We all have our favourite charity shops... And those we avoid, each for different reasons once you get to know them...
... Strange how some are better than others for different things!
Oxfam is actually quite good for CDs and CD singles I find, albeit the upper end of what if like to pay... Give be an old fashioned junk style shop over those trying to present themselves as retail chain shops any day!
.... Piles of nonsense all over the place, in no particular order, makes you feel there might be treasures to dig for :)
I absolutely hate the recent trend for face-on CD racks... Much prefer either a spine-on bookshelf style arrangement, or just a box or three to dive head first into.
This came from an independent, local charity shop, and just such a box tucked under a table with sewing material draped over it.... Tons of newspaper DVDs and CDs, in which I found thisa Leonard Cohen CD single, two Jamiroquai promos, and a clutch if three inch gatefold CDs... Bonanza!
Only the crap and the broken go on the shelf. They grab all that Is remotely any good. I saw It myself just the other day In the local Oxfam. A guy came In and donated a large box full of singles. The whole of the staff disappeared Into the stock room with shouts, of, Any Beatles are mine and the Such. I'll go In Tomorrow, and You can bet, the crap that's left, will be on the shelf, and all be over priced by a mile. We used to get loads of those Card Disc's a local radio station would bring In all the Unused Demo's. But since It changed hands there's been None, but I bet there still bring them In. H.
The disc is supposed to look that colour, even though it's a PDO made one...
...underside is silver as usual.
>Interesting thought regarding card sleeve singles (And card sleeve promos) - I frequently check laboriously through those boxes of newspaper giveaway discs, that seem to be almost everywhere, and nobody wants...
... And that is where these commercial release card sleeve singles and promos are often to be found... as charity shops tend not to know the difference (understandable), but I know they also often come to the point of throwing them away in the rubbish...
...So it makes wonder if card sleeve CD singles and the like may be becoming increasingly rare, by virtue of being confused with those, and disposed of in like manner.
So card sleeve-rs may be being lost at a rate disproportionate to normal case issues, which simply get put on the shelves with standard CDs (not thrown out)
... So perhaps a little plea to charity shops to check through card sleeve discs before throwing them away.. there may be treasures in there us sad crate and box diggers want. Thanks :)