121623 • Thrift Store Finds

Pretty good haul considering we only went to one thrift store today. All of the seasons of Parks and Recreation, although at full price, still pretty cheap. Three seasons of That ’70’s Show, and a Blu-ray of seasons one and two, with a lot of extras, of Twin Peaks. I’m going to get the more recent “third” season of the show when I start watching these. I was so mad when they cancelled the show, leaving us with that cliffhanger of an ending… it’s good that they finally fixed that, twenty-five years later! As I recall, in the original show, it was mentioned that in twenty-five years, such-and-such would happen… and they actually did it in that time frame!

I also had to buy all of the Christopher Nolan / Christian Bale / Hanz Zimmer: Batman soundtracks on digital, but I actually found The Dark Knight soundtrack in great shape! That was a big find for me.

And this Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegal looks to be really good, he talks about the piece before he plays them.

We hit the thrift long after lunch, so considering it was that time of the day, we did pretty good. I have to wonder what I might have missed, though!

121123 • Thrift Store Finds

I paid full price for these as it was a Monday, but they were still all very cheap considering what they would cost from anywhere else… especially Amazon, where the shipping for each book costs more than a book from this thrift store! A bonus: Most of these are only a few years old; meaning, somebody paid full-price for them, not too long ago. Usually, newer books have access to more information than older ones do, often due to newly opened archives and other new sources, which leads to different perspectives and new conclusions.

I like both old books and new ones, but I don’t like paying full-price! These wouldn’t have lasted long if they had made it to Saturday, which is half-off day, and when I’m usually there. Basically, I got twelve really good books for the price of just over one new one!

One has to wonder where these came from, though. Did someone pass away, and their books were taken to the thrift for easy disposal? Is this one of those wackos who reads a book, and then gets rid of it? Did these find their way to the thrift because of a bad divorce? Who knows. But whoever had them last, had good taste!