Viva La Vinyl!

Before you say yard sales are for welfare recipients and junk hoarders, consider this; over the past week, I have picked up the following VINYL albums at yard sales...

RUSH - Archives (basically, Rush's first three albums)
RUSH - Exit... Stage Left (double live album)
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
THE POLICE - Ghost In the Machine
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
QUEEN - The Game
QUEEN - News Of The World
MEAT LOAF - Bat Out Of Hell
PETER FRAMPTON - Frampton Comes Alive!
NAZARETH - Greatest Hits
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - The River (double album)
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO - Double Fantasy
SUPERTRAMP - Breakfast In America
KISS - Love Gun
TROOPER - Hot Shots
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
OZZY OSBOURNE - Diary Of A Madman
GARY NUMAN - The Pleasure Principle (yes, the one with "Cars")
JOHN COUGAR - American Fool
ROLLING STONES - Greatest Hits Vol. I (a TV-advertised best of, featuring lots of the big ones)

Grand total? $4.20. Not too shabby, huh?

Also picked up a case of 30 cassettes, including some good ol' cock rock (Skid Row, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Poison, The Cult, Alice Cooper, Ratt, Ugly Kid Joe, Extreme, G n'R), early grunge (TWO Pixies tapes, Odds, Bootsauce, Rollins Band, Screaming Trees and Pearl Jam's "Ten"... if I get it on vinyl I'll have it in all three major formats...), a few true classics (Beatles' "Abbey Road" for one), as well as a few so bad they must be owned (Technotronic, Digital Underground, Naughty By Nature) and a few for Carrie (NKOTB, Radikal Techno, and "Rap It Up", a K-Tel style mix featuring Maestro Fresh-Wes, MC Hammer and Sir Mix-a-lot among others).

Grand total? $3.00.

So, the music collections a group of random people likely invested hundreds of dollars into, I raped and pillaged for about seven bucks. Now... wanna go yard saling next Saturday?

ADDENDUM: So, after listening to one of my Rush albums, I'm pleasantly surprised to find an ORIGINAL KISS "Rock And Roll Over" sticker, unpeeled! Jesus Crow, I wonder what THIS'll fetch on eBay?