Grammar School Records
Just spend a splendid weekend in Rye, near Hastings. Imagine my surprise to find a REAL second hand record shop in the high street - as in rack upon rack of old vinyl. It is housed in the old town grammar school, and has metre upon metre of rock, country, jazz, easy listening, classical, compilations, etc etc etc. I had forgotten the joy of working your way along a rack of vinyl, finding lost treasures and curios. And the smell of old vinyl in the morning - mmmm! Me, I simply had to buy "Thick as a brick" in the original newspaper sleeve, mint nick, for a fiver (see recent Tull posts) but could easily have spent a fortune in the folk section, chocker with obsure folk rock albums including a Linda Thompson one I had never heard of. I urge readers to head there should they be in the environs (BTW - I have no relationship with the shop at all other than love at first sight).
Sorry for crap quality of photo - phone camera in the rain!
Any other real vinyl shops out there?
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Cheapo Cheapo Records
In Soho. Bargaintastic.
Obscure Linda Thompson???
Which one, which one?
Dunno
I saw it in a real hurry and didn't clock the name, other than that I didn't know it. Mind you I'm not a Linda expert. BTW I currently owrk with someone who is a dead ringer for Linda!
On vinyl ...
... it would proably be her 80s album, One Clear Moment. Not bad actually, but suffers from horrible 1980s production.
I saw Linda last night as it happens, at the Sandy Denny tribute evening at the Troubadour in Earls Court. Sadly she didn't sing - along with Joe Boyd and Karl Dallas she shared reminiscences of Sandy from their early folk club days. (Daughter Kamila Thompson did sing later on, and to rather wonderful effect.)
And today is the day...
R.I.P. Sandy
Second reply
Are there any record shops out there at all? All the independents are folding like origami, the big chains are consolidating stock down to the usual culprits and as for the bloody supermarkets. I know you can get virtually anything on line but where's the discovery? Where's the pleasure of going thru it all, LP or CD, to come across the nugget of forgotten gold.
Charity shops
I get most of my records from charity shops and car boot sales. it's a great way of finding strange stuff and also stuff that sold by the shed load 20 years ago and is now out of fashion. Everything's 50p so it doesn't matter if it's rubbish and you don't have to suffer the barely concealed sneers and sniggers of muso record shop employees when you purchase LPs by the Shadows and Waylon Jennings.
Used to have a real vinyl shop near me
but it melted last summer.
If any t-shirted serving oiks dared sneer at my purchases of The Shadows or Waylon Jennings, I'm afraid I'd be tempted to give them a swift smack in the gob.
Unless they were bigger than me.
Greenwich market..
.. has a good stall, other than that flea markets and charity shops. My local age corcens has even got rarer stuff priced abit higher, behind the counter. I'm at odds with this I don't begrudge the shops getting a fair shake from their stock it's just this sort of thing that has wiped out the other shops there's no market if you can't get a gem for 40p. Also as I've said before does it always have to be about the money, one of the joys of second vinyl is the lucky punt that opens up new stuff. When shops knock out sutff for the price of a cd ther's no pot luck action.
I miss
the wave of record shops that opened up in the late 70s when a load of heads finally scraped together enough money to open a shop, and the attendant proggy/hippyish names they had. Our local one on the IOW was 'Happy Daze' (the owner was once in a band with Mark King, fact fans).
Ah, the days
... hours, nay weeks, of my impressionable youth spent in Foundation records in Ivybridge. Not a great record shop but thy let you buy "big" albums on the Friday before release date. Cue Ivy's indie hierarchy touting Be Here Now round the 6th form and receiving much kudos in so doing.
and then..
everyone listened to "Be here now" and your kudos quickly dwindled ;)
That'll be those rare 14 inchers then?
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Cob Records
Wonderful place. Have their sticker in my car window. Been using it since the 70s (the one in Porthmadog, although there is another in Bangor). Bought new LPs from there by post when living overseas. Love to ferret around in there for second-hand vinyl and CD whenever visiting the area. As featured on Duffy's Myspace page.
Still there!
I've bought many an LP in Cob in Bangor, though not for a long time - delighted to know they're still there!
Jazz is Better On Vinyl
Your picture looks like a treasure chest of vinyl, I must pop in if I'm ever in the area. Delightful image, a sadly rare sight these days.
I tend to buy most of my vinyl from charity shops these days. Yesterday I bought Sinatra At The Sands for a mere £1.50 from Oxfam. I have it on CD but it sounds far warmer on vinyl as does most jazz. If I'm in Leeds I pop into Jumbo or Vinyl Exchange which has an excellent record section downstairs. Disc World aka "Disco Bills" in Scarborough is pretty good too as is MOJOS music cafe; a cafe and record shop in one.
Vinyl selling well downunder
I regularly go on the lookout for collectable vinyl from the 50s onwards, and have been pleasantly surprised how much stuff is still around - good quality items that I haven't seen around for many years and even some nice rare items now and then. The charity shops are always worth a lookin, but it's good to see shops specializing in vinyl popping up here and there too. Vinyl is truly making a comeback !!!
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