Har har bloody har! :-)
This'll entertain you:
Yesterday, I got a call from the owner's son of the (hifi/telly) shop my
mate Shiny Nigel works in: 'I've got something here that might be of
interest to you??
Intriguing, but I wasn't expectatious - that grabber eBays anything and
every thing worth having that comes in by way of p/x. Turns out he had
'about a hundred' LPs that an 'audiophile' had left there and was I
interested as there were some 'audiophile pressings' apparently...??
Asitappens, I wanted to get close to a Denon amp I knew he had in stock, so
I said yes and went down. The records were a wide-ranging mix and I said no
initially, but then I noticed a number of J M Jarre, some Vangelis and a few
my son would like, so I said 'OK, go on then, I'll take them' and used them
to bash a hefty chunk off the Denon price. Deal for the albums and the amp
done, time to leave.
As we were lifting the boxes into my car he saw a MFSL copy of the Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour and said 'Ooh, I wouldn't mind keeping this one to take
home and play....??'
I said no, bugger off! (He doesn't even run a turntable :-)
When I got 'em home I counted them up - there's about 175 discs all told,
they were too bloody lazy to count them!! The MFSL Ziggy Stardust I gave my
son tonight and the aforementioned Beatles, he tells me, are together
*worth* a fair bit more than I paid for *all* the records..!! :-)
(I say *worth* because I don't like 'record-dealing', normally - I value
records only for the music that's on them...!!)
There's some interesting ones in there including the very same HiFi Sound
Stereo Test record I paid a good few bucks for on eBay a while back, a
NAD/Unicorn 'Digital Demonstration Record' as well a a number of MCA Master
Series 'Custom pressed on KC569 Premium Virgin Vinyl' (???) and I'm looking
forward to hearing them, but I hafta say, I like them all the more now I
know the money-grabber (believe me - he is) has missed out!!
Gotta win one once in a while, aint'cha?
:-)
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