Author Topic: best/weirdest thrift store find (Read 1917 times)

dani · « **Reply #15 on:** November 24, 2006, 10:29:02 PM »

ive got some nifty toy cameras and antique cameras that i have lost, dont work, or film isnt made for anymore. i got this awesome 8mm magazine camera not knowing that they dont make 8mm magazines anymore. the camera still works though, and comes with an old magazine in it. either way, it's cool looking. one time i got a really cool steve urkle shirt!

PetroBPettson · « **Reply #16 on:** November 25, 2006, 03:10:56 PM »

In the Goodwill in Coldwater, MI I've found a velvet elvis, a bunch of old Garage and psych LP's(Love, Yardbirds, the Nazz, Seeds, ect....) for 27 cents each. Found 3 Patti Smith records once. My ex drummer found New York Dolls and the Creamers. I've found a leather jacket, a practically unused 70's Pioneer turntable, a Dead Kennedys shirt, a James Brown shirt, Hirchell Gordon Lewis' "Paint Me Blood Red". Some pretty valuable vintage cookie jars, Some 60's Ed Roth stuff, a bucket of Japanese capsule toys, and a large framed photo of a kid from the 1950's in his lone ranger costume.

miss_x · « **Reply #17 on:** November 25, 2006, 03:30:18 PM »

Quote from: PetroBPettson on November 25, 2006, 03:10:56 PM

In the Goodwill in Coldwater, MI I've found a velvet elvis, a bunch of old Garage and psych LP's(Love, Yardbirds, the Nazz, Seeds, ect....) for 27 cents each. Found 3 Patti Smith records once. My ex drummer found New York Dolls and the Creamers. I've found a leather jacket, a practically unused 70's Pioneer turntable, a Dead Kennedys shirt, a James Brown shirt, Hirchell Gordon Lewis' "Paint Me Blood Red". Some pretty valuable vintage cookie jars, Some 60's Ed Roth stuff, a bucket of Japanese capsule toys, and a large framed photo of a kid from the 1950's in his lone ranger costume.

i am officially jealous. especially the velvet elvis, and the kid in his costume. i love random people's pictures.

MattCoppens · « **Reply #18 on:** November 25, 2006, 03:49:18 PM »

I generally don't have the patience to dig through the massive heaps of junk usually found at these places, but I will say my coolest t-shirt (Los Angeles 1984) and my most comfortable pair of jeans have been found in thrift stores. Ben, didn't you get a Rubber City Rebels LP at a thrift store, too?

miss_x · « **Reply #19 on:** November 25, 2006, 04:18:59 PM »

i found a buzzcocks "love bites" LP. didn't have the sleeve, though.

DJ Rick · « **Reply #20 on:** November 28, 2006, 04:55:02 PM »

Found at Thrift Center in Woodland, CA...

A perfect-working Moog Satellite Synthesizer which was even cosmetically perfect except for one of the keys was about two millimeters lazy.

TEN BUCKS!

PetroBPettson · « **Reply #21 on:** November 28, 2006, 09:52:28 PM »

Quote from: MattCoppens on November 25, 2006, 03:49:18 PM

Ben, didn't you get a Rubber City Rebels LP at a thrift store, too?

It was a hippy store/head shop/novelty/college douche bag store in east lansing. I was in there with Melanie. As I was leaving, I saw a box under a table with some records so I dug through and found Rubber City Rebels, the Weirdos, Naz Nomad and the Nightmares(the damned side project), and Elton Motello's 2nd LP. $2 each. Afterwards I went to a Hasil Adkins show....it was a good day.