OLDENSTYLE SNEAKER STORES: Kicks in the shrinkwrap. Colors showing up at one store for a couple weeks and disappearing. Nike used to use better materials. Haggling ang checking out the two-for-ones. Asking the manager if he had copies of the Nike catalog and lusting after some shit in there. No internet. No 500 douchebags in ugly overpriced sneakers camped outside a store run by other douchebags in ugly sneakers, waiting overnight to buy some ugly sneakers. When JakeWizzle was out here I took him to one of the last strips in this city (I'm not gonna blow the spot, but bet Batmon knows the deal) where shit still goes down in a fairly old fashioned way and we got BUSY and left with bags and bags of crazed shit (including white max classics with neon orange swoosh and gumsoles that you aint NEVER gonna see). People on here tried to clown me for talking about doing the sneaker game hard the way people dig for records, but that's just because they're too toy to know better (Hi Mike SeaversNIKES you little twat). Shit is all about basements and backstock, out of the way locations and having good enough spit game to get these dudes to bring you stuff that's not on the floor. Bonus points: Spot Bilt shoes, all the white kids going on a Diadora craze (I never got down), Lottos with the good leather, the first Nike Escape line (where they put good suedes and that black and red tag on popular shoes- Force IIIs, Windrunners, and a Lava High- got the windrunners and they're my prize possesion).
