Are there any good cheap vinyl records left? 

One of the great joys of record collecting is the DOLLAR bin.

R.I.P. Laura Branigan.

All I ever find is Barbara Streisand, Christmas music, and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Although I’ve now taken a liking to Herb Alpert now that I keep seeing them everywhere lol.

This video was like going round to a friend's house and listening to their record collection! I think you should do another of these for 2023!

Almost all of my records are from the period they were released, and they all sound just fine. Records can take more abuse than you'd probably think.

This is like the 20 or so video made by you I've watched and ill give it to you - among the other things I just love how you bust all those myths or just false (but popular) statements just using your great knowledge and references - like now with that stacking up the records. Hat off to you sir!

Definitely! I've found several jems at thrift stores. The 2 best items I've probably ever found at a thrift store was an og pressing of METALLICA's "Ride The Lightning" LP in VG - VG+ condition with the printed lyric innersleeve included as well which only cost me a few $'s. The other was not an og, but still an earlier pressing of JOY DIVISION's "Closer" LP also in VG - VG+ condition which cost me $5 -$8. A friend of mine actually found an og pressing of JOY DIVISION's "Unknown Pleasures" LP in VG+ condition but just had a generic inner rather than the og printed innersleeve. Not sure what he paid for it but it was from the goodwill so I doubt he paid more than a few $5 for it. So, needless to say, it's sometimes possible to find some hidden treasures at thrift and other 2nd hand stores.

I was wondering where all my records I had in high school went after my mom sold them at a yard sale in the 90's.Glad to see the collection back together.

That is the motherload. What an awesome selection! There's still gold to be found I see. Very nice haul dude, thanks for sharing!

I've found great records at thrift stores. I found a copy of George Shearing's "Live!" album from 1958. Has its original shrink wrap and inner sleeve. The damn record has no noise, cracks, pops or anything: it's as if it was new! Those who say "cheap $1 thrift store record" are really wrong by generalizing. I think there are a good amount of records waiting to be bought and kept on someone's collection.

Regarding Crosley turntables supposedly wrecking records, a lot of these records were likely played on even worse BSR and Garrard turntables - the high end Japanese turntables were extremely expensive in the 70s and 80s and most people didn't have them.

I found that Al Stewart record at my local record shop, it's incredible! I also picked up a double lp of his early stuff. Thanks for the rec!

I remember in 1978 when my parents got the Saturday Night Fever album, playing the side with 'Staying Alive', 'How Deep Is Your Love', 'Night Fever', 'More Than A Woman', 'If I Can't Have You' on repeat over and over... and watching the RSO Rhino spinning round and round at 33 1/3 RPM. As soon as you pulled the record out of the jacket and I saw the RSO logo, it took me back 39 years!! I believe 'If I Can't Have You' by Yvonne Elliman and 'Night Fever' by the Bee Gees were two of the biggest hits of 1978.

Holy crap I had NO IDEA Laura Branigan had passed away :'( - that song is an absolute classic, though I was too young to remember it fully it still absolutely resonates every time I hear it. Thanks for the trip, sir. RIP Laura. Gone FAR too soon.

I found Asia unopened for $2 at a shop. Super lucky!

That "Sons of Heroes" album might be very valuable. Since it was released on MCA Records, the master tapes likely burnt up in the 2008 Universal fire - and there's probably no safety copies or other backups.

I found colour by numbers for $3 a while back and pretty much just grabbed it for the cover and karma chameleon but it’s truly a solid album and now I’m going to see culture club lol

That drumming on the Peter Framptom Album still blows my mind to this day.

A enjoyable trip down a music memory lane! 👍

Ahhhh... Self Control, Laura's best album! Although I love all of her albums!

Thank you so much for explaining this stuff. I was feeling nervous after restoring my grandmother's tube radio with a BSR changer that I was going to have to dump a ton of money into new vinyl and a new turntable. Thanks for cutting through the baloney and giving honest answers!

Funny thing about "Stayin' Alive from the BeeGee's is, it has the same rhythm as you do chest compressions when you do CPR. If you ever forget the timing, just sing the song in your head. In somewhat of a ironically twist, so does "Another One Bites the Dust" from Queen. Ask a CPR expert before attempting to do this though.

Al Stewart is great! One of my fave albums by him is Time Passages.

R.I.P. Laura............

That's a good Neil diamond album. My mom taped that record for me when I got my first walkman at 6yo

The best place to find cheap records are (here in Australia) a particular kind of antique shop which has concrete floors that smell strongly of motor oil, with that kind of dust on the ground that makes you itch if you touch it. Generally on an upper shelf you'll find wax cylinders and piano rolls reeking of the Edwardian era; and underneath them in cardboard boxes badly stacked 78s, wafting the warm odour of carsickness, surrounded with the tawdry tan rags of destroyed sleeves; and next to them shitty LPs heavily reeking of PVC covers leaning exhaustedly in wooden crates and apparently entirely consisting of Barbra Streisand, Burl Ives and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Omg if i had a dime for every Peter Frampton comes alive iv seen

That Sons of Heroes album is a gem!

This is a great channel, and I love watching people going through their purchases like this (esp. when it's stuff that most people would overlook). Gonna have to start trawling through second hand stores to find old vinyl myself from now on...

God, I've been buying vinyl from the various Goodwil stores (aka "The Moggie") around the Boston area, since I was young. I'm always delighted when I find good 80's stuff. But I've also picked up some of the 50's-60's stuuf for my mum. It never fails to amaze me at how nice, pressings from that era, sound on a good modern system (even mono ones).

It's amazing how good the sound is, even through RU-vid's audio compression and other filtering!

Great score mate! Love the music:) BTW i Love the Technics Turntable :)

I have found some amazing deals in vinyl on eBay. More than a dollar and usually shipping charges but some very good vinyl still.

WOW! That Lionel Ritchie récord contains some real bangers!

The sound of these albums/records...remind me what a Miracle they truly are and all the Work that goes into the recording process. Theses all (I think) are just about Old enough to have been recorded on Multitrack tape Machines which also Are Miraculous to Me. The Analogue Quality is truly something to revel in and enjoy.. You really got a Lot of 'Hard to Produce'...with Many hours of Work' Quality Music regardless if someone doesn't care for a particular type or not. Especially for $1.oo each. I Love to look for them Myself so...thats why I do enjoy your channel. Excellent Job!

I'm fortunate in that there are several thrift stores in my area, as well as honest-to-goodness record stores with 'cheapie' record bins, where I can find a lot of old and odd stuff. I'm also fortunate to have a fairly wide taste in music; although my preference is for older stuff (1990 and older), I'm comfortable with C&W, rock, jazz, big band, classical, pop, and many other genres. So I can go just about anywhere and find something to interest me, and pick it up for cheap. I also have the means to play 8-Tracks, cassettes, CDs, and virtually any variety of vinyl - including 78s and even 16 rpm records, so I'm not limited to just records.

People always say how The Beatles, Elvis, The Eagles, Michael Jackson etc. sold more records than any other artist, but I swear, Ray Conniff, James Last and Liberace MUST have them beat by a long shot.

It looks like you bought a record collection I owned in the 1980's.A shame I no longer have them.A great find none the less.

WOW Persuasive Percussion jumped out of the speakers!!

I like your videos and have subscribed. I also had a similar find in a re-use shop here in the UK where I paid 50 pence each for them. I got 10 vinyl LPs for £5 including 5 that you have shown here, I also like your record player videos, especailly the Crosley revue where you didn"t slag it off and gave it a fair revue.

these videos are the best for finding new tunes to listen to. thank u and god bless

Damn you found a bunch of good albums! I listened to this with headphones and oh my god it sounded amazing.

Disco Inferno!!! I'd LOVE to find that in a bin! Body contact contract is a super favorite from that record.

Laura Branigan on vinyl - nice. Overall a great catch @VWestlife!

Why does every thrift shop have a “Sing along with Mitch” album for sell? They are always in mint condition too.

Great finds!!! And I like how you played a snippet of each one. You got some great deals on those finds!!!! Also, in my opinion the RCA Dynaflex series albums are some of the best sounding records in my collection. They sound as great as most of the other RCA labels except "Living Stereo" which I find to be even better!!!

Some great stuff there and sounds good. I'm losing my self control! Love that unexpected John Denver find.

Jim Nabors Ha! My brother and I hit a local antique/vintage store today; I was diving the bins for vinyl and he was looking for CDs. As I worked my way through a bin, I found a Jim Nabor's album and, of course, out loud I said 'Jim Nabors! I finally found it!' On the other hand I did score a Kinks album and Born to Run. I overpaid for each. It is harder and harder to find records that I actually want and that are in decent condition for less than $5/$6, at least where I live.

Even at record stores and fairs, I always look in the misc cheap records, or $5 $10 or less pile. I usually find some great stuff for cheap. Beatles, Film soundtracks, Joan Jett, Runaways. Always get a surprise

Technics are the best when it comes to turntables!

LUCKY YOU! What a score! I have most of those albums on vinyl. And I won't give up my 1980 JVC direct drive turntable for live nor money.

I occasionally find some records that are still sealed at thrift shops. Also found some 78 RPM records that are weird in surprisingly good shape for that particular format, those are usually complete sets that are in their original jackets.

This proves that thrift shop records do SOUND GOOD!

I've found very good records at Goodwill before in good condition. Every time I go there are plenty of modern records (mostly 90s and early 2000s hip hop) but still mostly older country and other music. But the idea that all thrift store records are crap and in terrible condition is far from accurate.

Great video, great collection. Nice haul. Lots of good tunes. It would be cool to see more videos like this one. Thanks for sharing this video with us. All the best to you.

I got two Led Zeppelin albums and three Journey albums in one visit once. Journey ones were in great condition, while the Zeppelin ones were in fair but listen-able condition. Lol I found that Frampton Comes Alive one too. Other times I'll find nothing. Never underestimate what you can find at a thrift store

Excellent haul! I love all of that music.

Darn, the Cars album would have been good.

Some gold treasures here, that 1977 technics turntable is quality. Love your videos. Keep up the good work.

Vw they sound great! Love vinyl! Love your videos! Thank you!

Amazing find for a dollar bin! I found some credence clear water at a thrift store near me

Not sure why but even through youtubes compression the music still sounds really good in this video

Thanks for making this video. I love all the music from the albums. Excellent. Please make more. I absolutely love analog audio. I prefer it to any digital recording made today, especially with the loudness war going on. The only CDs I like to buy are first editions. Never remasters. Take care brother! Love your channel.

Great video, lots of great finds!

I bought a copy of Triumph's Just a Game for 7 bucks and it almost sounds brand new!

I got The Rolling Stones’ Black and Blue on blue vinyl for 5 bucks at a thrift store and saw it on eBay for as much as $300

Vinyl comming back....really comming back.....so beautiful too watch....oh lord ....yes sir the sound....jesus...great finds....oh yeah baby.

Vwestlife is absolutely right. Always check your records at a thrift shop same goes for CDs and tapes. I was at a thrift shop once and I saw the Jeff Beck groups first album on CD, so I bought it. I rush home, throw it in the CD player, and hit play. To this day I don't know what the hell came out of my CD player's speakers but it certainly wasn't the Jeff Beck Group.

Ya know, up until about 2009, you could go to just about any record store and they usually had the $1 bins. In those bins, for the most part, were tons of excellent condition albums, many in near mint shape, from the 1970's AND 1908's. Yes, mostly mainstream stuff like Journey, Styx. Triumph, REO Speedwagon, Hall And Oates, Culture Club, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Alan ParsonsProject,The Cars, George Benson,Frank Sinatra and even The Beatles! (The Capitol pressings of course) and so-o-o-o many more!..................Now, it's actually hard to even find any of these titles in any condition, let alone for $1. I see these kinds of titles roll in to my favorite Record Stores I frequently visit from time to time and now these same titles go for $10-$15 a piece!! It just amazes me! The one Record Store, IKO's Music Trade, used to have literally thousands of these titles and he actually had to throw most of them out about 6 years ago because his shop was renovated and he need to make room for all the "good" titles that would fetch a hefty price tag! Now he wishes he had them all back!!! Just absolutely amazing!!

Good score. Al Stewart album is crazy good find. Frampton rocks. Persuasive Percussion's are sweet. I picked up some storm sound albums recently, very interesting. I also picked up a couple George Carlin comedy albums.

New subscriber, here. Enjoying your channel and especially vids like this! Found out about your channel via another vinyl enthusiast (the guy with the 'eyezz', haha). Anyway, it was cool to check out your thrift store buys, great value for all that you got!

Nice haul and a great walk down memory lane, thank you

Looks like the Sons of Heroes album actually got a CD release this year!

It's not that all thrift store records are trashed, it's just that the trash isn't sorted out from the good stuff; that makes it even more fun to look through the records for a gem! Maybe 30+ years ago, thrift store records were more often in rough condition because that's where people would take the records that they couldn't sell at a music store. Just like with CDs up until this decade; there wasn't a very good selection, and what you did find was usually next to unplayable. The selection of LPs at the thrift store is nothing like it used to be though because they're always picked clean; you must have JUST got there when they set the records out.... but with the "vinyl resurgence", at least a lot less records are going to the landfill. There's an AMAZING selection of CDs now because they're considered worthless... but how much do you want to bet that in about 20 years, they'll become collectible again, and all the people who threw out their entire CD collection that they spent years carefully collecting and enjoying, will wish they hadn't? Also, nice picture with the cheap record player ;-)

Dude,great finds, we get so ripped off in Australia, keep up the great work, love your tt by the way,fantastic merry xmas

Nice collection, and it sounds great. Thanks for sharing your score! I picked up Roberta Flack's first album at a thrift store the other day....great shape, and still in the shrink wrap. There is still a lot of vinyl out there.

Wait a minute... "Or lying flat" ? So what am I supposed to believe now? I gotta tell you, getting into vinyl is not easy when "expert" audiophiles tell you how to do stuff on the internet and then a record cover instructs you to do the exact opposite.... I'm so confused....

I have the Laura Branigan "Self Control" one as a maxi Vinyl which uses the same cover picture for some reason. What a woman she was.... :( And what a voice.

Very true comments at the end. It sometimes even applies to established artists. I bought the Laura Branigan "Hold Me" LP at a car boot sale. If it wasn't for that chance find I would never of heard it as CD seems to be ridiculously expensive now, and I can't find the album on ITunes.

My kind of find! Some of this haul I bought new onrelease, some from bin diving. I purchased 20 records at a thrift store in Tucson a few years ago, regularly $1-$2 each, but on "sale" for $0.50 each. I found four collector LPS that a friend boasted purchasing as a "find" for $40-$95. Didn't have heart to tell him I only paid a total of $2 for all four hour albums, and in pristine contition, unlike his purchases. Say what you will, I found some great Mantovaani, Oscar Levant, Henry Mancini, Libera I and Burton Bacharach LPS over the years. But ALWAYS pull the records out before buying and inspect. Some horribly maintained records are in newish looking album jackets, and vice versa. If there are more than one of the same, switch out. No one will stop you, it's perfectlyfine.

In the UK we have Oxfam music shops and they sell perfect records for 49p...that's forty nine pence! So even cheaper! And they are great records mainly!!

WOW, Great findings. I love Laura Branigan, The tramps, Commodores and Lionel Ritchie.

This was both very interesting and enjoyable video, Liked very much

Awesome to see / hear that you do not monetize your videos. Pretty much all of the records I own I only paid a dollar for, but I've been collecting for over 20 years.

Persuasive Percussion!! I had the original one, and then copped some other Command records whenever i saw em. The cover art is unmistakable, and those records are a gold mine if you happen to have an MPC2000XL, or something like it :-D

Here in the shops in the UK we have many living stereo samplers (I do like them though), James last, ray conif! Very nice choice of records! Yes those audiophile people many of them regurgitate information they read and not experience themselves. westlife you speak and demonstrate the facts! :)

I used to have a few on vinyl like Freddie Jackson's "Rock Me Tonight", "Saturday Night Fever", and a few more, but I got rid of them since I have them on digital. I remember Culture Club's "Colors By the Numbers" that one of my roommates had it, and the Trammps "Disco Inferno" album that my uncle's friend of mine gave it to me. I don't buy any of these albums, but I always want to focus on getting 45's and 78's as well as the Disneyland albums. The first song was played at the beginning of the video was "Second Hand Rose" by Barbra Streisand. I have the "Greatest Hits" album on 8-track, but I used to have the album as well as "My Name Is Barbra... Too" that has this one.

OK! Back in the early 70's I went on the bus to a closing of a store called ALEX. It was a store like White Front back then. I always take a good look at finding what I want and was surprised of the price of the amount that I bought there. I am a soundtrack lover of vinyl and I was going crazy buying 50 vinyl soundtracks for only - are you ready for this - 50 cents a piece! By the time I finished my purchase (I was there for hours) went on the bus to go home carrying all these vinyls. People were staring at me of what I had when I got on the bus. Heavy but was worth it. Could not believe the total price was under $30 for all. I would say the best buy was the soundtrack to the movie GUN - NUMBER ONE! It was a Peter Gun movie made for theaters. Henry Mancini of course composed the music for Blake Edward's film. Already have both soundtracks from the tv show on vinyl and cd. Don't know if the movie soundtrack is on cd but will find out on line. Thanks alot for reading this true story of buying soundtracks on vinyl (from 976-CREOLEMAN).

Man, I loved 'Colour by Numbers'. I think my two favorite songs on it were 'Miss Me Blind' and 'Church of the Poisoned Mind'. And all my Journey albums were worn pretty much white due to extensive play and bad needles. :) The two weirdest albums I think I ever picked up were 'Monte Video' (Monte Video and the Cassettes) and a radio station PSA ad spot collection for The National Ice Association, Interesting album there because each track was isolated from the others so that the DJ wouldn't have to worry about stopping the record when the selected ad spot had finished. The needle would just keep bumping up against the 'wall' seperating the current track from the next.

Nice finds and lots of good tunes on those.

Also my turntable is currently the Marantz TT5005, very similar to your recent review of the cheaper turntables. It seems to have the same stylus as your Audiotechnica. I'm loving it!

Awesome video and review!…thanks for sharing this with us!😎

Some great finds ! ...

The UK charity stores have nothing but junk in them now. Anything of note is sold via eBay or, particularly Oxfam, have a person who goes through them and puts a high value on anything of worth. Good for the charity's fund raising, but not so much fun for us who like to find that gem in the rubbish! CDs are just not worth much of a look unless you are into Jason Donovan, Steps 5 Star etc.

I tend to find that original pressings, including club editions (Columbia House / RCA Music Service) sound fantastic. I do like new pressings of rare albums but when vintage pressings of a title are readily available for the price of a cup of coffee or less, I'll go with vintage every single time. Records that aren't scratched but are just filthy can often be cleaned using soap and water or the glue peel method and will come out sounding NM. I have a copy of Jackson Browne's "Saturated When Wet" that sounded horrible when I first got it at an antique store. Rice Krispies, breakups, IGD, you name it. After cleaning it very thoroughly at least a half dozen time, doing the glue peel, alcohol, it sounded much better but I still wasn't terribly satisfied as there were passages where there was some breakup. However, I just kept playing it over the past few years and cleaning it with the dry brush. A couple of weeks I was listening, the house was quiet, and I realized that the record now sounds stellar! Whatever was stuck in those grooves broke loose with repeated plays and it has been restored to its full potential. If you have second hand records (not scratched or evidently bad pressings) that you've cleaned but they still don't sound great, just keep playing them and you may be surprised that over time they actually get better. Just keep using that dry brush before each play to eliminate the junk the needle has broken free.

I was crate digging in a flea market one day and came across a band called: The other ones, a pop rock/electronic band. They are from Germany and it was their debut album. It was still in shrink and cost 2€, i bought it. It sounded amazing and the album was really good. You should check them out, their debut was also released in the us. I checked discogs for their singles and albums, ordered some more. They are cheap. You can give one of their songs a play, it's called: Moments

That part where you were bending the 90 gram vinyl made me nervous. I was worried that you were just going to snap it in 2 by complete accident.

Can't beat some Lionel on vinyl

hope that you may share more purchases of budget LP purchases in the future. really enjoyed this video a lot 🎶🎶😊😊

The first use album I ever bought at a thrift store was KC and the Sunshine Band Greatest Hits. Slightly scratched but still played okay.