Cob Records in Bangor was where I used to get my records from, amazing place. You’d walk past Our Price and their piles of unwanted CD singles and into Cob where they would always be playing something really obscure…and then try to ask them about it while staying cool:
Weren’t they in Porthmadoc? I bought records by post from them, I will have a look as I probably left the labels on. I had a look. Cob Records Porthmdog 90p, on an album I have.
One of the first record departments I remember was in the basement of Plumbers in Guildford, in 1968[?] the Wey flooded. The basement filled with water, I stood out side later in the week as they bought the contents of the basement out and put it in dustcarts. I asked if I could have some records;-)
I used to go in the record shop next to the Astoria in Guildford. I went to school with the little brother of the bloke who seemed to run it. So we got recommendations, lent records, cheap records, free records. I spent a lot of time in there.
The local record shop when I moved was in West Street in Dorking, bloke used to say “do you dig it, it’s really groovy man”. He was the one who told me about Cob Records! Good little shop.
Woolworths Dorking, A girl we hung about with worked on the record counter, if she liked you you would get a bag with a record and some change. You didn’t have to hand over any money. I got Phaedra off her, no idea if I got paid to take it or not. I was always amazed she didn’t get the sack.
When our price opened in the late 70’s most of the old record shops shut.
