SP-FORUMS

i just got off the phone with a guy who now sells over 60,000 records out of his house because his shop closed. now hes forced to sell stuff online or by appointment. i cant fucking wait!

All the record shops in PR are dead. Everything is only about the money here and not so hot with collecting. Even the comic shops are extinct. I dig for records in small antigue shops now and whenever the record collecting convention comes to town which is once a year. Yeah I live in the crate diggers Hell. My only advantage from this is that for their lack of love for vinyl, I walk out with promo albums from the '60s for 50 cents each.

my local shop died, theres a few other spots tho,
Its real sad, cos I have been goin since I was a kid.....
My town has no record shops tho, I used to have to jump on the train to get there...

only record shops I go to these days are charity stores!

and no sign of them dying out

cartesia wrote:only record shops I go to these days are charity stores!

and no sign of them dying out

yup, that and flea markets are my only option without taking a trip now. 3 good record stores by me closed about 5- 6 years ago. It sucks because they were hip hop themed record stores, i would have like to try getting my demos promoted in there.

I'm glad we don't have LP-only record stores here, only a few that also sell CD's, DVD's and videogames with a neat collection of LP's. (I'm saying 'a few', but there is only one in my town, a couple within 10 mile distance.

It's strange, but it's actually a bit booming here.

Sad fact is that most LP's don't come cheap at all, even the mediocre ones. There are no records for 50 cents here, it starts at about 5 bucks I think. Also, there are a lot very modern records, like Eminem's latest album, Guns 'n Roses, Madonna, you name it. Not quite what the average digger is looking for I suppose.

its funny though because now in my phone i have a contact named "vinyl" and its like going to a guy to buy drugs except its a garage full of records haha

my secret supplier of sample goodness muahaha

he sells the rare popular stuff online now but has no clue how many awesome records he has for sampling in his garage. no clue at all. i said i was looking for stuff to sample and he thought i meant "peruse". i should take a picture next time im there its like vinyl heaven.

im sure there is some crazy guy in your town you could get good deals from.

Yeah, some local folks here apparently also sell lots of LPs. Usually a stock of anywhere between about 4.000 and 60.000 LPs. I'm guessing they used to have physical shops too in the old days.

It's not quite a wonder lots of the physical shop died though as they tend to sell LPs for like 3 times the price of normal CDs.

hurlingdervish wrote:its funny though because now in my phone i have a contact named "vinyl" and its like going to a guy to buy drugs except its a garage full of records haha

my secret supplier of sample goodness muahaha

reminds of that song off of further adventures of lord quas where its him and lib runnin from the cops sellin hiphop to junkies......"nah nah you give em the deal, 5 bucks a piece, they good customers"

Dr Van Nostrand wrote:

hurlingdervish wrote:its funny though because now in my phone i have a contact named "vinyl" and its like going to a guy to buy drugs except its a garage full of records haha

my secret supplier of sample goodness muahaha

reminds of that song off of further adventures of lord quas where its him and lib runnin from the cops sellin hiphop to junkies......"nah nah you give em the deal, 5 bucks a piece, they good customers"

haha ill have to go find that

Best place in my town is an old slaughterhouse turned second hand store.

I think i hear scratching coming from my crates at night.

Ukiyo Buddha wrote:Best place in my town is an old slaughterhouse turned second hand store.

I think i hear scratching coming from my crates at night.

LOL, that shit makes me paranoid. You never know who owned the records you purchased..that shit coulda been used in a seance to bring back someone from another world.

Austin has a pretty decent scene I guess. ATX is home of SXSW so the musical agriculture (if i can say that) is pretty rich. I support most shops here. I tend to support the smaller shops who are growing because I want to watch them grow. Always support the smaller shops, they hurt the most! Other than that, the thrift stores here are so-so.

im lucky that my town has 1 decent place to buy old vinyl from...the dudes got lots and sells his lesser copies and random shit for 10 a box...most of it is junk but sometimes you never know what youll find if he has a big pile of them sittin outside..otherwise all his priced ones are like 3 bills and up..he's got a shit ton of 45's i have yet to really scope.