

When the business went through a financial rough patch in 1982, he sold the shop to employees Nigel House, Jude Crighton and Pete Donne. By the end of ’78 Rough Trade encompassed not just a shop, but also a record label and an embryonic distribution company.īy the ’80s Travis was increasingly being diverted away from the record shop. Members of The Raincoats and Swell Maps worked behind the counter and almost overnight Rough Trade was at the epicentre of DIY and punk culture in London. Within six months, punk broke out, manifesting itself in flurries of 7”s that spread across the iconic shop wall like wildfire. He installed a reggae sound system and gave his bohemian employees equal pay and equal say. What’s the story? Inspired by the communal vibe of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, Geoff Travis opened Rough Trade in 1978 with a £4,000 loan from his father. Location: 130 Talbot Road, W11 1JA, London, UK Long-time customer Keith Fullerton Whitman calls it “the warmest, most inclusive record shop on earth”, so who are we to argue? Meticulously curated, like most of the city’s infamous dance music outposts, a reputation for suffering no fools has only enhanced Hard Wax’s appeal. Located in an old factory building behind the canal in Kreuzberg, DJs of all stripes can be found on both sides of the austere metal counter, DJ Hell, Modeselektor and Marcel Dettmann all honing their trade as employees over the last two decades.

What’s the story? The cherry on top of a big year for Berlin, Hard Wax was founded in 1989 by Basic Channel duo Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald and quickly established itself at the nexus of the Berlin-Detroit axis. Location: Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44A, 10999 Berlin, Germany Got tips for where we should go next? Let us know in the comments below. With our travels resuming in the new year, we thought it would be a nice moment to see the first 50 come together in one place. Rather than rank them, these are simply the first fifty shops we’ve featured so far, each of which offers something personal and unique to the worldwide vinyl community.

A sort of “1000 places to visit before you die” for record collectors, we’ve scoured the globe from New Delhi to Cape Town, São Paulo to Singapore to bring you a new shop every week to add to your bucket list. Click on each link above to view those listings, or sample a few random Midnights Vinyl LPs for sale below.All this year we’ve been on a hunt of the most influential, hospitable and downright essential record shops in the world. These options include Midnights Moonstone Blue Vinyl LP, Midnights Jade Green Vinyl LP, Midnights Blood Moon Vinyl LP and Midnights Mahogany Vinyl LP. For the Midnights vinyl, Swift has released four standard versions of the album, each with its own distinct vinyl color and album art. Taylor has taken the world by storm and even crashed Ticketmaster when her 2023 tour went on sale. Taylor Swift’s Midnights Vinyl LP is posed to be the top selling vinyl album of 2022 as we head into the holiday season. You can use this website to discover new music based on genre. Browse cheap used records and LPs by searching for a particular artist on the top right search box, or browse our categories such as rock, blues, jazz, reggae, hip-hop, world, country and disco. Every artist’s page has a handy Spotify widget that will play samples of that musician or band. Check out our current listings of turntables for sale with a helpful guide for different price ranges. A few of our favorite record stores include The Electric Fetus (Minneapolis), Ameoba (Los Angeles), Reckless Records ( Chicago), Waterloo ( Austin) and Good Records (New York City.) We offer a large inventory of vinyl from every genre, turntables, and an informative blog about being a crate digger. We have moved passed the shutdowns and record stores are open for business again. One of the bright spots of the COVID-19 pandemic was listening to Questlove’s Quarantine WreckaStow DJ sets. Brick and mortar record stores are great, but sometimes they are not located in your area, or it’s hard to find a good price on that hard-to-find vinyl. Did you just purchase a turntable, and now you need to fill your vinyl collection? Thrift stores and garage sales are a great place to find vinyl, but it’s unusual to be lucky enough to find anything good in decent condition. Cheap used vinyl records LPs albums for sale online from Jazz, Blues, Rock, Reggae, Rap, Hip-Hop, Disco, Country and World artists. Crazy for Vinyl is your friendly neighborhood online emporium of cheap used vinyl records LPs for sale.
