(they still sell clean pee products)īrooklyn Park: VIP CDs & Tapes, Title Waveĭuluth: Young at Heart, Last Place on Earth (still sells cigarettes), Hot Licks, Dull Youth, Eternal, The Cat’s Meow (3 E. Harpo’s (Oxford Center), Third Stone Music (Valley West Shopping Center)īrooklyn Center: In Zane Ltd. It was a small subterranean head shop which sold LPs, posters, incense, pipes, papers, etc.”)Īustin: Face the Music, Earl White Music (1980s) The Good Life, Albert Lea, MN – photo courtesy of Janet DeaneĪlbert Lea: The Good Life (from David Jenkins: “Clay Cameron owned The Good Life in Albert Lea at the corner of Clark and Broadway in 1972. Insider Newspaper ad–image courtesy of Paul Strickland & Facebook’s group Twin Cities Music Scene ’70’s-’80’sĬlay Cameron (photo courtesy of David Jenkins)Īl Knutson & Clay Cameron- The Good Life, Albert Lea, MN – photo courtesy of Janet Deane Hymie’s hand-written of closed Minneapolis-area stores- Thanks to Laura & Dave Hymies. Niles: The Record Joint (Bell Plaza- 2 locations) Georgetown: Orpheus Takoma Park: Joe’s Record Paradise (they put out Root Boy Slim’s “Xmas at K-Mart” record) sound musiplex – downtown musiplex – madison square a&a records – madison square a&b records (vancouver, british columbia chain) – portage avenue sam the record man (toronto, ontario chain) – various locations sonus musica homemade music (the original Wpg Folk Festival Music Store) FTW records christopher d’s (way down portage ave near unicity) rock revival comic world (w/rock revival stock) – basement location on princess Gambles record department K-Mart record department Clarks record department Zellers record department Woolco record department Simpson Sears record department Eatons record department Hudsons Bay record department Mountain Drugs (thx, DJ Vom) kelly’s – several locations mr. Winnipeg (thanx, DJ Vom): Opus 69, The Autumn Stone, Pyramid Records, Records on Wheels, Peppers, Stereo Swap Shop, Mother’s (still open in Moorhead, MN!), Music Explosion, The Wherehouse, We Gotcha It’s the Music, Country Music Center, The Cellar, Impulse Records, Wichita: Yesterday’s Discs, Purple Haze, Antarctica, Poverty Records Topeka: Mother Earth, World Records, Uptown Entertainment Shawnee: Village (they still do mail-order) Kansas City: Tough World Lawrence: Junior’s Farm, Alley Cat, Seventh Heaven, The End Urbandale: CD Shop Waterloo: Signal to Noise (late-70s), Co-Op, 1790 Records Spirit Lake: Courier Music (mid-70s), Blue Sky (late-70s) Spencer: Rainy Day Music, Merrie Melodies Sioux City: Uncle John, Backstage with Ray, Audio Emporium, Last Stop CD Shop, Slow Motion Mason City: CDGBs, City Sound, Face the Music, Leatherhead (1969-1977) Sal’s Music Emporium, Apollo, Co-Op, Real Records (closed TWICE!) West Lafayette: Lick My Grooves, SlatewoodĬedar Falls: Co-Op, Cloudburst (UNI Union bldg- late ’70s)Ĭedar Rapids: Relics, Rock n’ Bach, Record Realm (70s-80s), Krackers (70s-80s), Mellow Mind, Omni, M&M, Rattz, Rockin’ Recordsĭes Moines: Archives, Peeple’s, Co-Op, Bombco, East Town Music, Generation Landslide (head shop), Homer’s, Patchwork, Rattz II, Vinyl Fetish (two locations- one was on East Walnut), Music Circuit (two locations- 24th and University, SW 9th just south of Park Ave), Music Factory (Steve Gold- two locations- 24th St and on SW 9th), University Book Store (University Av), The Old Record Shop Rockford: Co-Op, Straight Johnson’s, Buffalo Records, Appletree, Grass Menagerie, Giant Normal: Co-Op, Divinyl Madness, Record Service, Appletree Granite City: Vintage Vinyl (still open in St Louis- OF COURSE) The phone app you need for current storesĬhicago: Wax Trax, Round Records, Rose Records, Hardboiled, Pravda, Hot Jams Jeanne Andersen’s page of Twin Cities Record Stores Good database of current operating record stores Please feel free to post comments below with new entries. This is a work in progress, and I’ll update it from time to time. Hats off to ’em! I’ve talked to a few folks over the years, and I’ve compiled a list here. I still look/looked up to the store owners, weird and ornery as they are/were, they are my heroes. Sometimes I think I love the record stores more than the records themselves (and you know how much I love records). In my younger days, I spent a lot of time in record stores & head shops, from about 1973 to 2007.
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