chicago-strut! (RR)
spivy
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i've been here for a few days, i've hit up like 10 record stores and i've found one good record. what gives? the record stores in this town are kinda crappy...( or atleast the ones i've been to.) i've been to: mr.peabody, beverly rare, record emporium, groovin high, daves, deadwax...etc. dusty groove was a big let down! lots of re-issues and records that are in questionable condition.i'm used to TSL, good, academy, A1...stores with good shit in good condition. the only store i've even bought a record in was daves. the stores i've been to are flooded with common terds for silly money that are in crap condition. is there a store i'm missing...where should a record lover go in this town to find some good records. its getting to the point where i'm wasting my time wandering all over this city. 
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Worst record store name ever.
ive nothing against finding originals, but the day we start turning our noses up at reissues - QUALITY reissues - is the day we should stop this record collectin' hustle altogether. hey, the record was outta print, and there was a demand for it, so they made it available again! is that against anybody's religion? sheeit
are these out-of-town shops s'posed to mean anything to us?
and probably at Rockefeller prices, unless you think $50 is cheap
well, what were you lookin' for, anyway? The Great Breakbeat In The Sky? were you expecting to see dollarbins full of ultra-rare Ramp albums or Elvis 45's on Sun that you could resell on eBay once you got back home?
I agree. Again, no disrespect, but usually anybody like Spiv who is THAT hard to please probably doesn't know what they want in the first place...
- J
are you serious? the sound library or our own j-paychecks good records...yikes. do you live under a rock?
50 for a good record ain't no big thing!
coming from someone with their screen name named after a dollar bin budget record label i should disregard all your snide "you're a record snob" bullshit but you know what...i am a record snob so fuggit!
as far as the re-issues go it's cool they're availible but b**t* has crazy shit in his crates so i don't think re-issues are gonna cut it for him.he's like alot of dudes on here, he's after og's.and the whole point of his trip is to do some digging, and theirs plenty of reissues at the shops where he lives at.
And as far as the "Rockefeller prices" he told me dusty groove was asking 50 dollars for a vg- copy of roy ayers-he's coming!!!.you could pick up a mint copy for a little under a hundred in n.y which is why he mentioned the specialty shops.
I would think any record collector, having hit up all of the shops you listed, would be able to find at least a handful of records to fill in the blanks in your collection. And that's a generous statement.
There's not really a "specialty" shop in Chicago from my understanding, you could get lucky but if you're looking for big time shit I can see you being disappointed (not just in Chicago, this is true of many many cities these days).
I have been telling people for a few years how bad Chicago is for records.
THEY NEVER BELIEVE ME.
Records are a finite commodity.
Not theoretically finite, like grains of sand on the beach, but
actually finite, like trees in the forest.
And Chicago is on some Easter Island schitt. Once all the enterprising
dealer/collectors and collector/dealers start looking around and realize
there's almost nothing left to ship out of town, they start attacking
each other, in a last gasp of desperation!
That said, when given the chance, I will always blame the British.
...and the Japanese, and the French, and ALS (for clearing out homes from Andersonville to Carpentersville for twenty years), and every weekend warrior with access to the Internet.
Pre-internet though, would you say the British got here first?
First for Blues, then for Northern?
It's pretty easy, really. A large city with a major international
airport, streets designed on the numbered-grid system and a fat
yellow pages with tons of record stores, thrifts, jukebox ops,
salvage, and one-stops listed in black ink.
You also mentioned all those NY stores, but last time I checked those places were turning in to tourist spots.
Who even shops at record stores anymore anyway?
Embrace it folks. domestic diggin is pretty much done. Your DJ Shadow fantasies will never be lived out. If it was like 1994 then maybe, but come on people it's 2007 it over johnny!
lol
agreed...why not just hit up those guys...I can personally say that they all have flame which will make you lose you shit...I know Meaty has been killin it lately......
and I have nothing but love for Chicago...seriously...great place...fun to dig at...and always something there...although I usually have to dust it off some...they liked to play their records (speaking of Detroit!)...
Sums it up nice. If you want to, or are forced to take it easy on obsessive record hunting, move to Chicago. The food is great.
Anyhow, spiv. A wise decision would've been to give us folks a holler before coming in. We have things to sell, money to make, and maybe a tip or two.
hey, you're the one who couldnt find shit, you the one thats mad!
seriously though, hope you find what yer lookin for before you skip town. its just that ive usually heard those same complaints about record stores coming from novice diggers who expect to see ultrarare funk gems in the 99-cent bins the first time out and cant pinpoint what theyre lookin for, so my fault.
and as far as my screen name...dont knock soul mann & the brothers till youve tried em!
Exactly. There are absolutely no records left in the continental United States. None. Just look at the proof: Traveling to a major metropolitan city in search of rare funk nuggets proves fruitless. If this not a sign of the diggin' apocalypse, then I don't know what is.
I'll be in Chi-town in early November for a meeting in Chinatown. Which hood is a) niiiice and b) walking or biking distance from Chinatown? (Is Chinatown nice? I can't remember.) Gonna AirBnB it, I think.
If anyone has records they're selling, PM me. Always looking for strange things to check.
Best place for a nice meal with your fav colleagues? Close-ish to Chinatown, pls.
Thanks!
edit: there's a bears game on the 1st of november (vs vikings). any idea how much could i could get tix for from scalpers outside the venue on game day? is a bill realistic?