Any funny stories about the *worst* record store you've been to?

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  1. Hamhead

    Hamhead The Bear From Delaware

    Was it the location on 202 or Main Street in Newark?

    All I remember is he asked me on my second business where I'm from and I said "Hollywood in Broward County Florida" and he went on a tangent, that was around 2003. I used to go there all the time for records and DVD-A's, I'll go there to get the Pet Sounds DVD-A and walk out with $50 in records, he had a great selection. For some reason, he seemed to single me out since I'm from Broward County.
     
  2. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

    Location:
    Cambridge, MA
    Wow, that would be interesting if it's true. I don't recall Bruce's last name, so even if you told me/us, I wouldn't be able to confirm. But if it's the correct Bruce, then he'd remember having a store in Van Nuys, CA in the early '80s.
     
  3. shelflife

    shelflife Forum Resident

    Location:
    Florida
    202, I guess? Concord Pike, I think? On the "strip" in Wilmington.

    Perhaps he mellowed out by the time I stopped in. Last time I came by it was closed but he saw me walk up and let me in. He said he was going to move south and take his store on line. Never happened, as far as I know.
     
  4. florandia

    florandia Forum Resident

    Location:
    Florida
    I am sure that you are right about this subject .......I am from that old school that believes that the facts should not get in the way of a good story!
     
  5. HiFi Guy 008

    HiFi Guy 008 Forum Resident

    Location:
    New England
    I had to copy this one:
     
  6. Partyslammer

    Partyslammer Lord Of The New Church

    Here's someone's profile of the place:

     
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  7. stunner2020

    stunner2020 Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    Are you sure that's not just your average SteveHoffman forumer basement? :)
     
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  8. Moonbeam Skies

    Moonbeam Skies Forum Resident

    Location:
    Phoenix, Arizona
    About 5 years ago it seemed like really bad CD stores were popping up and then disappearing in a couple months. Some of them had a bunch of used stuff from the 90s and later by unknown artists. Places you wander into just to kill time, and in 5 minutes you want to get out. I think people in the business would just rent our a building to unload as much unwanted stock as they could, stuff they couldn't sell in their regular stores.
    I remember going into a store in Tempe, AZ around that time that had nothing but the most disgusting hardcore pornographic and gory CDs by underground bands with a tattoo parlor in the back if I remember correctly.
     
  9. Dave's SG2k

    Dave's SG2k Forum Resident

    Oh yes, The Record Man! Haven't been there in years but he really does have a great selection. Multiples of what your looking for so you can choose from the dirtiest to the cleanest. The trick to buying from people who make up their prices on the spot is to have a great "poker" face. You don't carry them up to the counter with a big ol' smile that says:"Man, look what I found!!! WooHoo!" No you put out the vibe like you don't really care if he sells you them or not.
     
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  10. mtatmba

    mtatmba Forum Resident

    In the late 1960's in Queens, NY (corner of Broadway/Steinway) there was this radio/TV appliance store named "Stevens". At night their neon store sign would alternate blink the letters ""S_E_E , STEVENS, _T_V_ _ _". While in high school I was beginning to buy record albums, away from the department stores of the day like: Alexander's or E.J. Korvets. The problem here was the store owner would keep the store albums supply up in the front windows display cases, hence the sun baking down on them, warping the vinyl and fading the album covers. When the store owner recognized me as a regular shopper he would put aside for me albums not exposed to the sun's rays. I remember buying the original edition of The Who's "TOMMY" from his special stock of albums. Then the release of "Live at Leeds", he told me about a very special one of a kind edition he had....
    Hey, I was 14 at the time very gullible and naïve.
    Yeah, it has the original "Marquee club poster" and those "one of kind inserts/contracts".
    Only years later did I realize the true of the matter. My trust in humanity was for ever scarred until this very day.
    So much for those "Limited Edition" numbered CD's - we won't get fooled again!
     
  11. negative1

    negative1 80s retro fan

    Location:
    USA
    are you talking about bruce, at the record rack?

    anyways, i've been there hundred's of times in the mid 80's onward, until they closed.

    never had a problem there, and i'm not a white male, also, they always were friendly to anyone
    who knew their music, and knew what to look for... i usually spent hours going through the
    store, when i wanted to browse...

    also spent several thousands of dollars there, yes, they were overpriced, but they were the
    first to get stuff, and got most of the rare imports.

    [if it's not bruce, nevermind]

    later
    -1
     
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  12. Anthology123

    Anthology123 Senior Member

    Oh, man we definitely dealt with the same guy! But I knew I could not make a deal when I asked for the two holiday records no other store in the area had and he let me go into an apartment upstairs from the store. Inside were shelves on every wall of this apartment with even more vinyl than the storefront. He gave me no guidance just told me try and find what I wanted there, and let me have a go at it by myself. I could have spend another 2 weeks combing through that collection! But logical thinking led me to the records I wanted, and did not spend more time looking for anything else.
     
  13. BobGilly

    BobGilly Active Member

    Location:
    Walnut
    Anyone remember Motley's ??
    I think it was in Lehigh County?? he was a great guy!!
     
  14. Pablo Bernal

    Pablo Bernal Forum Resident

    Location:
    Mexico
    I was looking for new places to find used vinyl so I went to a store called Discopolis here in mexico city.

    Tried to lock my bike in front of the store and an elder guy who was sweeping told me to go away, he doesn't like bikers and non sense so I try to explain that I'm interested in go in to the store, he kept cursing so I ignored him and when I tried to enter the store another elder guy ( the owner ) closed the door in front of me and yelled what I was looking for, meanwhile I tried to explain the situation he yelled again :
    I don't have it !!!

    I never see open the store but someone told me that they are still in bussiness.
     
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  15. Chazzbo13

    Chazzbo13 Forum Resident

    Certainly not up to the caliber of some of these other stories...our dinky little town holds a music festival every year, and they try to bring in at least one or two "name" acts to help draw out-of-towners with money to spend...2010 festival features Los Lobos...just a month or so after the release of "Tin Can Trust"...the week before the festival, I go into the local shop to buy a copy, the guy angrily tells me that he doesn't stock "every damn new CD that comes down the pike" and that if I wanted it bad enough, I should have ordered it...trying to be diplomatic, I kind of shrugged and said I was just trying to pick up a copy before the show next week..."Oh, we'll never get it here THAT fast"...I thanked him and left...walking right past the big festival poster inside the front door proclaiming the band's appearance...is it me, or would it make sense to have some product in stock for a national headliner...?
     
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