NYC'ers: Favorite Long Gone Record Shops

Their selection's not that great... they stock an impressive number of genres but they don't have nearly enough room to fill those bins with comprehensive discographies. I never find what I want there; I almost always find what I'm looking for at Kim's.

not to mention SOOOO overpriced

Nice t-shirt selection there, though.

good used selection though. a pretty comprehensive selection of vinyl, lots of good used CDs, and most of the people who work there are pretty nice. i couldn't handle it though. having my life threatened by some crackhead with a bag full of stolen DVD box sets from the Wiz is not my idea of gainful employment.

halcyon now and again has some good stuff, it's around the corner from my place so what can you do. except not pay $3.50 for a fucking cup of coffee there! i found the klein+MBO album there at a sidewalk sale for 50 cents once (unbelievable that they didn't know what it was...), as well as the first american music club LP, a current 93 album and some other valuable jawns.

Re interning for Spin - I had the misfortune of calling for an internship at the exact moment it almost went out of business in the late '80s. I got told off by Roberta Bayley on the phone. Too bad I had no idea who she was at the time.

Completely. My womb, my home. A cokehead named Albert took behind the counter there and gave me my first lessons in Jimmy Castor, electro, all of it. 83-85 esp. Golly wolly.

J&R Music World and Bondy's, both by City Hall when they had healthy 12-inch single sections. Especially J&R, the back room on the second floor.

99 was a great label but the store employees always gave me attitude (an dit was tiny!), like motherfucking Bleecker Bob's, still the standard for terrible record stores: stock all banged up, being sold by the rudest human beings imaginable.

Thank you, you're very sweet.

C.C. & Star on MacDougal Street was mentioned in a post here and I was wondering if anyone remembered the address, or maybe the nearest cross street? My cousin always talks about this place and remembers buying stuff there years ago. Thanks!

Another old time New York question: 1980 - 1981, small record store on (I think) the west side of 3rd Ave., south of 23rd St. New & used imports and bootlegs. Does anybody remember the name? It might have begun with a "W".

According to my insane spreadsheet of everything record I ever bought, on August 4, 1980, I bought Derek & Clive "Ad Nauseum," "The Secret Policeman's Ball - The Music," the Beatles Christmas Album and a couple of Pink Floyd and Who bootlegs.