― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― daniel seward (bunnybrain), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
You know it, scott. They are the bomb.
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
"Newbury Comics is pretty good if you're in New England."
Some of their prices are pretty good online, especially it seems on multidisc sets. I've bought a few new items through them via Amazon Marketplace. I think a whole lot of indie shops are doing this kind of mail order.
I do miss sometimes going to a shop where you knew the people that worked there, as sometimes that was a good way to find new music. There were a couple of places in Bloomington and Indianapolis that were good for that kind of thing.
On the other hand, with mail order I can get pretty much anything I want when I want to get it. For better or for worse, I don't really feel the need to search out every record/CD shop when I go travel someplace else. I can also scour the internet for information on certain styles of music that are current interest.
I still listen to as much music as ever, but my aquisition of new cd's has slowed maybe a little bit. I've just gotten to the point where I have a pretty big collection (yet not nearly in the ballpark as some of you folk). I have actually started boxing up some of my stuff and sorting by music style, actually lowering down what I have out on my shelves.
― earlnash (earlnash), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
online: any number of independent psych distributors for records and some cds (usually time-lag, eclipse or fusetron), musicstack.com, or ebay. if i am buying a large amount of cds, i go through cduniverse.com because they have good prices.
i dont really think that much about where i buy... it has gotten to the point where only small, independent places will carry most of the stuff that i want.
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link
a) clearance section is gigantic and mostly crap but always good for a laugh or some good old fashioned armchair pop-sociology
b) store is easy to get to on the red line or the #2 bus
c) can only find about four out of every ten CDs i'm actively looking for, which i guess isn't so bad considering that i'm not the most conventional music consumer out there and that i don't tend to go around with a list of stuff i'm "actively looking for"
d) wish they had bigger/more eclectic folk and country sections
e) their used selection is often respectable and the prices are generally fair
f) i once had to leave because the volume at their afternoon in-store was really too freaking loud and the band was horrible
― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Europe's biggeest 2nd hand record store closing
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
My local store, Compact Disc World closed about five years ago. Now in NJ there's just gigantic chains like Best Buy, or heading down the Parkway to Exit 130 to Vintage Vinyl, the best independent record store in NJ.
― kornrulez6969 (kornrulez6969), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Online -- Deep Discount, CD Universe, Amazon, Insound, Aquarius, Wayside, CD Wow! -- see my Guide to Online Shopping.
How do I feel about it? I try no to think about how what I spent in the 90s alone would have paid off my student loan and put a downpayment for a house. Well, that or a pack of cigarettes, cup of coffee and/or a 40 ouncer a day.
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Sunday, 24 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link