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‘Vinyl Day’ at Goodwill Elmhurst

                  Even Goodwill celebrates their vinyl culture and wants to get in on the RSD madness and I have no problem with that.  Or maybe I only feel that way when they load their bins with rare Chicago polka vinyl prior to my visit. The Naturals album […]

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Record Wonderland, Roselle (RECORD STORE DAY 2017!)

I don’t celebrate Record Store Day as perhaps people feel I should, given my work on this blog.  But I also don’t celebrate record stores, an opinion I unabashedly hold, I much prefer the grime and total gamble of thrift stores and garage sales.  But when I found that a new record store had opened […]

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Happy Record Store Day!

Went for a 20 mile round trip and picked up 5 records on the way: Stopped at Raffe’s Record Riot and scored 3 vinyls; Segued to Roscoe Village and Village Records where I just browsed (and ate a Bahn Mi); Headed back west towards home and stopped into see my friends Kelly and David at […]