Great little NJ store for new vinyl

I remember a place like that either at the Livingston Mall or the Short Hills Mall (before it went massively upscale). There was a rack in the very back where I got all the "Marc On Wax" T. Rex/Bolan LPs and Gram Parsons "Sleepless Nights. Straight chain stores were great for imports and weird stuff.

Anyone ever go to the Chester Flea Market in the early 80s? There was a guy who had boot vinyl and the first boot cassettes I'd ever seen.

 

Gosh nobody went to Vogel's in Elizabeth? They had great prices...I got a lot of my favorite records there.

 

Yep - I went to Vogel's in Elizabeth many times. Great place to get cut-outs and bargains.

 

I'm really enjoying this local NJ thread! I grew up in North Jersey and certainly remember all the places being mentioned here:

Korvettes in Paramus. New release vinyl used to be $2.99 & $3.99 back in the day!!!

Sound Exchange: That place gets crowded with 3 people in the store! Tough place to browse. Obviously they have never put any money into expanding the store. It hasn't changed in years!

Harmony Hut/Sam Goody: Expensive but always a good place to browse.

Disco Mat: (Don't remember if anyone mentioned this small chain.) Good prices-I spent many a paychk at this place!

I do make the 60mile trip to Vintage Vinyl in Fords every once in a while. Great place to just hang out and browse. BTW, Their vinyl section has grown a bit.
I saw the latest David Gilmourt, Cream reunion and lots more recently released vinyl there!

Tim

 

I second the record exchange. I can trace about 70% of my music purchases to that store!



And it is around the corner from the place that I consider to have the third best Buffalo Wings in the world (trailing the Anchor Bar in Buffalo and Platz's in lehighton, PA).

 

I went to the Princeton Record Exchange once about 10 years ago, I was at a seminar at the Novotel on Rt. 1. At lunch break I drove into town, immediately found the street by luck and parked right in front, put some money in the meter and went in. I emerged about an hour and later with a handful of $1 records that I found searching the boxes under the bins and there was a parking ticket on my car that ended up costing me 25 bucks. I never got to eat lunch and got back late to the seminar. The things I go through for some lousy records.

In comparison however it was still cheaper by far then Sound Exchange even with the parking ticket. I bought a few records there once that should have been $1 records for $10 a piece. Their bootleg prices were obscene as well. They should have been busted for overcharging.

 

"Second Saturday" used to be a can't miss appointment for me (especially for imports and, ahem, "imports"), but some people got busted, attendance shrank, and it's a shadow of what it once was. I'm lucky if I go once a year now, and it's mostly out of a sense of duty. (And Second Saturday stunk compared to the Ramada Inn monthly record conventions I had attended previously...)