Ot. Which was your favourite record shop?

Graffiti in St Annes on Wood Street. Skipped school the afternoon The Joshua Tree was released to go there and buy it. They hadn't received any copies. I had to wag the next morning too in order to buy and listen to the now in stock album. It was worth the wait. I loved that album.
 
Coinslot said:
Graffiti in St Annes on Wood Street. Skipped school the afternoon The Joshua Tree was released to go there and buy it. They hadn't received any copies. I had to wag the next morning too in order to buy and listen to the now in stock album. It was worth the wait. I loved that album.
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Wag... That's a word from the past 😁
 
The original Cobweb records on Vic road Cleveleys ran by Derek he might have been a good business man but he had no idea about music remember him telling me Bruce Springsteen would not amount to much and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody would not chart it was too long
 
Can't forget Gary Wild he had a stall on victoria street in Blackpool selling ex juke box records he also offered cash for Players No6 ciggie coupons
 
PNENIL said:
Anyone from Fleetwood remember the Record Centre on Poulton Rd and Soundtrack on Lord st?
Got most of mine from Cobweb in Cleveleys.
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Remember the Record Centre on Poulton Rd. You could go into a booth and put headphones on to listen to any records you wanted to buy.
 
Sad to see the decline of the independent record store, here in Portland we still have a couple hanging on last time I checked.

Anyway since I grew up in the 90s, HMV near the winter gardens. Mate from schools dad was co owner of cobweb in Poulton, was more of a mail-order service "ok computer!?, err, I can order it".
 
Atchetman said:
Yanks in Manchester.
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Late 70s. Wasn’t that down in a cellar in one of the big office buildings at the top end of Oxford Street opposite Rafters/Jillys? I recall they took mostly remainder stock from record companies so had hundreds of copies of failed releases by obscure bands as well as some popular stuff. Mostly crap but the odd gem emerged.
 
Rediffusion, Birley Street in the early to mid 60's. My Mum managed the shop and I was able to get demo records and the massive hit singles of the time on or prior to release.
 
Used to use cobweb Cleveleys back in the day

Current favourite record shop is Assai Records in Dundee-excellent service and always have rarer released vinyl
 
Archibald Knox said:
Late 70s. Wasn’t that down in a cellar in one of the big office buildings at the top end of Oxford Street opposite Rafters/Jillys? I recall they took mostly remainder stock from record companies so had hundreds of copies of failed releases by obscure bands as well as some popular stuff. Mostly crap but the odd gem emerged.
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Yes I remember going down the steps. It was huge area down there. It was more mid 80s when
I went. My musical tastes at that time included
Parliament,Funkadelic and Brass Construction
and at about 25p for a vinyl record it was a cheap
way of building up a collection.
 
Musicmania on Dickson Road and also on Coronation Street in the Winter Gardens building. They specialised in getting all the rare indie stuff.
 
Great record stall in the Beachcomber market Station Rd. Was also a record stall in Waterloo Rd Market run by 2 brothers lived on Preston New Rd but that was mainly C&W stuff and Val Doonican 😁.
 
Tangerinetiltingatwindmil said:
ST John’s market .
Lewis’s listen to before you buy in the booths😍
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Before I discovered Melody House I used to buy from Lewis's. It's only a couple of years ago that the last of my Lewis's singles bags disintegrated. I remember buying Blockbuster (The Sweet), Solely, Solely (MoR), Telegram Sam (T Rex) and a couple of Slade singles
 
Thornton_Pool said:
The original Cobweb records on Vic road Cleveleys ran by Derek he might have been a good business man but he had no idea about music remember him telling me Bruce Springsteen would not amount to much and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody would not chart it was too long
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Remind me which shop was cobweb records in Cleveleys? What is it now?
 
Got most my records from Cobweb in Poulton or Martin’s in the Teanlow centre! When I went into town used to go to Sinfonia(?) I think it was called on Cookson St or King St? When a bit older used to get dance 12”s from Melody House on Bond St. Was only reminiscing with the missus the other day about Melody House and the Bond St area after walking down there for the first time in years, how Bond St and that end of Waterloo Road used to be thriving, now it’s mostly run down or boarded up, the old Wooleys building is a disgrace. Quite sad.
 
Cobweb Cleveleys for me and the excitement of rummaging through the ex-chart singles and finding a treat at bargain basement prices! Think I got R Dean Taylor’s Ghost In My House for 20p - played it to death, thumping tune!

I remember it expanding and taking over the Card Shop next door - which is the corner of St Georges and Vic Rd (as said now an ice-cream money laundering shop) the original Cobweb was next door and very narrow. Big Derek was always sat there with his Simon Bates glasses on and always happy to order an album for you.

Got Godley & Creme’s concept album “Consequences” from him this way, featuring the “Gizmo” a rotating device that clamped on the guitar and constantly “thrummed” the strings - it was a triple album in a box but my third in the set was warped to buggery and never really played and I never took it back as it took ages for the order to come through!
 
Apart from the usual haunts in town for new stuff there was the second hand shop on Cookson st which only opened a couple of days a week. One day a weeks dinner hour was spent in there buying up old singles for 10-20p each. Still have loads of them.
 
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