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« on: June 29, 2009, 02:28:28 AM »
I'm resurrecting this thread because I can't sleep and was reading it.
I do mostly yard sales and occasionally you find cool stuff (Offenders for $2, Jacks for $3, Maids for $1) but it's scattered and random. Last fall I saw a craigslist ad for a garage "sell" that mentioned "sump punk 45,s" and while I figured it could be a bust, it was far enough away from town that I figured I'd be the only one there.
I get there and the sale is being run by a couple who clean out storage units. So naturally, they have to set up and arrange their matchbox cars and Disney memorabilia before any records come out. They bring out about 10 boxes of decent soul, jazz and latin records and I get a few things but it's not great shape and has the smell of someone having picked it over already. Then the punk boxes comes out.
Somehow they came up on a decent size collection of early-mid 80s (81-86 roughly) mainly US hardcore. The 7"s were stored in an old Vans shoe box, that kind of vibe. Everything was immaculate, still in the original shrink wrap and obviously hadn't been touched in close to 20 years.
LPs were a lot of solid basic stuff in near mint condition (Black Flag, Agnostic Front, BGK, Batallion of Saints, Circle Jerks, Christ on Parade, Disorder, Flipper, MDC, Negative FX, etc). The few better LPs included Larm Straight on View, Suburban Mutilation, NOTA, Septic Death...
EPs had some bigger stuff, things like Last Rights, Mob 47, Larm, Crippled Youth, Unity (blue vinyl) plus plenty of solid $10-20 lesser titles
All in all it was about 100 LPs and 75 EPs. Everything was $2 each and I bought everything.