Music Lovers: What was your first favorite music store?

[sundog]

That obscure little place you found yourself spending waaaay too much time & money in.

There was (or is?) this place in DC's Dupont Circle called 12 Inch Dance Records. I think I found it when I was about 16.

It was like a hole in the wall over a Burger King or something. You had to walk up some steep narrow poorly lit stairway to get to it. But they had every imported & domestic dance track ever put on the planet.

I spent hours upon hours there & probably bought the owners a new set of living room furniture with the cash I put out.

How bout you.

[liberalitch]

1. Tracks Records and Tapes

Corner of Granby and Little Creek in Norfolk, Va.
.... now it's a warehouse music

[Misunderestimator]

2. Pedelson's Music Store near Carnegie Hall in NYC

You could find literally ANY classical music there. Sheet music and recordings. Fabulous place.

[otohara]

3. Twist & Shout

Denver

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. The best record store ever.

http://www.usedkids.com

[Southsideirish]

5. The "Music Box" at 79th & Throop. We used to go there after school and

listen to 45's in little booths. ("No Dancing!")
I remember playing "Be Bop Alula"(sp?) and "Party Doll". Oh, to be young in the early days of rock n' roll - it was so exciting.

[Systematic Chaos]

6. Odyssey Records

Huge record store on Las Vegas Blvd. between downtown and the "Strip". When I got my first job out of high school in 1986 I would go in there every payday and blow half (or more) of my check every single time. My love of progressive rock has its roots there, because I would buy out one or more bands' entire catalogues, then go home and listen to everything non-stop until after the sun came up Saturday morning.

By 1989 they were bought out by that corporate nightmare known as Warehouse Entertainment (which I actually made the mistake of working for, but not at that location). Last year, they closed their doors for good.

[LoZoccolo]

7. Vinyl Solution in Grand Rapids, Michigan

They were an alternative record store that came out when alternative music was coming up, like in 1988.

[Aiptasia]

8. The Internet

Best Buy and FYE have killed all of the indie record shops and used CD shops in my area. Therefore, I have to resort to the net for my music needs.

[sakabatou]

9. Tower Records near Los Altos shopping center