Had A Great Time

We both had a great time this last weekend. I let us spend way too much money, but oh well. I did manage to pick up some choice vinyl. I picked up a still sealed Meet The Beatles album. Not the very first issue on Capital, but the one issued on the Apple/Capital label. Got that for 40 bucks. I usually don't go that high on just one record, but this is mint/mint. I could probably turn around and sell it for twice that if I wanted too, but, I'm keeping it. I also picked up an original Elvis Christmas album from 1957 for a buck......LOL. The cover is in pretty rough shape, but the wax is pristine.

Now, I have a little story to tell. Last year we went to this sale at a house an old couple were having, I noticed an 8-track tape player that they had priced at 3 bucks. I did not pick it up, and kicked myself in the ass all weekend because I didn't get it. Flash forward to this year. Same old couple, having a sale. I stopped thinking that perhaps they didn't sell the player last year and have it out again this year. Odds are they sold it last year, but figured I'd try.

Well, they still had it!!! It was marked 15 bucks this year!!! WTF! I asked the lady if it worked. She did not know but stated that it was her sons and added that he would not have put it out, if it did not work. I handed it to her and she was going to plug it in to test it. She then noticed that in order to test it fully she would need to hook it up to something else with the "red and white" wires. I informed her that it had to be hooked up to an amplifier, which she did not have. I then stated that there was no way to test it, and I was not sure that it worked, I offered her 5 bucks. She took it. Sweet!!!

After I "broke the ice" so to speak the lady mentioned that off to the side and hard to see was a garage full of stuff for sale. I went in there and started picking around. I noticed about 2-3 stacks of 45 records. Went to the first stack, nothing but the usual crap....kids records, songs from the 70's and 80's....crap. Went to the second stack. Same. The 3rd stack was different.

This stack contained about 75 records. ALL ELVIS!!!!! I was shocked. I looked through them and about 70% of the stack were the originals from the 50's on the RCA/Victor label including about 10 EP's! There were no picture sleeves, but, oh well. I was excited anyways. I stood there for a sec and thought about it. Ok, there were three stacks in here. I could go out and make an offer on all of the records, but did not want them, just the Elvis ones. This was a collection that somebody put together and they kinda knew what they had, I think. I decided to just go for the Elvis records. I spoke to the lady, she looked at them and said that she wanted 100 bucks!!! I almost fell over! No way was I gonna give her that much. We haggled for a little while and I ended up walking out of there with all the Elvis records for 30!!!! Ha!! I wasn't really sure what was in there until I got them home. Looked through them a couple nights ago. I definitely got my money's worth!!!!! As a side note as I was speaking with the lady about the Elvis records, her husband told me that he served with Elvis in the Army!!! He went to boot camp with him and met him!!!! WOW!! I talked to that guy for about 20 minutes. He told me all about his dealings with Elvis. He actually met and spoke with Elvis on several occasions. Man, that was cool. That's another reason I like going to sales like this. Meeting the people. I do really hate people, but speaking with elderly people and hearing the stories about their lives is kinda neat.

Well, that was on the 2nd day. The other 2 are pretty much uneventful. I was concentrating on old video games and systems, but everybody was asking way to much for their junk. I only ended up buying about 4-5 games. In the vinyl dept. however, I added about 400 45's and close to 300 albums. On the last day at around closing time we stopped at a flea market type set up with a bunch of dealers. We had stopped here before so I knew what was there. I wanted to talk to a lady that had the unopened Beatles records. I got the one I mentioned up top and continued to another guy that I knew had a bunch of albums. It was around 7 PM Sunday night, all the dealers were loading up their crap. The guy with the records still had his stuff out.

I walked over and he had about 6 milk crates full of albums. I had already went through 3 of them, so I knew what the majority of the records consisted of, no money records in there just old rock and 80's music. There were alot of extended mixes in there that I did not have of music that I liked. I got to looking at them and a lady stated that the guy was ready to deal for the whole lot. The guy walked up and I asked what he wanted for all of them. He wanted me to make an offer. Well, I did not want to insult the guy so I said 50 bucks, figured we would start there. He took it.......Fuck!!! He took my first offer. He didn't want to load all these records, man wish I would have known that. I probably could of offered him 30 and he would have taken it. Oh well. Got to talking to the guy and he informed me that he runs into records all of the time. I advised him that I am a collector, not a seller and that these records that I got from him are going on my shelf to be listened to by me and enjoyed. I gave him my email and advised him of what I am looking for, any Elvis, Beatles, Buddy Holly, and everything from the 50's, 60's and 70's. So perhaps I made a good contact. It took me awhile, but I managed to fit all of those records in the truck. It was fucking packed full.

So, all in all, the lady and I had a great time. She picked up a bunch of crap for her kitchen and the rest of the house. I got a ton of vinyl. This years 127 sale rocked!! It was a good vacation.