get lucky sometimes, and admittedly I got lucky, but when it's five or six lucky events out of a DECADE of thrifting it's simply not worth it to put the effort in it. I mean, petrol costs money, I don't fly to the store (yet). I still visit the thrift store if I'm passing by, but I don't go out of my way anymore. My best finds were probably my current turntable, an Optonica RP 3500 with a terrifying granite cabinet which I got for €150 as "broken" but it turned out being perfectly functional (the store clerk could not operate it!). A few Type 4 Metal cassette tapes and the odd record here and there, but nothing memorable and nothing massively underpriced. I got more success buying good books tbh.
@spinzvinyl
7 ай бұрын
Nice turntable score! Yeah, my experience is similar to yours. I feel like I got extremely lucky on this day. I used to frequent thrift stores weekly; there was always something worth picking up. But to your point, those days are so few and far between now, it’s hard to justify regular stops.
@Wyoming_Dave
10 ай бұрын
i'm all for going to second hand stores and thrift stores, , but for the few crappy condition records you find, you can find records in good condition,,ive been going to those stores for 33 years
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Nice. Yeah, it’s very hit and miss for me, and when it comes to vinyl, mostly miss. But it also seems to depend on the location. You just never know! Glad to know I’m not the only one that’s been thrifting forever!
@Wyoming_Dave
10 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinyl rummage sales are good too fo finding used vinyl
@monaural2.988
10 ай бұрын
You can still find a minor gem here and there, but as for coming away with a bonanza of Rock, those days are largely gone. The longtime collectors and professionals know to befriend those who work in the thrifts in order to “get in the good” whenever records arrive off the trucks. In addition, many employees know vinyl is hot today and many discs never see the sales floor. They either take them for themselves OR they are sent to a special center for EBay sale. Check it out if you don’t believe me. CDs are a much better bet these days.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Oh interesting. Yeah, I’ve seen their eBay stores. They’ve definitely gotten wise to anything remotely valuable. You’re right about CDs. Definitely more common and generally a better selection. I might need to snag a CD player soon.
@crazyprayingmantis5596
10 ай бұрын
My local store sifts through their vinyl and puts anything half decent out the back, they then have a once a year "book fair" where they roll out all the good stuff, the local dealers line up at the door before it opens with their record cases ready, then almost push each other over like the boxing day sales to get to a crate. A few days later you can buy whatever they scavaged for in their record stores with a 500% mark up price. Its ridiculous and its the reason i don't even bother looking there anymore, all you find is beat up classical music and irish drinking song albums that should be in the garbage 🗑
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
That's really interesting. I've always wondered about that. Yeah, it's messed up. My local Goodwill never has anything. It's literally a couple hundred Christmas, Jim Neighbors, Barbara Streisand, and Burl Ives records. It's uncanny actually that so much of that stuff exists. To your point, they must filter out anything halfway decent. I didn't know about the annual "book fair" thing. It also seems like Goodwill has gotten savvy about posting anything actually worth buying on their Ebay stores. Fortunately, some things can still slip through the cracks, but it's like a needle in a haystack.
@crazyprayingmantis5596
10 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinyl Just thought id mention this is in Australia.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 gotcha. Thanks for watching from Australia!
@twofromthetrunk9932
10 ай бұрын
You can still find a few. But they have raise their prices and the quality is suspect. You will have to hunt harder. But you can find one or two. You channels came up on my feed. So I came, I saw and I subbed!!!!
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for watching and subbing!!! Yeah, I was having zero % success forever. And then one day, bam! Now I'm filled with false confidence, lol. I'm sure I'll come back to earth after a few busts.
@robbiedetroitstigermanviny8883
10 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Brother!!!!!
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Thank you!!!
@Wyoming_Dave
10 ай бұрын
i have that Lee Ritenour, Ronnie laws album and the dave brubeck/Kai Winding album, good stuff jason!!
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
Very nice! Some great stuff there! Are you a thrift shopper at all? Thanks for the comment!
@mbaker7775
10 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinylJust stumbled on your channel. Nice finds. That never happens to me on my thrift store visits. BTW- The big hit on the Lee Ritenour LP is "Is It You." I bet you'll recognize it if you listen again.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
@@mbaker7775 Thanks for the heads up! I’ll have to check that song out! Yeah, it’s kind of like gambling: that score gave me just enough confidence to think I can actually do it again. So now I can see myself spending every weekend at the thrift store flipping through Christmas, Jim Neighbors, and Burl Ives records. I appreciate you watching!
@psantos5573
10 ай бұрын
the thrift stores around in my area usually have junk. Or if you find one that is good, 99% of the time the vinyl is gone and just left an empty jacket. I used to do thrift runs and 98% of the time was a complete waste or disappointment. So, I also have stopped. There was mostly garbage most of the time.
@spinzvinyl
10 ай бұрын
That’s such a bummer. It used to be so easy to find decent second hand records. Now it’s like finding a needle in a haystack.
@pdelman10
7 ай бұрын
I have never found anything besides religious records and Poka
@spinzvinyl
7 ай бұрын
I know the feeling. I consider myself extremely lucky to have found anything at all.
@richardhawkins4621
2 ай бұрын
Everyone is looking for a bargain even these shops in the uk have put there prices up nobody will pay the so called asking price
@spinzvinyl
Ай бұрын
Interesting. Is Goodwill in the UK as well? They have an eBay store now where they list anything of value. It’s not like the old days. Thanks for weighing in on this!
@chriskitsopoulos9851
8 ай бұрын
Did i win your led zep lp
@spinzvinyl
8 ай бұрын
I’m afraid not, my friend. Maybe next time.
@joshhorvath7151
9 ай бұрын
My girlfriend and I were in Chicago this past weekend and we know we're out driving around we find a Goodwill okay what's going on there there was a bunch of vinyl records and I scored big time I found a couple good kisser records you one of the best you got the best I found kiss unplugged on vinyl and I found Kiss Alive 3 on white vinyl paid like $23 for them and then I found Psycho Circus there
@spinzvinyl
9 ай бұрын
Congratulations! That’s awesome! There “is” gold in them there hills! Way to go, scoring some awesome Kiss albums!
@joshhorvath7151
9 ай бұрын
Are kiss records going for a lot of money if their first pressings
@spinzvinyl
9 ай бұрын
@@joshhorvath7151 Kiss albums are pretty common, but they're also pretty popular right now. Everything rides on their condition. All 3 of those titles command a little more though. Best thing to do is look them up on discogs.com and ebay.com and see what others are paying.
@joshhorvath7151
9 ай бұрын
I looked on discogs last night there were some pretty good information but I have a question for you Kiss Psycho Circus now when cities were big back in the 90s that CD came back in 98 and then kiss real estate in 2014 but how come the only release a 2014 pressing of Psycho Circus cuz I looked on discogs there's not a lot of information on there
@joshhorvath7151
9 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinyl dude you are not going to believe this my girlfriend and I were up in Chicago this past weekend so we're cruising around and find a Goodwill then have a lot of Records we went to a record store and we may have found the mother lode of all mother loads we found a first pressing of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon it comes with the cards a little poster and a guitar pick it says Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and we got her to praise it's worth 27000 we found a we found a first pressing of thin Lizzy's jailbreak good album and we found a lot more Kiss albums so man we love Chicago
@joshhorvath7151
4 ай бұрын
Well hello my man I haven't really told you much what I've been doing the last couple of months number one I recently proposed to my beautiful girlfriend Chelsea and on December 18th 2025 we exchanged our wedding vows and we scored big time on some records man we scored on some Black Sabbath albums some Foreigner Led Zeppelin albums some Rolling Stones and some Dio records we found this antique store because I hear you want some vinyl records I'm just going to throw them away and they were all sealed and they had a ton of Ramones album so we got those to you so on December 18th 2025 Yours Truly becomes a married man to my beautiful girl Chelsea
@spinzvinyl
4 ай бұрын
Congratulations, my friend. Sounds like you’re loving life! That’s awesome! I wish you many happy years of marriage and music enjoyment. 😊
@joshhorvath7151
4 ай бұрын
@@spinzvinyl why thank you very much I do appreciate it my girlfriend chose has been through a lot after serving 12 years in the military in the Air Force but she's doing very well thank you very much and as kiss would say we got time for one more have you had a good time tonight so let's rock and roll all night and party everyday
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