[Closed] Good record shops in your youth

Used to come into town most weekends in my teens and 20s to buy records from...
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here ya go :

http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/

an example for berkshire http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/quicksilver-berkshire.html

here ya go :

http://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/

Rather incomplete methinks.

Yes its incomplete - they are waiting for you to fill it in .
How else would they get the info ?

George Heapy's in Knaresborough (and before that - although I was a bit younger - Vallances). Spent many hours in there listening to tracks, ordering in stuff for release date - I particularly remember waiting for the shop to open on the morning Iron Maiden released Piece of Mind then bunking off school to go home and play it.

Also used a shop in Harrogate (I think it was called Sounds) and when it closed down they had the most ridiculous sale and I bought loads of albums at about 50p each.

Andy's Records Aberystwyth for me. This was my go to place for music in my late teens/early 20s. Haven't been there in a fair few years so don't know what its like now, but was brilliant back then. Managed to get hold of a lot of ltd edition vinyl, ex catalogue stuff as well as current listings.

Record and Tape centre in Evesham , brilliant place in the 70s .

Spent many a happy hour (and many pounds) in Spiller's in Cardiff and then Selectadisc in Nottingham.

Black Sedan Records. Oxford Rd, Manchester. Bought my first Steve Hillage LP there and many many others. It was next to Johnny Roadhouse's shop.

Spiller Records, Cardiff

most of my student debt went to Spiller's...

or to HMV who used to half-inch the import 12s I had ordered in Spillers but the distibutor would visit HMV first and they would take them instead!

So I would then have to cancel my Spiller's order and buy from HMV 🙁

+1 for Alan Fearnley in 'Boro

Also Andy's Records, not in Aberystwyth, but in Bury St Edmunds, and The Record Peddler also in Bury St Eds

VIBES in Bury.

I don't know if it was a good shop or a bad shop... but it was my shop.

@flashinthepan

87-90 (Castle, FWIW)

Bottom of North Road, almost opposite the Fighting Cocks

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/record-shops-durham.1020771/page-2

I don't remember it being called Volume, as i say it was googling that gave me the name but I'm 99% certain of the location, and I deffo remember buying gig tickets in the manner described.

Sydney Scarborough under the city hall in Hull....long gone

Station Bridge Records in Keighley was my hangout in the 70s

5HQ in Leicester, vinyl and tape packs of a certain genre.

Spent many a happy Saturday in Glasgow in the following shops

A1 Records when it was a stall in the savoy centre then moved to a shop at the top of Renfield street, which then became FOPP.

Missing Records on union street, not sure if that became virgin

23rd Precinct, can't remember where it was

Shop on Byres Road across from Curlers - was that Listen?

HMV at the corner of Union Street when the clash played an impromptu gig on the roof. Or have I misremembered that?

Not really my youth but Scorpion Records in Wycombe was always filled with decent vinyl.

I used to love Scorpion records although I was always after CD's. I used to spend hours flicking through the pre-owned CD's, literally starting at A and working my way through to Z. It was literally the best shop ever if you were into metal, punk, hardcore etc.

Kalex in Coatbridge, owned by a Mr Jamieson (never got to learn his forename).

He had everything, knew everything (well, to me he did), could recall your previous purchases and would make recommendations based on that.

He was also in the habit of giving out freebies that he thought you'd enjoy. I discovered a fair few faves based on these.

Barnstorm Records of Dumfries. Still open I think.

Pink Panther of Carlisle. Where you messed with the BCF if you weren't behaving!

23rd precinct for hip-hop and dance, it was in one of the lanes of west Nile st iirc.

Rat Records in Buchanan st for indie.

There was a decent second hand shop in Jamaica st too, can't remember the name though.

1 UP in Aberdeen. I remember it when it was a second-hand store in the back of a jeans shop (Happy Trails) before moving to Rosemount. Great shop, I knew people who were scared off by the staff (mostly Scars...) used to spend half my wages there.

The Other Record Shop was good too. Spacies machines, t-shirts and books too. They had clear bags so's you could pose with your purchase.... Ace!

Avalanche was great (but I was in my twenties by then). Kev was really helpful I remember one day walking in and him saying 'give me a fiver..' And me going wha? He thengave me Galaxie 500 today. He was right though 😀

Sleeves in Falkirk

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All the vinyl was moved upstairs after the influx of CD's. Lack of interest meant cheap prices and the pick of the best (to me)

Other than that, it was Woolies for more popular stuff and they didn't really know what they had half the time so their prices were cheap. Orbit did records as well and was the first place I remember my dad going to rent Betamax videos.

Slowodlman that would have been Blonde On Blonde or Roulette in Worksop?

Simon_G

The Longplayer in Tunbridge Wells

Groove records

Power Cuts down some back street of Oxford Road in Manchester was famous for it's sales

Record Collector in Sheffield was a must-browse when I was at uni there in the late 90s

Spillers in Cardiff.
The only time I ever bought anything was a day trip there in about '87 - I bought Metallica's EP 'Garage Days Re-revisited' and my mate bought some Anthrax shit \m/

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Research, innit.

There was a decent second hand shop in Jamaica st too, can't remember the name though.

A google search says the Record Exchange which I remember, don't think I went in there much though.

The search also suggests A1 was in De Courcy’s Arcade, just off Byres Road but I was sure it was in the savoy centre. I do remember a record shop in De Courcy’s though and one in the savoy centre.

Power Cuts down some back street of Oxford Road in Manchester

Great Bridgewater Street IIRC
There was also Pandemonium up by Johnny Roadhouse
And the one under the newsagents in St. Anne's Sq - Paperchase

Discount Records in Sale
Streets Ahead in Altrincham
King Bee in Chorlton
Sifters in Didsbury

Not really a record shop but there used to be a music distribution company not far from where I lived that had a discount staff shop. Visited it a few times with a mate that worked there during the summer holidays and once he left I used to go by myself, so long as you went at lunchtime when it was busy nobody bothered to check whether you were staff or not. Bargaintastic.

Probe in Liverpool

When were you at Durham?

I was there '88 - '91 but have no memory of a Volume Records

Volume was in a weird little corner/shopping arcade just off silver street in the city centre, but i don't remember how early it was since the OG Volume was on ridley place in Newcastle before they expanded to open more shops (Durham, Sunderland and Washington in that order). might not have been as early as '91.

Magpie Records in Worcester, fab place, acquired my first Rush album there.

Seem to have spent most of the 80's in [url= http://www.reddingtonsrarerecords.co.uk/ ]Reddingtons Rare Records.[/url] in sunny ol' Brum.

Jeezus that's a bad website!

OP, most of my high school lunch times were spent mooching around Bruce's record shop in Kirkcaldy. The red "I found it at Bruce's " plastic bags were almost a part of the Balwearie High School uniform.

Bruce Findlay's wife was a good friend of my mother. We used to get occasional tickets to gigs from them.

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Andys records in Cambridge - the Market stall, record shop and The Beat Goes On other shop.
Rhythm Records in Camden and Rough Trade in Notting Hill when it was a right old ****hole.

Mcmoonter im sure i met you back in the late 80's i rode with the moont boys did you have a red stumpjumper? I either had a rockhopper or maybe my Roberts White Spider.The run i remember was from Kenmore and skirt round the south side of Schiehallion then blast down to Fortingall .No suspension or discs back then so forearms were shot to bits. Coming up for 30 years ago what memory i have

Mcmoonter im sure i met you back in the late 80's i rode with the moont boys did you have a red stumpjumper? I either had a rockhopper or maybe my Roberts White Spider.The run i remember was from Kenmore and skirt round the south side of Schiehallion then blast down to Fortingall .No suspension or discs back then so forearms were shot to bits. Coming up for 30 years ago what memory i have

Nowt wrong with your memory. That would have been me and the Moonters. That may have been ride with a big OTB for one of the guys hitting a drainage channel and hurting his neck

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The centre of the universe when I was young. Spent most of my money here and met all my mates outside before everyone had mobile phones. Fabulous.
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Yes i do remember somebody o'er the bars nae helmet if i remember, it was a good run nice warm up before the climb up to the Pheiginn Bothy to re group
I remember back then all the bike shops bar the two in Edinburgh the coop and RW in Stockbridge laughed at mountain bikes saying its just a fad wont catch on. aye right

Another here for Time Records in Colchester _ I remember having a nice conversation with Grif Rhys Jones in there once!

In the mid nineties my dad worked at Romford Brewery and when he went in on a Saturday I'd go along with him so I could visit Boogie Times which I loved as teen.

Yes i do remember somebody o'er the bars nae helmet if i remember, it was a good run nice warm up before the climb up to the Pheiginn Bothy to re group
I remember back then all the bike shops bar the two in Edinburgh the coop and RW in Stockbridge laughed at mountain bikes saying its just a fad wont catch on. aye right

I think his name was Greig, he was a plumber back then, Italspark who's on here met him about fifteen years ago, he was then a firefighter. CynicAl on here was probably on that ride too.

A bunch of us that worked at Robin Williamsons are still riding together now.

It was Robin Williamsons i bought the White Spider frame pink and blue still in my garage although i rusted from the inside, we were a rare breed back then especially in Fife