Thought a thread on record stores/shopping may be interesting since I see a lot of posters who buy vinyl here.

Would be interested to hear about stores anywhere.

I live in NY but travel to the south pretty often as my family lives in Pensacola.

Here's my thoughts on record shopping in the Pensacola area (I'll add a NY post soon for anyone visiting):

1. REMEMBER WYNN
Almost all used vinyl + amazing vintage audio equipment.

Crammed with tons of LPs and 45s everywhere. Prices can be all over the place but the manager, who does ebay sales, checks everything on popsike/ebay completed but after that will usually give really good deals if you ask for a price even if there's one already on what you want.

Great place for good deals on rock, soul, jazz, country staple LPs and 45s. Some hard to find stuff too but has been pretty well picked over as far as the rarest rockabilly, local garage, soul which used to be in abundance.

There's a room packed with fantastic vintage audio equipment at pretty reasonable prices for what he has.

2. Luther Perry's Variety Shop
tons of used LPs, 45s if you can find them

you have to be lucky to find him open and hope you can get to some of the 200,000 records as the place is insanely packed with everything imaginable and he keeps loading junk in and out all the time.

However, this guy religiously cleans out thrift stores and garage sales of LPs and you will find very interesting things if you want to deal with it.

Prices can be way too low and way too high without much logic. For the truly adventurous.

3. Revolver Records
new releases + used vinyl

Typical indie record shop run by a very cool guy. pretty decent selection of new bands and reissues on vinyl. You can get lucky with Used vinyl based on when someone trades in a collection--especially some indie titles here and there-- but not the used vinyl isn't that well curated.

4. Music Box
Used Vinyl, some new stuff

kind of annoying store of the type that puts a scuffy Pink Floyd Animals US press on the wall for $40. Still the people are nice even if they seem a bit clueless. they do have a ton of records and good obscure things do "slip through the cracks into their 2 for $5 section. The classic shop where a beaten to hell Beatles 45 may be priced at $15 but you may stumble onto a powerpop single that usually sells for $500 for $3

5. Check the Antique Malls
If you're in the area, there are quite a few dealers that have huge booths at some of the many local antique malls and actually keep new stuff coming in. Many continually move around to different malls so I didn't list individual places.

This post was edited on 7/1/13 at 6:31 pm