Yesterday for, I think, the first time I went to Iceland..the shop I mean. I may have been in one of its outlets when it was called Bejam. Anyway, as I approached the cash out, I noted they were selling CDs, yes really an outlet that sells Frozen Gregg’s sausage rolls also sells modern beat music. Well lots of copies of only one CD actually. Which prompted me to think where is the the most unusual place you have bought music? It could be in a weird emporium or in a strange location. I am sure you Vinyl Anon members have stories to tell.
PS. If you are wondering what the CD is, I will let you guess. It ain’t that difficult. Answer in the first reply if you really can’t work it out.
Yes it was bloody Ed Sheeran. WHAT is going on? Have I stumbled into Invasion of the Body Snatchers or something?
Mes parents got me a Sinatra album for Christmas from…. Aldi.
There used to a record and tape section in the back of Millets in Reading.
A proper one stop shop for any camping trip:
Tent
Hiking Boots
Primus Stove
Thompson Twins album
Well, you don’t want to run out of fuel for the campfire.
Our local post office and shop has vinyl for sale. Second hand and usually shi*t.
In a street market somewhere in Thailand, Bangkok possibly, right next to the guy selling genuine Lacoste t-shirts
The local branch of Edinburgh Woollen Mill has a rack of CDs – budget label releases on the whole, with many containing pre-1963 out-of-copyright stuff.
Don’t be silly, I buy most of my music in fields, like a normal person.
“Oh, well I stopped because I saw all these cars parked in a circle… might as well buy some records while I’m here”
You’d probably like one record I bought on Sunday – it’s Very Rude.
Is it Wake Up… by Ian Dury? I heard that on Sunday. It’s not very rude, but he does say that.
No, it was this, by Khia. Here’s the clean version, which is mucky enough; the 12″ I bought has four other versions, most of them FILTHY. And found nestling in a pile alongside the Jim Reeves back catalogue. Dirty boy!
https://youtu.be/9z06RDU7s5g
Wot a choon though.
Where?
“Yow! Your neck? My blimmin neck after all that! Got any Fenbid?”
@ Minibreakfast.😂😂😂
Apparently Urban Outfitter is the biggest retailer of Vinyl Records out there. Not much stranger than that if you ask me.
Most unusual place to buy music?
Last week, I bought 3 CDs in HMV
(In fairness, they are getting much better (if still comparatively expensive))
Once upon a time all department stores had record departments….I remember buying the first Blondie album in (Maggs? John Lewis?Fairfax House?) in Bristol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWL197iGLc
i.e. I (still) remember the album but not the shop. Best album cover anyone?
When I was a nipper my mum used to buy ex-juke box singles for us from a bike shop. There also used to be a small box of old singles on the counter in GT News (newsagents in the midlands/Yorkshire). I’d have understood it if they were recent ones, or ex-jukebox ones, but these were just random old singles. It was the mid-80s and the ones I remember buying there was Nilsson’s Without You and There Ain’t No Pleasing You by Chas and Dave.
Around 1981, I occasionally bought albums from a shop which was half newsagent, half record shop in South Harrow (opposite The Swan pub, heading towards Northolt). The record side was definitely a hobby for the owner although he had enough stock to suggest he dealt directly with distributors and he knew his stuff, being able to rattle off catalogue numbers.
Woolworths anyone?
I bought my first record in Woolies. Beat the Clock by Sparks. Pretty cool, huh? Of course, this was 1979 or so, when the charts were so good that you could have sent a chimpanzee in there with a quid and he would have came out with a cool single. Unless he spotted the Pick n’ Mix, first I suppose.
Boots used to have a Record Department – often had a selection of Imports, and a number of picture discs.
Right next to the Photo place and the Home Brewing stuff
where the wife used to work
And me Mam, 1981-82. Staff discount on The Sweetest Girl by Scritti… nice!
And where I worked 82-85, staff discount on every record! Only about 70-80% of my wages on music, who needs food!
I bought all my first albums from Boots. I remember waiting outside for the Southport branch of Boots to open (in a queue of 1) on the day “Wish You Were Here” was released only to be told “Sorry love. We may get some in next week” by the lady shop assistant.
They didn’t update their plastic bag though did they? Well into the 80s it had some longhair with an acoustic guitar on it, even if you were buying Duran Duran.*
*Not that I was buying Duran Duran, I was buying stuff made by longhaired folks who played acoustic guitar, but you know what I mean.
Used to get Speccy games in Boots (but had to go to somewhere larger like Crawley) – think they used to be near the records…
When I was a Little Digit, a Caravan Park we visited had an Amusement Arcade (2 fruit macines and a Pole Position video game) on one side of the Reception, on the other was a small camp shop.
It sold eggs, milk, papers … all the usual stuff, and had a box of ex Juke Box singles on the counter for 20p each.
Shakin Stevens Green Door an Oh Julie, Toni Basil Mickey, and both the England and Scotland World Cup songs were acquired
That’ll be the 1982 World Cup then? This Time v I Have a Dream? England 0 Scotland 1. (We still go out at the group phase though).
The ful titles should be:
This Time (We’ll get to the second round and not score again)
and
We Have A Dream (of David Narey scoring against Brazil)
I bought Fresh by Sly & The Family Stone from Mothercare. It was 1974, mind.
Babies Making Babies….
I bought Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours from Littlewoods clothing shop in 1977. They used to have a very small record section between the nylon underpants and drip-dry shirts.
I also Roxy Music’s Flesh & Blood from the Post Office, and a cassette of Abba’s Arrival from a local furniture shop.
It was any port in a storm round our way.
That is the seventiesest thing in the world.
I bought Setting Sons in Woking library for 25p. I would say this was in 1980 – not that long after it came out. A snip! It was in a big box of cassettes, mostly without inlay cards or cases.
The last time I was in Bridport, Dorset, the pet shop had a record section in the back.
Insert your own Pet Sounds gag here.
Got any Hamsters, pal?
Oh, Please.
This thread reminds me that in 1979 I bought a Perspex style, see through, 12 inch vinyl single of Genghis Khan, that years German Eurovision entry by Genghis Khan in Woolworths Wakefield.
@franco
Blooming heck, I remember that!
“He reiter, Ho reiter” went the lyrics.
Sedition Barber Shop in Darlinghurst in Sydney sells old vinly.
I once bought a CD at my partner’s staff Xmas dinner (one of her co-workers was in a band and just happened to have a copy of their debut EP on hand)
Poundland have a load of CDS (and DVDs) for sale now (mostly stuff pre 2005). Haven’t rifled through for gems much yet, but you can’t really go wrong for a quid, can you?
Slightly at a tangent, Savers, the budget toiletries chain, have started selling cheap booze by the tills. You can pick up a bottle of Echo Falls with your cotton buds and not break the bank either.
I believe the Poundland CDs are from Music Magpie (under the banner Replay).
Pretty predictable on the whole, but have turned up some gap fillers interesting stuff a couple of times
Mention of Littlewoods above reminds me that those big old catalogues used to have records in them – remember badgering my Mum to order me Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits on the never never…I probably still owe for it 50 years later….
So all agreed Blondie is best album cover ever – IO’m pretty sure it was Debenhams and i walked all the way from a school trip to Bristol Zoo. Or was that the Denis 12″ cover?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_(song)