Anyone ever purchase a mystery box of music/movies?

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

You all know what I'm talking about...a friend or at a garage sale you got a big box of CDs or Vinyl or DVDs and you pick it up for a real nominal fee...go home, go through the box like its a box of sports cards, and find some real gems in there?

A co-worker of mine recently said she had a box of CDs (180, she said, turned out to be like 150) and she was telling everyone how she wanted to get rid of it...I told her to bring it in, she said she wanted $20 for everything...

She brings it in, I just quickly glance and I see Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales, Dire Straits' self titled album, and Prince's Dirty Mind (I'm a big Prince fan, but I don't have a hard copy of this album)...anyway, I said fuck it, that's three albums for $20...

Bring it home, sure, I went through a lot of shit, Kidz Bop, and empty cases, but came out with probably 20-30 albums worthy of putting into the collection...some Jars of Clay, plenty of Sting, a little Bowie, Dances with Wolves soundtrack (surely, senser will at least appreciate), PM Dawn's first two albums, The Kinks, Jethro Tull, Nevermind album, Joshua Tree (I already have, but whatever), The Cars self titled album, Dire Straits Brothers In Arms...

Overall, not a bad haul for $20 bucks...also like 50+ "Greatest Hits" albums (I hate Greatest Hits albums for the most part) but what the fuck...

Any other stories of the MYSTERY BOX!?!?!?

 

[BrntO4Life]

I LOL'ed at Jars of Clay, but it does sound like a nice haul.

I should hit up some garage sales.

 

[NAHSTE]

I DON'T WANT YOUR BIG BOX OF PORN ANDY!

 

[krulmichael]

I DON'T WANT YOUR BIG BOX OF PORN ANDY!

Hah! I thought of the same exact thing when I read the title. Too bad I couldn't find the clip.

 

[MvP]

I've been thinking about going to garage sales around town in search of old CD's, DVD's, video games, sports cards, memorabilia, etc. and after reading this thread I'm definitely going to now.

You can't beat 150 CD's for $20.

edit: This thread also reminds me of I used to collect sports cards. The hobby store around here used to have a $5 mystery bag with a random assortment of old cards and packs. Don't think I ever got anything good out of them but I kept going back because I never knew what to expect out of it.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I LOL'ed at Jars of Clay, but it does sound like a nice haul.

I should hit up some garage sales.

It was their first album...I haven't listened to it since before I was in middle school. I gotta give it a listen. Also got Crash Test Dummies in that massive haul...must listen to it.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I've been thinking about going to garage sales around town in search of old CD's, DVD's, video games, sports cards, memorabilia, etc. and after reading this thread I'm definitely going to now.

You can't beat 150 CD's for $20.

edit: This thread also reminds me of I used to collect sports cards. The hobby store around here used to have a $5 mystery bag with a random assortment of old cards and packs. Don't think I ever got anything good out of them but I kept going back because I never knew what to expect out of it.

When you're a kid, a hobby card store is like...a place to be (or was when I was a kid)...but when you got older, you realized how shystie and scummy the owners of the place are.

There is nothing ever in the mystery bags but shitty extra cards this dude had laying around and the total of the package was about 1/5th of the $1 mystery pack.

Then the overpriced and marked up boxes, some of which are open that they surely steamed open the packs to get the good shit. The extremely high prices of their individual cards, nearly meeting Beckett value (who buys individual cards at Beckett value? lol).

What a buncha scumbags those guys are/were.