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Speaking of LP's ... have you checked out a place called Wax Trax in Vegas yet? I know the guy that owns it. I haven't seen him since I was a 20 or so, he probably doesn't remember me. I used to fix his cash register at his record shop when he lived in PA. I went to his house one time to fix a copier and he had a real 50's Wurlitzer in his living room.
Funny you mention that - I hadn't heard about it but I spotted that store earlier this week while on our way back from the grocery. The name sure caught my attention. We live in Spring Valley, right next to Decatur, so it's actually pretty close. I promised myself we'd stop by on our next day off.
He's quite a character ... bring an extra wallet full of cash ... I saw him sell a guy a 45 of some obscure Doo-Wop group one time for $150. The guy wanted it so bad he was standing there in his silver leisure suite that looked like this ... only silver and white ...
with white shoes sweating profusely. They started yelling at each other and finally the guy paid him. He threw the money at him and it went flying all over and he said something like, 'here's your damn money Ritchie, you're killing me.' and he stormed out. :-) To be polite about it, he has a reputation for driving a hard bargain.
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I can't complain too much about him, he let me borrow an entire set of bootleg Beatles CD's to listen to and see if I wanted to buy them. I think there were 10 or 15 all together in the set. I could easily have copied them and said no thanks, but I didn't. It was a box set of the outtakes of every song from their first four albums. Haven't seen it anywhere since. I guess I should have copied it.
It's a fun place to go look around, but the reviews about him online are dead on.