Friday, July 11, 2025
Time: 3:11 PM
Song: Wilder Days
Artist: Morgan Wade
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle on way to a vinyl record sale.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2vubFQgAJO5SeuVa7ytIHc?si=e03c973451364454
I adjusted my lunch schedule for the last half of the week so I that I could leave work two hours early today to travel to Walnut, Illinois, for a vinyl record sale.
The Facebook listing mentioned eight boxes of records and a similar amount of CDs for sale located in the alley behind the house. Sounded a little like a drug deal to me. Despite that, it was right up my alley.
Walnut is south of Dixon and Sterling so I would be making a loop from work to the sale to home, about an hour of driving through about the flattest ground you can find in the Sauk Valley. It’s a landscape pocked with irrigation systems and gigantic windmills.
The vinyl collection proved to be impressive, comprised mostly of 60s, 70s, and 80s rock with a bit of jazz and miscellaneous artists. Every record had a plastic cover and the purveyor had graded most of the selections by condition.
As someone who prices vinyl, I thought he had them priced fair, though there were several I thought he was probably a little low on. Those were the ones I honed in on. There was a Hendrix Super Hits, a Sticky Fingers by the Stones and a couple others that I bought for two dollars each. Each had some condition issues with the covers, but I thought they were good deals.
The CDs were priced individually, but as a rule I try not and pay more than a dollar for a CD. I am most likely just going to rip songs off of it and resell it. It’s hard to sell a CD for more than a dollar. I bought only one of those.
I spent about a half hour there before paying and pointing the Renegade north for home. By then, dark clouds were rolling in from the west and we prepared to leave for Timber Lake with tickets for a production of “Waitress.”
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