crummy little antique stores with 45 sleeves improvised out of paper bags cut in half

or they are wrapped in saran wrap or just lying in a pile on a shelf

last year's thomas kinkade calendar mixed in with the records

ALL BOBBY VINTON LPS $3.00 FIRM

drug store magazine racks with records that are impossible to flip through / they just roll out of the sleeves

or a box of 45s with that number sticker index filing system

i mean the kind that 13 yr olds used in the early 60s
each record has a number sticker which corresponds to the number on the tabbed divider which corresponds with the index pasted on the interior of the top of the record tote

a broken pachinko machine
a bowl of promotional keychains and buttons

library discard hardbacks

Unpriced records that you need to bring to the front and wait for the store owner to look up value in a 8 year old appraisal magazine. This has happened to me.

Though I found a Swamp Children 12" at that place among piles of 50s soundtracks and beat up dean martin records someone dumped there.

im ok w all this kind of stuff

the farther north you go in cali from the bay area, the more likely every record is to be sold like this

1950s 45 books with about a dozen records in them that are almost always easy listening records.

^^^^^ oh yeah. and those 10-inch flip books of classical.

lock box for the "rare" stuff fashioned by attaching a heavy ass chain across the top of the crate, the bulk of which is resting on the topspines of your already burnt 80s beatles pressings causing a gnarly uniform mark on every one of them.

cast iron pencil sharpeners

^^wait i like that

I do too! just setting the scene, man

siiick