― g, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
In twenty years, when me knees finally give in, I will be able to blame Car City. I've spent plenty of time on my fucking knees while digging through their discounted used section. Biggest score had to be the reissues of the first six Durutti Column records at $4 a pop (cheaper than any Bloodrock vinyl!). Otherwise not the funnest place to navigate.
― Andy K, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Nope, the movie's fictional record store, Championship Vinyl, was located in a space at Honore and Milwaukee, in Wicker Park. The space has remained vacant since the shoot.
Vintage Vinyl in Evanston has some nice stuff occasionally (albeit at sky-high prices), but the older guy who works there is a total jerk.
― Andy, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The Wicker Park continuity was mostly maintained throughout the movie, although there's one bizarre moment where Cusack is riding the Blue Line train, then all of a sudden is on the Red Line, up by Graceland Cemetary.
Continuity or not, it was a lousy film, but that's another thread, probably.
As far as MI goes, Record Time and Wazoo are also great, though I find the quality of the stuff at Desirable Discs has really went downhill in the past couple of years. Dearborn Music has been surprisingly good at having some really great stuff in their used section, lots of brand new releases and really eclectic stuff.
I'm actually glad I don't live in SF, because I would be destitute from spending my paycheck at Amoeba. I'd love to go back there one day.
― Nicole, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Dans la mason in Halifax, Sams The Record Man on Barrington is perhaps your best bet as is the Urban Sound Exchange next door. The Sams features past heroes from the pop exlposion and has No Distribution renting out its upstairs office space. Blastoff in Moncton was the coolest store on the east coast but went belly up this year, sigh.
― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Gaslight??? You've got to be joking. It's an awful, awful store. They never have what I want and when they do it's woefully overpriced.
The best stores of all are Dixons Recycled. Ohhh Second-hand CDs *drool*
― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Those other stores you mentioned are good though. Also quality: Raoul in St. Kilda for a usually smashing selection of second- hand quite-recent releases; Collector's Corner on Swanston St for likewise and new dedicated dance section (I picked up "Monster Movie" for ten dollars there last week); Greville Records for their general coolness and JB Hifi for the cheapest non- second hand stuff anywhere.
― Tim, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Almost nowhere takes secondhand CD singles anymore. Not surprising really, since whenever I go through the secondhand CD singles I look through about 300 before finding one I'd even consider buying.
I'd also forgotten about Raoul - and it's just round the corner from my house too. I'm off there after work.
― electric sound of jim, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And another one: These Records, in London. It is bizarre, and you have to know EXACTLY where it is and when it's open (it's not visible from the street, and keeps weird hours), but they have lots of things I've never seen anywhere else.
― Douglas, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in montreal, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― katE, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― adam, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― al, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
((still kicking myself for giving my copy of 'tony fletcher...' to a long-since-ex boyfriend...i got it at the old vinyl sol))
alas, now i am in saginaw mich and must travel for such things.
s.
― strawberry girl, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Curt, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
There's nothing quite Amoeba-sized up here, but the closest store that comes to that is probably Zulu records in Vancouver, BC. Otherwise, most stores in the Northwest are a mish-mash of small stores.. and I kinda like it that way. I'd hate to have to see the same exact store every time I had the urge to shop, even if I wanted to dwell into a different genre.
Seattle has the following:
― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― pnewsome, Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 1 February 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 1 February 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 1 February 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link
Pooly stocked in some categories (especially electronic/dance). Surprisingly well stocked in contemporary classical, I'll give them that!
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 1 February 2004 21:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 1 February 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
As for decent places, Probe in Liverpool is good but not as good as i used to think. Also, Concepts in Durham will always hold a special place in my heart.
― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 2 February 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
(Oops, way off-topic! You can track me down through my ILX "user info" page if you ever want to hear the whole story...)
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 2 February 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Monday, 2 February 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago) link
― svend, Monday, 2 February 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
I'm also fond of Other Music and Mondo Kim's, even though the staff there is probably the least friendly I've ever come across.
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
I'm not its biggest fan, sadly. But the Brazilian sandwich guy is a riot.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 2 February 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 February 2004 04:36 (twenty years ago) link
I have also been to Lou's and Off the Record in San Diego. Nice stores.
― Jean Cinsten, Monday, 30 August 2004 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link
*bump*
this thread is almost certainly due for an update.
anyplaces in portland, oregon? i know of jackpot and ozone....any others i should look into?
― drone/a/sore, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Mississippi and Discourage.
― ian, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Twisted Village, Cambridge, Mass.!
― henry s, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
are you looking for vinyl in Portland? If so you should got to Crossroads (it's on Hawthorne, forgot the cross street, but maybe 3-4 blocks west of the jackpot etc. over there). It's a building that houses a bunch of different vendors. This means there are like 30 separate sections to check for any genre, and condition and pricing vary. Some vendors have awesome stuff that's cheap, some have awesome stuff that's expensive, and some have regular stuff that's overpriced. Towards the front though there's a section that someone has for prog/psych/new agey stuff that's great. I've always found some cool stuff there, generally for $5-$10 (Steve Hillage, Curved Air, Tangerine Dream kinda stuff).
― altair nouveau, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20pU6MoJSBY
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 16 October 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
record store lolz
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/every_crate_diggers_nightmare_record_store_has_whipped_cream_and_other
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
my kid put me on the instagram!
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https://www.instagram.com/johndoejrrecords/?hl=en
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 November 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Nice to see King Crimson
― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
Fantastic.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
*drools*
scott do you ever sell on discogs/musicstack or anything?
― brimstead, Saturday, 11 November 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
my home away from home.
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― scott seward, Sunday, 20 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
beautiful
― niels, Monday, 21 May 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
yeah, that looks lovely
― chant down basildon (NickB), Monday, 21 May 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
my summer record store look...
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― scott seward, Saturday, 26 May 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.yuppiegadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gnome-Light-Blue.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
https://ktla.com/2019/06/25/amoeba-music-set-to-be-torn-down-replaced-with-complex-after-l-a-council-votes-to-approve-zoning-changes/
i haven't been in years but i spent a lot of hours there .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
We only have ourselves to blame
― calstars, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
it'll be opening in another spot in Hollywood somewhere but i'm sure they'll be gone for a few months at least while setting up.
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
Oh I didn’t know that! Have to make a point to get out there and check out the new digs when it’s done.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
There will reportedly be weed, if that’s yr bag
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
no idea where it will be located but i feel like it's gotta be pretty close to that. they just need to find another sizable place with a decent lot.
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
Was always a bit miffed that Tower and allsuch stores went bust but Amoeba was able to have such prominent real estate. The vinyl heads tend to more trade in than put in. My guess is Eagle Rock, over on whatever that main drag is. Yorke. Havent lived there for years but remember lots of tenants splitting on the raising rent.
― 57mg/20floz, Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
All the (5?) Dimple records locations are closing in SacramentoThey all kinda sucked for music anyway
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
You may have heard something about the future of Amoeba in LA. Rest assured, we are NOT closing. We are planning to move to a new space in Hollywood in about another year and will let everyone know when we have news to share.Please read our full update: https://t.co/8GdZmJbUTk pic.twitter.com/gNCxEAda3Z— Amoeba Music (@amoebamusic) June 26, 2019
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
Chicago folx — a friend’s brother recently opened this store in the Portage Park neighborhood: https://www.facebook.com/tonedeafrecschicago/Check it out if you’re so inclined
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Saturday, 29 June 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Warren from Little Ax in Portland OR has moved to the city next door to me in Springfield and opened a store there, supposedly tons of African records but I have yet to make it in.
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Saturday, 29 June 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link