spindle spider dot comCame 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]