Charity Shop Gold
 

I'm sure many if not all of you rifle through charity shops bins for records. I don't want to hear about how you found the first Les Rallizes Denudes/ Velvets/ SY record for 50p. No.

I want to hear about how you fell in love with something.

Recently - Per-cus-sive Jazz; Manito de Platas; Herb Alpert; Hammond Party Time; Neil Diamond; the master 40's violinist Eric Siday.

These aren't 'rarities' per se, but they are the sort of thing that is really good and you wouldn't find elsewhere. As soon as I sort out vinyl > digital I may start uploading the wonders of charity shops.

Glice this is weird!I just mentioned charity shops in the gay dad thread and you come up with this.How telepathic are we?

Gosh,this is soooooo weird man!

Yeah, I'll repeat for posterity: YOU MUST STOP LIVING IN MY HEAD.

I really miss the age concern charity shop that used to be in Fulham's Northern road years ago.I would spend hours in there going through the masses of vynil,cds,mixtapes etc etc.

Another great find was a mint copy of Erasure's Wild! for 50p, complete with the gayest poster imaginable inside.

a 13th floor elevators tape.

Talking of age concern i just spoke on the phone to the sweetest old lady you could possibly imagine.

My girlfriend gets sick of me wanting to go in every charity shop we pass. I forever live in hope, though, of finding The Dream Syndicate's "Medicine Show" on CD.

The best find ever is for me is a compilation of artists on David Tibet's label World Serpent.It wasn't just that i didn't know of the existence of such cd but also the fact that the music in it is spellbinding.It really nailed me to the wall when i first spinned it.

you buy records in oxfam?! what are you, a gypo?!

You go to HMV Toilet.Actually your mum takes you record buying every Saturday for a little treat.Woolworths,there you go.

i do go to the big hmv on oxford st, it has the best hiphop & metal sections i've seen in london.

So di i sometimesTthere are better sections of that type of music in many less central shops though.Trust me,i'm your doctor Toilette.

yeah, but i don't want to go all the way to croydon, or something. and where is better for hiphop on CD?

Harlsden has excellent ragga/dancehall etc shops if you don't mind risking your life for music

Do you have a favourite charity shop, Pork? Oxfam seems to always have a lot of stuff in, probably, I suppose, because they're they first place that people think of when they think of charity shops.

I really love some of the chairty shops that you get on the essex road in Islington.Have you ever been to the stuffed animals shop in there?I haven't been in and never will but they have bars in front of the shop window because animal rights activists heve tried breaking in many times.

Best finds for me have been the Violent Femme's first record, SY's Bad Moon Rising on cassette and a homeade Birthday Party tape with a handmade cover so well done I nearly thought it was official.

Edith Piaf and solo Uillean pipes record. Blinder.