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Strangest places that start selling new LP's

Jerwardemy

Jerwardemy

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Tractor Supply...They had a small display set up at the registers...I thought it was calenders at first. There was just a handful of choices...AC/DC, Dylan, Elvis, Cash, and Joplin. It really took me by surprise to say the least. Wondering if anyone else has ran into something similiar:headscrat
 
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Urban Outfitters. They even sell cheap crappy turntables with plastic platters and cartridges made of crayon.


Kidding about the crayon but not about the rest
 
I was surprised the other day to see a couple turntables at Best Buy. Had not seen a turntable there in many years. (no records though)

I remember when grocery stores sold records. (compilations and holiday music)
 
jsisk said:
I remember when grocery stores sold records. (compilations and holiday music)
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Yup, I have an A&P "Christmas Greetings" LP from around 1970. I also remember my mom buying me kiddie book-and-record sets at the supermarket.

In the early '80s I was in a little grocery store in Bellefonte, PA - little more than a country general store really - and they had a small selection of cut-out LPs for sale, some jobber must have brought them in. I scored a 1976 1st pressing ("distributed by ABC Records") of the Ramones' debut album for $1.99! That's a fairly rare one, and an odd thing to find in a country grocery store. In the same store, on the same visit, I also bought a c.1964 set of NIB Beatles cake decorations. It had probably been sitting there for 20 years, unsold!
 
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Nowdays in Italy is common to find LPs being sold at newstands (as it was common in several countries like Italy, Spain and Argentina in the 70' s and 80's).
 
jsisk said:
I was surprised the other day to see a couple turntables at Best Buy. Had not seen a turntable there in many years. (no records though)

I remember when grocery stores sold records. (compilations and holiday music)
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I bought my first copy of "The Music from Peter Gunn" at the "super market" that I worked in after school and Saturdays in the late fifties. I miss those days when there was a rack of records for sale in almost every store.
 
kay44tn said:
I bought my first copy of "The Music from Peter Gunn" at the "super market" that I worked in after school and Saturdays in the late fifties. I miss those days when there was a rack of records for sale in almost every store.
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I have that album.
 
Jerwardemy said:
Tractor Supply...They had a small display set up at the registers...I thought it was calenders at first. There was just a handful of choices...AC/DC, Dylan, Elvis, Cash, and Joplin. It really took me by surprise to say the least. Wondering if anyone else has ran into something similiar:headscrat
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TRACTOR SUPPLY????? Seriously?

That would have to top THE strangest place. Tractor Supply is selling vinyl, but Best Buy is not?

Are we in some weird backward-ass universe or something????
 
When I was a kid in the 70's I used to walk to the corner "Colmadito", which is a small mom and pop store kinda like 7 Eleven on the island of Puerto Rico and buy 45's. They were cheap and I could buy the hits :). I do remember drug stores carrying LP's
 
KentTeffeteller said:
I remember when many a grocery or drug store had a record rack with current hits and some cutouts.
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As a kid growing up in the 60's, I always headed to the record racks in those type of stores. In those days you didn't have to travel too far to find a store selling records. Every town seemed to have at least 1 or more record stores, along with several retail stores with a record department. My favorite was E. J. Korvettes.....LPs on sale were 3.44 each in the 70's!
 
grooveman said:
As a kid growing up in the 60's, I always headed to the record racks in those type of stores. In those days you didn't have to travel too far to find a store selling records. Every town seemed to have at least 1 or more record stores, along with several retail stores with a record department. My favorite was E. J. Korvettes.....LPs on sale were 3.44 each in the 70's!
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Usually a dollar less for the mono version.

Lou
 
Lman said:
Usually a dollar less for the mono version.

Lou
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I remember buying "The Beatles 2nd Album" in mono for $2.49, at a local discount retail store in Spring of 64', when it first came out. It was the 1st rock/pop LP I ever bought by myself. A few months prior to that, I received both "Meet" and "Introducing" as a birthday present, both in glorious mono!

From that moment on, kid's toys started to loose their appeal and I became a music freak, soaking up the great pop music of the time and learning to play the guitar. All at the tender age of 9!
 
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