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RIP 2018

In nearly 5 years of writing this blog I have visited many, many thrift stores and record stores looking at vinyl.  Unfortunately I’ve seen many great shops close for various reasons.  Time to give respect to some legends and remember their awesome tenure selling vinyl.  There are many more honorable mentions but here are the […]

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Salvation Army, Clearing

I generally will not go out of my way to hit an SA anymore, they are always sad barren places devoid of any good vinyl, and often it seems, don’t carry any vinyl at all. As part of an especially relaxing morning, I got my work done in Marquette Park (where coincidentally I also hit […]

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St. Vincent [Billings MT]

As already described, I stepped out of a Billings breakfast and stumbled into a record store.  Just before that, I came across a St. Vincent.  Alas, it was permanently closed but they left a forwarding address.  So I started to walking across Billings to my destination. It was a 1/2 mile or so I think […]

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Smiling Dog Records [Billings MT]

I am a huge proponent of Google Maps.  I have used it as my GPS in many foreign cities and even outside the US.  I use it constantly to find restaurants and I have written hundreds of reviews and submitted even more photos.  But sometimes, you have to go off the beaten path and put […]

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Big Horn Antiques [Greybull WY]

Coming out west, it was exciting to know that I’d check two states off my map that I might never get the opportunity to again.  Montana was easy – flying into Billings I found a few places and was able to check it off my list within about 20 minutes of my plane touching down. […]