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I am with you guys on the Audiogon thing. I pretty much purchased my whole system on Audiogon. I no longer use a CD player at all. Turntable is the center of my system. I am fortunate that I have been collecting clean vinyl for about 15 years and have amassed about 10K of them over the years. It seems that I am seeing fewer and fewer collectable records at yard sales and such. I guess the word has gotten out that people are paying big bucks for prime vinyl on eBay. I however did get lucky earlier this year. A friend turned me on to an old guy who had a few boxes of records he was looking to sell. Turned out the guy was a jazz/blues DJ in NY/NJ in the mid to late sixties. To make it short I pick up 700 records. 160 original Blue Notes pre 1966. Mostly W 63rd and W 61st addresses. The rest were NY USA and about 20 Lexington avenues. All VG++ to M-As for the rest of the lot? Just more minty Prestige, Riverside, Impulse, Contemporary, Columbia (6 eye and 360 labels), Atlantic blacks as well as purple and brown monos, Cadet and a bunch of original blues on Chess, Checker, Imperial, Bluesway & ABC, King, Duke, Atlantic and Solid State By far the best find of my life. Did I mention that I am into records?
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