Garage Sale Gold!

[Bix Dugan]

I own no music.
I used to have respectable LP and CD collections, but...


Today I was out with my brother Jim, hitting garage sales, as we are wont to do every Saturday morning since I moved to South Carolina.

At the first one I found

Trainspotting #2

A complilation of music from that movie.
Iggy Pop, Bowie, Joy Division, Heaven 17 are featured. Cost?
A quarter of a dollar.

But wait, there's more.

Another lady had THREE big (18 gallon) Rubbermaid containers full of LPs.

She was asking 50 cents per album, but wanted to unload them all on us if she could.

Right away Jim found a James Taylor record he didn't have, and a Livingston Taylor album (James' brother?) he was interested in.
Right next to that were two Elvis Costello albums: This Year's Model and My Aim Is True. EC is one of my favorites.

So we asked what she wanted for all of them...

"Oh, twenty dollars?"

"Um, Okay!"

The Rubbermaid containers would cost more, new!

I am now going through the records and putting them on an Excel Spreadsheet (Jim's idea).

I started going through the first container.
Wow!
Cool!
Gallagher?!?
Wild & Crazy Guy!
Beatles '67
Neat!

Then I noticed...this feels...light.
Looked inside...no LP!

About half of the first 3 dozen albums covers were sans record.

But- there is still plenty of Gold.

I'll post the spreadsheet when I'm done.
At about 90 LPs per container, I've still got a ways to go.
I still think we got a great deal.

Here are the empty album covers...

Springsteen- Born in the USA
The Best of Genesis
Montrose
INXS- Listen Like Thieves
Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest hits
Tommy- Soundtrack
Beatles- 67 to 70
The Kinks
Kinks- Volume 2
Gallagher
The Cure- Standing on a beach
Patti Smith Group- Wave
BOC- Some Enchanted Evening
Ted Nugent
Stevie ray Vaughn- Couldn't Stand the weather
Steve Martin- Let's Get Small
The Doors- Other Voices

Why would somebody take their albums out of the covers in the first place? To put in a JukeBox?
That's all I can think of.

One thing. Some of these albums covers (with or without an LP inside them) have a corner cut off, or a hole punched in the corner, or a notch about 1/2" into the album, like someone took a hacksaw to it.

Anyone know why?
Please don't say-
"They won't play"
Maybe a library discard?

Here's a sample so far of the albums (with LPs inside)

John Baldry Good To Be Alive
Aztec Two Step Two's Company
Rachel Sweet Fool Around
J.D. Souther You're Only Lonely
Asia Asia
Harry Chapin On The Road To Kingdom Come
Bread Baby I'm-A Want You
Joni Mitchell Ladies Of The Canyon
Joan Armatrading Joan Armatrading
Ambrosia One Eighty
Poco Head Over Heels
Grinderswitch Macon Tracks
Hank Williams Jr. Rowdy
Rossington Collins Band Anytime - Anyplace - Anywhere
Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years
Jethro Tull Heavy Horses
Jethro Tull War Child
Youngbloods Rock Festival
America Hideaway
Spirit Spirit Of '76
Loggins & Messina Full Sail
Boz Scaggs Hits!
Steven Bishop Red Cab To Manhattan
Alan Parsons Project, The The Turn Of A Friendly Card
Willie Nelson To Lefty From Willie
Joni Mitchell Mingus
Sqeeze Cosi Fan Tutti Fruitti
Kate Taylor Sister Kate
Johnny Winter Still Alive And Well
ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud
America Holiday
Babys, The On The Edge
James Taylor Dad Loves His Work
Hank Williams Jr. Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound
Jimmy Buffet Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
Elvis Costello This Year's Model
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello And The Attractions Get Happy!
Elvis Costello And The Attractions Armed Forces
Mott The Hoople Rock And Roll Queen
Livinston Taylor Echoes
Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie
Dave Edmunds Repeat When Necessary
Guess Who, The #10
Uriah Heep Uriah Heep Live
Pure Prairie League Bustin' Out
Jimmy Buffet Volcano
John Fogerty Eye Of The Zombie
Hollies, The The Very Best Of The Hollies
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Get Your Rocks Off
John Cougar American Fool
America History - America's Greatest Hits
Splinter Harder To Live
Stephen Stills Thoroughfare Gap
Atlanta Rhythm Section Champagne Jam
Hoodoo Gurus Blow Your Cool!
4 E 5 Big Generator
Hoodoo Gurus Mars Needs Guitars
Times Square The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Loverboy Get Lucky
Quicksilver Messenger Service Just For Love
Richie Furay I Still Have Dreams
Billy Joel 52nd Street
Bryan Adams Cuts Like A Knife
Dave Mason Dave Mason
Ambrosia Ambrosia
Paul Young The Secret Of Association
Fix, The Shuttered Room
David Bromberg Band Bandit In A Bathing Suit
Beach Boys, The Friends
Willie Nelson & His Friends The Longhorn Jamboree Presents
Nils Lofgren Nils
Nils Lofgren Cry Tough
Nick Lowe Labour Of Lust
B-52's, The Wild Planet
Jimmy Messina Oasis


Alas- side one of the B-52's Wild planet is badly gouged.
But four Elvis Costello albums makes me...Get Happy!

That's one of the three containers. Do you think we got a good deal?

[Mr. Atari]

Bix, the albums with holes or corners cut off the jackets are known as "cut-outs", which usually are promo copies sent to radio stations or stores as demos or (more common) are remaindered backstock they're trying to unload.

See here.

I'd be bummed that the Beatles albums weren't in their sleeves, but collectible music is always a good buy for me.

[Bix Dugan]

Thanks Mr. A-

I also saw a VHS of SpaceBalls today. I should have picked it up...

[RVR2]

Hey Neighbor! That's a Jammin Collection!!