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Post by gremashlo on Aug 5, 2008 8:43:40 GMT -5
We had our family vacation in St. Louis last week, and I managed to "con" my wife into letting me stop off at this massive record store...
The place is INCREDIBLE--a former library building now stuffed to the gills with LP's, 45s and various collectables! I was in heaven, except for the fact that the store is literally in the middle of NOWHERE--there was nowhere for my family to go while I shopped, except for insurance offices, manicurists and a tombstone carver--whee.
I would up dropping them off at a Target about six blocks away, and was limited to an hour. Thank goodness I limited myself to 45's because their singles room had hundreds of thousands of singles. It was impossible to truly search through their stuff, but I did find the following...
--a re-release of "Rock Around the Clock"
--a Little Richard EP, w/"Lucille" and "Keep a'Knockin'"
--the original Jerry Lee Lewis Sun releases of "Great Balls of Fire" and an EP featuring "Whole Lotta Shakin'"
--"Like Long Hair" by Paul Revere and the Raiders
--"Like a Rolling Stone" by Dylan
--"Running Scared" by Roy Orbison
--"Baby Talk" by Jan and Dean (original Dore release)
Lord knows what I could have found, but it would have taken two days to properly go through their singles...
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Aug 5, 2008 9:48:10 GMT -5
We had our family vacation in St. Louis last week, and I managed to "con" my wife into letting me stop off at this massive record store... The place is INCREDIBLE--a former library building now stuffed to the gills with LP's, 45s and various collectables! I was in heaven, except for the fact that the store is literally in the middle of NOWHERE--there was nowhere for my family to go while I shopped, except for insurance offices, manicurists and a tombstone carver--whee. I would up dropping them off at a Target about six blocks away, and was limited to an hour. Thank goodness I limited myself to 45's because their singles room had hundreds of thousands of singles. It was impossible to truly search through their stuff, but I did find the following... --a re-release of "Rock Around the Clock" --a Little Richard EP, w/"Lucille" and "Keep a'Knockin'" --the original Jerry Lee Lewis Sun releases of "Great Balls of Fire" and an EP featuring "Whole Lotta Shakin'" --"Like Long Hair" by Paul Revere and the Raiders --"Like a Rolling Stone" by Dylan --"Running Scared" by Roy Orbison Lord knows what I could have found, but it would have taken two days to properly go through their singles... Sounds like fun, Grem. I used to do the same thing every time my wife and I would go away. I even did it on business trips sometimes. I remember one time in Raleigh, NC, a colleague and I with some time to kill wandered into a record store and started browsing rthrough the used 45s bin. After a few minutes, he says to me that he's tired and is going back to the car to take a nap. He wound up sleeping in a hot car for nearly 3 hours before I finally left the store. LOL! So -- how much were the 45s in the St. Louis store? I'm betting if there were "hundreds of thousands" of 45s, at least some of them must have been in bins with ridiculously low prices. |
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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Aug 5, 2008 10:03:42 GMT -5
Oh, I love them! I often buy CD's there, but haven't been there in a while.
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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Aug 5, 2008 11:51:12 GMT -5
BTW, I did not know it was a former library--but that doesn't surprise me, because I always though it looked like a library!
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Post by gremashlo on Aug 5, 2008 17:49:55 GMT -5
We had our family vacation in St. Louis last week, and I managed to "con" my wife into letting me stop off at this massive record store... The place is INCREDIBLE--a former library building now stuffed to the gills with LP's, 45s and various collectables! I was in heaven, except for the fact that the store is literally in the middle of NOWHERE--there was nowhere for my family to go while I shopped, except for insurance offices, manicurists and a tombstone carver--whee. I would up dropping them off at a Target about six blocks away, and was limited to an hour. Thank goodness I limited myself to 45's because their singles room had hundreds of thousands of singles. It was impossible to truly search through their stuff, but I did find the following... --a re-release of "Rock Around the Clock" --a Little Richard EP, w/"Lucille" and "Keep a'Knockin'" --the original Jerry Lee Lewis Sun releases of "Great Balls of Fire" and an EP featuring "Whole Lotta Shakin'" --"Like Long Hair" by Paul Revere and the Raiders --"Like a Rolling Stone" by Dylan --"Running Scared" by Roy Orbison Lord knows what I could have found, but it would have taken two days to properly go through their singles... Sounds like fun, Grem. I used to do the same thing every time my wife and I would go away. I even did it on business trips sometimes. I remember one time in Raleigh, NC, a colleague and I with some time to kill wandered into a record store and started browsing rthrough the used 45s bin. After a few minutes, he says to me that he's tired and is going back to the car to take a nap. He wound up sleeping in a hot car for nearly 3 hours before I finally left the store. LOL! So -- how much were the 45s in the St. Louis store? I'm betting if there were "hundreds of thousands" of 45s, at least some of them must have been in bins with ridiculously low prices. Okay--I'm an English teacher, not a mathematician. At least the Target was air-conditioned! I estimate that there are 80 thousand + 45s, but many of them are not sorted--they are in boxes on shelves, in corners, and under the displays. Absolute chaos--but in a fun way, as only record collectors would understand. The unsorted singles aren't marked, but are "priced" at the counter--so, you don't really know how much you'll be spending until you are ready to buy...I had two of these, and both went for $3. The vast majority were for $5 each. So, despite the insane #'s in stock, the prices are not "low" but still quite reasonable--any time you can get a Jerry Lee Lewis EP and a Little Richard EP for $5 each, you can't really complain. |
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Post by Railyn on Aug 6, 2008 19:50:56 GMT -5
When I was in college, I adored Underdog Records. He had a cool Neon "Underdog" head in the window. I bought my very first CD ever there (Queen's Greatest Hits - black cover w/red lettering - I had the album and played it to death). About 5 years ago I was out in Youngstown with a few days to kill, and I found he'd moved from Boardman to Hubbard, and though it took a little while, I managed to find him. His place is similar in that everything is in boxes. When I lived out there, my roommate never had patience to dig there with me. My husband and I spent a good deal of time there, and we came away with a CD "not for sale" dj promo for Metallica's "Some Kind Of Monster". And for pretty reasonable too. The guy that owns the place is Ron "Sonny" Hrenovcik . He was a singer at one time:  www.ohiosounds.com/The%20Todd-Mystifying%20%20Me.mp3.mp3www.ohiosounds.com/The%20Todd-Be%20My%20Lover%20Tonight.mp3.mp3**I haven't listened to the above yet, so if they're terrible, I accept no responsibility......  |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Aug 6, 2008 20:58:42 GMT -5
When I was in college, I adored Underdog Records. He had a cool Neon "Underdog" head in the window. I bought my very first CD ever there (Queen's Greatest Hits - black cover w/red lettering - I had the album and played it to death). About 5 years ago I was out in Youngstown with a few days to kill, and I found he'd moved from Boardman to Hubbard, and though it took a little while, I managed to find him. His place is similar in that everything is in boxes. When I lived out there, my roommate never had patience to dig there with me. My husband and I spent a good deal of time there, and we came away with a CD "not for sale" dj promo for Metallica's "Some Kind Of Monster". And for pretty reasonable too. The guy that owns the place is Ron "Sonny" Hrenovcik . He was a singer at one time: www.ohiosounds.com/The%20Todd-Mystifying%20%20Me.mp3.mp3www.ohiosounds.com/The%20Todd-Be%20My%20Lover%20Tonight.mp3.mp3**I haven't listened to the above yet, so if they're terrible, I accept no responsibility...... Well, Railyn, I guess I've heard worse - I just don't remember when. Are these the same guys who used to be called Todd The Dry Socket? I think Dead Mall Records need to sign them. ;D |
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Post by gremashlo on Aug 9, 2008 9:45:46 GMT -5
There used to be a church-sponsored second-hand store in downtown Minneapolis that virtually had its own oldies record store on site--while I was in college there I would spend an hour at a time, plowing through the hundreds of 45's there (I ONLY wish I knew then--1985--what I know NOW about what were collectable records...I shudder to think what I literally had in my hands, and let go by--though I did make out like a bandit for the most part). Sadly, the store's long gone.
My heart still pines for Hymie's Records in Minneapolis--that is still my favorite record buying experience, both in content and price range. However, there is an antique mall-like store in Omaha that features a record booth--apparently they are fed up with trying to sell singles individualy, so they bind them up in batches of 20 and sell each bundle for $5. I wind up buy ing a lot of duplicates, but there's some serious "nuggets" found amidst the dross. I get some insane bargains there, mostly because the Nebraska record-buying market is apparently non-existent--one antique store gives me a discount on singles, because I am the ONLY person who ever buys them at that store--and I'm only there 2-3 times a year!
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Aug 9, 2008 17:13:08 GMT -5
I remember a used record store in Boston that used to charge 25 cents per single, 5 for $1, 18 for $3, and so on ...
I'd walk out with 50 -100 records almost every time I walked in. But that wasn't very often because I lived in Maine at the time and was only in Boston to visit my folks. -- Just like your church record store, Grem, --- long gone.
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