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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Early Bird Special
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Analog Weekend
This weekend was filled with a lot of community yard sales and I did my best to hit as many as I could. I did some advance scoping, looking for signs of coming sales and ads in the pennysaver so I had a pretty good route mapped out that would allow me to use my time wisely since the bulk of the sales only run from 8:00 til noon.
Does anyone need a portable CD player? I added a couple more to my collection this week for a buck each. I've promised myself that I won't buy anymore off brand players and stuck to brand names like Sony, who made both of the ones I bought this past Saturday. I picked up a few more odds and ends and actually passed on a couple smoking deals on audio speakers which I need even less than CD players.
The big buys for me this week were some old school technology. One guy had a couple crates of LP albums. I asked him how much he wanted for each and he said "pennies". That was enough to get me to take a look and I easily pulled out 10 that interested me. I could have grabbed even more but I wasn't sure yet what he meant by "pennies". I asked how much he wanted for 10 and he said a dollar. More that some people would have paid, but a bargain for me.
The other big buy was a Tascam audio recording deck. It was priced at $5.00 and I hemmed and hawed over it until the lady running the sale said I could just take it. I gave her a dollar for it instead and loaded it up in my car. Now, I don't know anything about audio mixing (yet) but I know what I like, and that's a bargain. One reason the lady wanted to get rid of it was because it records to cassette tape, not digital files. Wouldn't you figure that I have a backlog of blank audio tapes from back in the day, just like I'm likely to have a backlog of blank CDs after they become extinct.
I have a coworker who is into home recording so I'll offer it to him but if he declines, I'll see what I can do with it myself. There must be youtube videos on how to work this stuff. There is an audio class or two at AACC, so if I like it I may take a few more classes. Anything to avoid math.
Does anyone need a portable CD player? I added a couple more to my collection this week for a buck each. I've promised myself that I won't buy anymore off brand players and stuck to brand names like Sony, who made both of the ones I bought this past Saturday. I picked up a few more odds and ends and actually passed on a couple smoking deals on audio speakers which I need even less than CD players.
The big buys for me this week were some old school technology. One guy had a couple crates of LP albums. I asked him how much he wanted for each and he said "pennies". That was enough to get me to take a look and I easily pulled out 10 that interested me. I could have grabbed even more but I wasn't sure yet what he meant by "pennies". I asked how much he wanted for 10 and he said a dollar. More that some people would have paid, but a bargain for me.
The other big buy was a Tascam audio recording deck. It was priced at $5.00 and I hemmed and hawed over it until the lady running the sale said I could just take it. I gave her a dollar for it instead and loaded it up in my car. Now, I don't know anything about audio mixing (yet) but I know what I like, and that's a bargain. One reason the lady wanted to get rid of it was because it records to cassette tape, not digital files. Wouldn't you figure that I have a backlog of blank audio tapes from back in the day, just like I'm likely to have a backlog of blank CDs after they become extinct.
I have a coworker who is into home recording so I'll offer it to him but if he declines, I'll see what I can do with it myself. There must be youtube videos on how to work this stuff. There is an audio class or two at AACC, so if I like it I may take a few more classes. Anything to avoid math.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
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