Long ago and far away, when vinyl was king, the stores would have bargain bins of "cut" albums. The jacket would have a hole, notch or cut off corner to signify the store and wholesaler had written the album off. Many of these albums were selling for less than a dollar and some as cheap as 3 for 50 cents.
There would always be a number of compilation albums like that Latin Beat or groups I never heard of. For the groups I had heard of, I usually already had the album, as did everyone I knew...... although it was a good place to replace albums that had been played to death or damaged.
I'd look through the stacks for cool jacket art or names of players I recognized. I think it was about this time I realized how many albums Billy Preston played on.
Most of the albums were in that rack for good reason....they sucked...but sometimes there would be a great cut or two on a turkey. But once in a while there would be a gem.....a gem nobody else had.
