spindle spider dot comI had planned to visit Old School during an overly ambitious trip I attempted a number of weeks ago. For today’s ‘re-do’, I found myself in the area visiting an estate sale just a few blocks away. I walked over and came out on Madison Ave. at Beloit St. I turned my head to and […]
Got a tip from Kelly at Knick Knack and swung through on a Saturday afternoon. Walked away with the last Herb Alpert record I needed and another 5th Dimension release! Also got the haps on a giant estate sale in May with 2500 records over in….yeah right! Like I’m telling you! And I also stole […]
Stopped in after Old School Records down the street (and a quick stop into Army-Navy Surplus) on the hunt for vinyl. Vinyl was scattered around the store, felt like I was on an Easter egg […]
Spent my birthday weekend relaxing in a hotel in River North eating and drinking non stop for 48 hours. I made a brunch reservation at Frontera Grill well in advance. Also made more casual plans to visit two of my favorite places in the area: Pizzeria Due which I’ve been going to almost since I […]
Went out on a Saturday morning/afternoon with my mom to do some record hunts. She doesn’t collect but surely influenced my taste in music at an early age. As my own tastes are still mostly pre 1980 it was easy for her to get down with the game plan and get in the crates herself. […]
Learned just this weekend that my friend Rich was uprooting his store and moving to greener pastures down the block, in a new, bigger retail space. With the prospect of molesting 1000s of pieces of his vinyl, I immediately volunteered to help. When I arrived, the heavy lifting was done – everything had been moved. […]
This was my sixth trip to McComb, I stopped in the day before the job to drop off my heavy equipment and noticed a thrift store and made a note to stop in when the drop was complete. I was not disappointed. I found a total of four Eng records – two of which I […]
Had a brief moment while in the area to swing through what is probably my favorite record store in the world. One WW record and one game each of Missile Command and Bezerk and I’m a happy boy!
Came through Val’s after a segueway into the Brown Elephant to find an unattended store. A voice called out from the back room, and soon appeared an older woman carrying a large plate of garlic bread. This must be Val. She was cordial and asked if I was looking for anything in particular. I never […]
On my way to Val’s Halla Records, I stumbled upon this high end thrift store, also on Harrison just a couple blocks east. I was relieved and excited to find a large record bin about 10′ inside the front door! That goddamn George Benson album follows me everywhere, I almost bought it at Fish and […]