What Is The Rarest Bargain You've Found?

[hipnogger]

I have seen posts with the most you've spent on a record, how about the rarest bargain you've scored. I will start:

A friend of mine gave me a copy if I would record it to CD!

Abba "Lay All Your Love On Me" (Disconet) - FREE

[Allan]

In a thrift store 2 years ago I found Alec R Costandinos "Romeo and juliet" and "Hunchback on Notre Dame" for $1.

[the whistler]

I picked up Front page's Love insurance for 1.50 on Ebay from an Australian seller and just moments ago bought the Nerada Michael Walden Dance of life lp mint for 1.99 :lol:

[tdaram]

i would say for exemple:

TJM still sealed lp 5 USD
Harry thuman - underwater 12" in excellent conditions 4 EUR

[Nano]

I bought many LPs for less than 1 Argentine peso (US$ 0.30) each, but can't remember which ones (most of them were local editions). However, I got a sealed US copy of Roberta Kelly's "Troublemaker" for 2 pesos. Not my favorite album but... 8)

Outside the disco realm, I remember exchanging "mano a mano" (that is with no money involved) a Los Guarros CD (bad local rock band) for... Peter Hammill's "The noise" CD, then his last. :o That girl at the fair surely didn't have a clue! :P

[NickNack]

Back in the mid 80's, after looking for sometime in New York, I went to one of those 'open market' fairs in New Jersey where people are selling anything and everything. I found a sealed copy of Lamont Dozier's Out Here On My Own album. The reason I was so happy: "Take Off Your Makeup" resides on this lp :) . The reason I was even more happy: The guy wanted a whopping $2.00. :D :D

[hoellihozb]

Fingers Inc. "Can you feel it" 12" on Jacktrax, for 1,5euro.

[boyd]

got Tony Rallo and the midnite orchestra LP 'burnin alive' out of the 1 euro section in a local shop this weekend - only knew 'holdin on' but the rest of it is cracking

[02tranzam]

i paid 3 dollars last year for salsouls christmas jollies vol. 2. however i didnt get it until after xmas (2002), so i didnt play it until about a month ago when i went to put it on cd. i found out that it was a perfect copy. we all know its not as good as the first one but i always wanted it, to go with the first one.
carmine

[Sami M]

I paid 5$ for Salsoul Orch. Nice 'n nasty US test pressing 12", which I got from Gemm with other records. Even with the mailing it was 9 $ total, which I concider quite a reasonable price.

[Rodmann2]

I found a mint condition copy of Cissy Houston's very first solo single from 1966 called 'Bring Him Back' on the Congress label. This one usually goes for about $50 and I snagged it for 50 cents at my local thrift shop! :D :D :D :D :D

I also won a copy, in an auction of Gloria Gaynor's 1965, very first single called 'He'll Be Sorry' on the Jocida label for only $3.01! These are just a few of my finds!

[tdaram]

Originally Posted by boyd

got Tony Rallo and the midnite orchestra LP 'burnin alive' out of the 1 euro section in a local shop this weekend - only knew 'holdin on' but the rest of it is cracking

i also got it for a couple of euros in south of france. great album i think with "burning alive" and "holding on".

[gvtaylor]

Not Disco 12", but great bargains! I found in Amsterdam in 1993 a copy of Ronald Mesquitas Brazilian LP recorded for the French Barclay label in 1972, mint condition for $3.50. This was the biggest Brazilian record on the jazz dance scene then, selling for $500 (still sells for between $300-350). I found a year later for $2.00 a mint copy of Ben & Platano's "Paris Soul" album, also on Barclay (they did do some good stuff back in the 70's). This was at the time an unknown record, but a year later was selling for $700 (due to the demand for it by jazz, soul/funk dj's). I sold it for $750 to a DJ in Switzerland at this time.
I also managed to find in the last few years three copies of the really rare Brazilian record by Arthur Verocai (recently reissued by Ubiquity in San Francisco) for $15.00 each. This record (if you can find anyone who has an original to sell) is selling for $600-700 at the moment, only seen on e-bay once in vg+ condition, sold for $450.

[martinus]

I found
-Phreek LP "Weekend" (mint) for 1€ ($ 1,20).
-Love & Kisses "How Much" Promo US only 10€
-Alec R Costandinos "Synergy" (french pressing) 2€
-Sumeria "Golden Tears" (german pressing) €1,50
-High Fashion "Feelin Lucky LP" (french pressing) 1€
-Erotic Drum Band "Plug Me To Death LP (Unidisc) 4€

Someone bought a Lightning "Lightning" LP (Casablanca, with KISS drummer Eric Carr) on german eBay for only € 8,49..

[Forrrce]

For 3 or 4 years in the mid-'80s, there used to be an un-marked hi-nrg specialist in the basement of a womens' clothes shop in London's Chinatown. The ladies' fashion aspect made sure the shop was a closely guarded secret among my peer group - though when I met up with Leatherman, I found out that he used to shop there also - and that he'd bought some of the records I'd seen and left - and many I'd missed!

The best thing was that all the hi-nrg was in the racks and fully priced, while all the straightahead disco 12"s were piled up in boxes under the racks; and were all £1.00 each. They used to buy some good collections, mosly US product and mainly promos. It was a bit of a 'disco dream', while it lasted.

During one particularly dry period when the stock hadn't rotated, I went through all the boxed and floored stuff and couldn't find a single new title. I was keen to buy something, so I trawled the hi-nrg racks looking for any 'mistakes' - and found none. I was about to leave and I decided to check (very reluctantly) the last 3 racks, just behind the counter - and the very last record in the very last rack was 'Good Love' by Rome Jefferies. I panicked because I thought they knew of its value, but the late Andy Sojka, who worked there occasionally, said '..a pound'. I didn't sleep for days!

I don't watch eBay, but I haven't heard of this turning up on there yet. It has been one of the most sought-after (and genuinely scarce) 12"s in the UK since at least 1984 and I'm sure it would start a mini war on the 'net. :)