I know there are various threads already about recording and amping junk metal. My question is, where do you source your junk metal?
I haven't had much opportunity in recent years to collect anything much and when I do, it tends to be bits and pieces I pick up from skips (which I guess could be called "dumpster diving" for people outside the UK) when people have been doing renovations and property clearances. That's been pretty good, but you tend to come across the same sorts of things, so if you've already been doing it a while it can be a case of diminishing returns.
It's come up for me because I've been listening to the Aprapat 2CD collection on FA this week and have really relished the complex, dynamic and massive metal sounds on there. I'm interested to know if anyone has particular strategies/places for sourcing useful items of resonant metal, e.g. do you make any use of "official channels" such as scrap metal merchants, or whether you rely entirely on the serendipity of found objects?
