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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, May 3, 2025: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

May 4, 2025May 3, 2025 Brian J. Noggle

Yesterday morning, I drove my beautiful wife to the airport so she could jet away to speak at a conference. And the airport is practically at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds (where the scale of Springfield means everything is “practically at” or nearby to everything else compared to actual large cities), and the Friends of the […]

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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, March 15, 2025: Relics Antique Mall

March 16, 2025 Brian J. Noggle

Ah, gentle reader. Yesterday, I cleaned the main level of the house and then hit the gym with my beautiful wife for some cardio training since I will probably do one or two more triathlons at the end of the summer and don’t want to suck or don’t want any of my family to beat […]

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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, September 14, 2024: Friends of the Springfield-Greene Library Book Sale

September 16, 2024September 14, 2024 Brian J. Noggle

As I mentioned, we went to the book sale over the weekend, and they had a larger-than-normal selection of LPs even though it was Saturday and half price day, which meant that most were fifty cents each. As I completed some record shelving Labor Day weekend, I felt comfortable… gorging. I got: This Is The […]

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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, May 4, 2024: Wedding Gifts

May 7, 2024May 6, 2024 Brian J. Noggle

On Saturday, as I mentioned, I went to a small town in southeast Missouri to attend my brother’s wedding. As it was the first time that I’d seen him in quite a while, we exchanged Christmas presents for 2023, and he had a couple of milk crates with records in them. He said they were […]

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Good Album Hunting, March 2, 2023: Stick It In Your Ear Records

March 3, 2024March 3, 2024 Brian J. Noggle

Yesterday, my beautiful wife and I went to a record shop in downtown Springfield where I had permission to buy up to $100 of highly priced records. You see, gentle reader, I suffered a birthday last month, and my wife often gets me a gift certificate or something for the event. But when she got […]

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Good Album Hunting, Thursday, April 27, 2023: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

April 27, 2023 Brian J. Noggle

Well, gentle reader, I did take a little time today to run up to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale and run through the records. I’d hoped I’d get premium selections being that it was the second day of the sale, but to be honest, it was not that different from the […]

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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, December 17, 2022: Ozark Treasures Antique Mall

December 18, 2022December 17, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

Ah, gentle reader, you know how I operate: I go “Christmas shopping” at a local antique mall and end up with a stack of records. Well, this year was going to be different. It’s not so much that I’ve straightened up as I’ve run out of space to store records as well as new books–so […]

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Good Album Hunting, April 29, 2022: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

April 30, 2022April 29, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

As I mentioned, I made it out to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library’s book sale yesterday and hit the dollar record bins. The selection was smaller than the last sale’s–I guess everyone is realizing the value of old records, or perhaps the old, old records in the genres that I like have worked […]

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Good Album Hunting, April 24, 2022: Relics Antique Mall

April 25, 2022April 24, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

This afternoon, my youngest son had one of his few remaining middle school youth group activities; his activities are an hour and a half long, and the ride into town is 20 minutes, so instead of coming home and going back to get him, I killed the time at Relics Antique Mall. As you might […]

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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, December 11, 2021: Christmas Shopping Done Wrong Edition

December 11, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

So I had a couple of hours today between dropping my son off at an event and picking him up, so I thought I would do a little Christmas shopping. As such, I stopped at Mike’s Unique antique mall/flea market. I saw a Marine Corps emblem made of LED lights that I thought I’d get […]

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Good Album Hunting, Wednesday, September 15, 2021: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

Gentle reader, the week was shaping up to be too busy for me to sneak off to the book sale this week on the north side of town. However, I rearranged some things on the sked so I could pop up for a brief visit on Wednesday afternoon. I promised the boys I’d be in […]

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Good Album Hunting, May 1, 2021: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

May 2, 2021May 1, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

We went to the fairgrounds on Saturday, which is half price day at the semi-annual book sale, and I managed to find a few records. By Saturday, or perhaps all week, they were down to something like twelve or sixteen boxes/crates of records, which is less than half of what they often have on the […]

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Good Album Hunting, April 1, 2021: Relics Antique Mall

April 2, 2021April 1, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

I got two $25 gift certificates to Relics Antique Mall for Christmas. Relics’ gift certificates are unique in two ways to Relics’ favor: They expire in a mere six months, and you have to spend the total amount on the gift certificate as they give no change and they’re not gift cards that can carry […]

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Good Album Hunting, January 2, 2021: An Actual Record Store

January 7, 2021January 6, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

For Christmas, my beautiful wife gave me a gift card for $60 to an actual record store downtown, and after taking down the Christmas decorations and cleaning the house, I headed out in the snow to go. I haven’t been in an actual dedicated record store in…. well, probably since the 1980s, when the music […]

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Good Album Hunting: Christmas “Shopping” and Redeeming Gift Cards

December 30, 2020December 29, 2020 Brian J. Noggle

Gentle reader, although I have not actually employed the one-for-me, one-for-you Christmas gift buying protocol this year, I did pick up a couple of inexpensive records at Relics the week before Christmas whilst Christmas shopping. I also spotted some Chuck Mangione records at Vintage Stock whilst I was scoping out Pink Floyd CDs for my […]

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Good Album Hunting, September 19, 2020: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

September 20, 2020April 24, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

Well, my friends, I have bought my first LPs in what seems like a long time. I guess my last purchases were in July when I bought a handful of records while spending gift cards at Relics Antique Mall, but, come on, it doesn’t feel like I’ve bought LPs unless I’ve been to this book […]

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Good Album Hunting, December 30, 2019: Relics Antique Mall

December 31, 2019December 30, 2019 Brian J. Noggle

So my beautiful wife gave me some Relics gift certificates for Christmas. Relics has gift certificates, not gift cards, and they do not offer cash back when you present a gift certificate, so if you don’t spend the entire amount of the certificate, the remaining balance is lost. To account for this, she gave me […]

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Good Album Hunting, Wednesday, October 16, 2019: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

October 17, 2019December 30, 2019 Brian J. Noggle

Yesterday, I took the boys up north to the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds to attend the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale where I predicted I would gorge on $1 record albums. Which proved truer than I thought. I bought a bunch. I got: KC and the Sunshine Band by KC and the Sunshine […]

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Good Album Hunting, September 23, 2019: The Salvation Army Thrift Store

September 24, 2019September 23, 2019 Brian J. Noggle

We had a couple of minutes to kill before the school fundraiser began at Chick-Fil-A this evening, so we stopped by a couple of nearby thrift stores. I found a couple records at the Salvation Army thrift store, and I got a real deal as the clerk rang them up incorrectly and then let me […]

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Good Album Hunting, Saturday, June 8, 2019: SEAS Sale and Relics Antique Mall

June 9, 2019June 8, 2019 Brian J. Noggle

So yesterday, I found myself at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton annual sale, and they had a couple of boxes of records. I found a couple that looked interesting and bought them along with a couple of glass vases to etch. Then, I found myself at Relics Antique Mall as my wife is looking for […]

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