I don’t get up this way often but so I made a point to see what I could see during my afternoon up north. This Salvation Army is pretty large and had a giant record rack of an odd design. The front and back were separated by a wire cage. Perhaps used to protect yourself […]
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Garage Sale, Elmwood Park
gsalr.com said ‘moving sale’ so I was thinking garage sale. I rolled up and found the address…no signs, no action, nothing. I was creeping in the driveway and checking my phone to be sure I was at the right place when I saw someone approaching. I asked it this was ‘the place’ and he invited […]
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Affordable Thrift, Wood Dale
This place is just a couple miles from my work….I had noticed it but I believe they either changed the name or at least the sign. I paid it no mind because it said ‘pawn shop’ and a place like that likely won’t carry records. But everytime I would use Google maps to look for […]
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Thrift & Thrive Revisited
I last visited T&T last summer. I’ve learned to be patient with my favorite thrift stores, you have to allow for the goods to rotate and be purchased, and new stuff to get in. Otherwise you just beat the hell out of the place and yourself constantly digging and digging when there is nothing there […]
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Goodwill 3-Way
Antsy and full of java on a Sunday morn, my girl and I lamented the fact that we were desperate to root around in a thrift store but we had worn out are usual haunts to epic levels. As usual, I headed to Google maps to tell the tale and point me somewhere new and […]
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Estate Sale, Norwood Park
I unsubscribed from gsalr.com alerts last fall, and today one one of the first days of ‘spring’ (not sure if the season has officially changed or not) that I was able to get a good bike ride in. I went to work for a couple hours then had breakfast with a co-workers. I brought my […]
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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 […]
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Savers FP (again)
Without question the closest source for used records to my home, I have visited this shop a couple times and outlined my trips accordingly for those visits. For this fourth visit (and 9th Savers visit overall, including other locations) I really came up big. It had been since last fall when I previously dug the […]
21 bins of vinyl…easily the largest collection I’ve seen in a store of this ilk. And nothing but junk – war torn records, perhaps 1/3rd were empty jackets. I did find a CTI classic (jacket only) and the mandatory Engelbert but nothing else of interest except for a Verve gem which was complete but pretty […]
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Mile Long Records, Wheaton
Got a tip: My girlfriend lives about a mile from a station on the same line as the Wheaton stop (which turns out to be literally a block away) so we made plans to check it out. We made it down a week later and I was pleasantly surprised by the well kept and clean […]