Punkrock HistoryCan you remember when the record store was a second home for you? 🤩
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Tywyll Seren@historyofpunkrock
YES!!
Especially the “used” section cause hey I wanted to get the old school stuff!!
YES!!
Especially the “used” section cause hey I wanted to get the old school stuff!!
Peter Beens 
...and when they had listening booths?
donutage (Bill Cole)@historyofpunkrock Absolutely! Rhymes Records in New Haven, CT, was so great during my college days.
stevenray@historyofpunkrock heck yes. I still love it on the rare occasions I go to one.
The Great Llama 
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Fuck yeah. A guy named Bruce ran a shop called "13th Avenue Music" (located on what WOULD have been 13th Ave, but the city named "Commerce Ave"). He moved his shop to a different city around the time MP3s took over. It's still in business and I REALLY need to stop in some time and see if he still runs it. Gotta be damn near 70 by now.
Fuck yeah. A guy named Bruce ran a shop called "13th Avenue Music" (located on what WOULD have been 13th Ave, but the city named "Commerce Ave"). He moved his shop to a different city around the time MP3s took over. It's still in business and I REALLY need to stop in some time and see if he still runs it. Gotta be damn near 70 by now.
@historyofpunkrock
P.S. Just checked the online presence and reviews... He's still the owner and still there most of the time. Very cool. A man who truly cares about the music.
P.S. Just checked the online presence and reviews... He's still the owner and still there most of the time. Very cool. A man who truly cares about the music.
Sarah Sammis@historyofpunkrock No. They were loud. Confusing and full of gate keeping dudes. I've bought far more music digitally than I ever managed to before that was an option.
anorax
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My second home was the media library of my city. It's less sexy I confess, but everything I know about music, I learned there.
I understand what you feel. Spend hours of searching, hours of listening, hours of discovering…
My second home was the media library of my city. It's less sexy I confess, but everything I know about music, I learned there.
I understand what you feel. Spend hours of searching, hours of listening, hours of discovering…
Ryan The Red 🖥️🚲🍺🏳️🌈@historyofpunkrock Not quite, but I DO remember when a local store had an incredible rental library, and I ripped them for future use.
Peter 
@historyofpunkrock Absolutely. From the mid-70s to the end of the 80s, a record store in Wiesbaden was my second home. You could hum songs to the sales clerk and he knew which record you were looking for
From the 90s onwards, it was more the second-hand stores
From the 90s onwards, it was more the second-hand stores
Steffen Voß@historyofpunkrock Oh yes. Blitz Records in Kiel, Germany.
We donated blood and went directly into the record store to turn the free money into music.
We donated blood and went directly into the record store to turn the free money into music.
Timothy Martin@historyofpunkrock
"Goofy Records" in Hamburg used to be my second home. After, we went to "the flying Teapot" to listen to the music we purchased and had a pot of tea.
"Goofy Records" in Hamburg used to be my second home. After, we went to "the flying Teapot" to listen to the music we purchased and had a pot of tea.
J.D. MacLeod@historyofpunkrock Yes! Records On Wheels, in the late 70s and early 80s. It was a small chain that had branches in both towns I lived in during that time. They were always playing me new things they knew I'd like.
Marc Madness@johncomic @historyofpunkrock Wasn't Records on Wheels, the one in Hamilton in particular, the shop that ultimately funded the first Teenage Head LP, and led to the creation of Attic Records?
@mperron @historyofpunkrock I'm not real familiar with that particular branch but that could well be true (Attic existed before Teenage Head, tho)
Jaime Robertson@historyofpunkrock More specifically, the used record stores, the ones with the occasional bootleg albums.
In Colorado Springs that would have been Recycled Records, Collector’s Records, and Independent Records.
AndreasDeVonAusfern
wsmStoagie’s Records at Green Hill Shopping Ctr, Parsippany, NJ. Mid-late ‘70s; Bought my first copies of No New York, and My Aim Is True there. Owner told me (just released) NNY had my name on it. He was right.
Record Towne(?), Short Hills Mall, Millburn, NJ. Summer, Fall ‘81. 2nd job, earning plane fare to London. Strickly Uppa K-Rust mall, store mgr chewed me out for playing Joan Armatrading on the house stereo:
✅ “We need something more positive on in the store.” 👀😐🙄
zendao42@historyofpunkrock
I remember going to record conventions
I remember going to record conventions