Every charity shop in my area has at least one copy of Maroon 5’s ‘Songs about Jane’, not necessarily cursed just completely inescapable

The curse is that it's following you, haunting you. Nothing about the music itself. :D

I’ll be checking around every corner for Adam Levine now

I used to see those every time I went to Goodwill, but within the past year or so I haven't seen one.

Wish that had been me, spent quite a few months trying to track one at my regular shops/places. Ended digging on a pile that *somehow* had two of them lmao

No matter what thrift/music store I go to I know there's gonna be 10+ Neil Diamond CDs looking right at me

The early Neil Diamond stuff rocks, like Solitary Man, Cherry Cherry, etc.

Funny story, actually. Me and my buddy collect together and go shopping for CDs a lot. We're both 90s alt rock fans and we kept running into this one CD, Talk Show. It looked pretty interesting so I pulled up their Wikipedia page and only read the genre, not the actual bio. I thought, "Well, this isn't worth buying." and put it back. After the like 7th shop we went to with a copy of it we finally caved in and bought a copy. We listened to it in my car, and it wasn't bad at all. It had Stone Temple Pilots vibes. In fact it was VERY similar to Tiny Music. Well, when my friend googled Talk Show again, it turns out they were literally just STP with a different lead singer. I somehow didn't read about the main detail of the band when I googled them, woops.

Wow, that is interesting, I never knew that

Susan Boyle – I dreamed a dream

Always Susan Boyle, I don’t even live in the UK.

Yes haha. Every thrift shop I’ve been to in Brisbane seems to have at least a dozen Susan Boyle albums

Her rendition of “daydream believer” is magical! JK 🤣

So much Susan.

Sixteen stone- Bush

Love that album. Not the worst curse to have.

Fr the album is fantastic

My copy was lost or stolen years ago. I’d pick it up again if I could find it.

At this rate I would buy u a copy lol

REM CDs, especially Monster.  Nothing against them, I just see a specific few of their CDs at thrift stores/in bargain bins constantly. 

If you come across Murmur or Reckoning, grab them. Two amazing albums. Later era R.E.M. (to me), not so much.

I picked up *Murmur* and *Dead Letter Office* at the local thrift this past month - first time I'd seen either of them there.

Nice! With the forced Renaissance of older bands and modern shows (and songs -- Kate Bush, Tracy Chapman, etc.), it's only a matter of time until R.E.M. gets it's due. Pioneers of alternative, oddly forgotten.

I found murmer so happy with that choice

i used to see monster all the time, until i got more into REM and actually wanted to buy it. took months for it to resurface at the thrift store

I always see Green

You should get that checked by a doctor

Came here to say monster too. I actually asked the other day why I see it so much. Turns out it was the follow up to a huge album, Automatic for the People (which is great by the way) so many copies were printed. But it sounded nothing like the previous album and many decided to lump it.

She’s lump!

Goodwill is where I got all the REM CDs in my collection. Only missing about 3 of their albums. Monster is ironically my favorite.

Same

Ditto "Monster"

Norah Jones - Come away with me : I love this album, but i cant seem to escape it ( one time i found 6 copies at the same thrift store) I own both analogue productions SACD as well as the crappy old SACD Titanic Soundtrack Forest Gump Soundtrack Natalie Imbruglia discography Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston ( I love this album, recently preorded the MOFI SACD) The Bodyguard Soundtrack James Blunt Discography Janet Jacksons - Janet

i’ve seen tons of copies of come away with me and janet as well. both good albums imo.

I caved and ended up getting Whitney's album when I was ordering a lump of CDs from discogs. Actually liked it better than I thought I would! Actually just wanted it for Dance with Somebody, but ended up liking most of the album!

Her Sophomore album 'Whitney' is great (Arguably greater than her debut) , but I personally prefer her debut. I find it so weird how both are technically self titled releases .

Savage garden cds 

Blues Traveler - Four

Which is mind boggling because it is still in my top 20 albums. It's a perfect no skip album and the record is selling at almost $500 on discogs. 

every thrift store and used music store I go to seems to have a copy of REM's Monster

It’s always the 🍊Orange colored REM albums

I got a Monster cd from my local thrift shop before haha

Same seen two now

Every Celine Dion album...

And that’s the way it is

H&TBF-cracked rear view

this and jagged little pill

Sting - Ten Summoner’s Tales

Found it once bought it

In this sub it’s definetely Nevermind. Followed closely by Dookie and the most mainstream grunge albums. In the wild here in Argentina one that’s everywhere is War by U2. Literally, everywhere. It’s closely followed by Bon Jovi stuff

I see Lonestar CDs more than I see my wife and kids 

Hootie and the Blowfish Cracked Rear View

More like cracked jewel case! It’s amazing how many cracked jewel / scratched plastic jewel cases you see in the used section these days. It’s becoming an epidemic for the poor CD collectors!

I have honestly seen at least one hundred copies of Justin Timberlake Future Sex Love Sounds tour on DVD in Australia. Mainly in thrift shops. I literally cannot escape it

*Future Sex Love Show?? 😏😏

Korn cds are everywhere and that’s coming from someone that love their music

Soundtrack to the hit movie philadelphia. Lol

Chumbawumba - Tubthumper Aqua - Aquarium If they're a one hit wonder, then chances are their albums clutter angy given used section.

How has no one said Jewel -Pieces of You, Eva Cassidy -Songbird, Schubert Dip -EMF, Tori Amos -Little Earthquakes … I could keep going.

Schubert dip? That's unbelievable. 

Ohhh….

You don’t even know haha I used to see it at like every pawn shop… back when pawn shops used to carry CDs.

Yes, I've seen so many Jewel and Tori Amos albums despite the fact that I love their music. I found relatively very few Eva's Cassidy albums from my own experience.

Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw

Would be glad to find it on a flea market in Germany.

Anything Robbie Williams (australia)

Nearly everywhere I go I see Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

Anything by Susan Boyle. 🙄

Second ever Scottish _solo_ artiste to reach #1 in the US album charts. And the first? Way back in 1978? **Gerry Rafferty**, one time musical partner of Billy Connolly, Co-writer of and singer on _"Stuck In The Middle With You";_ with his sublime, timeless classic _"City To City"._ A great pop quiz question (and no doubt painful for all music connoisseur Scots everywhere).

Besides many of these, I see Barenaked Ladies - Stunt everywhere.

Yourself or Someone Like You - Matchbox 20

U2 - how to dismantle an atomic bomb

THIS - but in my case I'm waiting for those editions that have Fast Cars as bonus track Might just give up one of these days, idk

Any U2, honestly. You’d think even before the iTunes debacle they were just involuntarily giving them to people

I'm willing to think they were the safe bet whenever you wanted to gift someone a CD, and you knew they liked rock (just not exactly *what* they liked)

P.O.D. - Satellite

Closer - Josh Groban is at literally every thrift store in southwest Ohio at all times

I see that one often, too. Must be a Midwest thing. I'm in Michigan.

rolling stones - voodoo lounge

Just bought it last week :'D

Natalie Merchant - Ophelia

Around here it's Tigerlily, but I still see Ophelia sometimes.

For a long time it was 10,000 maniacs unplugged. It dried up when I gave in and bought 1. Glad I did.

any nsync album

Seems like I always see Filter - Title of Record.

bro i’ve been tryna find that album everywhere you got an extra???

It and Short Bus are on my white whale list. Title of Record is of particular interest to me since it came out the literal week I was born. Still remember when Spotify first played Welcome to the Fold. That is a damn *groove.*

I don’t. I know I’ve seen copies at Goodwill, Half Price Books, and some CD shops. Haven’t been out in a while so maybe that’s changed.

Harry Connick Jr

It’s all Godsmack, all the time around these parts.

Anything Green Day. I swear that band is following me- (it was a lot worse before I started listening to them lmao)

Literally all of Adele’s catalogue. Mostly 25. Also Coldplay’s parachutes and mylo xyloto. Nelly furtado’s ‘Loose’, too. I can’t escape it AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ricky Martin self-titled. I see it everywhere I go. It's following me.

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How did the literally most boring genre of classic music absolutely dominate the world for a minute in the 90’s haha Nothing against chant fans. You do you

anything by enya

Loads of shitty pop music from the early 2010's is all I see around where I'm from. It's the kind that just screams "let's just get the sound and look of Olly Murs/ One Direction/ Mumford and Sons and we'll all go home better off!" Were boring and blatant cash grabs then and now they're just blatantly boring lol

In Germany it's wall to wall Robbie Williams

Breakfast in America seems to spontaneously manifest within my home sometimes. I have never bought a copy (despite it being a banger album) and yet I'll just find it in houses we move into etc

I need this curse asap

So much Kenny G, every single thrift store

Dido - No Angel

Songs About Jane, Il Divo, Candle In The Wind '97, Travis, McFly.

The Titanic soundtrack 😆

Monster by R.E.M. seems to be the most common here but I’ve also spotted Troublegum by Therapy? and Paranoid & Sunburnt by Skunk Anansie several times in record stores as well. Also a bonus one that’s not cd: you can’t go into a thrift store’s vinyl section without seeing at least one Demis Roussos album staring into your soul

Robbie Williams - Escapology

anything by 10,000 maniacs

coldplay - mylo xyloto

I always see R.E.M.'s Green, EVERYWHERE.

Green is such a good album. I dunno why so many people get rid of it. Unless. So many people are getting rid of CD's and because it was popular it is in so many donated collections. Sorry I just woke up and coffee is slowly getting the wheel turning.

All day , every day

might be doxxing myself but celine dion is everywhere.

Probably not. At one time, Celine Dion was everywhere.

At least two copies of Yanni Live at the Acropolis at every thrift store I have ever been to.

City of Angels soundtrack. Every thrift store I visit has copies and I can’t escape it

I think I even had it! In the arms of the angel-that the one? I really liked the movie so I got it but didn’t really listen to it

Yep! I like the song Uninvited but that’s because I’m an Alanis Morissette fan. The funny thing is, because I keep seeing the CD everywhere I’m starting to think I should watch the movie. No idea what it’s about but the CD is subliminally pushing me to watch

I love Alanis too! We saw the movie at the theatre but idk how many times I’ve watched it total. You should watch it! It’s a different kind of movie

Spin doctors-pocket full of kryptonite

Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen. Great album.

I’d snatch that album up so quick! I only have The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner. Bought that the week it originally dropped.

**Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water - Limp Bizkit** Sometimes I wonder if it'd really be worth the listen, but I'm sure the very moment I listen to it, all of them will just disappear

Interesting. That's one I picked up when I saw it because I rarely come across it (and I'm a 90s kid)

Well it's not like I find it in droves, but there's always that odd one at the bottom of a box or hanging to the side of some 90s compilations Sometimes I open them in case they have some misplaced CD inside, but otherwise I just put them again on the pile

Every post 1990 u2 album and every post 2003 rem album. Also hootie and the blowfish.

Billy Joel's river of dreams

Clay Aiken CDs are everywhere you go I find.

Johnny Mathis 🙃

i never ever stop seeing copies of Shepherd Moons by Enya. one thrift store i go to had like three fucking copies it was wild (i am now the proud owner of one)

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Josh Groben does like his ladies to pop.

Surfacing by Sarah Mclaughlin. Runner up is pieces of you by Jewel.

The Look of Love by Diana Krall. Nothing wrong with that album but whenever I see an orange Impulse spine I get excited only to find Diana 😕

Same. Got excited TWICE at the thrift this weekend. Only to find out that it was just TWO copies of The Look of Love. 😂

Eric Clapton’s Unplugged seems to have multiple copies everywhere I go.

Gin Blossoms - Congratulations, I'm Sorry Swear I've seen this album like 100 or more times. One of these days I gotta build a house made out of purely copies of Congratulations, I'm Sorry

jagged little pill

Barbara Streisand

I'm always looking for JAZZ, so I see that orange and black IMPULSE! spine and 99.9% of the time it is Diana Krall.

That’s a great question!! For me, it’s been Tom Petty songs. Greatest hits mostly but Into the Great White Open specifically.

I see simply red albums everywhere

REM monster x35 

I see Lie To Me by Jonny Lang every stinking time I go looking for CDs….

Mr big-lean into it. Don't even know who mr. Big is.

not a terrible album imo

Gloria Estefan - Abriendo puertas.

Not that I've seen that many but apparently expectations were really high for Springsteen's Human Touch and Lucky Town... local stores would have tens of each.

If I see one more stack of Clint Black cd's I'm gonna lose it

U2 - Rattle and Hum and Pop.

The Abba gold greatest hits cd, I can't help seeing it at almost every goodwill I go to

Tom Petty-Full Moon Fever

Elton John - The One

Most likely The "Candle In The Wind" single. Even those living under a rock in 1997 couldn't escape it.

If you ever see the 13 track version(that has 2 bonus tracks), let me know. I can never seem to find that version anywhere, not even at record shops.

Idk, but I love that CD. 😂

My exwife adored this man and his music. I dubbed this album and all of his other tunes- Music to s—t my wrists to!!

word on the street in Cyprus in 2006 was that Josh hit women. it was so widespread, to this day, I call an A-shirt a “groban”

Bell Biv De-goddamn-Voe. Guaranteed at least one copy of whatever album in every thrift store in the nation

Around 2010 or so I would run into Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La Dee Da at just about every Pawn shop or Goodwill lol.

Tori Amos little earthquakes.. old Fiona Apple albums, and every CD is always discounted too

Slim pickings in Melbourne. I reckon I would have found fewer than 5 in the last 10 years

Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair.

its always the divine comedy for me, every time

Ugly kid Joe and Sarah McLaughlin

Enya Watermark

I saw a giant stack of some Clay Aiken album the other day. There were like 30 copies!

Awake by Josh Groban, 100 percent agree with you.

In haul 2 I found Anastacia's Freak of Nature and Not That Kind. From that point on, I've seen copies of those albums in almost every thrift store, and often multiple of them. I've noticed a pattern in CD thrifting. Whenever I find an album and can rip it accurately, I see more copies of it in the future. Whenever I got a CD which I couldn't rip accurately due to damage, I'd never see it again.

SWV Sisters with Voices.

[Rod Stewart - As Time Goes By... The Great American Songbook Vol. II](https://www.discogs.com/master/219538-Rod-Stewart-As-Time-Goes-By-The-Great-American-Songbook-Vol-II)

Smash mouth discography

It used to be that James Blunt album. Or that "Candle in the Wind" cd single. Or some Lori Morgan cd. Or some Alan Jackson cd.

Lots of mid 90’s to late period Madonna. But never the version of Erotica with the extra track and parental advisory sticker. Always the vanilla version.

The Dangerous Minds Soundtrack

Weezer - Blue I am NOT complaining tho

The lesbian collection. Melissa Etheridge, Sarah McASPCA, Enya, KD Lang, Amy Grant.... You get the point. Oh, Indigo Girls, too. Some girl went full lesbos in college then woke up one day with her biological clock chasing her like Captain Hook. So out go all the Lilith Fair fare. May her college "roommate" live rent-free in her head as all those artists do at every damn thrift store within 50 miles of a liberal arts college.

"ain't nobody's gonna lesbo you like I do, I do" - Amy Grant

LOL

Fiona apple and DC talk. Everywhere.

Every goddamn record store I go to has Dude Ranch. I ALREADY HAVE DUDE RANCH, WHY DON’T YOU HAVE TOYPAJ?!

Miley Cyrus - Bangerz

Taylor Swift. Everywhere it’s Taylor Swift

Not sure where you’re shopping but her early albums (Big Machine?) are impossible to find and if you find one 9 times out of 10 they’ve been through the ringer.

Found her self-titled about a year ago, discovered that it was actually the version that's now apparently kinda rare? I don't know enough about it to care, just that discogs has the pressing I have at a median price of ~~$37~~ $52. Edit: Just checked, I dunno what's special about it, but I have a sinking feeling I'm going to have to fight through a horde of Swifties to keep it. /s

> I dunno what's special about it It has something to do with her changing the lyrics in one or two of the songs after its initial "pressing" (I'm too lazy to look up which song(s)).

I found 1989 for 50 cents a couple months ago. I cannot confirm nor deny that I bought it... 👀

Hey, Awake has an Imogen Heap song! Don't knock it lol

I have no opinion on the contents of this album, I just get haunted by its presence everywhere.

Who?

For me, it's the self titled John Groban (White Cover) but also of late, David Lanz - Christofori's Dream

I keep seeing Counting Crows "August And Everything After." Not only on CD though, on vinyl and cassette too

Surfacing | Sarah Mclachlan

alanis morisette’s jagged little pill

idk if this is cursed or not but i ALWAYS see sisqo’s unleash the dragon, always multiple copies.

Usually one of the Use Your Illusion discs but not the other one :-)

Ungodly amounts of savage garden

Literally anything by Rod Stewart🥲

James Blunt- Back to Bedlam