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Last night my wife, my son, and I had dinner at Bonanza restaurant in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.  (For some reason we were both craving steaks.)  Across the parking lot from Bonanza, there is a thrift store named Savers.  (Savers is basically the same as Goodwill. -they both have the same stuff.*)  We decided to drop in and see what was there.

Whenever I find myself at a thrift store, I enjoy looking through the cassettes that they are selling.  Looking through the 99-cent tapes I invariably find a number of cassettes that either I already own, or had wanted when I was younger.

There are always a lot of "Hey cool!  I want that tape!" moments while I am browsing.

I wonder what that says about my taste in music.  I can't really think of any contemporary artists whose CDs I would like to buy.  (Maybe Clay Aiken's? Has Bush done anything lately?)  The music scrap heap at the thrift stores however, always has something that I am looking for.

So what did I buy last night?  I bought "Third Stage" by Boston.  I bought that on LP when I was in high school.  I copied the record onto cassette, and I have had it ever since.  The reason why I bought it again was that the recording that I made in 1988 was really poor.  The records that I recorded on my stereo back then always sounded so tinny on tape.  So now I have a good "master copy" to listen to a couple of times in the car until I get tired of it.

*Observational "humor": Why is it that no matter where the Goodwill is, there is always a lot of the same stuff?  Like those two-tiered tables with the top level only half the size as the bottom one, toy drums and xylophones without mallets or sticks, old toasters, you get the point...