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| - An awesome way to waste the time you have to get rid of, Cash Converters is full of secondhand CDs, DVDs, blu-rays, and their recent addition, vinyl. A good subtitle for this place would be Treasure Hunters because not only is it an extremely lame name, but because the people stalking its aisles are there to LOOT and PLUNDER and dig up treasure!
My favorite finds here:
- first-run prints of Sanjuro and Seven Samurai Criterion DVD. For $30 each. I passed and got the brand-new blu-rays instead.
- American Movie. I screamed when I saw it, and people around me got concerned.
- a rare bootleg copy of Traffic's Criterion release which I haughtily returned the next day, saying its only defect is "it is a bootleg and unworthy of my collection".
- non-bootleg copies of La Strada and Kicking and Screaming (NOT the Will Ferrell abomination) on Criterion.
- Bjork's "Debut" which I forced Kenny M to buy, and which to this day I am certain remains unopened. SHAME!
They are master scammers when you have something to give them (what do you mean N.E.R.D.'s sophomore classic "Fly or Die" is only worth 50 cents?? It has a cameo by Good Charlotte's Benji Madden for Petessakes!!), but when you find a rare movie or album, and you realize you only need to pay six bucks for it, it somewhat makes up for it.
14/30
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