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posted by agregoli at 11:51 AM on November 16, 2017
posted by agregoli at 11:51 AM on November 16, 2017
Darn, they list the main record store in my town, but are missing the book/record store, but I’m not dedicated enough to make a profile and add the store. Oh well.
posted by Grandysaur at 12:02 PM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Grandysaur at 12:02 PM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
There are way more than I thought there would be. This makes me happy.
posted by JanetLand at 12:30 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by JanetLand at 12:30 PM on November 16, 2017
I think some years ago I listed my local stores on something like this. Quite few are gone, but it seems there's a few new ones. Unfortunately, like that site, it doesn't have some price indicators. Not a chance I'm spending time going to some place that caters to kids who think it's a great deal to buy some tatty portuguese-pressed The Cure LP for €20.
posted by lmfsilva at 12:38 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by lmfsilva at 12:38 PM on November 16, 2017
it's a great deal to buy some tatty portuguese-pressed The Cure LP for €20
Where was this? What are their hours?
posted by kuanes at 1:07 PM on November 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
Where was this? What are their hours?
posted by kuanes at 1:07 PM on November 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
Looks like there's a few missing from around here, including one that's on Record Store Day's store locator (assuming it's still open, TBH).
Where was this? What are their hours?
Hah, there's a overpriced record store in Taos, New Mexico, and it was the one location in the state (with 4-6 RSD mapped shops, at that time) that didn't sign the pledge to not mark up RSD exclusives. At least they were honest about it.
I wonder if they'd get pissed off for me adding all the thrift stores with actual records in store, because my last vinyl purchases were from a Hospice Thrift Shop close to my work, which is great. Nothing relatively current in the records, but there are a few people who keep up with new CD releases who donate there. And I heard good things about a little consignment co-op in another little city in the state, a place I would have (and did) walk right past without a recommendation.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:13 PM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
Where was this? What are their hours?
Hah, there's a overpriced record store in Taos, New Mexico, and it was the one location in the state (with 4-6 RSD mapped shops, at that time) that didn't sign the pledge to not mark up RSD exclusives. At least they were honest about it.
I wonder if they'd get pissed off for me adding all the thrift stores with actual records in store, because my last vinyl purchases were from a Hospice Thrift Shop close to my work, which is great. Nothing relatively current in the records, but there are a few people who keep up with new CD releases who donate there. And I heard good things about a little consignment co-op in another little city in the state, a place I would have (and did) walk right past without a recommendation.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:13 PM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
I note that this is supported by Discogs.com . Is this part of an 'image management' strategy, considering the flack that website gets for undermining brick-and-mortar record shops? (Of course, many record shops now use the Discogs site as an ad-hoc online shop…)
posted by LMGM at 1:14 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by LMGM at 1:14 PM on November 16, 2017
Hah, Discogs. This was something that went public back in Aug. 2017 (Discogs forum thread), and in Oct. '14 The Vinyl Factory noted that "the Discogs marketplace might have damaged record stores in the past, but VinylHub certainly helps to put them back on the map."
Before this, there was RecordShops.org, which became RecordStores.love and declares (c) 2009-2017, though the one comment on the Resident Advisor Vinylhub relaunch post claims the site dates back to 2013.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:51 PM on November 16, 2017
Before this, there was RecordShops.org, which became RecordStores.love and declares (c) 2009-2017, though the one comment on the Resident Advisor Vinylhub relaunch post claims the site dates back to 2013.
posted by filthy light thief at 1:51 PM on November 16, 2017
It looks like Discogs is doing a better job with image management, as they have a blog with data geekery from Vinylhub. And from the Dangerous Minds post, I really want to visit Vinyl Run on La Réunion, west of Madagascar, because they also stock local records. Also, their logo is luvly. They have totes!
posted by filthy light thief at 2:15 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by filthy light thief at 2:15 PM on November 16, 2017
Awesome! There's a place near me I didn't even know about that I'm going to check out this weekend.
posted by inthe80s at 2:27 PM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by inthe80s at 2:27 PM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
the flack that website gets for undermining brick-and-mortar record shops
Sentimental crazytalk. eBay and discogs sales are a goddamn goldmine that just expands the neighborhood record shop's consumer base. Every decent store I know sells all the really valuable desirable original pressings and audiophile items it gets from estates and collection buys online to freaks like me. And I don't have to paw through 500 moldy scratchy copies of Steve Martin's Let's Get Small anymore to lay hands on them. Win-win.
My big UK 60s-80s issues hookup in Bristol practically hugs me from across the ocean in return for the bags of grimy dollars I contribute to his light bill.
posted by FelliniBlank at 4:13 PM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
Sentimental crazytalk. eBay and discogs sales are a goddamn goldmine that just expands the neighborhood record shop's consumer base. Every decent store I know sells all the really valuable desirable original pressings and audiophile items it gets from estates and collection buys online to freaks like me. And I don't have to paw through 500 moldy scratchy copies of Steve Martin's Let's Get Small anymore to lay hands on them. Win-win.
My big UK 60s-80s issues hookup in Bristol practically hugs me from across the ocean in return for the bags of grimy dollars I contribute to his light bill.
posted by FelliniBlank at 4:13 PM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
I'm impressed.
Best sebo in the city and great collection of vinyl.
I was there last saturday for a tribute to Tom Petty and Bruce Sprignsteen.
posted by adamvasco at 4:16 PM on November 16, 2017
Best sebo in the city and great collection of vinyl.
I was there last saturday for a tribute to Tom Petty and Bruce Sprignsteen.
posted by adamvasco at 4:16 PM on November 16, 2017
My seething hatred of Discogs is not lessened by this gesture.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 5:27 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 5:27 PM on November 16, 2017
Amazing. If you live in Brampton and hope to buy a record within a 30km radius, you're fucked.
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:54 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:54 PM on November 16, 2017
Underground Sounds is still kicking it in the ‘ville? Fresno Bob sends his love.
posted by valkane at 8:27 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by valkane at 8:27 PM on November 16, 2017
Many of those included here in London closed for good several years ago - as the map itself acknowledges. Why bother to list these at all?
posted by Paul Slade at 1:24 AM on November 17, 2017
posted by Paul Slade at 1:24 AM on November 17, 2017
At least some of my hatred is over their role in the death of retail and of record stores specifically (including the store I used to work at, which closed after 35 years in business). The majority of it, though, is because they’ve driven a lot of price inflation. I routinely see country records going for way more than they’re worth. Everyone I know who collects records, and who has been doing it for a long time, complains about this. I mean, I know a guy who just sold his unopened copy of the first Gorillaz album for $250, and even he was like “who’d pay $250 for Gorillaz?”
Either everything was previously undervalued, or Discogs is a great platform for dramatically inflating the value of your collection. I mean, really, $250 for Gorillaz.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 1:28 AM on November 17, 2017
Either everything was previously undervalued, or Discogs is a great platform for dramatically inflating the value of your collection. I mean, really, $250 for Gorillaz.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 1:28 AM on November 17, 2017
Everyone I know who collects records, and who has been doing it for a long time, complains about this.
I have been collecting records for ~34 years and I don't complain about it. I guess I'm not a "serious" collector.
I certainly have seen the rise in prices but that's a market. I don't know how Discogs is at fault for gouging. Sellers gonna gouge.
posted by mrgrimm at 3:02 PM on November 17, 2017
I have been collecting records for ~34 years and I don't complain about it. I guess I'm not a "serious" collector.
I certainly have seen the rise in prices but that's a market. I don't know how Discogs is at fault for gouging. Sellers gonna gouge.
posted by mrgrimm at 3:02 PM on November 17, 2017
I have been collecting records for ~34 years and I don't complain about it. I guess I'm not a "serious" collector.
Huh? I’m not saying only serious collectors care. I’m just saying this has been the general opinion among my circle of friends and record collectors. Jeesh.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 5:05 PM on November 17, 2017
Huh? I’m not saying only serious collectors care. I’m just saying this has been the general opinion among my circle of friends and record collectors. Jeesh.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 5:05 PM on November 17, 2017
Anyway, I hate Discogs for the same reason I hate eBay and (sometimes) Etsy, which is that it’s created this market for people to buy up cheap stock and mark it up by an absurd amount. I’m not really concerned whether it’s the users or the site itself who are responsible for this, because either way the end result is crazy price inflation and artificial demand.
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 5:42 PM on November 17, 2017
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 5:42 PM on November 17, 2017
I think arbitrage naturally has detractors when it crops up in a new context. The thing with records (and probably Etsy stuff) is that there used to be regional variations in price and availability, but the Internet globalized all that. This spread both the supply and the demand around, and raised the prices of some stuff, sure, but it also lowered the prices of many other things. I'll routinely buy a $5 record at Amoeba that goes for $1 or less on Discogs.
Also, I think Ebay and Amazon had killed record stores by the time the Discogs Marketplace was launched.
posted by rhizome at 12:55 PM on November 18, 2017
Also, I think Ebay and Amazon had killed record stores by the time the Discogs Marketplace was launched.
posted by rhizome at 12:55 PM on November 18, 2017
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