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Today I received the new (used) copy of the Maynard Ferguson's "Stratospheric" 2LP record from a great seller on EBay. It looks nice and clean, stamped with Demo on the front, and an original insert has the full list of reissues on this series. It probably came from a radio station library.
Was at crackhouse Wed, and picked up 2 MF albums in the new arrival bin, but put them back as I don't know his body of work. Would 'Conquistador' been worth taking? Forget the other, might of been 'Chameleon'. Either worth acquiring?
Wow, I feel a strange disturbance in the Force...... 
You actually put back records? 
I thought that store was a one-way street. 
dude - you didn't answer my question.
I put plenty back, like the $100 Kind of Blue, the $30 Leeway, and there once was a $100 Coltrane that Pman pried out of my hands and put back.
He puts back plenty, though mostly 50 centers, and for obvious reasons.
1) I had to check the archives to see if the MF Conquistador album was the one I was thinking of.
My answer would be that whether or not you should have taken it would depend on what the asking price was. I picked it up a few months ago out of a dollar bin somewhere. I thought it was OK, but nothing to go crazy over. I remember thinking that it was a little too polished and commercial for my taste. That said, if you follow the below listed Amazon link you will find quite a few rave reviews for the album (FYI - you can also pick up a new CD of it on Amazon for less than $3.)
2) I agree about putting back a $100 Kind of Blue album. Although I would never have had to put it back, because after seeing the $100 I never would have picked it up in the first place.
(I don't mind dropping $100 in a record store, but for that kind of money I would much rather come out with a pile of records as opposed to a single "collectible" LP. My wife often asks me upon returning from a record store if i left anything behind for the other customers.
) Not that I have anything against anyone who would buy the collectible, it just doesn't fit in with my own way of thinking. To each his own.
3) Tossing aside a beat up LP from the 50 cent bin doesn't count as putting one back, it us just throwing out the trash.
