Yikes – what a mess! I became familiar with this place long before I got serious about traveling to visit record stores. Their website is similar to the physical space in many ways: cluttered, overwhelming and anger inducing. I remember watching this video on their website and thinking that it seemed like a cool place […]
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Dusty Groove
I tell people that if you are going to go record hunting you should try not to be so steadfast in what you want and do not want that you ever walk away empty handed. You should have a list in your head of releases you are definitely on the search for but it is […]
I visited Permanent Records on October 19th 2013. The Metra Milwaukee West line takes me from my stop 1/2 mile from home to the Western Ave. stop which is just about another mile or so. Permenent Records is my ideal store, just the right size and just the perfect equlibrium of interesting obscure stuff and […]
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Reckless Records, Wicker Park
My Chicago record store visit checklist got off to a start back on March 24th 2012. My brother and I went down to Logan Square for my birthday (Longman and Eagle) and when we were done making gluttons of ourselves we headed to Wicker Park to go to Piece. Aside from all the eating and […]