What's Your Best Charity Shop Find?

[Aaron]

Couldn't help but share my good fortune at a local (Kent) chaz shop last week: http://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2013/ ... music-12s/ and http://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2013/ ... eggae-lps/ . There was even more where that came from! A great day.

[Ital Dokta]

Fantastic haul, I've had a couple of nice reggae hits at thrift shops, few and far between but usually so random and unexpected that it makes whatever happens to be found kind of special:

LP

U Roy - Version Galore (Treasure Isle)
V/A - Rock Steady Intensified! (WIRL)
Pinchers - Bandolero (Jammy's)
Jimmy Riley - Put the People First (Shanachie)
Judy Mowatt - Black Woman (Generation)
Augustus Pablo - East Of the River Nile (Shanachie)
Native - Native

7"

Sugar Minott - Ten To One (Wackies promo)
Yellowman - Zungzung...(Arrival)

[Aaron]

I found the Mowatt Lp relatively recently as well: http://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2013/ ... -320-1979/

[John Eden]

Big fan of the thrifty vinyl blog.

My best are probably:
Papa Levi / Maxi Priest - Mi God Mi King 12" on Level Vibes

Admiral Tibet - Permission 12" on Riz

Seasonal bonus bits:

Mannings - Christmas Is A Rich man's Dream 12" on Metro

V/A Christmas Family LP on Live & Love

About 50p each. Different shops, different times.

[skunkride]

A "Rasta Fishians Barbados" T-shirt, brand new & exactly my size - one pound

[itsmeagain]

Some steel pulse album I got for 50p in Oxfam , Birmingham, in 2005.

[Vinnie]

just the other day

ROBERT EMMANUEL Fashion Dread £5

[Laurits]

A "Rasta Fishians Barbados" T-shirt, brand new & exactly my size - one pound

+!

I once found a small but really fine selection of Fela Kuti LP´s for next to nothing! I was high on endhorphines the following week!

[Aaron]

A few more from the same recent haul. All at 50p a pop: http://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2013/ ... sland-45s/

[Aaron]

Still posting more from my recent chaz batch here: http://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2014/ ... ck-8-1979/

Maybe someone here can explain why, in the "Never Give Up" A side, there's a microtonal difference in key between song to dub as the two segue; it's something I've noticed on other reggae extended mixes before.

[Mick Fitz]

Fabian - prophecy 12" on Island for 10 pence in the mid 90s

[Aaron]

Last reggae of my pre-Xmas bunch: http://thriftyvinyl.wordpress.com/2014/ ... 9534-1979/

There were a number of non-reggae Island records in this same batch including Traffic, Betty Davis and Quiet Son, among others.