I write this while I sip a cold Abita after one of the longest, hardest days of work in my life. I got into town yesterday (flew to Alexandria) and desperately wanted to check Louisiana off my list. I sped to a Goodwill and they had no vinyl! I knew that I wouldn’t have much […]
Year: 2018
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Well it sure has been a slow May. I got down to Texas but missed opportunities to check out a record store in downtown Dallas and more. I did stop into a thrift store in Plano Texas but they had no vinyl. I made it back to Buffalo NY as well as the Detroit area […]
In nearly 5 years of writing this blog I have visited many, many thrift stores and record stores looking at vinyl. Unfortunately I’ve seen many great shops close for various reasons. Time to give respect to some legends and remember their awesome tenure selling vinyl. There are many more honorable mentions but here are the […]
I generally will not go out of my way to hit an SA anymore, they are always sad barren places devoid of any good vinyl, and often it seems, don’t carry any vinyl at all. As part of an especially relaxing morning, I got my work done in Marquette Park (where coincidentally I also hit […]
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 […]