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| - Have wanted to come here all summer, but just couldn't find the time. Today was perfect. Amazing stock of five dollar gems. Stuff I've never seen in my 20 years of record collecting. Big selection of high price psych lp's that I already own. Check these out kids, cuz you can't steal them online anymore. Very open layout. My early record hunting days were spent in some pretty claustrophobic spaces(dingey shop at 116th and Detroit, Record Den, downright ghetto dump on Lorain by Suite Lorain, a fucking BASEMENT in Garfield Heights). I appreciate the newer approach to lp shopping(the Loop, My Minds Eye, Blue Arrow). I don't feel like a gremlin is going to reach out from between the records and eat my face. In fact, obviously, the whole hobby is way more accessible and fun these days. I stopped going to the Round Sounds record convo in Fairview that I had frequented for some 20 years now, because I never won the raffle and people act like they don't even know me. Even though I basically grew up there. Wankers. But I digress. I thought maybe not going there would leave me with vinyl anemia. But Blue Arrow and MME and this place more than make up for it. I thought when Platter Puss, Quonset Hut, and Spin More in Kent packed up shop that lp hunting was dead. I am so happy to say it's almost better now. The decade of slogging through Fleetwood Mac Rumors records at the local Exchanges was a trying time, but we made it through to the other side. And the other side is black. Spinning around at 33 1/3 rpm's. Bring money, lose yourself, and leave with some real treasure.
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