So I set out on another 20 miler to hit some old and new spots on a Tuesday afternoon. I took link 50 all the way into the city down I-4 with my bike in tow so I could cruse around. I had hopes to top things off with a nice lunch near the station […]
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R’ n ‘R Records [Orlando FL]
A year ago, I conquered a trio of O-Town record stores all within a triangle near the Lynx Central Station. Frustrated with the lack of thrift stores, I searched Google again, much as someone looks into their empty fridge, hoping some scrap of food might miraculously appear. Well one did for me, but it was […]
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Funk Trunk, Rogers Park
I booked out of AA (no not the meeting) to make it to Funk Trunk before they closed at 7. A light rain had been falling for hours but I stayed dry and warm enough to feel pleasant. As I approached I couldn’t figure out where the store would be as it was nothing but […]
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Audio Archeology, Rogers Park
If anyone read this blog, maybe they would meet me face to face and discuss it with me. And they would probably criticize me for running a blog with ‘chicagovinyl’ as the subdomain when half of the posts are in other cities or even states. And I’d tell them to get lost. But luckily I […]
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Satellite Records [Kalamazoo MI]
I forgot to get a simple exterior shot so I held up traffic on my way out and snapped this one through the van. I had purposely held out on stopping at Satellite on my previous trips to K-Zoo as I knew I’d soon be back. A comfortable store; it did not disappoint. After some […]
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Green Light Music [Kalamazoo MI]
In my first night staying in K-Zoo instead of GR (in two days trip #3 will be on the books), I was delighted to find good food (Schwarma King), booze (Drake Party Center) and Green Light Music all next door to one another – and all just a couple miles from my hotel. I opted […]
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Bloomington/Normal Run
A year or two ago, I got a record gifted to me from a professional colleague. There was a sticker for The Waiting Room inside and my friend mentioned that downtown Normal had record stores ‘up and down the street’. I had trouble believing him at the time, but he was basically correct. Inexplicably, there […]
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Rainbow Records, Barrington
Impromptu stop was warranted by my observant colleague (pictured above) noticing the sign (pictured below) as we burned down NW Hwy on our way to Cary. Be damned the fact that I was starving by the time we were headed back in the other direction and I was only delaying our late (already 2pm) lunch […]
A while back I got stuck in Charlotte on a lay over when my flight was canceled. I hit a trio of thrift stores in short order and got back to business. This time, my destination was in fact Charlotte – I had four days in town but was overwhelmed with work. Luckily, I made […]
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Birthday Run
As part of my annually continuing birthday celebration, I headed down to the loop for some tomfoolery, gluttony and of course vinyl digging. I hit up three stores I had not checked out in a long time, some in over a year. Came up with some finds during the well entertaining hunt. I jumped on […]