How close is your nearest brick and mortar record store?

The ones that actually sell vinyl.

Living in a major metro area I consider myself lucky at the choices I have. One in walking distance and probably 10-20 in short driving distance.

To be honest I need to visit my local stores more often.

 

The closest one is between 5 - 10 miles. The second one is probably 10 -20 miles. Both are great stores.

 

I've got three between my house and office. Dangerous.

 

There is one that is maybe 15-20 miles away, but they carry very little classical, which comprises about 99.5% of my listening. I need to go to Berkeley or San Francisco (about 70 miles) for any serious shopping. I rarely buy vinyl these days, though--only if it's not available on CD/SACD.

 

I have one down the street about a mile. It's FYE in the mall, and they recently started selling vinyl.

 

About 8 miles to Princeton Record Exchange about 12 miles to Record Collector in Bordentown.
Not quite like when I used to live in Greenwich Village, but I can't complain.
I think they do sell a token amount of vinyl at FYE 5 miles away, but I won't count that.

 

Well if the FYE at the mall down the street from me now sells vinyl that adds another store in walking distance for me.

 

We have one record shop selling new music left in my hometown of Swindon (HMV) which sells all sorts including a decent range of vinyl.

Otherwise we have some supermarkets which stock a limited range of mainly chart albums (CDs); and one reputable second hand music store which sells old vinyl albums & CDs.

 

Just got a new one that is partnered up with a barber shop of all places. Go figure. It's just down the hill from me, about 2 miles from here.

Floyd's Barber Shop is very very expensive and shares the building but there is a indoor door between the two businesses.

Besides records, they also have some vintage gear, but most of it is mid-fi.

http://www.analogrecordshop.com/
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Analog Record Shop/@33.750505,-117.809253,3a,75y,208.34h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1se_i_lqLn5004KcSKsLlV2g!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1b16511dfc1fd65e!6m1!1e1

 

I have at least 3 within 1 mile of my house. All walkable. Closest is about 0.4 miles.

 

My favorite shop is about 4-5 miles from my workplace

There are several within a 15-20 mile radius of my house / 10 mile radius oft office.

 

90 miles away in Glasgow. Life is hard...

 

I wish there was a store in NYC that had a good selection of classical CDs or SACDs. Over the past year plus, I may have picked up 1 or 2 discs at a Best Buy or B&N in NYC (although if I did the memory escapes me). I buy everything on line.

 

I have lived in a suburb for all my record-shopping life and all this time (approximately 40 years now) the nearest record store has been about 5 miles away. There are still two left in close proximity to each other. I last visited them both on Saturday.

 

PooBah Records in Pasadena is about 5 miles away from me.
I'd have picked Canterbury Records but they only sell new vinyl. They sell cartridges and needles as well.

 

Just under 4 miles away for me, then there's 4 of them within a couple of hundred yards of each other.

 

Shouldn't the OP have included a "km" option for our European members?

 

Yes, you do. A record store is way more exciting than a mouse and screen.

 

I think I have about 14 or 15 less than a mile away, five of them under 10 minutes walk away.

Just to make clear those are all shops that sell record, new, used, or both, I haven't counted CD retailers who don't sell records.

 

A real record store is about 15 miles away. Although I just discovered within the last week that a Half Price Books which is a bit closer to me has an interesting music section, including used vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and even a few eight-tracks...

 

Luckily for me, Amoeba in Berkeley is in the 5-10 miles range from where I live. And until 2011, for 10 years I worked about a mile away, which meant I spent many lunch breaks there.

 

Here you go: http://www.metric-conversions.org/length/miles-to-kilometers.htm

 

I may have under counted:

Plastic Wax
P K Music
Prime Cuts
Prime Cuts (2)
The place above Don Major clothes shop
Idle Hands
Urban Outfitters
Head
HMV
Wanted
The Rock Shop
Before The Dawn
Payback
Rise
Fopp

Plus these which I didn't count/forgot:
The Stall at the Full Moon market
The place that was opposite Bridewell
The guy in the Alleys
Possibly a stall in Corn Street
One, possibly two shops in Hotwells
Possibly a restaurant in Picton Street

Also Genesis, but I'm not sure that's within a mile.

Several charity shops.

I don't go looking so there may well be more.

If anyone would like a tour of our record shops I can be your guide for reasonable rates and maybe even negotiate you the odd discount.

 

Vintage Vinyl Records. About 4 miles from me. I've been going there since the late 80's.

http://www.vvinyl.com/

 

There's a shop in downtown SLC (Randy's Records), that's really dedicated to selling vinyl. There are also a couple of FYE's in town, but for some reason, it just isn't the same. Unfortunately, a lot of the old school record shops in the area went belly up (including my favorite shop) during the recession. It was sad to see them go, but I'm cautiously optimistic that places like Randy's will stay around for the long haul.