Even Goodwill celebrates their vinyl culture and wants to get in on the RSD madness and I have no problem with that. Or maybe I only feel that way when they load their bins with rare Chicago polka vinyl prior to my visit. The Naturals album […]
Month: April 2017
I don’t celebrate Record Store Day as perhaps people feel I should, given my work on this blog. But I also don’t celebrate record stores, an opinion I unabashedly hold, I much prefer the grime and total gamble of thrift stores and garage sales. But when I found that a new record store had opened […]
Never give up, kids. Keep on looking. 32 trips – god knows how many records. There are always new frontiers, you must be patient. Bethany’s was new to me and probably new(er) to GR. Did they have records. This, I did not know. I do now. I darted in and made for the book section. […]
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Revolve Records [Grand Rapids MI]
I’ve carefully dug through Grand Rapids many times over the years. I’ve been in too many thrift stores to count and I’ve been through all the record stores I could find. So during my 32rd trip to GR after I ran through two new (or at least new to me) thrift stores, I felt unfulfilled. […]
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Savers, Franklin Park [RIP]
Very sad news which I luckily caught in time to make one last trip to a shop that has been particularly kind to me. It was pretty remarkable to have a legit thrift store in my hood and I’m proud to say I took good advantage of it. I documented more than a couple trips […]
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Dyer again
So let’s recap my numerous (this would be #4) visits to the Goodwill in Dyer Indiana, which has not yet been open a year. In a short time I’ve been blessed to have been able to stop by so many times, and more specifically to have been able to get so many scores in that […]