spindle spider dot comI made my first trip to New Haven a little over a year ago and made a return journey here in early 2018. This time I took the bus north to Hamden to check out Replay Records. First I walked west on Elm from my hotel and got on the 228 bus north on Whitney. […]
I’ve been to the Plainfield/Avon area a bunch of times now but somehow never bothered to check the area for record stores. Obviously I underestimated the area because I found Rock Bottom Treasures on a cursory glance at the map! I had my work planned for a Sunday which gave me a very leisurely drive […]
Back in Minnesota! I booked a flight for under $200 and did about 90 minutes of work in Hastings. Then I decided to stay in downtown Minneapolis and I found a really cheap room. Had plenty of time to kill that afternoon and again the following morning before my flight left. First up was Electric […]
I don’t know what people think that record collecting is all about. Or being out and about and searching for records. Probably seems very much ‘on the surface’, like just sticking my mitts in those crates is all that matters. But the real peak experiences come when you supersede that stuff and hit into something […]
My trip to Ric’s started with a real tourist type ‘fail’. I looked at the map and saw a Sunrise Records within a radius I estimated was about $10 via Uber. So I hauled over there but as I got close I saw that the area just didn’t look conducive to a record store, or […]
Had a solid block of downtime during a recent trip to Lexington. I already outlined my visits to some other local stores but the exciting news is – there’s more! I was able to hit two record stores as well, the second of which being a questionable distance to walk, especially in the heat, but […]
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 […]
I’ve carefully dug through Grand Rapids many times over the years. I’ve been in too many thrift stores to count and I’ve been through all the record stores I could find. So during my 32rd trip to GR after I ran through two new (or at least new to me) thrift stores, I felt unfulfilled. […]
You get the feeling they’ve been ‘remodeling’ for a long, long time. And there is no ‘sale’ anywhere beyond that door that I saw. Found myself in Avon again – couldn’t wait to get free from my work and head back to that Goodwill I had so much luck at. Of course, there was nothing […]
I spent the first part of my afternoon in New Haven looking for records in all the wrong places. Unlike my normal modus operandi, I visited the St. Raphael’s thrift store without calling first and struck out – no records. (They said that they did have some recently, but that ‘someone bought them’). So I […]