Pictures Of Record Stores!

japan!

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http://jaggedvisionszine.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/entrance-king-kong5.jpg

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http://earconditioning.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/record-store.jpg

is that the first Earth record in the third shot?

yikes, this would take all day!

http://abrooklynlife.com/photos/uncategorized/recordstore.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.digitalcity.com/media/2009/08/vinylrecordday.jpg

holy shit i'm going to wisconsin!

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is that you in that picture?

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none of these picture are me!

i thought that one with the dude way in the background might have been you. you never know.

http://www.metalkult.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/zig-zag.jpg

yay, my store!

http://strangelightradio.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/recordshelves.jpg

http://blog.nj.com/2days/2009/04/medium_records.jpg

:D

by7on c8ley bought rekkerds from me today which was cool cuz i figured he already had every rekkerd. it's like a geek stamp of approval.

http://torontoist.com/attachments/NicoleVilleneuve/20090417recordstoreday.jpg

lol, are you gonna tell us what he bought?

NSFW
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NSFW

he bought tommy hoehn's first album from me. madura double album. um, other stuff, but i forget most of it. nasmak album. always wondered who would buy that. good record. dutch post punk. factory-aping band.

This is going to be my all-time favorite thread I can tell already.

where in wisconsin are those pictures from?

is that last picture cheapo in minneapolis?

also, scott, your store looks like a converted junior high school library. i mean that as a compliment.

are videos okay?

here is my bro's (named gr80 lol) kinda newish shop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TUIFKJMfz8

90s psych trainspotters may recognize him from Monoshock, Liquorball and Sternklang.

The above video was shot by Ross Harris who, at age 10, played the kid Joey in the Airplane! film opposite Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Ross was also in some weird bands (Sukia, DJ Me DJ You, Beck, etc).

scott did you get that flight final at wfmu record show a couple of years ago by any chance?

isn't grady's record refuge in ventura, ca? i used to live there. record stores kinda sucked when i lived there. well, really, my taste kinda sucked too.

yeah, it's in the same spot as that other record store used to be... downtown, towards the mission on Main.

i lived there briefly. it was pretty strange. good waves though. awesome produce from the farmstands too.

where are you now YNF/GP2H? Pittsburgh right?

picture disc ceiling of Beanos in Croydon (RIP)
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me browsing in Lima, Peru:

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where are you now YNF/GP2H?

JERSEY. i miss ventura, though, it apparently became much cooler when i left. dunno if that's causality or coincidence.

oh and i'm pretty sure i went to grady's place before it was his, bought tonto's expanding head band there!

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colony used to intimidate the hell out of me when i was a little kid. much more than bleeker bobs ever did.

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I can't find pics of the record stores I went to as a young'un but I think you will recognize this one scott

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/p_cds_2_.jpg

wait steve shasta has a brother???

and the brother was in monoshock????

i think he means bro the way i mean bro when i am talking about you, pete ;)

scott, which wisconsin store is that?

went to grady's last month. didn't buy anything, didn't feel like dropping $$$ on anything, but it was dope.

what jordan said

xxxp LOL oh ok ok

didn't even know this board existed! hi guys

this is one of my fave stores in SF, although i haven't been in a long time. damn economy and unemployed wife :(

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Philly Record Exchange in Edward's pic?

grooves is tight, picked up a good live jim hall lp there and 'miles in the sky'. fair prices, great place to dig.

yup

xp

hey jaxon if you wanna go to groove after work sometime, hit me up on the ol f-book

grooves

philly record exchange was so much better when the rock and jazz were in separate buildings. used to be a top spot for scoring blackjack label stuff for $5 or less each. now it's like... i don't know, just people walking in and walking out emptyhanded, employees downloading shit from mutant sounds and cranking it, $10 used jag panzer cds.

this thread is to my broke ass like a thread full of pictures of juicy steaks to a dude who became a vegan because his girlfriend wanted him to.

this was my favourite record shop for many years, but you can't see much in this jpg

loved their 6 for $10 room

"scott, which wisconsin store is that?"

i dunno anymore. i was just GISing record stores.

scott, check your e-mail. playdate action in half hour if possible. sorry to use this board for this, skot doesn't have his phone on him.

a playdate for me? sounds intriguing...

haaaaa

Macau (Aug 2008):

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macao huh. are all those Lps water damaged?
i remember going to a record store in hawaii, and everything was really soggy.

how do you even begin to pick out records at shop like that in macau? covers exlcusively?

yeah, just went by covers/years

most were in OK shape, none were minty or anything.

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Customers in the 'Record Joint' in Progress Plaza. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. March 14th, 1975.

definitely WS material.

puttin' the needle down on 'That's The Way of The World', always a good choice

http://torontoist.com/attachments/NicoleVilleneuve/20090417recordstoreday.jpg

Amazed I didn't recognize this before, but I've frequented this store before, even walked by it today. Good old Sonic Boom (and incidentally I saw Sonic Boom himself perform in this very room).
Funnily enough it's kind of meh for vinyl, but (as that's just the basement) the warehouse sized upstairs is a goldmine for CDs.

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okay i have to admit it i am kinda the king of playing stuff in my store that i don't want to sell. i'm sorry.

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i cringe every time i hear: "is this for sale?"

so my new policy will be to only play store stock. okay?

its just that sometimes i need to hear something....

i have that problem a lot too.
sometimes i don;t know i want something until it's playing! and then i'm afraid someone else will want it.

where is your store Scott?

greenfield, massachusetts.

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lovely

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local, uh, pennysaver? circular? they keep calling the store joe doe.

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they call you and say hey we want to interview you for a cover. and then the next day someone else calls you and says hey you should take out an ad! veeeeeery sneaky. got lots of love for the town crier. and joe doe is a pretty catchy name.

funny to me that they have never heard the phrase john doe. They're ostensibly a newspaper!

This is Jerry's records in Pittsburgh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tera/6444962891/
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let me try that again
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a few more favorites in baltimore
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Didn't know this thread existed--I think I may have linked to this on another thread a year or two ago, photos I took of where some well-known Toronto record stores used to be located, plus where a couple still are.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/records-stores.html

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ My only recollection of visiting Toronto as a child one night was a record store with this huge three-story-tall glowing neon record above the entry doors, but I couldn't remember the name. Glad to see Sam The Record Man is still around....

Err... I have some not good news for Does anyone have pictures of extinct toronto record stores, of any variety. Totally get off on those (mournful nostalgia for something I never experienced - though I did get some stuff at the queen and portland cd cat when I was 8)

I took those picture seven or eight years ago--Sam's closed down in 2007. (They'd declared bankruptcy in 2001 but managed to limp along for a few more years.) It was a huge story here, Toronto's equivalent of the closing of CBGB's. I wish I could link to the Goin' Down the Road segment set inside the store--it was up on YouTube for a while--but here's something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Record_Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlTVWqwuGaI&feature=related

Aah, bummer..... but it's great seeing that video. I have very few memories from that long ago, and this was one of those vague recollections that seems so unlikely i'm not sure if it really happened or was there unless i see it again. It was late night - that's the other thing I remember because I was from the US burbs where everything was closed by 9:00pm and I'd never been anywhere where the stores and restaurants were still open til late night, and I was walking on that side of the street walking into the store, too close to see what was directly above, so someone pulled me aside to step back and look up at the sign. For some reason I only remember one spinning record and it being red rather than white, but otherwise it's exactly as I recalled.

Wow, what I'd give to have brick-and-mortar store with 400,000 new vinyl wafers to choose from nowadays....

i never knew this place as anything other than an over priced tourist trap, but bye bye bleeker bob's
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/nyregion/two-new-york-musical-mainstays-are-soon-to-tune-out.html?_r=1

yeah my facebook was all atwitter about that a week or two ago. i haven't been there since the 80's. but i always bought stuff there back then. and unlike a lot of people's experiences, they were never mean to me or anything.

did they have the mean reputation back in the glory days? always assumed that was a more recent development.

bob's is the site where, in the late 1990s, i overheard the most hilarious conversation i have ever heard, between a customer and the guy working the counter. not hilarious like "listen to these bozos" more like, some kind of amazing extended marx bros. riffing. i just stood there in awe. (naturally, i didn't buy anything. did anyone buy anything at bob's?)

i bought some old punk singles there last summer. wasn't all that great but definitely a bummer that it's closing

Isn't Bleecker Bob's where Newman and Kramer take their records on that Seinfeld episode? Wish I could say I'd gotten there, although I sense it's too pricey for me.

i posted this on ilm but i should post it here too. my very first youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_0oCtgrVUI8

Blimey.

http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2014/08/movie-of-week-tower-records-1971.html

korla pandit!