BARNGAINS

A select list of barngains picked up on my travels, mostly in charity shops and car boot sales (but also markets, bookshops, online sales etc), from 2007 to the present day. See also barngains and London through its charity shops on the main blog posts for more details.

 What  Serge Gainsbourg – Aux Armes Et Caetera LP
 Where  Sale at whatrecords.co.uk
 When  2020
 Price  £4.99
 Rating  *****
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 What  Joanna Newsom – Divers CD
 Where  Charity shop, Newquay
 When  2020
 Price  49p
 Rating  *****
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 What  Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940
 Where  Charity shop, Redruth
 When  2020
 Price  £9
 Rating  *****
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 What  Can – The Singles CD
 Where  Charity shop, Redruth
 When  2020
 Price  99p
 Rating  *****
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 What  French Connection shirt
 Where  Charity shop, Redruth
 When  2020
 Price  £2.99
 Rating  *****
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 What  English Graphic by Tom Lubbock
 Where  Sale in Falmouth Bookseller, Falmouth
 When  2020
 Price  £3
 Rating  *****
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 What  The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP
 Where  Charity shop, Redruth
 When  2020
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  Guy Bourdin (Stern Portfolio #61 book)
 Where  Charity shop, Wimbledon Village
 When  2019
 Price  £5
 Rating  *****
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 What  Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road double yellow vinyl
 Where  Charity shop, Camborne
 When  2019
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  Bob Dylan exhibition catalogue, Mondo Scripto
 Where  Charity shop, Putney, London
 When  2019
 Price  £3 (RRP: £45)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Bruce Springsteen – Western Skies CD
 Where  Tesco, Cornwall
 When  2019
 Price  1p (till error)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Museum of Everything Book #4
 Where  Charity shop, Forest Hill, London
 When  2018
 Price  £2 (RRP: £45)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Andy Warhol: The Complete 
Commissioned Record Covers
 Where  Charity shop, Crystal Palace, London
 When  2018
 Price  £3.50
 Rating  *****
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 What  Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
 Where  Charity shop, Hammersmith, London
 When  2018
 Price  £3 (RRP: £21)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Street Photography Now
 Where  Charity shop, Streatham, London
 When  2018
 Price  £7
 Rating  *****
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 What  Letter B Alphabook
 Where  Charity shop, Clapham Junction, London
 When  2018
 Price  £1.45
 Rating  *****
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 What  Planet Rock, Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force LP
 Where  Charity shop, Clapham Junction, London
 When  2018
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  Jane Birkin, 2 CD+DVD box set
 Where  Charity shop, Clapham Junction, London
 When  2018
 Price  £4 (reduced from £7.99)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Atlas of Improbable Places
 Where  Charity shop, Crystal Palace, London
 When  2018
 Price  50p
 Rating  *****
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 What  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 9 DVD box set, Vol. 1
 Where  Market stall, Greenwich, London
 When  2018
 Price  £5
 Rating  *****
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 What  XTC, Skylarking LP
 Where  Leaf and Groove, Forest Hill, London
 When  2018
 Price  £5
 Rating  *****
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 What  Frank Hampson – Tomorrow Revisited, HB book
 Where  Charity shop, Crystal Palace, London
 When  2018
 Price  £1.50
 Rating  *****
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 What  Great Expectations and David Copperfield
 Where  St Ives, Cornwall
 When  2018
 Price  Free
 Rating  *****
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 What  Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
 Where  Charity shop, Putney, London
 When  2018
 Price  £10
 Rating  *****
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 What  Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, sealed LP
 Where  Charity shop, Richmond, London
 When  2017
 Price  £2
 Rating  *****
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 What  7 Days in Myanmar, photography book
 Where  Book Time, Greenwich, London
 When  2017
 Price  £5
 Rating  *****
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 What  Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me, 3 LP box set
 Where  Charity shop, Crystal Palace, London
 When  2017
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  Signed Grayson Perry monograph
 Where  Charity shop, Barnes, London
 When  2017
 Price  £4
 Rating  *****
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 What  Museum of Everything Book #1
 Where  Charity shop, Barnes, London
 When  2017
 Price  £4 (RRP: £65)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Thelonius Monk, Monk's Music LP
 Where  Charity shop, Putney, London
 When  2017
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  Flora, Nick Knight
 Where  Charity shop, Croydon
 When  2017
 Price  £1.25
 Rating  *****
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 What  Grey Paul Smith zip-up cardigan
 Where  Charity shop, Newquay, Cornwall
 When  2017
 Price  £7 (RRP: £130)
 Rating  *****
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 What  A Compendium of Collective Nouns book
 Where  Charity shop, Hammersmith, London
 When  2017
 Price  £3
 Rating  *****
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 What  Clarice Cliff 'Crocus' jug
 Where  Jumble Trail, Penge, London
 When  2016
 Price  £3
 Rating  *****
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 What  Bob Dylan, Mood Swings catalogue
 Where  Charity shop, Crystal Palace, London
 When  2016
 Price  £3
 Rating  *****
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 What  Neil Young, Freedom LP
 Where  Charity shop, Crystal Palace, London
 When  2016
 Price  £1; mint
 Rating  *****
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 What  Various toys including Lego dumped in a skip
 Where  Crystal Palace, London
 When  2015
 Price  Free
 Rating  *****
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 What  Wise Children by Angela Carter, signed first edition
 Where  Charity shop, Putney, London
 When  2015
 Price  50p
 Rating  *****
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 What  John Cale autobiography
 Where  Charity shop, Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle, London
 When  2014
 Price  £4
 Rating  *****
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 What  The Who, Live at Leeds & Bowie, Hunky Dory LPs
 Where  Kingston car boot sale
 When  2013
 Price  £1 each
 Rating  *****
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 What  Edward Poulozzi Tate Gallery catalogue, 1971
 Where  Charity shop, Muswell Hill, London
 When  2012
 Price  £3; rare
 Rating  *****
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 What  Bob Marley Catch a Fire LP with Zippo lighter cover
 Where  Charity shop, Fulham, London
 When  2012
 Price  92p
 Rating  *****
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 What  Six original Beatles LPs
 Where  Charity shop, Tooting, London
 When  2012
 Price  £1 each
 Rating  *****
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 What  Congos, Heart of the Congos 2CD
 Where  Battersea car boot sale
 When  2011
 Price  £1, hard to find
 Rating  *****
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 What  Fanzine book, as new
 Where  Charity shop, Fulham, London
 When  2011
 Price  £1 (RRP: £16.56)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Bob Dylan Mono Box Set – 8 CDs (new and sealed)
 Where  eBay
 When  2011
 Price  £17.99 new (RRP: £77)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Billy Joel – The Stranger (2CD & DVD Legacy Edition)
 Where  hmv.com
 When  2011
 Price  £6.99 (RRP: £36.99)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Rod Stewart – Storyteller (4CD Anthology)
 Where  Frome car boot sale, Somerset
 When  2011
 Price  £5 (new: £50)
 Rating  *****
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 What  Annie Leibovitz – American Music (sealed HB book)
 Where  Charity shop, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
 When  2011
 Price  £3.99
 Rating  *****
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 What  Various Dario Argento DVDs
 Where  Poundland
 When  2010
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  2 for 1 on Total Confidence deodorant
 Where  ASDA
 When  2010
 Price  £1
 Rating  *****
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 What  Deerhunter – Crypograms CD
 Where  Charity shop, Putney, London
 When  2009
 Price  £1.99
 Rating  *****
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 What  Leonard Cohen – Book of Longing
 Where  Ashton Common car boot sale, Wiltshire
 When  2009
 Price  30p
 Rating  *****
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 What  Miles Davis: Complete Jack Johnson Sessions (5 CDs)
 Where  hmv.com
 When  2009
 Price  £9.99 (£61 saving)
 Rating  *****
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 What  The Complete Bagpuss DVD
 Where  ASDA
 When  2009
 Price  £2
 Rating  *****
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 What  Pink (239 C) and Black (4 C) Pantone mugs
 Where  Blackwell, Charing Cross Road, London
 When  2008
 Price  £3.49
 Rating  *****
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 What  Five old wooden picture frames
 Where  Dumped in a skip, Barnes, London
 When  2008
 Price  Free
 Rating  *****
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 What  Free tea towel and DVD with 160 pack of PG Tips
 Where  A supermarket near you
 When  2008
 Price  The price of tea
 Rating  *****
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 What  Jack Johnson – Curious George CD
 Where  Bin on Fore Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
 When  2008
 Price  Free
 Rating  *****
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 What  24 Series DVDs – all seasons
 Where  play.com
 When  2008
 Price  £17.99 each
 Rating  *****
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 What  Dawson's Creek DVD complete box set
 Where  amazon.co.uk
 When  2007
 Price  £39.97
 Rating  *****
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