stores

[wixel]

hello,
i thought there was a thread discussing this, but i can't seem to find it.

i was wondering where everyone gets his records (most often). which are the practical places you end up the most. i guess for many it will be ebay/discogs or the local record store.

i'm probably not the most interesting person to start this thread, because i'm biased because of my first choice:

1st. jj records. parijsstraat 32, leuven, belgium. as i worked there, it's pretty logical for me to order everything through them. i think i get about 90% of my records here. they do have a good selection of indie cd & vinyl, some electronics (always the basic good stuff). some secondhand.

2nd. directly with the artist/label. if i can't get it at JJ records, i order always directly with the artist or the label.

obviously there's the awesome experimedia / norman / boomkat / aquarius / forced exposure etc from this world, but i actually don't end up there that much.

anyone else wants to share?

[jórgos]

Well in Greece is pretty hard to find ambient, drone and mainly electronic stuff from labels such as 12k, Touch, and/OAR in regular music stores and if you will you are gonna pay double the price.
So, for me ebay, discogs, boomkat etc. are the obvious choises and the only places where i can find the stuff i want in low prices. Sometimes i order the music i want directly from the artist or the label but i always prefer the artist.
If i want to buy "commercial" stuff i just visit local stores.

[billygomberg]

Real Life:
Other Music, NYC

Online:
Forced Exposure
mimaroglu music sales
Erstdist

and yeah, often ordering from labels direct.

[Koda]

These days...
Stormy Records (owned by Windy & Carl. Great people!). They've been around a long time...

Neptune Records (greatest record store ever) closed its doors a some years ago and that pretty much put an end to my friday nights. Put more money in my wallet though!

If not Stormy, I shop online. Which is a big bummer...I'm a record flipper, love the hands on experience.

[rené]

in real life: bis aufs messer, hardwax

then: directly from label or artist

online: a-musik, norman records, discogs, ebay

not anymore: boomkat.

[steinbruchel]

i buy music only online. unfortunately i must say, but where i live there's just no good recordstores anymore.
and the only one which is quite ok is to slow and tehy don't get the stuff i want...

- mostly directly from labels/artists
- mailorders europe: boomkat, norman records, a-musik
- mailorders us: mimaroglu, experimedia
(though i tend to avoid shipments from the states if possible as shipping costs are really high)

[aleks]

[rupske]

1st. jj records. parijsstraat 32, leuven, belgium. as i worked there, it's pretty logical for me to order everything through them. i think i get about 90% of my records here. they do have a good selection of indie cd & vinyl, some electronics (always the basic good stuff). some secondhand.

2nd. directly with the artist/label. if i can't get it at JJ records, i order always directly with the artist or the label.

obviously there's the awesome experimedia / norman / boomkat / aquarius / forced exposure etc from this world, but i actually don't end up there that much.

anyone else wants to share?

Wow! that's pretty crazy because this exactly the way I buy music too. Perhaps to be expected because I'm also from leuven.

[NQ]

In real life, I mostly buy records at a-musik. I can spend ours in their store and more than often i leave with way more records than i wanted to buy in the first place.

Online it's mostly through artists/labels directly. For second hand vinyl it's the good old discogs, ebay or amazon.

[haesslich]

i try to buy as many items as possible either by the artist or label directly. this is often cheaper than in any other store.
but i'm happy to have a quite good record store in town, monoton in nuremberg, germany. one or the other of these guys has some interest in neo-classical and ambient stuff, so i can find some stuff there too, or at least they order it for a fair price in a good time. apart from that, they've a good indie and singer/songwriter collection and some electronic gems. i'd say apart from the lacking of postrock they meet my taste perfectly.

[Orphax]

My local records store where I am a regular customer is Concerto, in Amsterdam.

Though most is ordered online at Boomkat and Norman Records and a substantial amount direct from artists/labels.

Probably will decrease pretty soon as I spend too much money on it and I might buy the apartment I am renting right now in the near future.

[runningonair]

Can't remember the last time I went into a record shop.  I much prefer to do it online these days.

For smaller artists I'll go for the lable site store, then Norman records, Boomkat maybe.

For bigger acts, I often go for the cheapest deal I can find on amazon.