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The Collector Strikes



We just started a section call "Recent Pickups", which we will be updating regularly when we buy stuff. N8 is Retro Video Game guy (nintendo, sega and playstation) and LP is the music man who collects CDs. Originally, we started this blog to talk about the items we buy from Winnipeg's second hand spots, like Thrift Stores and Pawn Shops. We call this Winnipeg's "discarded subculture", our city`s micro history on what was prevalent at the time. They say you can tell a lot about a city by the way they entertain themselves... but what can you tell about the things they throw away? (Man, VHS was big back then!) Sometimes we find treasures, sometimes just empty promises...




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