new yorkers - must visit record shops
 

hail all mighty fine new yorkers

i'm finally getting around to visiting NYC for a week. can you please recommended me some record shops that is a must visit? i'm looking for those independent ones selling a great selection of underground music etc. you get the idea.

all recommendations MUCH appreciated.

could you also give me a rough indication of where the shops are located?

I'm not a New Yorker, but I have been there, and Other Music (15 E. 4th Street) and Downtown Music Gallery (342 Bowery, between E. 2nd & E. 3rd Streets) are great.

Excuse my vagueness, but there are also two or three great shops on Macdougal Street, Sullivan Street or Thompson Street in Greenwich Village, somewhere around West 3rd Street or West 4th Street (there's also a fantastic wholefood cafe on either West 3rd Street or West 4th Street), and there are also loads on St Marks Place. If I can find more helpful details at home I'll post them.

EDIT - One of the shops in Greenwich Village is Generation Records at 210 Thompson Street.

this is tooo fuckin freeky musefreeky man, i'm going to NYC in a few weeks also and was contemplating starting a thread like this as i plan on buying a shitload of music when i'm there.... great minds think alike.

so c'mon New Yorkers, inform musefreek and me.

im going to NYC in october and was also interested in finding some good record shops i want to get some super rare sonic youth stuff that i cant get over here.

One of the stores on St. Mark's, Kim's, is really awesome. Other Music is great too like sonicl said.

Jammy Lands somewhere past Bleeker in Soho.

Hospital Productions
60 East 3rd St.
New York, New York 10003-9239
USA

ran by dom fernow (prurient)

i'd second a recommendation other music & kim's & also:

downtown music gallery carries the whole tzadik catalogue (in fact they are the ones who do the mailings when you buy online) you already got your addresses there right?

if you're into jazz soul or hiphop or shit like that don't forget hm oh i dont remember there is one on avenue A i think and ... hm... i dont know i bought the last poets there.

if you go to greenwich village make sure to AVOID the ripoff motherfuckers from bleeker street records, they are shit.

you might also want to take a train to princeton record exchange? i dont know how long you'll be there....

i gotta go but google or i might post later.

Like !@#$%! said, if you can catch a train there the Princeton Record Exchange is really great but might not be worth the train cost considering how many record stores are in new york.

yes sonicl. generation records stocks many bootlegs and vinyl. careful if you're a collector of bootlegs tho. some bootlegs are actually clones of bootlegs w/ the same artwork but diiferent label and cheaper inserts (there have been some KTS clones that i can remember). other music is a great option as well and i guess i'll check out DMG since i hadn't heard about it...

The wholefood place is Quantum Leap, and is at 88 W 3rd St, btwn Thompson and Sullivan.
Reviews here.

bootlegs of bootlegs!

I liked the irony of that too.

other music is good also go to the village and check out some of the ones down there. there is one street with several on that are all good.

Generation is definitely the best I know for newer stuff (post-1985), and Academy in Williamsburg (on North 6th) is the best I know for older stuff (pre-1985).

man, i went on a spree today!!! here's my appreciation of the field study i did:

first off, bleecker BOB is the shop to avoid, they have NOTHING, the slightest bits of things they have are overpriced to the sky (case in point, they are selling a deep wound album for $25 or something because it's "j mascis of dinosaur jr's hardcore band; not to mention all the discord stuff they have and severly beaten copy of in the court of the crimson king for $20). if you are a completist record/stamp collector snob, they are selling a copy of the vu&n with the original banana peel cover for $500. they do, however, have some cool posters, shirts and few fanzines there.

on the other hand, bleecker street records is fairly normal and they do stock new vinyl along with the imported and rare, some stuff is overpriced (a new belle and sebastian 7" for $10?!) but for the most part they are ok.

generation records is also awesome, the suply is amazing and prices are cheap. i fell in love with their vinyl bins, plus they have shirts (which i didn't have time to browse), i got my helen lundeberg/eyeliner 7" there.

other music looks very small but actually has one of the selections in town, there's a lot of stuff, especially when it comes to more underground difficult music and their prices are fair. CHECK THE USED BINS!! they are overflowing with lost treasures! the vinyl is selection is fucking awesome too. (in a related note, a guy try to pick a fight with me for looking at a crate of vinyl underneat the new vinyl bin...)

kim's is great and if you look hard enough, you can find great stuff at cheap prices (even if some isn't that cheap). i once found a vinyl copy of amt's wild gals a go go for $20 and for some temporary mental retardation i suffered for an instant didn't pick up (that was last year). there's also films galore. again, look on the used bins for treasures.

those are like the standout shops i went to. nyc is vinyl/cd heaven!!!! i love going to a store and actually looking at records i'm interested in buying!

if i ever go to other music i wont be able to refrain from asking for garden state because i heard its indietastic.

if you plan on going to jammyland, hospital is right underneath
heres a good article about em http://www.villagevoice.com/music/06...,73934,22.html

OMG!!!!!! I just got back from a week in NYC. That place is truly stunning and I'm gonna move there someday. I was fucken blown away. Went to CBGBs and had a blast of a time.

Also bought a copy of the magazine Filter who ran a big story on 25 years of Sonic Youth. Great Stuff.

I'm so jealous of New Yorkers. :)

Good to hear you had a good time.

Did you see any bands? Who and where?

And what record shops did you go to and what did you buy?

im going on the 12th of october, would love to hear about what you did there musefreek.

At CBGBs I saw this punk band called Flipper. Some of you might be familiar with them.

And at the Webster Hall I saw Kasabian support by Mew who was spectacular. I met Kasabian's record company person at the bar and she put my drinks on their tab. I was pretty chuffed as you can imagine.

In terms of records I bought, I picked up at Other Music:

1) The Dirtbombs. Can't remember album name but it has this great song on it called Chains of Love
2) Mew - 2nd album. Ethereal music.
3) Melvins - Dale Crover EP. RAWK.

:)

I remember Kurt Cobain wearing a Flipper shirt all the time, ive seen so many pictures. wasn't that his favourite band?

You mean neither of you motherfuckers have heard of Flipper?

Brilliant punk band.

Eat records on Mesarole in Greenpoint is killer for cheap vinyl.

Screaming Skull (and anyone else in nyc): If you're not doing anything October 12th, you should see Royal Pink at Otto's Shrunken Head. I know it says the 10th on their page but it's the 12th. They're a chick band with two bassists and no guitarist, and they rule.

http://www.myspace.com/royalpinkrocks

downtown music gallery is my favorite cd store ever! i was there a month ago and spent like 105 dollars there in a half an hour. if you go there talk to manny, he knows a shitload about cool music. apparently thurston and jim orourke did a benifeit show for the DMG

i'm excited to be moving there (not only) because of their great record stores.

Hi all new yorkers! Any NEW interesting record store in New York since 2006?

I'm interested mainly in vinyl (EDIT: mainly underground avantgarde experimental noise and imaginative pop music).

I add below a small compilation of what I've read here (and maybe some of them are closed...):


Bleeker Street & St Mark’s Place: bleecker st. records (still not recommended?), mainly Kim’s
Generation records, 210 thompson st
Sullivan and Macdougal st (unknown names)

((Meanwhile, my wife may have a good time at Quantum Leap, at 88 W 3rd St, btwn Thompson and Sullivan.))

Hospital Records (Prurient), 60 EAST 3RD ST. , between 1st and 2nd ave, basement in Jammyland Music

Jammyland Music ITSELF (Soho)

Other Music, 4th street, 15e, close to Tower

Downtown Music Gallery (342 Bowery, between E. 2nd & E. 3rd Streets)

Academy in Williamsburg (on North 6th)

Eat records on Mesarole in Greenpoint

Princeton Record Exchange


Regards

hospital records moved, jammyland is closed, and i'm pretty sure there's no record stores on st. marks anymore.

i have a fairly comprehensive guide of NYC record stores here. hope it helps.

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/DktrFa...rd_store_guide

also, good call on quantum leap. ;)

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That list is perfect. THANKS a lot, it will be my guide.

Heaven Street in Bushwick is unreal

Thanks for all the infos!