+EposVox Goodwill used to be a variety of items but when the main clothing stores started melting down the second hand shops and consignment shops gained crazy value out of clothing sales. Now most goodwills are just a glorified TJ Max (do you have TJ Max?).
Your thrift stores look like a gold mine compared to stuff we have here. I've sometimes ran into used merchandise that was higher price than new on the internet.
+Scarfulhu Sure! But, imagine somebody visiting the UK and asking for the directions to the best "thrift store" in town. That would be confusing! Now they know that they should ask for directions to a "charity shop". Live, learn, and share :)
+Scarfulhu I've got a couple of poor condition big-box games, but that's about it. Charity shops don't really sell that sort of stuff here for whatever reason :/
8:10 I totally know what you mean about the old local records. I see a ton of them around here and I find them kinda depressing. So much hope, so many crushed dreams.
I *KNEW* that beach at the beginning looked familiar... I used to live near Myrtle Beach until 2006. Back when I lived there I did saw some cool stuff at a nearby Salvation Army, like a copy of Windows 98 SE and a bunch of Rugrats tapes (hey, I was 6), but it's cool that you went to Myrtle Beach.
Hey LGR, i was wondering and hey i live in NC as well and i really wanna go to your favorite good will but i dont know where it is, im a fan of old stuff and junk and that place seems good
Something I found online about The Lamplighters" “This is the second album featuring Dr. Jeanne Mosier and THE LAMPLIGHTERS of Helena, Ohio. The Lamplighters, an evangelical team, are well known throughout the Midwest, where they minister to many denominations in music, magic and the sacred word. The duo consists of Rev. Jeanne Mosier, Th B., D.D, who has been in the ministry for 25 years, and Rev. Beverly J. Hall, pianist in the team. The cover picture is the actual old country church in which Dr. Mosier grew up, and where her mother still teaches Sunday School and is on the Church Board. People, wherever The Lamplighters have ministered, have often heard about that particular country church where she met the Lord; thus, we feature it on this, our second album. The three choruses were composed by Dr. Jeanne Mosier through the years. “I Only Need Jesus” was composed in the spring of 1969 while in revival in Springfield, Illinois. Both of The Lamplighters are featured in their testimony song, Dr. Jeanne Mosier singing, “It’s My Desire” and the Rev. Hall at the console of the organ playing, “There Is A Fountain.” A special heartfelt thnaks goes to the following who is so ably assisted in the production of the album: LARRY LEE NEWMAN is an extrordinary 17 year old pianist/organist. Larry is a recent high school graduate and a member of MAGNA CUM LAUDE. He took lessons from Rev. Beverly Hall for 9 years and then furthered his musical education at Heidelberg University and Findlay College. MAJOR WILLIAM LARNED, who has spent 29 years in service as a Salvation Army Officer, plays the bass viol. CAPTAIN Norma DeGraff, Salvation Army Officer and long-time friend of Rev. Mosier, assisted in direction. CAPTAIN and MRS. WILLIAM KROPP and the YOUTH CHOIR from Springfield, Illinois, provided background music, LARRY NEWMAN collaborated on the arrangements.”
Wow! that Concert from Titan album art is incredible! you should post a high quality picture or scan of that art so the internet can benefit from that retro sci fi glory.
Totally do. In fact, I know one or two of them personally! It becomes a bit of a game in and of itself to try and get to the good stuff before they do :)
In my area, entire clans of individuals pour out of minivans armed with garbage bags. They stuff as much into the bags, without even looking at what they are grabbing. They buy it, and within 2 days, all the good stuff ends up at the local flea market with a 200 percent markup.
Endurance, your endurance is why you are so successful at making these videos, I would be so tired after that record store at the beach there's no way I'd go to another store. Not only do you love what you do but you have an endless energy for doing it
A lot of the thrift shops (they're called "op-shops" here) are routinely rejecting electronics because they usually just have to dispose of it at their expense and the staff aren't knowledgable enough to know what's useful to a collector and what's junk.
Kilgor Trout was a character from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, 'Welcome to the monkey house'. He was some kind of casa nova, a kind of 60s/70s sexual revolution, a geek icon! Love Kurt Vonnegut.
I wonder if there is a reason for the Goodwills in Clint's area to be better for games and such than most seem to be. Maybe there's a nexus of geeky mojo running through his town, and his house is at the centre of it :D
Less "cool"/"fun" things to do outside, so more home entertainment, maybe? SF area where I live supposedly has really good shops/things to do, but I'd still rather stay inside cuz I'm a homebody! lol
I just binge watched all 24 episodes of this series last night/this morning. I love this series! And like you, I've not had much luck thrifting at the beach. Good luck with the move.
Those Goodwills are much like the ones where I live... nothing but early 2000's VHS players or DVD players, the odd iHome clock dock thing or shitty speakers.
Great record finds. It's always awesome to find a 90s or 00s record at a thrift store, anything produced beyond the era when vinyl was considered to have died out for the most part, and made way for CDs. Especially at thrift store prices, since a lot of 90s LPs are very valuable (depending on how popular the band is).
Same in my area on the east coast, the Goodwills are terrible, most of the older stuff seems to be thrown away or auctioned off online. The surviving independent thrifts still have gems from time to time. Find the most at flea markets though.
Nowadays you can get pretty much anything you want via internet,but still can't beat the good ol' window shopping with is much more fun and exciting than buying the content itself.
Glad to see you appreciate the selection in your home area. Before I moved the Goodwills near me were almost as bad as those ones a the beach. Electronics was usually a shelf or two with a couple printers and ps/2 keyboards, one bin of CDs and maybe a pc or console game in the one row of DVDs by the video tapes shelf or glass case.
Those first few Goodwill stores are representative of the content of charity shops here in the UK. The differences are that they are never that big and most of them aren’t licensed to sell electronics at all (other than the occasional battery-powered device, like a clock or a kid’s toy).
+Redhotsmasher Maybe it’s not licensing. The charity shop that I volunteer at sends all of its electricals to another, larger store elsewhere; maybe it’s just that they all have to be tested first and our shop doesn’t have enough space to be able do that. Anecdote: Our shop got a retro console donated at one point and, as a volunteer, I was able to intercept it and ask if I could buy it off of them instead of them sending it off. They agreed but insisted that I had to remove the power supply first. So I removed the power supply from the box… and placed it in my knapsack. I brought the console up to the till and checked out, telling them - _in honesty_ - that I had, indeed, removed the power supply from the box!
have you ever gone to a savers? The one near me has things like 1440 by 900 monitors and core 2 duo computers for like $7, plus 8 tracks, casettes, cds, games, and records for 0.69 each
3:43 i love that album,and that is the original mono pressing,and it is nice,and i wanted the vinyl but stereo pressing,and you inspired me to see the movie blue hawaii because of that! Thanks for inspiring me! Your vids and sometimes everyone else's vids can be inspiring.
I'm going thrifting in the big city soon, this tides me over, because our thrift shops look a lot like the ones by the beach, clothes and nothing much else. love these videos sir.
HAHA!!! That alarm clock is the alarm clock that I have next to my bed! And I always envy you whenever you go out thrifting because ever single thrift store and Goodwill within driving range from me is exactly like those thrift stores in the beginning of your videos. You can be lucky if you find a toaster or coffee machine in the electronics area in the Goodwills in my area. I think they assume that only elderly shop at the Goodwill in my area and cater to that crowd so they only carry clothes and stuff that elderly would buy. This means no board games or X-Boxes or anything.
Around here we only have two salvation army's and a value village. They always look like that, tons and tons of clothes with nothing else. Still go every week to look. Picked up a neat technics 110 disc changer and a technics amp for about $35 not long ago. Ended up finishing the set from a kijiji buy.
Actually lucked out and found some old games at our thrift store a couple days ago, as opposed to the endless fields of dirty and used clothes. Never forget how awesome your thrift stores are, Clint, because most Goodwills tend to suck. At least on the West Coast.
Hey at least those Goodwills have clothes. The one i always went to before i moved literally looked like one of those dirty clothes bags people take with them on trips threw up all over the inside. Never found a single good thing there. Only moldy clothes and decaying childrens toys...
I had a very similar experience this week. while on vacation went to several thrift shops and didn't find anything. but did find a game store with some very good prices.
Love this series, glad it's back. The Goodwils looked like most Goodwills around us, makes finding games tough. The Wizard of Oz game is crazy addictive...too addictive for any coin pusher...you just keep getting cards and then you're broke
In a couple months or so (maybe less) there will be a Goodwill opening near me. There are a lot of Goodwills in towns fairly close-ish to me so hopefully they'll stock it with some interesting stuff from those stores. I just hope it doesn't end up being as crappy as the local Salvation Army. The most interesting thing there is the book section.
It's not like I ever expect to see that much difference between Canada and the U.S. But it's amazing how identical the Goodwills you go to look to the Value Villages here in Canada (Savers chain in the U.S.).
Unfortunately all the Goodwills in our area are like that. Myrtle always seems to have nothing but clothes in almost all the thrift shops. Welcome to my life!
i found a complete set of Math Storm in this old shed behind my house, and an old keyboard. The shed's been there since before we've gotten there, and kinda glad i looked in it
Hey LGR... first off, Hours.. Is one of my favorites. Also there's so much history behind the album. It was one of, if not, the first album you can buy on the internet back when it came out. Just knowing that is so cool. I love and miss Bowie.
The first two Goodwill's you visited are how all the thrift stores in my area look. Tons of clothes, some books, and tons of useless junk. Normally no video games at all.
A goods Spartus alarm clock does not have that dim of a display. I found mine at a local thrift store as well and it's awesome, although the alarms a bit quiet.
Salivating over the amount of cassettes you saw :p It's a real shame that most people look at them as garbage, around here all I ever see is older country, classical and other assorted generes your grandmother might like.
+JamesCo elsPardon A lot of newer black metal releases still have a cassette version, so if you want a genre that really appreciates them, check that out. It's usually the depressive and raw kinds that really like it, though. Used to collect cassettes and gave up because the most rock I could find was some 70's hard rock I had no interest in at the time. I have some The Cure, Screaming Trees, and David Bowie. And a Gregorian Chants tape that I found very annoying and not creepy enough.
I only really have one goodwill I go to, and it looks EXACTLY like the ones you saw. When you do find something good you need to open it because chances are the disc is missing. They started moving ALL console games to glass cases because of this, but it's mostly crap sports. Two of those pictures were mine (The one with Starwars Chess, and the one with the TI83 calculator.) First one I lucked out at Goodwill. The second is well over an hour worth of work, my boyfriend and I combined, digging in bins and scanning hundreds of CD cases at a local Salvation Army. There are 3 SA stores we know of, and each has completely differant prices on everything (One software is $5 each, another it's $2) We seriously never see anything as cool as you find, although Yard Sale/flea market season is around the corner. My last find was Ocarina of Time (N64) for $3 for just the cartridge. We'd love to find boxed stuff, and pick it up when we can, but we have EXTREMELY limited space so we can and do pick up some software that is loose or in a paper sleeves. In a perfect world we'd love having older machines to play these on as well, but for now we use virtual machines on our everyday win8 computers. Oddly, the games we go have complete in box are all on floppies - 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch...and we have NO floppy drives >.
Yep, this is basically the Australian thrift shop experience (Called Op Shops, short for Opportunity Shops because Australians can't help but shorten everything). Almost anything of even slight value ends up at Cash Converters which is just a retail pawn shop chain, op shops just get left with the dregs nobody wants.
Yes, the useless crap sections are not only the same, but even bigger in a few cases. You've got to love Pennsylvania Dutch Country for that reason alone. It's an endearing quality, I have to admit.
Not sure if anyone commented on this already, but I noticed in this episode and another you mentioned wondering about how media from Europe ends up at Goodwill, etc. Being I am retired military, my guess would be from US military who were stationed over there. I bought a lot of software locally myself when I was stationed in Greece as it was pre e-commerce back then.
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LGR's first experience in actual American Goodwill stores, not the fairy happy Goodwill land where he lives.
Marie Carie ikr the Atlanta suburbs Goodwills abselutely suck compared to his amazing stores he is very lucky to live where he does
R5E those Goodwills look like mine in Atlanta
@@coolizmc well his videos are months apart
Canadian thrift stores are EVEN worse. Too much clothes and technology that dosent work, and they rarely give you outlets to test them.
this is the most accurate comment i’ve ever read
Yes! You traveled to someone else's Goodwill to see how much we suffer compared to you!
+EposVox I found you! :P
;D
+EposVox Goodwill used to be a variety of items but when the main clothing stores started melting down the second hand shops and consignment shops gained crazy value out of clothing sales.
Now most goodwills are just a glorified TJ Max (do you have TJ Max?).
Oda Swifteye Yeah I have a TJMax.
Kilgor Trouts is probably why all the local Goodwills had abysmal media /electronic sections. 😆
Your thrift stores look like a gold mine compared to stuff we have here. I've sometimes ran into used merchandise that was higher price than new on the internet.
This is what most of the Goodwills in my areas look like. I have to go to Pawn Shops to find games and other stuff of interest.
"Anything looks interesting a-after I-I-I pfffft" -LGR, 2016
This was a great episode.
That should be Ashens' new couch.
+James King I agree with the sentiment therein expressed.
Shipping costs would be almost as nightmarish as the upholstery, though.
Most thrift stores in the UK are like those Goodwills. :(
+Scarfulhu but they are known as "charity shops" in the UK
krisoko Yeah, but I think most fans of this channel are American. This way everyone understands what I'm saying with no confusion.
+Scarfulhu Sure! But, imagine somebody visiting the UK and asking for the directions to the best "thrift store" in town. That would be confusing! Now they know that they should ask for directions to a "charity shop". Live, learn, and share :)
krisoko Fair point - maybe 'thrift store/charity shop' is the best way forward?
+Scarfulhu I've got a couple of poor condition big-box games, but that's about it. Charity shops don't really sell that sort of stuff here for whatever reason :/
8:10
I totally know what you mean about the old local records. I see a ton of them around here and I find them kinda depressing. So much hope, so many crushed dreams.
Jerry Maguire:
8:31 (bottom right)
8:38
Welcome to the bulk of my thrifting experiences.
The Record store in this video is Kilgor Trouts Music & More in Myrtle Beach, SC
Yes! Great store, I'm glad so many people recommended I check it out.
I would like to edit a clip to put on our FB page, is that OK?
Go right ahead :)
I *KNEW* that beach at the beginning looked familiar... I used to live near Myrtle Beach until 2006. Back when I lived there I did saw some cool stuff at a nearby Salvation Army, like a copy of Windows 98 SE and a bunch of Rugrats tapes (hey, I was 6), but it's cool that you went to Myrtle Beach.
Hey LGR, i was wondering and hey i live in NC as well and i really wanna go to your favorite good will but i dont know where it is, im a fan of old stuff and junk and that place seems good
Something I found online about The Lamplighters"
“This is the second album featuring Dr. Jeanne Mosier and THE LAMPLIGHTERS of Helena, Ohio. The Lamplighters, an evangelical team, are well known throughout the Midwest, where they minister to many denominations in music, magic and the sacred word.
The duo consists of Rev. Jeanne Mosier, Th B., D.D, who has been in the ministry for 25 years, and Rev. Beverly J. Hall, pianist in the team.
The cover picture is the actual old country church in which Dr. Mosier grew up, and where her mother still teaches Sunday School and is on the Church Board. People, wherever The Lamplighters have ministered, have often heard about that particular country church where she met the Lord; thus, we feature it on this, our second album.
The three choruses were composed by Dr. Jeanne Mosier through the years. “I Only Need Jesus” was composed in the spring of 1969 while in revival in Springfield, Illinois.
Both of The Lamplighters are featured in their testimony song, Dr. Jeanne Mosier singing, “It’s My Desire” and the Rev. Hall at the console of the organ playing, “There Is A Fountain.”
A special heartfelt thnaks goes to the following who is so ably assisted in the production of the album: LARRY LEE NEWMAN is an extrordinary 17 year old pianist/organist. Larry is a recent high school graduate and a member of MAGNA CUM LAUDE. He took lessons from Rev. Beverly Hall for 9 years and then furthered his musical education at Heidelberg University and Findlay College. MAJOR WILLIAM LARNED, who has spent 29 years in service as a Salvation Army Officer, plays the bass viol. CAPTAIN Norma DeGraff, Salvation Army Officer and long-time friend of Rev. Mosier, assisted in direction. CAPTAIN and MRS. WILLIAM KROPP and the YOUTH CHOIR from Springfield, Illinois, provided background music, LARRY NEWMAN collaborated on the arrangements.”
BTW, it's still fun to see you thrift even if you don't find much :)
Glad to hear it!
:)
Wow! that Concert from Titan album art is incredible! you should post a high quality picture or scan of that art so the internet can benefit from that retro sci fi glory.
Out of curiosity, do you ever see scalpers trawling through these stores, or do the stores have an idea the actual value of the rarer stuff?
Totally do. In fact, I know one or two of them personally! It becomes a bit of a game in and of itself to try and get to the good stuff before they do :)
In my area, entire clans of individuals pour out of minivans armed with garbage bags. They stuff as much into the bags, without even looking at what they are grabbing. They buy it, and within 2 days, all the good stuff ends up at the local flea market with a 200 percent markup.
Tax Scam records are definitely one of those fascinating historical curiosities. I could get into collecting those.
Endurance, your endurance is why you are so successful at making these videos, I would be so tired after that record store at the beach there's no way I'd go to another store. Not only do you love what you do but you have an endless energy for doing it
Still loving the thrift series. Keep them coming.
A lot of the thrift shops (they're called "op-shops" here) are routinely rejecting electronics because they usually just have to dispose of it at their expense and the staff aren't knowledgable enough to know what's useful to a collector and what's junk.
"I've never seen so little in a Goodwill this large!" You need to come out here to Kansas. You think that goodwill was sad, you should see ours.
Kilgor Trout was a character from a Kurt Vonnegut short story, 'Welcome to the monkey house'. He was some kind of casa nova, a kind of 60s/70s sexual revolution, a geek icon! Love Kurt Vonnegut.
I wonder if there is a reason for the Goodwills in Clint's area to be better for games and such than most seem to be. Maybe there's a nexus of geeky mojo running through his town, and his house is at the centre of it :D
Less "cool"/"fun" things to do outside, so more home entertainment, maybe? SF area where I live supposedly has really good shops/things to do, but I'd still rather stay inside cuz I'm a homebody! lol
rich neighbourhoods
Those Goodwills just all look like the ones we have here in GA, a lot of depression.
I found my Amstrad PPC 640 and my HP95 lx at a Ga Goodwill.
I have that Jean Michael Jarre album too. Such cool electronic music!
Aw yeah, it's super solid.
+MetalJesusRocks Been watching your videos for years and this is the first time I ever run into you in a comment section !
I just binge watched all 24 episodes of this series last night/this morning. I love this series! And like you, I've not had much luck thrifting at the beach. Good luck with the move.
2:19 We had the top VCR-DVD combo, it was decent, I mean it worked.
Got rid of it, because it was big and we got DVD player with hard drive.
nakyer Recording TV and then playing it back, I might actually take a full look on it.
Every Goodwill near me looks like the ones you saw at the beach. :(
same here
same
Those Goodwills are much like the ones where I live... nothing but early 2000's VHS players or DVD players, the odd iHome clock dock thing or shitty speakers.
Great record finds. It's always awesome to find a 90s or 00s record at a thrift store, anything produced beyond the era when vinyl was considered to have died out for the most part, and made way for CDs. Especially at thrift store prices, since a lot of 90s LPs are very valuable (depending on how popular the band is).
These stores made me feel better about the tech section of my goodwill with its 50 dvrs
I just love your voice, it's like you're always taking the piss out of something even when you don't mean to.
By far Lgr's most cathartic series. Keep up the awesome work Clint!
ha! the beach goodwill is more of the norm then your fancy local ones.
Yeahhh those beach Goodwills are basically every thrift store here, as well
Same in my area on the east coast, the Goodwills are terrible, most of the older stuff seems to be thrown away or auctioned off online. The surviving independent thrifts still have gems from time to time. Find the most at flea markets though.
i remember growing up listening to that oxygen album. its all unique. my dad had it on tape for years. great stuff. nice score
Just discovered this channel and I freaking love it! We unfortunately run pretty low on nostalgia in Australia
Nowadays you can get pretty much anything you want via internet,but still can't beat the good ol' window shopping with is much more fun and exciting than buying the content itself.
Glad to see you appreciate the selection in your home area. Before I moved the Goodwills near me were almost as bad as those ones a the beach. Electronics was usually a shelf or two with a couple printers and ps/2 keyboards, one bin of CDs and maybe a pc or console game in the one row of DVDs by the video tapes shelf or glass case.
I forgot how much I missed these. It's been far too long! I remember binge-watching like 15 of these when I first discovered your channel. :D
The tax scam/tax loss label stuff was an interesting read. Thanks for mentioning it!
Come over to my Goodwill. You won't find an electronics sections.
Those first few Goodwill stores are representative of the content of charity shops here in the UK. The differences are that they are never that big and most of them aren’t licensed to sell electronics at all (other than the occasional battery-powered device, like a clock or a kid’s toy).
...you need to be *licensed* to sell electronic junk in the UK?! Seriously?
+Redhotsmasher Maybe it’s not licensing. The charity shop that I volunteer at sends all of its electricals to another, larger store elsewhere; maybe it’s just that they all have to be tested first and our shop doesn’t have enough space to be able do that.
Anecdote: Our shop got a retro console donated at one point and, as a volunteer, I was able to intercept it and ask if I could buy it off of them instead of them sending it off. They agreed but insisted that I had to remove the power supply first. So I removed the power supply from the box… and placed it in my knapsack. I brought the console up to the till and checked out, telling them - _in honesty_ - that I had, indeed, removed the power supply from the box!
Jamie Spong Fair enough.
That's some good thinking there, mind me asking what console it was?
Wow, so there's a Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) action figure?
The snippet of music from Titan was quite nice.
Man, I know it's a gaming channel, but you absolutely should make a video talking about your vinyl treasures. I love that stuff!
have you ever gone to a savers? The one near me has things like 1440 by 900 monitors and core 2 duo computers for like $7, plus 8 tracks, casettes, cds, games, and records for 0.69 each
Love this series Clint - was brought here by Nostalgia Nerd and I'm glad I came over.
Keep up the good job mate.
5:00 Bernie 2016 sign, nice
3:43 i love that album,and that is the original mono pressing,and it is nice,and i wanted the vinyl but stereo pressing,and you inspired me to see the movie blue hawaii because of that! Thanks for inspiring me! Your vids and sometimes everyone else's vids can be inspiring.
This series is so addicting! keep 'em coming! :)
Yeah, thrift stores in my area look about like the ones you saw at the beach. I'm always amazed by the amount of stuff in your videos.
your voice over work is second to none.
Nice vinyl picks at the end. Also digging that someone in Myrtle had the the excellent idea of naming a store after a Vonnegut character.
I'm going thrifting in the big city soon, this tides me over, because our thrift shops look a lot like the ones by the beach, clothes and nothing much else. love these videos sir.
HAHA!!! That alarm clock is the alarm clock that I have next to my bed! And I always envy you whenever you go out thrifting because ever single thrift store and Goodwill within driving range from me is exactly like those thrift stores in the beginning of your videos. You can be lucky if you find a toaster or coffee machine in the electronics area in the Goodwills in my area. I think they assume that only elderly shop at the Goodwill in my area and cater to that crowd so they only carry clothes and stuff that elderly would buy. This means no board games or X-Boxes or anything.
I went to Kilgor Trouts a while back. I bought Krokus One Vice at a Time and Foreigner Head Games on vinyl both 5 bucks each.
Have a thumbs-up, just for Oxygene.
Indeed.
+MarkTheMorose insane album
Please come to r/jeanmicheljarre
Around here we only have two salvation army's and a value village. They always look like that, tons and tons of clothes with nothing else.
Still go every week to look. Picked up a neat technics 110 disc changer and a technics amp for about $35 not long ago. Ended up finishing the set from a kijiji buy.
5 years later and I'm finally in the same area! Just went to Kilgore trouts and bought 2 books of 78s and some 8 tracks. Thanks LGR!
Actually lucked out and found some old games at our thrift store a couple days ago, as opposed to the endless fields of dirty and used clothes. Never forget how awesome your thrift stores are, Clint, because most Goodwills tend to suck. At least on the West Coast.
Awww, I wanted to see you go scuba-thrifting.
Spotted Richard Wright's Wet Dream on vinyl, great mellow album
This is one of my absolute favourite things on RUclips.
Hey at least those Goodwills have clothes. The one i always went to before i moved literally looked like one of those dirty clothes bags people take with them on trips threw up all over the inside. Never found a single good thing there. Only moldy clothes and decaying childrens toys...
6:56: Third album from the left -- is that Rick Wright's "Wet Dream"? Oh man...I'd like to have that on vinyl.
We had that same Pioneer changer in our house when i was a kid. Loved that thing!
The music at the end sounds like the waiting music when you're put on hold
I had a very similar experience this week. while on vacation went to several thrift shops and didn't find anything. but did find a game store with some very good prices.
Love this series, glad it's back. The Goodwils looked like most Goodwills around us, makes finding games tough.
The Wizard of Oz game is crazy addictive...too addictive for any coin pusher...you just keep getting cards and then you're broke
omg, Oxygene :D i have one on a vinyl too ;) it is very precious to me, especially when i got it signed by JMJ himself :D
In a couple months or so (maybe less) there will be a Goodwill opening near me. There are a lot of Goodwills in towns fairly close-ish to me so hopefully they'll stock it with some interesting stuff from those stores. I just hope it doesn't end up being as crappy as the local Salvation Army. The most interesting thing there is the book section.
I love going to Kure Beach in the spring and fall. Less crowds, and the weather is in the Goldilocks' zone. Great for metal detecting.
It's not like I ever expect to see that much difference between Canada and the U.S. But it's amazing how identical the Goodwills you go to look to the Value Villages here in Canada (Savers chain in the U.S.).
decided to rewatch the collection again. i like this episode, its quite humble to what i find at op shops
Unfortunately all the Goodwills in our area are like that. Myrtle always seems to have nothing but clothes in almost all the thrift shops. Welcome to my life!
Although you didn't find much, its still good to see what places you visit to see what is in them, especially if they are not your usual haunts!
i found a complete set of Math Storm in this old shed behind my house, and an old keyboard. The shed's been there since before we've gotten there, and kinda glad i looked in it
I have that exact same Spartus clock! My grandmother gave it to me for Christmas about 30 years ago. It still friggin' works!
Those are some damn fine ties, if I do say so myself.
Hey LGR... first off, Hours.. Is one of my favorites. Also there's so much history behind the album. It was one of, if not, the first album you can buy on the internet back when it came out. Just knowing that is so cool. I love and miss Bowie.
The first two Goodwill's you visited are how all the thrift stores in my area look. Tons of clothes, some books, and tons of useless junk. Normally no video games at all.
A goods Spartus alarm clock does not have that dim of a display. I found mine at a local thrift store as well and it's awesome, although the alarms a bit quiet.
Hey I still have that same Pioneer CD changer hooked up in an old entertainment center at home. Neat!
Waking up in the morning with a lgr thrifts ep, great way to start the day
You're very charismatic. That's kind of why I watch most of your videos that and information.
I love when you do that deep voice. You sound just like Duke Nukem. LOL
+Robert Santellan (Your Geeky Tipster) That's because he's doing a Duke Nukem impression
The Movie Planet I know that. I was merely pointing out the obvious. More of a sarcastic joke. LOL
Robert Santellan gotcha
Depending on which edition of Bowie's Hours, this might be worth a pretty penny. And that Concert from Titan looks awesome.
Salivating over the amount of cassettes you saw :p It's a real shame that most people look at them as garbage, around here all I ever see is older country, classical and other assorted generes your grandmother might like.
+JamesCo elsPardon A lot of newer black metal releases still have a cassette version, so if you want a genre that really appreciates them, check that out. It's usually the depressive and raw kinds that really like it, though. Used to collect cassettes and gave up because the most rock I could find was some 70's hard rock I had no interest in at the time. I have some The Cure, Screaming Trees, and David Bowie. And a Gregorian Chants tape that I found very annoying and not creepy enough.
Great video! Nice to see the different items from your thrifting adventures compared to ours. Thanks for sharing!
Nice touch with the Concert From Titan music at the end :D Was expecting pretty heavy rock judging by the cover and got smooth jazz funk :D
That first goodwill has basically been an example of all the goodwills near me, it sucks...
I only really have one goodwill I go to, and it looks EXACTLY like the ones you saw. When you do find something good you need to open it because chances are the disc is missing. They started moving ALL console games to glass cases because of this, but it's mostly crap sports.
Two of those pictures were mine (The one with Starwars Chess, and the one with the TI83 calculator.) First one I lucked out at Goodwill. The second is well over an hour worth of work, my boyfriend and I combined, digging in bins and scanning hundreds of CD cases at a local Salvation Army. There are 3 SA stores we know of, and each has completely differant prices on everything (One software is $5 each, another it's $2) We seriously never see anything as cool as you find, although Yard Sale/flea market season is around the corner. My last find was Ocarina of Time (N64) for $3 for just the cartridge.
We'd love to find boxed stuff, and pick it up when we can, but we have EXTREMELY limited space so we can and do pick up some software that is loose or in a paper sleeves. In a perfect world we'd love having older machines to play these on as well, but for now we use virtual machines on our everyday win8 computers. Oddly, the games we go have complete in box are all on floppies - 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch...and we have NO floppy drives >.
I always love these Thrift videos of yours LGR. Keep 'em comin'.
LGR told me to google "tax scam" and now I'm on a government watch list. Thanks Clint!! xD
Yep, this is basically the Australian thrift shop experience (Called Op Shops, short for Opportunity Shops because Australians can't help but shorten everything). Almost anything of even slight value ends up at Cash Converters which is just a retail pawn shop chain, op shops just get left with the dregs nobody wants.
Yay! New thrifting vids! I love these...
The first two Goodwill's electronics sections are exactly like all the places in Harrisburg.
Are the useless crap sections the same?
Yes, the useless crap sections are not only the same, but even bigger in a few cases. You've got to love Pennsylvania Dutch Country for that reason alone. It's an endearing quality, I have to admit.
Oxygene is one of the albums I listened to many times at work last year. I need to find it some day and keep it with my Tangerine Dream albums.
Not sure if anyone commented on this already, but I noticed in this episode and another you mentioned wondering about how media from Europe ends up at Goodwill, etc. Being I am retired military, my guess would be from US military who were stationed over there. I bought a lot of software locally myself when I was stationed in Greece as it was pre e-commerce back then.
That first Goodwill is like most of the thrift stores around my area. Most of the thrift stores near me have unfortunately closed down.