What's your best bargain lp

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What's your best bargain lp

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For years kept reading how people picked up rare lp's from charity shops etc for a quid that were worth loads of money. Never ever happened to me.
Then a couple of years ago I picked up both Gnidrolog albums for a fiver each from a record dealer in Welshpool.
Lady Lake even had the insert.
Also Arthur Brown- Inter Galactic Zoo for three quid and Quicksand-
Home Is Where I belong also for three quid.
So what were your bargain finds?

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Clouds 'Scrapbook' first 1st issue 99p Charity shop, was minto.

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I bought Gong's Cambert Electrique for 35p. :) Over 40 years ago.
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Picked up a complete original LP set of Beethoven piano sonatas played by Wilhelm Kempf for 50p at a music library sale 15 years ago. Not majorly valuable - apart from the music therein - but they still go for 30 quid new on CD.

Better though, in the same sale I found an autobiography of Dame Myra Hess, the great wartime pianist - playing concerts in the National Gallery during the blitz, haha (Beethoven, no less...) - which was interesting, but more interesting was the book on King George IV which was sitting next to it: there was an inscription hand written to maybe a friend of the scribe, on the first page, noting 'the importance of the 5th' (alluding to Beethoven's symphony of that number, and perhaps the piano concerto), signed by Myra Hess herself.

Couldn't believe my luck. Best £1 I ever spent.
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I got Frank Sinatra's Mobile Fidelity Box set for £20 on eBay in 2001
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A french pressing in white vinyl of "A Night at the Opera" for 3 Euros last year on a little flee market in our neighborhood.

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A mint first press of Alice Cooper love it to death with all the bits, a mint schools out that is the one I'm a sleeve like a school desk with all the bits, and a copy of billion dollar babies with all the bits. Disc isnt mint but the rest is.
Ten bob each
Probably not worth much, but ive collected all the Alice Cooper albums since I was about 14 so they were worth much more to me
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Fuck Sinatra and his lps.


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I found PLASTIC CLOUD in a pile of heavy metal dross at a record show.
$5.00 and it was in shrink.

Later on the dealer (his helper actually) fainted.
I think he realized the mistake and the boss chewed him out.

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I bought the eponymously titled Heron LP and their second LP, Twice as Nice & Half the Price at our local Kidney Research shop for 25p each.

Although I liked the first LP I wasn't that keen on the second so it was sold for a decent sum.
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Yeah. Second sucks. (Nice piccy of band hardtimes-ing it. I may be wrong but I think that cottage/outbuilding is the one that Richard Branson let Vashti Bunyan settle down in.

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