Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Annual Record Sale
A couple saturdays ago on August 24th, Dusty Groove Record shop in Chicago located on Ashland a block south of the intersection of Milwaukee, Division and Ashland had their annual street sale. Any vinyl record, CD or 45 that was outside was at an extreme bargain price of 50 cents each. The only reason I had heard about this was through a friend of mine who sent me a link via Facebook. The sale was one day only and started at 10am. It was already fully crowded when I arrived at 10:30am. I was able to find a great amount of records and random CD's at this sale and spent no more than ten dollars and got about 15 records and 5 cd's. Most of the records I got I had never heard before and got them mainly based off of the covert art. Being able to look through physical copies of hundreds of albums of music I never knew existed and finding 2 or 3 albums I had been looking for made the trip worthwhile. After I left i realized this event was a great opportunity for Dusty Groove as a physical music distributor to attract a specific type of crowd that would definitely be buying records when they arrived and not just browsing. Plus, you would have to be really into music or collecting records to wake up real early on a saturday. Below is a photo of the items I came across at the sale.
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What a great find?! I wish that I had known about it as I rarely get to venture out to Dusty Grooves anymore. I guess I'll have to watch out for it next year. Not that I won't be visiting the store sooner than that.
ReplyDeleteColeman,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like cover art used to be more important to the record itself. Today, while many people are downloading music, I would assume that most people don't even know what the cover art looks like for their favorite album. With a tangible copy such as a CD or a vinyl record, it is the experience of looking through the artwork and booklet. I hope you got some good stuff.
Kyle Schroeder
Tubes & Transistors