I smelled vinyl on the premises from across the street as I waited for Laurie’s to open. Quake wasn’t open yet either, but I peered inside and could see the record rack through the door. Didn’t buy anything but there was a bunch of nice stuff in here! The first five records I flipped through […]
Month: February 2014
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Rediscover Records, Elgin
Standard day for the majority of society as I know is as follows: go to work, punch out, go home, beat/yell at your wife, eat some kind of slop, fall asleep watching tv. No […]
No better way to spend a Saturday than the 6 hour round trip from River Grove down to Beverly Hills. I visited Beverly Records for the first time a couple months ago and I can honestly say that I did give them a fair shake the first time around – the place is a […]
While on my way down to Beverly Records, it dawned on me that there might be a thift store nearby. Considering my recent good luck in such establishments, I did a quick internet query for nearby locations and came up with this place at 93rd and Western. So I jumped off the Metra at 95th […]
I stopped back into Knick Knack over the weekend and they still had not come up on the load of records they promised were in the pipeline. They said they would be getting them Monday. So I swung through today (Tuesday) and alas, they were closed again. Not willing to waste the trip, I walked […]
Up in Appleton for work and stumbled upon this place. Ironically found a bunch of the record i just got yesterday. The jazz section was kind of phony, all sealed reissues for big money. The best jazz they had was in the ‘clearance jazz’ section and they were all releases i owned. Decent amount of […]
Around Christmas, my long time grocery store (Dominick’s) closed, along with all the others in Illinois. This has been a slight inconvienence as it is a greater distance to the next store. However, it was a good catalyst to get me to shop at a smaller and better store, rather than be lazy and just […]