... I just bought ~2000 chart-toppers, for less than 1c each. How? On CD, baby, yeah!
This second-hand bookstore in the city has a sale on CDs happening at the moment, with prices that deserve any superlative you care to throw at them: 5 CDs for 1 € (!!!)
What I was there for was the series of "Jazz Charts", a 100-CD set with the top songs on the Jazz Charts between 1917 and 1954. They were numbered chronologically, but all just dumped in a bin out the front of the store, so for the first 10 minutes I just stood there and helplessly picked up random CDs looking for stuff I recognised. I mean, how are you supposed to choose between #63 1940 (4) and #65 1940 (6)? What's the point?
Eventually I was overcome by a surge of pedantry, and started pulling the 150-200 unsorted CDs out of the bin so I could put them in order. After I'd done that, I realised that most of the set was, in fact, there, so I started pulling one of each edition out to buy. Unfortunately, because the CDs were now all pretty much in order, two other blokes jumped in and started grabbing whole blocks of CDs out as well. One of them was nice enough to let me have first dibs (since he was only planning on reselling them, and didn't really care about having a full set), but I think the other chap managed to snag a couple in the #60-#80 range before I got there.
I have, now, 86 of the 100 set of "Jazz Charts", purchased for the grad total of 17 € -- now all I can hope is that there are CDDB entries for these babies, or I'll be spending a LOT of time typing in track names when I rip these to mp3.
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