spindle spider dot comWith only gsalr.com to guide me, I embarked from my girlfriend’s house on a Saturday morn in search of vinyl. I started out by going a bit out of my way to get to the Prarie Path bike trail which I took a few miles west to Villa Park. I got off at Villa Ave […]
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 […]
Swung through on a Thursday afternoon to find a bevy of vinyl but none worth grabbing. Reminiscent of the album I found long ago in Mundelien (and still regret not buying), I found at least 15-20 copies of what must be a local group; sealed (pink!) vinyl. I was convinced from the Asian characters on […]
Village Discount Outlets are essentially clothing retailers that stock en masse…they are spread throughout Chicagoland. I distinctly remember stopping in one somewhere on the north side and after about 20 seconds getting the hell out of there. Chaos – screaming kids – and clothing EVERYWHERE. No way they had records. Until my girlfriend got a […]
Made my move on a gsalr.com tip a few weeks after the fact. The only thing better than new record stores is when they are just steps from the train. Better yet, I saw that this one was basically next door to a St. Vincent thrift which was an added bonus. […]
Came up short at this one – only about 20 Mexican albums but no narcocorridos. A couple K-Tel comps were sprinkled in there but they leaned a little too far toward disco for my liking. I did however do some networking with a guy from nearby Northlake who has ‘a thousand’ records. He took […]
I never bother with garage sales without using gsalr.com at this point. Call it laziness but I get tired of rolling up to ask ‘do you have any record albums?’ (and then sometimes having to explain what those are) just to get a ‘no’. But I was stuck at the Wood Dale train station on […]
A coworker was rolling down Green St./Franklin Ave. on his normal route home from work one day when he told me he saw what looked like a yard sale. Strange, as this portion of the road is purely industrial. When he saw a drum set (he is a drummer), he pulled over to check it […]
I jumped on the Belmont bus before noon on the warmest (as of yet) Saturday of 2015 en route to Avondale to check out two closely located garage sales that claimed to have some vinyl to dig. The first one was a yard sale with one cardboard box neatly filled with finds. I nearly went […]
Headed out to St. Charles for a quick weekend getaway and made a couple stops. Made the same trip about a year ago and stopped at Goodwill Glendale Heights and picked up my 300th LP. Just under a year has passed and I’m past 500! But first up we stopped at a Goodwill in St. […]