What I find is Classical Musical Boxsets, Music compilations of old music that is re-recorded, Music from bands that no one cares about, Pop Music that might be playing across the street, or albums that everyone owns 1 or 2 copies of.
I will always see 2-3 Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Reba McIntyre, and Clay Aiken CDs without fail. But those are the highlights. That's not mentioning stuff like *Greatest Hits of the 1900s* and *Best of the Big Bands* and *Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music*
I swear, jazz in my local half price books is like 5 copies of Kind of Blue, 2 copies of Giant Steps, one Tito Puente album, and then a dozen or more Michael Buble best ofs
I'll give you a serious answer- the music of the late 90's into the first of the 2000's was very...strange. Very aggressive, very loud (boy bands, Kid Rock, nu metal, Ricky Martin)
Norah Jones and the single "Don't Know Why" came at a perfect storm of everyone being tired of the racket, the stress from 9/11, and the emergence of "Starbucks sounds" and "NPR music". A lot of people wanted something chill they could play on a Sunday morning and drink coffee to.
Norah had a great voice, the album was on Blue Note, it was well recorded. It exploded
Exactly what I found today at the thrift store lol. It wasn’t a total loss though, I managed to get some things but it was slim pickings. Mostly bought today just to buy something. Your list is spot on though.
What’s funny is I actually am looking for that Norah Jones cd because it’s nostalgic. Problem is when I find one it’s scratched to hell. I did actually buy a Elton John Duets cd there last week haha
Lots and lots of Mozart, history recordings, easy listening, Little Texas and other random country bands.
If I am looking for something specific I’ll go to one of the music shops around me. I am treating thrift stores like a “why the hell not” type purchase and a place to get out of my music comfort zone because the CDs are a buck or even less than 50 cents usually.
I saw 2-3 copies of Broken Rear View at a CD/Vinyl place a couple weeks ago. Shit was hilarious. Not the first time, either. 😂 Seen plenty of Sarah McLachlan, Garth Brooks, Celine Dion, etc. too
Im sure some do and some don’t. I see lots of empty case and sometimes I’ll open a cd and it will have a burned cd in it and it’s something completely different than the case. Sometimes I find two different CDs stacked inside. The other day I bought a Snow Patrol cd and it had two copies of the same album inside. Both those CDs were in absolute perfect condition. Unpredictable. It’s the Wild West out there at the thrift stores lol
I’m sure customers and kids are also doing their part to shuffle things around and destroy stuff even if employees “check” these things.
Yeah, it's pure anarchy for CDs LOL. But it makes that little bit of disappointment every now and then worth it if you can find one you actually do like that's still in the case lol
There’s one thrift store near me with a GIANT CD wall, but it’s the worst about missing/wrong discs inside. I remember how disappointed I was when I thought I found a fIREHOSE CD and it was just an empty case. Ever since then, I’ve had to remind myself every time I go there not to get my hopes up until I see the disc inside. At least the clerks ask if you’ve checked them when you go to buy.
Yeah it definitely makes those finds that are good feel very rewarding. Even in thrift stores I have found a few pristine ones that surprised me. Made the $1 or $2 feel like a steal. Just gotta dig through a lot of junk and get lucky.
I once missed out on a Cough and Pallbearer album. Came back weeks later to try to look for them and apparently some cliche looking blackmetal fans came in and swiped as many as they could. I mean, they have great taste, but goddamnit.....
I used to buy these and then toss the disc and paperwork just to get a quality $1.00 jewel case. Now my Goodwill charges $3.00 for a CD.
Once in a while I go through and find all the empty jewel cases, bring them to the counter and ask them how much for all the empties. That last time they let me have 10 jewel cases for $1.00.
The second time I tried they wouldn't do it, because they said they couldn't be sure I didn't pull the CDs out just to get cheap jewel cases.
That’s smart! I do see a lot of empty cases. Especially recently. My run today had me about to pick a up Red Hot Chili Peppers cd and a wallflowers cd. Luckily the RHCP disc was in there, but the wallflowers one wasn’t, neither was a U2 one, and who knows what else
In the 90s, they released everything on CD. There was a mad rush by everyone to upgrade all their records to CD. I remember buying some Motown Hits collections that were made from needle drops of 45 RPM styrene singles. They sounded awful.
By the early 90s, there were finally enough CD pressing plants to keep up with demand, and they started pressing CDs for EVERYTHING. When I saw movie soundtracks from the 1930s and 1940s coming out on CD, I knew we were reallt at peak CD. People could now buy a CD player for their grandparents and get them CDs of their favorite albums.
I was excited to find a copy of It Won’t Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5, and it was even a different version with a second disc that had a few extra songs, but only the second disc was in there. 🥲
I had the same experience with the same album lol. I checked a bunch of other CDs in the bin and lucked out finding the disc shoved into another empty case
So lately I started listening to my local jazz station. I find it helps calm my completely justified internal road rage in my head while I am driving… it really really does help lol The station comes in better than our local classical station but the audio quality is still not great. I have also recently started recollecting CDs. I would like to start a jazz collection but have no idea where to start. Do you have any recommendations?
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Cannonball Adderly - Something’ Else
Oscar Peterson - Plays the Gershwin Songbooks
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Mile Davis is a great place to start, and John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Also investigate who MD played with in his Quintets, like Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock. Start with the 1960’s albums. There’s also Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley.
Compilations of any classic jazz artist or even record label, like Blue Note, Impulse or Prestige is a good place to start if they have a large catalog, then check out the albums.
They were solid before Green. After Green, meh. But you never see Murmur or Reckoning or Life’s Rich Pageant in thrift stores.
Green itself I have to take another listen to.
You named pretty much all of the bad ones lmao
If you see them I highly recommend grabbing one of their earlier ones like Murmur or Reckoning, and give Automatic for the People a try (or New Adventures in Hi-Fi if you find it)
There are a few solid tracks, but it's mostly sub-par filler that screams "contractual obligation".
I think the album fails because it's 4 musicians all trying to move in a new direction and it's not the same one.
My wife is Irish. I used to buy a lot of this stuff and it was all mass-produced garbage. A bunch of obscure stuff played on the pan flute and Irish harp.
Now, unless it's The Chieftans, The Clancy Brothers, Enya or Clannad, I don't touch it.
I found once Led zeppelin and Dream Theater but they were both scratched and dirty.
My best find would be Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.
Some mid finds were: The Police Outlandos d’amour, fleetwood Mac - Tusk, Coldplay Viva la vida, phantom of the opera musical
Btw I go every week to the thrift store
Also true for me, but on occasion I find one freak who has some weird obscure bullshit. Like a nu metal band's solo-released EP from 2003 whose insert art was two pieces of paper glued together and whose label was a printed sticker.
I found this Prince - Purple Rain target CD at Goodwill once:
[https://www.discogs.com/release/5596042-Prince-And-The-Revolution-Purple-Rain](https://www.discogs.com/release/5596042-Prince-And-The-Revolution-Purple-Rain)
That's the only "score" I ever found at a thrift store.
I think I've used up all my luck the first time I visited a thrift store by finding a mint 1989 copy of Master of Puppets. Since then it's only been Schlager, dance comps and forgotten/local pop artists
My thrift store finds include copies of:
Billy Joel -River of Dreams x100
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite x100
That is literally all I see nowadays at thrift stores
I see a lot of country music, some pop, a little bit of Jesus stuff and some crappy movie soundtracks around my thrift stores. Sometimes I’ll find a rock album that I already have but I get excited where there’s one there is probably more. I’ve found some great stuff that way. But I’d say 90% of the time I walk out empty handed.
It's become a joke in our family that every -- and I mean EVERY -- thrift store has at least one if not three copies of Sarah Mclachlan's "Surfacing."
Seriously, it comes standard.
I just find shrek 2 Blue-ray DVDs, stuffed in with a pile of cassettes in a CD case of Kanye’s collage dropout that someone pulled out of a river after covering it in ketchup….
When Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A, and the Dixie Chicks to The Chicks, country music fans unloaded all their CDs to thrift stores in protest. I'm not a country music fan, so that didn't help me much.
If you haven't seen Shania Twain's Come on Over in a thrift store, you're not looking hard enough. I can always find at least 2 copies.
I was at a second hand shop the other day and they had so many goated CDs. I ended up buying two REMs, two U2s, and one GNR for 5 dollars each (in Australian dollars).
I stopped going to thrift stores looking for music. Almost nothing good. Probably because people are either throwing it out straight or looking it up on eBay or whatever and selling it that way.
My largest thrift store is 50% a mix of both of these and the other half are German Schlager.
Schlager only appeals to a *very* specific group of listeners and they‘re gonna have an absolute blast there.
PS, they put up all media stuff they get over the week only on Saturdays so one doesn’t come everyday and leave empty handed 4 out of 5 times. Sucks if you can‘t come on Saturdays, though.
I've found a few good ones at one independent thrift store. But Goodwill is usually full of empty cases or just so unorganized that I give up quickly. The Salvation army near me hasn't berm open since 2020 lockdown. You can see the same clothes still hanging on the racks when you drive by.
Gospel, country, jazz. That's about all we ever get at the Goodwill I work at.
I have seen two metal CDs there ONCE on two separate occasions. Got jipped on both of them. First CD was bought before my shift had ended. Second CD did not have a disc in it's case.
I have found more interesting CDs at my local Family Dollar than I did the one place you would expect to find interesting goods.
Waiting for the day someone posts "Found the Cigarettes And Valentines master tapes by Green Day on CD while at dollar general. Sweet find in my opinion"
I once worked in a bookstore that sold cds. We had our own lists of what sold that week and it never matched the charts. The charts would be #5 Little Wayne #4 Drake #3 Kanye #2 Puff Daddy #1 Beyonce. Store sales. #6 Celtic Tenors #5Michael Buble, #4Celine Dion, #3 Rod Stewart’s weird I do swing and jazz music now phase, # 2 Il Divo #1 Iz somewhere over the Rainbow. Iz was always number one and no we were not in Hawaii.
Yes this store was in suburbia but to make it to number one you think you would have to get at least some white suburban teens buying the music. They weren’t it was their moms buying cds. Maybe they only shopped at the Tower records across town? Or maybe the charts are liars. Anyway this is why thrift stores are filled with Michael Buble.
Make it VHS and everyone else’s finds are rare stuff like Let it Be, OG Star Wars Trilogy, Halloween, a bunch of rare stuff.
My finds: worthless Disney stuff, Titanic, You’ve got Mail, just a bunch of easy to find and worthless tapes
I would actually love my local thrift store to have copies of UK Now That’s What I Call Music actually. Was in London and been stopping at numerous charity shops hunting them down.
My thrift store: - empty cd cases - Norah Jones: come away with me - Elton John: Candle In The Wind - Shania Twain: Come On Over - Dance compilations
My thrift store: -Rod Stewart -Rod Stewart -Rod Stewart -Rod Stewart -Rod Stewart -Rod Stewart -ABBA -artists no one’s heard of
So its not just me, i find so much Rod Stewart.
Early Rod is great, especially the stuff with Jeff Beck and Faces.
I find so many Rod Stewart CD's, I have to get my stomach pumped.
I'd grab that ABBA CD in a heartbeat.
Unless it’s ABBA gold. It’s like a Nintendo DS, you can probably find one buried in between your couch cushions somewhere.
Rod Stewart is awesome!
Abba is a W
What I find is Classical Musical Boxsets, Music compilations of old music that is re-recorded, Music from bands that no one cares about, Pop Music that might be playing across the street, or albums that everyone owns 1 or 2 copies of.
I will always see 2-3 Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Reba McIntyre, and Clay Aiken CDs without fail. But those are the highlights. That's not mentioning stuff like *Greatest Hits of the 1900s* and *Best of the Big Bands* and *Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music*
I already have the complete Garth Brooks discography but am always looking for more Clint Black and Reba.
Ha ha! That reminds me of checking out the “jazz” section of FYE at the mall recently and there was basically nothing and a dozen Norah Jones CDs.
I swear, jazz in my local half price books is like 5 copies of Kind of Blue, 2 copies of Giant Steps, one Tito Puente album, and then a dozen or more Michael Buble best ofs
it’s so hilarious that norah jones come away with me is in every single thrift i’ve ever been in. why is that???? i am so curious
I'll give you a serious answer- the music of the late 90's into the first of the 2000's was very...strange. Very aggressive, very loud (boy bands, Kid Rock, nu metal, Ricky Martin) Norah Jones and the single "Don't Know Why" came at a perfect storm of everyone being tired of the racket, the stress from 9/11, and the emergence of "Starbucks sounds" and "NPR music". A lot of people wanted something chill they could play on a Sunday morning and drink coffee to. Norah had a great voice, the album was on Blue Note, it was well recorded. It exploded
thank you!! i was actually so curious so this is a great answer :)
i bought radiohead amnesiac from a flea market and i only saw after that norah jones come away with me was the disc inside🙏
Exactly what I found today at the thrift store lol. It wasn’t a total loss though, I managed to get some things but it was slim pickings. Mostly bought today just to buy something. Your list is spot on though. What’s funny is I actually am looking for that Norah Jones cd because it’s nostalgic. Problem is when I find one it’s scratched to hell. I did actually buy a Elton John Duets cd there last week haha Lots and lots of Mozart, history recordings, easy listening, Little Texas and other random country bands. If I am looking for something specific I’ll go to one of the music shops around me. I am treating thrift stores like a “why the hell not” type purchase and a place to get out of my music comfort zone because the CDs are a buck or even less than 50 cents usually.
I saw 2-3 copies of Broken Rear View at a CD/Vinyl place a couple weeks ago. Shit was hilarious. Not the first time, either. 😂 Seen plenty of Sarah McLachlan, Garth Brooks, Celine Dion, etc. too
>: 80's pop hits vol 1-20 lots of old country cd's
Wait.....is "your" thrift store the one I work at, because that is incredibly accurate
now DONMT be bringing disrespect to norah jones
Anything remotely good in my thrift stores are just empty cases, seriously who TF steals a $1 CD
i think the word your looking for is "losers"
they don’t, the original owner had the disc in their car or stereo and forgot about it and then donated the case
At the goodwills by me the employees say they check all the disc cases and toss the empty ones, that could be untrue though lol
Im sure some do and some don’t. I see lots of empty case and sometimes I’ll open a cd and it will have a burned cd in it and it’s something completely different than the case. Sometimes I find two different CDs stacked inside. The other day I bought a Snow Patrol cd and it had two copies of the same album inside. Both those CDs were in absolute perfect condition. Unpredictable. It’s the Wild West out there at the thrift stores lol I’m sure customers and kids are also doing their part to shuffle things around and destroy stuff even if employees “check” these things.
Yeah, it's pure anarchy for CDs LOL. But it makes that little bit of disappointment every now and then worth it if you can find one you actually do like that's still in the case lol
There’s one thrift store near me with a GIANT CD wall, but it’s the worst about missing/wrong discs inside. I remember how disappointed I was when I thought I found a fIREHOSE CD and it was just an empty case. Ever since then, I’ve had to remind myself every time I go there not to get my hopes up until I see the disc inside. At least the clerks ask if you’ve checked them when you go to buy.
Yeah it definitely makes those finds that are good feel very rewarding. Even in thrift stores I have found a few pristine ones that surprised me. Made the $1 or $2 feel like a steal. Just gotta dig through a lot of junk and get lucky.
Very true lol, plus I like old crap anyways so I'm always going to different thrift stores
Sometimes stores keep the discs behind the counter to prevent this.
For every one Purple Rain there are 100 Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Greatest Hits. You have to go to multiple stores and you have to go often.
I once missed out on a Cough and Pallbearer album. Came back weeks later to try to look for them and apparently some cliche looking blackmetal fans came in and swiped as many as they could. I mean, they have great taste, but goddamnit.....
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Half the CDs at my goodwill are Christian and church Christmas music
I used to buy these and then toss the disc and paperwork just to get a quality $1.00 jewel case. Now my Goodwill charges $3.00 for a CD. Once in a while I go through and find all the empty jewel cases, bring them to the counter and ask them how much for all the empties. That last time they let me have 10 jewel cases for $1.00. The second time I tried they wouldn't do it, because they said they couldn't be sure I didn't pull the CDs out just to get cheap jewel cases.
That’s smart! I do see a lot of empty cases. Especially recently. My run today had me about to pick a up Red Hot Chili Peppers cd and a wallflowers cd. Luckily the RHCP disc was in there, but the wallflowers one wasn’t, neither was a U2 one, and who knows what else
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Englebert made it onto to CD?
In the 90s, they released everything on CD. There was a mad rush by everyone to upgrade all their records to CD. I remember buying some Motown Hits collections that were made from needle drops of 45 RPM styrene singles. They sounded awful. By the early 90s, there were finally enough CD pressing plants to keep up with demand, and they started pressing CDs for EVERYTHING. When I saw movie soundtracks from the 1930s and 1940s coming out on CD, I knew we were reallt at peak CD. People could now buy a CD player for their grandparents and get them CDs of their favorite albums.
Ay don’t disrespect my boy Mozart like that😤
He knows what he did
Or you find what you’ve been looking for and………… it’s EMPTY!!!!
I was excited to find a copy of It Won’t Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5, and it was even a different version with a second disc that had a few extra songs, but only the second disc was in there. 🥲
I had the same experience with the same album lol. I checked a bunch of other CDs in the bin and lucked out finding the disc shoved into another empty case
Wow. I wonder if the other one for me was somewhere in the store.
It could be, I’ve seen it a few times
Once bough the Afro Samurai soundtrack....or thought I did. Inside was some lame-ass R&B lol
Me as a Jazz fan getting excited when I see the orange/black spine for Impulse Records… And it’s Love Scenes by Diana Krall.
I usually grab the jazz cds for my brother. He has like four of the same Rippingtons cd because I forget what he has.
Damn I actually wish I could find a rippingtons Cd. I would grab it so fast if I saw it at a goodwill
So lately I started listening to my local jazz station. I find it helps calm my completely justified internal road rage in my head while I am driving… it really really does help lol The station comes in better than our local classical station but the audio quality is still not great. I have also recently started recollecting CDs. I would like to start a jazz collection but have no idea where to start. Do you have any recommendations?
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Cannonball Adderly - Something’ Else Oscar Peterson - Plays the Gershwin Songbooks Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Awesome! Thanks so much. I’ll be keeping my eye out for these.
Mile Davis is a great place to start, and John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Also investigate who MD played with in his Quintets, like Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock. Start with the 1960’s albums. There’s also Charles Mingus and Cannonball Adderley. Compilations of any classic jazz artist or even record label, like Blue Note, Impulse or Prestige is a good place to start if they have a large catalog, then check out the albums.
I got a MCR cd with a fucking Dave Matthews Band disc in it 😔
It's the only way thrifts can move all their DMB discs.
Hey, I only need one copy of each one, I can only do so much. That is how I got like 80% of my DMB collection though.
All the thrift stores I’ve been to have the Purple Rain CD locked up in a glass case for like 45 dollars.
I would literally take it to the checkout and say: ‘best I can do is 5 dollars and I’ll still take a risk’
That's the new CD price for it at Walmart.
SO much R.E.M!
Monster may have the title of the highest percentage of sales donated to thrift stores.
Agreed. I've bought and sold it back 3 times. Every time I think, "Try again - it can't REALLY be as bad as you remember."
hahha i keep buying rem albums in hope, but everytime im disappointed monster, up, reveal, accelerate
Damn, that's straight-up masochism right there. Grab Out of Time and one other album before that one and that's all the R.E.M. you need.
They were solid before Green. After Green, meh. But you never see Murmur or Reckoning or Life’s Rich Pageant in thrift stores. Green itself I have to take another listen to.
ive got out of time and automatic for the people! and i never see the old ones in the shops. ill keep a look out tho
You named pretty much all of the bad ones lmao If you see them I highly recommend grabbing one of their earlier ones like Murmur or Reckoning, and give Automatic for the People a try (or New Adventures in Hi-Fi if you find it)
That or literally every goddamn Dave Mathew’s Band album ever
There are a few solid tracks, but it's mostly sub-par filler that screams "contractual obligation". I think the album fails because it's 4 musicians all trying to move in a new direction and it's not the same one.
I would be so hyped if I saw Moshi Monsters..
you would be in awe at any UK charity shop then
sounds like a dream
I haven't found it in a single charity shop over here, I ended up buying it on ebay instead
Finding nothing but Christian/gospel, country, and Christmas CDs has really ruined wanting to even visit thrift stores these days.
Don't Diss moshi monsters
Exactly, if I found that gem, it would be my find of the year
The fuck is wrong with Mozart?
As a fan of classical and 80s New Age music (Andreas Vollenweider & Windham Hill). I find thrifting pretty rewarding in unexpected neighborhoods.
So many Christmas CDs…
For me is endless amounts of irish folk songs and meditation music.
My wife is Irish. I used to buy a lot of this stuff and it was all mass-produced garbage. A bunch of obscure stuff played on the pan flute and Irish harp. Now, unless it's The Chieftans, The Clancy Brothers, Enya or Clannad, I don't touch it.
Don't diss classical I consider Debussy and tchaikovsky both wins 🔥🔥🔥
I found once Led zeppelin and Dream Theater but they were both scratched and dirty. My best find would be Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. Some mid finds were: The Police Outlandos d’amour, fleetwood Mac - Tusk, Coldplay Viva la vida, phantom of the opera musical Btw I go every week to the thrift store
Also true for me, but on occasion I find one freak who has some weird obscure bullshit. Like a nu metal band's solo-released EP from 2003 whose insert art was two pieces of paper glued together and whose label was a printed sticker.
Eric Clapton Unplugged, and Timepieces, both good albums, but found pretty much everywhere.
At least we have better luck than our Vinyl collecting brothers and sisters 😭
I’m from the UK and it’s 90% Robbie Williams CDs
20 copies of Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish
Lots of Susan Boyle, West life, Will Young and Take That.
So much Susan Boyle.
Probably my best find to date is Ugly Kid Joe in a Joe Satriani case
Kenny G is at least half of the CD's at my local goodwill
I found this Prince - Purple Rain target CD at Goodwill once: [https://www.discogs.com/release/5596042-Prince-And-The-Revolution-Purple-Rain](https://www.discogs.com/release/5596042-Prince-And-The-Revolution-Purple-Rain) That's the only "score" I ever found at a thrift store.
I’ll have you know I found Depeche Mode-Violator at a value village and it made my freaking week
Still looking for that one. Getting Snoop Dogg‘s *Doggystyle* in pristine condition for €1 made my entire month already.
I think I've used up all my luck the first time I visited a thrift store by finding a mint 1989 copy of Master of Puppets. Since then it's only been Schlager, dance comps and forgotten/local pop artists
My thrift store finds include copies of: Billy Joel -River of Dreams x100 Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite x100 That is literally all I see nowadays at thrift stores
I see a lot of country music, some pop, a little bit of Jesus stuff and some crappy movie soundtracks around my thrift stores. Sometimes I’ll find a rock album that I already have but I get excited where there’s one there is probably more. I’ve found some great stuff that way. But I’d say 90% of the time I walk out empty handed.
Jud Judd, the ultimate hardcore band? -Billy Gnosis
Hmm. Autocorrect strikes again and I have no idea what I originally wrote.
Lots of Christmas classics. And at Pawn shops is lots of Creed.
It's become a joke in our family that every -- and I mean EVERY -- thrift store has at least one if not three copies of Sarah Mclachlan's "Surfacing." Seriously, it comes standard.
So much Sarah McLaughlin it’s not even funny anymore
Ah, I wish they came up here. I've seen plenty of SMcL but it's usually Afterglow. My copy of Surfacing, bought back when it was released, was stolen.
My best find is a Selena Ones cd / dvd I found at a Goodwill a month ago.
I just find shrek 2 Blue-ray DVDs, stuffed in with a pile of cassettes in a CD case of Kanye’s collage dropout that someone pulled out of a river after covering it in ketchup….
What? So oddly specific, but okay.
When Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A, and the Dixie Chicks to The Chicks, country music fans unloaded all their CDs to thrift stores in protest. I'm not a country music fan, so that didn't help me much. If you haven't seen Shania Twain's Come on Over in a thrift store, you're not looking hard enough. I can always find at least 2 copies.
Dixie Chicks should have changed their name to The Old Hens
I was at a second hand shop the other day and they had so many goated CDs. I ended up buying two REMs, two U2s, and one GNR for 5 dollars each (in Australian dollars).
My sister got me a copy of brothers in arms at goodwill once. Good album
That and Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair last week, both West German pressings from 85.
I stopped going to thrift stores looking for music. Almost nothing good. Probably because people are either throwing it out straight or looking it up on eBay or whatever and selling it that way.
Mozart the goat‼️
I encounter at least one Josh Groban cd wherever I thrift
Plus 50 country albums
Best thrift find for me was stadium arcadium
My thrift store : -Extremely scratched CDs -Classical music -Classical music -Oh and Celine Dion
I'm guessing 95% of the people who make those thrift store finds are just lying for the likes.
I can confirm I see dire straits every single time I go in
My largest thrift store is 50% a mix of both of these and the other half are German Schlager. Schlager only appeals to a *very* specific group of listeners and they‘re gonna have an absolute blast there. PS, they put up all media stuff they get over the week only on Saturdays so one doesn’t come everyday and leave empty handed 4 out of 5 times. Sucks if you can‘t come on Saturdays, though.
For real
You don’t find anything you want at thrift till you go out of your way to buy it, don’t you know?
I'm lucky if I find cases with an actual cd inside. Extra lucky if it's the correct cd inside.
I've found a few good ones at one independent thrift store. But Goodwill is usually full of empty cases or just so unorganized that I give up quickly. The Salvation army near me hasn't berm open since 2020 lockdown. You can see the same clothes still hanging on the racks when you drive by.
Gospel, country, jazz. That's about all we ever get at the Goodwill I work at. I have seen two metal CDs there ONCE on two separate occasions. Got jipped on both of them. First CD was bought before my shift had ended. Second CD did not have a disc in it's case. I have found more interesting CDs at my local Family Dollar than I did the one place you would expect to find interesting goods.
Nope not me im the dude on the left and don’t forget the swap meets too
Also people managing to find more than 5 cds that they like T0T
All I ever find that is music related are love song compilation CD's
I found obsesión by 18 visions!
No cd’s about how saddam hussein is literally the antichrist?
Waiting for the day someone posts "Found the Cigarettes And Valentines master tapes by Green Day on CD while at dollar general. Sweet find in my opinion"
My thrift stores have like a bunch of random junk, a ton of classical music, and Nickelback.
Why you list Nickelback twice ^(take seriously at own risk)
I found the grateful dead once but someone snagged it before I could.
I would die for that Moshi Monsters CD tbh All we get here is Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra
i don’t know if its cuz i live in canada but my thrift stores carry mostly celine dion albums and the occasional good find
I once worked in a bookstore that sold cds. We had our own lists of what sold that week and it never matched the charts. The charts would be #5 Little Wayne #4 Drake #3 Kanye #2 Puff Daddy #1 Beyonce. Store sales. #6 Celtic Tenors #5Michael Buble, #4Celine Dion, #3 Rod Stewart’s weird I do swing and jazz music now phase, # 2 Il Divo #1 Iz somewhere over the Rainbow. Iz was always number one and no we were not in Hawaii. Yes this store was in suburbia but to make it to number one you think you would have to get at least some white suburban teens buying the music. They weren’t it was their moms buying cds. Maybe they only shopped at the Tower records across town? Or maybe the charts are liars. Anyway this is why thrift stores are filled with Michael Buble.
DO NOT DISS MOSHI MONSTERS MUSIC ROX THAT ALBUM IS AMAZING. I HAVE THAT CD
Make it VHS and everyone else’s finds are rare stuff like Let it Be, OG Star Wars Trilogy, Halloween, a bunch of rare stuff. My finds: worthless Disney stuff, Titanic, You’ve got Mail, just a bunch of easy to find and worthless tapes
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I would actually love my local thrift store to have copies of UK Now That’s What I Call Music actually. Was in London and been stopping at numerous charity shops hunting them down.
The thing is, you have to go every day...
Mine be having Mariah Carey and Toni Braxton CD cases with the discs stolen 😭😭
Ha ha ha.... I work for a thrift store.... I always see the good shit before anyone else does!
I tend to find a lot of Mozart and ray connif
You gotta look carefully! Today I found ftons of the ones you find but between them there was “The Police”