Then a set of JBL Pro computer speakers. They were only $2 and I got them to use when I mess around with some of the old PCs I have. For $2 why not have some appropriate speakers to match the computer.
Picked up this sweet Logitech K480 bluetooth keyboard for $2.99. Will make a great smaller keyboard to use while laying in bed! It seems like it could also make a decent daily driver keyboard.
I've owned Magic Eye and Magic Eye III for many many years. I've never come across Magic Eye II.....until yesterday!
It was overpriced at $4.99 but I still bought it to complete my my Magic Eye hardcover trilogy!
Not a Goodwill purchase but I haven't posted in awhile. Picked up this original 45 year old 1980 version of The Blues Brothers on Laserdisc for $10.
I also own the 1990 release but I wanted this one because it is the CAV version. The Extended Play CLV version came out a year later in 1981. What I find unique about the CAV version is that it is 3 discs 6 sides long! That means a flip/change about every 20 minutes or so. It would have been worth it in 1980. At that time it must have been amazing to be able to own a movie and watch it anytime you wanted. Even just fast forwarding and rewinding would have been amazing. Laserdisc came out in 1978, CDs didn't come out until around 4 years later in 1982. VCRs didn't really get all that popular until the mid to late 80s. I can only imagine how cool it must have felt to have a Laserdisc player in the late 70s-early 80s. And it wasn't even called Laserdisc back then! So you wouldn't have owned a Laserdisc player you'd have a DiscoVision player! And you'd get all the chicks bay-bay.
I know most of us aren't old enough to remember those years but if I had saw a Laserdisc player at somebody's house in 1995 I would have been amazed. So I can only imagine how crazy a shiny futuristic looking record that can be read by lasers to play a movie must have seemed way back then.
Back to The Blues Brothers discs I fully expected them to be totally laser-rotted and unplayable with them being 45 years old. Most of the "Discovision" discs I've tried have severe rot. I remember buying the 1981 release of Smokey and The Bandit around 2003 and it already being unwatchable due to rot. The beginning of Disc 1 has what I'd call light to medium rot but the rest of the disc and the other two I would rate at very light rot. Still totally watchable just with a tiny bit of rot. Not bad at all for being 45 years old!
Goodwill is kind of depressing nowadays. Basically nothing there but junk, that's right stuff even I don't want! I've probably bought something small here or there nothing really worth posting about. If you really want to hear a recent Calavera purchase I picked up a pair of Bluetooth earbuds. I actually don't have any true wireless earbuds. I think these ones are called "over the ear" the ones that kind of hook on your ear rather than just sticking in it. I prefer those. Anyways they looked to be brand new and came in a charging case. They were only $2.55 a the flea market, that seemed like a good deal to me so I picked them up and they work just fine.
They seem to have no bass at all but they'll do for listening to videos.
Calavera wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 4:07 pm
Goodwill is kind of depressing nowadays. Basically nothing there but junk, that's right stuff even I don't want! I've probably bought something small here or there nothing really worth posting about. If you really want to hear a recent Calavera purchase I picked up a pair of Bluetooth earbuds. I actually don't have any true wireless earbuds. I think these ones are called "over the ear" the ones that kind of hook on your ear rather than just sticking in it. I prefer those. Anyways they looked to be brand new and came in a charging case. They were only $2.55 a the flea market, that seemed like a good deal to me so I picked them up and they work just fine.
They seem to have no bass at all but they'll do for listening to videos.
We have the opposite problem here.. lots of good stuff, but you can hire an entire factory in China and 200 workers for 6 months to build you an identical item out of diamond studded gold and platinum and have it flown from the factory direct to your house and it will still be cheaper to do that than buying anything at op shop prices.
