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

$2 each today at Salvation Army.

Dead Man (the Jarmusch film)
The Saddest Music in the World

$2 each today at Salvation Army.

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.

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.

Thrif store today, 3 for $5.

Midnight In Paris
Thoroughly Modern Millie
His Girl Friday

I envy your nabbing such a cheap copy of His Girl Friday.

It appears to be a low-budget affair (Digiview Productions, 2004), but is in good condition. Found them at at an Out of the Closet thrift store.

Today at Salvation Army, $2 each

Roy Orbison live at Austin City Limits, 1982
12 Monkeys
Birth of a Nation

That copy of Lady Bird mentioned above wouldn't play on my DVD player or PC, but it did play on my work PC.

Thrift store today:

Manhattan, $2.25
Elevation 2001/U2 Live from Boston, $1.50

I'm not really a fan of U2, but it seems like an interesting package, on 2 disks. And so cheap.

Thursday at a thrift store, $1 each
Secretary
The Tenant (Polansky)

Thrift store today, $2 each.
Inherent Vice
30 Years of Maximum R&B Live (The Who)

Thrift store today, $2

My Architect (Louis Kahn's illegitimate son's documentary)

I liked that when I saw it a few years ago.

Whenever I dream about the apocalypse these days, nickn is always in there (masked, of course) combing through discount DVD bins.

Life . . . finds a way.

Thrift store today, $1.

King Kong (original) - a 2-disk version with lots of extras.

Re-watching Altered States tonight. Bought it at a Rite Aid that's now a Walgreen's for $5 several years ago.

Went to another store today and found the Criterion Taste of Cherry. Was excited at first but when I opened it saw that it was very scratched. It was marked as being from the Torrance library and I figured if a library was getting rid of a (likely) popular film it must be unplayable.

Yesterday at a thrift store, $2 each.

Foo Fighters - Back and Forth (2011 documentary)
Rope Ladder To The Moon (a biog of Jack Bruce, from 1969 apparently)
The Avett Brothers - Live, Volume 3

Today at a thrift store, $2 each.

Breezy (William Holden, Kay Lenz in "hippie girl meets uptight businessman," 1973)
Bruce Springsteen Live in Barcelona - (2002, a 2-disk set but the second disk is cracked from outer edge to the center hole, which I knew when I bought it)

Breezy: A Clint Eastwood Joint! He even has a Hitchcock-esque cameo.

Several months ago, at a thrift store going out of business sale, $1 each:
Survivor, season 1
The Real World season 1
The Others (Nicole Kidman, 2-disk set)
The Loved One

Today, different thrift store, $1 each:
News Radio seasons 1 & 2
Queen & Slim
Eating Raoul
24 Hour Party People

A couple weeks ago at my local swap meet, $20 for all:
New Wave Theatre, vols 1 & 2 (7 disks)
Captain Beefheart collection, various performances from 1968-80 (DVD-R)

Today at a thrift store, $1 each:
Russian Ark (also a DVD-R, it's been on the shelves there for months)
The Best of Sid Caesar
The Sid Caesar Collection (3 disks)

$2 each at a thrift store.

Weather Underground (doc, looks like from 2003)
The Bad Seed.

The Weather Underground's a good one.

The Bad Seed has a hilarious end-credits sequence.

Thrift store today, $1 each

Clockwatchers
Tom Lehrer Live in Copenhagen 1967
Reno 911 first season (2 disks)

Clockwatchers has been there for months, and I like the movie but it was a bit more scratched than I like, but I decided to go for it. And I have some Reno 911 but not sure if that includes season 1.

There was a flea market CD/DVD/records place I mentioned in the second post on this thread; used to go there regularly before I left Toronto. On the way to my sister's this morning, I dropped in for the first time in two years. Wasn't sure they'd still be in business; they are, but the owner is 72 now and he said they'd be closing up for good at the end of July. Besides his age, he said he had shutdowns of four and five months because of COVID (and this is a weekend-only business). Felt bad for him--probably the last record store I'll ever frequent with some regularity. (Bought a five-film Martin & Lewis DVD box for $13 today, plus a few albums.)

$3 at a thrift store today, Harold and Maude.

$3 at a thrift store yesterday, Louie, Season 1 (2 disks). No money went to LCK!

Did anyone try to stop you as you left the store?

There were some disapproving looks. And a little head shaking.

Hah. Sad but fair. I only saw the first two seasons of Louie, but they were great.

Today at a thrift store (it's last day before moving to the other side of town, so 50 cents each this time).

Gosford Park
Who Killed Teddy Bear (w/ a short - LSD: Insight or Insanity)

And it contains an episode of the TV series Court Martial, which, along with the LSD doc, has Sal Mineo in it. It's also a Blue Ray, so I guess I'll have to get a player.

Velvet Goldmine.

$3 each

― nickn, Monday, November 17, 2014

A couple weeks later I found Velvet Goldmine at a thrift store for 25 cents.

― nickn, Friday, March 4, 2016

Guess what I bought today ($2 this time)!

Time for a list on my phone, I think.

I'm laughing...I've done that numerous times: with DVDs, with books, and (not as often--maybe only a handful of times) with albums. Because they're alphabetized on shelves, I'll catch the mistake right away with DVDs and albums. With books, which are all over the place, I might never know for sure.

Yeah, not my first time either, and I am glad my last buy of it wasn't like 6 months ago.

https://imgur.com/a/6jZTsmQ

Paid about £3 for that (yes a little on the high side for such a common title.)

Is that cover a thing? I assume it's homemade, what's notahle it's obviously "funny" but well done and completely deadpan, there's no sign of a joke in the text. I wonder who the artist is!

Is the proportion of "worthwhile" DVDs in thrift / charity shops / car boots going down IYO? Maybe I've just got a lot of the usual stuff I'd be interested in or maybe it's people hanging on to them as they move away from streaming again? Still find stuff but it has seemed thinner on the ground than usual for a few months.

Seems so to me too. I think as more people do streaming they buy fewer disks, and so the supply stream to the thrift stores is reduced, especially for newer titles.

That would be my guess too. Libraries buy less, retail stores sell less, etc...

Been slowly becoming more scarce for at least the past five years, for all the reasons cited, plus I came along and bought most of them, then nickn bought the rest.

I suppose it would be a delayed effect but streaming isn't that new and there has remained a steady torrent of DVD collections being offloaded over the last few years. It's really only more recently that I've noticed a significant apparent slow down. I was actually tieing it to a slight reversal in trends regarding streaming* so these are some very different takes.

For chazzers / thrifts I suppose the fact that average DVD prices have dropped well below £1 means they're not worth making so much shelf space for and they could be selling in bulk to Music Magpie etc., which frankly is sad and unethical but probably economics.

Blu-Rays of anything interesting have really dried up (just as I finally got a player), so I think that's definitely about people hanging on to them more.

* https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/20/netflix-shares-fall-losing-subscribers

Thrift store today, $2.

Paul McCartney - Back In The US (live show from 2002)

Thrift store today, $2 each.

James Brown - Live From the House of Blues (Las Vegas)
Prince - Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas
The Office - Overtime (US Office show, looks like a bunch of extras - "As Not Seen On TV")

Recent acquirings of moderate interest:

Breaking Glass (DVD) - seems to be OOP in its UK version. Not a great film but the music biz critique seems genuinly angry if on the nose, fun turns in small rolls from people like Jim Broadbent and Ken Campbell. Daniels is always good fun. Yeah...

Wild Style (25th Anniversary DVD) - nice extras, interviews with the main cast members, director's commentary.

Zack Snyder's Justice League Trilogy (Blu-ray) - never seen any of these, and.. now I have. Man Of Steel actually much better than I expected, I think that's a director's cut as well. I don't love these but I do appreciate how he plays it 'straight' in contrast to Marvel's meta-postmodern laffs. Seems like if you can go along with it there's more potential for these to retain some mythic charge. That said, the best bit in the whole lot is the Song To The Siren / hotdog scene. I gather one of those actors has made himself more than a little problematic.

Also hsout out to Jonathan Pryce's very convincing smackhead bass player in BG.

Sax player! Just testing to see who's laying attention.

Also on the to watch when in sufficiently loosened state of mind pile:

Cyborg³ The Recycler featuring Malcolm McDowell

Abel Ferrara's The Gladiator

36 Chambers Of Shaolin