One of my favorite past times has been walking into Blockbuster Video or a local chain of stores called Record & Tape Traders and buying 3, 4, or 5 used movies for $20 or $25. I used to do this routinely, about once a month, and my DVD collection has severely outgrown my shelf space because of the sheer number of movies I've accumulated over the years at very low prices. Unfortunately, between the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, my local Record & Tape Traders location, as well as every single Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video within reasonable driving distance from my house, have closed their doors. This resulted in a lot of great deals to be had at store liquidation sales, but it also means that there's pretty much nowhere I can go to get my discount DVD fix anymore.
Anyway, as an era began to come to an end, I discovered Twitpic.com and started posting pictures of all of my bargain DVD hauls on the internet. Almost a year later it occurred to me that I'd amassed an inadvertent catalogue of nearly all of my movie purchases made over the course of the previous 12 months. Excluding birthday and Christmas gifts, or any instances when I bought a single DVD or Blu-ray at regular price, the following is a visual record of all of the DVD deals I took advantage of between July 2009 and June 2010, along with the notes I made about them on Twitpic.
5 DVDs for $20.
Today's discount DVD haul: 7 movies for under $30.
DVD Liquidation Sale - 19 DVDs & 1 Blu-ray.
5 DVDs for $20 from Record & Tape Traders.
Record & Tape store closing haul: 7 DVDs & 1 Blu-ray for $45.
$5 DVD haul. That's the og Pelham. The Hitch set = 20 films.
5 DVDs for $20 from Record & Tape in Towson. I miss the one in Westminster.
4 DVDs for $20.
Taneytown, MD Hollywood Video going out of business sale: 14 DVDs for $70.
12 DVDs 1 TV series & 2 Blu-rays for $90 from 2 closing Hollywood Videos.
25 DVDs & 1 Blu-ray for $34 from the T-town Hollywood Video's closing sale.
11 DVDs for $35 from the Hanover, PA Hollywood Video's closing sale.
9 DVDs for $15 from the Hanover, PA Hollywood Video. Sat is their last day.
6 DVDs for $24 from the Hollywood Video in Frederick.
By my count, that's 128 DVDs and 5 Blu-rays for $553, which works out to just over $4 per movie.
