A friend and I drove to Quakertown Farmer's Market today in search of music. There are usually a lot of cheap CDs floating around there and I had a hankering for some "new to me" stuff that I can rip and then resell to secondspin.com.
Off the top of my head I bought System of a Down's Mezmerize, The Essence of Dave Brubeck which is not listed in his discogography so it's a cheapy compilation by an old record company most likely, Melissa Ethridge's Your Little Secret, Kiss Psycho Circus, Everlast's Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, They Might Be Giants John Henry and Otis Redding Live In Europe for $11. Later I picked up Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions (the Australian version which contains Sweet Child O' Mine) for $1.
What's crazy is, after going through 4 or 5 vendor's CDs, we were spent. It was hot and sunny and you can only look through so many. I was happy with my take and shut it down. I'll go back in the fall and check out the other vendors. I'd much rather find a family selling their collection than go through a dealer's stuff, but some dealers price extremely well starting at $1 and going to $3. It makes going to a used CD store worthless. I passed on a few I maybe should have bought but I also had Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in a bag which were getting heavy to lug around at this huge venue. The hardbacks were printed in 1961 and had a nice look to them so I thought I'd buy them for the bookshelf, even if I never get around to reading them. I paid $4 for the set.
If you can put up with body odor and 75% of the crowd not speaking English, it's a good way to waste 2-3 hours on a Sunday morning.
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Might be interested in the Otis Redding, Everlast, and System of a Down. Probably have all the tracks on the Brubeck already.
You should read The Illiad and The Odyssey. They are great stories. Watching O' Brother Where Art Thou isn't enough!
Can you tell us what languages you had to speak to negotiate prices on each of your CDs?
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