Set out for a 14 mile round trip bike ride on a Saturday morning. After a couple weekends without any hits for ‘records’ in my search results on gsalr.com, I found two just about a mile away. I arrived at the first only to be told ‘sorry’ when I asked where the records were. Nice […]
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Blast From The Past, Bensenville
I have gone past this place hundreds of times to/from work and always wondered about it. Not even necessarily in terms of records but because it looks so odd. It is a house that has been converted into a thrift store. While it stands on a major thoroughfare, it is cloaked in foliage and the […]
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Lazy Dog Antiques, Roscoe Village
Two bins hidden in the bowels of this Roscoe Village store. Nothing of interest.
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RG estate sale
Spur of the moment estate sale Sunday AM yielded a Little River Band album and an Engelbert Christmas album which my girlfriend grabbed up moments before I could stick my mitts into the stack. Can’t believe I found this just a few doors away!
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Reckless, Wicker Park
Stopped in very quickly before grabbing some ‘za at Piece around the corner. Couldn’t find anything worthwhile, then found the record you see glaring at you above as the last item in the ‘new arrivals’ for jazz/blues. Q is the only artist in the CTI repertoire with a record in the 3000 series (two releases […]
About half way between origin and destination, came across this Goodwill. Stepped inside to a mess of disorganized records. Walked away with the record you see the cashier handling below – the debut from RTFs Lenny White and his backing band, Twennynine. I already have this record, albeit in beat down condition. However, this is […]
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Garage Sale, Franklin Park
Another great opportunity courtesy gsalr.com. A sale in the neighborhood I grew up in and close to my alma mater (high school, specifically) I got there shortly after 8 to find an elderly woman relaxing in a lawn chair surrounded by her goods. Initially I only saw a single crate and down onto my knees, […]
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Best. Day. Ever.
I recently discovered gsalr.com which is a website that consolidates info on yard/garage/rummage/etc sales. These are always prime targets for old vinyl but now you can not only find them with a few clicks, I get daily emails that list all the sales within 20 miles of my home and even highlight the word ‘records’ […]
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Gramaphone Records, Lakeview
Gramaphone is part of the ‘vinyl triangle’ in Lakeview that also includes Dave’s and Reckless. During my first visit to those stores last fall I neglected to stop at Gramaphone as I did not realize how close it was. I was aware that they specialized in house music so I wasn’t fully excited to go […]
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