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JD
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SAM the Record Man Edited by JD - September 01 2021 at 14:23 |
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verslibre
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This was most of the main floor of Amoeba Records, Hollywood (original location). You can see the entrance (bluish hue) to the room with jazz, classical and film scores. Upstairs was the video room.
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Catcher10
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Yes but it's all krapp CDs......LOL.....Records/LPs rule!!
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verslibre
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"Most" of the main floor...you can't see the vinyl! Hey, man, some of us (still) buy CDs!
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Catcher10
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I've been to Amoeba in LA several times, great store and lots of musical memorabilia. They do have a good LP section and some nice used records too.
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PhideauxFan
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In France: for "progressive" music at Cosmos Music since 2007 (before it was at Shop 33) and for hard-rock/heavy-metal and post-rock at the Metallian Store since 2018. And sometimes at the Fnac (5 km from my house) for other styles of music.
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Catcher10
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This has been my go to place for the past 10yrs in Tacoma. Originally was a small store barely 20' wide by maybe 30' long, owner (Brian) moved to this new larger building about 4yrs ago. The floor space is 95% LPs, the other 5% is CDs and the growing section of cassettes. He also has some DVD/VHS video section......Pretty much every genre is offered. Plus he offers a frequent buy card, fill the card and you get a 20% discount, takes about $150 to fill the stamp card.....I've lost count haw many cards I've filled up.
His business has grown so much that he now has 4 employees. When I first started shopping here it was usually the owner there behind the counter, I have only seen him twice at the store in the last year.
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Rednight
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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scaudill
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Just discovered a place in Knoxville - McKay Used Books & CDs. Decent amount of vinyl and CD's. Was there last weekend and the place was hopping.
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Sean Trane
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MMmmhhh!!!!... methinks this photo is dating of the 90's (or later), which probably means the place was renovated after I crossed back the pond (very early 90's). I mean, I frequented STRM and ROW on Yonge Street weekly and this pic is nothing like my memories of the 70/80's.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
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dr wu23
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Used to shop here several times a year when my daughter lived there and we visited.
www.electricfetus.com Edited by dr wu23 - September 15 2021 at 21:20 |
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Catcher10
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Yea he should have changed it to a black and white photo, that would have been better....
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JD
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Hope this is better for you. The colour one was the south side of the store if I recall. Edited by JD - September 16 2021 at 14:20 |
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SteveG
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Well, let's see. I bought my first wax cylinder from Thomas Edison's place back in 1909. After that, it's pretty much a blur.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Now that's a record store!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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fredyair
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Directly from the artist when possible otherwise I use Amazon, there are no record stores nearby.
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Long live Progresive music!
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zwordser
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I mostly get digital downloads from Bandcamp. (Used to get quite a lot from Amazon, but I'm more into supporting smaller operations nowadays--so I'll be checking out some more listed here). And, I've downloaded some stuff off of Youtube, but usually only do that
for sample tracks (such as when I've put together a themed radio
program, and I'm missing a track or two I might want to play, or that
got requested, and for some reason I don't otherwise have the track
immediately available). As for CD's: all over the place! About a third of my collection is just from thrift shops; mostly albums that are/were popular and that I'd like having, but I'm not usually directly looking for. So, for example, pretty much ALL of my Tori Amos collection came from thrift shops (because she was hugely popular in the 90's-2000's, and you can almost always find at least one or more of her albums at any given time at a big thrift outlet like Goodwill in the US). Very rarely, I'll find some "hidden Gem" at a thrift store-- always fun to find them (eg. found about half my Zappa CDs that way) but doesn't happen very often. Probably about a 1/4 of my best prog CD's came from Amoeba music in San Fran and Berkely, where I always like to visit whenever I'm in the Bay area. |
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TheEliteExtremophile
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I buy most of my music--both digital and physical--through Bandcamp nowadays. In fact, Bandcamp is just about the only way I'll purchase digital music, since it's so artist-friendly. I haven't bought a CD outside of a concert in quite a while. But if I'm at a local show and a band has a CD, I'll happily toss them a few bucks for it. For LPs, I've got a few locations: Bandcamp, as mentioned above. Live shows is less frequent but not uncommon. I don't have any big-name shows on my calendar at the moment (mostly just local metal stuff), but I've bought my fair share of records at shows. Discogs is great for harder-to-find or older stuff, though the shipping can occasionally be pretty expensive. For physical record stores, my favorites in Seattle are Sonic Boom, Zion's Gate, Neptune Music Co, Daybreak Records, Fat Cat Records, and Jive Time Records. In Portland, my favorite is Music Millennium (though I am disappointed they folded their prog/psych section into the larger rock section some time between 2019 and this year), and Everyday Music is great too.
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Boojieboy
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I went from entirely in-store purchases of vinyl (70s-80s-early 90s), to in-store purchases of 50% CDs / 50% vinyl (mid-90s to early 2000s) due to lack of CD releases at the time, to now 100% online purchases of CDs only. So glad were at such a very high release rate on CD (maybe 95%), though there are still some only released on vinyl and cassette.
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