epic thrift store jaunt.

[bill]

ok ok ok i know i said i was out and done with the recent m70 aquistion.
however just rev up the exusatron 9000,bandmate comes over this morning.
shows up with his guitar and well niether of us was really feeling much like tracking anything today so we both decided to make a thrift store run of thrift store runs.
yes he is a thrift store hound too but him and i both collect things totally different from eachother so it works out pretty good.to make a long story short i hit seventeen thrift stores today between here and chilliwack and well.
its pretty dry out there for used electronics of any worth. a few interesting sets of speakers here and there but nothing really cool.
interesting to note tho as we got further aways from the city the prices went lower and lower on somethings.
somethings out of wack tho i mean old furniture just outrageously priced right now.
could have scooped some pretty nice early pioneer 5.1 recievers but not my thing.
no boomboxes of any worth in the travels. i mean i just dont buy the eggs of the nineties. not my thing at any price really.
unless its a cobra top of merit i am just not down with them.
a couple of the lack luster sonys of the same era i just was really surprised at how skimpy the pickings were. this was the morning time and there was little to no traffic on the roads.
so all in all we traveled probably two hundred or so miles today and not a single boomer worth grabbing. been a while since any 80s boomers have been seen on the shelves around here.

 

[MasterBlaster84]

Dang bill that's a uber trip, 200 miles and 17 thrift stores. I'm not surprised by what you found, dissapointed yes but not surprised. So it appears your rural stores price items lower, I'm going to have to pay attention to that and see if it's the same around me although I doubt I'll drive 200 miles to do it.

 

[bill]

Dang bill that's a uber trip, 200 miles and 17 thrift stores. I'm not surprised by what you found, dissapointed yes but not surprised. So it appears your rural stores price items lower, I'm going to have to pay attention to that and see if it's the same around me although I doubt I'll drive 200 miles to do it.

there was some cool stuff out there.
but not anything i was after.
i wont lie i did toss and turn over the amazing hundred dollar elka synth organ i saw.
i mean it was just incredible looked like it must have been close to the ten grand mark back in the day maybe more.
i just could not bring something that huge into the house.
this province is a thrift store mecca.
i mean there is so many of them in british columbia and there is still places things including boomboxes show up.
i am afraid tho much of them have been dropped off at the recyclers tho.

its illegal to put them in the regular garbage now wich is why they seldomly turn up at the roadside on trash day.

there is still al lot of people who are in our age group with a boombox from back in the day tucked aways in the closet.
the best we can really hope for is some of them making there way to the thrifts in the coming years to keep this hobby going.
oh wait i said i wasnt going to get any more boxes after my m70.