1986 Record Hunting

I wanted to give everyone a day in the life of a music fan in the ’80s. So, if it’s the mid-‘80s and I’m a carless teen and I’m looking to buy records, here’s what would happen. Backpacks were not a cool thing. People may disagree with this, but it’s absolutely true. Not until the ’90s did backpacks come in vogue for all students and the like. A few of us brought them to college, up and to the early ’90s, I just carried my crap in my hands. Anyway, maybe you wouldn’t take a bag, ‘cause you could get one at the store, and then if you didn’t buy anything, which happened a lot, you could just ride back. So before I found out about the Record Rack and the cool places downtown, I had two spots. Each a Sound Warehouse. And sometimes, I would hit both in one day. Very unlikely chance that my older sister would take me since I could probably stay for two hours, who could blame her? Anyway, I would go knowing that I was going to get something, but no idea what I was gonna get. I listened to…