So it’s quite possibly the hottest day of the year in sunny Blighty. The FPO is on a misson and you’re left on a random High St (Saffron Walden since you asked) with a few minutes to waste. Let’s see what wonderful tunes are on offer in the local charity shop.
So I thought could The Afterworders could possibly trump me on three ‘IL Divo’s’.
Over to you…….
Saffron Waldon, you say? Have you encountered Pewnack the destroyer yet?
I’d never heard of Pewnack the destroyer. We visit fairly often and have never heard the locals mention him. It must be a local thing for local people.
Yes I had to look it up when you mentioned it.
Sorry. I get a trigger whenever I hear the place mentioned. Previously I only knew it as the site of the (defunct) Quaker school. And even though my family live in the same county, I’ve never been there.
I’m glad you gave me the heads up. Saffron Walden is a lovely town. We came across is by default really,I’d heard of it but we came across it via a camp site about ten years ago which ticked our boxes and we’ve been going back on a regular basis ever since. We have been thinking about moving there when we retire. Having lived in London all our lives I don’t know whether we could ever leave but it’s not too far from London. There is a lot of new housing being built which may change it but it has a really nice vibe about the place.
I’ll take the Heaven 17 and the Lisa Left Eye Lopes album.
Is that Tooned DVD the edition featuring Lewis Hamilton or Checo Perez, do you know?
They’re yours. Sorry I’m afraid I had to leave quite quickly after the pic was taken as the blue rinsed brigade behind the till informed me that taking pics of stock was not allowed but they would do me a deal on any Boyzone/Ronan if I was quick.
Several Van Morrison CDs spotted this morning in one chazza (The Healing Game, Moondance and TB Sheets are the ones I can remember), but nothing I needed or wanted.
I wish I was self disciplined enough to only buy albums that I needed!
Well, not needed in the sense that I already have them on one format or another, or not wanted as in the more recent Van albums.
I still buy plenty of stuff I don’t necessarily “need”! 🙂
I was Oxfam, Crouch End a few days ago. It seems Ryan Adams’s alleged misdemeanours have led to him being persona non grata in some collections. Most of his CD catalogue was available. Does that count as a straight flush?
Sounds like a good hand Carl but if someone has a pic they may take precedence.
I think the Daily Mail should be told that the already shredded reputation of this benighted charity is being further sullied by its profiting from a beast…allegedly.
@Carl his alleged misdemeanors and their resulting investigation seem to have gone quiet. I still maintain it was a hatchet job but guess we will never know.
Just wish they would release the album that should have come out when the story broke.
He made his own statement at the weekend and it seems he intends to release this music and other stuff. I hope so because at his best he is a special talent.
Did I tip someone off?
Given the comment by @lunaman, I decided to take some stuff down to Oxfam and use the opportunity to line up the Ryan Adams discs and snap a picture to post here.
They have all gone. Not even the copy of Rock N Roll remained, and I rate that as his weakest album.
Good luck to the buyer (or buyers).
I was at a charity shop this morning and saw about five or six copies of Duffy’s Rockferry all lined up together. I was going to take a photo of them. I wish I had now.
Now we’re talking.
Yer 3 Il Divos and 2 Ronans make a full house shirley?
3 Jailhouse Rocks and 2 Lady Souls would be a hard hand to beat.
I was (sort of) passing the charity shop again (see my five Duffys above), so I popped in a took this photo:
https://i1361.photobucket.com/albums/r674/Clennam/20190727_1520451_zps43bvjc6e.jpg
Fours standard CDs and what I guess is the deluxe edition.
Great hand – hard to beat.
We went round a few in suburbs surrounding Chelmsford today, but the only music we bought were a couple of greatest hits of the opera types for a quid each. I can report that each shop was correctly stocked with copies of The Scissor Sisters and Robbie William’s Swing When You’re Winning.
Where are the for haunts in suburban Chelmsford, @Gatz? Broomfield? Moulsham? Great Baddow?
The only charity shops I know we in the city centre.
Moulsham, Baddow, Broomfield Road, Galleywood, Writtle if you fancy going out that far. We went to a couple of those just to get out of the flat without travelling too far when we wanted a lazy day.
Witham used to have a few, but even the Oxfam has closed now.
Witham is still pretty good, and that Oxfam was always a bit pricey. There are a few in the other precinct, The Grove, across the road from where Oxfam used to be, and a couple in the high street. Witham and Billericay are favourite weekend haunts – a trawl of the chazzas followed by lunch in a pub. Modest habits which make for a relaxing weekend.
I’d forgotten the Grove. Last time I was there, I got the George Harrison Bangladesh concert, a Trojan box set and Wu Tang Clan’s W album – so not too shady.
No Monster by R.E.M.?
It’s next to Tell Me Your Truth by The Manic Street Preachers, with the, erm, “rare” embossed cover.
Two Charity Shops next door to each other near me.
Both seem to have pretty much the same “stock” – Il Divo also present in both. Both also contain a number of Q and Mojo cover CDs – yours for a quid each.
Many are getting cheaper. Ridiculously cheap. Last week I pick up a copy of The Beta Band’s Hot Shots II in a BHF, and had* to buy 9 other CDs and DVDs to get it in a ten for a quid offer.
* I say ‘had to’, but I’m sure I could have taken fewer if I asked nicely. Between us my other half and I rounded up enough items to take full advantage.
I was in our local charity shop SVP (for Irish readers) today as my wife lost her phone and last remembered using it outside their shop. Anyway, no trace of the phone. Charity shop booty included two Wii games that the girls (4 and 2) will enjoy and a Bats for Lashes CD, a Modest Mouse CD, a Supergrass CD that I already had alas and a three CD Jazz compilation that I’m listening to now, all for a tenner.
In Ireland, the charity shop staples are David Gray, Alannis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Snow Patrol and most inevitably The Thrills. I couldn’t stand them so this always puts a smile on my face.
I’m in the midst of rationalising the CD collection – Like most of us I’ve shelves upon shelves full of things that were purchased for 9.99-14.99. I was a fairly discerning CD buyer with obscure taste and a lot of it still has value, some long out of print, deleted and a surprising amount is not available to stream anywhere, some collectible editions of things you’d pay silly money for on Discogs so I’m hanging on to those as well as the stuff that is just cherished and I can’t part with.
I don’t have many late 90s Charity Shop staples (no Scissor Sisters, no Robbie, no Toploader) and there’s a bunch of decent quality stuff I’m happy to part with but none of it you’d see for more than 3 or 4 quid in a 2nd hand record shop. That’s all earmarked for Oxfam but I wonder if we’re at the point where chazzers will refuse them if they’re already knocking them out 10 for £1.
Not Oxfam. They charge upwards of £2.99 for anything in my nearest, and middling desirable stuff like Belle and Sebastian is stickered at £4.99 Then sits glued to the shelf of course.
It’s variable though. Got some cracking £2.99s in the last couple of years in a certain Oxy in London, and never underestimate saying to the guy at the counter, “£9.99 squire?,” it worked for me on a late 60s funk compilation and in that case it probably was worth £9.99.
Most charidee workers are, necessarily, dodgers.
Do Top of the Pops LPs count?
Yes – as long as you don’t post any pics!
I saw a Lost Prophets* CD in a chazza at the weekend. I prevaricated about explaining to the old lady behind the counter why this might not be a good idea. Unfortunately, the shop was busy and I was already late, so the opportunity for a quiet word did not arise.
(*) File under Gl*tt*r, G*ry and H*rr*s, R*lf.
2 Il Divos seen in Ottawa this past weekend at Value Village (kind of Oxfam equivalent), did pick up 4 disc box set of Sinatra’s Reprise Years complete with book for $7.99 (about a fiver).