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. […]
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Garage sale, Melrose Park
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 […]
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Garage Sale, Wood Dale
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 […]
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Thrifty City Sales, Franklin Park
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 […]
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Avondale Garage Sales
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 […]
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Headed out west…
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 […]
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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 […]