Boot Booty

**french frank** · 07-07-13, 14:24

That's East Sussex car boot sales for you, I suppose. I hate to think what the haul would be round here. Hope you enjoy them!

**Roehre** · 07-07-13, 16:06

Originally posted by french frank View Post

That's East Sussex car boot sales for you, I suppose. I hate to think what the haul would be round here. Hope you enjoy them!

Now I'm envious, DP. I'm afraid I never would find anything more interesting than the free "Classical" CDs supplied with some of the newspapers (broadsheet or otherwise).....

**teamsaint** · 07-07-13, 19:51

That is a class haul. DP.

they never saw you coming !!

Enjoy.

**Petrushka** · 07-07-13, 21:58

Our local hospice charity shop appear to have had a classical collection given to them and guess that due to space reasons that they are releasing them in dribs and drabs. I've been popping in for the past couple of Saturdays and been making a few purchases. Discs are in excellent condition and look new/unplayed. Some great bargains to be had if you keep on looking in because they can go fast.

**Cheapskater** · 08-07-13, 14:11

Originally posted by Don Petter View Post

After many weeks of barren gleanings at my local boot fair, today produced an interesting haul (in fact split between three stalls).

I look forward to dipping into these over the next few days, and the total outlay was just £6.50!

Vanguard 08 9266 71
Rachmaninov: Vespers - Robev
RCA GD 71953
Gregorian Chant: Munchen Choralschola/Ruhland
Archiv 439 885-2
Bach: Choruses - Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner
EMI GROC 50999 5 09668 2 (2CD)
Chopin: Nocturnes 1-19, 4 Scherzi - Rubinstein
Classic Options CO 3508
Rossini: Petite Messe Solonelle - Loehrer (Lugano 1968)
ZigZag ZZT060501
Schubert: Four Violin Sonatas - Immerseel/Seiler
EMI CZS 5 73986 2 (2CD)
V Williams: Serenade, 5 Mystical Songs, Oboe Concerto, etc, etc - Hickox
Medici Arts MM029-2
Rubinstein (Nijmegen 1963): Beethoven: Sonata 23, Schumann: Carnaval, Chopin, Lizst etc
Brilliant 6214 (2CD)
Rachmaninov: PC 1 - Lill/Otaka, PC 2 - Prats/Batiz, PC 3 - Lugansky/Shpiller, PC 4 - Lugansky/Shpiller, Paganin Rhapsody - Prats/Bariz
Olympia OCD 415
Constantinescu: Ballad of the Outlaw (Cello & Orch), Concerto for Strings, Byzantine Variations (Cello & Orch), Concerto for Harp - Gutu, Szabo, Gantolea et al
Olympia OCD 151
Gliere: Solemn Overture - Svetlanov, Konius: Violin Concerto - Stadler/Ponkin, Tcherepnin: Pavillon d'Armide - Fedotov
Olympia OCD 306
Ludomir Rozycki: Orchestral Works - Krenz, Saranowski, Gorzynski

Well done Don! I see that the going rate is 50p/CD? We have to dig deep! Rather patchy this year in Surrey - the going rate is down to 50p but mainly BBC MM & Naxos (although many of these are very good). I buy some of these to recycle to strong hands and for charities, but have to second guess what folks might like. I rely on Oxfam Guildford (specialist Books/Music) to move them on for three quid a pop.

Incidentally, the going rate in charity shops seems to be down to two quid. I think that CDs must be widely regarded as deeply uncool - downloads! But we know better.

Cheaps

**Don Petter** · 08-07-13, 16:33

Yes, 50p seems to be the going rate for CDs at boot fairs now round here (and it's 'per object', so slim doubles, and often big doubles, go for the same). Agreed there is much quality to be found on the BBC magazine CDs, so they aren't to be sniffed at. My main problem is remembering which we already have, as they aren't so separately distinctive.

Charity shops often seem to be down to 99p a CD now, with a few at £1.99, the exception being Oxfam, who have always priced more ambitiously than the others.

My best boot fair haul is unlikely to be repeated, as it was literally acquiring 'the whole gamut'. Three or four years ago, a cardboard box under a table had about twenty or so CDs, with a price ticket of something like £35 for the lot, which I passed by.

Later, as we were about to leave, they were still there and I had a closer look, ending with a discussion with the stallholder. It turned out he had been a rep for the Gamut label, and when it folded and he left, he kept a copy of every CD they had produced, thinking they might be of future value. This never seemed to happen, so hence the disposal at the boot fair. He had had no interest in them that day either, so sold them to me for a much lesser sum which I can't now remember. The gem from a completist collector's point of view was the inclusion of one title which had never made it to the distributors, with only incomplete artwork. (A recital of twentieth century organ music, played by Jeremy Filsell on the organ of Ely Cathedral. GAM CD 524)

**Cheapskater** · 08-07-13, 18:28

Sometimes it pays to have a closer look at unpromising material also. For example I have a Classic FM Featured Composers of Mahler 1/Beethoven, which wouldn't normally appeal (as I have many versions already), but when I noticed that the Mahler 1 was Horenstein licenced from Unicorn I did stump up the 20p demanded! Very good it is too.

Also have the Daily Telegraph freebie 'Great British Orchestras' - The Halle. It contains their recent commercial recordings of Elgar's Falstaff, Butterworth's Shropshire Lad, Delius's Paradise Garden and Elgar's fabulous orchestration of JS Bach Fantasia and Fugue.

Cheaps.

**Petrushka** · 08-07-13, 20:56

I've taken to picking up as many cheapo CD's as appeal to me along with some of the cheap boxed sets that seem to be issued every five minutes right now. Personally, I think that this could be the last chance to get some of this material on CD. I'll never seriously consider downloads so all these CD's should last me out.

**Cheapskater** · 08-07-13, 22:00

Originally posted by Petrushka View Post

I've taken to picking up as many cheapo CD's as appeal to me along with some of the cheap boxed sets that seem to be issued every five minutes right now. Personally, I think that this could be the last chance to get some of this material on CD. I'll never seriously consider downloads so all these CD's should last me out.

Fully agree with you regarding the availability of this material on CD. I would use downloads, but much prefer the physical presence and sound of CD.

Cheaps.

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