Yes...maybe even more than 5 years. Too many classical and trashy pop cd's and weird UK folk music here in Aussie Op shops. Gets tiring looking through hundreds of Scottish highlands hymns, Irish folk music and Chopin and Brahms.
@@stevenbalekic5683Trashy pop CD buyer in Australia here… even these are becoming harder to find, at least the ones with pop value. Often leaving only some classical and religious CDs.
@@distantearth In Brisbane, not even trashy pop cds. Mainly Michael Crawford, James Last, ancient Aust Idol crap like Natalie Gauchi and Amity Dry, Celtic Woman, Mariah Carey "Music box", Richard Clayderman, Kamahl, cheapy classical cds detached from magazines, cheap Payless brand rubbish from Crazy Clarks, pan pipe stuff, Pink, Sarah McLachlan etc. Absolute the worst, not worthy of landfill.
Greetings from great Britain....same here...ok for us who have been collecting CDs.for years..(and DVDs)....bad for those who just realised renting your music ie Spotify/ amazon prime is fine for doing housework...cutting the grass.. commutes and out of the house....but CDs are awesome....but decent CDs are pretty slim pickings...what's worse in the UK my local salvation army charity shop has recently stopped selling any DVDs blurays with any violence/ sex/ horror ... due to religious reasons....so unless i want a teletubbies DVD i fucked....lol...I wonder if they apply same to books?...CdS?....either way they've lost my custom...in a way I get it...about 4 years ago I picked up the notorious blind faith album with the pretty questionable artwork of the kid with the phallic shaped aeroplane...(for the record I've turned it inside out as its not appropriate and I don't need to see it every time I play it...)...my point is they're worshipers of their God...after all if there was such a thing as a Islamic or jehovahs witness charity shop I wouldn't expect to find a copy of American sniper DVD. Or ...say the joy of sex book. Lol...happy hunting pilgrims!!!
@stevenbalekic5683 Yes guaranteed heartbreak. Every deceased estate gets rid of grandma's collection of Michael Crawford, Richard Clayderman, Harry Secombe, and Foster and Allen CDs.
I’ve lost count of the CD’s I’ve left in cars and CD players I sold or gave away. Some of my favourites went that way. Johnny Cash, Hunky Dory by Bowie. Van Morrison. I have the cases to remind me of my loss. 😂
Or that the disk is scratched to within an inch of its life (or has dinner added to the thing). Still, the occasional gem can be found and it is for charity as well
Yes, ALWAYS check the disc. Both sides, because Ive lost count how many CDs I was excited to find only to turn the disc over to see it looked like it was dragged over asphalt.
That's why I'd never buy a used CD out in the wilderness. People don't treat CDs with care. I never touch the underside and probably 98 percent of what I own is pristine mint, with the exception of ones that I bought because they were out of print or things that came in crappy packaging. I always replace the jewel cases if they're cracked or have sticker gunk.
@@yournamehere6002no need to be that drastic... Unless the disc has deep scratches that are circular (instead of radial), a good player will take advantage of its redundancy and play it from start to end without a skip! Some extreme cases can even be salvaged with polishing. Disc rot, on the other hand, is a bigger problem, because it is irreparable.
I agree with you that there are fewer CDs in thrift stores. In the past three months, I found maybe three until... On January 1st, I stopped in my local GW expecting nothing and came out with eleven great classic rock CDs. In more than 7 years of this, I have never struck it like this! Consistency pays off folks. If you don't look you can't find anything. Happy New Year!
@@ForeverAnalog You are welcome, I enjoy your videos... I also see the used Vintage Audio market being very soft in many markets. People are not selling or buying as a few years ago.
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I’m in the uk, and there is a charity shop near me that sells 3 CD’s for a £1. Not only do I find bargain albums, I also I buy the classical music CDs, because they have jewel cases that are the same as my original release cd album cases, that I need to replace (round cd booklet retention nipple, for eg). Plus any finds in the charity shops where the disc, inserts are great but the case is damaged. These days, new jewel cases are thin flimsy plastic….the older ones are firmer and more robust. EBay is great for finds too
@@ForeverAnalog I’m fascinated by the cd finds others have in the USA as well. Seeing the differences in price, availability etc…plus there is the element of “damn, wish I was there in that thrift shop”, lol
I just picked up a buttload of CDs at a local Goodwill. It was so funny because it's the worst Goodwill in my area and I was saying that to my wife before going inside and then I stumbled upon a good little collection of classic rock. Was about 20 CDs for a buck each. Even had a Nirvana CD with a red cover that I've never seen before. I don't like keeping CD club issues for myself, but I still pick them up for my antique booth because I doubt anyone else really cares or probably won't even notice.
The greatest used CD bargains were between 2005 and 2010, when top-shelf used material was going in the $1 to $2 range. That's when the indie rock stuff that is harder to find now was being jettisoned en masse by the MP3 and streaming crowd. I'm still finding some very good classical bargains though, since that market is less well known to most buyers, but I have a good knowledge of all genres, since I listen avidly to all of them, and kinda know what the gems are.
Many thrift shops, like Goodwill, Good Shepard, etc. have ebay pages, and have for years. The good stuff doesn't even make it to the physical stores anymore.
A tip for those looking for inexpensive cd's, Worked for me see if you have a local public library and if they have a "friends of the library" called that here, they always have cd's generally around 50 cents. I have even found SACD ones, If you get on the mailing list they sometimes have sales. It is worth a trip even to get one or two. One last year there must have been close to a thousand. And sorted!
I scooped up a bunch of .99 CDs at GW today. Metallica, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Til Tuesday, Soft Cell,etc... nothing too rare but album staples, that are always sellable.
I haven't found any amazing CD thrift store finds in over a year, but I hit the jackpot when I was still living in Phoenix. I stopped by a Goodwill close to my office before going home and found a huge collection of classic HipHop: The entire discography of Erik B and Rakim Common - Several Albums Masta Ace - Sittin' On Chrome and Slaughtahouse GangStarr - The Ownerz Stezo - Crazy Noise Little Brother - The Listening Guru - Jazzamatazz Vol 1 Biz Markie - Goin Off Grand Puba - Reel To Reel
I quickly discovered the stores in my area have several regulars who scour the CDs often, some individuals are there literally every single day in the same shop. That's why you don't find much. The good stuff is probably only on the shelf for an hour tops and I don't live in a big city, but folks around here are hardcore over anything of slight desirability that can be found in a thrift store. I only ever found stuff when I was crazy enough to go everyday, sometimes multiple times and started noticing competition doing the same.
Charity shops in the UK or thrifts as you call them barcode them and sell them to big online companies like Music Magpie. What you see on the shelves are the ones they don't want.
There's a few shops still do them, you can get lucky. Largely no, it's not great. I did luck out massively last year with someone's huge metal collection. Maybe I'll get 10 CDs a year, thats pretty poor.
@@mikethebloodthirsty I have bought many items from them, the service has never been an issue for me but perhaps the amount they pay for items can be an issue but it is similar with other places where you get 1p per DVD or something
I've easily added over 300 discs to my large collection within the year. My thrift stores sell them for $1 or even 50 cents each. Sometimes the pickings are terrible but I've been lucky many times. It's so fun and glad to be back into collecting the best audio medium to exist in my humble opinion.
I have ONE thrift store in my area that has a decent CD selection that is rotated out a bit so I enjoy going in there. Also, it's dedicated only to Books/Movies with a nice little bookcase for music (and its super clean and neat place!) Antiques stores give me a gut punch every time I go. I tell myself every time I go that THIS IS THE LAST TIME. The stock has barely changed in 2 years. Great video!
As for my local thrift stores, they still have a bunch of cds in them and I’m happy to report that I’ve bought many cds from them that I regularly play in my car or at home! Here’s some prime examples of cd albums I’ve bought at thrift stores: Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon Prince - purple rain Steve miller band - young heats (greatest hits) Erasure - Pop! War - The best of war and more
People who know music hold onto the good ones. I had 200+ curated CD collection and came to a point where I couldn't keep them , nor my stereo. So instead of dumping it all at a thrift shop , got my nephew to buy the whole thing for 1000 dollars. So besides the stereo which was a really good stereo he gets to keep my Beatles, Led Zeppelin , Queen , Bowie and so much more.
OMG @13:25 my parents had that South Pacific album way back in the 60’s when I was a little kid, I haven’t seen in in ages! I used to think the people on the cover were my aunt and uncle because they kind of looked similar (to a 4 year old kid).
Most of the CDs that are available at the thrift stores in my area (southern U.S.) are either Christmas compilations, classical, or country artists that I've never heard of. If there is a decent CD, it's either scratched beyond belief, or the CD is missing from the jewel case.
I've been buying cds the last couple years and have only bought one that had trouble playing the last 3 songs. I've also bought harder to find albums from an ebay reseller. Problem with that is all the cd cases (out of 6 in that order) were all cracked up and needed replaced. Luckily I had bought a 10 pack of empty jewel cases at a thrift store a year earlier.
When the good ones are put out they go quick. Was at Goodwill the other day and someone donated 8 Beatle CDs. The rest were Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Band and Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Came home with 24 CDs. Yes I was lucky.
My go to place is eBay here in Australia. The prices are very good averaging AU$5-9 each considering that CD's retailed here for AU$30.00 each in 1983! Not that I need more than the 7,000 CD's I have now but I have a short list of a few hundred more to complete my collection.
I built a majority of my CD collection through thrift store finds over the past couple of years for $1-2 an album. Most of the time I'm digging through tons the same junk albums everywhere I go, but every now and then I'll find a gem in the midst. Getting a lot more difficult now that CDs starting to gain popularity again, especially since resellers have figured out they can make a couple quick bucks by stripping out the lots of anything worth listening to. I've seen them pulling stacks off the rack and scanning every single barcode to check how much they could flip them for.
Over the years I've accumulated over 12,000 classical cds. Paid 20 cents to $2 for them. The best place was the Goodwill distribution center in Everett, Wa. (Seattle) 20 cents each. I have found unbelievable cd bargains in thrift stores. I once went into a thrift store and walked out with over 20 operas (complete) for a dollar each. Great bargains especially in the cities.
Your videos are a great inspiration for my channel. 👍🏻 I love buying used CDs. I live in Ireland and my closest town Drogheda has a great record store which stock used cds. Dublin City also has about 10 record stores that stock used cds. We don’t have thrift stores in Ireland, but we do have “charity shops”. I recently picked up 3 CDs in one of these shops for €1 each. I love watching your videos. Keep up the great work. 💪🏻
I work in a thrift store and kids are now wanting CD's. I see demand is now massive between Gen X and Gen Z searching for all the bangers. Glory days of walking into a thift store and finding heaps of great titles are well and truly over.
My 13 year old asked for a CD player and CDs for Christmas of 2023 (when she was 12). She asked for a bunch of CDs this past Christmas as well. In addition to recently released titles, she asked for the Cranberries, the Smiths, and Mazzy Star. None of her friends are into CDs. Yet.
I'm a lucky one that has a local record store that not only regularly gets in good used CDs, but also sells them mostly for only 2-3$, and cuts deals on top of that when you get a stack and pay cash. My Goodwill's have mostly been a bust for used CDs nowadays but every now and then I'll find one or two keepers but it's rare.
We were visiting my sister for new year's and hit some of these same shops with really no luck. It does appear that the supply of "good" CD's at thrift stores is rapidly decreasing.
CDs have already began their resurgence in 2024 by outselling vinyl. Here’s the thing… record companies, labels, bands, artists all saw the vinyl resurgence and are starting to put together a plan to make the CD cool again so they can repackage and resell the consumer the same item they bought multiple times now. Vinyl, cassette, CD… purge catalog go streaming, rebuy vinyl… oh no here comes the cassette again, time to rebuy the CD. I am always a collector of physical media… and have never given up my CD collection that I have obtained by both being in the industry and getting stuff sent to me and purchasing. Remember, thrift shops don’t help the artist, but makes your collection look good. But direct from the artist when you can. The Cd will hang around for a long time to come.
You dont "decide" if you are gong to buy a particular CD from a thrift shop. You go there and buy anything that is good. You cant plan it. If you dont take the good ones then the next person will. Thats why they are called Op Shops - Opportunity Shops.
I have that Elton John CD single at 13:38 it’s an alternate lyric version of “Candle in the Wind” that was written and recorded for Princess Diana right after she died in the car crash in 1997. I look it at as a collector’s item now.
Its everywhere and cheap as anything on Discogs. But maybe one day it will be. Its not just alternate lyrics, its a complete rerecording of the song after riding high on the Lion King Soundtrack for a few years. None of his albums are worth much on CD, even the great ones for some reason. They will be worth more after he dies - as morbid as that is.
Yeah after this video I went to check a few thrift stores and nothing but the music shop across the street had a good selection of 5 to 8 dollar discs plus a dollar rack that had some great pics.
Best CD find was at a Cash Convertors in Brisbane. The very early CD compilations. Picked up "1987 Into the Groove", "1987 Hit City", "87 Hits Out", "87 Hots Up", "88 Right on track" "Summer '88", "Celebrate '88", "88 The Winners", Hit Pix '88" even the first pressings of The Angels " The Howling" and The Models. About 10-15 years ago before the well dried up.
Thanks for this video. I am a serial CD and vinyl charity store crate digger here in Auckland NZ. We have many charity stores but pickings have become very slim for Jazz especially. (Lots of Robbie Williams CD's in the charity stores always :)
It was great especially when everyone was vinyl nuts. Now that the trendy folks are priced out of vinyl they are after CdS and it will drive up prices.
My local charity shop sells cds at 4 for£1, a shop in the next village they are£3 each. I asked why so expensive and the lady said it’s because teenagers are into them now.
Great to see. In Australia that is happening too. Even in Brisbane, Rocking Horse records is getting a lot more CD buyers, but the richer kids are still shelling $60 to $110 odd bucks for albums.
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Thrift stores I visit regularly have been picked over well and good. Typically the only CDs remaining are lots of classical and artists that nobody has ever heard of. At this point I find Sunday markets or the occasional garage sale much more worthwhile.
Finds are out there, problem is, too many others are in the cd hunt now, unlike 10-15 years ago. But by stopping by consistently at random, your chances of getting good hits are better, as you may get there when the cds were put out recently. Everyone can't be everywhere all the time 😊 Biggest problem has always been having the will to wade through too many Christmas, Ray Coniff and Britney Spears cds 😅
The best time to buy cd’s was about 10 years ago when people sold them (or even throwing away). I found SAcd, special editions and rare albums for like 30ct a piece. People thought cd’s were worthless. Some were even surprised that I wanted to buy their collection 🙃
Value Village in Canada (same thrift store chain as Savers in the USA) still has shelves upon shelves of CDs in all genres of music. I can't say whether or not any of those CDs are valuable, I'm just looking for artists that I like.
Great vid, another possibility could be reaching out to friends you grew up with, chances are they either have them boxed up or thrown out. Best part you likely have similar tastes.
im from montreal and if i hit 5 stores i would get so many cds within your criterias, its wild the difference. every goodwill or value village still has a decent cd selection and independent stores are selling a lot of CDs for cheaper than thrift stores. and there's people always there when the new batch comes to pick everything valuable. i still find some gems when i come late.
I’ve went to thrift stores and found that CDs are selling out quickly, Goodwill did have some Pink Floyd and Metallica albums for few bucks! I also found Sony CD changers are really nice, they go great with home audio receivers.
Good find on the Miles Davis CD. I've found a few of those around and am always happy with the quality of these Columbia reissues. If you're a CD collector with even a vague interest in jazz it's hard to go wrong for the $1-$4 they sell for
I live in The Netherlands and recently I got my hands on two CD twofers of The Beach Boys, the first being the 1968 album Friends combined with 1969's 20/20 and some additional bonus tracks and 1970's Sunflower combined with 1971's Surf's Up. They only cost me € 1,- per CD. And a few months ago I could get my hands on a CD of The Lovin' Spoonfunful 1967 album Everything's Playing and John Sebastian's 1976 solo album Welcome Back. Mind you, there's a lot of junk I have to sift through before I got rewarded with a few nice ones😊
My thrift store used to have hundreds. About two years ago the amount got cut in half. And I counted last week...they had 12. My guess is everyone who wanted to get rid of their CD have gotten rid of their CDs. Anyone who has CDs now wants to keep them.
Here’s the cosmic rule that governs my used-CD shopping in thrift stores and used-book shops: Go out hoping for a find, end up disappointed, but stop by a shop on a whim and come out with a nice surprise. Works (almost) every time! Serendipity is the best method. 🙂
Exactly! I also try to have good thrift store karma by always making sure I leave the section as clean as I found it or even organize a bit if someone trashed it lol. Nothing too crazy, just enough to appease the thrift gods.
Great that you picked up that CD player. You do not see too many with the remote. I buy CD players when I see them at thrift stores usually the 5 drawers slide out players. I have a stock pile of them. I always test the CD players in the store because the thrift stores I go to have a buy as is policy.
Oh there’s plenty of CDs at the thrift stores near me in Atlanta. Just nothing anyone would want. I scan thrift stores for jewel cases. Mostly untouched no name classical CDs. They don’t make jewel cases like they used to. I swap my broken cases out for the new ones and recycle the discs. I’m curious if you ever hit up McKays for CDs. I randomly just found a solid Scott Walker collection at the one in Chattanooga. But sometimes it’s a bust.
Cheap CDs can be found in charity stores in Maidstone, only trouble is that the CDs are often the same type of CDs. Never see the more unusual CDs such as ones from Cherry Red or others. Still, like to look through the large selection of CDs as well as the vinyls (and even a few cassettes turn up as well). I often take down my well listened to CDs and ones I have decided to donate, hopefully adding a few more unusual albums to the CDs
i just scored sketches of spain for 3 bucks and charlie parker verve masters at the same place, here cds are 50 cents to about 3 bucks, the workers all know me so double albums are usally a single fee. also i got a sony cd player for 50 bucks but no remote. there is a place here that buys leftovers from estate sales, part thrift part antique shop, all very cool located in a old warehouse next to a working railroad. it is an experience.
@ForeverAnalog If you don't have The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison, pick it up. Essential collection, especially if you are into 60s rock and roll and rockabilly music, every track being a classic and the era that collection covers is his best-known era including Oh Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely, Crying, Running Scared, Leah, In Dreams, etc.
My local Sally Ann has had a sale on for a few months. 3 cd's for 99 cents. Happy guy here . I have Quit collecting albums 6500 is enough for me..$1.00 is the most I ever spent on an album.😊😂
@henrys3629 That is terrible. Ebay and online sellers really are making a full time career as "spotters" in "volunteering" for support organisations. This is rife in Australia too. It just is sad that good natured organisation are riddled with opportunistic parasites.
This was a fun trip. Just a couple of years ago I'd visit Goodwill and other thrift stores and "make out like a bandit" as my father was wont to say. My interests are limited to classical and 60s-era jazz and I found many wonderful CDs and the occasional collectible LP too. Now, pickings are slim and - as you found - often non-existent.
I find so many CDs at my Goodwill Bargain Barn aka The Bins here in Florida and they’re 49 cents each even if it’s a boxed set. I’ve also become cordial with the employees there to where they’ll check to see if there are any Gaylord’s of media to dump into the big blue bins if they see me because they know I’ll buy stuff. It’s one of those you gotta be there at the right place right time or make friends that spend time there as well that will text you to let you know that bins of media are coming out.
@ I went to the one there two weeks ago for the first time and there was some decent media but they mostly focused on clothing. Another thing is that most people don’t bother with CDs at my bins and also a lot of times they don’t know the difference of the pressings. Found a lot of Target pressings recently.
Haha😅 You said "Gaylords"... Those are the big,heavy cardboard boxes they store and stack with at the"bins"... I worked a Goodwill outlet in Portland area, here they are called "Melons". 😊
I live in the UK and a lot of charity/goodwill shops have stopped selling CD's. However, some of the ones that still do have crazy deals. There's one that is currently selling both CD's and DVD's any 10 for £1!
This is the same for Hi-Fi finds. Although GW is all about overpricing its product with quick internet searches, inside baseball still rules the day. They will still price a lot of category pricing. And the pickers/pricers still do not know as much as an interested fan. The trick to thrifting is consistency. You have to go and cruise regularly to find the deals, just like a flea market of yester-year.
I live in East Cobb and work in Sandy Springs Georgia. I have a work route and a home route of thrift stores that circulate through weekly. Id say over all the pickings are good. A massive collection will come in and ill pick through it. Then the same collection will remain for like three weeks. Itll dwindle down to a small number and I'll get frustrated as i watch the pile shrink. Then I'll come in and boom! Another huge pile.
Australian collector here, located at least half a dozen titles in last 6 months worth anywhere from 100 - 600 dollars each. They are still out there, you just need to know what you are looking for.
You have to be there when the CDs are being put out. That is unless some employee buys the stock for themselves or holds them for a preferred customer. Same with audio equipment.
I want so badly to make a TH-cam channel just like yours, not as much analog equipment content but the CD hunting, I love it! We are entering harder times, I go to my local thrift store every day they open at opening, and we are entering harder times, but whatever, this hobby wouldn’t be as fun if you could look left and look right wherever you are and find first issues if 90s grunge
I personally love digging through 500 scratched copies of "Best of Mozart volume 17" (with no disc 1-16 to be found) and Some Frank Sinatra-wanna-be's christmas album
I found about 100 1960s Jazz CDs at a thrift store. I've sold about half of them so far. $75 invested, $600 in sales. Vinyl is still KING but had to find good ones and condition is everything. Those Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis finds are good ones.
sometimes I've come in and found a collector's collection on the shelf so will get 10 or 15 titles at one stop. But the next person that looks I've picked the good stuff. Sure that happens to every collection that comes in. I collect movie soundtracks so those collections are the ones I get excited about
From Italy here. Cds have basically disappeared fron thrift stores, very few left and just junk left that never sells. The days of metal/classic rock/punk (which are still in great demand) cds at affordable prices have disappeared . Second-hand record stores still have a lot but they have doubled or sometimes even tripled the prices (just seen a copy of Ozzy Osbourne's last album for 15 euro....crazy considering that you can buy it new for 18....). I've seen that as soon as something by Metallica, Maiden, Depeche Mode, Ramones, Radiohead, Kiss etc hit the shelves, it gets sold in a wink of an eye unlike general pop stuff which seems to stay there forever to gather dust .
It definitely depends. I'm from New Zealand, and thrift stores sometimes have good scores, but mostly not. Today I got a best of Nick Drake CD, plus a Melvins live CD for $2 each, so it was a good day 👍
This reflects my experience too. It's a great time to be hunting for classical bargains, not just your Vivaldis and your Mozarts, but also some early music, even some nice romantic and out-there 20th century works. I got a lovely renaissance recorder ensemble thing a while back, which is very soothing. I would have nabbed those jazz discs too, although I have the Miles one already. Basia is always worth picking up, so you might have missed a trick, but again, I already have a complete collection of her work, including the new deluxe editions. There are some odd gems still to be had among all the religious music, the "Some Old Fart Whose Career Had Long Past Peaked When He Recorded This, Greatest Hits - Live! vol. 2" shovelware etc. and if anything, the dopamine hit is bigger because of the rarity of the better items Some nice 30s & 40s swing is still quite often showing up, typically compilations. Everyone should own at least one Boswell Sisters disc. You can thank me later. Here in Denmark I'm still getting very lucky going to the recycle centres, where everything is GRATIS. Of course it's always a lottery, but the other day I gleaned a nice CD facsimile of the white album with the number printed on the cover, and *all the inlays* for zero kroner (that's approximately zero bucks) - not bad. I already had the jewelbox version, but that was a nice find, and plays without a hitch.
Found a Metallica CD while doing my huntin' for VHS that will never die! LOL I have 33 VCRs and going on 4000 tapes. CDs in my experience it is rare to find some really good ones. There is always classical music on CD LOL Same goes with 8 Tracks, but I did manage to find a Pink Floyd the Wall last year thrifting, it is like a slot machine if you play it enough something will pop out LOL
It's like records, people are just grabbing anything and everything good either to keep, trade or resell. If you're not the first to get it, forget it.
i've been collecting since 2020 (originally because of the Y2K trend, but now because i've gotten used to it!) and i find that chain thrift stores in more populated areas seem to be really good places!! i work for one of them and over half of my collection is from that one store alone, we seem to get in a insane amount of music i like! obviously what i see as good won't be the same as you, but i think it's long from being hard to find, you just gotta look in the right places!! :D
I've been on the search for a simple decent CD player with a digital out for so long now, and you find two in during this quest! I'm currently using a $12 dvd changer by Sony for my player. Went thrifting for audio stuff the last two days, I picked up a VG copy of Huey Lewis & The News Sports on vinyl (original pressing), Santana Shaman, AC/DC Back in Black, and Lords of Acid Lust all on CD for $3/ea.
I went to a Goodwill clearance outlet recently and found a goldmine of one dollar 90s metal CDs including Korn, Type O Negative, Static-X, Fear Factory and such. They were very scuffed up and in terrible condition, but I was able to sell them (about 20 CDs) in a lot for about $40-$50. I think people will look past condition if the title is very rare and highly desired/popular. Same thing I noticed with vintage LPs. There should be no reason why a scratched up, beater copy of Static-X's Wisconsin Death Trip sells for 20-30 dollars, but here we are.
Cd's are still pretty plentiful in the thrift stores I've gone into. However, I find it's so much easier to go through records and even cassettes than try to look at the tiny writing on the CD's. I get bored pretty quickly scanning over them.
One of my local Goodwill stores in the greater Toronto area is so hopeless for music or movies that I only visit it once a year if that because it just isn't worth regular visits even though it's well laid out for clothes and other items, but its selections of records, CDs, movies, and electronics consistently fall short. It's the Goodwill that happy hunting forgot. ;)
I haven't seen any thrift stores selling stand alone CDs like that, but I'd be checking that out all the time. $0.99 is a great deal for CDs that I only want to rip the tracks off of and don't need in my collection.
did the sony cd player actually play cds without skipping? I ask this as any time I have bought a sony cd player... it has skipped... suspecting the laser is pooched. As for the cd selection... it is basically the same at the thrifts around where I live. the 'good' ones just don't seem to exist anymore.
I enjoyed this vid. Where I live in New Zealand cds in charity shops are getting more and more hard to find. It's a matter of luck. It's always a bit disappointing to do the rounds of shops and not finding anything. I'm 73 and I've got thousands or CDs so I wonder where they're going to end up when I go to that Great Gig in the Sky . hopefully not the city dump
i think i said it before but i'm pretty glad c.d.s are coming back into vogue, while that means it's getting harder to pick out cool older stuff yeah, it also means that more labels are going to put energy into releasing music on c.d. like with the little tape boom we've seen recently. also, if the stuff you're into isn't popular enough to warrant cherry-picking, the field is ripe for picking: i've gotten so many good sophistipop c.d.s at bargains because it's so out of vogue now.
One time I walked into savers and they had just stocked hundreds of sealed old school hip hop CDs,I probably made at least 1500 in profit and only spent 90.In my pile that I picked I had 6 copies of krazie bones thug mentality CD those alone I made 500 🤯.Worker at savers said he thinks it came from a store that went out of business.
I still see cds but it’s all run of the mill stuff. Reba macentire, some rap, Christina Aguilera type stuff. I have found some interesting things at used record stores and tag sales. I even take them if they are loose in a basket with no cover. Sometimes they are in great shape. But I still have a lot of cds from when there was new music stores. I never got rid of them. Unless they were ‘what was I thinking’ ones😂 I recently bought an alarm clock radio with cd player. $7 it works sounds good. I’m enjoying not being digital
The GWs in my county don't even sell a majority of all types of media. They dont even do discount days. Last year they stopped selling books. Then, the most recent months, all music media. Now I'm sure the ending of film media isn't too far off. I used to find some great stuff to flip. More importantly, I'd find more for my collection. It really sucks as they had been selling all media for a whole wopping quarter. Outside my area, 2.99-4.99 for junk. The rest of the store at the one I used to mainly frequent looks like a trash dump. The prices are crazy high, which is why it turned into a dump. No one's buying at their prices. But, if you find the jewel in the dump, it's worth the hunt. The other thrift that I frequently go to in town is at least still carrying CDs and Vinyl. You mentioned the jewel you found and flipped for 60 bucks. I had that happen one day at this store. Only about 10 records, and the 1 I find is something I looked up on discogs simply because the old cellophane was still on it. Paid a buck, and it sold it for 50 before I even got home. Oh yeah! That black boombox is a plant holder that was sold at Target a few years back. I actually have 1 with a succulent in it. Great video!
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Aussie here. Quality CD titles were very easy to get from charity shops five years ago. Nowadays most of the low hanging fruit has been harvested.
Yes...maybe even more than 5 years. Too many classical and trashy pop cd's and weird UK folk music here in Aussie Op shops.
Gets tiring looking through hundreds of Scottish highlands hymns, Irish folk music and Chopin and Brahms.
@@stevenbalekic5683Trashy pop CD buyer in Australia here… even these are becoming harder to find, at least the ones with pop value. Often leaving only some classical and religious CDs.
@@distantearth In Brisbane, not even trashy pop cds. Mainly Michael Crawford, James Last, ancient Aust Idol crap like Natalie Gauchi and Amity Dry, Celtic Woman, Mariah Carey "Music box", Richard Clayderman, Kamahl, cheapy classical cds detached from magazines, cheap Payless brand rubbish from Crazy Clarks, pan pipe stuff, Pink, Sarah McLachlan etc. Absolute the worst, not worthy of landfill.
Greetings from great Britain....same here...ok for us who have been collecting CDs.for years..(and DVDs)....bad for those who just realised renting your music ie Spotify/ amazon prime is fine for doing housework...cutting the grass..
commutes and out of the house....but CDs are awesome....but decent CDs are pretty slim pickings...what's worse in the UK my local salvation army charity shop has recently stopped selling any DVDs blurays with any violence/ sex/ horror ... due to religious reasons....so unless i want a teletubbies DVD i fucked....lol...I wonder if they apply same to books?...CdS?....either way they've lost my custom...in a way I get it...about 4 years ago I picked up the notorious blind faith album with the pretty questionable artwork of the kid with the phallic shaped aeroplane...(for the record I've turned it inside out as its not appropriate and I don't need to see it every time I play it...)...my point is they're worshipers of their God...after all if there was such a thing as a Islamic or jehovahs witness charity shop I wouldn't expect to find a copy of American sniper DVD. Or ...say the joy of sex book. Lol...happy hunting pilgrims!!!
@stevenbalekic5683 Yes guaranteed heartbreak. Every deceased estate gets rid of grandma's collection of Michael Crawford, Richard Clayderman, Harry Secombe, and Foster and Allen CDs.
I hate when you see a CD you’re after and the disc is missing! I’ve been lucky but most charity shops and thrift stores have the same old crap I find.
The missing or wrong CD in the case is the worst! Thank you for watching!
@ on a plus, you could buy the case and booklet and use a vinyl rip if you have the album on vinyl!
@@KRAZEEIZATION but, you wouldn’t have the bonus tracks.
I’ve lost count of the CD’s I’ve left in cars and CD players I sold or gave away. Some of my favourites went that way. Johnny Cash, Hunky Dory by Bowie. Van Morrison. I have the cases to remind me of my loss. 😂
Or that the disk is scratched to within an inch of its life (or has dinner added to the thing). Still, the occasional gem can be found and it is for charity as well
Yes, ALWAYS check the disc. Both sides, because Ive lost count how many CDs I was excited to find only to turn the disc over to see it looked like it was dragged over asphalt.
Great advice thank you!
That's why I'd never buy a used CD out in the wilderness. People don't treat CDs with care. I never touch the underside and probably 98 percent of what I own is pristine mint, with the exception of ones that I bought because they were out of print or things that came in crappy packaging. I always replace the jewel cases if they're cracked or have sticker gunk.
@@yournamehere6002no need to be that drastic... Unless the disc has deep scratches that are circular (instead of radial), a good player will take advantage of its redundancy and play it from start to end without a skip! Some extreme cases can even be salvaged with polishing. Disc rot, on the other hand, is a bigger problem, because it is irreparable.
@tiagoafonsomusic I like seeing them shiny and pristine, it's an aesthetic choice as much as a practical one.
Isn’t this just good common sense to check the condition of a cd bought in a charity shop
I agree with you that there are fewer CDs in thrift stores. In the past three months, I found maybe three until... On January 1st, I stopped in my local GW expecting nothing and came out with eleven great classic rock CDs. In more than 7 years of this, I have never struck it like this! Consistency pays off folks. If you don't look you can't find anything. Happy New Year!
Awesome! Thanks for watching and sharing!
@@ForeverAnalog You are welcome, I enjoy your videos... I also see the used Vintage Audio market being very soft in many markets. People are not selling or buying as a few years ago.
Found a Supertramp-Breakfast in America remastered cd in a box of cds for a $.50 last summer at a garage sale. Sounds phenomenal!
Awesome!
7 dr loud min points v!v get the full silver one. like new or minimal scratches. get a dcd 1520 or so. or at least 980. up-döwnspeedink is FvN! ? ^ ^
id never szell my targetz för like 5 or 6 ! even wörn öff frönt !!!
What I do is take a picture of each section then I check the photo, zoom on it and its a breeze to check the titles.
we'll get back to you
That's a great idea, I have to remember that next time I'm out hunting.
REALLY good idea.
That's genius.
I’m in the uk, and there is a charity shop near me that sells 3 CD’s for a £1. Not only do I find bargain albums, I also I buy the classical music CDs, because they have jewel cases that are the same as my original release cd album cases, that I need to replace (round cd booklet retention nipple, for eg). Plus any finds in the charity shops where the disc, inserts are great but the case is damaged. These days, new jewel cases are thin flimsy plastic….the older ones are firmer and more robust. EBay is great for finds too
Thanks for watching and sharing!
@@ForeverAnalog I’m fascinated by the cd finds others have in the USA as well. Seeing the differences in price, availability etc…plus there is the element of “damn, wish I was there in that thrift shop”, lol
I just picked up a buttload of CDs at a local Goodwill. It was so funny because it's the worst Goodwill in my area and I was saying that to my wife before going inside and then I stumbled upon a good little collection of classic rock. Was about 20 CDs for a buck each. Even had a Nirvana CD with a red cover that I've never seen before. I don't like keeping CD club issues for myself, but I still pick them up for my antique booth because I doubt anyone else really cares or probably won't even notice.
I just saw that Nirvana cd recently and it confused me lol. So glad you scored some discs!
Really. A buttload not a boatload?
The greatest used CD bargains were between 2005 and 2010, when top-shelf used material was going in the $1 to $2 range. That's when the indie rock stuff that is harder to find now was being jettisoned en masse by the MP3 and streaming crowd. I'm still finding some very good classical bargains though, since that market is less well known to most buyers, but I have a good knowledge of all genres, since I listen avidly to all of them, and kinda know what the gems are.
Awesome! Thanks for watching and sharing!
Many thrift shops, like Goodwill, Good Shepard, etc. have ebay pages, and have for years. The good stuff doesn't even make it to the physical stores anymore.
A tip for those looking for inexpensive cd's, Worked for me see if you have a local public library and if they have a "friends of the library" called that here, they always have cd's generally around 50 cents. I have even found SACD ones, If you get on the mailing list they sometimes have sales. It is worth a trip even to get one or two. One last year there must have been close to a thousand. And sorted!
Great advice thank you!
I scooped up a bunch of .99 CDs at GW today. Metallica, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Til Tuesday, Soft Cell,etc... nothing too rare but album staples, that are always sellable.
Awesome! That’s exactly what I was shopping for. Great finds!
metal and jazz and öc classic are missing. but at far? över a kilö my living rööm is FvlL xD
@@cv507 ?ha'wut?
I haven't found any amazing CD thrift store finds in over a year, but I hit the jackpot when I was still living in Phoenix. I stopped by a Goodwill close to my office before going home and found a huge collection of classic HipHop:
The entire discography of Erik B and Rakim
Common - Several Albums
Masta Ace - Sittin' On Chrome and Slaughtahouse
GangStarr - The Ownerz
Stezo - Crazy Noise
Little Brother - The Listening
Guru - Jazzamatazz Vol 1
Biz Markie - Goin Off
Grand Puba - Reel To Reel
Awesome!!!
I quickly discovered the stores in my area have several regulars who scour the CDs often, some individuals are there literally every single day in the same shop. That's why you don't find much. The good stuff is probably only on the shelf for an hour tops and I don't live in a big city, but folks around here are hardcore over anything of slight desirability that can be found in a thrift store. I only ever found stuff when I was crazy enough to go everyday, sometimes multiple times and started noticing competition doing the same.
Charity shops in the UK or thrifts as you call them barcode them and sell them to big online companies like Music Magpie. What you see on the shelves are the ones they don't want.
@@louminati4318 sad but that does make sense.
There's a few shops still do them, you can get lucky. Largely no, it's not great. I did luck out massively last year with someone's huge metal collection. Maybe I'll get 10 CDs a year, thats pretty poor.
@@Graphicxtras1doesn't make any sense, music magpie rip people off.
@@mikethebloodthirsty mate I was selling CDs and I was trying to get into the warehouses to buy them. That’s why I know.
@@mikethebloodthirsty I have bought many items from them, the service has never been an issue for me but perhaps the amount they pay for items can be an issue but it is similar with other places where you get 1p per DVD or something
I've easily added over 300 discs to my large collection within the year. My thrift stores sell them for $1 or even 50 cents each. Sometimes the pickings are terrible but I've been lucky many times. It's so fun and glad to be back into collecting the best audio medium to exist in my humble opinion.
Awesome!
Good finds! I swear I haven’t found anything local in a while. But just when I give up….usually I finally find something.
Very true!
I have ONE thrift store in my area that has a decent CD selection that is rotated out a bit so I enjoy going in there. Also, it's dedicated only to Books/Movies with a nice little bookcase for music (and its super clean and neat place!) Antiques stores give me a gut punch every time I go. I tell myself every time I go that THIS IS THE LAST TIME. The stock has barely changed in 2 years. Great video!
Thank you! I have a booth in an antique mall and try to price things fairly because I want to flip the inventory as much as possible.
As for my local thrift stores, they still have a bunch of cds in them and I’m happy to report that I’ve bought many cds from them that I regularly play in my car or at home!
Here’s some prime examples of cd albums I’ve bought at thrift stores:
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Prince - purple rain
Steve miller band - young heats (greatest hits)
Erasure - Pop!
War - The best of war and more
Great finds, thank you for sharing and watching!
People who know music hold onto the good ones. I had 200+ curated CD collection and came to a point where I couldn't keep them , nor my stereo. So instead of dumping it all at a thrift shop , got my nephew to buy the whole thing for 1000 dollars. So besides the stereo which was a really good stereo he gets to keep my Beatles, Led Zeppelin , Queen , Bowie and so much more.
OMG @13:25 my parents had that South Pacific album way back in the 60’s when I was a little kid, I haven’t seen in in ages! I used to think the people on the cover were my aunt and uncle because they kind of looked similar (to a 4 year old kid).
Most of the CDs that are available at the thrift stores in my area (southern U.S.) are either Christmas compilations, classical, or country artists that I've never heard of. If there is a decent CD, it's either scratched beyond belief, or the CD is missing from the jewel case.
I've been buying cds the last couple years and have only bought one that had trouble playing the last 3 songs. I've also bought harder to find albums from an ebay reseller. Problem with that is all the cd cases (out of 6 in that order) were all cracked up and needed replaced. Luckily I had bought a 10 pack of empty jewel cases at a thrift store a year earlier.
I think that’s true everywhere, but I still get lucky sometimes. Thanks for watching!
A lot of religious CDs are always available too. Old school R & B and Rap are tough to find.
When the good ones are put out they go quick. Was at Goodwill the other day and someone donated 8 Beatle CDs. The rest were Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Band and Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Came home with 24 CDs. Yes I was lucky.
Awesome, great finds!
My go to place is eBay here in Australia. The prices are very good averaging AU$5-9 each considering that CD's retailed here for AU$30.00 each in 1983! Not that I need more than the 7,000 CD's I have now but I have a short list of a few hundred more to complete my collection.
Same here, i like the jewel cases and artwork
I built a majority of my CD collection through thrift store finds over the past couple of years for $1-2 an album. Most of the time I'm digging through tons the same junk albums everywhere I go, but every now and then I'll find a gem in the midst. Getting a lot more difficult now that CDs starting to gain popularity again, especially since resellers have figured out they can make a couple quick bucks by stripping out the lots of anything worth listening to. I've seen them pulling stacks off the rack and scanning every single barcode to check how much they could flip them for.
Very true! I mean, I've resold my share of CDs over the years, but now my stores barely even carry them lol. Thanks for watching!
Over the years I've accumulated over 12,000 classical cds. Paid 20 cents to $2 for them. The best place was the Goodwill distribution center in Everett, Wa. (Seattle) 20 cents each. I have found unbelievable cd bargains in thrift stores. I once went into a thrift store and walked out with over 20 operas (complete) for a dollar each. Great bargains especially in the cities.
That is awesome! Congrats!
Your videos are a great inspiration for my channel. 👍🏻 I love buying used CDs. I live in Ireland and my closest town Drogheda has a great record store which stock used cds. Dublin City also has about 10 record stores that stock used cds. We don’t have thrift stores in Ireland, but we do have “charity shops”. I recently picked up 3 CDs in one of these shops for €1 each. I love watching your videos. Keep up the great work. 💪🏻
Thank you! Happy thrifting!
I work in a thrift store and kids are now wanting CD's. I see demand is now massive between Gen X and Gen Z searching for all the bangers. Glory days of walking into a thift store and finding heaps of great titles are well and truly over.
Yeah I sell a lot of CDs in my vintage booth and at record shows. Thanks for watching!
My 13 year old asked for a CD player and CDs for Christmas of 2023 (when she was 12). She asked for a bunch of CDs this past Christmas as well. In addition to recently released titles, she asked for the Cranberries, the Smiths, and Mazzy Star. None of her friends are into CDs. Yet.
I'm a lucky one that has a local record store that not only regularly gets in good used CDs, but also sells them mostly for only 2-3$, and cuts deals on top of that when you get a stack and pay cash. My Goodwill's have mostly been a bust for used CDs nowadays but every now and then I'll find one or two keepers but it's rare.
Awesome!
We were visiting my sister for new year's and hit some of these same shops with really no luck. It does appear that the supply of "good" CD's at thrift stores is rapidly decreasing.
Yeah, it's tough out there sometimes!
CDs have already began their resurgence in 2024 by outselling vinyl. Here’s the thing… record companies, labels, bands, artists all saw the vinyl resurgence and are starting to put together a plan to make the CD cool again so they can repackage and resell the consumer the same item they bought multiple times now. Vinyl, cassette, CD… purge catalog go streaming, rebuy vinyl… oh no here comes the cassette again, time to rebuy the CD. I am always a collector of physical media… and have never given up my CD collection that I have obtained by both being in the industry and getting stuff sent to me and purchasing. Remember, thrift shops don’t help the artist, but makes your collection look good. But direct from the artist when you can. The Cd will hang around for a long time to come.
Thanks for watching and sharing!
You dont "decide" if you are gong to buy a particular CD from a thrift shop. You go there and buy anything that is good. You cant plan it. If you dont take the good ones then the next person will. Thats why they are called Op Shops - Opportunity Shops.
I have that Elton John CD single at 13:38 it’s an alternate lyric version of “Candle in the Wind” that was written and recorded for Princess Diana right after she died in the car crash in 1997. I look it at as a collector’s item now.
Awesome!
Its everywhere and cheap as anything on Discogs. But maybe one day it will be. Its not just alternate lyrics, its a complete rerecording of the song after riding high on the Lion King Soundtrack for a few years. None of his albums are worth much on CD, even the great ones for some reason. They will be worth more after he dies - as morbid as that is.
Better off taking a trip to a used MUSIC store for cheap used CDs. The staff generally inspects most of them. Thanks!
Very true!
Yeah after this video I went to check a few thrift stores and nothing but the music shop across the street had a good selection of 5 to 8 dollar discs plus a dollar rack that had some great pics.
Best CD find was at a Cash Convertors in Brisbane. The very early CD compilations. Picked up "1987 Into the Groove", "1987 Hit City", "87 Hits Out", "87 Hots Up", "88 Right on track" "Summer '88", "Celebrate '88", "88 The Winners", Hit Pix '88" even the first pressings of The Angels " The Howling" and The Models. About 10-15 years ago before the well dried up.
Awesome!
Thanks for this video. I am a serial CD and vinyl charity store crate digger here in Auckland NZ. We have many charity stores but pickings have become very slim for Jazz especially. (Lots of Robbie Williams CD's in the charity stores always :)
Thanks for watching!
& Susan Boyle...
It was great especially when everyone was vinyl nuts. Now that the trendy folks are priced out of vinyl they are after CdS and it will drive up prices.
My local charity shop sells cds at 4 for£1, a shop in the next village they are£3 each. I asked why so expensive and the lady said it’s because teenagers are into them now.
I sell a lot of CDs to younger folks which I think is cool to see!
Great to see. In Australia that is happening too. Even in Brisbane, Rocking Horse records is getting a lot more CD buyers, but the richer kids are still shelling $60 to $110 odd bucks for albums.
i have targets mfsl shm dcc mastersounds most sound decent like hdcd but hi-res dl beats all. but many like fagen kama are brickwälL€D - .-
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My friends don't collect CDs, just tapes and vinyl. I found 2 loved records G&R Appetite for Destruction and Poison album for $1.29.
Awesome!
Thrift stores I visit regularly have been picked over well and good. Typically the only CDs remaining are lots of classical and artists that nobody has ever heard of. At this point I find Sunday markets or the occasional garage sale much more worthwhile.
Not as good pickings here in australia lately, but did happen to find deep purple with ian gillan first 4 albums on cd for $1aud in one store
Great finds!
Two or three years ago you could pick up used CDs cheap. But it now seems the prices have gone up.
2005-2008 was a great time to get anything cheap cause a lot of people didn't have smart phones then!
Finds are out there, problem is, too many others are in the cd hunt now, unlike 10-15 years ago.
But by stopping by consistently at random, your chances of getting good hits are better, as you may get there when the cds were put out recently. Everyone can't be everywhere all the time 😊
Biggest problem has always been having the will to wade through too many Christmas, Ray Coniff and Britney Spears cds 😅
The best time to buy cd’s was about 10 years ago when people sold them (or even throwing away). I found SAcd, special editions and rare albums for like 30ct a piece. People thought cd’s were worthless. Some were even surprised that I wanted to buy their collection 🙃
Garage and estate sales are still great.
Value Village in Canada (same thrift store chain as Savers in the USA) still has shelves upon shelves of CDs in all genres of music. I can't say whether or not any of those CDs are valuable, I'm just looking for artists that I like.
Awesome! I mostly search for CDs I want to listen to and not worry about value unless I stumble on something worth money. Thanks for watching!
Great vid, another possibility could be reaching out to friends you grew up with, chances are they either have them boxed up or thrown out. Best part you likely have similar tastes.
Ooooh yeah I love a good “I have this free stuff do you want it?” text!
In Montreal you have about 60 thrift shops that sell used cd for 2$. Most of them are Renaissance and Village des valeurs
im from montreal and if i hit 5 stores i would get so many cds within your criterias, its wild the difference. every goodwill or value village still has a decent cd selection and independent stores are selling a lot of CDs for cheaper than thrift stores. and there's people always there when the new batch comes to pick everything valuable. i still find some gems when i come late.
Any good adress to recommend ? Coming to Montreal in March for a visit (from France) thanks !
That's awesome!
I’ve went to thrift stores and found that CDs are selling out quickly, Goodwill did have some Pink Floyd and Metallica albums for few bucks! I also found Sony CD changers are really nice, they go great with home audio receivers.
Good find on the Pink Floyd and Metallica albums!
@ the CDs have minor scratches, but they still play well!
Good find on the Miles Davis CD. I've found a few of those around and am always happy with the quality of these Columbia reissues. If you're a CD collector with even a vague interest in jazz it's hard to go wrong for the $1-$4 they sell for
Agreed!
I live in The Netherlands and recently I got my hands on two CD twofers of The Beach Boys, the first being the 1968 album Friends combined with 1969's 20/20 and some additional bonus tracks and 1970's Sunflower combined with 1971's Surf's Up. They only cost me € 1,- per CD. And a few months ago I could get my hands on a CD of The Lovin' Spoonfunful 1967 album Everything's Playing and John Sebastian's 1976 solo album Welcome Back.
Mind you, there's a lot of junk I have to sift through before I got rewarded with a few nice ones😊
Dat is ook wel weer de sport...
Nice!
My thrift store used to have hundreds. About two years ago the amount got cut in half. And I counted last week...they had 12.
My guess is everyone who wanted to get rid of their CD have gotten rid of their CDs. Anyone who has CDs now wants to keep them.
But people still die and their kids give the cds away.
Very true and great point, thank you for watching and sharing!
That Moody Blues CD is a banger.
Its a cool title, but I prefer The Best of The Moody Blues cd, the one that has Go Now.
Here’s the cosmic rule that governs my used-CD shopping in thrift stores and used-book shops: Go out hoping for a find, end up disappointed, but stop by a shop on a whim and come out with a nice surprise. Works (almost) every time! Serendipity is the best method. 🙂
Exactly! I also try to have good thrift store karma by always making sure I leave the section as clean as I found it or even organize a bit if someone trashed it lol. Nothing too crazy, just enough to appease the thrift gods.
Great that you picked up that CD player. You do not see too many with the remote. I buy CD players when I see them at thrift stores usually the 5 drawers slide out players. I have a stock pile of them. I always test the CD players in the store because the thrift stores I go to have a buy as is policy.
I've been really happy with the one I found! It's great to have a remote.
Oh there’s plenty of CDs at the thrift stores near me in Atlanta. Just nothing anyone would want. I scan thrift stores for jewel cases. Mostly untouched no name classical CDs. They don’t make jewel cases like they used to. I swap my broken cases out for the new ones and recycle the discs. I’m curious if you ever hit up McKays for CDs. I randomly just found a solid Scott Walker collection at the one in Chattanooga. But sometimes it’s a bust.
Is this guy in atlanta?
Yes!
I occasionally find good CD's at Goodwill or yard sales, but looking though used CD's you quickly learn that most people's taste in music sucks. 🙄
I feel that lol
You can tell it is a collection by the start and the beginning of the stash. I know exactly where it ends and that it is already cannibalized!
Cheap CDs can be found in charity stores in Maidstone, only trouble is that the CDs are often the same type of CDs. Never see the more unusual CDs such as ones from Cherry Red or others. Still, like to look through the large selection of CDs as well as the vinyls (and even a few cassettes turn up as well). I often take down my well listened to CDs and ones I have decided to donate, hopefully adding a few more unusual albums to the CDs
OH NO don't tell me cd being cherry picked and it's starting to happen...
It’s especially gotten bad on niche genres like anime and game soundtracks are ridiculous now.
i just scored sketches of spain for 3 bucks and charlie parker verve masters at the same place, here cds are 50 cents to about 3 bucks, the workers all know me so double albums are usally a single fee. also i got a sony cd player for 50 bucks but no remote. there is a place here that buys leftovers from estate sales, part thrift part antique shop, all very cool located in a old warehouse next to a working railroad. it is an experience.
Awesome. Sounds like a fun store to dig in! Thanks for watching!
thanks for posting, here we have about 8 -9 thrift shops@@ForeverAnalog
@ForeverAnalog If you don't have The All-Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison, pick it up. Essential collection, especially if you are into 60s rock and roll and rockabilly music, every track being a classic and the era that collection covers is his best-known era including Oh Pretty Woman, Only The Lonely, Crying, Running Scared, Leah, In Dreams, etc.
Cool thanks for tip!
My local Sally Ann has had a sale on for a few months. 3 cd's for 99 cents. Happy guy here . I have Quit collecting albums 6500 is enough for me..$1.00 is the most I ever spent on an album.😊😂
Awesome!
Regarding Goodwills, the cds never make it to front, they sell the good ones on eBay for high prices
That is the truth. I used to cull my collection regularly and donate to St Vinnies most and the good cd's never made it to the rack.
Only proving that "Goodwill" is a euphemism for greedy consumerism.
They did that for almost every record. ECOMM for 99% all vinyl. They just sold an Elvis record for over $1k because an employee told me.
@henrys3629 That is terrible. Ebay and online sellers really are making a full time career as "spotters" in "volunteering" for support organisations. This is rife in Australia too. It just is sad that good natured organisation are riddled with opportunistic parasites.
This was a fun trip. Just a couple of years ago I'd visit Goodwill and other thrift stores and "make out like a bandit" as my father was wont to say. My interests are limited to classical and 60s-era jazz and I found many wonderful CDs and the occasional collectible LP too. Now, pickings are slim and - as you found - often non-existent.
Yeah it seems like the good stuff is harder to find these days!
I find so many CDs at my Goodwill Bargain Barn aka The Bins here in Florida and they’re 49 cents each even if it’s a boxed set. I’ve also become cordial with the employees there to where they’ll check to see if there are any Gaylord’s of media to dump into the big blue bins if they see me because they know I’ll buy stuff. It’s one of those you gotta be there at the right place right time or make friends that spend time there as well that will text you to let you know that bins of media are coming out.
Awesome. Glad to hear this!
Last, time I was at the Orlando bins, I came up on loot but I rarely get out there.
@ I went to the one there two weeks ago for the first time and there was some decent media but they mostly focused on clothing. Another thing is that most people don’t bother with CDs at my bins and also a lot of times they don’t know the difference of the pressings. Found a lot of Target pressings recently.
Haha😅 You said "Gaylords"... Those are the big,heavy cardboard boxes they store and stack with at the"bins"... I worked a Goodwill outlet in Portland area, here they are called "Melons". 😊
@Jdoggity I was going to make that comment. Most don't know the term "Gaylord".
I live in the UK and a lot of charity/goodwill shops have stopped selling CD's. However, some of the ones that still do have crazy deals. There's one that is currently selling both CD's and DVD's any 10 for £1!
Wow that’s an awesome deal!!!
This is the same for Hi-Fi finds. Although GW is all about overpricing its product with quick internet searches, inside baseball still rules the day. They will still price a lot of category pricing. And the pickers/pricers still do not know as much as an interested fan. The trick to thrifting is consistency. You have to go and cruise regularly to find the deals, just like a flea market of yester-year.
Yeah I swing by these stores every weekend just in case! That's how I found the Carver CD player a few months ago. Thanks for watching!
I live in East Cobb and work in Sandy Springs Georgia. I have a work route and a home route of thrift stores that circulate through weekly. Id say over all the pickings are good. A massive collection will come in and ill pick through it. Then the same collection will remain for like three weeks. Itll dwindle down to a small number and I'll get frustrated as i watch the pile shrink. Then I'll come in and boom! Another huge pile.
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
i have a behringer FBQ1502HD, can it be connected to an audio technica turntable (not the bluetooth model)?
Australian collector here, located at least half a dozen titles in last 6 months worth anywhere from 100 - 600 dollars each. They are still out there, you just need to know what you are looking for.
Awesome! That's what I love to hear! Thanks for sharing!
Buy that Sony CDP-CE375! I've had that thing playing in my shop non-stop for 8 years - and I got it second hand.
I see 30 seconds later that you did get it...
You have to be there when the CDs are being put out. That is unless some employee buys the stock for themselves or holds them for a preferred customer. Same with audio equipment.
I want so badly to make a TH-cam channel just like yours, not as much analog equipment content but the CD hunting, I love it! We are entering harder times, I go to my local thrift store every day they open at opening, and we are entering harder times, but whatever, this hobby wouldn’t be as fun if you could look left and look right wherever you are and find first issues if 90s grunge
You should start a channel! It's A LOT of work but also a lot of fun. Happy thrifting!
I personally love digging through 500 scratched copies of "Best of Mozart volume 17" (with no disc 1-16 to be found) and Some Frank Sinatra-wanna-be's christmas album
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I found about 100 1960s Jazz CDs at a thrift store. I've sold about half of them so far. $75 invested, $600 in sales. Vinyl is still KING but had to find good ones and condition is everything. Those Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis finds are good ones.
That's a great haul and profit! Congrats! Thanks for watching and sharing!
sometimes I've come in and found a collector's collection on the shelf so will get 10 or 15 titles at one stop. But the next person that looks I've picked the good stuff. Sure that happens to every collection that comes in. I collect movie soundtracks so those collections are the ones I get excited about
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Try asking if they have CDs in the back.
A lot of places their CDs never sold. They stowed them in the back and used the shelf space for other things.
From Italy here. Cds have basically disappeared fron thrift stores, very few left and just junk left that never sells. The days of metal/classic rock/punk (which are still in great demand) cds at affordable prices have disappeared . Second-hand record stores still have a lot but they have doubled or sometimes even tripled the prices (just seen a copy of Ozzy Osbourne's last album for 15 euro....crazy considering that you can buy it new for 18....). I've seen that as soon as something by Metallica, Maiden, Depeche Mode, Ramones, Radiohead, Kiss etc hit the shelves, it gets sold in a wink of an eye unlike general pop stuff which seems to stay there forever to gather dust .
It definitely depends. I'm from New Zealand, and thrift stores sometimes have good scores, but mostly not. Today I got a best of Nick Drake CD, plus a Melvins live CD for $2 each, so it was a good day 👍
Love the Melvins (Nick Drake too!)
Good video! Especially liked the Queens of the Stone Age-esque CD search back ground music!
Thank you! I saw QOTSA in the early 2000s and they put on a great show!
This reflects my experience too. It's a great time to be hunting for classical bargains, not just your Vivaldis and your Mozarts, but also some early music, even some nice romantic and out-there 20th century works. I got a lovely renaissance recorder ensemble thing a while back, which is very soothing.
I would have nabbed those jazz discs too, although I have the Miles one already. Basia is always worth picking up, so you might have missed a trick, but again, I already have a complete collection of her work, including the new deluxe editions.
There are some odd gems still to be had among all the religious music, the "Some Old Fart Whose Career Had Long Past Peaked When He Recorded This, Greatest Hits - Live! vol. 2" shovelware etc. and if anything, the dopamine hit is bigger because of the rarity of the better items Some nice 30s & 40s swing is still quite often showing up, typically compilations. Everyone should own at least one Boswell Sisters disc. You can thank me later.
Here in Denmark I'm still getting very lucky going to the recycle centres, where everything is GRATIS. Of course it's always a lottery, but the other day I gleaned a nice CD facsimile of the white album with the number printed on the cover, and *all the inlays* for zero kroner (that's approximately zero bucks) - not bad. I already had the jewelbox version, but that was a nice find, and plays without a hitch.
Awesome, thanks for sharing and watching!
Found a Metallica CD while doing my huntin' for VHS that will never die! LOL I have 33 VCRs and going on 4000 tapes. CDs in my experience it is rare to find some really good ones. There is always classical music on CD LOL Same goes with 8 Tracks, but I did manage to find a Pink Floyd the Wall last year thrifting, it is like a slot machine if you play it enough something will pop out LOL
Awesome - happy thrifting for VHS!
You said all the CDs in the clear bags were 99c, but one was clearly 50 cents
Great catch, thank you!
It's like records, people are just grabbing anything and everything good either to keep, trade or resell. If you're not the first to get it, forget it.
Yeah that’s the thrifting game in general I’m just bummed at times how little there is to even look through. Thanks for watching!
i've been collecting since 2020 (originally because of the Y2K trend, but now because i've gotten used to it!) and i find that chain thrift stores in more populated areas seem to be really good places!! i work for one of them and over half of my collection is from that one store alone, we seem to get in a insane amount of music i like! obviously what i see as good won't be the same as you, but i think it's long from being hard to find, you just gotta look in the right places!! :D
Thanks for watching and sharing!
yea most of the cds are from the stone age but sometimes i need the jewell case so i by them for the cases and use the cd as a flying ufo
I've been on the search for a simple decent CD player with a digital out for so long now, and you find two in during this quest! I'm currently using a $12 dvd changer by Sony for my player. Went thrifting for audio stuff the last two days, I picked up a VG copy of Huey Lewis & The News Sports on vinyl (original pressing), Santana Shaman, AC/DC Back in Black, and Lords of Acid Lust all on CD for $3/ea.
Great pickups! It's been awhile since I found any CD players so just keep looking. Thanks for watching!
I went to a Goodwill clearance outlet recently and found a goldmine of one dollar 90s metal CDs including Korn, Type O Negative, Static-X, Fear Factory and such. They were very scuffed up and in terrible condition, but I was able to sell them (about 20 CDs) in a lot for about $40-$50. I think people will look past condition if the title is very rare and highly desired/popular. Same thing I noticed with vintage LPs. There should be no reason why a scratched up, beater copy of Static-X's Wisconsin Death Trip sells for 20-30 dollars, but here we are.
Awesome, that's a great find!
Cd's are still pretty plentiful in the thrift stores I've gone into. However, I find it's so much easier to go through records and even cassettes than try to look at the tiny writing on the CD's. I get bored pretty quickly scanning over them.
One of my local Goodwill stores in the greater Toronto area is so hopeless for music or movies that I only visit it once a year if that because it just isn't worth regular visits even though it's well laid out for clothes and other items, but its selections of records, CDs, movies, and electronics consistently fall short.
It's the Goodwill that happy hunting forgot. ;)
Thanks for watching and sharing, I’m sorry to hear about your local store.
I haven't seen any thrift stores selling stand alone CDs like that, but I'd be checking that out all the time. $0.99 is a great deal for CDs that I only want to rip the tracks off of and don't need in my collection.
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I buy in lots on ebay. I've paid as low as 30 cents a piece when purchased in a lot of 100. Not all great CDs, but still a good number of good ones.
I've had some bad experiences where the discs are scratched more than the listing suggested lol but I can see this is a good strategy as well!
did the sony cd player actually play cds without skipping? I ask this as any time I have bought a sony cd player... it has skipped... suspecting the laser is pooched. As for the cd selection... it is basically the same at the thrifts around where I live. the 'good' ones just don't seem to exist anymore.
So far it hasn’t skipped. But I’m probably gonna replace the belts
I enjoyed this vid. Where I live in New Zealand cds in charity shops are getting more and more hard to find. It's a matter of luck. It's always a bit disappointing to do the rounds of shops and not finding anything. I'm 73 and I've got thousands or CDs so I wonder where they're going to end up when I go to that Great Gig in the Sky . hopefully not the city dump
i think i said it before but i'm pretty glad c.d.s are coming back into vogue, while that means it's getting harder to pick out cool older stuff yeah, it also means that more labels are going to put energy into releasing music on c.d. like with the little tape boom we've seen recently. also, if the stuff you're into isn't popular enough to warrant cherry-picking, the field is ripe for picking: i've gotten so many good sophistipop c.d.s at bargains because it's so out of vogue now.
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One time I walked into savers and they had just stocked hundreds of sealed old school hip hop CDs,I probably made at least 1500 in profit and only spent 90.In my pile that I picked I had 6 copies of krazie bones thug mentality CD those alone I made 500 🤯.Worker at savers said he thinks it came from a store that went out of business.
Great finds!
I still see cds but it’s all run of the mill stuff. Reba macentire, some rap, Christina Aguilera type stuff. I have found some interesting things at used record stores and tag sales. I even take them if they are loose in a basket with no cover. Sometimes they are in great shape. But I still have a lot of cds from when there was new music stores. I never got rid of them. Unless they were ‘what was I thinking’ ones😂 I recently bought an alarm clock radio with cd player. $7 it works sounds good. I’m enjoying not being digital
The GWs in my county don't even sell a majority of all types of media. They dont even do discount days. Last year they stopped selling books. Then, the most recent months, all music media. Now I'm sure the ending of film media isn't too far off. I used to find some great stuff to flip. More importantly, I'd find more for my collection. It really sucks as they had been selling all media for a whole wopping quarter. Outside my area, 2.99-4.99 for junk. The rest of the store at the one I used to mainly frequent looks like a trash dump. The prices are crazy high, which is why it turned into a dump. No one's buying at their prices. But, if you find the jewel in the dump, it's worth the hunt.
The other thrift that I frequently go to in town is at least still carrying CDs and Vinyl. You mentioned the jewel you found and flipped for 60 bucks. I had that happen one day at this store. Only about 10 records, and the 1 I find is something I looked up on discogs simply because the old cellophane was still on it. Paid a buck, and it sold it for 50 before I even got home.
Oh yeah! That black boombox is a plant holder that was sold at Target a few years back. I actually have 1 with a succulent in it.
Great video!
Thanks for watching and sharing!
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I saw AMY GRANT and JARS OF CLAY,cds PRAISE YESHUA i saw these two artists in concert
i wouldnt go shouting about this