Stones "Some Girls Live in Texas 1978" on blu-ray for $4 at a thrift store.
― nickn, Friday, 13 September 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
4-disc Gone with the Wind box, sealed, $4.99.
Some of the DVDs I listed above, things I bought in duplicate, I've been giving away to friends the last few weeks in advance of a move. I'm trying to force myself not to buy new stuff as I try to get rid of old. But of course I continue to buy a few DVDs, books, CDs, and records. I'm a pathological accumulater.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 October 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
I got Total Recall at the swap meet last week for $1. I've never seen it.
And yesterday I got a Sun Ra disk called Jazz Session new for $5.50.
― nickn, Sunday, 13 October 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Total Recall would be the perfect DVD to buy cheap, then realize when you got home that you'd bought it before.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
Some DVDs I bought in the mid-'00s (e.g., my cherished Val Lewton set) became unplayable over the years due to rot. Apparently Warner DVDs ca.2005 are particularly prone. I'm not sure how widespread the phenomenon is, but it sullied the whole idea of DVD collection as film library for me.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 13 October 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
I don't think I've ever had a DVD not play correctly because of age...I've had a few with problems the first time I played them, but not because of degradation.
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
i have a bunch that have been damaged by the sun, but luckily nothing irreplaceable. but i also have hundreds that i haven't looked at in 10 years so who knows what's unplayable.
backing up dvds is usually possible, at least.
as for bargains, the entire 21 disc set of Breaking Bad is now £15, less in some places.
― koogs, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
This probably says more about the limits of my imagination than anything else, but how were your DVDs exposed to the sun? (Some kind of portable player you take outside?)
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
I left them out of the cases and the sun shone onto them through the windows. They are noticeably discoloured.
― koogs, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Kwaidan, for example. look at that discoloration on the top left edge. oni-baba had the same thing, as did one of the disks in the ozu melodrama box (was probably £20 in Fopp to replace them all)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48893702682_8a4d390574.jpg
― koogs, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
(the really dark bit is a reflection, the smokey dark bit is the sun-damage)
― koogs, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
good lord. i've never seen that on a dvd
― Nhex, Sunday, 13 October 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
Dvd-r and DVD-RW always had a 'no direct sunlight' thing on them, but, yes, was surprised when I saw this. They were Bfi and masters of cinema discs too, which you'd think would be good quality.
― koogs, Monday, 14 October 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
Goodwill just now, an 8-disk Mel Brooks collection for $4.
― nickn, Monday, 14 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
The first at a thrift store a couple weeks ago, for $2, the other two at a thrift store today for $1 each.
The Beach (w/DiCaprio)Lost HighwayI, Tonya
― nickn, Friday, 25 October 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
Two-disc Help! reissue, $4 (used, but like new).
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 October 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
Thrift store today for $3 each.
Nude on the Moon (Doris Wishman)Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, which also contains Opus 1, an earlier, more abstract film by Ruttman.
― nickn, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
Got the first four seasons of Boardwalk Empire for $5 each yesterday (used but perfect shape). I actually started watching a bootleg copy of the first season a while back, but only stuck around for three or four episodes before bailing. Too good to pass up, though, so I'll try again at some point.
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
Yesterday at CEX: Picnic at Hanging Rock for 4.50 euros and MacGruber for 50 cents
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Sunday, 3 November 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
Went nuts at the swap meet today, one seller said his stock was from a guy who was liquidating and it was "first time out." $2 each
Miracle MileRoger Corman Drive-In Collection (5 movies on 2 disks)Tideland (2 disk version)The Onion Movie Raw & UncutSouthland TalesFive Easy PiecesEdmundBest of Tromadance , Vol 4 (short films from Troma)It Might Get LoudToo Cool For School (12 movies on 3 disks, trashy teen-oriented movies)Women on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownApocalypse Now Redux
Many were still wrapped (bought at Big Lots or dept stores)
― nickn, Monday, 4 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
Thrift store yesterday, $3 each
Bjork-VolumenRequiem for a Dream (director's cut)
― nickn, Sunday, 17 November 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Miracle Mile is a good find!
― Simon H., Sunday, 17 November 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
It's been on my must-watch list for quite a while.
― nickn, Sunday, 17 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Thrift store half price day, $1 each.
Monty Python - the Life of Python (BBC/A&E doc, 2 disks)Bow Wow Wow - 1982 Live Compilation
― nickn, Friday, 22 November 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
At a thrift store (in Joshua Tree), $2
Hallelujah!, Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance
― nickn, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 07:23 (four years ago) link
Friends of Library Sale, $2:
It's Always Fair Weather
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Dollar Tree, $1:
Afternoon DelightSNL Presents: The Best of TV FunhouseHer (Blu-Ray)Inherent Vice (Blu-Ray)
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 December 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
Thrift store, $1
Kurosawa's High and Low on Criterion
― nickn, Thursday, 19 December 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
I was in there last Friday and they had Once Upon A Time In The West (2-disk version) and the cheapskate in me decided to wait till today (their weekly half-price day) to get it. Gone today, of course.
― nickn, Thursday, 19 December 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
Godzilla (1954) £3 from fopp (with purchase). i have a copy that was given away with the guardian a few years ago but this is the bfi version with booklet and commentary.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 December 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
I can never resist those £3-with-purchase piles at the Fopp counter. Last time I got Kore-Eda's Air Doll and the time before that A Woman Under The Influence. Pretty random selection they come up with.
― AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 December 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
I got the St Etienne dvd a few years ago.
― koogs, Friday, 20 December 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
(in the same £3 deal)
Half-Price Books, $1.60 (used):
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
They also had for same price a copy of the Olive Films 3-disc edition of 1900, but it was missing the disc w/the second half of the movie, so no.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Thrift store, $3.
Far From Heaven
― nickn, Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
Also got a Mountain Goats CD for $1 (Transcendental Youth), but it has no booklet.
― nickn, Saturday, 4 January 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
Went nuts at the swap meet again today, same seller, $2 each
Pecker2001: A Space OdyssyExiles (not the Bunker Hill one, a French couple road trip through Algeria)Jackie BrownThe Elephant ManCannibal! The MusicalAfter HoursThey All LaughedOnce Upon A Time In The West (bypassed this one at a thrift store a month ago)Cool Hand Luke
― nickn, Sunday, 5 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
Got a new 3-CD box set of Ken Russell at the BBC for under $15 a few weeks ago. All I've seen by him are a couple of his wild late films, Altered States and Lair of the White Worm--always assumed I'd hate his famous '70s films. So obviously I just had to have this.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
Last week at a thrift store, $1 each:Tropic Thunder 2-disk editionSolaris (Clooney version)Paul Simon and Friends - Gershwin Prize for Popular Song performanceCurb Your Enthusiasm - Season 1Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 2
Couple days ago at a different TS, $2 each:7 Worlds Collide - Neil Finn and Friends live at the St JamesNovocaine (Steve Martin)thirteen
― nickn, Saturday, 1 February 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
Thrift store last Friday, $1 each
Youth In RevoltRachel Getting Married
and the swap meet Sunday, $1Safety Not Guaranteed
― nickn, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 06:10 (four years ago) link
I love finding music DVDs at thrift stores. My best finds have been Slow Century, the Opeth Damnation/Deliverance live one, Guided by Voices' farewell gig, the NFB Leonard Cohen collection, and Chemical Brothers' Don't Think.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 08:27 (four years ago) link
at a thrift store, $2.
Automatic Magnetic - no release date but it's a music/film video magazine type thing, and has Superchunk on it.
― nickn, Saturday, 7 March 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
Last week at a thrift store:Twin Peaks first and second season (definitive gold box edition, 10 disks). $7
― nickn, Monday, 23 March 2020 01:16 (four years ago) link
nice
the most recent edition has gone crazy with the packaging
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media/vc/d65eba4c-e79e-4086-84e8-a69ba8b3fb68.__CR0,0,970,300_PT0_SX970_V1___.png
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 23 March 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link
I had been holding out, because I really didn't think I'd ever re-watch it, but for $7 I figured I couldn't go wrong
― nickn, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Thrift store, $3 each (they've been open a couple weeks now, it's good to be back browsing).
Inside Llewyn DavisPixies - a collection from 2004, some live, some videos
Also found the Aline and R Crumb book Drawn Together for $5.
― nickn, Thursday, 2 July 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
I'm glad this thread has survived the pandemic.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
$2 each today at Salvation Army.
Dead Man (the Jarmusch film)The Saddest Music in the World
― nickn, Saturday, 1 August 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
Va Savoir (the Rivette film, sometimes there are surprises)Tenacious D - The Complete Masterworks. I had looked at this and put it back because I'm not a huge fan, but then I found the above and decided since I'm gonna stand in line anyway I may as well get it too.
They also had a copy of Gerwig's Lady Bird, but it was just outside my scratched-ness threshold.
― nickn, Monday, 17 August 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Went back to the same SA and got the Lady Bird, also This Is 40, and SLC Punk, for $2 ea (but they charged me $4 total because of an in-store coupon).
Also got Rushmore for $1 a week ago.
― nickn, Saturday, 29 August 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link