Vinyl Bargains, what was yours?

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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,985
    I grabbed a Tom Petty's She's the One used vinyl for $40. It was in pristine condition. I think that's about my best score.
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,292
    all the sealed albums for $300, courtesy of a dude in a million
  • j_web18
    j_web18 Posts: 186
    I don't know if this is my best score, but in the summer of 2003 I got a Riot Act LP from, of all places, the bargain bin at the Virgin Megastore Times Square. It was closing shortly thereafter.
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  • Porchsitter
    Porchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,092
    Bought "Yield" on the Bay in 2004 for $35. A few weeks later I found "No Code" for $15 at a local record store. Those were good days.
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  • Kearn5y
    Kearn5y Ireland Posts: 3,099
    Got Yied for about €34 from an amazon.de marketplace seller about 2 years ago.
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  • JM12271
    JM12271 Posts: 211
    Forgot - purchased Yield a week before it was released for $10. Local record store guy new I collected PJ and called me when he got his copies early. Best part - new the songs prior to the radio broadcast that weekend. Ah. Memories.
  • nickmg8
    nickmg8 Posts: 7
    Just thought of another one - I got a used original peach colored Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream last year at a shop in SF for $15.
  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    edited March 2023
    Every PJ record I bought at the time seems like a bargain now.
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  • Karojo820673
    Karojo820673 Posts: 201
    edited May 2014
    1 copy of VS. 2 Vitalogy, No Code, Yield and Binaural free. I got 2 because I would get my dad a copy as well. He gave them back this a past year. The rest were bought when released
  • SmeeDogg1
    SmeeDogg1 Dublin Posts: 21
    Got the avocado lp on eBay last year real cheap because the seller made an error and listed it under the name "same" for some reason!! Couldn't believe my luck :)
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    PJ_Soul said:

    onejourney... said:

    I got Benaroya Hall LP set for $35 plus shipping...;)

    Haha, yeah, I got Vault #3 for $45, Sevens for $55, and a coke bottle Ten for $30! :-bd
    Whoa, me too!

    As far as secondary market goes, I got a mint copy of Binaural off eBay a few years go for $80 because the person selling it did a terrible job posting it (his listing description was awful) and the auction completely flew under the radar and I just happened to stumble upon it.
  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    one of my first purchases off ebay in early 2000's I think, was the original soldier field vinyl for 35 bucks plus shipping.
    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • thebrig
    thebrig Posts: 395
    In 2004 one of the local Tower Records stores was closing and I went to see what I could find a couple of days before the doors shut. Sitting all by itself on a shelf was Lost Dogs for $16. Walked out the door feeling pretty stoked! On the secondary market I found a sealed copy of Avocado from a small online store for $125 in 2012. SO glad I picked that up when I did! It's the only PJ vinyl I have that's still sealed. Can't bring myself to break it open....
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,323
    Good times!! :)

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    lotsalemon Boston Posts: 2,739
    I love that screenshot!
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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,673
    Sealed Avocado vinyl in 2012 for $100.
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  • mrk2
    mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,093
    Benny, Sevens, Vault 3, PJ20, white Backspacer for whatever 10c was charging at the time.

    Yield, No Code, Riot Act, Lost Dogs, original Vitalogy during the early 00's, about 10-25 euros each for new copies. Lost Dogs might have been a bit more.
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,457
    edited May 2014
    I got a sealed Yield from discogs for 50 bucks in 2012. It popped up late at night, and I just jumped for it. Scored a No code there for a little bit more around that time as well. A couple of Tenclubbers collected money for my holy grail a couple of years ago as well, and this way I came into the possession of a Riot Act. For free. Thanks to the wonderful people on here. PJ_Soul is another fellow member here who made mine and Cav's day when she gave her spare copy of a red LB to us for free. Well, and I got the Coke bottle Ten and white Backspacer for face when they got sold. I'm loving all these stories here. I hope one day, I "stumble" upon a cheap Benny somewhere too...
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    Please, Pearl Jam, consider a Benaroya Hall vinyl reissue! http://community.pearljam.com/discussion/148993/please-pearl-jam-consider-a-vinyl-benaroya-hall-re-issue


  • AndySlash
    AndySlash Posts: 3,293
    quasi said:

    AndySlash said:

    i picked up pearl jam let me sleep/ramblings at amoeba records hollywood in 2006 for the grand old price of $14.99.

    Wow, I also remember picking up a copy of Let Me Sleep at Amoeba Records Hollywood for the same price in around 2006 when I was living down in LA. I thought it was a mistake. Somebody must've dumped off a few of them not knowing what they were.
    no shit, eh? i got mine when the band were in l.a. for that tour, maybe the day before the first show. i wish i remember exactly where i found it, but i know it was in a bin- it wasn't on a shelf or anything like that- i just came across it flipping through the stacks.

    if i didn't have this experience, i probably wouldn't have bothered acquiring all of the singles. after i got let me sleep, though, it was like 'well, now i have to find the rest'.
  • quasi
    quasi Posts: 492
    edited May 2014
    AndySlash said:

    quasi said:

    AndySlash said:

    i picked up pearl jam let me sleep/ramblings at amoeba records hollywood in 2006 for the grand old price of $14.99.

    Wow, I also remember picking up a copy of Let Me Sleep at Amoeba Records Hollywood for the same price in around 2006 when I was living down in LA. I thought it was a mistake. Somebody must've dumped off a few of them not knowing what they were.
    no shit, eh? i got mine when the band were in l.a. for that tour, maybe the day before the first show. i wish i remember exactly where i found it, but i know it was in a bin- it wasn't on a shelf or anything like that- i just came across it flipping through the stacks.

    if i didn't have this experience, i probably wouldn't have bothered acquiring all of the singles. after i got let me sleep, though, it was like 'well, now i have to find the rest'.
    Yeah, I had no hope of ever finding that for under $100 so to find it for $14.99 was a find. I thought it was a bootleg or copy but it is definitely the real thing. Amoeba has a huge 45 section and I found it under "P" as I always checked. I think I also found it that summer of 2006 which would've been around their tour. I saw them at the Henry Fonda where they played a free radio contest winner show for Indie 103.1(now off the air I believe). I didn't win but I just waited outside the theater and they let us all in for free after about five songs.

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