Used Brit-indie discs in NYC: Suggestions please.

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In the process of a major weeding-out of my CD collection, and have piles and piles of early 90's crap that I'd quite like to unload....for money, if possible. I know there's always eBay, but that takes time and postage, etc. I know a handful of joints that buy used cd's like Academy on 18th street and maybe Revolution on Thompson street, but does anyone know of somewhere *specific* who might be especially interested in late 80's/early 90's Brit indie/shoegazer/goth/Madchester crap like: Revolver, Curve, the Milltown Brothers, Chapterhouse, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, The Mission, Happy Mondays, Candyflip, The Hair & Skin Trading Company, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, obscure 4AD'ers like Insides & the Glee Club, Bleach, Adorable, Senseless Things, Mansun, Kula Shaker, etc.? Lots of these are ep's or singles, too.

All suggestions are welcome & appreciated.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex I live at 2349B Twekham Drive in Chicago Illinois but I don't get paid until tomorrow.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 30 January 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't think of a specific place that would be looking for Brit stuff, but the most money I've ever gotten from used stuff was from Sounds on St. Marks (something like $200 for about 40 to 50 CDs). If you felt inclined, I would recommend trying Other Music and Kim's for the choice discs first, then trying to dump the rest at Sounds.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Try Rebel Rebel. They specialize in English pop imports.

― Ben Williams, Thursday, 30 January 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha you listened to Kula Shaker? :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but Dave at Rebel Rebel (where I got a buncha this shit in the first place) invaraibly won't go near used stuff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe not. I dunno, I've sold stuff there before.

― Ben Williams, Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a few ep's of Kula Shaker's that I got at since-long-gone Route 66. I remember liking "Hey Dude" and "Tattva" (although neither have aged well in the slightest). But yeah -- they're completley embarassing. I'll hold onto the album (K), but I wouldn't miss this other stuff of theirs for a nanosecond.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

you can't sell insides, they're wonderful.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 31 January 2003 05:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Kula Shaker's cover of "Hush," but that's about it.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 31 January 2003 05:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex, try Academy, on 18th St. between 5th and 6th Avenues. They will buy EVERYTHING, and I mean paper-covered and CD-R promos, too, and though they're not paying as well as they were last year around this time, they still pay decently, esp for salable stuff.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 31 January 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I know they do, M (I mentioned Academy in the question up top). That's where I usually go, but I was hoping for a somewhere that got excited about this stuff. Academy pretty much take any old things ya bring'em. I'm hoping for someone more specialized.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 January 2003 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Something along the lines of Record Runner in the West Village (not on Cornelia -- but a block further west).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 January 2003 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

ah, my apologies for not reading closer

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 1 February 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

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