Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
The charity shops round here rarely generate a good haul. Although if you were after Robbie Williams albums you'd think otherwise.

Plus I'm duplicating my vinyl collection on CD so I'm after specific albums. Ideally not re-masters.
Clearly they are not from the '60s or '70s or even the '80s. They are much more recent than that, but I'm prepared to take a punt on some new acts that might be of interest to me. If I don't like it, I'll simply return it to the charity shop - but I have found some unexpected serendipitous finds.

Also, a good proportion of the charity shop CDs I buy are classical - I'm always interested in listening to different readings of classical compositions.

I reckon about 80% of my collection of well over 2,500 CDs are duplications of vinyl LPs of the '60s through to the '80s. Today you do have to be careful in choosing which mastering edition you want. A specific example being Frank Zappa's 'Hot Rats': the origininal mastering is available but you have to seek it out, otherwise the re-master (which is actually a re-mix - is that a tautology?), is easily available but is not IMO as good. Same with The Rolling Stones 'Let it Bleed'.