I stopped back into Knick Knack over the weekend and they still had not come up on the load of records they promised were in the pipeline. They said they would be getting them Monday. So I swung through today (Tuesday) and alas, they were closed again. Not willing to waste the trip, I walked […]
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Return to Logan Hardware…
Sort of spur of the moment and towards the end of a respectable snow storm I grabbed Pace 331 up to the Cumblerland blue line at about 5pm on a Saturday after a long nap. I rode to the California stop and then walked east on Fullerton before I stopped at Papa Ray’s for a […]
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Dave’s Records, Lakeview
Just up the street at Reckless, I realized I was near Dave’s and wandered the .6 miles over. My kind of store! Picked up another Engelbert album – afternoon well spent!
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Reckless Records, Lakeview
I received a $30 gift certificate (shown in previous post) for Christmas from my brother’s girlfriend who knew I was a vinyl addict. I took a Saturday afternoon jaunt up to Lakeview to spend it at the final of three Reckless locations. This location is on par with the Wicker Park location or slightly bigger. […]
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Logan Hardware, Logan Square
I’ve had occassion to pass this place twice recently, neither time however I was available to stop in. Well worth the wait. The first time I was on my way to a friends house (not ironically, in Logan also) and as I cycled by I slowed down thinking ‘what record store is this?’. The light […]
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Bucket O’ Blood, Logan Square
Unlike the place I just posted about which I had never heard of, I’ve been walking past Bucket O’ Blood for a long time. And unlike the pretentiousness and forced irony I felt inside Bric-A-Brac, I felt comfortable here. That being said, the selection was almost worse here but I didn’t mind. Because record collections […]
Decided to segue over to this place on my way down to Logan Hardware. They had loads of brand new vinyl, they were selling records just to sell records as stupid as that may sound….I’ve never flipped through crates and had so many still wrapped records in front of me, it was odd. They were […]
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Hyde Park Records
I first became acquainted with the Kenwood/Hyde Park area as many people have, via the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, now nearly 100 years old. I took a walking tour as part of the Chicago Historic Museum and I have been returning to the area since, at times without any real reason. I was surprised […]
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Reckless Records, Loop
I set out to head down to the Electric Line and visit Hyde Park Records this morning when I determined that my walk from Union Station Canal St. could lead me past Reckless if I diverted about .25 miles. That’s reasonable! Smaller than the Wicker Park location and nearly as good – I came across […]