It has been nearly two and a half years since I first visited Cheap Kiss records inside Cornerstone Books. I have been back at least once since to keep and eye on the bins. This time, I was there to buy books, not records. I had a bunch of gifts for an Christmas party and […]
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Record Theatre [Buffalo NY]
I visited Buffalo on the same work related issue almost exactly two months prior. This time I came back not for a high pressure meeting (October’s work) but a high pressure session of service work for which I predicted many people would look over my shoulder and nit pick me half to death. But before […]
Before I begin today’s tale, just wanted to acknowledge that just a couple weeks ago is the three year anniversary of my first post on this blog, which now totals nearly 300 posts. This post is the 150th tagged ‘thrift store’ so just to do some very, very rough math at 25 records each, that […]
Proud to check yet another state off my list! Had an awesome opportunity to head out to Seattle for 5 nights. The work of course was tough, bad hours as well. But lots of down time and I knew in advance I’d be doing everything I could to take advantage. I was there from Thursday-Tuesday […]
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Starship Records [Waukesha WI]
This trip was marked by a few interesting things: 1) I didn’t sleep well the night before, I slept at my parents house and my dad likes to get up at about 4:45am and take a VERY LONG shower and rustle around the house for an hour or more before he goes to work. So […]
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Purple Dog Records, Naperville
Found myself out in Naperville for a long and grueling day. I only wanted to head straight home after 12 hours on and off in the plant (and getting up at 4:30am) but only a fool such as I would then go to a record […]
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The Vintage Freak [Bedford TX]
I’ve been at this long enough that sometimes I shake my head at my own irrational actions and why I carry on, despite a mountain of reasons to turn in. I felt so worn out the late afternoon I discovered The Vintage Freak in Bedford, Texas that by all accounts I should have called it […]
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Philly
I don’t get out to the east coast very often. I did check out Albany a while back…and New Hampshire was a blast. I have been to PA years ago but it was so long ago that I didn’t collect records then (did such a time really exist??) and I was closer to the Pittsburg […]
My trip started in Robinson – when I struck out at two antique stores, then found that the local Goodwill was closed for their annual Christmas party, I hauled out of town. Robinson is a rare stop on my journeys where I could not find a Marriott or Holiday Inn to stay in anywhere nearby […]
Had a whirlwind early week headed out east to run through Portsmouth New Hampshire. I flew from Chicago to Philly on an early flight where I laid over on the final leg to Manchester. I could have flown direct with United (my preferred carrier) but they wanted double the price which was well outside the […]