I stopped back into Knick Knack over the weekend and they still had not come up on the load of records they promised were in the pipeline. They said they would be getting them Monday. So I swung through today (Tuesday) and alas, they were closed again. Not willing to waste the trip, I walked […]
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Up in Appleton for work and stumbled upon this place. Ironically found a bunch of the record i just got yesterday. The jazz section was kind of phony, all sealed reissues for big money. The best jazz they had was in the ‘clearance jazz’ section and they were all releases i owned. Decent amount of […]
Around Christmas, my long time grocery store (Dominick’s) closed, along with all the others in Illinois. This has been a slight inconvienence as it is a greater distance to the next store. However, it was a good catalyst to get me to shop at a smaller and better store, rather than be lazy and just […]
A five minute ride to the train station turned into a 45 minute jaunt all the way home when conversation got too involved to notice that I should exit the car and get onto the platform. No matter – it gave me a chance to follow up on a tip I got that this thrift […]
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Return to Logan Hardware…
Sort of spur of the moment and towards the end of a respectable snow storm I grabbed Pace 331 up to the Cumblerland blue line at about 5pm on a Saturday after a long nap. I rode to the California stop and then walked east on Fullerton before I stopped at Papa Ray’s for a […]
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Dave’s Records, Lakeview
Just up the street at Reckless, I realized I was near Dave’s and wandered the .6 miles over. My kind of store! Picked up another Engelbert album – afternoon well spent!
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Reckless Records, Lakeview
I received a $30 gift certificate (shown in previous post) for Christmas from my brother’s girlfriend who knew I was a vinyl addict. I took a Saturday afternoon jaunt up to Lakeview to spend it at the final of three Reckless locations. This location is on par with the Wicker Park location or slightly bigger. […]
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Logan Hardware, Logan Square
I’ve had occassion to pass this place twice recently, neither time however I was available to stop in. Well worth the wait. The first time I was on my way to a friends house (not ironically, in Logan also) and as I cycled by I slowed down thinking ‘what record store is this?’. The light […]
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Bucket O’ Blood, Logan Square
Unlike the place I just posted about which I had never heard of, I’ve been walking past Bucket O’ Blood for a long time. And unlike the pretentiousness and forced irony I felt inside Bric-A-Brac, I felt comfortable here. That being said, the selection was almost worse here but I didn’t mind. Because record collections […]