Maybe I'm the only one, but I like it when you pause at the shelf just before you pull a CD because I hit the pause button, look them over, and try to guess which one you're going to pick. I do pretty well most of the time. EDIT: OK, the Jim Nabors totally threw me! Didn't expect that!

Those prices are killing me. Some of those are much cheaper online! Love this series!

This is like ASMR for music fans. The place where i shop for used hasn't changed....yet. Single disc CD's $5., Double discs $8. That's it. Out of print CD's included. wheww !

I've noticed the jacking up of prices here in England. HMV prices are getting silly, online sellers's prices are getting quite steep for new and secondhand CDs. Even some charity shops are asking collectors prices for CDs. It's all getting a bit grim out there in CD land!

Love the Let's Go To The Record Store Series!

Well, even though you only picked up two CDs, they were both classics. Love, iron butterfly and I’m a huge fan of GFR. As far as CD prices go, I got to tell you that unfortunately some of the prices I’ve seen I’ve had to resort to buying the digital copy off iTunes, and then burn a cd. Not what I really wanna do but there’s a point where you just have to say no to these high prices. I wanted to buy the new Uriah Heep CD on Amazon but the last time I checked, they only had the deluxe version and that was over $20. There’s a lot of CDs on Amazon now that are just being sold via third-party vendors and they of course are raising their prices to make money.

Those prices, man. Woof.

The price jump is pretty much universal these days, regardless of the industry. It simply costs more to keep the doors open and the lights on in Sleepy Joe's America...

That subway scares me Brendon

Here in southern California, we have a handful of Book Offs, too. 10 yrs. ago it was a GREAT place for cool CD finds; tons of import pressings; Japan, West Germany, etc. but now, yeah, it's exactly like what you are seeing there in NYC; plenty of good titles that you'd want for $5, but not for $20 and above, not even close! Just nutso! They actually have $1 sections but it takes a long time to go through all those cheap CDs and you have to be really lucky to find a gem or two.

Love this format of the rapid selections off the shelves!

That is a great lost Warren Zevon album. Many great songs on there. Splendid Isolation is my favorite.

What a amazing looking record store. Wow lots of variety. I'm heading into Zulu Records in Vancouver BC this Friday. Thanks Brendan.

I saw IRON BUTTERFLY live in the 80s. A theatre. All these old hippies showed up. It was almost bizarre. The band was fantastic. I was honestly shocked.

Great finds! I hope the used CD prices don’t start to go up in my area too. Love Grand Funk. Iron Butterfly Ball is my favorite by them. I also have it on vinyl!

I am a regular at Book-Off in So. Cal and I’ve noticed that pattern of ridiculous CD pricing since 2021. I have no idea what they are smoking or what they base their pricing on, but I assure you that some of those high price tags do not represent the true average price of used ‘out of print’ CDs, when compared to other brick and mortar or on-line retailers.

Wow Brendon i went to BOOK OFF When i was in NY 4 years ago but now the prices are even more than here in Australia My Brother will be in NY in a couple of months i told him to go to BOOK OFF but im going to say look out way to $ Stay safe keep collecting

Thank you ! What a CD Shop! I Love it....wow,wow,wow! Bye!

The selection looked incredible…but those prices are outrageous. Thankfully here in South Carolina our thrift shops and used record shops still have tons of great cds for $0.99-2.00 range, many of the same titles shown here that are $15+.

At Book Off I notice that most compilation albums are cheaper that the regular studio albums

Those prices are crazy. Looking forward to the next record store visit. Have you visited all the record stores in your area? Are there some that you haven't been to yet and you could do a video of?

It is sad to see prices going up like that. A charity shop here in the UK was selling their CDs for 50p each up until last year. Then suddenly they went up and was matching what they saw online. Similar to what has happened here. I used to purchase many from them for my collection but not so much now. They have put me of going.

Brendon love your videos. I know the prices there were a bit steep but here in Melbourne, Australia there are no stores that carry that amount of choice and range for second hand cds! The amount was amazing 🙂

Fiteen bucks for a used Dokken CD ? Silly, you can get the new release box set of all Dokkens Electra years on CD for $43....for four cd's.

Those prices are absolutely ridiculous.

Brendan, I am visiting New York with my wife in October (travelling from the UK) cannot wait to visit Bookoff as I’ve wanted to go there since I saw a previous video of yours filmed there .. she does not share my enthusiasm but I’ll get round that!!

I agree totally, the prices have really jumped up lately even new on Amazon and Ebay new even got up to around 20.00 for a disc what's going on is ridiculous, starting to not buy alot now, like you buying a handful of items has turned into one or two.

Nice find with the Grand Funk cd. It's a shame the store doesn't have much to offer in terms of value for money anymore. At least you still have Sound Exchange. Your pronunciation of Warren Zevon had me spill a little of my coffee. It's pronounced Zeevon, if i am incorrect, let me know. I have always heard it that way when he would appear on tv. Nice video, Brendon. I hope to see some more in the future, where you actually get some good value deals, happy hunting.

Those prices! The expanded Little Feet at $15 was deal though. Iron Butterfly, Original Album Series on Rhino, less than $20, and has all their Atco releases.

Good finds. may I recommend a band for you? Since I know you like stryper you should try the band "Bloodgood" the album that is my favorite is "Detonation" Their 80's glam metal.

Keep an eye on that store, Brendon. They will become so backloaded from cds that don't sell, they will have to liquidate and prices will drop thru the floor. They should have kept to their moderate to good pricing.

Spread my ashes here!!

Those CD prices are pretty wild. They can keep them.

I have recently decided to ditch vinyl for CD's because of the crazy prices on vinyl. I fear now that the crazy prices are about to hit CD's now.

Hi Brendan those prices are too high shame they are pricing themselves out of market get more sales with realistic pricing. Take care joe

Prices have been going up in Ireland too Price of a new cd costs between 15-20e 2nd hand was always 5 but now around 7e

Thx for sharing, Well its how it should be really, As a fan,also buy/sell guy i am. Love it,still find in the right town cds from the 80s-music from the 70s on cd in thrifts at 50 cents-1$(Canadian) And now i dont need ebay to resale them 10-12$ each(mint!discs like new always) on Craigslist and Kijij(live in Vancouver so with its 5-6 suburbs) i manage to find buyers more and more at that new price. These sites allow me to upload 1000s on one listing. Not Ebay. Thx for sharing

Hello Brendon, How do you know when an album is out of print?

The prices were high. You mentioned the Jeff Beck Group CD (with the orange on the cover) that Bookoff was selling for $26. I just got this CD brand new and sealed on Amazon from MovieMars for $12. The Dokken CD at $15 is high, too. I just got the Dokken box set with that album in it. If you haven't got the Dokken box, it has the four CDs in their own separate digipaks that slide out of the box. Each has a fold out poster, two that have the lyrics, as well.

You missed "the Essential Fred Astaire". You need some of him in your life. (wink)

WTF!?! Did the price of cd's just went up or were they always like that in that store? That's crazy! I just bought that Warren Zevon for 1euro in a thrift store a couple of weeks ago...that's nuts! Great show. Cheers.

Wow -- those prices were crazy! There are several record stores I go to here in Los Angeles and the used CDs start at $3 or $4. Some are more, of course, but the most I've ever spent on used CDs was $12 and that was for a four-CD box set! The highest price I've ever paid for a new CD was around $22 and that was about 20 years ago! Interesting that you pulled the Jim Nabors album -- I'm not too familiar with his work although I do collect traditional pop albums. However, he's included on one of my various artist Christmas CDs and he has a rather operatic voice.

They had to raise their prices, because you're not going there twice a week anymore... :-) :-) :-) Just kidding of course! Take care. Cheers.

Brendon bought the Grand Funk Railroad on EBay Germany for 6,50 € including shipping

Must be impossible to make money after rates and rent and all those overheads being in midtown NYC. People don't wanna know unless it's bargain bucket price. And then there's all the offers online and free downloads etc etc. Nice to see a sighting of the Jean Luc Ponty cd.

brendon i recommend you to the band balance with the album in for the count 1982. great rock aor. im spanish, forgive me my english.

Great to see NY, the subway and Book Off again Brendon but those CD prices are shocking. Has the CD revival started? Regarding Iron Butterfly, I picked up a used copy of In-A-Gadda on Saturday but its not doing anything for me on first listen. This is my first taste of the band, one band I have overlooked unintentionally. For some reason I expected a heavy Sabbath type sound. Maybe it will grow on me.

not only have cd prices really gone up but certain cd players have spiked like crazy. I was scoping out this Sony vertical player with a glass bevel so you could see the disc spinning(really cool). they were anywhere from $70-$100 about 5 months ago, but I just checked and now all of the sudden they're selling for like $500-$600!!! I should've bought one when I had the chance 😞

You would think that they would want to sell the stock that they have, and not let it sit on the shelf, unsold because of high pricing.. Moving the product at a reasonable price would seem to generate more profit.. Well, I'm glad I hung on to all of my old CDs..

All these escalating price tags for music will only drive more and more people back to their computers to file sharing and Napster type applications once again. Vinyl, CDs, concert tickets…this has got to stop.

My favorite books I have read recently: Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy The FLDS And My Father Warren Jeffs by Rachel Jeffs The title of the video, Bookoff, really threw off but if you're looking for some books to read, there you go. Again, I'm fairly new here.

Hi Brendon I bought that Grand Funk greatest hits cd for only one dollar brand new. There was a mistake with the pricing, and it had one dollar on it. So they had to sell it to me for that price.

Yeah It’s funny you just did this video I was going to post a comment to you about “Book Off” they have gone through the roof lately on pricing, I am glad though when I was in there the other day that someone FINALLY got to doing some alphabetizing and just getting things in order over the last few months it was really a mess, but I did see some crazy prices on “open” stuff lately and sealed too that you easily can find on amazon “sealed” much cheaper I think they are trying to latch on to the “tourists” in the area and also just the CD resurgence and just physical product resurgence, they were charging 50 dollars for an open old Taylor Swift vinyl a few weeks back happened to see it out of the corner of my eye, looked like it had a lot of wear to it and probably just because its Taylor vinyl they figure they can get something for that. I think my main issue with Book Off now is they are not a music store never were, its not like the ones you have in Jersey and some of the ones that still exist in Manhattan but Book Off has gone off my radar, though I still go in once a week or every two weeks I cannot remember the last time I bought something in there, which is nuts because I used to buy tons a week, they also totally got rid of the buy more deals that was huge when I first starting going there, like 3 for 5 or 5 for 10 on the budget cd wall, they have not had any deals like that in a long time.

The BookOff over here sells items at collector's prices. I have seen CDs that go between $49.00 to $99.00 USD! I have been waiting for an old Styx CD album, "Man Of Miracles" was selling for $49.00 USD and now is hovering at $15.00 USD. If it's still there at $7.00, I'll get it. Utterly ridiculous the prices on CDs. At least you still have $1.50 CDs there, here it's at $2.00.

Looks like you're in heaven :)

It's crazy how they changed their price policy. One extreme to another ! Next time I go to Paris, I'll see if it's the same in France.

Sad to see those price hikes and price increases on most of those cds ….😢

I had live Iron Butterfly whole second side was in a gadda davida

My favorite music store, SSR, closed down cause the owner decided to retire. 💔

I can't imagine how expensive it is to have a store that size in Manhattan. I'm sure that (and the CD resurgence) is driving those price hikes. I just wouldn't want to be the employee who had to re-sticker all of the CDs from the old to new prices. Must've taken forever...

Those prices are insane. J. Geils "Blow Your Face Out" for $26? I picked up the Original Album Series Vol. 1 & 2 (10 albums) which included that one for close to the same price.

It really is a shame how much the price of music has gone up. Even a year ago, prices were nothing like the way that they are now. It seems like the only time I can find a decent deal or even something being sold for a reasonable price, is when I'm at flea markets. The people there actually want their items to go to the right people, and it's not all about getting a profit to them. Unfortunately, I've been seeing those close down too. Music is priceless, but when there are so many streaming options, it's an absolute joke to be selling a common cd for more than 5 dollars used. Nice video and collection!

I love Japanese BookOffs. I shelf with 1,5 USD CDs. Did I see right. If so. Is there any interesting records. In japan I bought some great CDs for 150 yens (if I remember right) or 300 yens. But still. And course it was some years ago... mr. Finglish (Bäd English Recs)

$7 for Out Of Time? Most stores can't seem to give that one away. My theory is that stores are becoming aware of Discogs and other online markets. Rarely do I find anything priced lower than what you can get it for online. But some stores are obviously not online influenced at all (yet,) and that's where the nice finds come from.

The CD prices are definitely going up. The one drawback of the CD revival.

Do u hit up Goodwills I find a few here and there at GWs and only for 1 buck each

Hopefully Anthony/Sound Exchange does NOT follow suit with BookOff. My jaw dropped when you showed those crazy prices. I haven't been to my local record shop in months. I hate to see how much their prices have changed (if any.)

Do you have that album with Tommy Bolin?

Unfortunately, in my country, those are mostly regular prices :(

They bought those cds for $2 or $3 tops probably.

What? That's even more expensive than here in Italy. 29 $ for Aerosmith Pandora's Box? Are you kidding? Got mine last week for 7 euro.

Well I watch the whole video very disappointing with the prices $18 for lover boy’s greatest hits. I was gonna go there in the next couple of days now you have save me a trip Brendan thank you. No reason to go in there to get used CDs for ridiculous prices. I can go to any other record store in New Jersey or New York and get much better prices for used CDs they were going for next to nothing not long ago

Lucky at my record store used cds are 2.99 to 7.99 he has vinyl as the money maker for the the store he's just trying to move the cds 💿

$18.00 and $21.00 I would want the letter box with it.

How come your voice sounds different when you are at the shops?

Maybe visit the place again when they have a 30% off sale.

There is no way I'd pay those prices for used CD's, I can't imagine they are selling much. I've seen that Iron Butterfly Ball on CD and vinyl for $1.00 plenty of times (I bought the record).

I'd actually rather go to a store that has prices only slightly below what items sell for on Ebay or Discogs. If you price too low, you entice flippers. If there's a pandemic and the government threatens to sue businesses for selling for more than what they normally would, then items end up in the hands of flippers. In order to buy, you have to go find the flipper and if you pay him over the odds, he doesn't have the means to make more. If you paid a little more to the company, then they would have boosted profits and be encouraged to make more since they already have the means. I got the "picked over" impression of Princeton Record Exchange when I went in 2016. Most cd titles for pre-1990 music were pressed in 5-10K runs and everything is out of print. Rent in NYC is crazy and the Leftists are destroying this country especially the urban areas by enabling drugs to flow freely and not prosecuting property crime like theft. The penalty for everyone is higher taxes and insurance.

Ridiculous prices and they did not even put new cases on them and do they check quality of CDs before pricing There is no CD resurrection in Australia though

That s a ridiculous price for a Firehouse Live CD .

They should change their name to Rip-Off!

Stick with PREX. They price to move. Most of that stuff would be $1.99. Trixter for $7? Please. Like you said, thank god we started when we did.

$26 for cheap trick the doctor? Brendan that’s a lot of money. I’m sure it was much less last time you went there. That’s a ridiculous price.

oof those prices though

Outrageous prices you could get some of those CD’s brand new for less than what they’re charging for used. No thanks

I just really have my doubts these collector prices ever migrate to the heartland. Our fleas and ys prices are rock bottom here in western pa rural md area. You can get anything they have for a dollar every day. I just don’t ever see cd values anything like vinyl. Not happening

They’ll price them at collectors prices until their sales drop

these prices are really surprising. There are 3 bookoff in Paris France where I live, and I've bought some really good CDs there for 2 or 3 € . I sure hope this pricing policy doesn't cross the Atlantic.

At those prices, I bet a lot of people are mispronouncing BookOff

I would never pay this money for 2nd hand CDs ...it is outrages if I use soft words ...but then we have different priorities in life ....no-one forcing us to pay this amount for CDs ...thankfully London UK still keeps prices of CDs on the reasonable level with a lot of bargains around if you have time and knowledge where to look for ....

Book Off? More like Rip Off. I looked up those Jim Carroll CDs on Discogs, and I don't know where they get off asking for those prices.

Those prices are stupid!

What a pricy store you keep goin‘

the cost of doing business in nyc with the crime, rent no wonder

In the future, We will have to stream the music we can not afford.

I don't understand why anyone would pay for a $70 cd when everything is downloadble today. Other than collectible reasons.

Were the $69 CDs in the cases or behind the counter?

Don't stand to close to the tracks brother.

$69 for that Yes CD is insane.....one word.....NO!

Yikes prices like that will push us collectors away. It's Really ashamed to see. Vinyl records are high we don't need CD to do the same. I know it isn't true but seems like they places are trying to push us to streaming services only. Hopefully I won't see that in my area.