Ah yes, your typical bombed out St. V’s, a spot I checked out during my brief stay in lovely Livonia. This is the 25th post tagged for St. Vincent so I guess I’ve been to damn near that many. But yet after all these years, not much has changed. And that is fine with me. […]
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Goodwill [Livonia MI]
Maybe I was due for some good fortune. I wasn’t off to a good start when I saw all the vinyl stacked bookshelf style but I craned my neck and checked them out as best as I could. But in the final grouping I spied with my little eye a CTI classic (as my eye was, […]
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Goodwill [Woodhaven MI]
Got to make a trip up to Detroit, an area I have almost never traveled to in my decade plus of jetsetting around the midwest and beyond. We were working out in the middle of nowhere, about 30 min south of Detroit and we were staying in Woodhaven. Was able to sneak away and check […]
Never give up, kids. Keep on looking. 32 trips – god knows how many records. There are always new frontiers, you must be patient. Bethany’s was new to me and probably new(er) to GR. Did they have records. This, I did not know. I do now. I darted in and made for the book section. […]
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Revolve Records [Grand Rapids MI]
I’ve carefully dug through Grand Rapids many times over the years. I’ve been in too many thrift stores to count and I’ve been through all the record stores I could find. So during my 32rd trip to GR after I ran through two new (or at least new to me) thrift stores, I felt unfulfilled. […]
Headed up to Grand Rapids yet again late in 2016 and was able to pull off one more (successful!) dig before the clock strikes midnight. I have thoroughly hunted the entire city and documented it well…so much so, that I haven’t bothered to look at much of anything for a while. This time I decided […]
Before I begin today’s tale, just wanted to acknowledge that just a couple weeks ago is the three year anniversary of my first post on this blog, which now totals nearly 300 posts. This post is the 150th tagged ‘thrift store’ so just to do some very, very rough math at 25 records each, that […]
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GR run
Never give up kids; never give up. I have been to Grand Rapids upwards of 25 times and I’ve been searching for records for a couple years up there. Yet I still continue to find places to dig in. Whether or not I find anything up there to actually buy and hopefully spin on a […]
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Goodwill [Kalamazoo MI]
On my way into town after stopping at New Life in Wyoming I just wanted to head to my hotel but I drove right by this place, so I got my swerve on and tore into the parking lot. This was a unique Goodwill….you could almost see whatever business it used to be before they […]
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New Life Thrift Store [Wyoming MI]
Up in GR for three weeks in a row and I continued my tradition of stopping in a single store before heading to K-Zoo. First up was SA, next was St. V’s and now another new one I had somehow previously missed. To prevent another bummer, I called in advance to assure they had some […]