Thrift Store Soundtracks.

  I am a huge fan of thrift stores. I love to look at the CD selections they have to offer. However, the one independent thrift store in town has a good selection of soundtrack CD's lately. On the other hand The Salvation Army has been lacking of any good CD's or a decent selection of them for about a good month or so now which sucks.
  Now at the beginning of the year, the last record store in my town closed up abruptly which doesn't leave anywhere in town to buy new CD's except Walmart which sells edited CD's. I'm in a rut since I will probably have to resort to buying CD's on Amazon now or go out of town to buy new music. Thankfully one thrift store has been good to me when it comes to finding CD's.
  I am a huge film score aficionado. My score CD collection overshadows my pop/rock CD collection. I have over 159 hours of film scores in my library. It's insane. Film score aficionado's are an astute type of collector, they prefer physical copies of scores over digital copies. I'm one of them in that demographic. Now onto the thrift store finds.
  As of recently it seems that the independent thrift store has been getting an unusual amount of soundtracks donated to them. The best part about that is that they were mostly film scores which is right up my alley. Now this thrift store charges $0.50 plus tax for a CD. You can't argue with that price. So when I look at the CD's I always check for the dreaded scratches that CD collectors hate. Fortunately I don't buy them if they looked like someone played frisbee with them.
  Now the past few times I've visited this thrift store in the past month or so, I've walked out of there with a bunch of score albums. My most recent purchase was the best one yet in my opinion. About a week or so ago I had to drop off something at my great aunt's house. She lives across the street from this thrift store. So I decided to do a speed run in there. I looked at the hats, and made a beeline to the CD's. I looked through the CD's and I had spotted some score soundtracks. Jackpot. I had bought at least 5 of them, I bought a Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Don Davis, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Carlo Siliotto.
  The one that took the cake was The Punisher score by Carlo Siliotto. Why is this soundtrack so important and unusual? Well for those of you who don't know your soundtrack record labels, it was a La La Land Records release. Why is this unusual? You never expect to find an out of print La La Land Records soundtrack at a thrift store ever. Never in a million years would I ever expect to find a one of their CD's at a thrift store. For $0.50 you can't go wrong with that. Now I didn't know it was a La La Land Records soundtrack until I got into the car and looked at the spine of the CD case and saw their name of my favorite record label there. I almost had a stroke on the spot when I discovered it was one of their soundtracks. The Punisher wasn't one of their limited editions of a few thousand copies to my knowledge.
  Some of my other soundtrack hauls have included, Backdraft, Matchstick Men, and Black Hawk Down all by Hans Zimmer, I also found all 3 Lord of the Rings scores by Howard Shore and Attack of The Clones by John Williams. I hate the Star Wars prequels but I love John Williams. His scores for the prequels were better than the movies.
  Whoever keeps donating these score CD's is my hero. They are the real MVP here. They share the same passion for film music as I do. If it wasn't for me these score CD's would have been sitting at that thrift store for a long time. I gave them a good home on my soundtrack shelf.

Goo Gone and Used CDs

  Today I am going to let you on a little secret of mine on how to get rid of that sticky residue from stickers on used CDs. This little wonder is called Goo Gone. Yes I know Goo Gone is a funny name for a product. I sometimes laugh at the name Goo Gone because I find the name hysterical sometimes. Aside from the silly name this is the best product ever.

     I like to buy used CDs. Sometimes when you take the sticker off the jewel case, a sticky residue is left behind. You probably ask yourself, How do I get this sticky mess off my jewel case. Well the simple solution is Goo Gone Spray Gel. Now all you have to do is spritz a little bit of Goo Gone on the jewel case and wipe the case with a paper towel or rag or cloth. It really doesn't matter what you use to wipe with.
   Now Goo Gone is citrus powered and it leaves an orange scent behind. Don't panic because the scent will go away. Also Goo Gone is made by a company called Magic American Products. Make note that I haven't tried Goo Gone on any other residue such as chewing gum, Markers, Crayon, wax, lipstick or oil, or laundry stains. Since I haven't tried Goo Gone on the other things mentioned above I cannot tell you how good they work. I should mention that Goo Gone should be kept out of reach from children even though that is pretty much common sense. You don't want to have to call Mr. Yuk telling him that your kid ingested Goo Gone.
   I highly recommend Goo Gone with a Standing Ovation when It comes to cleaning sticker goo from used CDs. If I had to rate Goo Gone on a scale of 1-10 it would be a 10,000.