CHARITY SHOP EXCURSIONS - PART 4

Digging in a box of Charity Shop records:

Here we go again! – I was in the local town centre this morning visiting the Post Office to send a few CDs to their new owners, having sold a Blues Project and a Rubble overnight. Selling duplicate compact discs is proving to be a decent little side-earner to top up my monthly work pension.

I couldn’t resist having another look inside the British Heart Foundation, just to check on the records I left behind yesterday. Most of them were still unsold, I noticed that the Siouxsie & the Banshees album was nowhere to be seen.

Some I never mentioned yesterday were two Japan LPs, a Mighty Lemon Drops and Altered Images second album with their big hit ‘I Could Be Happy’. The cover looked rather cheeky, pink and blue. I can’t remember the price the shop wanted for it. Perhaps a fiver. Maybe I’ll give that one a go next time.

This morning I paid up for ‘Porcupine’ by Echo & the Bunnymen, at £8 and a handful of singles. Among them The Primitives, The Jesus & Mary Chain and an old one from Kim Wilde. You know at £2 each, they’re worth bringing home. I’m sure they’ll all be sparkling with newness once I’ve given them a spit and polish with some Shimmer ‘Vinyl Record Cleaner’.