If there's a thread on this then sorry.
My local charity shop in my village (it's a small village) always has cds for 50p and I was wondering if anyone had found some bargain cds in a charity shop.
some of the ones I found over a year
oasis (what's the story) morning glory and Definitley Maybe
The verve urban hymns
pulp different class
This morning I found kasabian by kasabian
franz Ferdinand
and radiohead's ok computer is there but I ran out of change and had a tenner just.So will be back for that on Friday
It also has the usual spice girls and liberty x but if you like those then ok
I know this is the age of mp3 but I find it good to find a good cd that I can sit in my collection.

I once found Michael Buble's Crazy love album in the charity shop once. It had only been out a few months and was being sold for just a quid.

I bought so much stuff in prior years I hardly ever find anything I don't have

Towa Tei Featuring Kylie Minogue - GBI (German Bold Italic)

one of her rare cds that goes for a lot online! Like around £30! I saw it in I think Oxfam or Sue Ryder and grabbed it quick..It can't have been more than 99p!

I love looking in the charity shops at the Music, I've recently found many of the much older Now That's What I Call Music! albums for no more than 99p or a £1 each! I've also picked up some for as little as 50p, including Craig David and S Club 7.

Love charity shop cd browsing, even if you do have to look through a lot of dross.

My local charity shop doesn't have any CDs but I browsed through the ones in Poundland (or Dealz as they're called in Ireland) and I picked up a few gems, but there is a lot of rubbish and loads of albums by one hit wonders. Great for rediscovering blasts from the past if that's what floats your goat

The CD's in the charity shop in our village have mostly ones with "pan pipes."

Not a CD, but I found a first pressing of New Order's Blue Monday in my local charity shop (Die-cut sleeve, silver inner sleeve.) 50p.

The represses are common as muck but the first pressings are pretty rare (Factory Records changed the design pretty quickly when they sold a lot more than they estimated and realised they were actually losing money the more they sold!)

I bet they have the pan pipes play hits of Daniel O'Donnell Wouldn't surprise me as there's probably a lot of DOD CDs in charity shops. A house clearance of a dead relative may include such a CD collection

I guess there's always a slim chance of finding something worthwhile.

Charity shops are run mostly by volunteers, they've no real idea about the value of anything, let alone records or CDs. Nor have they the time or energy to bother to find out.

I wonder how many million "Music for Pleasure" and "K-Tel" and similar albums, have gone to landfill?

What amuses me, is that on eBay sometimes a couple of bidders will "lock antlers" over an obscure record and push the price up to silly amounts.
Yet often if either of them had the brains to scroll down a couple of pages, they'd probably find another copy that's "cheap as chips."

A bit similar is the Newsagent wire basket of CDs.......I bought loads of CDs for around a pound each about 20 years ago

At that time I was into 1930s to 1950s Americana and got loads of stuff by Billie Holiday, Ella, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Sinatra......all that kind of stuff. Funnily enough when you tried to look up the CDs on Amazon or the internet they didn't really exist although all the songs were in the artists catalogue on different albums........obviously mass produced home made compilations

actually some charity shops now keep vinyl aside for someone to look through and get a proper value so they don't give away rarities for pennies. they may do this for cds and other items too

I got the blur special edition best of for a quid, and nirvana's nevermind for 50p recently. pretty damn good.

They must be the exception to the rule. Things of real value turn up on the Antiques Roadshow, bought at charity shops, but how often?

i don't watch that show, but i didn't think records would be considered antiques and appear on it. next they will be singing snoop doog on songs of praise

I didn't actually say I'd seen any records, just that stuff turns up bought in charity shops for a few pounds.
The programme is designed for mass appeal, so the criteria of an "antique" having to be 100 years old went out the window decades ago.
As long as the item is "interesting," stuff from the fifties, like toys and fashions get shown. I've even seen a couple of 1950s jukeboxes shown, on one occasion. Nothing particularly unusual as there's a few thousand still knocking around, so not so much an antique, as "interesting," for some.

i don't imagine having a number of different specialists in a variety of different things that are able to scan and spot valuable items from those given to charity shops is a realistic option for charities, but if there is a particular market to which items are regularly donated and some items can be of a reasonable value, yet need someone other than a standard store assistant to value them, then it may make sense for them to get someone to do it. as at least one big charity already does this for records, it's quite possible other charities do it too

The charity shops in the Glasgow area, and there's dozens and dozens, maybe even hundreds, are brilliant for CDs and DVDs. I've picked up some crackers over the years.

I think it quite possible, in fact it's well known, that anything "decent" that comes into a charity shop, gets picked over by the unpaid volunteers and they get first "dibs," at a token price.

There was a short run of comedy programme about a charity shop, I remember, one scene where the manager comes into the shop and asks,

"Anything good come in?"

"No!"

"Anything for the shop?"

"No!"

i thought we were discussing reality rather than comedy sketches. the simple fact of the matter is some charities have a policy where donations of records are looked at by someone knowledgeable prior to the items going on sale

I think you've told us enough times.

But how often that happens, considering the number of charity shops, is likely to be very rare.
There's a lot of difference between "policy" and "practice," especially if you're relying on volunteer staff.

but the simple fact of the matter is you have absolutely no idea

Fair enough, that makes two of us, doesn't it?

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