Record Stores...

[david_b]

I MISS the record stores.. 1812 Overture Records and Tapes..

Not retail stores, mind you, but specifically the 'Record Store'..

They had such a personality to them, some were ultra-cool, some not.

I just miss all the cool covers, the best of which I still have in my possession and frame.

I can't wait to get back home and put up the Beatles 'White Album' Poster again..

Record Stores were the greatest..

[SeattleEd]

Plenty of record stores in Seattle. The two big ones are Easy Street and Sonic Boom. Silver Platter, Cellophane Square, Bop Street, Second Time Around, Everyday Music and Groove Time. Also the Audiophile boutiques in the University District. Yes all these places carry brand new vinyl and vinyl is huge up here. Just like in L.A. I went to visit back in L.A. and there are so many record stores now though but sad Tower is gone. I miss the Tower on the Sunset Strip. Is it still there. I didn't go last time I went to L.A. Also run out of time.
When I grew up in L.A. I stuck to shops on Hollywood Blvd like Peaches and Melrose like Aarons, Rene's, Vinyl Fetish and Bleeker Bob's. Also in the valley like Poobahs and Neils out in Pasadena/Glendale and Licorice Pizza, Music Trader and Moby Discs in the San Fernando Valley.

I do miss record stores and more so the ones that had posters and colored vinyl all over the walls with incense burning and great music playing.
I still collect records but mostly from rare ones from ebay or specialty shops online. As for new albums I go to Easy Street. They have a killer selection and have a great buyer.

[Mikey]

I still remember the first record album I ever bought by myself with my own money ... The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks

[toys2cool]

Growing up in Miami, I practically lived at the Sam Goodies in the Grove, Specs at Miracle Center or the Peaches on US1.

man i use to go to all of those

and the specs at Mall of the Americas or if you were old school Miami (Midway mall)

[cjefferys]

I was never a big album buyer but I loved 45's. I used to go to the Record Theater (in Buffalo) all the time. They had a HUGE oldies 45 section and a big out-of-print section as well. If you bought 5 or 6 at one time you got a discount so I always made multiple purchases. Plus they had these stamps that you collected and filled in a booklet (I think it was 1 stamp for every dollar you spent) and when you filled the book it was good for $5 off a purchase. Kind of like Green Stamps. I also remember shopping for records at Cavages.
I still play my records every so often. I was just listening to some 45's a couple weeks ago.

Rich

Oh man, I loved going to Record Theater in Buffalo, I went there all the time. They had a fantastic selection and I remember that big 7" singles section too. I probably still have a half filled book of stamps in a box somewhere too.

I also loved going to Toronto and visiting all of the record stores on Yonge Street (especially the iconic Sam the Record Man) and buying tons of stuff I couldn't find locally. I really miss those places.

I also frequently visited Poptones, in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Kind of a head shop, selling t-shirts and various drug paraphernalia, but I went there for their great selection of vinyl, including tons of imports and bootlegs. I bought a lot of metal and punk records there, and they always had very interesting stuff playing on the store's stereo.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Yeah, growing up there was a huge Peaches and a place called Waxie Maxies. I used to get 45's all the time. Look at the top 100 lists. All of that fun stuff. One could argue that surfing online for a song to download is the same, but the difference is the social interaction. There is no "dude behind the counter" at itunes

[LadyZod]

Growing up in Miami, I practically lived at the Sam Goodies in the Grove, Specs at Miracle Center or the Peaches on US1.

Nowadays my choices are limited to Best Buy or FYE.... and since FYE just closed up their doors, and the closest Best Buy is in Orlando, Sarasota, or Lakeland... well my choices are ultra limited. But that's ok. Today's music is crap

Actually we usually go to Rock and Roll Heaven in Orlando, an independent RECORD store. Yes... VINYL RECORDS. Not just old stuff either, current releases on vinyl too.

[The Toyroom]

God I wish this stuff came back with a vengeance....The last record store we had was Record Giant over 15 years ago and even then it was a mis-nomer because they were all CDs. The Last Unicorn kicked around for a while but it was used 45s/LPs and eventually used CDs. Can't even find decent stuff and garage sales anymore....

[ctc]

>Anyone miss the days of going out to buy Records, Cds, Tapes, etc.

Still go. We have a Doctor Disk here in Windsor, and they stock all sorts of stuff you can't find anywhere else.

Don C.

[kryptosmaster]

I was never a big album buyer but I loved 45's. I used to go to the Record Theater (in Buffalo) all the time. They had a HUGE oldies 45 section and a big out-of-print section as well. If you bought 5 or 6 at one time you got a discount so I always made multiple purchases. Plus they had these stamps that you collected and filled in a booklet (I think it was 1 stamp for every dollar you spent) and when you filled the book it was good for $5 off a purchase. Kind of like Green Stamps. I also remember shopping for records at Cavages.
I still play my records every so often. I was just listening to some 45's a couple weeks ago.

Rich

[toys2cool]

I miss them a lot. We had a big one where I grew up in Ft Lauderdale, Peaches records and tapes. It was huge and you spend hours in there. Not metion the one that were head shops also.

I remember Peaches

I use to live in Specs

[Mikey]

My local independent record store was called Country Pie

Man they were sweet.

They used to do free sidewalk live concerts every Saturday night during the summer months.

The bands they'd get were local, but good.

Besides also specializing in new and old out of print records, they'd also carry fun record industy promo items.

They folded up about a year after the new mall came to town which had Sam Goodie and The Wall

I miss that ole place ... Used to be my regular hangout on Sat nights.

[HardyGirl]

I really miss them too. I remember going out after school every Friday w/ my friend John to buy records. I also miss 45s. If you didn't wanna buy the whole album, or sometimes the 45 would come out before the album so you could get a taste of what the sound was like. Yeah...and getting premiums in the records like posters, or iron-ons, or bookcovers or bags. That was the best! Or even hanging the cover in your room!

[Bill]

I miss them dearly. Now I'm stuck either going to the mall and sifting through all thirty-eight albums that Hot Topic carries or driving all the way down to St. Pete and digging through bins and bins of unsorted, over-priced stuff.
The record store that I worked in back in Baltimore just closed down after twenty years, so I can't even fly up there to go record shopping anymore.

RIP Reptilian Records

[toystalker]

i still enjoy going to the record store

here in cardiff we have the oldest record store in the world...

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