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I have been following the opening of this spot for sometime. I have been hanging out in Hegewisch since I worked there for a few years back around 2002. I come out at least every other weekend but every time I would check, the place would be quiet and empty with doors locked. Finally on […]
Made my annual pilgrimage down to the south side to dig through records. Almost 6 years since I went down there. I just created a new tag to combine all my visits into one easy link so click away down below. I have documented 5 trips but I can think of at least one other […]
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 […]
I’ve driven past this place so many damn times and wanted to stop in but never did. This is largely because traffic on Touhy is a bit scary, there aren’t quite 2 lanes in each direction, but there isn’t quite a parking lane either. Traffic moves fast and even if you can park in front, […]
I don’t know what people think that record collecting is all about. Or being out and about and searching for records. Probably seems very much ‘on the surface’, like just sticking my mitts in those crates is all that matters. But the real peak experiences come when you supersede that stuff and hit into something […]
About a year ago, I followed a lead on gsalr.com to a listing that claimed they had piles and piles of records. It was about a 5 mile ride, and it wasn’t very nice out: windy and cold, late fall Chicago. But I soldiered through it as thoughts of big scores and a library of […]
I booked out of AA (no not the meeting) to make it to Funk Trunk before they closed at 7. A light rain had been falling for hours but I stayed dry and warm enough to feel pleasant. As I approached I couldn’t figure out where the store would be as it was nothing but […]
If anyone read this blog, maybe they would meet me face to face and discuss it with me. And they would probably criticize me for running a blog with ‘chicagovinyl’ as the subdomain when half of the posts are in other cities or even states. And I’d tell them to get lost. But luckily I […]
Shook my hangover and headed out to greet the day Sunday morning. gsalr.com had only two sales anywhere in the area with records and they were in opposite directions. Not being ambitious enough to try and hit both, I chose one on the north side and headed out around 10am. Just a bunch of the […]
With only gsalr.com to guide me, I embarked from my girlfriend’s house on a Saturday morn in search of vinyl. I started out by going a bit out of my way to get to the Prarie Path bike trail which I took a few miles west to Villa Park. I got off at Villa Ave […]