QUESTION OF THE WEEK FROM POSTER SILAS BARABY: WHERE WAS YOUR FAVORITE RECORD STORE? DOES IT STILL EXIST?

I had a few Record Factory and Zig Zag Records come to mind. Both in Brooklyn NY, and I doubt either exist.

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  1. Turning point records Glendale CA
    Music Exchange Glendale CA
    Auditory Odyssey North Hollywood CA
    All gone. Which leads to the question,
    What was the 1st CD you ever bought?

    1. Pretty sure …And Justice Far All was my first CD purchase. While my first cassette I bought was House Of The Holy when I was 10.

    2. Sound Barrier, beautiful downtown Rutland,VT population 16k, in the eighties and nineties. Store slogan was ” purveyors of finer alternative audio delicacies”. Owner Jeff was around 25 when he opened the place. Great store and Jeff was the coolest guy in town.

    3. Ah, the old “long box” CDs
      I was reluctant to accept this new compact disc technology. Didn’t want to re-purchase my music library of 8-track tapes, cassettes, and vinyl records. A friend “obtained” me an entry level CD player, and I vowed to only purchase albums of superior fidelity for this new format.

      There was video rental store in a corner strip mall next to the bar I used to frequent in my youth. They had a small section of CDs in the long box (12-inch record size/height) and they were all priced $10. My first purchase was Rush – Moving Pictures, the first Skid Row, and Pink Floyd – Animals.
      Still buying CDs today, 36 years later, though mostly online because there are hardly any record stores near me now.

  2. ..Latitudes, the first CD I ever bought was the first Badlands album in 1989. I bought it on CD cuz it was not available in vinyl at the record store. I bought it cuz of Jake E Lee on guitar and Greg Chaisson of Surgical Steel and Steeler on bass.

  3. Poindexter Records in Durham, NC, which is closed sadly. Manifest Discs and Tapes which had a few locations in the Carolinas are all now closed.

    Manifest in Columbia, SC was my first introduction to a proper shop with imports, shirts, etc.

    My current favorite is Zia Records out here in Arizona and I think they have some stores in Vegas as well as around Phoenix and Tucson.

  4. Question of the week suggestion: Name some of the most athletic frontmen or frontwomen in rock history. I was looking at some photos and vids this week and was blown away at some of the amazing things I saw.

  5. Karl Graf’s, which later became Graf Wadman, at The Dock Shopping Center in Stratford, CT. Small store, but carried it all. Kerranng!, patches, pins, oodles of imported LPs. They had it all from Hanoi Rocks to Wrathchild UK, Slayer, Maiden 12″. I even bought my first leather jacket there for 80 bucks. Still have it, but now I can’t zip it up lol.

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