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I'm thinking of moving to St. Louis (job stuff). Probably west side. I honestly don't know much about the city- is it audiophool freindly? Good vinyl shops? DIY crazies like me?
Thanks!
Jason
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I hadn’t been to the local record show they hold every other month for probably close to a year, so this morning was a nice time. Looking for anything specific is usually really hard, and there are some tables where everything is carefully organized and priced for the collector, but there are plenty of bargains to be found if you just hit the cheaper tables. Many’s the time I’ve seen the same album priced at a dollar or two at one table and going for over 20 bucks across the aisle.Well, I grabbed a mishmash of stuff…a couple cleaner copies of things I already had, some things I’ve been hoping to run across for a long time and the usual happy surprised. Finally ran across a cheap copy of Blood on the Tracks to replace the one with the scratch across the whole second side, so I can finally listen to side two again. For under 40 bucks, I walked away with the following:
Lee Perry: Roast Fish Collie Weed and Cornbread
Eek-A-Mouse: Wa-Do-Dem
Johnny Cash: Sings Songs That Made Him Famous
Chris Isaak: Silvertone
Flesheaters: Forever Came Today
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Lightnin’ Hopkins: The Blues Giant
Ella Fitzgerald: These Are the Blues
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Berlin
Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson: Ella & Oscar
Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson: Timekeepers
Harry Edison: Edison’s Lights
Johnny Hartman: Songs from the Heart
Nina Hagen: Nunsexmonkrock
The Untouchables: Wild Child
B-52s: Self-titled
Wire: A Bell is a Cup
Nitzer Ebb: Belief
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
Dire Straits: Self-titled
Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune
Madness: Self-titled
Patsy Cline: Sentimentally YoursVinyl hunting is St. Louis can be pretty nice.
I’m spinning the Lee Perry right now…
I appreciate the comments- I know about Euclid from mail order- I'll copy the rest to my computer and you might just see me spinning around!
Cygnus listed all the big ones.There are also record shows every other month at the Czech Hall off Kingshighway. There's one there tomorrow, actually.
Also wanna just restate how good Euclid records is for jazz. Most places I can browse around and find something if I want some jazz, but here, I can just look for specific albums and be fairly confident that they are usually going to have a copy, if not a couple choices of pressing. I went there yesterday intending to get the Ellington Coltrane album and walked out with a mid 70s 2 LP set with that album collected with the Ellington Hawkins album for only 9 bucks. Also grabbed a compilation of tenor sax blues and a 2 LP set from Billie Holiday called The First Verve Session, exactly the one I was looknig for and the thing was even still seasled. Would have grabbed more, but I'm waiting for the record show to see what I can get.
Only problem is if you like electronic music, St. Louis vinyl shopping is pretty worthless. I've resorted to mail order for that kinda stuff. If anyone has any ideas where I could go to be proved wrong on that one, let me know.
Jason,
I may be a bit biased, but I think we acquit ourselves pretty nicely. Depending on your tastes, there should be at least a few places to enjoy. First, there's Record Exchange, which is in an old St. Louis Public Library branch at Hampton and Eichelberger (South St. Louis City). They've got thousands of LP's. I mainly go for classical, but I the rock and other genres should be great.
Euclid Records carries some good used vinyl, especially jazz. They also get a pretty nice share of new vinyl. They're located in Webster Groves, which is a suburb of St. Louis.
Vintage Vinyl doesn't carry as much vinyl as they used to, but they have some great indie, rock, and jazz. They're in University City, not far from Washington University.
There's also some good book fairs throughout the years that have lots of vinyl worth checking out. One used to be called the Famous-Barr Book Fair, but since that department store is now Macy's, we'll see if that continues. (That one is usually in April or May.) The YMCA in the Carondelet neighborhood in South St. Louis City also generally has an annual book fair with hordes of vinyl in late Aug./early Sept.
There's also a couple good hi-fi shops that are analog friendly: Best Sound on Lindbergh Blvd. in West St. Louis County, and Music for Pleasure, in Webster Groves. Alpha Tech is also a good place to take a turntable to be serviced, if needed.Hope this helps!
Heck, it's worth a trip to the Record Exchange just to see those 4 Altec Magnificents that they have running.
Many good used vinyl stores, all types of music ,many thrifts for sued audio etc, I hope you will find our city very inviting to you and your interests!
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