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Ditch Records for Indie stuff
Turntable for classic stuff
Blackraven Records and Distro for punk/HC/Metal/extreme music

there is a new one which i've only been in once called Talk is Cheap i think.. they have a mix of punk/indie/classic stuff.. not a huge selection but growing i'm sure.

SewnFlesh wrote:Ditch Records for Indie stuff
Turntable for classic stuff
Blackraven Records and Distro for punk/HC/Metal/extreme music

there is a new one which i've only been in once called Talk is Cheap i think.. they have a mix of punk/indie/classic stuff.. not a huge selection but growing i'm sure.

This is pretty much the list. I can vouch for Talk's Cheap. Excellent selection, and Tieman is a gentleman and scholar. I'm seeing more HC in there, too, which is neat.

Black Raven rules, and definitely is one of the better record stores I've been to, period.

Turntable is run by legit guys.

Ditch sometimes has good stuff.

I've probably put a looot more money into Ditch than the others but what has been said is true. Ditch has the biggest selection of "newish" releases in a variety of genres. Talk's Cheap is super rad and most of what they carry isn't at the other places. Black Raven has tons of crust/metal/etc. my most recent Ditch grudge is that J got a bunch of records from Carey Mercer and held them for his friends instead of letting me look through them. so I only got a Swing Kids 7" from that collection. but I was really going for some Mountain/Slow To Burn/etc stuff. ugh.

tylerp wrote:my most recent Ditch grudge is that J got a bunch of records from Carey Mercer and held them for his friends instead of letting me look through them.

Yeah that sounds like Ditch.

Still, Swing Kids 7" is nothing to sneeze at.

Sadly a lot of the leftover Slow To Burn stuff was thrown away, so STB records are more rare than they might've been.

i like turntable a lot
those guys are always down to talk about old tunes

Thanks for the kind words about Talk's Cheap. When I opened the storep opened I had a buncha Slow To Burn stuff...it all sold in the first 4 hours I was open.

tylerp wrote:I've probably put a looot more money into Ditch than the others but what has been said is true. Ditch has the biggest selection of "newish" releases in a variety of genres. Talk's Cheap is super rad and most of what they carry isn't at the other places. Black Raven has tons of crust/metal/etc. my most recent Ditch grudge is that J got a bunch of records from Carey Mercer and held them for his friends instead of letting me look through them. so I only got a Swing Kids 7" from that collection. but I was really going for some Mountain/Slow To Burn/etc stuff. ugh.

Once I found the Swing Kids 7'' in the dollar bin at Ditch but one side was ruined so I didn't buy it. I have it on CD though.

TurnTable rules. I have spent more money there than the others listed. Whenever I feel like I am old music geek who know way to much about shit no one else cares about and totally out of the loop about whats "hip" I just have to go down to the Turn Table and talk to those guys.

Go into turntable and as the guys to put on the Dust* record.. its 50 bucks but its some pretty rad early 70s rock.. second drummer* from the ramones before the ramones. Those guys are the good shit and always willing to recommend good bands that you've never heard of.

Also, the other day I took about 20 lps, 20 7"s, and 20 CDs into Wolf at Blackraven and he gave me a really nice trade value for records in his store.. as long as its punk rock and plays he's pretty willing to do trade which I think is awesome because alot of the shit I traded in hasn't been played in years.

*edited to get my facts straight

SewnFlesh wrote: Also, the other day I took about 20 lps, 20 7"s, and 20 CDs into Wolf at Blackraven and he gave me a really nice trade value for records in his store.. as long as its punk rock and plays he's pretty willing to do trade which I think is awesome because alot of the shit I traded in hasn't been played in years.

Wolf is always down to give a good deal. Man knows how to run a record store.

Hollow wrote:Wolf is always down to give a good deal. Man knows how to run a record store.

Plus, sweet dude.