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

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

$2 today at a thrift store:

Tarantino's Death Proof - 2 disk version, extended and unrated and a bunch of extras

$2 Australian at a reuse/recycle shop yesterday: Criterion 3-disc Battle of Algiers
Sealed 4-disc Assayas Carlos the Jackal
Sealed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Rivette’s Grande Illusion
A lesser Studio Ghibli
Reygadas’ Japón

From the Dollar Tree ($1.25 each):

Breakin' (DVD)
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (DVD)
Magic Mike (Blu/DVD combo)

From my local library bookstore ($1 each):

Hitman (2007) (Blu)
Step Brothers (2 disc Blu Ray)

Today at thrift store, $3 each

The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter (Criterion edition)
Live Forever - The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop

Today at a thrift store, $3

Deconstructing the Beatles (2017, 3-disk set - Scott Freiman looks at the White Album, Sgt Pepper's, Rubber Soul, and Revolver).

Never heard of this, but figured at $3 I couldn't pass it up.

About a month ago:
David Crosby: Remember My Name
Cat Stevens: Majikat (live show from 1976, before he left the biz)

Monday:
Belle De Jour

$4 each, at a thrift store where $3 used to be the standard.

Today at a thrift store, $2 each:

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Jackson Browne: Going Home (1994 show)
Rick Steve's Spain (8 30-min episodes)
Visions of Sicily

I'm watching the current season of White Lotus, so I had to get that last one.

$3 for Terry Gilliam's Tideland (2-disc set)

― nickn, Saturday, July 11, 2015 3:17 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Tideland (2 disk version)

― nickn, Sunday, November 3, 2019 7:15 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Guess what I bought today? Only $1. I thought I might already have it, but wasn't sure I had the 2-disk set.

william wyler's "ben-hur"?

most recent score for me, last month, was globe unity orchestra's "compositions" LP for about a dollar at a goodwill

Nick, I've accidentally bought many things twice, but I'm pretty sure never three times--kudos.

Second time I've done it too, check up thread for my Velvet Goldmine purchases.

Today at a thrift store, $4 each:

The Bangles, Return To Bangleonia (live 2000)
The Sacred Triangle: Bowie, Iggy, & Lou 1971-1973
Pixies Acoustic Live In Newport (acoustic live from 2005)
The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark (MST3K people doing their thing on videos)

Today at a thrift store, $3

The Beatles - The First US Visit (2003 release of the 1964 doc. Maysles brothers and a couple other directors)

Today at a thrift store, $3 each for seasons 1-3 of Community. Almost let it go because I think I can re-watch on line for free, but . . . deleted scenes!, gag reels!, commentary on every episode!, mini-docs on certain episodes!

the gag reels are generally great from what i remember

$3 at a thrift store: The Clash - Westway To The World

Goodwill Select, $1.99:

Hot Town Cool City (local PBS documentary from 2007 about unique Houston businesses and tourist spots, around half of which either aren't around anymore or not what they once were)

Today at a thrift store for $4
Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday on Criterion.

I've been going to thrift stores since the last post, but the pickin's keep getting slimmer and slimmer. Yesterday, though, I was at a Goodwill and discovered that somebody had dumped their Criterion collection. So I got:

Videodrome (2 disks)
Kwaidan
Jigoku
Jules and Jim (2 disks)
La Jetee/Sans Soleil
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (2 disks)
That Obscure Object of Desire
Band of Outsiders
8 1/2 (2 disks)
The Third Man (2 disks)

And on non-Criterion labels:
Persona
L'Age D'Or

All for $56 (why yes, I am eligible for the 15% senior discount)
I left 8-10 on the shelf because I either already had them or wasn't interested.
I also think I already own 1-2 of the ones I bought, but wasn't sure.

That is definitely worth posting about!

great haul! I should get L'Age D'Or one of these days
never seen a Criterion in a second hand store but did find a Kenneth Anger collection for v. cheap recently

That two-disc Third Man is a real score, it wasn't in print very long.

Today at a thrift store, $2.

The Anniversary Party.

I remember liking it the one time I saw it, and it has a commentary, so what the hell.

Nickn's post a little above is the only kind of Criterion Flash Sale that means anything to me.

lol
I went back to the store a couple days later and the rest of the Criterions were gone.

I had a find like that but on a lesser scale, I think I got Cria Cuervos, Battle of Algiers and Carlos the Jackal (not all Criterion) along with a Renoir and something else decent. $2 a disc tho!

I just found The Films of Charles & Ray Eames Volume 2 in one of those little free libraries

Swap meet yesterday, $1 each.

Interiors
Casino Royale
Fay Grim

The seller had a Criterion/art house section for $8 each, but nothing I had to have.

Thrift store just now, $1 each.

Larry Clark's Kids
Neil Young's Greendale

Not sure I've ever heard anything good about Greendale, but now's my chance to find out.

Also found the Frantz/Weymouth book Remain In Love for $2.

Big Lots 20% off sale

Wild River (Blu): $4.79
Mad Max Fury Road (3-D Blu Combo): $3.99

Halfway tempted to try to flip the latter, as it's oop and certain copies bring $$ online (but probably not the one I got)

At the Repair Cafe's Really, Really Free table today,

SLC Punk
Rocky Horror Picture Show

I may already have SLC Punk, and if so I'll drop it off at the next one.

BTW, anyone curious about what's at Big Lots these days entertainment-wise it's a lot of Blu-Rays and DVD combo packs. They also have a lot of full-season/full-series TV sets, probably leftovers from Black Friday. Amusingly, a number of these were obviously Canadian imports from Quebec, as they had bilingual packaging.

Sony's dumped a bunch of $7 catalogue CDs, and I found a Sean Mendes double-LP for $25.

Both of the Big Lots closest to me have shut down, don't know where the next nearest one is now, but I should find out.

I was up in north Houston today, laughing about how that--spaced out over a particular 15-20 mile stretch of road no less--up there they've got four Big Lots (and a fifth if you stretch in our another 15 or so miles...and a another three that are a little further north on freeways that cross the road in question).

saw a DVD of Morvern Callar for a buck at a record store in LA today. That's definitely worth a dollar!

More 20% Off Blu-Rays At Big Lots:

Friday Night Lights [film] ($2.39)
Terminator ($5.59)
Psycho 60th Anniversary [two cuts] ($7.19)
West Side Story 50th Anniversary Blu Combo ($7.99)

I put back a copy of the Twin Peaks Gold DVD Set, which would have been about $16 w/the discount.

The FNL is one of those early Blus with the breathless back cover notes about quaint stuff like "High Definition" and "BluRay Live".

Ah, that's not as fun as digging through stacks of discs flanked by discontinued lawn furntiture and nearly expired Little Debbie's.

― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:52 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Prophecy? 10 years on and the fourway rack with the movies was next to another one packed with Little Debbie's.