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Thrift Shop Find No. 5
Found Thrift Village, San Leandro, California
Price $3.75

Company B 12-inch dance single

As much as I like to think of the Thrift Shop as an island of serenity, a place free from the cares of the world, it is affected--as the moon affects the tide--by the forces of the market. At this point, records are becoming more and more scarce, snapped up by collectors who realize that vinyl is being dumped indiscriminately, is undervalued, and can be sold to nostalgics like me later on.

However, there's one kind of record you can always find, no matter how hard you try not to--the unavoidable, worthless disco 12-inch single, laying in dusty piles deeper than snow in Buffalo. If I had all the time back that I've spent wading through piles of that banging crapola looking for something good. . . .

This one is submitted for the approval, not for it's music (one synthesized tune, three chords, 8 minutes, plus dub version, plus radio edit). Nor is it here to deride the general horribleness of music made strictly for filthy commerce. It especially isn't here to mock the aspirations of this trio of Noo Yawk women who were really hoping for their big break in 1987. No, it is the Find of the Week for one reason only: This album is a piece of historical evidence; it proves conclusively that those dynel white fright wigs were indeed considered glamorous once upon a time.

Richard Von Busack