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Author	Topic: What was the best "deal" you ever got in purchasing a soundtrack?

filmfactsman Non-Standard Userer	Mine was finding a sealed copy of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN hexagon-shaped disc for $1 at Rhino Records in Westwood, CA. Second runner up: Sealed CHINATOWN CD for $2.99 (about a month ago!)
posted 05-14-2005 05:46 PM PT (US)

Camillu Standard Userer	Jerry Goldsmith's Bad Girls (sealed) for $2
posted 05-14-2005 11:35 PM PT (US)

Squiddybop Standard Userer	A sealed copy of the Mulan Oscar Promo for $2.50, probably followed by Black Beauty for a buck.
posted 05-15-2005 12:16 AM PT (US)

Jim Ware Standard Userer	Williams' Nixon for 99p.
posted 05-15-2005 02:12 AM PT (US)

shureman Non-Standard Userer	I traded a Smurf soundtrack LP by Legrand for 3 Delerue titles: TOURS DU MONDE, TOURS DU CIEL; LA REINE BLANCHE and A SUMMER STORY.
posted 05-15-2005 04:34 AM PT (US)

MarkA Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by Squiddybop: A sealed copy of the Mulan Oscar Promo for $2.50, probably followed by Black Beauty for a buck. Where on earth did you find those?
posted 05-15-2005 06:08 AM PT (US)

John Steel Non-Standard Userer	Mine was Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom for 3 dollars.
posted 05-15-2005 10:43 AM PT (US)

big steve Non-Standard Userer	Couple of good ones... APOLLO 13 - Score promo - $5.00 STEWART COPELAND Agency Promo - $4.00 MIDNIGHT RUN - $5.00 Found all of them in the used bins in L.A. record stores. That was a while ago, and it seems that bin bargains are getting harder to find these days.
posted 05-15-2005 11:51 AM PT (US)

sakman Standard Userer	Morricone's score for "The Golden Glasses"--only $.50.
posted 05-15-2005 12:05 PM PT (US)

Squiddybop Standard Userer	Black Beauty was at Half.com. Found Psycho II and Inchon there pretty cheap too. The Mulan promo was sitting in a discount bin at a local music store that seems to get a large number of promo cds, I've also gotten the score promos to Vanilla Sky, Living Out Loud and 102 Dalmations there, though none of those are quite as impressive as Mulan to me. The sad thing is that I'd already paid a fairly hefty amount for the Mulan cd on ebay before it appeared in the bargain bin here, so as good a deal as it was, it's kinda my spare copy...
posted 05-15-2005 01:22 PM PT (US)

MWRuger Standard Userer	Squiddy, you should sell it an recoup your E-Bay money.
posted 05-16-2005 09:00 AM PT (US)

Scorro Standard Userer	Black Robe (Delerue), new for $1.99 but that's nothing compared to shureman's deal.
posted 05-16-2005 10:59 AM PT (US)

jonathan_little Standard Userer	$3.50 for a used copy of Charles Gerhardt's RCA compilation recording of "Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann." The price to number of plays ratio on that one is probably the best I've got in my collection.
posted 05-16-2005 01:44 PM PT (US)

MWRuger Standard Userer	Best deal I ever got as far as rarity goes: Witches of Eastwick for 5.99$
posted 05-16-2005 02:47 PM PT (US)

SBD Standard Userer	Found RAIDERS in a record store for $11. It probably goes for upwards of $40 on eBay.
posted 05-16-2005 07:06 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	I have had many such experiences like this. Finding that old store in OKC back in 1981 was a real find. Got tons of cheap and rare stuff. Many, many LPs. And then in 1996 while passing through College Station, Tx I stopped and checked Hastings there. They had a big sale on Varese CDs and Intradas. I bought a mess of them. All were $2.00 each. I got about 12 including Hot Shots Part Deux, some J. Newton Howards, Intrada's Julius Caesar and Ivanhoe and about 8 others. All 2 bucks apiece and all sealed. The other big find was in KC in 1984 when I found dozens of great sealed LPs for 4 dollars each and many less. What a find!!!!!!!!! Many, many rare titles. J.
posted 05-16-2005 07:47 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	and some of the first CDS I got sealed here in Lawrence were Lionheart Vol 2 for 6.50 and Battle of Neretva and Peter The Great for 4 each. J.
posted 05-16-2005 07:48 PM PT (US)

JEC Standard Userer	I bought ATLANTIS IN HI-FI from a Goodwill Thrift Shop back in 1977 for fifty cents. It didn't look like it had ever been played. [Message edited by JEC on 05-19-2005]
posted 05-19-2005 10:49 AM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Standard Userer	At Half Priced Books and Records here in Lawrence, where the old Jayhawk Post Office used to be, I found some really great LPs for cheap, cheap, cheap. Richard Rodgers Valiant Years for only .50 and it was in NM condition. What a find. Its in much better shape than the one I paid 12 dollars for back in 1986. J.
posted 05-19-2005 08:21 PM PT (US)

filmfactsman Non-Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by filmfactsman: Mine was finding a sealed copy of THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN hexagon-shaped disc for $1 at Rhino Records in Westwood, CA. Second runner up: Sealed CHINATOWN CD for $2.99 (about a month ago!) I lucked out again this weekend! I found another SEALED CD copy of STAGECOACH/TROUBLE WITH ANGELS on Mainstream at Rhino for $4. My brother was desperately looking for it after I sent him a CD-R copy of mine (he had to have the original). Now he has one, too!
posted 06-01-2005 09:50 AM PT (US)

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