A couple of weeks ago I finally visited this thrift store for the first time. I had been wanting to check it out for a while, but I kept postponing for one reason or the other. The store itself was very nice and well kept, but I can’t say the same about the record selection: tons of...

I went to my local record fair yesterday. It’s called DiscoDays and it’s been held twice a year, in spring and fall, since 2009. I like it because of its size: it’s neither too big nor too small. Some record fairs are so huge that you don’t even know where to look....

Surfing the net the other day, I came across a couple of videos from these YouTubers (Liz Rogers and SafetyTess) who challenged each other to go to a record store and pick up the weirdest, funniest, craziest vinyl they could find for $5 or less. For a second I thought: “Oh, that’s...

In the early ’90s, discovering cut-out CDs was a real turning point for me. I was a little kid with a massive hunger for new music and not much money in his pockets, so heading to the store and being able to get something new for so cheap (5.000 lire, the equivalent of 4 dollars) was...

If you’re reading this blog, you should be familiar with crate digging. If you’re not, we can summarize it as “going on the hunt for records”. LPs (and sometimes CDs) on sale are often stored in crates. If you usually dig through the crates looking for something to...