I'd Buy That DVD for...Somewhere in the Neighborhood of $5

Werckmeister Harmonies for £5 from hmv just before Christmas.

Goodwill, $1.50 (used)

MST3K--Manos: Hands of Fate

HEB, $3.99

The Girl Can't Help It (already have it in the Mansfield box, present for a friend)
Sid & Nancy: Collector's Edition

caught goodwill slippin and left with a minty copy of the Criterion BURDEN OF DREAMS for $3

i've been buying some magic (as in legerdemain) dvds online for around $5, as one of the prominent magic stores seems to be getting rid of its dvd inventory. gregory wilson's pyrotechnic pasteboards is particularly good.

Half Price Books, $2 (used):

The Girl In The Cafe
I Love You, Man
The Ballad of Mott The Hoople (w/all the inserts)

$5 (used):

Fleetwood Mac: The Dance
T.Rex: Born To Boogie (single disc version)

Thrift store, $2 for the director's cut of Woodstock (2 disks). Unopened, too!

a couple of dollars each...

godard - détective
clouzot - les diaboliques

Dropped in an HMV tonight that has six days left. (The closings seem to be staggered.) Nothing that exceptional. In Like Flint, Young Frankenstein, Fathom, and Panic in the Streets for $4-something, also the second season of The Leftovers for $12.50. I'll try to catch the mall store close by, but don't think it's worth venturing downtown to the flagship store.

Found In The realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger doc) at a thrift store for $3. I've seen it on youtube but it's nice having a higher res copy. There's an interview with Jessica Yu on it, as well as the usual stills, trailer, storyboard.

Also picked up a Psychedelic Furs concert (Live from the House of Blues, 2001) on VHS, unopened for $2.

Bought Coppola's Dracula and Branagh's Frankenstein on Blu-Ray, both bundled together but on separate discs with all the extras from their individual releases, for $10. So that's basically $5 each.

A lunchtime Salvation Army run, $2 ea.

Charade (1963 Criterion the Grant / Hepburn movie)
Taxi Driver
12 Monkeys
Seven Samurai (Criterion)
Dr. Strangelove
Sex & Drugs ( a compilation of 50s-70s films for showing teenagers)
Bruce Springsteen in concert (1992 MTV Unplugged plus a few more)
Steve Earle & the Dukes Transcendental Blues Live
Steve Earle Live from Austin (1986)

Charade is a blue-ray, and I don't even own a player yet. And I'm not really familiar with Earle, but at $2 each I figure I can risk it.

And there was another Criterion Royal Tennenbaums on the shelf, but as I have 2 now I decided to leave it.

HEB, $3.99

Haywire

what dope drops off blu-rays at the salvation army

Goodwill thrift store today:

The Sugarland Express (has been on the shelf for 2 months, so half price) $1.50
Pan's Labyrynth (2-disks, includes a bunch of other stuff) $3
Gravity (2-disks, includes a making-of doc) $3
Sybil (2-disks, includes a doc on the real Sybil and other things) $3

Funny that Sugarland has come up on the road movie thread and I see it in the store.
And I never saw Gravity, but I'm sure it will look great on my 20" CRT TV.

A different thrift store today, Friends With Money for $1.

Half-Price Books, 20% off sale:

$4.80: Go Ride The Music/West Pole (sealed twofer of vintage San Francisco psych docs--the former a live in the studio thing with Jefferson Airplane & Quicksilver, the latter a Ralph J. Gleason-hosted scene survey w/promo films from the aforementioned acts along w/the Dead, Steve Miller, plus perhaps the only live footage of Ace of Cups)

$1.60: The Deer Hunter; Groundhog Day "Special Edition" (used)

The last two were snagged from the clearance bin, and were actually cheaper than the CDs I grabbed from the same section. Never thought I'd see THAT day.

Goodwill, used

$1.99: Harem Scarum

$2.99: The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol. 1

Didn't expect to find either of those in there.

Also worth noting that they had a huge collection of either bootlegs or somebody's back-up DVD-Rs (complete with scanned cover art) for $2 a pop--they really will try to sell anything.

good score!

Half-Price Books, $2 (all used)

The Beatles: The First US Visit
Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin'
Dick Tracy
The Running Man "Special Edition" (2-disc)
Deconstructing Harry
The Color of Money

A couple weeks ago, I think for $2 each:
Dr Strangelove (already had a copy)
Joy Division doc from 2007 by Grant Gee

Yesterday, $3 each:
Reno 911 first season
Reno 911 third season
Orchestra Rehearsal
Things Behind the Sun

Goodwill...

$5.99: Freaks and Geeks (complete series)
$2.99: The River (Criterion Collection)

They also had the Armageddon CC for $2.99, but I didn't bite.

Good score on that F&G!

$1 each at Salvation Army (50% off everything day)

Spinal Tap (already have it, of course, but I know there are two different commentaries and I'm not sure I have this version.
Memento, which I may also already have.
Josie and the Pussycats, which I just read something about. On arriving at home I see it's the "Edited for Family Viewing" edition.

2/$5 at a local used bookstore:

The Aristocats (never seen)
Point Break (probably dopey, but I have fond early 90s memories of it)

point break is a masterpiece, the aristocats features some unfortunate racism

Point Break is super dopey and that's why it's fun
Josie has had a cool resurgence lately, i dig it. It's slight, but fun and silly

if you've seen baffleck's the town, point break will make you go "hey wait a sec"

HEB, $2.99:

Freaky Friday (original)
The Good Thief

Goodwill thrift store today:

Guided By Voices - The Who Went Home And Cried - $3
The Skeleton Twins (blue ray) - $4

I like Skeleton Twins, it's sweet

$6, but the The Pink Panther box set!

Freebies from a friend who has upgraded all of these:

Fellini Satyricon
Mulholland Dr.
The Brood
MacBeth (Polanski)
Phantom of The Paradise

Salvation Army thrift store today:

My So-Called Life complete series (6 disks) - $1.40
Burn To Shine, Seattle WA, 01.27.07 (some music performance series thing where people/bands play in buildings about to be torn down) - $1.40

Ronald McDonald House rummage sale:
Volumes 1-3 of Beavis and Butthead ("the Mike Judge collection"), $2 each

Salvation Army thrift store:
Get Smart season 1, $2

first scene of the get smart pilot is hilarious today

Amazon is selling the complete Resident Evil series on Blu-Ray (six movies) for $5.96.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUPaxgIo98

xp damn, i would've bit on that for $6!

Goodwill thrift store today:
These for $1.50 each (half price on green tags).
Grave of the Fireflies
Burn After Reading
Tales From the Gimli Hospital (score!)

$3 each
Total Recall
POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English

And a box set for $6
Undecided (4 disks, the whole series) I loved Freaks and Geeks but don't remember watching much of this.

It's up and down, obviously not as good as F&G but has its moments

I think I did start watching it but didn't continue, either because I didn't think it was worth it or just had other things to do (pre-online/DVR era).

i've seen a few Resident Evil movies in my day. they were some fun trash!

Kung Fu Panda 3 for £4.99. It will now almost certainly be on TV at Christmas.

Satantango, all 432 minutes of it, for 5 quid in fopp yesterday.

(lots of other favourites in there as well, things i already have for much cheaper than i paid for them)

Thrift store,
Persepolis, $3
Dancer In The Dark, $3
Louis CK - Hilarious, $2
Sarah Silverman Program - season two volume 1, $2

I finally own a Blu-Ray player (Christmas gift), so now I have to fight the temptation to (insanely) start re-buying stuff I already have on DVD. Bought four new ones today for $5 each: The Social Network, Third Person, State of Play, and J. Edgar. Three of them I already own. The last one, I don't even like.

That's how I was when I got my first CD player.

God yes, I'm pretty sure I bought the first Simply Red album. Literally have not thought about that in 30 years.