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an old tube reel to reel (2 of them) and other tube stuff

One had 3 exceptional telefunken 12at7s in it. I spent $10 total.

fugazi - 13 songs LP - $1
Rubinstein plays Liszt - $1 (cool cover)

"Storm in Hi-Fi" LP - $1

The mormons in salt lake are gaga for classical music so I find a bunch of cool classical LPs

and a bunch of other stuff

...in the middle of a stack of crappy Firestone choral Christmas albums and the like at a Salvation Army. 10 cents.

When I was 15, I found all the Warner Bros era Funkadelic records and all the Casablanca Parliament LP's in a box labeled "free" outside of a thrift store.

$10

I bought a 67 Mustang (pepto-bismal pink) for 45 bucks with case at a year sale in Minneapolis.

I later gave it to someone who was very sick with Gillion Beret. She died a few days after. She apparently never got toplay it.

Most of my finds at thrift stores are of the clothing variety, though I once bought an old casio for $40.00 from Goodwill once. Not exactly the best purchase, but I have a keyboard. One of these days, I will strike lucky and find an old Tascam 38 on the racks, until then... meh.

I once got a Member's Only jacket for ten bucks. I wore that thing a lot until I lost it, I believe my mom told me she threw it away. My brother later presented it to me at his condo, but once again I've went and lost the fucking thing.

Probably my favorite piece of clothing from a thrift store rack is a le tigre (the clothing brand, not the band) long-sleeved polo with dark blue and black stripes with a hoodie pocket at the bottom. I'm actually wearing it right now.

Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating $1.

I have found treasure after treasure though the years like half my record collection as well as vintage furniture but as Glenn W. said the good flea markets are disappearing in our area.

A friend of mine bought the Beatles butcher cover for $5. I wanted to murder him.

I've found my share of great stuff for good prices, but the strangest and most beloved thing I got is probably a jacket I got in London.

It's a hot-purple ladies' fur-hooded winter jacket that somehow has arms long enough for me (very tall) yet the body is stitched for a short fat person. Conclusion: custom-stitched for a fucking mutant. And, embroidered widely across the back and the sleeves: ostentatious sprays of flowers, and the huge embroidered word KOREA.

I only wear it out very rarely, since every time I do, I could end up like Matthew Shepard. It is the weirdest, gayest jacket anyone could ever, ever hope for.

Someday, I will take & post a pic.

About 10 years ago I found an amazingly pristine copy of Conlon Nancarrow's 'Studies for Player Piano, Volume I' LP (on the 1750 Arch label) at the Salvation Army store in Granite City, IL - I want to say it cost me a dollar or less.

I was pretty jazzed about that (especially as these were pre-Internet music searching/shopping days for me) because a year or two prior I had picked up 'Studies for Player Piano - Vol. I & II' (Wergo 2xCD) and in the liner notes it had made reference to that very LP, which I assumed I would never be able to locate (they are different recordings, etc.) and there it was just sitting in my hometown Salvation Army store, waiting for me to come along and scoop it up.

Hohner string performer synth $40
Otari MX5050 2 track $45 (Lawn sale actually)
Electric mistress (1st Gen) $10
Casio SK 5 (X2) $2, $5
Too many other Casios and electronic toys less that $5
Precision Electronics Tube Pre $10
Yamaha dual manual home/church organ $25
Slate blue leisure suit (3 piece) $10
Realistic Moog (Friend got to it before me) $15
Many, Many, Many, More