The Crap We Wade Through... - Beyond Tiki

J johntiki Member MD Joined: Mar 31, 2002 Posts: 1528	J johntiki Posted posted on Wed, Mar 24, 2004 5:52 PM Days after reading this thread, my local Goodwill decided to do one of their end-of-aisle "displays" with all owls! I got paranoid for a second, is this why tiki items are so hard to come by around here? Is there a T.C. member or even worse a T.C. lurker working in the back, sorting out all the good shit for himself? Hmmmm... As for the records, I'm surprised no one mentioned Al Hirt, Montovani or Percy Faith - I think I could own every damn song these three ever recorded by looking through one bin. Last week I visited a "foreign" Goodwill, it's about 1/2 hour away from home, and noticed one of the employees or a discouraged/disgusted, perhaps manic compulsive, vinyl junkie had gone through all ten bins and left behind an amusing calling card. Each and every Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album was dissected from the confines of the dusty bins and placed in the front. Some of the bins were 12 to 15 Alpert records deep! Also, to keep it interesting they had made sure that each front album was different..."Whipped Cream and Other Delights" in bin 1, "What Now My Love" in bin 2, "Christmas Album" in bin 3, etc. all the way down the row. The nice thing about the anonymous patron's compulsion was that when you went through the bins there was not ONE of those annoying platters mixed in anywhere! Gotta go - I'm off to OwlCentral! JohnTiki Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland! [ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-03-24 17:55 ]

Days after reading this thread, my local Goodwill decided to do one of their end-of-aisle "displays" with all owls! I got paranoid for a second, is this why tiki items are so hard to come by around here? Is there a T.C. member or even worse a T.C. lurker working in the back, sorting out all the good shit for himself? Hmmmm...

As for the records, I'm surprised no one mentioned Al Hirt, Montovani or Percy Faith - I think I could own every damn song these three ever recorded by looking through one bin. Last week I visited a "foreign" Goodwill, it's about 1/2 hour away from home, and noticed one of the employees or a discouraged/disgusted, perhaps manic compulsive, vinyl junkie had gone through all ten bins and left behind an amusing calling card. Each and every Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album was dissected from the confines of the dusty bins and placed in the front. Some of the bins were 12 to 15 Alpert records deep! Also, to keep it interesting they had made sure that each front album was different..."Whipped Cream and Other Delights" in bin 1, "What Now My Love" in bin 2, "Christmas Album" in bin 3, etc. all the way down the row. The nice thing about the anonymous patron's compulsion was that when you went through the bins there was not ONE of those annoying platters mixed in anywhere!

Gotta go - I'm off to OwlCentral!

JohnTiki

Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland!

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-03-24 17:55 ]

Post #82685 by johntiki on Wed, Mar 24, 2004 5:52 PM