[Fresh Wind]

My rule of thumb: If the record is cheap and you’ve never seen it before, BUY IT! You get stuck with a lot of trash, but you also get some real gems.

There are plenty of white obscurities too. I always had a preference for rockabilly, hot country, and garage bands.

Back in those days, every kid (black or white) had a fantasy of being the next big star, and most of them never made it, but they certainly tried.

[duckman]

“You get stuck with a lot of trash, but you also get some real gems.”
That didn't happen to me that often, I had several portable phonographs, I would take with me, that were battery operated, so you could hear the record first before you decided to buy. Also I went with several collector buddies that had the same phono’s. So if they were playing something different and I liked it I would grab one out of the stack. I never thought the music would be around that long else I would have picked up multiple copies.