MetalFisher
Semi-Vintage fan
Here is a comprehensive list of the vinyl selection you will find at thrift, every time -
Ray Coniff, Percy Faith, Streisand, Neil Diamond, Firestone Christmas albums, Shaun Cassidy, other Christmas albums, Orchestra music, random Brady Bunch looking families singing church songs, Herb Albert, and of course those Time Life collections...
And as a teaser, there will be a 1/2 decent album like say Bob Seger. Problem is, the LP itself will be missing. Hella good THAT does.
So these albums sit there, on the racks, never moving, smelling like an old attic. Why don't thrift stores just recycle that crap? NO ONE wants it.
I know it is mostly a pipe dream to think one could walk into a thrift store and find something that doesn't completely suck. Rummaging about 2,000 albums (no exaggeration) thru various thrift stores MIGHT render one or two that are even good enough for, "Oh what the heck, it is only a dollar". (cough) Laura Branigan (cough).
Supposedly Goodwill puts the "Good" stuff on their auction site and then the Ray Coniff type junk goes to the sales floor. They already know it isn't going to move which is WHY it ends up on the shelf. And, it never seems to get pulled. No colored price tags to indicate it has sat there for weeks, unlike the rest of the crap in the store.
DO the crappy albums ever get pulled?
Ray Coniff, Percy Faith, Streisand, Neil Diamond, Firestone Christmas albums, Shaun Cassidy, other Christmas albums, Orchestra music, random Brady Bunch looking families singing church songs, Herb Albert, and of course those Time Life collections...
And as a teaser, there will be a 1/2 decent album like say Bob Seger. Problem is, the LP itself will be missing. Hella good THAT does.
So these albums sit there, on the racks, never moving, smelling like an old attic. Why don't thrift stores just recycle that crap? NO ONE wants it.
I know it is mostly a pipe dream to think one could walk into a thrift store and find something that doesn't completely suck. Rummaging about 2,000 albums (no exaggeration) thru various thrift stores MIGHT render one or two that are even good enough for, "Oh what the heck, it is only a dollar". (cough) Laura Branigan (cough).
Supposedly Goodwill puts the "Good" stuff on their auction site and then the Ray Coniff type junk goes to the sales floor. They already know it isn't going to move which is WHY it ends up on the shelf. And, it never seems to get pulled. No colored price tags to indicate it has sat there for weeks, unlike the rest of the crap in the store.
DO the crappy albums ever get pulled?