Ground Score Thread (thrift store/garage sale/yard sale Finds) (Page 2 of 3)

Nah man. This is still a music forum: People post their beats, and get hassled by misanthropic asses *cough*

the only good things i ever found at a garage sale were my own things at my own garage sale that i decided not to sell ;C

Found this in the street recently, battery clip was broken but worked fine after fixing that, spraying a bit of switch cleaner in the knobs and tweaking the internal trimmer pots for more extreme feedback

It plays a 50% pulse lead. Membrane keyboard. It has an option of decay or attack, long or short release, loud or soft, and there's a little "note slider" for tuning. Came with a decent audio out jack already on it. Wiring is kinda funky though, because it's never quite tuned to itself, the slider makes a crazy distorted pulse sound, and sometimes the decay mode stops working and makes the length of the notes mega quiet. Not perfect, but usable.

Most recently found a complete working Sega Dreamcast w/2 controllers, 2 VMUs (and a burned copy of Ikaruga inside) at a Goodwill for $25. I know that's not the craziest find ever, but it's a pretty good price, and a real surprise to find in a Goodwill around here, as not only do thrift stores tend to get picked over pretty hard and fast in Portland, but Goodwill sells most of their video game stuff on shopgoodwill.com now.

Spectacular dumpster finds are pretty hard to come by (again, it's Portland - the second something cool gets thrown away, a dozen people are ON IT instantly) but I did find a working card reader and a little metal Mario ? box container in a free box outside awhile ago.

Also found Star Raiders for Atari 2600 ALMOST complete in box (missing the comic) at a yard sale, bundled it with a bunch of other Atari games for $5.

Various Game Boys for about $10, surprisingly that's about what they go for even at game stores here that are wise to chipmusic and retro collectors.

Not sure where else might have it, but australia has what's called "Kerbside pickup" where each suburb, once a year, can throw whatever they want to get rid of onto the sidewalk and it'll be picked up on a certiain day.

I decided to go on a detour the other day through a suburb that was undergoing KSP at the time. Came across this beauty!

It's a 1945 Singer sewing machine with original carry case and key - worth a fair bit (especially since i picked it up free!)

Edit: It's not worth more because i got it for free.... Haha! The profit margin is huge, is what i meant!

I also came across both of these drumsets.... at two separate houses... god knows!
Theyre both in complete working condition! Just had to throw some batteries in!

Along with this mint little crt! It has a strange power jack which i'm going to try swap out for a conventional 3-pin cable.

I picked this lot up off gumtree (australia's equivalent to craigslist):
What's not in the photo is about 25 original xbox controllers and about 10 psx/ps2 controllers, along with hundreds of AC/DC adapters and RCA cords .etc. This was a crazy find! I almost couldn't fit everything in my car!

Here's a list of what's inside:

Not sure if ebay counts, but i managed to pick this beast of an auction up for $100. If you can't see it properly, there's a Nintendo Power Memory cart in there ))!

Last edited by jackary (Sep 4, 2013 10:16 am)