Just talking to my best pal Sacha.
Sacha was haunting one of his old stomping grounds, the charity shops on the North End Road. Apparently you can pick up good bargains there, unlike at most of the mainstream charity shops in London which have become rather "together".
Sacha is actually barred from a number of record stores which he's gleefully cleaned out, and then altruisticly told the owners afterwards that they should watch their pricing. What's he thinking! I'm far more covert......
Anyway my old pal found a couple of nice things, a Nonesuch Explorer compilation LP for 40p (bits and bobs of world music from this increasingly valued label, man I used to ignore their shit) and a compilation of Folk music called "The Roses", featuring amongst others Peggy Seeger. He paid £1 for this second record.
Sacha then went up to the Music and Video Exchange in Notting Hill. Upstairs to the rarities department. Working behind the counter was Dick. He's the guy with the enormous flowing white beard, who can seem grumpy but is actually very sweet. Sacha hands him the English Folk record which Dick happily gives him £25 credit for.
Then Dick looked closely at the cover. It had been in the Music and Video Exchange before. In fact Dick noticed that he himself had once marked it's price down from £2.50 to £2. Over twenty years ago!
Posted by Woebot at May 26, 2003 02:36 PM