dumpster diving in NYC

This is the best ever. Who needs eBay? Just get a Metrocard and you'll never have to shop again.
 
Dumpsters are such a great resource. Near where I live there's a factory that makes fancy studio acoustical treatments. I've made a couple visits to their dumpster and picked up tons of 100% fucntional stuff that was just cut wrong or blemished or something like that... nothing sound waves care about.

It won't work for a pro place, but for a home project studio it makes a lot more sense than paying the totally over-priced rates they charge for that stuff (or scrapping together your own solutions from scratch/other materials).
 
Loyd Kaufman in Make Your Own Damn Movie said he did a lot of dumpster diving by I think the Majors.

You won't believe the stuff people throw away. In perfect condition, they could just take it to the pawn shop, like those books on the garbage websiste to someplace like half price books, or Goodwill, but instead throw it out on the street. A DJ in our city actually found a laptop in a dumpster in perfect working condition.

Check out these books

Art and Science of Dumpster Diving by John Hoffman and his sequel
Dumpster Diving: The Advanced Course : How to Turn Other People's Trash into Money, Publicity, and Power by John Hoffman

http://www.dumpsterworld.com/
http://www.dumpsterdiving.net/
 
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