How many SFers enjoy visiting the local record stores?

[Artisan Fan]

Originally Posted by romafan

This sentence frag is a beauty!

I love(d?

) record stores but I fear they won't be around in a couple of years.

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It's rather anglocentric, but still a nice read....

Looks like a cool book Roma. Thanks I will check it out.

Yes, I slipped into record engineering speak.

 

[robbie]

My tastes, and purchases are minimal and tame... but given the time and money I could spend an entire day @ Size Records back home in OKC.

I'd hate to think what I'd do if I lived near an Amoeba, or in Austin.

-rF

 

[Big Pun]

I stop by the Electric Fetus whenever I'm in the area.

 

[Artisan Fan]

Originally Posted by robbie

My tastes, and purchases are minimal and tame... but given the time and money I could spend an entire day @ Size Records back home in OKC.

I'd hate to think what I'd do if I lived near an Amoeba, or in Austin.

-rF

Waterloo Records in Austin is pretty good.

 

[Andrewc2232]

I do whenever I can. Unfortunately, there aren't too record many stores down here in my slice of America.

I've got Goner and Shangri-La an hour away in Memphis, but that's about it.

I agree with you about the general record shopping experience, though. It seems like both shoppers and employees at a record store are an order of magnitude more polite and helpful than most. It's almost as if everyone in the store knows they are members of a fragile and failing club. Rising record sales notwithstanding.

I was at Pitchfork in Chicago a couple weeks ago, and there was a large tent set up with quite a few record vendors--both used and new pressings from smaller labels. It was a blast looking through everything. There really isn't any digital/CD/iTunes equivalent to flipping the next record forward and seeing behind it an album you've been looking for forever.

 

[MrG]

I try to do a lot of my music shopping at local record stores, especially for vinyl. Athens being a college town, we have a couple of decent ones. My personal favorite is Wuxtry, at least partially because it's where Michael Stipe met Peter Buck.

 

[Teacher]

I'm lucky enough to still have a pretty good one here in town. They have (relatively) lots of rarer and used items, so it's good for us music lovers. I don't know how long they'll last, though.

Originally Posted by fredfred

Not sure if you are still in NYC... but Tower Records (village and union square) are gone.

Holy crap...TOWER is gone???

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by Big Pun

I stop by the Electric Fetus whenever I'm in the area.

Which one? Minneapolis? I'm glad they're still open. I hear Orjomorphipus (sp?) is gone, though.

 

[Big Pun]

Yep. St. Cloud location too.

 

[sho'nuff]

what happened to those Blockbuster Music i think they were called where you can go in and peruse and just ask them to rip open up any cd so you can play it as many times as you want, then they place it back into the cd case and then sell it to someone else as brand new??

those were the bomb.

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by Big Pun

Yep. St. Cloud location too.

I didn't know they had one in St. Cloud. I'll be there in a month visiting a friend (we'll be going to Weird Al in St. Paul). I'll have to check it out.

 

[chorse123]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

what happened to those Blockbuster Music i think they were called where you can go in and peruse and just ask them to rip open up any cd so you can play it as many times as you want, then they place it back into the cd case and then sell it to someone else as brand new??

those were the bomb.

Gee, how could they ever have gone out of business?

 

[Thomas]

Jeebus, I don't think I've been in a proper record store, with a good selection, in...years. Soundwaves was pretty nifty, back when I lived in that part of town, but now it's a damn commute to get there.

Last record store I was in was that used disc shop in Notting Hill, London, specializing in classical.

 

[sho'nuff]

Originally Posted by chorse123

Gee, how could they ever have gone out of business?

yeah. and i was being tongue in cheek.

 

[coachvu]

I go to them all in the time. I like several of the Newbury Comics locations in MA as well as Stereo Jacks in Cambridge, Amoeba Records in SF, Grimey's in Nashville, just to name some of my favorites.