Crate Digging: Tips for Record Lovers

A roundup

An Introduction to Crate Digging Looking to learn about this long and storied practice? What is crate digging? And how do you go about it? Can anyone crate dig? Where do you dig crates? And why, exactly?

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Where to Go Crate Digging?

You can go crate digging just about anywhere that you can find records. The traditional idea of crate digging will be in the bargain bin section of a store selling records or in cheap plastic crates

How to Go Crate Digging?

There is no one holistic way to go crate digging. Simply knowing your craft as much as possible will guarantee you are at least making more well-informed choices out in the field

Be Spontaneous

A crate-digging session does not need to be planned meticulously ahead of time. The best finds will come about as a result of spontaneity, being able to seize the moment when it comes to it.

Be Early

If you are going to a record fair of some sort that you have scoped out ahead of time, then make sure to get there as early as possible. This will ensure that you get the first pick of all the goodies

Be a Pro

If you are going to a record fair of some sort that you have scoped out ahead of time, then make sure to get there as early as possible. This will ensure that you get the first pick of all the goodies.