"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

@ 0.85 USD

Disko Band: Klassiks go Disko
Ariel Ramirez: La Zamba Vol. II
George Duke: I Love the Blues, She Heard My Cry
Joel Grey: Black Sheep Boy
Boston Pops w/ Arthur Fiedler: Peter and the Wolf (Alec Guiness, narrator) / Carnival of the Animals
Teachers OST
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon OST
Staying Alive OST
Issac Hayes: ...To Be Continued
Petula Clark: Petula
Cher: Half-Breed
The Beat: Ackee 1-2-3-Nike Mix/ I Confess (United States of America remix)
The Beat: Doors of Your Heart / Drowning
Enoch Light and the Glittering Guitars
Lenny Dee: Take It To The Limit

recently got the following for £1 (all on vinyl)

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too Rye Aye
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

$1, Goodwill Store, 183 & Burnett in Austin:

The Suburbs Credit In Heaven (Twin/Tone double LP, 1981)

Friday I pick up OMD - Crush for 50 cent at a Goodwill. Saturday I picked up André Cymone - AC, a Beach Boys greatest hits, Rio - Duran Duran, and some others for a buck a piece.

5 for $1 sale (so, $2.18 TOTAL, including tax), Antone's today:

Steve Arrington The Jammin' National Anthem (Atlantic 1986)
D Train Music (Prelude 1983)
Miquel Brown Symphony Of Love (Polydor 1978)
Dazz Band Rock The Room (SBK/RCA 1988)
New York City Band New York City Band (American International 1979 -- my second copy of this; goes straight into the theoretcial ebay pile. Probably mentioned it before way up thread, the first time I bought it: prominently features a very early, pre-fame "Luther Van Dross.")
Pretenders Extended Play (Sire EP 1981)
Charlie Rich Rollin' With The Flow (Epic 1977)
Sugar Babes Sugar Babes (MCA 1987 -- post-"Push It" teen-girl r&b/hip-hop trio, apparently? Never heard of them before.)
Joe Tex Bumps And Bruises (Epic 1977 - w/ "Ain't Gonna Bump No More" {With No Big Fat Woman or something like that, I believe] and "Be Cool {Willie Is Dancing With A Sissy}"!)
(Various) The Gospel At Colonus (Warner Bros. 1984 -- maybe the only gospel LP ever to chart on the Pazz & Jop list, unless there's another one I'm not thinking of. Couldn't get into at the time, but I was a whole lot younger then.)

that is two dollars very well spent.

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75 cents apiece. I was flipping my shit the whole time because all the records were missing from their sleeves and I missed out on Parliament, early Aretha Franklin, and James Brown.

nice! i did very well selling old mojos at the store. sold them for, like, four bucks a mag! they have good resale value.

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wish same was true for us in UK.
i have a mountain of old mojos
i started @ #45 approx i think - had pet sounds cd single embedded in the cover - before the days of covermounts
cant get rid of them even for free (well apart from collection that is !)
oh and for thread relevance, last week picked up River Deep, Mountain High on cd for 99 pence with an extra bonus of 25% off.
bargain. rather chuffed about that particular find.

$1 Each today, Recylced Reads (the Austin Library overrun store)

Mose Allison Ever Since the World Ended (Blue Note 1987)
Laurie Anderson Big Science (Warner Bros. 1982 -- got rid of my old copy over two decades ago)
The John Carter Octer Dauwhe (Black Saint 1982)
The Cretones Snap! Snap! (Planet 1981)
Jack Dejohnette New Directions (ECM 1978)
The Persuasions No Frills (Rounder 1984)
Stan Ridgway The Big Heat (IRS 1986)
The Searchers Love's Melodies (Sire 1981 -- comeback LP with Moon Martin, John Fogetry, Motors, Records, and Big Star covers)
Trouble Funk Trouble Over Here (Island 1987)
Y&T In Rock We Trust (A&M 1984)

25 cents each, garage sale, Central Austin (all in great shape; a couple still sealed though I expect I'll fix that problem soon)

George Jones All-Time Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Epic 1977)
Barbara Mandrell The Best Of (Columbia 1977)
Roger Miller The Return Of Roger Miller (Smash 1965)
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (Capitol 1965)
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos Before You Go/No One But You (Capitol 1965)
Buck Owens The Best Of (Capitol 1964)
Ricky Skaggs Don't Cheat In Our Hometown (Epic 1983)
Ernest Tubb Greatest Hits (MCA 1980)

They had a pile of other old country albums -- including four or five more '60s Buck Owens ones -- but I didn't want to be too greedy.

cheapo in minneapolis seemed to have a lot of pretty good stuff for $1-$3. anyone check in there from time to time?

Cheapo in Austin is the most mis-named record store in town, as far as I can tell -- have yet to buy a single thing there.

yeah cheapo's in cambridge mass was, similarly, not all that cheap(o).

xhuxk, question for you, since you buy a lot of $1 or less records -- how picky are you about what kind of shape they are in? How beat up is too beat up?

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Yeah, that'd be too beat up. Anyway, I'd say it depends on the record. And the price. Pickier about $1 records than 50 cent ones. I've bought a couple Suburbs and ZZ Hill and J. Blackfoot LPs this year that are pretty scratchy or even warped (in at least two cases I couldn't play the lead cuts on either side), but that's really rare, actually. At any rate, I've never been what you'd call an audiophile. I'll listen through a scratch or two, if it's something I might not get to hear or own otherwise. Can't say my stylus thanks me, but I can get a new one -- and honestly, in my experience, styluses last a good long time anyway.

Btw, that should be John Carter Octet up above.

$1 each, End Of An Ear in South Austin and Parlor Pizza (music swap meet) at 43rd and Guadalupe:

Bad Boy Back To Back (United Artists 1978 - w/ inner sleeve, press bio, and publicity photo still inside)
The Buggs The Beetle Beat (Coronet 1964 - I think maybe this is a fake Beatles LP that Metal Mike Saunders and/or Doug Wolk recommend?)
The Cretones Long Thin Line (Planet 1980 -- 2 LPs by them in 2 weeks!)
Dave Edmunds Subtle As A Flying Mallet (RCA 1975)
Z.Z. Hill Down Home (Malaco 1981 - pretty scratchy again; I'm starting to get the idea Southern Soul fans don't take very good care of their vinyl)
Moon Martin Mystery Ticket (Capitol 1982)
Elliott Murphy Aquashow (Polydor 1973 -- supposed to be his great one)
Tom Robinson North By Northwest (IRS 1982)
Screaming Blue Messiahs Bikini Red (Elektra 1987 -- pretty sure I trashed this in Creem when it came out)
Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys A Six Pack to Go (Capitol 1966 -- "a program of their biggest beer-drinkin' hits!")
Richard & Linda Thompson Pour Down Like Silver (Island 1976)
(Various) Professional Baseball: The First 100 Years (Fleetwood 1969 -- I think I wanted this when I was 9 years old; maybe even got it then; originally cost $3, according to the cover; narrated by James Stewart and Curt Gowdy)
(Various) Goofy Gold (HRB Music 1978 double LP -- some overlap with K-Tel and Ronco novelty song TV-mail-order compilations, but this looks extremely cut-rate; maybe a bootleg?)
(Various) A Nonesuch Christmas (Nonesuch 1969 - "from the Baroque, Renaissance, and Middle Ages")

Oh yeah, I also bought a snowman for $2 at a garage sale who raps "Ice Ice Baby" when you squeeze his hand. (His bling says "Ice" on it, too.)

$5 Total (less than $1 each), Breakaway Records, between SXSW sets by Girl In A Coma, Viv Albertine from the Slits, and Rosie Flores feat. Adrian & the Sickness's rhythm section, in the Cafe Mundi parking lot:

Gregory Abbott Shake You Down (Columbia 1986)
Fad Gadget Incontinent (Mute 1981)
J. Walter Negro and The Loose Jointz "Shoot The Pump" (Zoo York 12-inch single, 1981 -- been looking for a copy of this for approx. 29 years)
Swimming Pool Q's Q (A&M 1984 -- or possibly considered self-titled, but there's a big Q on the cover.)
Joe Tex Rub Down (Epic 1978)
(Various) Radio Tokyo Tapes Volume Two (Enigma 1984, L.A. comp w/ Kommunity FK, 17 Pygmies, John Trubee, Fibonaccis, etc. etc.)

J. Walter Negro and The Loose Jointz "Shoot The Pump" (Zoo York 12-inch single, 1981 -- been looking for a copy of this for approx. 29 years)

so what's the story behind it? when did you first hear it & fall in lust?

Swimming Pool Q's Q (A&M 1984 -- or possibly considered self-titled, but there's a big Q on the cover.)

All I remember is that I liked this record, but I can't remember a single song on it.

goddamn, i'm always envious of your finds, xhuxk

My Computer - Vulnerabilia, in a Tower Records bargain bin. One of my best purchases ever.

J. Walter Negro and The Loose Jointz ...what's the story behind it? when did you first hear it & fall in lust?

Didn't hear it; read about it...Well, I may have heard it once, on WGPR in Detroit or whatever, but mainly I read about in the Additional Consumer News section of Christgau's Consumer Guide in late October 1981: "'Shoot The Pump," like 'Double Dutch Bus,' is a 12-inch that earns the term 'street music' by being about as well as of the streets; it celebrates the joys of liquid under pressure (in hydrants and spray cans) with an irreverent associative glee that altogether obliterates competing tributes to boxes and basketball. Art by Ali, who Rough Trade and Factory should, as we say in New York, check out."

i'm always envious of your finds

Guess I'm just in the right place at the right time a lot? I dunno. It's honestly not like I really dig through crates that much, I don't think! Just make an occasional stop for a half hour or so, at a record or thrift store. That batch yesterday took maybe five minutes -- except for the Abbott, those were all in the "new arrivals" $1 bin, which isn't very big. And how many music fans have probably walked past that store in the past few SXSW days? They could've bought those records as easily as I could have. It's not like I have a magic touch or something; I'm just stumped that more people don't find what I do, to be honest. (By the way, I passed up a late '80s David Van Tieghem LP feat. Blue Gene Tyranny, and this intense black-power- looking African-musicianed jazz LP out of Detroit from 1970 called, uh, Africa Something; would've got the latter but the cover and vinyl looked really moldy, even by my standards. Maybe I should've anyway. But I bet they're both still there, if anybody's in the neighborhood.)

$2.00 (!) from Harvey's Records on East Lancaster in Fort Worth. (Mostly way overpriced but still great little blues/soul/gospel store run for the past 38 years by a hilarious curmudgeony 69-year-old guy named Harvey who says he doesn't carry rap because it's not music, and he remembers when songs used to have more than one verse. He told me this while some hip-hop beat kept blasting over and over across the street. There are also 12 rules of the store posted on a chalkboard on the wall, almost all of which translate to "I don't give discounts".):

Imagination Body Talk (MCA 1981 -- wasn't aware until now that "Just An Illusion" was on two different Imagination LPs, both this one and the one that came after it. Now I have copies of both.)

got both Wrathchild America cds from a sharing center...they had no idea waht they were selling

$34 total ($1 each except $2 for the two-disc Charlie Rich one) at some guy's house on the 1800 block of Redlands in Austin (which is a few blocks south of Rich Creek and east of Burnett). He was selling 10,000 album for $1 or $2 each; I just saw a sign on the street when he was driving. I only looked through the $1 room. He's there tomorrow, too, and for the next couple weekends; says he may eventually lower prices even more. Apparently he used to own a record store in town a couple decades ago, but the vinyl has all been in storage since the early '90s:

Byran Adams You Want It You Got It
Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band
Robert Ashley Automatic Writing
Atomic Rooster Made In England
Kevin Ayers Yes We Have No Mañanas
Babe Ruth Kids Stuff (post Jenny Hahn era; may already have a copy of this but wasn't positive)
B-52s Wild Planet
Bloodrock 2 (w/ "D.O.A.")
The Brains Dancing Under Streetlights EP
Cameo She's Strange
Dire Straits Dire Straits
Dire Straits Communique
Doctors Of Madness Sons Of Survival
Richard Dimples Fields Dimples (his first charting album, with "Earth Angel" and "She's Got Papers On Me")
Godfathers Birth School Work Death
Bill Haley and the Comets Rockin' (9-song cheapo Pickwick best-of from c. 1970)
Haysi Fantayzee Battle Hymns For Children Singing
Rickie Lee Jones debut LP
Klark Kent Music Madness From The Kinetic Kid (I.R.S. 1980 -- covert solo LP from Police's Stewart Copeland)
David Lindley El Rayo-X
Phil Manzanera 801 (Polydor/Listen Now UK 1977)'
Mondo Rock -- self-titled U.S. Columbia LP by Aussie band, 1985
Charlie Rich Fully Realized (Mercury c. 1974 -- 2-LP collection of his earlier Smash sides, looks like)
The Rods Wild Dogs (Arista 1982)
Roxy Music Flesh + Blood (Polydor/El Disco Es Cultura Spain 1980 -- cover looks basically similar to U.S. version except almost all the titles are in Spanish; not sure whether Ferry sings them that way or not)
Sparks Propaganda
Swollen Monkeys On Vacation (Cacholt EP 1982 -- several-member band led by Ralph Carney from Tin Huey etc.)
The Time debut LP
Wide Boy Awake (RCA EP 1982)
Widowmaker self-titled (Jet 1976, feat. Ariel Bender from Mott the Hoople on guitar and backup vocals)
Yesterday And Today (London 1976 -- pre-Y&T metal dudes)
Zinc Street Level (Arista 1982 -- produced/arranged/conducted by Change disco guys Malavasi and Petrus)
(Various) Jive Presents House Volume 1 (Jive/RCA/Zomba 1982 -- w/ Wee Papa Girls, Adonis, the She Rockers, Samantha Fox, etc.)

...saw a sign on the street while I was driving...(obv., not he)

Oh yeah, that Redlands guy is getting to be a legend. Wish I lived in Austin.

sounds awesome!

Just got back from Austin dude's place. It's at 1802 Redlands. Records are $3 on Friday, $2 on Saturday, $1 on Sunday. He told me he's putting out 3,000 more records each Friday for the next four weeks!!! He also told me some fun stories:

A record collector dude haggled him to go down on prices, esp. for some blues singer on King. Turned out the record sold for $1000 (didn't ask how much record collector dude paid for it...could've been $3).

Some guy (don't know when) bought an entire record store from a woman (in New Orleans?) for peanuts (few thou if even that). Turns out she had Robert Johnson 78s and autographed Presley Sun 78s. The purchaser gave her $400 extra to be nice.

He's into paper now. He knows some guy (and maybe it was himself..I forget) who has a bunch of press kits with photos of old country blues singers that date back to 1930. Who knew such things even existed?

He stays up until 5am weeding out the stuff he wants.

A dude asked for Hawkwind and Captain Beyond records. There were none (left, supposedly).

Went through about 80% of what he had there although he kept putting out more. After much sweat, hunger, and that godawful live Grand Funk Railroad record he was playing, I ended up with the below, $23 total (caveat - double records are $2):
The Austin Christmas Collection First Edition
The Austin Christmas Collection Third Edition
Bus Boys: Minimum Wage Rock & Roll
Christmas Greetings Vol. 4 (with Vol. 5 wedged in alongside...on Columbia but has the A&P logo on the back)
Country Girls (cheesy comp of Faron Young, Billy "Crash" Craddock, Del Reeves, etc. singing song about women)
Cory Daye: "I've Cried (Too Many Tears)" (Blue Chip 1987)
Neil Diamond: Love at the Greek
Fire Town: The Good Life
Hot Tracks (Special three record set with one record missing. bought it cuz they're hard to find cheap and one record included the nifty "Attack of the Disco Queens: The 80's Hi-NRG Medley" and a Pet Shop Boys medley called "This Is The Pet Shop Boys")
Jamming! Presents A New Optimism For the 80's (featuring unreleased and rare material by R.E.M., The Special A.K.A., Wah!, etc. Liners by Tony Fletcher who wrote for Addicted to Noise when I was there. Nice guy.)
Julie London: Tenderly Yours (and selections from The Ted Comstock Orchestra)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Nuthin' Fancy (This is the only 1970s record of theirs I don't own and not only has purchase alluded me for decades but somehow I have never seen the cover of the damn thing until this very day! Nice bird flip on the back.)
Major Lance: Now Arriving
The Masked Marauders (pretty beat up but I've never heard it)
M People: "Excited" (promo-only double-pak)
My Sin: Beyond Good and Evil - (I was obsessing about this [dude?] on another thread but cannot recall why. One side originals, the other covers of "Moonlight Mile" and Stooges' "I Need Somebody")
The Perfect Disaster: Asylum Road
Mitch Ryder: How I Spent My Vacation (Finally! Couldn't find one to even download illegally)
The Suburbs: In Combo
Trackin' Up The North - KQDS 95FM (Duluth, MN comp from 1982 with The Replacements, The Flamin' Oh's, Crash Street Kids, Sussman Lawrence with a song called "Torture Me" written and performed by Peter Himmelman, etc. Inside there's a ballot to vote for your fave band. But this copy is sealed.)

And to top it all off, the first 12 customers today got a free (and HUGE) oatmeal cookie!!

or maybe it was himself

some 20p 7"s...

Frijid Pink - End of the Line/Sing a Song for Freedom
Ten Years After - I'm Going Home / Hear Me Calling
Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray
Fashion - Love Shadow

Went back to the Redlands guy's house to see what 3000 albums he added this weekend; lots of them had probably sold Friday and Saturday, but I still bought $11 worth (everything was $1 today), and didn't even get a second copy of the Skatt Bros LP, though maybe I should have. (Though actually, it doesn't look that expensive on discogs, which is a relief.)

Anyway, $1 each:

Aerosmith Rock In Hard Place (Columbia 1982 -- believe or not, I've never had a copy of this before)
Mark Andrews And The Gents Big Boy (A&M 1980 - ex-Joe Jackson bandmate w/ proto-Misfits haircut)
Ellen Foley Spirit Of St. Louis (CBS 1981 - her Sandinista!, supposedly, with 9 of 12 songs written either by Tymon Dogg or her then-boyfriend Joe Strummer)
Robert Cray Strong Persuader (Mercury 1986)
Deep Purple Perfect Strangers (Mercury 1984 -- very sturdy looking inner picture sleeve!)
Gringos Locos Punch Drunk (Atlantic 1989 - Rock City Angels cowpunk glam-metal-looking thing recorded in Helisinki, never heard of it before but probably Hanoi Rocks cousins in some way or other)
Hitmen Torn Together (Columbia Canada 1981 -- probably not the Hitmen I was thinking of, who I think were Aussies; these guys are apparently Brits but at least look kinda tough-guy fake new wave)
Savoy Brown Looking In (Parrot 1970 -- I own zero Savoy Brown LPs but this one looks extremely metal and badass so what the heck)
The Sinceros The Sound Of Sunbathing (Columbia 1979)
St. Paradise St. Paradise (Warner Bros. 1979 - quasi-super-group power trio fronted by Derek St. Holmes from Nugent's band, some song off this was a hit in Detroit that year)
Wasch! Metal Goes Mountain (Strike Back 1989 -- recorded in Dusseldorf and looks very Teutonic)

Also, at a garage sale yesterday for $1, on CD:

David Lee Murphy Out With A Bang (MCA 1994)

Also got Mary Gaitskill's Veronica and Joel Whitburn's Top Country Albums 1964-1997 (harcdover, original price on back says $49.95) for 50 cents each at a garage sale. But those aren't records.

50-cent each cassettes, North Austin garage sales today:

C&C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat (Columbia 1990)
The Jets The Jets (MCA 1985)
Klymaxx Meeting In The Ladies Room (MCA/Casablanca 1984)

doesn't look like the garage sales were rocking too hard today in north austin!

(i couldn't find anything at the ones i went to. bought some dvds for the store.)

Well actually the guy I bought the C&C Music Factory tape from was also selling a bunch of Ozzy, Judas Priest, Scorpions, and Keel LPs from the mid '80s, but I wasn't really interested in those ones.

Today's Flohmarkt haul, averaging out to about a euro per disc:

* three Joyce Sims records which, sadly, don't do much for me
* Janet Jackson's "Control," way better than I remembered
* Barry White, Greatest Hits
* Tears for Fears, "Sowing the Seeds of Love" -- includes "Tears Roll Down," a Latin-house track that sounds like something Luciano would play today
* Midge Ure, "If I Was" - pretty dodgy, but I like the synth-pop cover of "Man Who Sold the World"
* The Private Lightning Six, "They Came Down" -- Pulsinger, Potuznik et al doing weirdo electro from '96
* Kurtis Blow, "The Breaks" (ZXY re-press)
* Kyborg, "Swing" -- an early Raster-Noton
* Bryan Ferry, "Kiss and Tell" -- total turkey
* Donna Summer, "Sunset People" / "Our Love"
* Joe Claussell & Chuck Perkins, "Jazz Funeral" (Guidance)
* I.A.O., 93-95 -- weird, not great, lite jazz + ambient record about which I can't find any information
* The Housemartins, "Caravan of Love" -- all acapella, don't ask me why I bought this
* Soul II Soul, "People"
* Heavy D and the Boyz, "We Got Our Own Thang"

One of the flea market dealers must have gotten his stock from a defunct label or distributor, because all the records were new, and there were dozens of doubles. Most of it looked like mid '90s trance, but I couldn't say for sure. Also, terrible water damage and mildew on a huge swath of the collection. I still can't get the smell out of my nose.

@ $1 each, Antone's today

John Anderson Wild And Blue (Warner Bros. 1982)
George Benson Give Me The Night (Warner Bros. 1980)
Cameo Style (Atlanta Artists/Polygram 1983)
Leon Russell Best Of Leon (Shelter 1976)
Styx Crystal Ball (A&M 1976)

$2 (!) each LPs, garage sale today:

Elvis Costello Taking Liberties (Columbia 1980)
Ted Nugent And The Amboy Dukes Survival Of The Fittest Live (Polydor 1971)

Not exactly $1 on these, but I've been looking for these damn things for so long that it's worth sharing... I found two of the five legendary Disco Inferno EPs (Summer's Last Sound and A Rock to Cling To) for $3.99 each. Two down... three to go.

Of course, all five are being reissued in a few months, per Ned's thread. But I couldn't pass these up in good conscience.

50 cents each, $3 total, Austin garage sale yesterday, all in weird (and maybe bootlegged) import versions from Okinawa, wrapped in plastic-protected paper covers with Japanese lettering added to the album art:

Ferrante & Teicher Midnight Cowboy (assume I won't like this much, but vaguely curious after hearing people rave about an R.J. Smith EMP presentation about them which I didn't actually see.)
Gilbert O'Sullivan Himself and I'm A Writer, Not A Fighter (w/ "Alone Again Naturally" and "Get Down" respectively. Skipped the LP with "Clair," which hit I've never liked as much.)
Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors, The Silver Fox, and Very Special Love Songs

$2 CD, Texas Thrift in East Austin:

Hal Ketchum Sure Love (Curb 1992)

Ferrante & Teicher Midnight Cowboy (assume I won't like this much, but vaguely curious after hearing people rave about an R.J. Smith EMP presentation about them which I didn't actually see.)

I mocked F&T once in a Voice review. My parents thought Ferrante & Teicher were great. They went to see the duo in Hershey and Harrisburg. Probably the only reason, too, why they had a stereo.

The worst milchtoast piano versions of popular songs, movie and TV themes.

The right stuff to include with a library consisting of records by the Ray Coniff Singers, pop music for a listenening audience that inspired elevator muzak. Also great if you thought you might enjoy "Sing Along with Mitch Miller" LPs, the Sukiyaki novelty hit on 45 ...

Savoy Brown Looking In (Parrot 1970 -- I own zero Savoy Brown LPs but this one looks extremely metal and badass so what the heck)

This is Foghat with Kim Simmonds on guitar just before the former split off to make straight boogie records for the US audience. Lonesome Dave sings, would redo "Poor Girl" for the Foghat debut, I think.

Not a lot of boogie on it, though. Mostly brooding blues rock.

Austin garage sale yesterday

You know, xhuxk, I wonder if we haven't crossed paths while record shopping at some point?

We both sure do a lot of it...

It's possible! Next time, say Hello! (I'm the short guy with glasses.)

$2 total, Breakway Records (which has moved to North Loop, excellent location!), today. (A skewed sample, though, since I also sold them a small stack of LPs and mostly indie 45s for $10 that hadn't sold in my yard sale yesterday, and they very likely got a better deal than I did):

The Buzztones En-cy'clo-pe'di-a (Metro-America EP 1984) (Ann Arbor label; Detroit-associated group I hadn't thought about for a quarter century and barely even did back then, though I might briefly have confused them with the Buzzcocks for a day or two. Produced by Don Was, background vocals by Harry Bowens and Sweet Pea Atkinson)
Eddie Kendricks Boogie Down (Motown 1974)
L.A. Boppers L.A. Boppers (Mercury 1980)
Shorty Long Here Comes The Judge (Soul 1968 -- a little bit scratchy but very cool LP cover)
The Masked Marauders (Deity 1969. Real good condition, too. Question for the NY Times magazine Ethicist: What is the proper ethics for when you find an LP in the dollar bin that you have a hunch might be there by mistake, but you'd have no way of knowing for sure? Confession: What I usually do is place it somewhere inconspicuously in the middle of the pile, and say, "These were all in the dollar bin.")
Pat Travers Band Crash And Burn (Polydor 1980 - Hi George.)

Ferrante & Teicher made some great records between 56-59 but anything after that is mostly what Gorge said

all at $1:

LPs:
Jacqueline Dolan : S/T
Homer & Jethro : The Humorous Side of Country Music
Alisha : S/T
John Cali, The World's Greatest Banjoist: Banjo on My Knee
Willie Nelson : Make Way For Willie Nelson
Neil Young : American Stars & Bars
Julien Clerc : Nº 7
Hans Petersen : "Trust Me" (Like Vaughn Meader except Jimmie Carter)
V/A : The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984
Onnik Dinkjian : A Unique Rendition of Armenian Songs
Aerosmith : Live Bootleg (not actually a bootleg)
Dimensional Sound : The Big 50 (one of those collections of soundalikes that resulted in k-tell's "original hits by original stars" disclamer)

12" singles:
Simon Harris : Bass (How Low Can You Go)
Cyré : Last Chance
DJ Miko : Hot Stuff

Yeah, the Ferrante & Teacher LP I bought was indeed awful (beyond the "Midnight Cowboy" theme, at least, which I already own on 45.)

$1 each vinyl, Thrift City and Recycled Reads, today:

Dire Straits Twisting By The Pool (Warner Bros. EP 1983)
Rude Girls Rude Awakening (Flying Fish 1987 - folk not reggae apparently despite the name, but looks potentially interesting in a lesbian Roches sort of way, not that I'd bet on it or anything)
Gino Soccio Closer (Atlantic 1981)

25 cents each cassettes, Thrift City

Nirvana Bleach (Sub Pop 1989)
Redd Kross Neurotica (Big Time 1987)
Lou Reed Coney Island Baby (RCA 1976, 1989 pressing)
Joyce Sims Come Into My Life (Sleeping Bag 1987)

The Neurotica remaster is worth buying...pretty big sonic upgrade.

http://www.amazon.com/Neurotica-Redd-Kross/dp/B0000713AI

3/$2.50 at Crunge Records (Corning, NY's Only Rock and Roll Shop)

Omega Sunrise - Feel The Change [christian Earth Wind & Fire, vocals not as good but tight rhythm section & horns]

Cerrone IV - The Golden Touch

V/A - The Naked Carmen

New Edition - Under The Blue Moon

Sam "The Man" Taylor - Mist Of The Orient

Rose Royce - In Full Bloom

John Culliton Mahoney - Love Not Guaranteed

Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's my way!

Ian and Sylvia - Great Speckled Bird

The Andrea True Connection - More, More, More (LP, not the single)

Bobby Gosh - Love Ballet

(they were buy 2 get 1 half off dollar records, would have grabbed another record if I knew about the discount but I had people waiting for me)

Then at the Elmira Salvation Army:

Sealed copy of Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn's Honky Tonk Heroes for 29 cents