23 Comments

in scotland we call them JAKEYS :)
stu
2010-08-10 14:59:45

Savvy marketing...
James Wallace
2010-08-10 15:06:47

careful...... it could be a trap!
Geoff
2010-08-10 15:20:16

This must be a first people stealing from the skip rather than dumping stuff into it.
Steam Multimedia - Web Design
2010-08-10 15:25:45

look at all the wannabe DJ shadows digging for that piece of old gold...
lpmasterblow
2010-08-10 15:52:31

@ lpmasterblow and what???
outbored
2010-08-10 16:00:21

That'll be advert soundtracks sorted for a few years, then.

@Steam – No way, skips are a valuable source of [my] furniture.
Ed Wright
2010-08-10 16:20:20

A similar occurrence (on a smaller scale) happened a couple of years back when I was working round the corner in 'NoHo', and chanced upon a skip languishing outside that place on my lunchbreak – its contents mostly rubble, garnished with a healthy serving of assorted classical CDs, to which I helped myself.

It's got to be said, they weren't necessarily the 'best albums ever' – they were in a skip, after all – but hey, free stuff
Tom
2010-08-10 16:23:48

What a shame they didn't donate them to a charity who could have turned the money made into real social benefit... Now that would have been something decent.

It could be an interesting marketing ploy. However, it could also mean that they only stock junk which isn't fit for anything else other than a skip. What might it have cost them to hire a storage unit for a while? If the records (which presumably they spent money on) were that good, they would have been worth hanging onto. Not breaking in the bottom of a dirty old skip...
Neil Hopkins
2010-08-10 16:46:44

@Neil Hopkins, I was in a charity shop the other day, they about 500 classical vinyls awaiting collection by the binmen
d1111s
2010-08-10 19:29:33

bah. any serious record collector would have hired a truck and towed away the skip :o)
Poppycock
2010-08-11 11:38:31

Hope they came with downloadable MP3s, I hate it when they don't provide 'em.
Colin
2010-08-11 11:52:24

viva la vinyl.........

we defend vinyl in wales and are seeing a large growth in vinylists.....

DEFEND THE FAITH....www.vinylism.co.uk
vinylism
2010-08-11 13:03:36

Nice little marketing and p.r stunt there... or is that the cynic in me?
Stripeyhorse Design
2010-08-11 15:39:24

Trolled down there on your recommendation and bagged some key 20th Century works by Boulez and Varese, plus a box set of Schubert songs and a few esoteric selections that may or may not prove to be interesting. Oh, and a recording of Hair! which although it isn't the RCA original cast recording does at least have a very groovy cover!

Well worth the bus fare down there just for the Boulez and Varese alone. While I can't say I have been much of a fan of Harold Moores' business strategy over the years (buy for buttons, sell for fistfuls of paper money) I can't fault their altruism here.
Barney Netherwood
2010-08-11 16:48:42

Ha! There's me on top of the skip with my mop of ginger hair. I don't think that BBC were very fair in quoting you. We were all chatting and laughing while I was there.
Ash
2010-08-11 16:59:56

Skipa-dee-bip-bopp. .;.;.;...;.;.
Graphic Design Manchester
2010-08-11 23:35:13

anyone know if there's any still there?
spr
2010-08-12 12:35:34

Was going to ask who the annoying sod was flicking through them and splaying them over where everyone else was looking... answered my question :)
mimeArtist
2010-08-14 10:11:11

People are such twats aren't they? Are you really gonna play them? Now if it was outside Buck & Ryan, I'd be in there like a shot.
JasonB
2010-08-14 13:41:06

Been playing my haul all week, been good to have some vintage jazz. Not sure how much swamped ebay though...
Ash
2010-08-15 21:39:38

Is this a marketing technique or any kind of trap ..
jamesh
2010-08-16 16:25:53

Nice little idea........

Why is there always someone who needs to make negative jibs??? Neil.....??
helen
2010-08-19 05:50:04

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