A trip to New York for me is like a pilgrimage to Mecca especially when records are involved.
My cultural and spiritual home of New York is the most influential city of my life even more so than my own hometown.
Big Apple digging in the crates most usually results in me being face-to-face with one of my best finds of the year and highlights of that trip.
In 2010, I brought back nearly 2 crates of records from that New York visit.
I probably brought back the same amount in 2011 but the difference was that I found want-list albums and sprung for records that were a bit more expensive, along with some reissues.
The closing of Bleecker Bob's Golden Oldies is a loss of a record store option but there are still more than enough spots with mind-blowing finds.
I can easily make myself at home in a New York record store discount section and find great gems.
There is such a surplus of records in New York that one most often leaves behind a great deal of 12" singles or albums that otherwise may have been brought home if there were more time, money or luggage space.
There is such a surplus of records in New York that one most often leaves behind a great deal of 12" singles or albums that otherwise may have been brought home if there were more time, money or luggage space.
I always look forward to my next New York record shopping excursion.
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