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Especially excited about the one labeled “cable + South Park”. Hoping they recorded the commercials too!

Found this gorgeous copy of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. It has an 1873 date and the publisher is one of the initial publishers of this book in the US. Question: is this an earlier printing or a later one? I can’t find an exact copy anywhere online. I can find some with the same stamping but not the same cloth color. Just curious if this is actually a copy from 1873 or a later reprint with a different cloth color. Either way, I think it looks great, especially the gilding on the spine! For $10 I’m happy to have it.

I’m in the path of the beam and I’ve read so far the first 4 books as well as some of the tertiary books I’m told are connected. Here’s how I view them thus far, as SpongeBob memes. Please no spoilers past Wizard and Glass, but do feel free to post some alternates of the books already mentioned, I had multiple contenders for each entry.

It had a huge rip on the rear panel of the dj. I used some bookbinders glue to reassemble it as best as I could so it is at least now all of a piece. But still, first hardcover McCarthy I own and one of my favorites!

The elation I felt when my wife said “I haven’t seen The Exorcist” and I got to hit her with the “we have that on VHS” She loved it.

Paid about $4.50 per book so just under $15 for the lot! Pretty thrilled with the No Country, I don’t have any McCarthy that aren’t trade paperbacks.

Almost every single tape here was found at a thrift store for $1.29 or less over the last year. The only ones not acquired that way were the Alien box set I got for $5 on fb marketplace and a few like Apocalypse Now and Evil Dead were traded for with a fellow Redditor. The Late Night With the Devil was an anniversary gift, idk where my wife got that from, id assume Etsy. Unfortunately the Drake and Josh is just the sleeve, the movie inside is actually Godzilla. Everything else is as pictured.

How many kills did our new Jigsaw rack up in Saw IV?

I’m currently following the Talking Scared reading order for The Dark Tower series so just finished Salems Lot and I’m back into Wizard and Glass after. I’m not sure exactly yet how Salems Lot connects to DT (there’s a line about the “wheels of fate” that felt DT esque) so I’ll guess we see at some point!

I’m going for Overboard tonight as I’ve never seen it and I’ve been looking for the VHS for months. Finally snagged it the other day so it’s time to see why it’s on this sub so often.

Did end up having to leave it behind because it was cracking in places :(

My wife is over the moon (lol) about the Sailor Moon set!

I went back to the thrift store today and there was even more horror grails!! I’m not usually this lucky but holy shit some of these titles! Absolutely dumbfounded at this point. I included a photo of one with the price tag on it just to show these really were sitting in a thrift store and I’m not just posting my collection. I’m almost dead sure now a collector died and someone’s just donating their collection.

Denver had a surprise snowstorm today so everyone stayed home. The thrift stores were empty, I was the only customer at a few shops.

Walked into one as they wheeled out three tubs of tapes and this is everything I found. Absolutely massive finds! I should’ve bought a lottery ticket! Thrilled with my first Lynch find!

Also I’m actually really excited to see Going Overboard. I hear it blows haha

I found this 1st printing for like $3 at my local thrift a few months ago and picked it up as my favorite horror lit podcast (Talking Scared) interviewed the author and recommended it. I didn’t even know it was in the running for a Pulitzer. But now that it’s won it’s interesting to see the demand change. I remember seeing this book on clearance at Barnes and now people are paying decent money for it.

I’ll keep my copy in good condition and see if I can’t meet the author at a signing at some point. I thought the book was really fun, some great religious horror/iconography and a great scene of megalophobia as well. The structure of the entire book being essentially one sentence doesn’t make it as hard to read as it would seem.

Got most of these from recent concerts I went to. Drain/No Pressure/Haywire was a killer show! Also saw Bilmuri recently but this album isn’t my favorite release by them, I’m still more of a fan of the Taco-Goblin Hours era. The Sworn In was one I’d see posted sometimes as many people’s grail album so I gave it a listen and liked it but definitely wasn’t gonna drop multiple hundreds on it. So when they announced the repress I was happy to pick it up for retail.

My favorite of the bunch is probably the Drain. It’s my first zoetrope record and it’s just a fun time. They’re a deeply unserious band and if you get a chance to see them live it’s just mayhem and fun.

The Craft I grabbed for another Redditor who said it was one of their most wanted tapes. The X-files is for my wife who’s a huge fan, we’re building up a small set of them now. The Howling IV looks metal as hell, but unsure if I need to see the first three first.

Pure Luck is actually the big find for me today. When I was a kid, my dad mentioned this movie off hand and said we should watch it because it was really fun. We ended up calling like a dozen blockbusters until one finally had it in stock. We drove across town to pick it up, then snagged a pizza, went home and had a movie night. Because of that, this movie along with The Rugrats Movie are the two tapes I most associate with the medium and my childhood. Was happy to finally find it.