I actually picked up a cool girl who ended up being my girlfriend for a few years at Swap-O-Rama once
That was probably my best find, better than the suit of armor

my travis bean TB500... Cost me $150.

I got Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come LP at a Salvation Army in Evansville, Indiana, for fifty cents.

I bought a pair of red, white, and blue mirrored Italian sunglasses at Springfield, Missouri's Council for the Blind for a quarter once. I later saw an Exile-era photo of Keith Richards wearing the same shades; they're very similar to the ones George Harrison sports on one of his album covers. They fell off my face and broke in Brooklyn years later when I was bending down to pick up a coin that turned out to be a washer.

Cowboy boots that fit me perfectly in great condition for 3 dollars. Oh, I was the envy of about 3 other girls at that thrift store.

Also, found this awesome place recently that has a $1.00 sale every Sunday, where they put piles of clothes outside and everything is a dollar. I got 2 awesome dresses and a "Pirate Pride" sweatshirt, all for $3.

Gramsci wrote:my travis bean TB500... Cost me $150.

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ubercat wrote: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.

What is a year sale?

Mine:

Marc Jacobs blue button-up shirt with the tags still on - $19.99
$19.99

Levi's Type 1 jeans - $5.99

Maroon Yves St. Laurent knit tie - $1.99
(almost all of my work ties are from the same thrift store and cost less than $5 including Polo tie made out of crazy suit material)

Green Dockers Recode button-up shirt (sample) - $1.99

I once also bought somebody's stock of old punk records at a church thrift store in a strip mall in Virginia. About 25 LPs and seven inches by Devo, The Clash, Talking Heads, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bauhaus. All in great shape. $10. That was pretty sweet.

readysetrawk wrote:What is a year sale?

A misspelled yard sale.

Swan's Love will tear us apart for 25p in Oxfam.
Rifle Sport's White lp for 50p a week later.

I practically live at the thrift store.

A couple of weeks ago I got a portable reel to reel that sems to work pretty well at Unique up on Elston for like $6.00.

And then earlier today I went to the DMV on W. Diversey and was drawn into the one over there where I discovered this beauty:





It is a hand painted acid-washed jean jacket with sequin embellishments. The pics really don't do it justice. and yes it reads "freedom" down the sleeve.

turnbullac wrote:I practically live at the thrift store.

A couple of weeks ago I got a portable reel to reel that sems to work pretty well at Unique up on Elston for like $6.00.

And then earlier today I went to the DMV on W. Diversey and was drawn into the one over there where I discovered this beauty:

It is a hand painted acid-washed jean jacket with sequin embellishments. The pics really don't do it justice. and yes it reads "freedom" down the sleeve.

dude, that is what I'm talking about with this thread
man, that's one hell of a jacket right there