Sir HC
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Favorite CD stores?
December 18, 2003 at 11:01 PM UTC
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With DCCD going where do you like to shop?
For me:
1. CD and Game Exchange, 50 cents is a price not a rapper, $1, used and new. Nice staff too.
2. Soundgarden. Evil place, I can't get out for under $50.
3. Record and Tape Traders. Have some good stuff, don't go there as much as the others.
4. Forget the name, not sure if it is still there in Fredrick, but they had a very small collection of CDs that you could find nowhere else. Upstairs somewhere. I bought one CD (Wat Tyler) and they were sad to see it go!
Rhett Miller
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 18, 2003 at 11:12 PM UTC
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On this side of the Mississippi:
1. CDepot College Park
2. Soundgarden in Baltimore
3. CD Game Exchange in Adams Morgan and Tenleytown
Out of town, Montreal seems to have some decent used cd places, particularly for jazz. The exchange rate is very favorable.
NYC used cd stores suck, though there is a good one for new Americana. Can't remember the name.
West of the Mississippi:
There's a good one in Seattle, but can't remember the name.
But of course Amoeba in SF, LA, and presumably the Berkeley store as well top everything.
Venerable Bede
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 18, 2003 at 11:18 PM UTC
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amoeba in san francisco
waterloo in austin
streetlight records in san jose
soundgarden in balmer
yeah, there was one cd store in nyc that was really good, but i can't remember it. . .somewhere near broadway i think. oh well.
twangirl
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 18, 2003 at 11:21 PM UTC
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I get in a whole lotta trouble at Waterloo in Austin and Twist & Shout in Denver.
skonster
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:10 AM UTC
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It looks like I'll be taking the metro/bus/light rail combo to to Baltimore for Soundgarden more often.
I was impressed with AKA Records in old town Philadelphia - sort of like a larger, better stocked version of DCCD - with considerably lower prices.
Also Chicago has some great ones: Reckless Records is where you go for Neko Case sightings, and Laurie's Planet of Sound in Lincoln Square is great - they always have had some choice bootlegs for pretty good prices. And the three or so Dr. Wax's have some good used stuff.
She Said Boom and Soundscapes in Toronto are both ok, but not really worth writing home (or here, for that matter) about. I never found anything better while living there, though.
kurosawa-b/w
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:16 AM UTC
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Originally posted by grotty:
Can't wait for this year's SXSW. Between the Shiner Bocks & the Waterloo purchases it's an expensive trip…Gotta love the Waterloo in-stores also when they roll out the beer keg from the microbrewery next door.
My fav Record store though is a little one here in Pittsburgh (Bloomfield actually) called Paul's CDs. If you're ever in town check it out. I just returned from a little browsing trip & ended up with ten new additions to my family…
Paul's CDs is a great place! I remember standing in that store and thinking, "Why in the hell don't we have a place like this in DC??" *sigh*
And I am thinking of going to SXSW this year… You can get individual show tickets, right?
vansmack
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:21 AM UTC
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Smackie's new place is less than 10 blocks from the Haight store. I must visit 4-5 times a week.
stu47
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:50 AM UTC
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I'm going to the soundgarden for the first time next weekend…Im forcing a friend to go to try and help keep me under 50 bucks lol
the store I can get into a lot of trouble at as of now is the record and tape traders main store in Towson….even though the last couple of times in I havent been that impressed with the used selection
my normal place I go is the white marsh best buy…there's no fun or enjoyment alas, Im supporting faceless corporatism(is that even a word) but….when I know exactly what Im going to get, its a lot simpler driving the 5 minutes there than into towson, up to bel air, or down into town…..
Lazer Guided Melodies
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:54 AM UTC
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Twist and Shout and Waxtrax in Denver
Newbury Comics on Newbury and the Garage store in Boston
Lazer Guided Melodies
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:55 AM UTC
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Twist and Shout and Waxtrax in Denver
Newbury Comics on Newbury and the Garage store in Boston
kurosawa-b/w
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 01:01 AM UTC
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Originally posted by grotty:
You should strongly consider going to SXSW. The preliminary band list should be out soon - in fact it's late.
I really think I might go -unless work prevents it. Well, money's an issue, too. I thought it might be like CMJ where you can still buy tickets for individual shows. If I have to buy a badge…yikes. That really is pricey.
El Tee
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 01:24 AM UTC
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Originally posted by grotty:
(especially now that it's getting closer - check swsx.com) [/QB]
Whoops.
www.sxsw.com The other will give you a Japanese Geisha site. I can't read Japanese, but that's the gist I get. ;)
I hear Amoeba is great. And Reckless.
Local: When I have time to shop: CD Cellar. No time: Best Buy (hate to say it), or I shop online. Unfortunately, I don't get to some of the other MD/DC cd stores that I used to get to.
Non-local: Record Exchange in Blacksburg, Spaceboy Music, Philadelphia. A few in Tucson, AZ : Toxic Ranch, Zia's, Zip's, Bookman's.
Dandy01
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 04:11 AM UTC
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CD Cellar mainly, CD/Game Exchange/A.M./Tenley, Now! in Old Town, Tower if desperate, and occasionally, CD Warehouse in G'Town.
skeeter
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 12:13 PM UTC
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Which place around DC has the best local music selection? Any idea when DCCD is actually closing?
godsshoeshine
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Re: Favorite CD stores?
December 19, 2003 at 02:58 PM UTC
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by twangirl:
I get in a whole lotta trouble at Waterloo in Austin and Twist & Shout in Denver.
Can't wait for this year's SXSW. Between the Shiner Bocks & the Waterloo purchases it's an expensive trip…Gotta love the Waterloo in-stores also when they roll out the beer keg from the microbrewery next door.
My fav Record store though is a little one here in Pittsburgh (Bloomfield actually) called Paul's CDs. If you're ever in town check it out. I just returned from a little browsing trip & ended up with ten new additions to my family…
haven't been to paul's in some time (used to walk to a few on the south side when i lived in da burg), but paul's even had my favorite pittsburgh rock legend karl hendricks as an employee. kinda like having ian mckaye as a stockboy. now that's cred.
soundgarden is awesome, might have to try a couple of the other dc stores mentioned here.
