You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: #MarketFriday- Searching for Records in a Huge Antiques Store
That looks like a pretty big antique mall. Nice! Glad you were able to find some cool records. I used to have a record collection...as a child of the 80's. I had a few Michael Jackson as well as the Cabbage Patch Kids record. It was my favorite. I had my grandad make me a copy of it on CD and I still have it. And I know ALL of the songs by heart. Half Price Books always has a ton of records (at least in the Dallas area they do). I don't know how far and wide that store reaches though. It's my favorite. What kind of prices did this place have? Do you ever find records at thrift stores?
It's a very large antiques mall. We know the man who owns the place. He is one of those opportunistic capitalists who can't seem to decide what business he wants to run. However, he's been doing antiques auctions and selling out booths at this place for a long time, so I think he's finally found something to stick with. haha
My parents didn't really collect records. My dad's brother has a few Elvis records because he was obsessed, and I think the ones my dad has are of a Southern Gospel quartet group that he enjoyed growing up. It's great that your grandad was able to make you a copy onto a CD. I've thought about doing that since you can't really capture the sound of an analog recording with the modern remastering process. Oh well, perhaps someday I'll get a USB turntable.
Half Price Books sounds vaguely familiar, but I don't think there are any of them around where I am. It sounds great! I've never really had good luck finding albums at thrift stores. I did find one Chicago album at a thrift store in the Raleigh, NC area that I was lucky to find, but I've had my best luck at antiques malls where local record dealers have booths. There was one in Raleigh that I loved to go to called the Cheshire Cat Gallery. It had two very large booths of records. That's where I got most of my collection.
Prices are generally good and vary based on the condition of the vinyl and the album cover. I paid $9 total for these two that I mentioned in the post; I can't remember the itemized cost. The most I've paid for an album is around $25 I think, and it was for a copy of The Beatles' White Album. It's rare that I'll spend more than $5 on one album.
Ok. That was a super long response, but I hope I answered all of your questions. haha Thanks so much for your comment!
I believe you were in a story telling mode while responding to my comment. ;) Ha! Thanks for the response. Pretty cool that you've got such a collection going. Don't move to a foreign country because you'd have to get rid of or store all of them. It would be sad. Thrift stores are hit or miss on everything. I know there are (or used to be) some really cool record stores in Dallas, but I haven't been to those since college days and I was just hanging around with the people who wanted to go there and look at the records. You should definitely convert all of them before you have kids and they scratch them all up. ;) Or maybe you'll keep them under lock and key if you do have kids. ;) Ha.