Dog listen. Before you go spending money on E-Bay (which is where you don't want to buy unless you have to), you need to clean out every old person's record collection in your area. There ARE records there, because there are people there. Not only that, but the real gems are still in people's houses. Every Sat. & Sun. you should be checking for garage sales. Kinda surprised your Thrift Store had nothing, I get great **** from mine. But people's personal collections are what you want. Just start asking everybody you meet if they own any records they want to sell. If you see some good ones, ask if you can buy all of them for $20 bucks? Most people just want them out of the house, and if you act like the Headless Heroes you just found is no big deal, then you can usually buy the whole lot for pennies.

Anyhoo, just my .02 Buying records online is expensive as hell.