spindle spider dot comI’ve had occassion to pass this place twice recently, neither time however I was available to stop in. Well worth the wait. The first time I was on my way to a friends house (not ironically, in Logan also) and as I cycled by I slowed down thinking ‘what record store is this?’. The light […]
Unlike the place I just posted about which I had never heard of, I’ve been walking past Bucket O’ Blood for a long time. And unlike the pretentiousness and forced irony I felt inside Bric-A-Brac, I felt comfortable here. That being said, the selection was almost worse here but I didn’t mind. Because record collections […]
Decided to segue over to this place on my way down to Logan Hardware. They had loads of brand new vinyl, they were selling records just to sell records as stupid as that may sound….I’ve never flipped through crates and had so many still wrapped records in front of me, it was odd. They were […]
I first became acquainted with the Kenwood/Hyde Park area as many people have, via the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, now nearly 100 years old. I took a walking tour as part of the Chicago Historic Museum and I have been returning to the area since, at times without any real reason. I was surprised […]
I set out to head down to the Electric Line and visit Hyde Park Records this morning when I determined that my walk from Union Station Canal St. could lead me past Reckless if I diverted about .25 miles. That’s reasonable! Smaller than the Wicker Park location and nearly as good – I came across […]
Yikes – what a mess! I became familiar with this place long before I got serious about traveling to visit record stores. Their website is similar to the physical space in many ways: cluttered, overwhelming and anger inducing. I remember watching this video on their website and thinking that it seemed like a cool place […]
I tell people that if you are going to go record hunting you should try not to be so steadfast in what you want and do not want that you ever walk away empty handed. You should have a list in your head of releases you are definitely on the search for but it is […]
I visited Permanent Records on October 19th 2013. The Metra Milwaukee West line takes me from my stop 1/2 mile from home to the Western Ave. stop which is just about another mile or so. Permenent Records is my ideal store, just the right size and just the perfect equlibrium of interesting obscure stuff and […]
My Chicago record store visit checklist got off to a start back on March 24th 2012. My brother and I went down to Logan Square for my birthday (Longman and Eagle) and when we were done making gluttons of ourselves we headed to Wicker Park to go to Piece. Aside from all the eating and […]