Two weekends ago I checked out the massive Super Flea Market near my new apartment. It’s the largest flea market I’ve ever seen.
Buffalo's Super Flea Market
Right away I found a record booth filled with pop/rock LPs in varying condition. I ended up walking away with the early Stones’ LP – Out of Their Heads (the one that features “Satisfaction”) and two Pink Floyd albums. The first was a copy of The Wall, an album I’d never gotten around to buying in the past. The other was A Collection of Great Dance Songs, hardly an essential disc but it was thrown in for free.
After my visit to the flea market I looked it up online and discovered that it had been raided by police and immigration agents one day earlier. BuffaloNews.com reported that more than $81,000 in counterfeit sports apparel was seized by a 16-member team at 10:30 am December 5th.
The Wall nearly completes my Pink Floyd vinyl discography, which began with an absolutely amazing find ->
At a yard sale a few years back I found a disc in a plain white jacket. There was a 12″ x 12″ print and a slip of paper tucked into the sleeve.
I bought the white sleeve for a dollar and went home to research the set list. It turned out to be an Italian bootleg of an unreleased performance from Earl’s Court, London from 06-08-80. The recording is high quality stereo and it was listed as very rare. Not bad for a buck.
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