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

i got two more later city boy records since you were last here.

you gave me a pearl harbour album once!

all of those records you got are such chuck records. i mean, literally now, but you know what i mean.

Yeah, I noticed Swamp Dogg's alter ego name Jerry Williams in the liner notes to that ZZ Hill record; thought it might be a weird one. Hope it is. So far I way prefer Hill's early '80s Malaco stuff (incl "Cheatin In The Next Room" of course) to the late '70s Columbia stuff and late '60s/early '70s indie label stuff I've heard (I've got a couple CD collections), but maybe this album will change that.

Wasn't sure whether I already owned a copy of that Pearl Harbour LP, and the Records one, too, but thought I'd take a chance. Pretty sure I prefer Pearl with the Explosions, though.

No idea why the hell I picked up that Les Dudek album. Guess I liked the cover, and the song titles, or something.

The garage sale guy who sold me the Alpha Band, Smokey, and Dixie Dregs albums also had a bunch of prog and fusion stuff (Rennnaisance, Passport, etc.) and Christian hippie LPs. Considered picking up the 2nd Chapter Of Acts LP he had, but I have no idea which ones of theirs are supposed to be any good, if any. Probably won't make sense out of that Dregs LP (not even "Punk Sandwhich"), since I never make sense out of Dregs LPs, but I'll probably keep trying as long as $1 albums are available, in hopes that one will eventually click. (I know I like the idea of Dixie Dregs.)

Passed up the Dwight Twilley '84 album with "Girls," a Sylvester LP from 1981 (Too Hot To Sleep), an '80s reissue by Shepherds, a '80 or so Carolyn Mas LP, one by Nova Combo, a Van McCoy best-of, lots of things. Really trying to limit myself to 10, at most, per store per trip. Anyway, if anybody in Austin thinks the ones I passed up sound interesting, they're probably still at Recycled Reads for $1 each.

chuck, if you don't already have it, find this for a dollar. you would love it.

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Wonderful surprises and Bargains at flea markets

If you want to check out 2nd Chapter of Acts, the ones to go for would be early to mid-seventies where they look like hippie teenagers. In the eighties they were more like ABBA (nothing wrong with that) or something. Well sung and written melodic soft rock all the way through though.

fake edit. I just put on With Footnotes from 1974. It's piano driven soft but big rock with strings. The female vocals are high and sweet and the male vocals are Stevie Wonderish. Closest to Elton John if he was a female harmony act maybe.

The real find is Matthew Ward's (the male singer in 2nd Chapter) first solo album Towards Eternity. Phil Keaggy crunchy hard rock guitars and Ward was a great soulful vocalist. Of course it is Christian as all get out, but in an inspirational way. Along with Keith Green and Daniel Amos, the only Christian music from my childhood that I still have.

2nd Chapter of Acts... With Footnotes from 1974

This is the one he was selling, actually -- oh well. (Just did a Google image search to make sure.)

yer not really missing much with that album. it's pleasant, but that's about it.

this is the dollar xian album that you want. the brits just made better 70's god rekkerds.

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$0.50 a pop at a Goodwill in Hernando, MS this past weekend:

Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua lp
Donovan - Barabajagal lp
Japan Revisited (Mamoru Miyagi) lp
Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki lp
Firesign Theater - Dear Friends 2lp
Dick Gregory - In Living Black and White lp
Brewer & Shipley - Tarkio lp
Mood to be Wooed lp (Cadet comp of Illinois Jaquet, James Moody, Budd Johnson, Sandy Mosse)
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn/Eight Miles High 7"
Prince - I Would Die 4U 7"

Good haul!

$11 total for 11 records, at a Value Village in Houston yesterday and Antone's in Austin today:

Kenny Burrell - Stormy Monday (Fantasy LP, 1978)
Doug Clark & His Hot Nuts - Rush Week (Gross LP, 1964)
Jerry Harrison - The Red And The Black (Sire LP, 1981) (solo album by Talking Heads guy, w/ Nona Hendryx, Adrian Belew, Bernie Worrell, etc)
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (MCA LP, 1973)
Jump 'N The Saddle Band - Jump 'N The Saddle Band (Atlantic LP, 1984) (w/ their stupid novelty hit "Curly Shuffle"; this is probably horrible.)
Klique - It's Winning Time (MCA LP, 1981)
The Pointer Sisters - Their Greatest Recordings (At Ease LP, 1978) ("This album compiled exclusively for military personnel" -- Must've been sold at PX's; appears to be part of a series of comps by mostly soul and jazz artists, plus Barbara Mandrell, who may well have crossed over to black audiences in certain NCO clubs.)
Ray Goodman & Brown - Ray Goodman & Brown (Polydor LP, 1979)
The Royal Court Of China - The Royal Court Of China (A&M LP, 1987)
Randy Travis - Storms Of Life (Warner Bros LP, 1986)
(Various Birds) - Guide to Bird Sounds (National Geographic Society 10-inch flexidisc triple-EP, 1983) ("These recordings include the sound of 179 species".)

Currently available in Poundland:

Outkast - Idlewild.

Haven't played it yet.

^ it's alright, needs pruning even more than Love Below though

ta.

$1 each, Waterloo Records, Austin, today:

Bruce Cockburn Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws (Gold Mountain LP, 1979) (w/ "Wondering Where The Lions Are")
The Deele Street Beat (Solar LP, 1983)
Peter Gordon Innocent (FM/CBS LP, 1986) (feat. Arthur Russell, David Van Teighem, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Elliot Easton, Tony Levin, etc.)
Ledernacken "Do The Boogalo!"/"Mogadishu Boogie"/"Do The Boogaloo (Moan-Along Mix)" (Strike Back 12-inch, 1987)
Dave Loggins Apprentice (In A Musical Workshop) (Epic LP, 1974) (w/ "Please Come To Boston")
M+M Mystery Walk (Current LP, 1984) (w/ "Black Stations, White Stations"; still don't know why they changed their name from Martha and the Muffins)
Nile Rodgers B-Movie Matinee (Warner Bros. LP, 1985) (reviewed this negatively in the Voice when it came out, but Xgau gave it an A-)
Junior Samples Moonshining (Hilltop LP, no year listed)
Gary Stewart Your Place Or Mine (RCA LP, 1977)
George Strait Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind (MCA LP, 1984) (w/ "The Cowboy Rides Away")
Gil Trythall Country Moog: Switched On Nashville (Athena LP, no year listed)
Junior Walker Blow The House Down (Motown LP, 1983) (w/ his own version of Foreigner's "Urgent," after playing sax on the original)
(Various Artists) Body Moves: Electric Boogie (K-Tel LP, 1984) (w/ O'Bryan, Run-DMC, Dazz Band twice, Cameo, SOS Band, Newcleus, Midnight Star, Bryan Loren whoever he is, Deele, and uh Talk Talk)

Splurged and spent 3 whole dollars on this at Friends of Sound in Austin today:

The Boyzz -- Too Wild To Tame (Epic 1978, w/ cool inner sleeve and promo poster)

And spent $1 on each of these at Friends of Sound, Breakaway, and/or the St. Vincents Thrift Store on South Congress

Bronksi Beat - The Age Of Consent (MCA/London 1984)
Daddy Dewdrop - Daddy Dewdrop (Sunflower 1971) (w/ "Chick-a-Boom [Don't Ya Jes' Love It]")
General Kane - Wide Open (Motown 1987)
Ian Gillan Band - Child In Time (Oyster/Polydor 1976)
Tom T. Hall - Country Is (Mercury 1974)
Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo - Good Clean Fun (Slash 1982)
Garland Jeffreys - Escape Artist (Epic 1981)
Sammy Johns - Sammy Johns (GRC 1973) (w/ "Chevy Van")
Junior - Acquired Taste (London/Metronome West Germany 1985)
Pebbles - Pebbles (MCA 1987)
Smokie - Greatest Hits (RAK West Germany 1977)

i take it you are going for a complete smokie collection.

$1 each (except one for $2) - Half-Price Books, Sound On Sound, and a Goodwill store in Austin:

Automatic Man - The Visitors (Island, 1977)
John Cale - Guts (Antilles, 1977)
Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites (Elektra/Asylum, 1986)
Mac McAnally - No Problem Here (Ariola, 1978)
Richard Thompson - Strict Tempo! (Carthadge, 1983)

How is that Peter Gordon album? I keep meaning to fill out my collection of his stuff, but it's never at the top of my to-do list. His "Yellow Box" thing with the guy from Flying Lizards remains a favorite.

As geeky, moderately rhythmic post-new-wave downtown art-pop goes, not bad. The one track that really makes it a keeper, though, is the one written and sung with Arthur Russell, "That Hat" at the end of Side One, which to me sounds not that far from the three or so Dinosaur L tracks by Russell I've heard.

The Microphones - Tests. 1$

$1 each vinyl, Antone's and Waterloo today:

Big Youth Reggae Phenomenon (Trojan double LP, 1977 -- though actually, one disc turns out to be sides one and two of Big Youth's 1980 Trojan anthology Everyday Skank {The Best Of Big Youth} instead, not that I think I'll mind that much.)
Bobby Bland Try Me, I'm Real (MCA 1981)
Diesel Watts In A Tank* (Atco 1981 - with their new wave disco metal hit "Sausalito Summernight")
D-Train Something's On Your Mind (Prelude 1984)
Steve Forbert Alive On Arrival (Nemperor 1978 -- his debut which briefly led to "new Dylan" claims as I recall; never actually heard it)
John Fred And His Playboys John Fred And His Playboys (Paula, no year listed, but apparently before 1967 by which time they were called the "Playboy Band" instead)
Steve Gibbons Band Any Road Up (MCA 1976 - Birmingham, England's answer to Bob Seger, supposedly)
Steve Gibbons Band Rollin' On (MCA 1977)
Bob James Touchdown (Tappan Zee/Columbia 1978)
Oliver Lake Jump Up (Gramavision 1982)
The Rockets Rocket Roll (Elektra 1982)
Mitch Ryder Never Kick A Sleeping Dog (Riva 1983 -- produced by John Cougar with his band, and featuring cover of Prince's "When You Were Mine" plus a Marianne Faithfull duet)
Michael Stanley Band Stage Pass (Epic double live LP 1977)

15 LPs for $20, Breakaway Records, today:

The Belle Stars The Belle Stars (Stiff 1983)
Jean-Paul Bourelly Jungle Cowboy** (JMT Productions 1987)
The Box Secrets Out (Go! Discs 1983)
Couch Flambeau The Day The Music Died (It's Only A Record 1985)
Great Plains Naked At The Buy Sell And Trade (Homestead 1985)***
Gwen Guthrie Gwen Guthrie (Island 1982) (produced by Sly & Robbie)
Nona Hendryx The Heat (RCA 1985) (production split between Arthur Baker and Bernard Edwards)
Ronald Shannon Jackson Decode Yourself (Island 1985) (produced by Bill Laswell)
Chas Jankel Chas Jankel (A&M 1981)*
Jason & the Scorchers Lost And Found (EMI 1985)
Live Skull Cloud One (Homestead 1986)***
Pink Military Do Animals Believe In God? (Eric's 1980)
Point Blank Point Blank (Arista 1976)**
Rattlesnake Annie Rattlesnake Annie (Columbia 1987)
Nile Rodgers Adventures In The Land Of The Good Groove (Atlantic 1983)
Specimen Batastrophe (Sire EP 1983 - with "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang")
Streetwalkers Streetwalkers (Mercury 1975)
Sweat Band Sweat Band (Uncle Jam 1980 -- with Bootsy, Maceo, Fred Wesley, Mike Hampton, etc; honestly don't expect to like this much, but fairly obscure P-Funk LP that it is, I expect I'll find some use for it regardless)
Watermelon Men Past Present And Future (Tracks On Wax 1985)
Yarborough & Peoples The Two Of Us (Mercury 1980)*

* -- It's possible I already own copies of these, but I hope not
** - LPs from my metal book that I got rid of after I wrote it: Point Blank probably stupidly, Bourelly probably smartly, but I wanted to make sure
*** - Homestead LPs I didn't like a quarter century ago, but I wanted to give them a second chance

Oops, actually, the Breakway ones were 20 LPs for $15, not the other way around! (Whew.)

A quarter each:

The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death (2nd copy, but for 25¢ I couldn't pass it up)
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Goose Creek Symphony - Words of Earnest
J. Geils Band - "Live" Full House

plus a bunch of lesser rekkids.

$1 each, Top Drawer Thrift, Austin

Steppenwolf Live (Dunhill 2-LP, 1970)
Tom Johnsston Everything You've Heard Is True (Warner Bros, 1979) (looks like an outlaw country move by Doobie Bros guy, w/ a Joe Tex cover and his Top 40 yacht-rockish-I-think hit "Savannah Nights")

i'll post that first batch of 45s i got last weekend. they were all less than a dollar a piece:

2 versions of a single by Metelica, Train/Time And Time Again. (early 70's rock. Michael Metelica was the guru behind the Spirit & Flesh commune here in Greenfield. B-side is great dreamy stuff.)

Feeling Harty by Papa Tarzan/Nigger by Kojack All Stars (On Nigger Kojack Records. Nigger is the insane dub of Feeling Harty.)

albert king - i'll play the blues for you/angel of mercy (stax)

2 cameo copies of 96 tears/midnight hour by ? & the mysterians

albert king - breaking up somebody's home/that's what the blues is all about (stax)

dean and jean - hey jean, hey dean (let's have a party)/please don't tell me now (on rust records. they were the ween of their day.)

donovan - atlantis/to susan on the west coast waiting

barbarians - moulty/i'll keep on seeing you

bill wendry & the boss tweeds - fire/a wristband watch (on columbia. such a great psych/garage single. not the cleanest copy, unfortunately, but what are you gonna do.)

radiohead - black star/high and dry (for jukeboxes only!)

bobby rio - show a little kindness/what's his name just died (on Love 'n Peace Records.)

vanilla fudge - season of the witch part 1/part 2

swingin' medallions - i found a rainbow/don't cry no more

free fare - purple heart/put myself together

barbara markay - it's all rite to fuck all night/it's all rite to truck all night (censored and uncensored disco single by the female lenny bruce.)

kindergarden song/doughnut song (heelarious dirty party rekkerd. okay, not really.)

bob daveys - dearest daughter/fonzie for president

filthy mcnasty - the garden song (x rated records)

johnnie white - two old maids part 1/part 2

tim adams - satan's hotline part 1/part 2

crow - evil woman don't play your games with me/gonna leave a mark

the emotions - i call this loving you/put a little love away

bobby b. baker - take your oil and shove it/it's just about time

bloodstone - outside woman/dumb dude

dan siegel - bad habit/friday (cool funky jazzy single on inner city from 1980)

bought these on the street this morning. many of these are xhuxk-ready or xhuxk-approved, i'd bet:

sterling - city kids (1980 and awesome!)

alessi - driftin' (my heroes)

orion the hunter - s/t

jim ed brown - jim ed sings the browns

nat stuckey - all my tomorrows

angel city - face to face (own this, but i am, of course, also buying things for my rekkerd store)

skywalk - the bohemians

1994 - s/t (so, i'm guessing jack douglas got brad whitford to play guitar on this or were 1994 actually pals with aerosmith?)

john kaizan neptune and mu'ryo - shogun

poco - s/t

family - bandstand

tom t. hall - a soldier of fortune

tom t. hall - greatest hits vol.2

mary jane girls - only four you

dexter gordon - manhattan symphonie

earth, wind, & fire - open our eyes

romeo void - never say never ep

hagood hardy - the homecoming

I look all over for Alessi!

Yeah, Scott, 1994 and Angel City and Tom T Hall up my alley especially! Don't own any Hagood Hardy, though; have seen his LPs around -- are they worth buying? (His "Homecoming" is unrelated to Tom T's, right?)

Anyway, here's yesterday's haul:

50 cents each, garage sale, North Central Austin

Gary Clial / On-U Sound System Emotional Hooligan (Perfecto cassette, 1991)
Fugazi Fugazi (Dischord cassette EP, 1988 - same songs on both sides)

$2 total for all 7, garage sale, South Austin

Joan Armatrading Me Myself I (A&M LP, 1980)
Lenny Bruce To Is A Preposition, Come Is A Verb (Douglas LP, no year listed -- late '60s / early '70s I guess?)
The Hondells Go Little Honda (Mercury LP, 1964)
Tommy Roe 12 In A Roe: Greatest Hits (ABC LP, 1969)
Leigh Stevens' All Stars Jazz Themes From The Wild One (Decca LP, no year listed, Brando on the cover)
(Various) Merry Tuba Christmas (Harvey Phillips Foundation, no year listed -- label based in Bloomington, Indiana)
(Various) The Now Sound Reggae (Island, 1974 -- radio station promo; guessing this wasn't commercially relased. Select cuts by Marley, Toots, Dekker, Heptones, Cliff, Third World, Slickers)

$6 Total - Friends Of Sound (the EP was a $3 fetish splurge)

Fastway All Fired Up! (Columbia LP, 1984)
Loose Ends The Real Chuckeeboo (Virgin LP, 1988)
Prisonshake Della Street (Scat 10-inch EP, 1991)
Sherbs The Skill (Atco LP, 1980) (Austalians formerely known as Sherbet, which I didn't know when I bought this even though Scott and I briefly discussed Sherbet on ILM earlier this year; did remember that Sherbs had a quasi-new-wave almost-hit called "I Have The Skill," which hit #61 in the US, though I'm pretty sure I haven't heard it since)

Breakaway Records, this afternoon, $10 total

Bobby Bland Dreamer (Dunhill LP, 1974) (w/ "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City," later sampled in Jay-Z song of the same name)
Bobby Bland Get On Down With (Dunhill LP, 1974) (w/ covers of Merle Haggard and Charlie Rich songs)
Fanny Rock And Roll Survivors (Casablanca LP, 1974)
Gamma Gamma 1 (Elektra LP, 1979)
Rebbie Jackson Centipede (Columbia LP, 1984)
Deke Leonard Kamikaze (United Artists LP, 1974)
Man Rhinos, Winos + Lunatics (United Artists LP, 1974)
Max Webster Universal Juveniles (Mercury LP, 1980)
Mother's Finest Mother's Finest (Epic LP, 1976)
Shalamar Uptown Festival (Soul Train LP, 1977)
Shock Headed Peters The Kissing Of Gods (El Benelux EP, c. late '80s I guess)
O.C. Smith Hickory Holler Revisited (Columbia LP, 1968)

$1 each (+ $5 entrance fee) (= $34 total), Austin Record Convention today

Axe Offering (Atco 1982)
Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy (Warner Bros 1976)
Blast Blast (Columbia 1979)
Gary U.S. Bonds Dedication (EMI America 1981)
Herman Brood And His Wild Romance Go Nutz (Ariola 1980)
David + David Boomtown (A&M 1986)
Jack Dejohnette Pictures (ECM 1977)
The Delmore Brothers The Best Of (Starday 1975)
Lee Dorsey Holy Cow: The Best Of (Arista 1985)
Feederz Teachers In Space (Flaming Banker 1986)
Herbert Gronemeyer 4630 Bochum (EMI Electrola Germany 1984)
Gruppo Sportivo 10 Mistakes (Ariola Benelux 1977)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers Branded Man (Captiol 1967)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers I Love Dixie Blues (Capitol 1973)
Ofra Haza Shaday (Sire 1988)
Helix No Rest For The Wicked (Capitol 1983)
Iron City Houserockers Blood On The Bricks (MCA 1981)
Oran "Juice" Jones To Be Immortal (Columbia 1989)
E. Koestyara and Group Gapura Sangkala: Modern Instrumental Music From Indonesia (Icon 1985)
Ian Llloyd 3WC (Scotti Brothers 1980)
Nils Lofgren Nils Lofgren (A&M 1979)
Mandrill Composite Truth (Polydor 1973)
Moxy Ridin' High (Mercury 1977)
Plan 9 Keep Your Cool And Read The Rules (Pink Dust/Enigma 1985)
Red Rockers Good As Gold (Columbia 1983)
Revelacion House Of The Rising Sun (Crocos 1977)*
The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band (Spindizzy/Columbia 1973)
Gene Watson The Best Of (Capitol 1978)
(Various) Permanant Wave (Epic 1979)**

* - w/ Cerrone and Don Ray, somehow
** - technically, this was $2 and the Ofra Haza was free, but I didn't want to confuse things

gotta love that simon stokes album cover

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The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band The Incredible Simon Stokes & The Black Whip Thrill Band (Spindizzy/Columbia 1973)

SWEET DEAL!

Went back today because I regretted not buying a $1 Kick Axe Vices and $1 Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning I saw yesterday. Couldn't find those anymore, but spent another $4 anyway:

David Allan Coe Longhaired Redneck (Columbia 1976)
Steve Gibbons Band Down In The Bunker (Polydor 1978)
Killer Whales Killer Whales (Moonlight EP 1981)
REO Speedwagon Ridin' The Storm Out (Epic 1973)
Scorpions Blackout (Merucry 1982)
The Speedboys Look What Love's Done To Me Now (I Like Mike 1983)

Recycled Reads (Austin Library overrun store), $1 each today:

Mink Deville Le Chat Bleu (Capitol 1980)
Jerusalem Warrior (Lamb & Lion 1982) (Christian metal, looks heavy, probably isn't, bought it anyway just in case)
Steve Miller Circle Of Love (Capitol 1981) (w/ side-long "Macho City." I've probably passed this up in dollar bins hundred if not thousands of times in my life, just because its cover looks so boring that I always forget that song's on it.)

I got my original Westbound copy of Maggot Brain LP at Goodwill for 99 cents like fifteen years ago. The cover was worn (lady's face ripped off, revealing the skull beneath) but the vinyl is nearly mint. I love spinning it.

Trail of Dead's Source Tags on Vinyl for 1.00. Still a fantastic record, no doubt.

How'd you find that?!

Spent $1 on 1 (double) album at Half-Price Books today:

Bebop Deluxe Live! In The Air Age (Harvest/EMI 1977)

Not a buck or less, but $7.50 for all four:

Clubroot - s/t
Machinefabriek - Marijn
Machinefabriek - Weleer
Sum of R - s/t

$1, Village Thrift on S. Congress:

Phil Harris On The Record (RCA Victor 10-inch EP, early '50s probably) (has "Darktown Poker Club," "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," "That's What I Love About The South," "Minnie The Mermaid," a couple other songs, but not his biggest novelty hit "The Thing")

^ Actually at St. Vincent De Paul thrift, I meant.

And today at Antone's, $1 each:

Jay Ferguson Real Life Ain't This Way (Elektra 1979 - w/ yacht-rock classic "Shakedown Cruise")
Freedom "Are You Available" (Malaco 1984 - w/ a presumably Southern soul cover of "Do It All Night" by Prince; still can't tell by looking whether Freedom is a band, or one person, or what)
Krystol Talk Of The Town (Epic 1985 - very cool-looking r&b girl group I never heard of before)
Timex Social Club Vicious Rumors...The Album (Danya 1986 -- LP never charted; single, on a different label, went to #8)

Passed up a mid '80s album by Andre Cymone that claimed to be "nu wave" and a mid '80s album on Total Experience (Gap Band's label) by a weird new-wave looking post-Prince funk guy named "E.T." If anybody tells me these are too good to have passed up, I'll go back. Also curious which, if any, Dazz Band LPs might be worth $1. Don't think I've ever had one.

i got the self titled by a gun called tension in brooklyn for a dollar

I clearly have no will power or self control. Antone's, $1 each, today:

Andre Cymone Survivin' In The '80s (Columbia 1983)
ET Best Friends (Total Experience 1986)

in new york, where are there good places to get records for like a dollar

They're $2 at The Thing, a thrift store on Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but there are tons of them there -- a huge basement entirely packed with vinyl, floor to ceiling. So worth the trip, but picking up a paper dust mask at a drugstore down the street is highly advised. There are plenty of other thrift stores in Queens and Brooklyn that are worth checking out, too -- do a search of this thread for "Sunnyside" up above. And sometimes sidewalk dealers in Manhattan have them cheap, or even free. But mostly, used LPs at actual NYC record stores -- by my experience anyway -- are overpriced for suckers.

Also, I didn't have a car in New York, so I never got to check out the thrifts in Staten Island. But I've heard there are lots of good ones.

Also worth the trip for $1 LPs: Princeton Record Exchange (Exit 9 off the NJ Turnpike, I think), if you can get a lift there.

o thanks i live in new jersey that's perfect

$1 each -- Hog Wild Records in San Antonio; a Goodwill store in downtown San Antonio; Sundance Records in San Marcos, this weekend:

Colonel Abrams You And Me Equals Us (MCA 1987)
J. Blackfoot Physical Attraction (Sound Town 1984)
Camel The Single Factor (Passport 1982)
Marshall Chapman Marshall Chapman (Epic 1978)
Detective Detective (Swan Song 1977)
The Forester Sisters Perfume, Ribbons & Pearls (Warner Bros. 1986)
The J. Geils Band Showtime! (EMI 1982)
Merle Haggard Greatest Hits (MCA 1982) (All 1977-1981 songs, like "My Old Kind Of Hat" and "Red Bandana"; used to own this, remember liking it, shouldn't have gotten rid of it.)
Robin Lane & the Chartbusters Imitation Life (Warner Bros. 1981)
Little Milton Annie Mae's Cafe (Malaco 1986)
Ian Matthews Stealin' Home (Mushroom 1978)
O.B. McClinton Album No. 2 (Hometown Productions 1986)
New Birth Behold The Mighty Army (Warner Bros. 1977)
Charlie Rich Big Boss Man/My Mountain Dew (RCA 1977)
Charlie Rich I Do My Swingin' At Home (Epic 1973)
Skyy Skyway (Salsoul 1980)
The Smothers Brothers Curb Your Tongue, Knave! (Mercury 1963)
Billie Joe Spears Blanket On The Ground (United Artists 1975)
Billy Swan Rock N Roll Moon (Monument 1975)
Keith Sykes I'm Not Strange I'm Just Like You (Backstreet 1980)
Hank Thompson Movin' On (ABC 1974)
(Various) Motels And Memories (Warner Special Products 1981) (100% country cheating songs, from the mid '70s to early '80s)

xhuxk, let me know how that Keith Sykea record is. I'm a recent convert of his earlier, (much?) different stuff on Vanguard.