List your favorite places to buy vinyl and related accessories

hrd2imgn

okay aside from ten club where are your favorite most reliable places to buy records and equipment. No affiliation to any places listed in my post:

Soundstage Direct: http://www.soundstagedirect.com/

Music Direct (A Chicagoland gem!) http://www.musicdirect.com/

the Mylene Sheath http://www.mylenesheath.com/

Elusive Disc ( A northern Indiana gem) http://www.elusivedisc.com/

Acousitc Sounds http://store.acousticsounds.com/

Temporary residence http://temporaryresidence.com/

turn Table Lab http://turntablelab.com/

LP Gear http://www.lpgear.com/

Music Record Shop http://www.musicrecordshop.com/



I'll end there add to the list!

hrd2imgn

obviously GEMM.com and Discogs offer third party stuff, as well as e-bay

wg

CC Music has been pretty stellar as of late with their 25% off sale. ccmusic.com

I try to buy local as much as possible, but their prices make it hard.

chad1218

I Love soundstage but try to buy most of my records at Spoonful a local shop here in Columbus.

brianlux

Local shops always number one of course, but for on-line finds:

I've never ever gone wrong with Craig Moerer's excellent recordsbymail: http://www.recordsbymail.com/

A good lesser known on-line shop, Lit It Be: http://www.letitbe.com/

I think it was PJ_Soul from whon I first heard about Orbit: http://www.orbitrecords.com/

Also have done well through MusicStack a number times: http://www.musicstack.com/

And if I can't find it used there's the aforementioned acousticsounds: http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=detail&Title_ID=37965

demetrios

Also add ..

Taz Records .. http://www.tazrecords.com/ (Halifax)

Easy Street Records .. http://easystreetonline.com/ (Seattle)

What Records .. http://www.whatrecords.co.uk/ (UK)

Banquet Records .. http://www.banquetrecords.com/ (UK)

Amazon .. http://www.amazon.ca/ (Canada)

deadendp

My husband should be on staff here: http://theexchange.com/locations/

They know him so well that the one store generally has a hold pile for him. We've purchased things from them for years. We were just at the Parma store yesterday!

derbydave

chad1218 wrote: »

I Love soundstage but try to buy most of my records at Spoonful a local shop here in Columbus.

Me too buddy...
LOVE Spoonful & Brett is AWESOME!!!!
:-bd

jervin007

Bull Moose

lolobugg

shout out to my fave local joint-
http://harvest-records.com/

Amongst the Ani

I was able to score my music for film from these guys. They are a chain in AZ:
Zia Records: ziarecords.com/

One of my happy places growing up. Spent many days flipping through racks here and now use it for online purchases since I moved from Nor Cal:
Amoeba: amoeba.com/

PJ_Soul

needledoctor.com for accessories.

I love Amazon for vinyl because of the free shipping, which is now a VERY big deal, as shipping costs go up and up. I just can't regularly afford it anymore. So when I can buy vinyl from Amazon.ca and get the free shipping, I do. And they have a massive selection for what are usually the lowest prices (so much lower than record stores), so it all works in my favour.

Discogs.com certainly gives me access to the most hard to find items, and I find that the sellers at discogs are little more on the ball and trustworthy than those on ebay. But I use ebay often enough anyway, for obvious reasons.

As for local record stores, I like Audiopile on Commercial Drive most.... good people (although I would prefer if they have better music knowledge... they have some, but much of the staff are total hipsters, so aren't very helpful a lot of the time unless you're into the same hipster music as them), and fairly decent prices... most of all it's the best location for me.

For accessories in Vancouver, Lotusland is BY FAR the best place to go. They refurbish audio equipment, specializing in TTs and receivers, and they really know their stuff, have great prices and merchandise. Can't go wrong with those guys. They are fantastic. On Alma and 10th in Kits.

FrankieG

Vintage Vinyl - Fords, NJ

Abe Froman

Local. Euclid Records in STL.

mcgruff10

Princeton record shop, princeton nj
jacks, red bank, nj,
vintage vinyl, fords, nj

Zod

I'm in Canada and shipping from the USA is getting more and more expensive.

I find myself ordering my vinyl from:

amazon.ca
amazon.co.uk
amazon.de
amazon.fr
whatrecords.co.uk
newonvinyl.com

Amazon seems to remove the VAT from their orders and the shipping fees (especially from the UK site) are reasonable, which often makes it cheaper to import vinyl from the UK than buy it domestically. The US dollar has also increased substantially against the CDN$ compared to the Pound/Euro. Most of the time I use Amazon Canada or Amazon UK for my vinyl orders.

My local record store is ditchrecords.com. I buy the odd thing from them but they can be expensive. If their price is within $2 of buying it online I'll buy it from them (or if I'm impatient) but if it's a bigger gap I'll buy it online.

I did find a Canadian website for buying vinyl called:

northernvolume.com but their prices can be steep (as the threshold for free shipping is fairly high).
archambault.com is a bit interesting. Quebec website. Prices are steep. Sometimes around black friday/boxing day they have a 50% off vinyl sale. They're also one of the few remaining websites that doesn't collect British Columbia PST, so that saves 7%

edit: I should also do a plug for turntablerecords. Most of their vinyl is older than the 90s and I'm a big collector of music from the 90s. Thus I don't go in their too often. However they have a higher odds than Ditch Records of having random rare vinyl. I walked away with Tom Petty she's the one soundtrack for about $45. They also took a list of rare vinyl I wanted (which was really Tom Petty Wildflowers, Tool - Aenima, and Springsteen's the Rising). They called be about 6 months later when they scored of a copy of Wildflowers. That made me a pretty happy camper. I also saw stuff like a sealed copy STP's Tiny Music before it got reissued. Typing this I should probably go their more often. Ditch doesn't seem to get very much rare vinyl these days.

jervin007

mcgruff10 wrote: »

Princeton record shop, princeton nj
jacks, red bank, nj,
vintage vinyl, fords, nj

I have some cousins who lived in Princeton. The Princeton Record Exchange was probably the first store I went to that had second hand music when I was first getting into music. Nothing like that existed around where I lived in Maine. Very cool place!

rw160510

I buy alot of my lps from piccadillyrecords.com and rise-music.co.uk. They are both really good indies. Shipping is reasonable and usually super fast. In particular piccadilly's weekly emails tend to help me part with my cash. Also amazon UK are pretty good on the whole, they managed to get me a Mike Mccready 10".

whispering hands

Independent Records!

Vitalogensia

The Sound Garden in Baltimore, MD. That place is pure awesomesauce.

Suziemay

Whatever you do, DO NOT purchase from Shop Radio Cast

Poor communication and no sign of my vinyl almost 2 months after I placed the order. I finally got them to give me a refund, but with zero explanation of why they weren't able to fulfill my order to begin with. Such a waste of time.