Relatively Cheap Used Record Stores in NYC?

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My friend went down to TN for a week or two, and scored tons of great albums for an average price of about $3.50. Here in NYC pretty much every store I went to sells used records/CDs for like, $8 or so.. (and if you go to a shop like Gimmee Gimmee that specializes in used records, probably triple that).. are there any stores that have good stuff for around $3 or $4? I know Kim's has a $1 bin, but pretty much every record there is trash.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Thing

It's in Brooklyn.
1001 Manhattan ave
Like $2 records.

Don't. Tell. Anyone.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

You can find decent albums in the "unsorted" boxes at the Academy (19th St).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

>I know Kim's has a $1 bin, but pretty much every record there is trash. <

I used to think this (and said so a few times on ILM), too, but I'm not so sure anymore. I just found the first Nona Hendryx album (1977 major label black lesbian disco-leaning Labelle-member hard rock) and an early '80s Instant Funk LP and a Mighty Sparrow LP for 50 cents (not $1) each there this past Friday; would have paid 50 cents for Joe Ely's *Honky Tonk Masquerade* (which was right in front!) too, if I didn't already own a copy. Found a whole big pile of stuff there a few weeks ago (Hounds, Grupo Sportivo, Expose' 12" when they were still called Xposed, etc -- I posted the whole list somewhere on this board.) So Kim's doesn't bug me anywhere as much as it used to.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

what are these "great albums" you speak of? and how much do they differ from xhuxk's idea of same?

― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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