A while back I got stuck in Charlotte on a lay over when my flight was canceled. I hit a trio of thrift stores in short order and got back to business. This time, my destination was in fact Charlotte – I had four days in town but was overwhelmed with work. Luckily, I made […]
Month: May 2015
You know the selection is bad when a Johnny Mathis album provides a kind of relief. Something familiar amongst many, many religious recordings, only in the worst shape imaginable.
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Village Discount Outlet, Addison
Village Discount Outlets are essentially clothing retailers that stock en masse…they are spread throughout Chicagoland. I distinctly remember stopping in one somewhere on the north side and after about 20 seconds getting the hell out of there. Chaos – screaming kids – and clothing EVERYWHERE. No way they had records. Until my girlfriend got a […]
Made my move on a gsalr.com tip a few weeks after the fact. The only thing better than new record stores is when they are just steps from the train. Better yet, I saw that this one was basically next door to a St. Vincent thrift which was an added bonus. […]
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Garage sale, Melrose Park
Came up short at this one – only about 20 Mexican albums but no narcocorridos. A couple K-Tel comps were sprinkled in there but they leaned a little too far toward disco for my liking. I did however do some networking with a guy from nearby Northlake who has ‘a thousand’ records. He took […]
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Garage Sale, Wood Dale
I never bother with garage sales without using gsalr.com at this point. Call it laziness but I get tired of rolling up to ask ‘do you have any record albums?’ (and then sometimes having to explain what those are) just to get a ‘no’. But I was stuck at the Wood Dale train station on […]
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Thrifty City Sales, Franklin Park
A coworker was rolling down Green St./Franklin Ave. on his normal route home from work one day when he told me he saw what looked like a yard sale. Strange, as this portion of the road is purely industrial. When he saw a drum set (he is a drummer), he pulled over to check it […]
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Avondale Garage Sales
I jumped on the Belmont bus before noon on the warmest (as of yet) Saturday of 2015 en route to Avondale to check out two closely located garage sales that claimed to have some vinyl to dig. The first one was a yard sale with one cardboard box neatly filled with finds. I nearly went […]