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Where are you buying new vinyl?

One of life's necessary evils just came good for me - now every man and his dog is into selling vinyl again I found a wonderful use for my AMEX points this week I've been building up for a while - I treated myself to 500 bucks of barnes and noble gift cards and spent the lot on the good olde black stuff!

Based in NYC we still have a few independents left: my favs: Rebel Rebel, Other Music, & J&R Music World (who btw seem to pull out all kinds of oddities that have been collecting dust in their basement for years, a few weeks ago they had a bunch of sealed copies of the front/nixon interviews which actually turned out to be a fascinating listen!)

A recent visit to Boston burned a huge hole in my pocket (paid with my CC of course!) to Newbury Comics - they have a wonderful selection of pretty much everything out right now.

So where is everyone getting their stuff - bricks and mortar stores or online?
sub question - Has anyone bought vinyl from everyones favorite hi-fi store: best buy (!) - and did the experience affect you psychologically in some way?
jpearce1b

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jpearce1b OP
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Yeah weird right re J&R? Last new sealed "old" LP I bought there was a 77 issue of Dreamboat Annie by Heart like you say about 7 bucks and it sounds just lovely. Anyone visiting NYC should defiantly pop in there but bank on spending at least an hour hunting. Luckily Century 21 is nearby (no not the real estate agents) its NYCs best clothing discount store, send the "better half" there....

As a side note - In the most part I've had good experiences with the newer 180g reissues but once in a while I'll get a stinker with plenty of surface noise right from the get go. Maybe some of the newer pressing plants are still finding their feet??

- Jim
jpearce1b OP
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OK, so re 2nd hand vinyl, when was the last time you had one of those weird experiences when you go into a store you've not been to before and find a bunch of stuff you've been looking for for years? I had such an experience in Maine recently - a little vinyl only store called Enterprise records in portland. Amongst other things I picked up the legendary "metal machine music" by lou reed (it's unlistenable noise but thats not the point) just too see it there as I fingered through the "velvet underground etc." section - to find it, oh my what a rush. To be honest its been a while. I know you can find anything you want online now (and I probably buy more online now than anywhere else particularly gemm.com) but that feeling of finding something in the flesh is just priceless.

-Jim
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