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| - Sweet lord, what a record store.
I recently bought a turntable after a long time of not owning one. Shortly afterwards, I started doing research for best record stores in the 'Burgh, starting with the reviews right here on Yelp. Jerry's came up first.
The reviews for Jerry's sounded like my kinda place. My only worry was that it's located in Squirrel Hill and I was fearing some kind of godawful traffic jam heading up 376 over the weekend, but luckily it wasn't a game day and nothing else was going on in the city, so it was smooth sailing up to exit 74. Just a hop off the interstate, a left turn, and then another left and then blammo! There's Jerry's in all its glory.
I was actually nervous and excited driving up to it. I can't say I've been excited about going into a record store in ages, but the reviews made the place sound awesome. So in I went, climbing up the steps to the second floor. Man, those steps have quite the degree of incline to 'em.
I walk into the first little room and it's cluttered. Awesome. So I squeeze past the couple of employees going through some new stuff and into the main room. It was like heaven opened up. So many records. Where does one begin?
I checked out the most popular stuff up front first, then quickly ditched that idea and just jumped into the deep end. A Greg Kihn album first, then a Re-Flex LP, some Robert Palmer and Steely Dan that I never had on vinyl, and on it went. I'd keep remembering tings to look for, and go rushing about.
And then I tried my best to browse the 45s, but it was too overwhelming. Then I discovered the classical section, and the huge room devoted to jazz LPs, and the huge comedy selection. When did it end? How many records were in this place? Like other reviewers have stated, if you love vinyl, you're gonna spend a ton of time in here just looking and looking and looking. And Jerry was playing some great tunes to shop to as well, so that's always a plus.
I was in there almost two hours and I could have stayed longer. I spent 30 bucks on my finds. As I handed my cash to Jerry, he told me to remember to check out the basement section located downstairs right next door. "Lots of good rock records in there for a buck," he told me. My mind imploded.
I walked downstairs and back outside and pondered visiting the basement, but I decided to save that for the next time. If I hadn't had more shopping to do that day, I would have gone in and lost even more time and money in the best way I could ever imagine.
I got home and all my records were in impeccable shape and sounded amazing. Having vinyl again reminds me of when I was a kid and would buy records and would just sit around and listen to them all the way through, looking at the covers and reading the lyrics sheets if they were included, and just listening. I haven't had that experience in a long time. It's easy to forget after years of CDs and mp3s on shuffle all the time. I'm definitely going to be a customer of Jerry's for the long haul. Definitely the most amazing record store I've ever visited.
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