NYC'ers: Favorite Long Gone Record Shops

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99 Records thirded - I only went there once or twice in its waning days, but scored a bunch of my Rough Trade collection there. And I too grieve for Pier Platters, really more than any other defunct record store in the NYC area.

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.

― mike a (mike a), Sunday, 6 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Downtown Records. They moved once (to 26th, west of 6th Ave, up some stairs, stuck in amongst the the flower shops and garden stores) and now they've moved again but I don't know where to."

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.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I second Sasha's Bleeker experience. What assholes. That whole area though - Second Coming, Generation, Bleeker Bob's - always seemed pretty metal to me. Scored Lamb of God and Sunn0)) stuff there, but rarely made the trip unless I needed something from Fat Beats or Grays Papaya.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Generation has very rockin' used CD's downstairs. You can look in oddball sections and come up with some cheap gold (good industrial and black metal especially). Aside from the now-closed Sound & Fury, Generation is the only Village store that really ventures out to get great underground thrash/screamo/punk, and usually also gets a lot of new metal stuff you won't see in other stores, though flipping thru' em can be a daunting experience.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good riddance to indie dorks at Sound and Fury.

Thank you, you're very sweet.

― die9o (dhadis), Monday, 7 April 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

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!

― danm, Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link

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.

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 1 January 2017 05:33 (seven years ago) link

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