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A friend and I got lucky and came across an amazing jazz, soul, and latin collection. Many original pressings on Blue Note, Prestige, etc. The cool thing was that there were multiple copies of things. We got 10 sealed copies of Grantstand by Grant Green, though dark blue label. We paid $3 a record for the boxes we scored. Most legendary day so far.

 

I wish I had been your friend on that day.

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I think I've posted in this thread already, but I bought 80 records off a guy for $160 a few years ago. Sold what I didn't want, kept the rest. I made $600 selling half on ebay. Probably made another $300 on the rest over the yeras. In the loot was:

Pedro The Lion - Control
Saves The Day - Through Being Cool
Owls - S/T (blue)
Kid Dynamite - S/T (red)

Kid Dynamire - Shorter, Louder, Faster (green)
Lifetime - Hello Bastards (purple)
Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning To The Story

Decendants - Everything Sucks (First press)

Piebald - We Are The Only Friends We Have

Hot Rod Circuit - Sorry About Tomorrow

These Arms Are Snakes - This is Meant to Hurt You
Hey Mercedes - Everything Fireworks

Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today (2nd pressing)
Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates

Braid - Frames and Canvas (first pressing)

Misfits - Legacy of Brutality (early pressing)

Pinkback - Blue Screened Life

Get Up Kids - Two EP's boot

 And lots of others.

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Was at a garage sale in Portland and found:

 

At The Drive In - Relationship of Command

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets (Blue/Grey)

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (1st pressing)

 

$5 each! Guy had no idea what he had. At the time neither did I to be honest. I was just stoked to find records I liked for cheaper than $20.

 

Also, my mother-in-law called me recently to tell me she found a cool looking Johnny Cash record for me at an antique store. Turns out it was a sealed copy of American IV: The Man Comes Around. She pair $8 for it!

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Was at a garage sale in Portland and found:

 

At The Drive In - Relationship of Command

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets (Blue/Grey)

Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (1st pressing)

 

$5 each! Guy had no idea what he had. At the time neither did I to be honest. I was just stoked to find records I liked for cheaper than $20.

 

 

Only in Portland could that happen...

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Reach The Sky - So Far From Home hand stamped/numbered #96 of 500 on amazon for $7. (2010)

Converge - Petitioning The Empty Sky on gold on ebay for $36. (2011)

The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About on Lavender via amazon for $10 (2010)

Casket Lottery - Possiblies & Maybes on white via amazon for $7.50 (2010)

2 copies each of Bothers Keeper - The Continuum and the Racetraitor/Burn It Down split, sealed, for $1.00 each.  (2012) 

The Dad, I Can't Breathe comp for $4 (two days ago).

 

and the Caddyshack soundtrack for $3. (Last month)

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Today at work (I work at FYE) some lady brought some records to sell us. There was some Alice Cooper, some Aerosmith, some Kid Rock, etc. So I'm pricing these things and at the bottom of the stack, I kid you not, is a sealed US red/white copy of Elephant by The White Stripes. My manager decided to sell it at retail value since it was still sealed and in our system PLUS I have a discount so I paid $10 for it. Looks like I won't go for that RSD repress.

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  • 11 months later...

Recent purchase from a craigslist seller:

 

Say Anything - Is a Real Boy - Solid Yellow, Yellow Marble

MGMT - Solid sleeve, scratch off cover (not removed)

Wonder Years - Upsides on Purple

Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree and Tallahassee

Floor 8x CD set (LP sleeve)

plus a Boris - Heavy, Thin Lizzy, Blitzen Trapper and Chinese Stars LP's.  

Wanted $60 but gave him $80

 

Another stop yielded:

Smith - Meat Is Murder

Gun Club - Miami

Gun Club - Fire of Love + Death Pary

Violent Femmes s/t 

Cure - (3) 12" singles + Boys Don't Cry

 

All for $2 each.  

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