About 12 years ago I met a bloke in line who was wearing a ball cap of team whom we shared a common interest in and every year sans covid, I will see him in line. Our musical interests are the total opposite and he’s always in line way before I am, so there’s no “competition”. He will usually message a few days prior to ask what I’m looking for and if my list is large, I’ll usually tell him my most wanted and he does his best to grab it until I get into the store. This year was no exception as he was able to snag, from what I was told by a store associate, the only copy of Hepcat.
He also grabbed the Mulligan meets Monk for my wife and the Pale Saints album for our friend. Last year I gifted him an autograph picture of a player from our shared team. Not sure what I’m going to do this go around.
Anyway, this our combined “haul”. My wife also picked up Mingus at Monterey. We hit up one more store and I bought Radiohead and Swift for the kiddo.
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