The worst thing that ever happened to thrift stores was some idiot deciding to tell them that some of their old, used stuff was, well, old. Old somehow translated into vintage, and after that it was a hopeful and uninformed slide right into claiming that something like, say, a 1960 Steinbeck paperback was an antique, and charging for it as such.
Um, no. I'm not sure about the specifics with books, but generally a thing has to be at least fifty years old to even be considered vintage, and antique is a long ways older than that.
So, no Steinbeck for me today. I bought a few 50¢ hardbacks instead, among them Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter's The Light of Other Days.
I once got a first English edition of Germany Speaks, which has a lot of German Chancelors trying to justify the upcoming Holocaust, again for 50¢, and that's what thrifting is all about: sifting through a lot of cheap crap to find a cheap treasure.
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Oh those covers. You are so right!