Fun video, i cant find any vinyl worth purchasing at any thrift stores. I do drop into one Thrift store in North Vancouver to pick through the shelves of cd's. $2 a disc plus my senior discount hahaha. Oh and the month of October is 50% off most everything for seniors 😊. Bought 11 cd's last week.
Thanks for watching! Most of the stock in our local thrift stores is fit for the dump. However I do find that classical is almost always in much better condition thatn rock/pop. Possibly an age thing. I have thousands of CDs and I do browse those too. Gotta love our semiors' discount!
Surprisingly, I’ve been doing fairly well at my local value village lately. I’ve been tempted a few times to dip my foot into some of the large classical box sets but it’s so far outside my knowledge based I haven’t taken the chance. Thanks for sharing!
Box sets can represent good value for money but only if you like what you hear! I do plenty of listening research here on YT and can soon tell if something is to my taste. As a rule composers of the 18th and 19th centuries are the easiest to get into. 20th century music became atonal.
Great video! Love that compilation box set I want to get more into classical, lately I have done good at my local thrift shops, got queens news of the world and David Bowies diamond dogs on vinyl
Thanks! It's a beautiful collection of some of the most important symphonies and beautifully recorded on Deutsche Grammophon. C$3! Great finds there! Ihave been a lifelong Bowie and Queen fan and have the earlier releases on vinyl. The track Rebel Rebel is terrific.
I've stopped going to thrift stores back in 2021...greedflation is in full bloom in Ontario. I can't be bothered to pay exorbitant prices from New to used anymore. Glad you found some treats
I agree, greed is ruining it. However in PEI MIssions Thrift Store charges 50c for classical and usually $1 for rock/pop. The latter is usually fit for the garbage bin but the classical is often well looked after. I find that older recordings are often cleaner than new vinyl so I'm happy to boost my classical collection on the cheap!
@@Perfectvirgo I dont have a ton of records ( 1350 ) but I have had many of my records for over 45 yrs...and they are all playable. I have a 'thing' about touching records...when I met my wife, the first time she came to my place I showed her my stereo (which I also still have) and records and told her I dont have many rules but one is never touch my records or my stereo hahaha 37 yrs later she still not allowed to touch my records haha
@@DarkSideOfThePepper That's rather funny. Always good to set ground rules early on! I sold the majority of my vinyl in the early 80s and embraced CDs of which I now have about 2,500. I have since re-acquired a few dozen 'must-haves' on vinyl. Since rekindling my interest in classical music I have been buying vinyl from a great source in Germany via Discogs.
What you bought were excerpts rather than a compilation, although the two have similar histories born from the 78 rpm age in that customers often bought discs not for themselves, but for others (Mother's Day in the U.S. especially) where shopkeepers might be given a general idea of what kind of music the customer was inclined to buy, and an album was assembled in a folio the shopkeeper supplied at a cost or possibly included with the determined number of discs was agreed upon, hence the expression "album" carried over into the LP age as well as the idea of excerpts organized from very long symphonic works that might catch the ear of the uncertain listener, but especially opera, which in itself was a driving concern to develop the LP.
The problem I find with classical music is there are too many quiet parts which really show up the imperfections in vinyl they really have to be pristine to be listenable. CD all the way for classical vinyl for rock 🤘🏻
I quite agree. CDs revolutionized the listening experience. People have many reasons for persisting with vinyl, not least the wide dynamic range which you mentioned. CDs don't have that to the same extent. Nonetheless collecting vinyl is probably more than just listening, it's the hunt, the find, the obsessive washing, static elimination etc etc!!
The D.G box is a gift. I am guessing the Leningrad record is probably one of the last 3 Tchaikovsky symphonies. They are considered to be reference performances. White-hot orchestral playing. Congrats on your good luck.
There are several other box sets there (probably donated from the same source) but nothing else that really grabbed me. I spent over an hour washing and vacuuming this lot and those I have sampled sound very good indeed for almost 70 years old! Yes, the Leningrad recording is Tchaikovsky's 5th. Shostakovich is the Warsaw Philharmonic and the rest are Berlin PO and the Berlin Radio SO.
Forgive my incomplete detective work, indeed this is quite a find. Just the Markevich, but Bohm and Jochum as well, Oistrach well done. The contents page for this set for sale online was not photographed well enough for me to decipher. You might consider arranging some close ups of these gems upon your presentation.
No probem at all. The contents page is part of a 17 page booklet and looks unread. I'll see if I can add more detail in my next vid. I normally don't buy compilations but this is a different category really and I can't pass up original DG offerings! Makes you woinder where it's been since 1956.
@@Perfectvirgo Looking around the internet, it appears to me the plumb in this pudding is Beethoven / David Oistrakh, 1961: Romance in G-dur, Op. 40 - Eugene Goossens and quite rich as I cannot find where the recording has ever existed before this release.
@@guywalker29 We may be talking abiout different collections. THis is the Discogs listing for the set I have: www.discogs.com/release/8160930-Various-A-Treasury-Of-The-Great-Symphonies
I not canadian but without these leeches charity shops would not exist from university students who buy cheap clothing to those who buys to cheap to sell on , to those who collect book or records ye all leeches according to u . Your comment is moronic
Fun video, i cant find any vinyl worth purchasing at any thrift stores. I do drop into one Thrift store in North Vancouver to pick through the shelves of cd's. $2 a disc plus my senior discount hahaha. Oh and the month of October is 50% off most everything for seniors 😊. Bought 11 cd's last week.
Thanks for watching! Most of the stock in our local thrift stores is fit for the dump. However I do find that classical is almost always in much better condition thatn rock/pop. Possibly an age thing. I have thousands of CDs and I do browse those too. Gotta love our semiors' discount!
Surprisingly, I’ve been doing fairly well at my local value village lately. I’ve been tempted a few times to dip my foot into some of the large classical box sets but it’s so far outside my knowledge based I haven’t taken the chance.
Thanks for sharing!
Box sets can represent good value for money but only if you like what you hear! I do plenty of listening research here on YT and can soon tell if something is to my taste. As a rule composers of the 18th and 19th centuries are the easiest to get into. 20th century music became atonal.
@@Perfectvirgo thanks for the tip. Cheers
Great video! Love that compilation box set I want to get more into classical, lately I have done good at my local thrift shops, got queens news of the world and David Bowies diamond dogs on vinyl
Thanks! It's a beautiful collection of some of the most important symphonies and beautifully recorded on Deutsche Grammophon. C$3!
Great finds there! Ihave been a lifelong Bowie and Queen fan and have the earlier releases on vinyl. The track Rebel Rebel is terrific.
I've stopped going to thrift stores back in 2021...greedflation is in full bloom in Ontario. I can't be bothered to pay exorbitant prices from New to used anymore. Glad you found some treats
I agree, greed is ruining it. However in PEI MIssions Thrift Store charges 50c for classical and usually $1 for rock/pop. The latter is usually fit for the garbage bin but the classical is often well looked after. I find that older recordings are often cleaner than new vinyl so I'm happy to boost my classical collection on the cheap!
@@Perfectvirgo I dont have a ton of records ( 1350 ) but I have had many of my records for over 45 yrs...and they are all playable. I have a 'thing' about touching records...when I met my wife, the first time she came to my place I showed her my stereo (which I also still have) and records and told her I dont have many rules but one is never touch my records or my stereo hahaha 37 yrs later she still not allowed to touch my records haha
@@DarkSideOfThePepper That's rather funny. Always good to set ground rules early on! I sold the majority of my vinyl in the early 80s and embraced CDs of which I now have about 2,500. I have since re-acquired a few dozen 'must-haves' on vinyl. Since rekindling my interest in classical music I have been buying vinyl from a great source in Germany via Discogs.
@@Perfectvirgo I have a pile of Classical Shellacs I havent even put into Dicogs yet
Good evening from Montreal, your channel popped up and enjoyed this. We are huge thrifters here… Nice finds right there ✌🏼. Am subbed
Hello there! Thrifting can be rewarding but many outlets are spoiling the fun with their adventurous pricing.
@@Perfectvirgo I totally agree
What you bought were excerpts rather than a compilation, although the two have similar histories born from the 78 rpm age in that customers often bought discs not for themselves, but for others (Mother's Day in the U.S. especially) where shopkeepers might be given a general idea of what kind of music the customer was inclined to buy, and an album was assembled in a folio the shopkeeper supplied at a cost or possibly included with the determined number of discs was agreed upon, hence the expression "album" carried over into the LP age as well as the idea of excerpts organized from very long symphonic works that might catch the ear of the uncertain listener, but especially opera, which in itself was a driving concern to develop the LP.
What I found at the Thrift Store was not excerpts. This is a boxed collection of 12 full symphonies spanning 10 LPs compiled by Deutsche Grammophon.
The problem I find with classical music is there are too many quiet parts which really show up the imperfections in vinyl they really have to be pristine to be listenable. CD all the way for classical vinyl for rock 🤘🏻
I quite agree. CDs revolutionized the listening experience. People have many reasons for persisting with vinyl, not least the wide dynamic range which you mentioned. CDs don't have that to the same extent. Nonetheless collecting vinyl is probably more than just listening, it's the hunt, the find, the obsessive washing, static elimination etc etc!!
The D.G box is a gift. I am guessing the Leningrad record is probably one of the last 3 Tchaikovsky symphonies. They are considered to be reference performances. White-hot orchestral playing. Congrats on your good luck.
There are several other box sets there (probably donated from the same source) but nothing else that really grabbed me. I spent over an hour washing and vacuuming this lot and those I have sampled sound very good indeed for almost 70 years old! Yes, the Leningrad recording is Tchaikovsky's 5th. Shostakovich is the Warsaw Philharmonic and the rest are Berlin PO and the Berlin Radio SO.
I found a Sheffield lab disc for a dollar Thelma Houston and pressure cooker it's pristine 😮
Greast find!
In UK these are car boot items.
Forgive my incomplete detective work, indeed this is quite a find. Just the Markevich, but Bohm and Jochum as well, Oistrach well done. The contents page for this set for sale online was not photographed well enough for me to decipher. You might consider arranging some close ups of these gems upon your presentation.
No probem at all. The contents page is part of a 17 page booklet and looks unread. I'll see if I can add more detail in my next vid. I normally don't buy compilations but this is a different category really and I can't pass up original DG offerings! Makes you woinder where it's been since 1956.
@@Perfectvirgo Looking around the internet, it appears to me the plumb in this pudding is Beethoven / David Oistrakh, 1961: Romance in G-dur, Op. 40 - Eugene Goossens and quite rich as I cannot find where the recording has ever existed before this release.
@@guywalker29 We may be talking abiout different collections. THis is the Discogs listing for the set I have: www.discogs.com/release/8160930-Various-A-Treasury-Of-The-Great-Symphonies
How wonderful to find a Barenboim on EMI. Where in Canada do you live?
I'm in PEI
Thrift stores are supposed to be for the poor. But leeches on the make use them.
One of ours charges more than Walmart for some everyday items. I'm happy to support the charities that back them but the greed is unpleasant.
I not canadian but without these leeches charity shops would not exist from university students who buy cheap clothing to those who buys to cheap to sell on , to those who collect book or records ye all leeches according to u . Your comment is moronic