spindle spider dot comIt is not difficult to recall when I first learned of Bel Aire Records. It was at a garage sale, now over 18 months ago. There weren’t many records but there was on that caught my eye, and it was sealed. I saw it was a local label and it took me a moment to […]
I have hunted in Florida and Tampa a couple times specifically before. However, those trips were strictly on my own personal holidays while this trip was business related. My time was precious but my colleague had a rental car which I commandeered and set out to see what I could see! I called the Collection […]
Still the cleanest record bin in the game – I think this is only my second time ever stopping in. Went way over here to visit a Walmart to pick up some odds and ends and strolled over. Found the red album lower left and one other one instantly in the front of the stack […]
The well long ago ran dry on thrift stores anywhere in the vicinity which I have not visited and blogged about. But occasionally I find one which I overlooked and of course make a bee line to dig through their filthy old vinyl! I reached New To You with my girlfriend and her daughter in […]
I have had my eye on this place for a long time but never made the trip. On an unseasonably warm weekend, I made the bike ride from Elmhurst out to Berkeley and back. I was rewarded for my work! Google maps has some misinformation which I have pending fixes already submitted on. It has […]
VDOs are around the city but many (most?) do not have vinyl, they have limited housewares and mostly just clothes. I have picked up some cool threads from Addison’s store and I have also pulled some vinyl out of there. Before I went in on this day, I commented aloud that since the first time […]
I check the pitiful stats on my blog regularly so that I can feel a mix of disappointment and disgust that about 25% of my all-time page views are based in Russia and the only referrers are from google searches. Never a mention in another blog, a facebook post…nothing. Until now! Looks like a bunch […]
Did some work up in Cary…on a previous trip I stopped at a record store on the way back. This time, I got a little more daring and went to a…toy store? Yes I did, and it isn’t the first time, or even the second that I’ve looked at records amongst Star Wars figures and […]
After a wild Friday night and a rough Saturday night working, I woke up Sunday to an awesome breakfast and then a drive back east to the airport. I had some time to kill and found Thorndale on the way. Lucky for me, they had a Goodwill. Unlucky for me, they best they could muster […]
I don’t get out to the east coast very often. I did check out Albany a while back…and New Hampshire was a blast. I have been to PA years ago but it was so long ago that I didn’t collect records then (did such a time really exist??) and I was closer to the Pittsburg […]