Edinburgh - hey, where da cheap record shops at?

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For run of the mill new releases, what are the best shops in the city proper that are cheap?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Fopp
http://www.fopp.co.uk/fopp.asp

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

avalanche up cockburn st. (just up from one of the two fopps-----the other is on the east end of rose st.).

avalanche on lady lawson st., if it's still there.

there is another one, used to be two, I think. I forget where.

dunno about ripping records, really, but it's south of the high st., from the north bridge.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Fopp is your best bet for cheap.

Also worth a look-in for secondhand is the place on South Clerk Street, can't remember the name of it, has a bit of a teen metal slant to it, but carries a lot of very recent releases as second hand.

Cheap used vinyl - there used to be a record fair once a month at Adam house that's well worth checking and backbeat records off nicholson street, near Avalanche on Lady Lawson had a great selection though not particularly cheap.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

there is another one, used to be two, I think. I forget where.

dundas street, down towards canonmills, but i'm pretty sure it's shut now.

when i lived in edinburgh (i left in 1997), avalanche on lady lawson street was da bomb.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, there's Record Shak and what's used to be called Hog's Head both on South Clerk Street (the I think Jacob's referring to). There's Vinyl Villains just beyond Picardy Place Roundabout on Leith Walk.

I miss groovy telephones though. Home of records and telephones.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Dundas st. Avalanche closed quite a while back. Also, there are two Fopps; one on Rose street, which has a pub in it (nice idea) and the one of Cockburn street.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It is nice to hear from Keith.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It is nice to hear from Keith

too right! hello keith: it's simon. go check yer e-mail :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone I meet knows Keith.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This chap has a good rundown of stores in the city, complete with pictures. As he mentions, there was a pretty good avalanche on teviot row which lasted (I think) less than a year. They seem to be following the starbucks/subway approach of opening eighty-three shops on the same street.

― strophic (strophic), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Avalanche saga: they wanted to buy a shop around the uni, since their oldest (West Nicolson St.) was only rented, so bought the Teviot Row place. Then they were unexpectedly offered the chance to buy the West N premises and went for it, so had no need for the Teviot Row shop, and were able to sell it and buy their true home. (I think I've got that in the right order, they had notices in the window about it). The Lady Lawson St. branch was legendary when John was running it, then rubbish once he left, now gone. Dundas St feels like many many years ago.

Fopp on Rose St is now shutting at 6 (even on late nite Thursdays!) which is a shame if you commute home from Glasgow and used to be able to pop in to Fopp at half seven at night to cheer yourself up. It has also been swamped with DVDs (see also Virgin, but at least they've re-stocked well on CDs downstairs).

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"This chap" from strophic's post says that FOPP isn't cheap anymore.. ?

(thanks for all the suggestions BTW...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone I meet knows Keith

that's because he rules. when i first met him, he was playing air bass to a new order song (can't remember which, though) at potterrow.

and so was i.

the next day i went round his flat and borrowed his copy of the first house of love album. aah, happy days.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

and alex, stop fannying about on ILM and check your sodding e-mail too, eh?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone I meet knows Keith!

Haha. How did you know of that song?

Nice to hear from you too Peter, and Simon.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. How did you know of that song?

everyone i meet knows the song about how everyone ... oh, never mind.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith, I've changed my ILM name lately. You remotely wanked me once. Anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha,

That's what all the girls say. I still don't know who you are.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah Nick...

Do you know Simon? I think you work in the same place... Assuming you still work at the Herald.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah - he revealed his ILMnity when we bumped into each other at the New Buff last week.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice one... We should all get out for a sly pint some time.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, i feel naked all of a sudden. all exposed, like.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Naked, apart from your leather jacket of course!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

That'd be cool.

x-post. I'm not sure that would be so cool, but I'm open-minded.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

believe it or not, i don't wear a leather jacket any more. i know: that will have stunned you. but it's true.

and i actually threw out a black polo-neck the other night. (don't worry: there are others. just not as many.)

this is what domesticity does to a boy.

i'm sorry. i feel i've betrayed my roots :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. Well, assuming we do meet up soon I'll likely not recognize you. Anyway, I'm off to the pub now... Catch you later.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You remotely wanked me once.

I can't believe you thought that would narrow it down.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

This has been a pleasant exchange.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You should come back to Scotland, Peter. Exchanges like this happen all the time.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't mind, you know.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

Avalanche is closing - http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/avalanche-records-moves-to-weekly-market-stall-1-3363063

Eugene Kelly isn't too upset - https://twitter.com/eugenekelly/status/451749764355592192

― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 3 April 2014 20:56 (eleven years ago)

The guy's put so many manifestos and rants on twitter and the shop's website that I'd assumed they'd done this a while back.

Sorry to hear it though. Horrible if people are losing jobs.

― sktsh, Thursday, 3 April 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)

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