Oddity Archive: Episode 265.2 - Archive Thrifting #24: The Delicate Sound of Thrifting
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2023
- Some things don’t come easy…like the first thrifting video of 2023 (more than halfway into the year, no less).
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Love the thrifting videos. :) It's always fun to see what you find, and what you have to say about it. I noticed that quick shot of the Marineland banner - I live about 40 minutes from there. It's still around but doesn't function as a sea-life park anymore. It's mostly a dolphin encounter/research facility now. But I still have a stuffed dolphin I got from a gift shop there during a field trip when I was a kid. And yes, this is a lot to say about a one second shot in the video. :)
Man these UA-cam ads from 'Secret ice hacks' to 'Schools A/C system fails and genius student invents new system to cool your room in 3 minutes' would be good fodder in 20 years
I got one for a Bob Marley biopic.
The ads I get are far more boring, but maybe it's because it's just on the smart TV and I'm not logged in on that.
The ads for toenail fungus remedies are WORSE. 🤮
@@luisreyes1963 you mean the one where the fungus lifts up the nail like a car trunk?
It's always Temu ads for me.
Watch that crap die within a year.
7:35 The Visitors was THE FIRST album ever on CD. There was a test pressing before CD’s were officially released. Those go for about $500 each now!
I'm 99.9% sure there were already a few classical releases--definitely among the first few pop albums though. As for my copy, it's probably from 1988-89--the text (especially the Polydor logo) would be a lot chunkier if it were c. 1983.
@@OddityArchive Definitely the first pop album. The original pressing had blue ink on the disc and was on the Polar label.
Any disc before 1988 I find, always has that guff about how to play CDs and the rest of it, like this early 80s technology was so awesome that our late 80s brains could not digest it. The Visitors came out in October 1981, the first CDs were not offically released until Dec 1982. Most artists only started issuing CDs from early 1983 and often did an old album first to test waters. Prince has Controversy from 1981 issued on a CD in March 1983, rather than the current album 1999, which was released in Aug 1983, but with a song missing as the first CDs could only handle 73 minutes.
The best part about '80s CD releases is that labels still cared about dynamic range and frequency response back then. Unlike later re-releases, many of which were casualties of the Loudness Wars.
@@OddityArchiveIf it says “Made in USA by PDO” then it’s late 80s or early 90s. Earlier ones were made in “W. Germany”.
I love your thrifting videos. You find such interesting things. That Mole Eliminator box, I think the moles tried to eliminate it before it landed on the shelf!
A breast pump, a 45 of "beer drinking music" & a Mole Eliminator. Your trips to the thrift stores are never dull, Benny-boy! 🤣
Delicate Sound of Thunder was re-released in 2020 on Blu-ray, but it’s a remaster/re-edit of the version that appeared back in 1988 on VHS and LD (I believe those are the same versions). So if you want a copy on modern media, it is not the same as the VHS and LD (though it is quite good).
I was blissfully unaware of that one, but like I said, "Delicate Sound..." is my least favorite Floyd release. Knew about the re-recorded parts of "Momentary Lapse..." though, but I've already got a perfectly good copy of the (perfectly good) late 90's remaster, so I didn't really care.
18:57 I think I have an idea who you are imitating here Benny, nice one!
Whether or not he'd appreciate it is anyone's guess though.
@@OddityArchive Ha,, that's true...
shango66? certainly sounds like him.
I'd like to think Shango would appreciate it.
@@OddityArchive Only thing missing in my opinion was a reference to "twerkulating"
You were right the first time on the hit records. Great find on the Floyd. Good hunting Ben. Shame on the Pat Benatar and you are right on America's Greatest hits.
I got burned by the "wrong tape in video box for something I wanted" situation. Over a decade ago I bought what I thought was a tape of the obscure 1986 Robin Williams movie The Best Of Times (don't judge) from Embassy Home Entertainment at a Goodwill, but when I got home I saw to my horror there was a god damn Sex And The City tape in there. I never thought anyone would do something like that but at the next opportunity I dumped the boxless tape at another Goodwill. I kept the box not only because I didn't want to mislead anyone at the other Goodwill but also as a reminder to check if I ever decide to go video thrifting again. P.S. Got the movie on a vanilla DVD eventually.
I've probably been burned by this more than once, but I only remember one of these where the contents didn't match the cover. I bought Split Enz' "Enz Of An Era" on vinyl from a thrift store, but the record inside was "Big Music" Machinations, an Australian new wave band from the '80s. Whilst I was really jonesing for Split Enz, Machinations were pretty good too. Ideally I'd have both albums and both covers, but what are ya gonna do?
This is a video game example, but one time I almost bought Call of Duty MW2 on Xbox 360 thinking it was Guitar Hero 3.
Me being a huge Three Stooges fan, I would’ve totally picked up that PC game even though I couldn’t play it because I have a Mac but for collectors purposes, totally be in my collection
21:22 i literaly gasped, somthing about that is morbidly hilarious
For the life of me, every time I find 8-tracks for sale thrifting, invariably there will be at least one Kenny Rogers tape.
I would've loved to tote the ECT machine to the front of the store and sheepishly ask them if there was somewhere I could test it. They probably would've stared me down and said, "yeah, at home".
HOLY SHIT! i didnt know who dude was on the clock till you turned it over. and i saw home girl from Little Britain on the back Vicki Poulard. and that yea but no but yea, line.
Seeing Vicky Pollard on the back made it much easier to date that Billy clock. Would have to be somewhere between 2005 and 2008.
You can now call The Visitors ABBA's final album for 40 years as of course the album Voyage came out a couple of years ago which included the songs I Still Have Faith In You & Don't Shut Me Down.
Hey Ben, you should run the gamut for Record Ripoff next season, you've got material from the 60's,70's, 80's, and 90's!
If I can get a functional At The Movies/TV albums RR thing together, you might see a 70's/80's/90's all-at-once thing.
Timely appearance of the John Fogerty CD there - I have one right in front of me waiting to be listened to! (LOL). I'll get around to it sometime, I'm sure.
I need to go down to Sioux Falls, those thrift stores have a better selection of cassette tapes than the thrift stores around here.
Hey I have one of those little shop of horrors "starring Jack Nicholson" tapes and yeah it was probably more of an afterthought like after he got famous they decided to slap his name on it.
Surprised you skipped right past the Battling Tops.
6:07 Not just any old breast pump, but New Zealand's #1 brand of breast pump
What an interesting thrift shop sight at 18:00.... A high rated GameCube game on the left, Pink Floyd on LaserDisc in the middle, and on the right, a DVD collection of WWE Elimination Chamber matches called Satan's Prison. Funny that it has that name since that DVD set was released in 2010, when WWE was in the beginnings of it's infamous "PG" era when they tried to make their kind of wrestling more "family friendly". If I was at 605 Antiques, I would have bought the GameCube game, but maybe not the WWE DVD since it looks to be in rough shape and better condition copies are easily available online. Those scattered Christmas VHS tapes on the shelves would also fill my shopping bag too. 😁
My copy of Magic Star Traveler doesn't even have the whole thing on the tape 😂
America's Greatest Hits looks like one of the OA title cards! HISTORY LESSON ding!
Too bad the Pat Benatar tape didn't end up sounding well - Shadows of The Night is superb!
Good thing I've already got the (original Chrysalis) CD.
@@OddityArchive Yes indeed. The video for Shadows was also really neat if only because I am a huge World War II buff. It also starred Judge Reinhold!
Trivia: The cover of that America album was drawn by the late Phil Hartman.
As was the Poco horse and a few others. Ridiculously talented guy.
Not only is the thrifting not nearly as good as it was years ago, the number of (and quality) of garage sales is also way, way down since the pandemic. Locally we have had 1/5 the number of yard sales this year that we had in 2020.
90 minutes on one piece of vinyl? What did they do, roll off the 'bass' at 200hz?!
Big Science one of the greatest albums ever
20:30 Combo units with HDMI are rare? My parents have one, but maybe they're just more common in the UK. The output is encrypted, but a splitter fixes that.
HDMI on the VHS side, not just the DVD side?
I totally would’ve grabbed that hams 45.. just bizarre
You didn’t even LOOK at the CEDs? And how did you get those price tags off the 45s? I couldn’t believe when I saw a store near here stick those on the playing surface.
They're the exact same ones that were there last time I shot a segment at that store (Thrifting episode #21 - 10/2022), so, check that one out for a stroll through them--nothing of real note. I've seen some of those exact same discs jump from store to store since visits to town as far back as 2011.
Additional Comment: The 3 Stooges tape via Anchor Bay might be one of the better ones, rather than a more unknown named cheaper release. Just saying!
That is an awesome pile of crap. You should have brought the camp cat in a pumpkin thing and the ghost.
Don't know where I'd store it--and if I tried to put it out at Halloween, the frosty season has usually already started around here by then, so I fear they wouldn't survive.
There are legitimate therapeutic uses for ECT, but I don't think it's something you should DIY.
I can tell this was all filmed on green screen at Skywalker Ranch.
Ya got me. I'm not proud.
Would not the products be better deals then?
@michaelcarpenter2498 Dramatic license, ya know.
Man that Mole Decapitator was awful 😬 no way that thing kills humanely
The name alone should have been a red flag. 🚩
Knock out huh? seems like it might've been similar to Jenga
Pretty much. Jenga for noise/toy-obsessed 90's kids.
"Boys Next Door" Gee, what popular '90s group does that sound like a near-synonym of? 🙄
Guys Next Door was a group put together for a Saturday morning TV show, at the height of New Kids on the Block’s popularity.
What kind of poor-hearted soul would want to donate a shock therapy machine to an antique store?
Old hospital trying to offload the evidence and knowing someone will want an original "Halloween prop" or perhaps some psycho wanting a real torture device. Thrift stores attract all sorts.
It's worse than that. Antique stores usually _buy_ stuff to resell, and someone actually sold it to them. The fact that the owner thought that an ECT machine would sell suggests to me that there's at least one ECT machine collector out there.
What was blurred out of the Bob Seger tape earlier?
Looks like a label with a name on it.
Name and address. Would've been an unintentional doxing on my part if I didn't censor it.
@@OddityArchive good reason.
For those wondering about the Three Stooges game, it looks pretty cheap. There are no longplays of it on UA-cam, only about a minute or two's worth of gameplay. But as a Three Stooges fan, I would like to see someone play it in their entirety just to make sure if I'm right or not LOL😆
Which version of Centerfield? Zanz Kant Danz or Vanz Kant Danz?
Vanz. Never seen a copy of the original "Zanz" in person.
@@OddityArchive that’s definitely hard to find on cd. But, I have the Zanz issue on vinyl.
An Oddity Archive video that's well a little odd? No I expect my Archive content to be completely normal and milquetoast! Oh wait it's the other way around that's right. It just wouldn't be the same otherwise. Keep up the good work.
I am so disappointed that you didn't cover that classic amazing WWE DVD Satan's prison! It features some of the best elimination chamber matches of that era. Featuring such Legends as Randy Orton and The Undertaker. It was sitting right there instead you just talked about Pink Floyd man. Very very disappointed.
I have a big fat zero interest in wrestling.
@@OddityArchive I honestly didn't know that. Since you're such a man with a vast knowledge of many many things I thought maybe wrestling was something you would be in to.
oddity archive AND pink floyd references in one upload? nice
I never find anything interesting if I'm dragged along to one of these stores. Not something I'd buy or something so bad it's hilarious. Went to one over the weekend, and zip. The book section looked like it was kept in the world's dampest basement, especially the kid's books which looked like if I touched one, I'd get some sort of tropical disease. Who knows what horrible bodily excretions were all over those. Kids are gross. Anyway, that last store felt like a mine field for a certain "D" company.
I truly despise public domain releases 😖
8:27 The one or two original artists(?) on that CD (8:27), I doubt they are original. The rest are pretenders trying to pass themselves off as the original performers of whatever songs are on that CD. And it's CDs like that which made me stop buying CDs altogether and just make my own.
7:40 I was always hitting the 'unsubscribe' button (joke, but I would be disappointed) if you did not got that ABBA album, the first commercial CD released album. I would like to known how it sounds since those early releases are sometimes poorly transferred, my early issue of Jethro Tull's The Broadsword and the Beast is a good example of an awful cd release.
22:28 yes, heavily overdubbed too. Still, it is an late 1980's live album that sounds like an 1980's live album, which, unlike P. U. L. S. E., it was shot on film instead of tape and looks awesome on the recent re-released remastered version. It's sad that they are (like many) ashamed of the 1980's and tried to make is sound less 1980's by adding more unused period correct Keyboard recordings from the late Richard Write (which is very good) but they ruined it by replacing all the drums with newly recorded drums in 2019 by Nick Mason. (they did the same with A Momentary Lapse of Reason).
“I was all ready to blast Shadows of the Night.”
Ah, the Rachel Sweet version is better anyway…
…which I also have.
Why was the Bob Seger cassette case censored and later removed?
There was a sticker with someone's name and address. Given that the tape is probably from the 90's (definitely not a 1980 original issue), I figured that person could still be at that address and that I could very well be inadvertently doxing someone if I left it uncensored, so out it went.
@@OddityArchive Oh I see, yeah I have a couple with that but they are all on the inside of the j-card. Never occurred that someone would put it on the front.
@@OddityArchive That doesn't make sense to me. Not the blurring of the address, but the fact someone would put a label on the case rather than the cassette or j-card. What's stopping someone from stealing the cassette and j-card and leaving the case behind?