{"id":34274,"date":"2025-08-31T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34274"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:10:53","slug":"good-media-hunting-august-30-2025-thriftin-with-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/31\/good-media-hunting-august-30-2025-thriftin-with-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Media Hunting, August 30, 2025: Thriftin&#8217; with Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned I wanted to step away from the computer <a href=https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/30\/a-modern-on-aging\/\" target=\"_new\">yesterday<\/a>, so I did some second-handing.  I hit a garage sale, an estate sale, an antique mall, and a thrift store, which I believe is hitting for the cycle.  I&#8217;d really wanted a couple of things: Christmas presents for the few people for whom I buy Christmas presents these days, and a loud or out-of-date sports jacket for this year&#8217;s Trunk or Treat.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I did find a sports jacket which is not too loud but looks like brown corduroy (which I will louden up with what I wear under it).  No gifts, though, so this is not part of the one-for-you-one-for-me protocol which I will use as we get closer to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I got some records and videos.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gmh08302025.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Most of the videos come from the thrift store, and most of the records came from the estate sale.<\/p>\n<p>As for videos, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Best of Jack Benny<\/em> on DVD at the estate sale.  It was marked like $8, and it was half price day, so I was willing to pay $4 for the collection since he was George Burns&#8217; best friend after all.  But the woman at the register let me have it for $2.<\/li>\n<li><em>Casino<\/em>, the mob movie.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hard Cash<\/em> with Christian Slater and Val Kilmer.  Which I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d heard of even though I was a Christian Slater fan back in the day.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Mask of Zorro<\/em> on videocassette.  I think we might have it on videocassette.  I guess we&#8217;ll see.<\/li>\n<li><em>Be Big<\/em> with Laurel and Hardy, I think.  The videocassette in the case does not have a label that matches the case.  So this is definitely a case of videocassette roulette.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Best of Benny Hill<\/em>.  C&#8217;mon, man, I&#8217;m never likely to see this in the wild ever again.  And apparently &#8220;old comedy&#8221; was the theme of the day.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Man Called Sledge<\/em>, a James Garner western.  Videocassettes at the thrift store are marked a quarter each.  So I should go check back often.  And they degrade less than DVDs do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for records, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Popular Songs in Mandarin Chinese<\/em> by Poon Sow Keng, a Chinese singer of some reknown.  The estate sale was thick with world music for a couple bucks each as you will see.<\/li>\n<li><em>It&#8217;s My Way<\/em> by Buffy Sainte-Marie.<\/li>\n<li><em>Italy Dances!<\/em> by Gigi Stok&#8217;s Orchestra.  Some music for pasta night at Nogglestead.<\/li>\n<li><em>Frankie!<\/em> by Frank Sinatra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Jazz Praise<\/em> by John Mehler and Kenneth Nash.<\/li>\n<li><em>In Person<\/em> by the Four Freshman since I&#8217;ve accumulated a number of their records.  I left behind a bunch of similar acts like the Four Lads at the thrift store because I don&#8217;t need other artists to accumulate.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lightly Latin<\/em> by Perry Como which I guess <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/30\/good-album-hunting-april-29-2022-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">I already own<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll have you know I did pass on some of his records which I knew I owned, thank you.<\/li>\n<li><em>White Satin<\/em> by the George Shearing Quintet.  To go along with <em>Black Satin<\/em> which I bought in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/good-book-hunting-april-28-2018-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2018<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/good-erm-hunting-saturday-april-29-2023-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library\/\" target=\"_new\">2023<\/a>.  I sure like George Shearing, but he flies under the radar of the current vinyl hipsters.  And when they discover him, they will have to pay MY PRICE!  Muahahaha!<\/li>\n<li><em>Music of India Volume 2<\/em> with Ravi Shankar on the sitar.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Streets of Tokyo: Tops Pops Song in Japanese by Nippon&#8217;s Favorite Record Stars<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Songs of India<\/em> with the voices of Utpala Sen and Shyamai Mitra.  Because as any grousing I might have done about H1-B abuse indicates, I hate India and its residents.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dance Music of India<\/em> conducted by Timir Baran.<\/li>\n<li><em>Julie Budd<\/em> by Julie Budd, a 1971 soft pop\/rock release I will probably listen to once and archive\/shift left.<\/li>\n<li><em>Right Back Where We Started From<\/em> by Maxine Nightingale.  I think it&#8217;s <em>that<\/em> song which was a hit.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Kai Winding Trombones<\/em> featuring the Axidentals.  (not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaccidentalsmusic.com\/\" target=\"_new\">The Accidentals<\/a> from whom I really should order a couple more CDs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s fifteen LPs and hours upon hours of television and movies to watch.  I spent, what, $40 or so including the brown sport jacket.  Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>But between this and the book sale <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-23-2025-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-nixa-branch-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">last weekend<\/a>, I have filled the top of the video cabinet fuller than it&#8217;s been before.  And I thought I had been making progress.  Ah, well.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should get away from my desk and get to the end of the sofa where I sit to watch the television.<\/p>\n<p>And despite the videos that Facebook teases, I did not buy anything to &#8220;flip&#8221; online.  I get suggestions for videos containing the secrets of people who resell collectibles and clothing that they find at garage and estate sales on Ebay or Facebook Marketplace.  And I&#8217;m tempted&#8211;remember, gentle reader, I did a lot of that at the turn of the century&#8211;but then I go to the antique mall and see piles of stuff overpriced which is not moving, and I remember I have two aunts who had antique mall booths who gave it up&#8211;and I realize that there are too many people grinding at that now, and the only real winners nowadays are Ebay, Facebook Marketplace, and the owners of the antique malls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned I wanted to step away from the computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34279,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions\/34279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}