Little High People Posted November 8, 2003 Report Posted November 8, 2003 the sam goody nearest me is going out of business. i went in there today and found a couple of (i think, anyway) incredible deals. i picked up "the complete stax/volt singles 1959-1968" (9 cds + book) for ... wait for it ... $3.81!!! picked up 2 copies, one for me, one for a friend! plus, for the same price i picked up miles' "complete silent way sessions" (for a friend for xmas), AND a sony 3 pak of johnny cash albums ("san quentin," "folsom prison," "america") for myself. not a bad day, methinks! Quote
BFrank Posted November 8, 2003 Report Posted November 8, 2003 (edited) WHOA!! Edited November 8, 2003 by BFrank Quote
Big Wheel Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 I've picked up some deals when the local HMV went out of business but nothing even close to that. Why wouldn't they just send the leftover stock to other Sam Goody stores? Quote
AfricaBrass Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 Rooster_Ties said: What Rooster said! WOW!!! I scored some deals earlier this year when the Wherehouse stores were closing. When the prices got up to 90% off, I went nuts. I spent way more than I should have. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 Big deal. Hmmmph. I am not jealous. Am not. Hmmph. Goldurn little high people. Grumblemumble... (Cool deal! ) Quote
Jazzmoose Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 AfricaBrass said: I scored some deals earlier this year when the Wherehouse stores were closing. When the prices got up to 90% off, I went nuts. I spent way more than I should have. Shoot, I waited for 90% off went in...all I found was a Bobby Hackett CD for 50 cents... Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 Yeah, I went in to the Wherehouse closest to me when they were down to 40%-70% off. Nothin' but crap to be found. I even looked through all their Rock/Pop CD's - and it was like they had already cleaned out the whole place of anything of any real value, and (presumably) shipped it off to some other store that wasn't closing -- or else they sold all that stuff (in bulk) to some other chain. I did see a handful of decent jazz titles (perhaps 5 CD's out of the 150-200 jazz discs they had there), but they were all discs I already had, but didn't love enough to snap them up at about $5-$6 a disc (for give away or trade away). I think I bought one disc, a Dave Douglas if I remember right - and that was it. Quote
JSngry Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 Little High People said: i picked up "the complete stax/volt singles 1959-1968" (9 cds + book) for ... wait for it ... $3.81!!! picked up 2 copies, one for me, one for a friend! Can I be your friend? Quote
Little High People Posted November 9, 2003 Author Report Posted November 9, 2003 i really don't get it myself ... those items i bought were already down to $5.99 and i got a 20% discount. everything was 20-40% off. the guy said they would be closed by december. i am going out of the country for a week next week, am back in the u.s. the following week and then gone again 11/23 - 1/11. i might miss out on some good stuff when it gets cheaper, but maybe not. the only other things that caught my eye were some of the new dylan reissues at the rediculously high price of $19.99, albiet 20% off ... if some of them would just be around (and if i would just be around) when it gets to 80-90% off .... oh, well, can't complain i guess! Quote
Brad Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 Man, you could only do better thatn if I they gave the stuff away, which is what they basically did. Quote
Tjazz Posted November 9, 2003 Report Posted November 9, 2003 Brad said: Man, you could only do better thatn if I they gave the stuff away, which is what they basically did. Yeah, they could take their inventory to a 'used' record store. Quote
BruceH Posted November 10, 2003 Report Posted November 10, 2003 NICE! I was just listening to some Stax-Volt recordings this morning. Great stuff. Quote
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