Spiritual Trip to D.I.

Jake and I had an out-of-body experience the other day when we visited Deseret Industries. Actually, we visited 3 different D.I.'s but the last one was a treasure. We've become record rummagers since Jake received a record player for Christmas. We usually find one or two records that we think we might like. So far, no gems that create a good base for a record collection.

Note: On March 30th, two thousand and nine, we discovered something wonderful. And this is how we figure it happened... Somebody really cool, and kind of old, must have passed away. It's not a sad thing because they most likely went to a better place. Then, their not-as-cool grandchildren were cleaning out the house and decided to throw sticky notes on everything to price items for a garage sale. When these items didn't sell, they went straight to D.I.

Lucky for us. We are now proud owners of 18 records that most likely came from the same residence. How do we figure this? As both Jake and I sat on 2 chairs we pulled from a D.I. dining set, we combed through hundreds of albums. Jake pulled one off the top and thought to himself, "wow, this one's a good find for D.I." Then he saw the one sitting beneath it. "What? Another good find.... wait a second." So he pulled the entire pile onto his lap as to deny access to any other bystanders with good taste. He looked over at me and said, "Jack Pot!"

He read the titles to me one by one and dropped them into a pile saying, "done." As in, SOLD. Who had let these prizes out of their possession? And most of them in very good condition. In the past, the original owner/rocker had treated these records very well. So....18 dollars later, and 18 records later, we have the necessary infrastructure to our so-called music room.



Some of these titles include: Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, McCartney, Grand Funk Railroad, Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, Sly & the family Stone, Johnny Cash, Deep Purple, Simon & Garfunkel, the 3 album Soundtrack to Woodstock, and multiple Bob Dylan records! It was a good day at Deseret Industries.