Good records at thrift stores?

My thrift stores around here (Goodwill, Value Village, Salvation Army) never have any good tapes, records or CD's. I've bought a few here and there but it's always 98% of the time junk. If I do find something I'm interested it it's generally scratched. Never really find any proper rock or garage lp's. Are your local thrifts good at all??

I find good ones all the time at thrift stores, you have to go regularly to hit the sweet finds.

The good ones go fast with guys like me out there .

i've only ever found one good one:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/hekawi/BeachBoysPartyalbumcover.jpg

it's the album with "Barbara Ann" on it. very good condition, and still had the photo sheets that were included in the original package. got it for $1 and gave it to a co-worker who is a big Beach Boys fan

My thrift stores around here (Goodwill, Value Village, Salvation Army) never have any good tapes, records or CD's. I've bought a few here and there but it's always 98% of the time junk. If I do find something I'm interested it it's generally scratched. Never really find any proper rock or garage lp's. Are your local thrifts good at all??

Depends on what you consider good! But I agree, 9 out of 10 times when I find something amazing that I've been wanting...I pull it from the sleeve..and see horrible scratches, and I put it back, never fails.

I find a lot of stuff, but I collect pretty weird LPs.

I collect:

The Ventures;
ANY Bluegrass;
Hawaiian albums (Actually Find a LOT of these);
Harmonica albums (The Harmonicats, Larry Adler, Jerry Murhad etc)
(I would love to find this one!
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/d81710249b52dd5893c1f90b145b05e2/646624.jpg
just for the cover!)

Any Tiki themed or Exotica (Martin Denny, etc)
Chet Atkins;
SOME old Country (I have a lot of Country on CD etc, so I tend to only buy old stuff that's not available otherwise)
SOME Western;
(Gene Autry, Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rodgers)

Soooo...one mans' trash is another mans treasure..