So most of the dedicated record stores around my neck of the woods are gradually shutting down and this leaves me with the copious number of thrift stores around here as the only place to browse for used CDs. I recently spent a day combing through their shelves, motivated in part by picking up Horner scores I'd never heard and found that certain soundtracks come up over and over and over...
I'm curious as to how consistent these are around the world. In my area almost every second store had at least one of the following:
City of Angels (by FAR the most common... incredible how many of these are out there!) Dangerous Minds Godzilla (songs)
From the score side of things, these were the most common finds: Titanic Don Juan de Marco The Three Musketeers
Horner and Kamen were also the most common composers to turn up in these places, though really it's a pretty small fraction of the CDs that I went through that would be of interest to us score fans.
So, what are the most common used soundtracks where you are?
Every so often, there's the odd, totally amazing find in one of these stores. I found a copy of the Varese release of The 'Burbs once for $0.99 (this was back before the expanded club release) and just couldn't believe it. I thought I was dreaming! This week's highlight was a copy of A Beautiful Mind for $0.25.
You just know that, scattered across the country, are some great OOP gems that are totally undevalued and completely hidden in with crap.
Every so often, there's the odd, totally amazing find in one of these stores.
That's the flip side of the coin. I've blind-bought a few video game soundtrack CDs at thrift stores for under $5 that I didn't end up caring for so I put them up for auction on ebay and they sold for fifty to a hundred bucks apiece.
