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Favorite Record Stores?
nescience:
--- Quote from: Bunnyman ---And the Rasputin/Amoeba superorganism on Telegraph in Berkeley makes a nice second. Or third. Or whatever.
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Indeed, but only the two together, two blocks away from each other, for the purposes of comparison shopping. Each on its own is rather weak.
Thrillho:
Fopp. I dunno if it's a chain or not, but it's fucking awesome. Loads of CDs for £5. Loads of rarities in there, nothing's second hand, allsorts of variety and stuff - it's just brilliant. I'll go in there with £40 and come out with 8 or 10 CDs.
edit: also, they had Radiohead's My Iron Lung EP AND Wilco's first album in there, so they have my infinite respect.
Octillus:
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5. 101 Music, North Beach, San Francisco, California - This is actually two stores diagonally across the street from each other on the corner of Grant & Green. The northeast store is cluttered with half-working musical instruments and electronics of all kinds, and in the basement there are over seventy-thousand vinyl records, unsorted, in bins that customers can leaf through and buy for $5 a piece, flat rate. I found "Dusseldorf" by La Dusseldorf (normally $30 or so) and Freddie Mercury's solo album "Mr. Bad Guy" in the same bin and I was hooked.
1. Amoeba Records, Upper Haight, San Francisco, California - The world's largest independent music store. Hundreds of thousands of used CDs. Some of the best Used Prices in California and best selection. My favorites include well-stocked and well-curated Experimental and International Rock sections, new MP3 listening stations, multiple Clearance sections with quality items, large DVD room, and the excellent 20th Century Avant Garde section.
Honorable Mention: Aquarius Records in the Mission district of SF. Arguably better independent-label and experimental selection than Amoeba, but prohibitively priced.
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Fuckin A', those are my regular haunts.
Skibas_clavicle:
A little records shop infamous for snooty clerks and indie concert tickets called Rotate This. You can pretty much find what you're looking for in here on both vinyl and cd. Watch out however, even on the website, they inform their customers that they do judge you on your requests, purchases and concert choices, they're usually nice to me though!
EDIT: Forgot to mention, it's in TORONTO.
The other place is in Amsterdam but I can't remember the name of it, it is somewhere in my vacation photos because I took a picture so I'd know where to go if I ever went back to the Netherlands! It had its own section fro trip-hop and a wicked selection of kick ass bands. I even found an on sale Pavement cd! If anyone knows what it's called, let me know!
El Opium:
Iowa City has a couple decent record stores in the form of Real Records and Record Collector, though they're nothing to write home about. Some of those places Nescience wrote about almost sound like they'd almost be worth going on vacation to visit. Spillers in Cardiff is certainly a nice store, though I didn't make much use of it when I still lived there.
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