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Henry Red Allen-Feeling Good

Bobby Hackett-Butterfly Airs(Vol.1)

Bobby Hackett-Thanks Bobby

Marion Brown/Leo Smith Duo

Don Ellis-Tears Of Joy

Red Rodney feat. Ira Sullivan-Hi Jinx At the Vanguard

Montreux 77'-Pablo Jam Sessions

Roy Eldridge-Little Jazz and the Jimmy Ryan All Stars

Jackie Gleason(feat. Bobby Hackett)-Music For The Love Hours

Jackie Gleason(feat. bobby Hackett)-That Moment

Burt Bacharach-Plays His Hits

Burt Bacharach-Music From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Ray Charles-In Person

Music Minus One(For Trumpet)w/Kenny Clarke, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Raney

All near mint--$25 total :)

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just got this one:

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And am giving it a first spin as I type... very cool!

Thought with Dyani and Dorge it had to be cool!

Paid about 14€ for it, which seems quite a nice price, it's in very good shape, no visible scratches, no tears in the cover, just some wear, but it looks like it was part of a collection that was taken care of very well, just as all the ECM vinyl I bought in the past weeks!

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Went to a local record store today (one of the few real brick and mortar shops left in town) for a huuuge secondhand clearance sale. Everything went at 1 euro apiece - LPs, CDs, 10-inchers, EPs, singles.

Had to sift through an awful lot of pop/disco/MOR/easy listening/light classics/kids records dross (hit rate less than 1 per 100, I guess) but it was well worth it.

These are just the period/early originals (not counting the 70s/80s reissues):

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The usual cover wear on many of then but how can you go wrong at 1 euro apiece? At that kind of money you can take chances and buy items even for their covers only. Of course I already had some of the music but if you can replace a nondescript later reissue with a nicer early pressing then this is the time. ;)

Vinyl mostly looks like they came from careful collectors' homes but some look like they've seen a fair bit of party use (including the Lil Abner, of all platters! :D )

Wish that days like that came along a bit more often ... :lol:

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That sounds like a great deal of fun, and it is a very impressive haul.

We had a time like that a few summers ago in Kansas City, when the massive collection of the Music Exchange was sold at very low prices, which went lower and lower as time progressed. Your account brings back memories of pawing through countless easy listening and soundtrack albums in search of a gem. There were certainly gems to be had. I agree with you that I wish that days like this came along more often!

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You know one man's meat is another man's poison anyway and no doubt others were happy to snap up a lot of that easy listening/MOR stuff (I saw some drooling about those 60s easy listening orchestras, in fact). And I did pick up a few non-jazz "oddball" pop items too (like I said, how can you go wrong at that price? The 2-hour dig was well worth it. No time, though, to go back tomorrow for another round.

But not doubt if they sold off a "collection" at you Music Exchange that must have been even more of a treasure chest.

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You know one man's meat is another man's poison anyway and no doubt others were happy to snap up a lot of that easy listening/MOR stuff (I saw some drooling about those 60s easy listening orchestras, in fact). And I did pick up a few non-jazz "oddball" pop items too (like I said, how can you go wrong at that price? The 2-hour dig was well worth it. No time, though, to go back tomorrow for another round.

But not doubt if they sold off a "collection" at you Music Exchange that must have been even more of a treasure chest.

It was a treasure chest in which the "gold coins" were buried in massive piles of garbage. In other words, simply irresistible.

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I bought the Lieb/Beirach and Tolliver Selects from amazon.fr for quite nice prices - also somewhat cheaper than the rest of the sets. No idea why this happens, but I said to myself: carpe diem! - he he... still, my remark was tongue-in-cheek of course, as we're in the vinyl corner here :)

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Went to a local record store today (one of the few real brick and mortar shops left in town) for a huuuge secondhand clearance sale. Everything went at 1 euro apiece - LPs, CDs, 10-inchers, EPs, singles.

Had to sift through an awful lot of pop/disco/MOR/easy listening/light classics/kids records dross (hit rate less than 1 per 100, I guess) but it was well worth it.

These are just the period/early originals (not counting the 70s/80s reissues):

23.131.jpg

23.133.jpg

23.134.jpg

23.135.jpg

23.136.jpg

23.137.jpg

The usual cover wear on many of then but how can you go wrong at 1 euro apiece? At that kind of money you can take chances and buy items even for their covers only. Of course I already had some of the music but if you can replace a nondescript later reissue with a nicer early pressing then this is the time. ;)

Vinyl mostly looks like they came from careful collectors' homes but some look like they've seen a fair bit of party use (including the Lil Abner, of all platters! :D )

Wish that days like that came along a bit more often ... :lol:

I love it when you guys post images, more please.

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I found a brand new boxed Shure V15VxMR. I am aware that replacement styliii are hard to find. So my question is, should I hang onto it for the day (2-10 years out) when I can have the analog situation of my modest dreams (i.e. floor not like a trampoline), or is this a wasting asset that I should unload? thanks

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bought today:

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with performances by Jaki Byard, Dave Samuels, Bill Frisell, Steve Lacy (all solo), the Carla Bley Band doing "8 1/2", a suite by Muhal Richard Abrams, Sharon Freeman etc, a David Amram quintet track, as well as a William Fischer-conducted medley feat. Wynton & Branford Marsalis, George Adams a.o.

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the later cost some, the others were all fairly cheap!

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how trashed?

Probably very. I've found that the trashed factor for Horace's Blue Notes (at least amongst many of the ones that made it across the pond) is very high. All those mods & rockers boogie-ing along to them on knitting-needle stylus radiograms !

'Blowing The Blues Away' mono deep groove is usually particularly bad. Nuclear holocaust on most of those..

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How many people would look at a pile of trashed LPs starting with Bert Kaempfert, in an alley? How many would keep looking after the fifth Kaempfert LP? Or the twenty-seventh?

What's that football chant?

"One Aric Effron,

There's only one Aric Effron"

Sung to the tune of "Guantanamera".

MG

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How many people would look at a pile of trashed LPs starting with Bert Kaempfert, in an alley? How many would keep looking after the fifth Kaempfert LP? Or the twenty-seventh?

What's that football chant?

"One Aric Effron,

There's only one Aric Effron"

Sung to the tune of "Guantanamera".

MG

:lol:

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