Headed out on a burning hot Sunday afternoon to burn off the barrel of beer I drank the night before. Figured I’d stop into Thrift n’ Thrive….visited once before months previous with some success. Vinyl rotation (no pun intended) happens on a semi-regular basis in thrift stores across the world and the time was nigh […]
Month: August 2014
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Garage Sale, Dunning
Last minute gsalr.com find yielded an Engelbert compilation I did not have as well as a Baja Marimba Band album. I was totally unsure if I had this Eng comp or not, many of them get combined in my brain. I did NOT have it luckily – the cardboard sleeve is of the utmost poor […]
I first attended this annual event last year, right around the time that I started this blog. As such, it was not chronicled here but remains one of the best nights of all of 2013. I could not wait to return this year and the days were painstakingly counted down until the night arrived. My […]
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Beyond The Limit, Norridge
When I was a teenager (or even in my 20s), Beyond the Limit was a place I frequented for a variety of stuff. They had a ton of bootleg VHS tapes…I remember one of my friends got a taped concert of Jane’s Addiction playing in Italy, we watched that one again and again. Apparently they […]
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Return to Raffe’s
On Sunday’s I generally try to do a giant bike ride. I cycle every single day year round, and I almost always add miles just for fun but Sunday is my day to pile them on. I do this because its a free day with nothing to do (usually) and also because I am usually […]
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Estate Sale, Norridge
Caught wind of this Friday/Saturday estate sale at 6:20am Thursday morning – when I read my emails as soon as my alarm sounds. Knew I wouldn’t be able to make it on Friday but planned to get there first thing at 9am on Saturday. Took things way too far Friday night and woke up with […]
[note: This post was originally listed as ‘Cornerstone Used Books’. I have since come to find that this is actually Cheap Kiss Records – it is a leased (and unmarked, as far as I could tell) space WITHIN the bookstore] Got a keen tip that this book store had some records. The intel was accurate […]