Albums you can always find at record stores that no one ever buys. Mainly thinking about LPs here, but CD examples are also cool.
>>130379806Threads noone wants
endless shite
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>>130379839go back to wpop
Endless Flight [Warner Bros., 1976]Like his great (also greater) exemplar, Leo has abandoned all pretensions mid-career (except on the title cut). And sure enough, Warners has now broken three big singles off this album, which makes 1977 the year of Leo Sayer the way 1976 was the year of Fleetwood Mac. Not quite as gratifying, is it? My pick for number four: "I Think We Fell in Love Too Fast," a natural for the young divorcee crowd. B
>>130379806Endless Flight was a cheap move on Sayer's part to milk some quick dosh from Americans; please don't think this album was his real self.
>>130380026Kek, was about to post this one. You KNOW this only sold big because that was really risque for the pre-Free Love era (even if it just barely predated it)
>>130380169Well aware, but hard to ignore an album with two number ones, also Thunder in My Heart easily was him trying to milk this shit even more
>>130379806Does it have Steve Lawrence or Andy Williams on the cover?
>>130380132>Cuckgau loves his lame disco pop hits album>otherwise hated his singer-songwriter materialOf course.
>>130380097Why are you faggots obsessed with this dude?
>>130379806I own this one. >>130380026And this one. >>130380185And obviously this one. I can post pics as proof if needed.
>>130380633>Dodges the question
>>130380633Beatles derangement syndrome
>>130380621This would be like the opposite of grail posting
>>130380846Well I have grails too I just live in a flea market-heavy state so I have a lot of thrifty stuff too. I enjoyed the albums, to be clear. Otherwise I wouldn't have kept them.
>>130379806REM - Monster
>>130380966yep, this is it.I was looking for Out of Time for a bit and at every store I went to this was the only REM album available.
>>130380966>>130381317Any idea of what the deal with this one is? Was it just a disappointment for people after their last two albums? Feels similar to why Be Here Now is so easy to find
Pablo Cruise Al Stewart
>>130381356It's considered one of their weakest, yes.
>>130379806Every Yes album except Fragile
>>130381595Close to the Edge too
>>130381471>Al StewartOn one of those gay ass spotify year review things it said I was one of the top Al Stewart fans >>130381356It was hugely popular at the height of CD buying with multiple radio hits. Later REM albums didn't sell as well and earlier ones were spread out on cassette LP and CD plus it doesn't really have the characteristic sound it's more distorted and grunge like Nirvana influenced
>>130381595>>130381635I find fragile and close to edge out in the wild all the time. The yes album, Relayer, tales of topographic oceans and going for the one, tormato and drama are more uncommon in my areas bins but still relatively common as far as prog records go. Yessongs is the one I have the most trouble finding
Amoeba Music was overflowing with Springsteen, Elton and Costello when I went. A whole lot of King Crimson and Jethro Tull. Not as much but still disappointing to see
>>130381317when i first started going to goodwill after all the record stores in my state closed i would come across every album REM ever released constantly. without a doubt i saw their stuff more than any other. i cant believe people bought so much in the first place>>130381356>Any idea of what the deal with this one is?REM fans seemed to get tired of them and dump their albums quickly it would seem. but that album came out at a time rock was on its way out. it was released towards the end of 1994. REM were old news by then
>>130382601>but that album came out at a time rock was on its way outI wouldn't say that. It wasn't until the second half of the 2000s after nu-metal and butt rock fatigue when it started to go out. Someone in the thread said the album had multiple radio hits but I was alive back then and I only remember one. Contrast that with (What's The Story) Morning Glory? which came out a year later and had multiple massive hits.
I should also add that in 94 I heard Losing My Religion played on the radio a lot more than I heard What's The Frequency Kenneth. REM wasn't dead they were just in a cultural holding pattern that they never escaped.
>>130382804guess when i say rock was on its way out i meant whatever bands that were considered rock before 91/92 because after that is when mtv switched to grunge only. sure you had a few older bands like metallica or bon jovi still around but even by the mid90s they were winding down when it came to hits. hell, so were many of the grunge era bands of that era... soundgarden broke up, alice in chains dissolved cobain was dead pearl jam became irrelevant after their second album
Rolling Stones and The Who
In the UK, this shit
>>130380026>>130380185Herb is one of the richest musicians in the world. This shit sold like hotcakes, they were mass produced so there's seemingly no end to their stock, but definitely not from a lack of no one wanting to listen.
i always see john denver in the discount and second hand bins.regarding books it tends to be noir pulp and isaac asimov stuff. they say science fiction literature went very hardly out of fashion.stores that have discount and second hand bins tend to carry mostly bullcrap.
>>130379806Late 70's pop rock records collect dust
>>130388789>>130387975My take is the more a given album was popular with women, the more likely it piles up unwanted in thrift stores.
>>130388817Huh, never thought of it like that but you're right. I recently read Kenny G's autobiography and he explains the origins of the marketing term/genre "smooth jazz." The record execs played some of his music (particularly the song Snowbird) to a bunch of women between the ages of 18 and ~40, since they were the ones requesting music like this on radio stations. One of the participants coined the term "smooth jazz," all the other participants agreed that was a great name for it, and it's stuck ever since. I always find lots of smooth jazz and lounge stuff when browsing used records, and your comment just clicked it all together. Damn. Thank you, aged women, for a huge chunk of my collection.
>>130387330Also this is in every Poundland
>>130388817Yes. See also: 500 copies of The Atkins Diet and Breaking Dawn at every Goodwill
>>130390657So you're saying that your collection is filled with a bunch of junk
>>130390877Oh come on, there's some good smooth jazz out there. Grover Washington, Ramsey Lewis, Spyro Gyra, Jeff Lorber, Bob James, Casiopea, the Laws brothers, The Rippingtons, all of them made great smooth stuff
>>130379806Sonic Youth
>>130388789>Late 70's pop rock records collect dustno. i never see actual albums by 70s or 80s artists and doubt they would collect dust even if donated. the only thing i see by classic rock acts are greatest hits compilations. mostly by james taylor, elton john, bread, billy joel & rod stewart. i see all 4 discs of his storyteller box set constantly at goodwill
I see this album at Goodwill and a few other thrift stores I peruse sometimes.
>>130391979>i never see actual albums by 70s or 80s artistsAs someone who has been to flea markets and thrift stores constantly since middle school: That is a blatant lie. Albums from the 70s are their bread and butter. That's where a lot of the juicy niche forgotten stuff is. Yeah, you'll occasionally get some 60s lounge and jazz singers but for the most part a lot of it is obscure 70s Fusion and R&B gems. (Maybe it's a state by state basis but in my area I've gotten tons of luck with thrifting).
>>130380966Automatic For The People was R.E.M.'s last good record
>>130388789Nah Eddie Money was great the fuck you smokin?
>>130390657My mom really liked him before going full Christian inspirational.
>>130380097Literally who
>>13039466950s Jack Antonoff
*blocks your path*
>>130382601>every albumeven the IRS stuff?
>>130392031how did they sell so many records but have zero profile? i don't even know the lead singer's name. shit, *is* there a lead singer?
>>130392347New Adventures in Hi-Fi is pretty good. For me it's when Bill Berry left that REM really lost it.
>>130388789i will not allow eddie money slander on this board
>>130395174Hootiehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE9PUexeUv0
>>130391979Goodwill is truly a garbage heap when it comes to records, but slightly more curated thrift stores always have tons of 70s stuff
67th post lolSIX SEEEVEN SIX SEEEVEN
>>130380026Anyone with any crate digging experience whatsoever can confirm you could keep warm for the rest of your life using Herb Alpert records as campfire fuel
leo's sayer lol
>>130399242I would cum on his face
