Standard day for the majority of society as I know is as follows: go to work, punch out, go home, beat/yell at your wife, eat some kind of slop, fall asleep watching tv. No […]
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Year: 2014
No better way to spend a Saturday than the 6 hour round trip from River Grove down to Beverly Hills. I visited Beverly Records for the first time a couple months ago and I can honestly say that I did give them a fair shake the first time around – the place is a […]
While on my way down to Beverly Records, it dawned on me that there might be a thift store nearby. Considering my recent good luck in such establishments, I did a quick internet query for nearby locations and came up with this place at 93rd and Western. So I jumped off the Metra at 95th […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the past 2 weeks I have built a record bin and also a framework to hold the flightcase for my turntables. Both units weigh in excess of 120lbs (each) and were built entirely from salvaged wood. I only spent money on the paint. These 2 units replaced a very inept system that was pushed […]
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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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Custom record bin
After years of storing my vinyl ‘bookshelf style’ (spines out, vertically) I was running out of room and tired of the frustration of not being able to quickly find what I wanted. I thought about how at a record store, I can go through 100s of records in a short period. I knew I need […]