where you buy your records and how you feel about it

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su,mtymes th interactio nbs arwe alil tiring ,and i dont know that much about real music that informed people li8ke and like to talk about buiyt,i do enjoy that people wna to buy records and get excited to come here even if i am tired or apathetric about sumtymes,tney brighten my day,bobb irwin who runs sundazed is givin me sum lps to start a kiosk of his labeklls goods,thtas fun and tons more funny stories and sum involve vets w legs all blown up sellin pee soaked 8 traxx,,i lvve reocydssxx

― daniel seward (bunnybrain), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

my first choice is always to shop at Amoeba in SF for records/CDs. If I can't find something there after a couple tries I might order it online from Gemm or Dustygroove, but I def. prefer to shop locally and yes I think it matters.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite indie music shop in the city (and only one of two) that i've been shopping at for years recently decided to close their bathroom to the public. even though i've poured hundreds of dollars into them, they wouldn't let my friend pee there last night and we had to leave early and walk to subway! sorry, i am shopping with your competitor from now on!

― hm (modestmickey), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

eugene oregon? i love the used record store there. house of records. i always spend lots of money.

You know it, scott. They are the bomb.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I buy most of my CDs via the Amazon marketplace. The local shop around here closed shop back around 2001. When I get up to Lexington, I do go to a local shop called CD Central, which seems to be doing pretty well for itself as they have expanded. They have an advantage of location and the fact that they are the only shop of its kind in the area.

"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

earl nash, we have GOT to know each other. I remember when Bill Zink used to work at Karma Records in Bloomington, with Ozarka right down the street...

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link

When I buy records (like actual vinyl) I try to buy from Hogwild Records as that place has the keenest eye for overall quality. I know when I get something there that that record will still sound good when I take it home and play it on my record player. (Yes, I still play records.) When I buy CDs I TRY to buy from a place called CD Exchange but haven't found what I wanted there for awhile, so I end up resorting to Barnes & Noble and their high prices. I dislike purchasing CDs online. I want the whole experience to be tangible. I want to feel the product, to pay for it and take it home with me right after. I am not unopposed to simply grabbing mp3s if I either can't afford something or don't want to spend all that much for it, but much of the time after getting an album's worth of stuff I end up buying the album anyway. I will do special orders, BTW. In fact, that's how I've gotten 95% of the CDs I've purchased over the past five years. But at least when I come back to the store to pick up the CD, I get to see it and hold it in my hands right after forking over the money for it.

― Phoenix (is still) Dancing (krushsister), Thursday, 21 December 2006 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link

in person: reckless in chicago when i can get there. i used to go to parasol in urbana when i needed something. i cant really think of any great record stores in the suburbs.

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

when in LA, i shop primarily at amoeba. how i feel about it:

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

This thread I just started relates to some of this discussion:

Europe's biggeest 2nd hand record store closing

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 23 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Amazon.com or Best Buy if the record just came out, they're always marked down the first week so sales will be bigger.

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

Chicago Brick & Mortar (that would be a great name actually) -- Reckless, Hyde Park Records, Evil Clown, Laurie's Planet of Sound, Hard Boiled, Dusty Groove, Virgin)

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

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