So I've been buying them as I find them and recently bought five more yesterday on Ebay but today I went to the thrift store and found this:

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I reordered the Hits/B Sides yesterday, but since I found just the Hits one cd at the Thrift Store in perfect condition U know Nursey had to buy it Being a Prince fan is so cool

Yesterday I bought Batman, Graffitti Bridge, NewPower Soul, Lotusflower and The Hits/B sides so I've almost replaced everything that got destroyed when I moved

And I found a few extras like Bobby Brown "Don't Be Cruel" Erykah Badu, TLC and Monica-all in perfect condition. I think i love the thrift store

I think Mentioned when it happened but check half priced books too. i have seen lots of prince cds there.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I think Mentioned when it happened but check half priced books too. i have seen lots of prince cds there.

Trust me I will I'm checking all the good places Never know what I'll find and I do remember ur advice

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Hit CD's in a thrift store....it's come to that...

also pawn shops...

Yes you are luicky, here all you find is local reggae, Island music and country and western albums, or rap by groups like Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Chingy, D12 etc, cds usually in poor condition with photocopied slicks telling you to go to the counter as they have problems with ghetto teens stealing them.

In my country its impossible to find a thrift/pawn store thats not completely ghetto or in the ghetto itself.

G3000 said:

Hit CD's in a thrift store....it's come to that...

apparently so

OnlyNDaUsa said:

also pawn shops...

Been checking em too U can find some nice gems at the pawn shop

Adorecream said:

Yes you are luicky, here all you find is local reggae, Island music and country and western albums, or rap by groups like Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Chingy, D12 etc, cds usually in poor condition with photocopied slicks telling you to go to the counter as they have problems with ghetto teens stealing them.

In my country its impossible to find a thrift/pawn store thats not completely ghetto or in the ghetto itself.

I need to check ur profile to see where u live My thrift stores are all nice and suburby

nursev said:

Adorecream said:

Yes you are luicky, here all you find is local reggae, Island music and country and western albums, or rap by groups like Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Chingy, D12 etc, cds usually in poor condition with photocopied slicks telling you to go to the counter as they have problems with ghetto teens stealing them.

In my country its impossible to find a thrift/pawn store thats not completely ghetto or in the ghetto itself.

I need to check ur profile to see where u live My thrift stores are all nice and suburby

Auckland New Zealand, all the pawn stores are in low income areas like Glen Innes, Panmure, Otara, Otahuhu, Mangere, Ranui, Henderson etc (Our version of Compton and Watts), most are full of Polynesians and Maoris and state houses and the shopping centres are all full of fish and chip shops, loan shark companies, pawn stores, bars with gaming machines, cosmic corner drug stores, TAB betting shops, $2 ghetto junk stores, liquor stores that cash cheques and sell cheap beer and ghetto wine and sleazy general stores. Graffiti is everywhere and all the shops have corrugated iron roll down doors and groups of layabouts begging or playing loud rap music along with windscreen cleaners.

Glad you're almost done, nursev! You've given me ideas about where to go to hunt down CDs. Paying for shipment on online orders adds up!

Adorecream said:

nursev said:

I need to check ur profile to see where u live My thrift stores are all nice and suburby

Auckland New Zealand, all the pawn stores are in low income areas like Glen Innes, Panmure, Otara, Otahuhu, Mangere, Ranui, Henderson etc (Our version of Compton and Watts), most are full of Polynesians and Maoris and state houses and the shopping centres are all full of fish and chip shops, loan shark companies, pawn stores, bars with gaming machines, cosmic corner drug stores, TAB betting shops, $2 ghetto junk stores, liquor stores that cash cheques and sell cheap beer and ghetto wine and sleazy general stores. Graffiti is everywhere and all the shops have corrugated iron roll down doors and groups of layabouts begging or playing loud rap music along with windscreen cleaners.

Goodness, that was evocative. Do you work for the tourism board?? :-p

I used to work with a lady from New Zealand and I always wondered why she'd chosen to emigrate over here (Scotland). You've maybe provided a reason for it - but I appreciate everywhere has good and bad areas!

On topic, it's amazing how much money I'd have saved if I wasn't such an avid fan. Emancipation for three pounds sterling (i.e. five dollars US) was a highlight..I felt like it was a bit of a slap in the face for Prince at the time...how could he be so devalued?? To be introduced to our man now is so much cheaper than when I became obsessed in the eighties.

This was before the time when CDs in general are devalued - a few years from now they'll be the way of cassette tapes.

Scotsman1999 said:

Adorecream said:

Auckland New Zealand, all the pawn stores are in low income areas like Glen Innes, Panmure, Otara, Otahuhu, Mangere, Ranui, Henderson etc (Our version of Compton and Watts), most are full of Polynesians and Maoris and state houses and the shopping centres are all full of fish and chip shops, loan shark companies, pawn stores, bars with gaming machines, cosmic corner drug stores, TAB betting shops, $2 ghetto junk stores, liquor stores that cash cheques and sell cheap beer and ghetto wine and sleazy general stores. Graffiti is everywhere and all the shops have corrugated iron roll down doors and groups of layabouts begging or playing loud rap music along with windscreen cleaners.

Goodness, that was evocative. Do you work for the tourism board?? :-p

I used to work with a lady from New Zealand and I always wondered why she'd chosen to emigrate over here (Scotland). You've maybe provided a reason for it - but I appreciate everywhere has good and bad areas!

On topic, it's amazing how much money I'd have saved if I wasn't such an avid fan. Emancipation for three pounds sterling (i.e. five dollars US) was a highlight..I felt like it was a bit of a slap in the face for Prince at the time...how could he be so devalued?? To be introduced to our man now is so much cheaper than when I became obsessed in the eighties.

This was before the time when CDs in general are devalued - a few years from now they'll be the way of cassette tapes.

not until they offer FLAC/WAV files for digital download. 256kbps 320, whatever, is worthless.

nursev said:

Yesterday I bought Batman, Graffitti Bridge, NewPower Soul, Lotusflower and The Hits/B sides so I've almost replaced everything that got destroyed when I moved

You have way more patience than me. If I lose stuff or someone borrows it and doesn't bring it back or whatever...that's that. I don't make repeat-buys.

G3000 said:

Hit CD's in a thrift store....it's come to that...

They've been in there for decades. Vinyl, CDs, cassettes, 8 tracks, DVDs, VHS tapes. I go straight for the vinyl though and don't waste my time on that other stuff. You can find some much better deals at the thrift stores than at the used record stores because a lot of them are simply individuals that don't know the value of what they're selling. Just last weekend, I bought Sylvester's "Stars" album in absolute excellent condition for $2. That same exact album is in the used record store for $12.

CD's are so 90's...

nursev said:

Yesterday I bought Batman, Graffitti Bridge, NewPower Soul, Lotusflower and The Hits/B sides so I've almost replaced everything that got destroyed when I moved

What happened to the copy I sent you?

vainandy said:

G3000 said:

Hit CD's in a thrift store....it's come to that...

They've been in there for decades. Vinyl, CDs, cassettes, 8 tracks, DVDs, VHS tapes. I go straight for the vinyl though and don't waste my time on that other stuff. You can find some much better deals at the thrift stores than at the used record stores because a lot of them are simply individuals that don't know the value of what they're selling. Just last weekend, I bought Sylvester's "Stars" album in absolute excellent condition for $2. That same exact album is in the used record store for $12.

They have always been there..that's true, but I've always seen music from my great-grand and grand-parents era. I'm just not ready to see find music from my generation in thrift stores, tossed like an old wrinkled jacket!

But then again, music on physical formats have little value in the digital age.

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So I got a few more today

Analyst said:

nursev said:

Yesterday I bought Batman, Graffitti Bridge, NewPower Soul, Lotusflower and The Hits/B sides so I've almost replaced everything that got destroyed when I moved

You have way more patience than me. If I lose stuff or someone borrows it and doesn't bring it back or whatever...that's that. I don't make repeat-buys.

I only repeat for Princey

databank said:

CD's are so 90's...

I know, but I want em

TheDigitalGardener said:

nursev said:

Yesterday I bought Batman, Graffitti Bridge, NewPower Soul, Lotusflower and The Hits/B sides so I've almost replaced everything that got destroyed when I moved

What happened to the copy I sent you?

Never got it

nursev said:

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So I got a few more today

U gotta love Ebay Lotus plays like a dream

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LittleBear said:

Glad you're almost done, nursev! You've given me ideas about where to go to hunt down CDs. Paying for shipment on online orders adds up!

I only do that for Prince cd's and no one else