Chicago Record Store Adventure day!

Matt, Holly and I (Seth/tower) just got back from a 12 hour day of vinyl hunting. We'll post specific pics/reviews of every record store a bit later, but for now, I'm just going to post a list of what we got. We're watching High Fidelity right now, which I've never seen.

Matt & Holly aquisitions (17+2 cds):

The Beatles-Let it Be
The Beatles-The White Album
The Beatles-Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (yes, it was a good Beatles day for them. I've never listened to a Beatles album, and I don't really care).
Chipmunks Christmas
Snow Patrol-Final Straw (Import)
Dire Straights-Making Moves
Eric Clapton-461 Ocean Boulevard
The Who-Live at Leeds
Queen-The Game
Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes
U2-The Joshua Tree (original, not re-issue)
The National-Boxer
Frank Sinatra-20 Greatest Hits
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Okkervil River-The Stage Names
Eisley-Room Noises
Franz Ferdinand-Self Titled (used CD)
Franz Ferdinand-You Could Have it So Much Better (used CD)

Seth aquisitions (17 total):

Fleetwood Mac-Self Titled
Cover Me (artists covering Springsteen's songs...including Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, and The Hollies)
Kris Kristofferson-Me and Bobby McGee (yes, he had a singer/songwriter career before he starred in that one Vampire movie sequel)
John Denver-Back Home Again
Cheap Trick-at Budokan (live album)
2Pac-All Eyez On Me (promotional advance release)
Jay-Z-The Blueprint
Jay-Z-Vol. 2...Hard Knock Life
Kanye West-The College Dropout
Elton John-Greatest Hits (it was $.50)
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Gimme Back My Bullets
Special Advance Preview of Lynyrd Skynyrd's One More From the Road (promo record includes Gimme Three Steps, T for Texas, and an 11 and a half minute version of Freebird).
Bob Dylan-Slow Train Coming
Pat Benetar-Crimes of Passion
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star
Bruce Springsteen-Nebraska
Foo Fighters-One by One

Hey friends,

Well..we're off and running.  I named the blog "chi fidelity" after CHIcago where my friends Matt & Holly and I fell in love with vinyl, hunting through local shops (shout out to Kiss the Sky), and the latter half of the movie high FIDELITY, probably the most famous film to deal with vinyl records.

So here's how it works.  

We all post our "wish lists" at different levels.  For example, both Counting Crows August and Everything After and Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska are on my list.  However, I would pay $45 for C.C., but only $10 for Bruce, because it's pretty common. 

If you find a record on someone else's list, pick it up and mail it to them.  They will send you $$ for the record, plus shipping.  And no worries, I know everyone on here very well...everyone is trustworthy :)

Matt, Holly, and I are hitting 6-8 record shops next Saturday.  I'll blog about it later, and post some pics of some of the coolest vinyl shops in Chicago.

For now, why don't you post a brief (one paragraph) summary of who you are, what you do, and what a couple of your favorite records are. 

So, I'm Seth "tower" Hurd.  My first record purchase was at a used book shop in Wrigleyville (just down the street from the McDonalds, if you're from here).  I bought John Denver, Johnny Cash, Robert Frost reads his poetry for about $12.  After that, I was hooked!

My favorite record is Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-1985, which is a 5-LP set. 

My favorite vinyl buying moment was when my friend Brew went to get the new Coldplay LP at Best Buy.  

16 year old Cashier: "What's this" 

Brew: "It's a record."  

Cashier: "Like a poster."

Brew: "No, like a big flat, black mp3."

In closing, thanks for being my friend, and thanks for really loving music.  Not just buying CD's or listening to your iPod, or even listening to records, but for loving the great songs and albums for what they really are...slices of the times, glimpses into the soul, the stories humanity wrapped around chords and lyrics.

Seth