NYC'ers: Favorite Long Gone Record Shops

But what was the name of this place?!

Sounds on St Mark's, when it was on the south side of the street.

Are Record Runner and Rebel Rebel still there? When I was a SPINtern my job was to go out on Friday and buy the British papers and style mags, then come back and (not my job, strictly) swat Bob Jr. with rolled-up copy of NME.

Record Runner and Rebel Rebel are both still there. The former isn't doing quite as well as the latter.

I interned at SPIN in the summer of `89, Suzy...when did you?

Bob Jr: template for James 'Loaded' Brown.

Also, as a last stop kinda place, the recently closed place on Orchard...what was it? sort of an indie / emo type place. Fuck, what was the name? Oh yeah, Sound and Fury. That one was ok.

Gimme Gimme still rules. Do yall know that one?

99 was also a boutique. This English girl named Gina split off from Manic Panic and Tish & Snooky and hooked up with the Ed and Bill Bahlman to start 99. She handled the clothes. I mainly remember buying British imports there. It was the hippest store in NY when I moved there in the fall of '79. And a fun place to hang out. It's where I got Metal Box and Cut.

Then there are the stores I can't remember the names of. What was the super-indie store from the mid-90s on Ave. A between 4th and 5th? Was that Adult Crash, Roger? And what was the little shithole on Ave A just north of St. Mark's Pl. that was run by an obnoxious old punk rocker? I think he was more of a heroin dealer than a record store owner, but he had lots of great old singles. How about the sort of jazzy/post-punk place just off the Bowery on maybe 5th or 6th Street? And there was another mid-90s super-indie store on 6th Avenue and Houston. They seemed very big on Teenbeat.

And can anyone tell me if Midnight Records on 23rd Street is still around? Or Finyl Vinyl on, I think, 6th St. between 2nd & 3rd? Rocket Scientist closed, right? Too bad, I liked the people at that store. There was a used store called Brigade on Houston that was run by these Russian guys who would give me a couple of dollars for every used CD I brought in, no matter what it was. I used to bring in all these CDs that were up for grabs in the hallways of Sony when I temped there and bring them in and make a bundle.

Adult Crash

I'm getting pictures of several dozen stores, only three of four or which can I name. I really need to get back to NY.

Village Oldies had its moments, and rare ORK releases until it closed.

No one should ever forget the Rat Cage, which was under 171 Avenue A.

Good riddance to indie dorks at Sound and Fury.

V

Other Music = SOOOO overrated and SOOOOO elitist.

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.