As already described, I stepped out of a Billings breakfast and stumbled into a record store. Just before that, I came across a St. Vincent. Alas, it was permanently closed but they left a forwarding address. So I started to walking across Billings to my destination. It was a 1/2 mile or so I think […]
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Smiling Dog Records [Billings MT]
I am a huge proponent of Google Maps. I have used it as my GPS in many foreign cities and even outside the US. I use it constantly to find restaurants and I have written hundreds of reviews and submitted even more photos. But sometimes, you have to go off the beaten path and put […]
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Big Horn Antiques [Greybull WY]
Coming out west, it was exciting to know that I’d check two states off my map that I might never get the opportunity to again. Montana was easy – flying into Billings I found a few places and was able to check it off my list within about 20 minutes of my plane touching down. […]
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Ernie November [Billings MT]
I’ve been really fortunate to get all up and down the east coast but I’ve never been west of North Dakota. As this trip was coming together, I kept waiting for it to fall apart. Well here I am! I flew to Billings for work in Cody WY. As soon as I touched down I […]
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Vinyl Giant [Fargo ND]
I’ve been to Fargo at least five times now, but it was almost four years between visits. In that time my record collecting got more serious and this blog materialized. I am typing this now from Hector Airport here in town, a few hours before my flight. I’m kind of shocked that I even got […]
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Savers [Fargo ND]
This was maybe the most run down Savers I’ve been to, at least from the outside. In a shady darkened parking lot, their neighbor had moved out. Not sure who Savers got this building from, it is huge and the exterior looks like hell. I’ve also never seen that slogan ‘The Thrift Department Store” before […]
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Best of 2017
Here are my favorite ten piece of vinyl I accrued in 2017 from all the heaps I dug through and the smaller heaps I actually purchased. These are not in any particular order. Return To Forever – 30-Minute Radio Special I bought this on discogs, and I got it largely for collection purposes. But it is actually […]
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Replay Records [Hamden CT]
I made my first trip to New Haven a little over a year ago and made a return journey here in early 2018. This time I took the bus north to Hamden to check out Replay Records. First I walked west on Elm from my hotel and got on the 228 bus north on Whitney. […]
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Atticus Vinyl [New Haven CT]
Back in Connecticut, got surprised by the chalkboard outside this place. I was excited for a minute, until I entered and found that their inventory consisted solely of fancy new reissues. I did take the time to go through them then I got the hell out of there.
I’ve been to the Plainfield/Avon area a bunch of times now but somehow never bothered to check the area for record stores. Obviously I underestimated the area because I found Rock Bottom Treasures on a cursory glance at the map! I had my work planned for a Sunday which gave me a very leisurely drive […]