Tucked away in the back of an unmarked commercial unit off Ranshaw Way in North Liberty, Isaac Smith sat among boxes of records and CDs, combing through his collection and pricing each item.
With less than a week left, he had a laundry list of tasks to prepare for the grand opening of his record store, Zig Zog’s Records, on Feb 7.
Smith, who currently boasts a collection of what he estimates to be about 5,000 vinyl records and 1,000 CDs in his shop, has been buying and selling records for 10 years at various record shows and conventions across Iowa, but his story of collecting albums goes back to when he was 13 and received a box of records from a neighbor…