Walking into a Used LP Store, Knowing You're Going to Find a Certain LP

[Teasing the Korean]

Has this happened to you?  It happened to me at least twice, in two different cities, a few years before the pandemic.

1.  Dusty Groove (Chicago) - I walked in, and I had a feeling that I would find Paul Horn's Cleopatra album on Columbia.  I go to the Paul Horn section, and...it's not there.  I continue browsing through the store, and at the very end, I look through the new arrivals, and lo and behold, there is a pristine mono copy of Cleopatra.

2.  Philadelphia Record Exchange - I walked in, and was sure that I would find a copy of Erroll Garner's Other Voices. The Erroll Garner section was particularly fat, and I had several copies to choose from.  I grabbed the mono 6-eye original.  

The funny thing about both of these situations was that I was not specifically looking for either of these LPs.

[HutchFan]

Nope.  I've never had any sort of premonition like that.

 

Edited June 28, 2024 by HutchFan

[soulpope]

Whenever I entered Red Octopus Records @ Wien (several times a week during the eighties) I found items I wasn't looking for .... beneath others 😇🤓 .... and I had for the most part not enough money with me, so my debt list kept getting longer ....

[Chuck Nessa]

U B special.

[Big Beat Steve]

I distinctly remember I've had such premonitions, though I for the most part cannot recall which ones they exactly were about. However, as far as I recall these "hunches" were not so much about records that I wasn't particularly looking for but rather about records that I had been looking for either for quite a while or for special reasons and somehow felt "the time is rife for a copy to pop up". And sho'nuff, that's what happened.

About the only occasion like that where I do remember the details (this occurred last December) was the Lionel Hampton sessions with Mezz Mezzrow of November 1953. One day I read a review of a 12" LP featuring all the tracks from that session, and upon checking my shelves I found I "only" had a 50s original 10" with part of the tracks, and started wondering "How come the others escaped me through the decades?"
And then, a couple of days later somehow a distinct feeling grabbed me that "the next time I'll stop by my #1 local record shop I'll find a copy there".  For no particular reason because I had not checked the Hampton bins for ages. And indeed - there were two copies of a 70s Barclay reissue twofer that included ALL the music - both in great condition and nicely priced - one priced even nicer than the other so that's the one i took home.

[Pim]

It’s mostly the other way around. I’m hoping to find a certain record but I’m not finding it. Worst experience was Berlin where I visited 10 record stores with a 60 item wishlist and didn’t find a single one of them…. Well I found one which after all appeared to be a bootleg version. 
 

my last visit to de mega lp cd fair in Den Bosch was more successful. With a more humble wishlist of 30 items I managed to find 9 of the items on it. 

[clifford_thornton]

25 or so years ago when I started getting interested in the Pentangle, I had gone to the WFMU record fair and a perfect Canadian stereo of their debut album, which I'd heard and loved, was staring me in the face at the first table, first record. Definitely was hoping to pick up their records at the fair. Of course now I know they are a dime a dozen.

A buddy of mine around the same time or a few years earlier apparently woke up one day thinking "it would be cool if I found the Ric Colbeck in a store" and walked into a shop and found one for like $6.

 

Edited July 10, 2024 by clifford_thornton

[Teasing the Korean]

20 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

25 or so years ago when I started getting interested in the Pentangle, I had gone to the WFMU record fair and a perfect Canadian stereo of their debut album, which I'd heard and loved, was staring me in the face at the first table, first record. Definitely was hoping to pick up their records at the fair. Of course now I know they are a dime a dozen.

A buddy of mine around the same time or a few years earlier apparently woke up one day thinking "it would be cool if I found the Ric Colbeck in a store" and walked into a shop and found one for like $6.

😱😱😱

[JSngry]

I try not to have expectations for any one item for fear that it might block the presence of something being there that I never knew about!