spindle spider dot comWith only gsalr.com to guide me, I embarked from my girlfriend’s house on a Saturday morn in search of vinyl. I started out by going a bit out of my way to get to the Prarie Path bike trail which I took a few miles west to Villa Park. I got off at Villa Ave […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Set out to hit a couple sales via gsalr.com on a Saturday morning – both centered around a stop at the Oak Park Farmers Market. The first one did not have much to offer – just a single box with mostly religious recordings and the occasional orchestral release. After that I stopped at the market […]
After a hellishly long shift, the last thing I wanted to do on a Friday afternoon was go on a long bike ride to examine an unknown quantity/quality of records. But alas, this is what I do; duty calls. So I headed out to encounter this single box with less than 10 records. Alas, one […]
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 […]
After an action packed spring, gsalr.com has failed me so many weekends in a row I began to lose hope. As I prepared for the weekend outlined here, I was planning to visit the Oak Park Farmers Market…a family tradition of sorts I hope to keep alive. I have not been able to make it […]
Set out for a 14 mile round trip bike ride on a Saturday morning. After a couple weekends without any hits for ‘records’ in my search results on gsalr.com, I found two just about a mile away. I arrived at the first only to be told ‘sorry’ when I asked where the records were. Nice […]
Another great opportunity courtesy gsalr.com. A sale in the neighborhood I grew up in and close to my alma mater (high school, specifically) I got there shortly after 8 to find an elderly woman relaxing in a lawn chair surrounded by her goods. Initially I only saw a single crate and down onto my knees, […]