Ot. Which was your favourite record shop?

Cobweb Poulton - one of the owners was a big BFC fan, I used to spend many an hour looking through their punk singles box in the late 70s, happy days, wish I had kept all the ones I had, worth a fortune now!
 
Atchetman said:
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.
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Yes and all the records were sealed but with a cut in the corner. Morrissey used to work there, customer relations wasn't his forte.
 
cleveleysbfc said:
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
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Indeed Assai is a fantastic record shop . . I'm a regular in the Assai in Edinburgh 👍
 
Cobweb cleveleys hands down ainscow, it was the next best thing after watching the pool ordering your coloured vinyl or picture disk from there, I used to have great pride in storing them in alphabetical order in plastic sleeves, stored them at work a few years ago and had a flood so most have been ruined but I’ve still got all the pistols stuff intact as well as sound of the suburbs on clear vinyl & Jimmy Jimmy on green vinyl- he flicked to kick and I didn’t know & he had a full length sheep skin jacket his ma said it cost a packet - you just don’t get lyrics as good as that anymore, cobweb poulton was ok as well
 
Starpic Studios - Olympia Buildigs Late 60's for Northern Soul Recods.Then Sinfonia - Cookson Street, when Sandy opened his own shop and Starpic closed. Later years WH Smiths had a good selection of vinyl.
 
Music Mania next to the Beehive Cafe. Spent hours in both places. Decent rehearsal room in the basement of the main shop.
Sinfonia. He ordered a copy of a Nina Hagen album for me. Pleasant man who tried his best to get anything obscure for you.
 
As a cleveleys boy I went to Cobweb a lot, but my favourite was Sinfonia in Blackpool. Lots of Northern Soul Imports. Not technically a record shop but Moochers in st Annes used to sell lots of 10p imports. Got Back street by Edwin Starr there on Ric Tic and a great Woman of the ghetto by Marlena Shaw. Also lots of Radiants stuff. Great for chess label records
 
Soulbrother said:
As a cleveleys boy I went to Cobweb a lot, but my favourite was Sinfonia in Blackpool. Lots of Northern Soul Imports. Not technically a record shop but Moochers in st Annes used to sell lots of 10p imports. Got Back street by Edwin Starr there on Ric Tic and a great Woman of the ghetto by Marlena Shaw. Also lots of Radiants stuff. Great for chess label records
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Moochers. Ace
 
Tricky one 🤔 Melody House was the ‘in’ record shop back in the day. Sinfonia was a great shop too. Some bloke Sandy ran it I think? Mid 80s Soundwaves in St.Annes was good. Had a decent owner who was always helpful. My vote goes to Melody House 👍
 
Can still visualise getting Breakfast in America by supertramp in 1979 from Cobweb on Victoria Road in Cleveleys, my album of all time, not a duff track on it, still my fave album to this day
 
But the bloke who ran Graffiti in St Anne's late 80s turned me on to so many artists I'd have never found......
 
Record Salon, Church st. 2 gay guys ran it. Starpic, then Sandy’s, Melody House Bond St, bought all me punky records there late 70’s early 80’s.
 
Great nostalgic trip!😀 These youngsters will never experience the joy of spending an hour or two in a proper record shop leafing through records and listening to music as you went.
 
Record Mart on church street - he always wanted the first customer to make a purchase to set the day up and offered good discounts if you looked like leaving empty handed - remember getting wywh on release day - 1975 was the best year ever for album releases by a country mile
 
When I moved to London in the late 70s I was amazed how good the record shops were in Soho. Loads of white labels and pre-releases. This was because all the music journalists would earn extra money by flogging off their review copies. There are still some good record stores in Soho.
 
The great Sandy Mountain‘s Sinfonia on Cookson Street. Walking up those steps inside his shop then getting to the counter in the hope that he had the records you wanted, he usually did. Bought so many records on the first day of release. When they are played on the radio now the DJ introduces them as classic oldies!!!
 
Woolies and the 10p box. Used to love it the day after the charts came out and all the Top 40 singles had changed and those which had dropped out would go in the 10p box!!
 
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