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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2019 14:49:45 GMT -5
My wife is a banker, and one of her clients at work just opened up an antiques/collectibles/vintage electronics shop that sells video games, movies, toys, collectibles and other stuff. She has had a couple of conversations with the guy about collecting, geek stuff and such, and told me about the store but I hadn't had a chance to go yet (it's a couple blocks down form the branch she works at). Since her vacation started today, we drove over and she introduced me to the guy and I took a look around the shop while Amy went to the cookie shop next door to procure some sweet treats. I looked around a little bi, talked shop with the guy a bit (e have a lot of mutual acquaintances among dealers, fellow collectors and such, and travel in the same circles but hadn't met before. I picked up a few things while I was there (ignore the price tags as they are not form the store, the whole pile was $11 but I got it for $8, it's good to have connections-  ) DVDs are usually a buck each, $3 for a tv season or boxed set/movie collection, and bluray $3. All paperbacks are a buck. The Battlestar Galactica novelization...  A Bogart classic and a Tarzan movie collection...  Batman: TAS season 4 (I had seasons 1-3 already) and a Mill Creek sci-fi collection with 50 films...  We also talked about stuff I am looking for, stuff he is looking for and he told me they have boxes of vintage sci-fi paperbacks they haven't processed or brought to the shop yet and they will all be $1 each when they do, and he's going to give me a call when he brings them in so I can go take a look. I also got a list of stuff he is always looking to buy for his own collection and for the shop, so I can pass things along to him if I find them or give him a head's up when I see stuff, so this could be the beginning of a productive association. Networking and getting to know fellow collectors is part of the joy of the hobby. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 20:52:40 GMT -5
Went back to that same shop today because the owner was interested in a couple of the extra modern Megos I had (I was working out a trade and had some extra carded figures from the Target 2018 releases), and last time there I hadn't had time to go through his vinyl. So I ended up trading a couple of the Megos for some vintage vinyl and a couple of DVDs... As I have stated before, my taste in vinyl is as much about the artwork as the music in some cases, and one of my favorites is Roger Dean, and he had a quartet of classic Yes albums featuring Dean's art, including the triple album Yessongs with a tri-gate cover and lots of extra Dean works... so among the albums were Relayer...  Fragile...  Yesterdays...  and the aforementioned Yessongs...  with the interior panels...    the records themselves were all immaculately clean and scratch-free. I used to be a huge Yes fan (I've seen them live about 6-7 times), but hadn't listened to them much for several years and had purged most of my CDs including most of the Yes albums a few years back, but a couple months ago I got a bug to listen to Close to the Edge and a few others and I have been listening to a little bit more Yes recently, so these will get some play as well as being great art pieces. I also picked up a pair or classic Steve Miller albums-Book of Dreams was the first 8 track I ever had, never had the vinyl and I only had a couple of 45's form Fly Like an Eagle, never the whole album, but now I have the pair...   again the records themselves were clean and scratch-free, and will get more than a few spins on my turntable. As for the DVDs...  the classic 30s version of King Kong, the first volume of Richard Greene's Adventures of Robin Hood tv series and a 4 movie compilation that had both Logan's Run and Omega Man on it (plus Dark City, which I liked, and the Will Smith version of I am Legend which I was meh on). They've got several totes full on vintage sci-fi paperbacks they will be bringing into the shop, and they took my e-mail so they can give me first crack when they are ready to bring them into the shop, so I will be stopping back in again in the not too distant future. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jun 18, 2019 2:31:21 GMT -5
I'm another huge Yes fan, and love those Roger Dean covers.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 20, 2019 15:28:27 GMT -5
Oh yes, those Yes albums were a big part of the soundtrack of my first two years of college (1974-76), along with Pink Floyd, ELP, Renaissance, and Steve Miller.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2019 22:50:16 GMT -5
Stopped at a tag sale before work on Friday, didn't find much, but did find these for 50 cents each...  ah classic Viewmaster reels. Now these bring back a lot of memories. I don't think I had these as a kid (I may have had the Shazam ones as I think they were part of the DC super-hero gift set I had but I cannot remember for sure), but I loved Viewmaster reels as a kid and had a whole bunch of them ranging from G.I. Joe Adventure team to Flintstones to Iron Man to the Hair Bear Bunch. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 22:51:23 GMT -5
Another haul of vintage paperbacks from Half Price Books, all were $1-$3 except for the Shaft novel I mentioned in another post, which was $5 minus the coupon I had for 10% off.
Besides shaft I picked up...
Lensmen Book 5: Second Stage Lensman by EE Doc Smith
Spock, Messiah! by Theodore Cogswell and Charles A. Spano Jr.
Tarzan #1 Tarzan of the Apes (Neal Adams-c, had a different edition, wanted the Adams cover)
Tarzan #10 Tarzan and the Ant Men (Neal Adams cover)
Tarzan #15 Tarzan Triumphant (Robert Abbett-c)
Dr. Who and the Carnival of Monsters
Dr. Who and the Masque of Mandragora
Dr. Who and the Cybermen
The Sword and the Sorcerer by Norman Winski (novelization of the cheesy 80s sword & sorcery flick)
Live and Let Die (this one had a cover inspired by the movie, and I dug the cover art even though I had a different edition)
Dr. No
Doc Savage #7 The Monsters
Doc Savage #86 The Angry Ghost
Doc Savage #88 The Roar Devil
Doc Savage #90 The Flying Goblin
Han Solo's Revenge by Brian Daley
B.C. Where the hell is Heck? by Johnny Hart
and from their clearance section...
Hardy Boys #22 The Flickering Torch Mystery
Hardy Boys #24 The Short Wave Mystery
I devoured these as a kid and haven't looked at one in ages, but they were a buck each, so I snagged them.
Also from their clearance DVD/bluray section I grabbed
the followng for $3 each
From Russia With Love on bluray
The Ray and the Freedom Fighters animated on bluray
War of the Worlds (the George Pal version) on dvd
Dark Tower (the King adaptation with Idris Elba) on dvd
The Walking Dead Season 1 on DVD
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 19:30:51 GMT -5
Had a half hour to kill today waiting to meet my wife for lunch, so I stopped by that little thrift store/collectible shop by her workplace again today and found a bunch of new stuff that they had brought in. Got some vinyl at $4 a pop Rolling Stones-Beggar's Banquet Junior Parker-You Don't Have to Be Black to Love the Blues Eagles-Hotel California Otis Redding-The Best of Otis Redding double lp a book about/of comics for $3  a beat up (G/G-) copy of Justice League of America #68 for $2 The Tempo Books/Marvel paperback with the comics adaptation of Battlestar Galactica and other material...  and some blu-rays and DVDs... Stargate Atlantis Season 1 ($3) Vikings Season 1 ($3) Excalibur ($1) It's a Mad, Mad Mad World (blu-ray $3) -M |
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Post by brutalis on May 15, 2021 15:37:07 GMT -5
Spending thrifty while contracting with State is a necessity and thrill when those bargains payoff. Hit a local used/trade shop specializes in CD's and DVD's this Saturday morning. Pulled from various $1-2 bins these DVD delights to enjoy the next few weeks. 2 disc War DVD with a pair of 1950's war movies-Warner Bro's Raoul Walsh"s Battle Cry and MGM's Battleground. Randolph Scott Western Abilene Town, 20th Century Fox Western the Proud Ones with Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo and Jeffrey Hunter. 1942 classis the Ghost and Mrs. Muir with Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney. Horror Comedy Dead Ant where a Spinal Tap type of over the hill rock band play a festival in the desert that they end up fighting a giant ant invasion. British crime movie The Sweeney with Ray Winstone and Haley Atwell as part of an elite crime fighting force.2 BBC docu-drama' of Outlaws telling stories of Highwaymen and Rogues in Britain and Rise of the Clans telling of the feuding Scotland clans. Final 2 buys are WWE treats-2020 Clash of Champions spotlighting Roman Reigns in his coming to the Head of the Table whooping his cousin Jay Uso and2020's Summer Slam featuring the Braun Stroman/Bray Wyatt falls count anywhere title match, Orton versus McIntyre and Asuka vs Bayley title match.
Always glad to bring home fun watching with saving dollars. 10 DVDs under $15 is a great deal to my wallet anytime!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2021 19:24:32 GMT -5
While I was at Half Price books selling some stuff, I picked up a handful of vintage paperbacks for $2 or $3 each...  checked another Doc Savage novel off the list, and got two more of the first generation of Trek novels. I wasn't familiar with the Andre Norton novel, but it had a gorgeous Gray Morrow cover, so I snagged it. And A Canticle for Liebowitz is one of the those sci-fi classics I have never owned or read, but I keep seeing it mentioned of late, so when I saw a copy, I snagged it. -M |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2021 17:36:34 GMT -5
Picked these two graphic novels from First Second up at Dollar Tree (for a dollar each):  |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2021 21:49:06 GMT -5
Picked these two graphic novels from First Second up at Dollar Tree (for a dollar each): The Sculptor is amazing. I haven't read Genius though. -M |
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Post by tonebone on Jun 3, 2021 10:17:59 GMT -5
Had my first day off from work in 13 days today, and had a bit of cabin fever with spring having sprung, so I jumped in the car and did a driving tour of a lot of local thrift stores and such today. The first place I stopped, I had never been to before, and they didn't have much, but did have some vinyl. I am not much of a record collector, but I do pick up interesting album cover art when I see it much the way I do with vintage paperback cover art. I did find one interesting cover-the album The Ark by the Animals (featuring Eric Burdon) from 1983... :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5449602-1393666399-7859.jpeg.jpg) interesting comic book style art, the artists is not someone I knew though (his last name was Power or Powers, but I can't recall his fist name off hand). It was a whopping $2 for the record, and it is in excellent condition. Wikipedia says the artist is Paul S. Power from Australia... a little more snooping says he was an Animation artist who worked with Toth and eve inked some of his work. He seems to have made his living since then as a storyboard artist for movies, with credits from The Goonies, Robocop, Predator, The Tick, etc. Apparently, he is still doing comics work, and has some work being published this year. |
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Post by tonebone on Jun 3, 2021 10:30:20 GMT -5
Had a half hour to kill today waiting to meet my wife for lunch, so I stopped by that little thrift store/collectible shop by her workplace again today and found a bunch of new stuff that they had brought in. Got some vinyl at $4 a pop Rolling Stones-Beggar's Banquet Junior Parker-You Don't Have to Be Black to Love the Blues Eagles-Hotel California Otis Redding-The Best of Otis Redding double lp a book about/of comics for $3 a beat up (G/G-) copy of Justice League of America #68 for $2 The Tempo Books/Marvel paperback with the comics adaptation of Battlestar Galactica and other material... and some blu-rays and DVDs... Stargate Atlantis Season 1 ($3) Vikings Season 1 ($3) Excalibur ($1) It's a Mad, Mad Mad World (blu-ray $3) -M That Smithsonian book is a keeper! I first encountered it in my small-town public library in the early 80's, and it was the ONLY book about comics they had. I checked it out and re-read it a thousand times. It was surely one of the first book to reproduce classic comics photographically, with the aged yellow paper, ben-day dots and all, something that's pretty commonplace, now when reproducing comics for which no original art is available, or the expense of recreating it is too high. It features some of the greatest comics, ever, and was the first place I read EC, Plastic Man, Little Lulu, and the Spirit, which I fell in love with instantly. A while back, Barnes and Noble reprinted it at a VERY affordable price (>$20), and that's the copy I own today, and may be the version you purchased. I believe the original printing was actually published by the Smithsonian and was meant to be a companion to an exhibit at the time. There is also a MUCH larger book about newspaper comics (from 1977), that my in-laws bought for me for christmas one year, from - you guessed it - a thrift store. They are two of my favorite books in my collection.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2023 14:54:34 GMT -5
Having gone thrifting in a while, and didn't intend to today, but when I stopped by my local library, the had just put a ton of TV season DVDs in their discard sale rack for 25 cents each. I came home with 17 seasons of TV (18 sets, one had a season divided into 2 parts) for $4.50.  Arrow Season 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 Black Lightning Season 1-3 The Expanse Season 1-3 Legion X Season 1-2 The Jetsons Season 1-3 Not sure when or how long it will take me to watch all of that, but at 25 cents each, it was hard to pass up. -M |
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) DVDs are usually a buck each, $3 for a tv season or boxed set/movie collection, and bluray $3. All paperbacks are a buck. 
