Record Player

IMG_1595, originally uploaded by 9nineteen.

Last time we were in Michigan, my in-laws gave me all their old records, three boxes of them. There was a handful of good stuff and the rest was older bands and artists that I really didn't know. I still have to go through them all and select which ones I will keep. So I had these cool records that I know I wanted to listen to but nothing to play them on. So I hit up ebay. Found some cool old record players, most going for around $20, but another $20 for shipping so I could expect to pay around $40 but a cool, old record player. I decided to stop by a local thrift store on the way home from work, to see if they had anything and I did find one of those portables I had been looking at on ebay for $3. I was pretty pumped about the find, the problem was that I only had $3 in my wallet and I would have to cover the tax as well. I walked up to the front to check if they accepted credit cards, they did so I was back on track. When I went to retrieve the record player it was gone. I could not believe someone grabbed it in the the 2 minutes I had made my way to the front of the store. I spent about 20 minutes walking around the store to see if I could see someone with it or if someone had set it down somewhere else - but to no avail. Defeated, I made my way towards the front again and towards the exit, and then I saw the box behind the counter. I guess they keep their nicer items up there, a lot of electronics and such. The box said Crosley, I recognized the name only because I had seen so many of those one ebay earlier. There are a lot of these on ebay because they are modern record players, with cd players, radio, and tape decks, some of them even have cd burners so you can transfer your vinyl to a digital format - pretty cool stuff, anyway these were selling on ebay anywhere from $120 - $250. The thrift store had it for $50. That was more than I expected to spend at a thrift store for sure, but it happened to be brand new. It had all the packaging and tape in the right places. Not sure why it was returned, but I tested it there and everything worked fine. I bought it and have enjoyed it very much so far. We've used it everyday and we've been listening to records while we cook dinner, and clean up afterwards. Now I need to work on my collection. You can see it there on the picture above, tags still on it, and yes that is the Beatles White Album spinning on there.