So I left on a Sunday from Chicago bound for Kentucky. I spent 4 nights there then drove to North Carolina. Charleston was about 1/2 way so it was a prime stop for lunch and a quick chance to look for vinyls. First up was the old standby: Goodwill. I had a brief discussion was […]
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Goodwill, Addison
I have had pretty good luck at Goodwill Addison over the years and I try to stop by once every 4-6 weeks to look for new scores. I stopped by on a lazy Sunday afternoon and I was about 1/3rd of my way through the bin when I was fighting for room with someone else […]
This place sold itself as a ‘flea market’ but by my definition it was an antique mall. We can argue about the actual goods and whether they qualify as ‘antiques’ or not but the biggest thing was that the items here were on consignment and a flea market to me has to involve interaction with […]
I was down in NC yet again and procured a vehicle – with my new found freedom I took advantage of the fact that South Carolina was only about 30 minutes away! My geography skills are quite lacking it seems but no matter – with wheels beneath me I set out to see what I […]
My company is headquartered in North Carolina and I’ve been down there a handful of times over the years. This time, I was actually visiting a customer in nearby Mount Holly and had some spare time so I stopped by the HQ to powwow with some of my contacts there. I was walking out of […]
It has been nearly two and a half years since I first visited Cheap Kiss records inside Cornerstone Books. I have been back at least once since to keep and eye on the bins. This time, I was there to buy books, not records. I had a bunch of gifts for an Christmas party and […]
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Goodwill [Dyer IN]
I don’t know how many times I’ve had buyers regret for passing up a record then thinking about it for days and wishing I hadn’t left it behind. I had a situation at this Goodwill before but not quite in the terms I just described: I ended up buying just a jacket as the record […]
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Record Flippin’
Far from the reason I collect, but worthy of note are two long term investments I made which I was recently able to turn. I was able to scoop these no doubt because I did check their value and desirability on discogs but when you are flipping hundreds of records, experience allows me to notice […]
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 […]
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Record Theatre [Buffalo NY]
I visited Buffalo on the same work related issue almost exactly two months prior. This time I came back not for a high pressure meeting (October’s work) but a high pressure session of service work for which I predicted many people would look over my shoulder and nit pick me half to death. But before […]