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Upon discovering the unfortunate demise of Raffe’s, I simultaneous discovered the birth of Technoir. As you can see in the store front above, it truly is the spiritual successor. It was a quick dual bus jaunt to take myself from my door step to Technoir’s which was nice on a bit of a blustery day. […]
I swore I had never been to this place. I was tooling around and had to make a run to Trader Joe’s. The local grocery stopped carrying the coffee that my girlfriend likes and Trader Joe’s is is other favorite. I don’t mind going as I drink the coffee as well and I also like […]
Been a solid minute since I hit up an estate sale. I got a tip from a coworker that there was not only one down the street, but that they also had records! I was swamped at work and didn’t think I could get away when I decided – you only live once! So I […]
The old Savers space back behind what was once known as Jewel ‘Grand Bazaar’ finally has a new tenant. I don’t know how many (any?) vinyls I’ve pulled out of SAs in the past, but it is few, that’s for sure. So I wasn’t excited to check this out but as it is in my […]
It’s the places in your backyard that you miss the most easily sometimes. I was headed out to Niles and took a different route than usual, and went right by this place. I immediately checked the clock and quickly calculated what time I thought I might be headed back then checked if I could make […]
Not sure how I never hit this place even once before over the years. Granted I don’t get out there that often but it isn’t very far from my standard stomping grounds. Just a singular, clean bin with a handful of interesting finds as displayed here. The Paul Young album is one shy of his […]
I believe this is something called ‘work life balance’ that entails not working yourself until your mental and physical health suffers, not attempting to do the work of more than one person, working off hours voluntarily, etc… I think this is part of a science fiction novel or something because it is laughable to think […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]