There comes a time when eventually you stop listening to new music as much as you used to. I was always reading the papers and magazines and trying to find the hip new sounds to listen to. Nowadays I am happy with a good reissue or a strange compilation of something I never listened to the first time around. More and more I am shopping at charity shops and the sorts of record store that verges on a charity shop. You know the ones. While ninety per cent of their stock is Robbie Williams and Coldplay, you will occasionally find the odd gem. The purpose of this blog is to show off some of my more interesting finds.

Warning, my taste is quite varied so expect indie, jazz, rock, krautrock, electronica, breakcore, scronk, and everything in between. That limited edition Pet Shop boys double CD or the complete Lightning Bolt catalogue. Those were the things that made the search worthwhile.

Generally, charity shop racks are unsorted, so you have to flick through the whole lot, you know, just in case. Sometimes you can see when somebody has dropped off a whole collection of an artist. That is when you might find the odd rarity. Most charity shops are staffed by grannies who consider anything post-1960 to be modern. Of course, some of them are a bit more switched on. While the space given over to them goes down, the price is starting to go up. I have been known to pay £2 to £5 for something special. You also get five discs for a pound at some places.

It is the element of luck that makes it fun. I had always fancied a copy of Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes. It was her Leonard Cohen tribute album. I had never seen it in the record shops as it was never that big. It was nice to stumble across it for £1 one day.

If you have any good finds, then let us know.