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The pics I'm seeing makes the stores look huge. The biggest store we have in our area is Josey Records. It's pretty nifty 2 floors & reasonably close to me but I rarely go their. Why? Old Codger Alert: they play music so loud you can't even converse with the store clerks or concentrate while you browse. I feel like Marty McFlies high school principal.

Sadly after 20+ years one of my favorite record stores just closed, Vinyl Renaissance. They had a separate section for quad records & audiophile direct to disc stuff. Bought a few SACD's there & a couple of LP's. Small but very nice selection of 'tronics & speakers, etc. But the owners just decided to retire...
It looks HUGE because it's HUGE!
 
This was many years ago, I wandered into a record store in Melbourne and I saw one of the most stunning looking skinny blonde shop assistant. I was looking for some stuff by Ian Dury and the blockheads and so I asked her what they had. She then reported to me that her favorite by the blockhead was " sex and drug and rock and roll". Wow, I fell in love that moment!
 
Made a pilgrimage to St. Paul's Cheapo Records. I followed this advice:
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My latest was to The Philadelphia Record Exchange in January while visiting my daughter over Christmas/New Years. I bought several records of various condition (mostly at least VG) and the prices were commensurate with the condition.

It is fairly close to where she lives so I walked there and then walked down to the Fishtown Tavern afterward where they make killer Martinis and Tonics. They certainly don't skimp on the gin! :D

Doug
 
Boy howdy do I have a stack of records to get to! As mentioned in the thread for the new Yes Fragile set, today's my birthday and my family sent me all this:\
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That's the Steven Wilson Atmos Mix Yes Album set, De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising, Hermanos Gutierrez's El Bueno Y El Malo, and Khruangbin and Leon Bridges's Texas Sun (all but the last one with Atmos mixes on one format or another!) And the things in front are Loop Concert Earplugs, a phone mount for my car, a real meat thermometer (I have one of those old dial ones that seems to... not work?), and a new nice keyboard for my office nook.

If that somehow isn't enough, my lovely sister-in-law has ordered Jazzmachine's 24 and Tetragon Project's Oracles off of IAN Records's site for me, and my brother got me a Sigur Ros album (which one, currently unknown on their way to me).

I had a FULL day of birthday adventures, from lunch at a nearby deli, to mini golf at a nearby local course, to going to Wax Trax records here in Denver, Colorado. I forgot to take pictures of the place itself because I was a kid in a candy store. I hadn't actually been to a record store in nearly a year, having moved away from nearby places to Denver late Oct, and not wanting to add much more to my packing duties. I probably haven't been to one since sometime either late August or September last year... as a result I went a little crazy. Did I spend too much? Yes. Can I afford it? Also yes. Do I regret it... no not at all:
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That is, in order:
In order:
Ash Ra Tempel S/T (Krautrock)

Michael Hoenig/Manuel Göttsching - Early Water (Berlin School ambient)

Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum (Space Ambient)

Ryo Fukui - Mellow Dream (Modal Japanese Jazz)

Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar (Pop Electronic)

Tortoise - TNT (Post Rock)

Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods (Ambient, a 1975 album, his only album until…)

Ernest Hood - Back To The Woodlands (Ambient, released in 2022!)

The Future Sound Of London - Cascade 2020 (New remixes/"continuations" of a track from the album Lifeforms, a whole new album built around one track)

Nujabes - Modal Soul (instrumental hip-hop... for those who are fans of J Dilla, Nujabes was born the exact same day and year as J Dilla and makes very similar music... tragically gone too soon just like Dilla)

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Killer Whale Atmospheres (Dark, moody ambient)

From there we went to a Brewery not too far from Wax Trax, Bierstadt Lagerhaus, and then dinner at Jinya Ramen
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And then finally rounded things off with a few arcade games and rounds of pinball at The 1UP Arcade Bar

All this was a capstone for a full birthday weekend that ranged from Disc Golf and grillouts on the 4th, the Grateful Dead cover band Dark Star Orchestra on the 5th (another great poster added to my walls!), and now today. With one more day left in the weekend... my plan is to do a whole heck of a lot of listening!
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