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Frankh 
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 Topic: Greatest record store of your youth?
Posted: December 03 2017 at 00:51 |
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Apex Records.
Charlie Brown, proprietor.
Corner of State Street and Broadway, now a Christian bookstore.
He it was who brought back from distant shores for me the likes of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno No Pussyfooting and Gentle Giant In A Glass House.
Great memories, thanks for the thread and bless you, Mr.Brown, wherever you may be now.
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MillsLayne
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Posted: December 02 2017 at 22:33 |
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The closest thing I had to a "record store" in Helena, Montana was a video rental store called Hastings. I guess they're kind of scattered (or were, might have all closed) across the country. They had a decent selection of music, video games and books and also movies. That was our hangout spot back in the day.
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The Stygian Heresy
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Posted: December 02 2017 at 21:48 |
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Hot Poop Records & Tapes in Walla Walla, WA. The owner is Jim McGuinn, very honest, very cool guy, never let me push the limits of my budget, knowing I was in high school. I wanted everything listed in those JEM Record catalogs (remember those?) from 77, 78, and 79.
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Posted: April 12 2013 at 19:17 |
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Drastic Plastic here in St.Catharines.
Pop-Tones in the late '80s was really good.
There was a place in Hamilton (which I forget) I used to get my Eloy. Even if he didn't want the stuff I brought in he'd still cut me some slack on what I bought.
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 23:03 |
 SoundscapeMN wrote:
Cheapo was and still is the best record store in Minnesota and possibly the Midwest US. The only store I've been to that I prefer is Amoeba Records, preferably the Northern California locations. |
The shops I used to frequent here in MN were Oar Folkjokeopus Hot Licks Northern Lights Optic Nerve Electric Fetus Roadrunner came later and actually had a Prog section. Midland Records was the one in my nearby suburban mall and where I have the most vivid memories of discovery in my 'tweens when I wandered away from my mom. I especially loved looking at the Frank Zappa records.
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SoundscapeMN
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 17:26 |
Cheapo was and still is the best record store in Minnesota and possibly the Midwest US. The only store I've been to that I prefer is Amoeba Records, preferably the Northern California locations.
I'm actually looking to publish an entry in my blog soon about my experience and ratings per say of Record Stores in Minnesota and where I've been to in other towns (not a ton). Hopefully have it published by Record Store Day, April 20th.
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 13:19 |
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There used to be 3 great shops in Middlesbrough back in the days of vinyl - Hamiltons, Alan Fearnley's and Austin's Records. Austin's didn't carry as much stock as the other 2 but he was a really nice guy who'd recommend and order stuff for you with a nice personal touch. Sadly, now all gone.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: March 24 2013 at 01:01 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Records On Wheels (Dundas, Mississauga) >> excellent recommandations
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Ah, was just going to mention that. I actually live near Dundas, stop down there all the time. The store owner, Mike's a big 70's Prog and Kraut guy, so he's got all that good stuff. That's usually where I get a lot of my music. We got some great one's in Downtown Hamilton as well - Doctor Disc, Cheapies. Looney Tunes in Burlington ain't bad either.
Edited by Fox On The Rocks - March 24 2013 at 01:03
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Chicapah
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 17:17 |
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When I was a teen there was a small, family-owned store in a strip center located about a quarter mile from my house. The older lady that was there the most often was knowledgeable about all kinds of genres and I'd have many intelligent discussions about rock & roll groups with her. They had a "listening booth" that allowed me to check out singles from unknown bands and I just remember it as being a special, relaxed place where I could indulge in my fascination with music at leisure. Too bad places like that are gone forevermore.
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 15:10 |
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Yeah, we had a head shop/record store in business for a little while down here. I'll get back to you when I remember the name.
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 11:25 |
When I was a teenager there weren't any 'record shops' per se....but at college in '69 at IU Bloomington IN there was a place called Karma records that was decent and plenty of 'head shops' that also carried vinyl and back home in northern Indiana there was a hole in the wall called Hegwish Records that had a decent collection of import vinyl. Some one mentioned Vintage Vinyl in Evanston IL...been there a few times and there is a really neat place in Minneapolis called The Electric Fetus which I visited when my daughter lived in town.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 10:44 |
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The go to place for used stuff was Wax 'n' Facts. I built up most of my prog collection back in the day on $2 singles and $3 doubles. Turtles was the go to place for new vinyl. Moving on to the CD age, you couldn't beat Tower Records.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 17 2013 at 06:38 |
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I'll speak only of Toronto in the early 80's and late 70's (in my teens, rather than "youth")..; I did visit Montreal and Brussels, but had no fave hang-outs
My fave hang-out was Vortex Records (College & Jarvis)... a fantastic second-hand shop with excellent prizes for VG++ or mints >> still exists, but on Yonge & Eglinton
Record Peddler (Queen East and Jarvis) >> best (and one of three) import shop ... but expensive as hell
Vinyl Museum (Yonge and Dundas) way toooooo expensive (location) and not always VG++ for the price... but the choice...
Records On Wheels (Dundas, Mississauga) >> excellent recommandations
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In Brussels, I've lost my three or four faves over the last five or six years... Music Emporium, Music United, Music Room and Metrophone
But two shops still hve survived ....Veals & Geeks (a new arriver on the scene) and Caroline Records
Edited by Sean Trane - March 17 2013 at 06:52
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prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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as well as a thinker,
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moshkito
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Posted: March 16 2013 at 11:51 |
Hi, More than one! Moby Disk in Van Nuys in the earliest days before it moved to the other side of 101 on Ventura Blvd ... in the LA area. There is no 2nd! Other great ones: The Warehouse - in Westwood (LA). Had 2 or 3 floors of music ... can't remember now, and it specialized in Classical, Jazz and anything but rock music. You could get the soundtrack to your bathroom if you needed it! Rasputin Records in Berkeley. The biggest and the best insanity ever. And it was so big that they split the jazz classical into another store. Best used bins ever! All of these in California, btw. Portland, these days, has Everyday Music, which is not bad, and you can get some used stuff, but its organizational side is really poor all around, as they have a huge section at the front that has supposedly newer stuff, and it's all duplicates and crap! Not sure I would do that to my store, and place the more attractive stuff at the front, not the back! But their folks there, are not very intelligent in terms of the music, or when you bring in your old LP's ... and they only want to give you 50 cents for it! I played this game a bit, and brought in Hawkwind's Space Ritual on the double cover foldout and asked how much ... and the guy said $1.50 ... and I told him he was an idiot ... look up the internet ... how much those double ups go for! He was just being his jerk'y self! Never been in NY, but can't imagine NY not having a great store. They certainly do not ahve any shortage of distributors! AND, please remember that in those days, these things were "IMPORTS", and not known as "progressive".
Edited by moshkito - March 16 2013 at 12:00
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Posted: March 14 2013 at 09:15 |
Jim Garten wrote:
And of all of them, Virgin, HMV, Our Price, Tower, Harum, Harlequin...
...only HMV remains (and that's only just) |
...and HMV is a sad and sorry place.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 14 2013 at 08:23 |
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And of all of them, Virgin, HMV, Our Price, Tower, Harum, Harlequin...
...only HMV remains (and that's only just)
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Dean
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Posted: March 14 2013 at 08:15 |
Jim Garten wrote:
The one we went to must've been just after the Megastore opened  |
We used to make Saturday excursions by train from Bedford just to visit Virgin and HMV on Oxford Street and that was prior to the Megastore opening. ..and much later of course Tower Records at Piccalilli circus (anywhere that had a seperate "Goth" section was okay by me).
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Jim Garten
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Posted: March 14 2013 at 07:52 |
^^^ I now have the song running around in my head 
Dean wrote:
I remember when Virgin was a tiny shop on Oxford Street, I seem to recall it was upstairs above another shop, but I could be wrong |
The one we went to must've been just after the Megastore opened
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Ajay
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Posted: March 14 2013 at 06:24 |
Jim Garten wrote:
Back in Potters Bar, where I grew up, there was a music shop called Delmars which sold instruments & singles (no albums); I believe this was where at age 7 I bought my first ever single (Monster Mash by the Crypt Kicker Five). |
 My brother and I bought the Monster Mash album from a remainder bin outside a store one Saturday morning. I played it so often, I must have worn an extra groove in it. Even now, when I walk into a room and find myself asking, "Now why did I come in here again?," I can remember every bloody word of that song. I liked your telling very much, btw.
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Ady Cardiac
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Posted: March 14 2013 at 06:08 |
manic hedgehog down cowley road in oxford circa late '80's........even though at the time i was working in our price records i used to pop in on my day off.....the guy who worked there got me into the pixies and cocteau twins.....pretty much anything on 4AD records......used to always leave with some records.
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