Comments on: Pining (Again) For Record Store Days

By: Marmarosa

Marmarosa — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:00:13 +0000

Thank you very much, maartenkools

By: maartenkools

maartenkools — Sat, 19 May 2012 19:22:37 +0000

These record shops are downtown Amsterdam. With collector’s items I mean LPs worth $50 and up:
(best shop to get the “brownie” ;
La Tertulia Coffeeshop
Prinsengracht 312, Amsterdam, Nederland
two really nice “old” ladies help you in a perfectly friendly small shop. Nothing like the shops all the tourist go.

ELPEES:

Concerto Amsterdam

Utrechtsestraat 52-60
Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Tel: +31-206235228
Large shop. Also CDs(large collection!) /DVDs/books: New LPs audiophile, japanese pressings, second-hand jazz/rock/punk/pop/classical. Good store, some collector’s items.

Record-Palace
Weteringschans 33-A
1017 RV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31 20 6223904
Only secondhand and japanese/audiophile: Large store with rock/pop/jazz and collector’s items

RecordFriend
http://www.recordfriend.com
secondhand and new. Everyting from classical to punk and soul and jazz.
Sint Antonies-breestraat 64
1011 HB Amsterdam
+31-651643022

sWaxwell Records
Gasthuismolensteeg 6
1016 AN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31-206271600
Small shop only second-hand LPs. Pop/disco/soul/jazz. Lots of collector’s items in jazz and soul/disco

FLESCH Records
Noorderkerkstraat 16
1015 NB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31-206228185
Beautiful small shop with beautiful second-hand LPs. Avant garde/european/jazz/classical. Jazz collector’s items and maybe the largest collection of rare collector’s items regarding classical music in Europe. Knows almost anything on record/label history (and also sells biological fruit from his own land and restored hi-fi gear from the 50?s and 60?s) thursday till saturday

RECORDMANIA
Ferdinand- Bolstraat 30
1072 LT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31-206209912
Only second hand large store with rock/pop/jazz/latin/classical: Some collector’s items

Amstel Antiques
(Amstel Antiek)
Secondhand classical,jazz,60’s and 70’s music.
really large quantity of lp’s. Not so manny collector’s irems
Amstel 110
1017 AD Amsterdam

Second Life Music
Prinsengracht 366
Amsterdam
small shop, but sometimes really rare collectors items!
(opposite the former Public Library)
Open all week from 1 to 6
Selling and buying!

Swingmaster
Kruitlaan 21
9711 TW Groningen, The Netherlands
+31 50 3124020
This one is not in Amsterdam but in the city of Groningen (northern part of Holland) but they have a large collection of blues and jazz collector’s items. Specializes in old jazz and blues, also 78?s

De Zwarte Schijf (the black disc)
Hogestraat 13
4001 ET Tiel, The Netherlands
http://www.zwarteschijf.nl
Tel: +31 344-635333
This one is also not in Amsterdam but in the centre of Holland. They have about 50,000 78-RPM discs, jazz and classical

By: elix

elix — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:59:34 +0000

The owner’s name is Jay Cutler? It’s always sad to hear of a record store closing, but as a huge Bears fan, I don’t like to hear any sad news involving any Jay Cutler.

By: ceedee

ceedee — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:07:24 +0000

‘This summer I´ll visit Armsterdam”..Marmarosa,have a brownie on me(and I don’t mean Clifford)!

By: Marmarosa

Marmarosa — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:13:17 +0000

Dear Maartenkools,

This summer I´ll visit Armsterdam. Could you be so kind to tell me the records stores where I can find jazz on vinyl?

Thank’s

By: ADAMSKI

ADAMSKI — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:22:25 +0000

Yes
It’s never been the same since the web, stores just
look up the item on popsike and lob it on the wall.
I used to the literally live in the Record and Tape Exchange in London, no categories just racks and racks of vinyl.
Hard work but when it happened, god it happened…Booom!!! Then Sitting on the Tube home reading the cover of your find.
That said now I love waiting for the postman with my brown record envelope anticipating with held breath the condition its actually in!! A real lottery…….

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:25:39 +0000

A record, not are cord.. Stupid iPad.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:20:29 +0000

Hyde Park Records in Chicago used to be my go-to place for finds. I had a rapport with the owner, and he had a good eye, as well as a clientel that consisted of junkers who cleaned out estates on Chicago’s South Side. I was able to go behind the counter and dig through their most recent buys, and picked up a lot of great and rare records at that shop. The owner sold about three years ago to a guy from France, and I’m told the new owner sends all of the good stuff directly to Europe and specializes now inner pressings and CDs.. It’s really ashame when are cord shop closes, but even more of a shame when a record shop loses its soul.

By: felixstrange

felixstrange — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:27:06 +0000

@Stevie

The finds are still out there if you are willing to put in the time. The key is finding sources of records that haven’t yet been dug through such as Goodwill intake centers, etc.

As the original post suggests, this will mean digging through piles of Andy Williams and Herb Alpert, but the ratio of Lexington-era Blue Notes to Barbra Streisand records is a sheer fact of record sales and not an especially new phenomenon. If you trust that they are there, you will find them eventually if you persist and look in the right places.

As for record stores, I think there is a surfeit of record store owners who understand the market for Jazz (and Classical in an even greater capacity). Most record store owners rely heavily on price guides like Goldmine and are largely only familiar with the Rock/Pop collectors market. People who are seeking for high quality Jazz LPs to listen to on hifi setups are an unknown quantity to them.

As a result, most record stores have pretty tedious jazz sections. 95% of what they stock is of little interest to anyone at all and many interesting jazz records are priced too high to sell. Even worse are the stores that clog their bins with gray-market ‘reissues’ pressed from CDs that they pass off to uneducated buyers.

Speaking as someone who still patronizes many record stores, I’m almost always willing to pay retail (let’s say 50% to 100% more than online auction price) for the right records. The problem is that most record stores don’t seem to understand what makes jazz and classical releases desirable and don’t go to the necessary trouble to acquire those kinds of premium titles for their customers.

Here’s hoping that records stores start offering more quality and (far less) less quantity.

By: Rich Hetrick

Rich Hetrick — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:22:25 +0000

I started buying records at Cutler’s in 1960. The owner, Jay Cutler, knew I liked jazz and would put aside things he thought I might like. I was introduced to many a jazz great by his thoughtfulness. When he retired in the 70’s, his son took over and the whole vibe of the store changed. I went in about a year ago and left quickly. Sad.