Richie and Blind Mellow Jelly: Recycled Records

Richie

A bald man with big black horn rim glasses, a Kiss badge on his jacket and a cup of coffee in his clutch started coming into the Haight Recycled Records store every day. He reeked of body odor, and rarely spoke. He certainly didn’t buy anything. Ever.

I started asking around, and it turns out the man was known locally as “the Beast” a Haight-Asbur…