Are there any good cd shops in Boston??

There are no great used record stores, although that one in Central Square, Cheapo's, is good.

The Newbury Comics in Harvard is a bit better than the one on Newbury I think.

CD Spins is good, although if they aren't placing the used CD on a wallrack (where you can read the title of the cd) they can be tedious to go through.

Cheapos has a good section too. Skippy White's (right near the middle east) is a very odd store. A lot of new R&B and Soul, but when you get to the back, there are liked hundreds of doo-wop and cut-rate soul comps. Looney Tunes has some good obscure vinyl, lot of jazz and early vocal/cabaret/bossa nova/weirdo stuff. I haven't been to Nuggets in awhile but they had a good selection of old magazines.

Second Coming seemed pretty much doomed. I did like how it was like a carbon copy of the Second Coming in NYC, right down to the CDs behind glass.

Diskovery in Allston is an amusing train wreck, which records and books crammed all over in no order what so ever, comparable to Accidental Records in NYC.

Newbury has a decent used selection but everything costs almost as much as you'd pay new. Last fall I went to San Francisco and made a quick stop at Amoeba and Rasputin's, and oh man, it was like used record heaven - Boston can't touch it.

x-post: Seconded on Diskovery, what a fucking great store.

stereo jacks, orpheus, and looney tunes are all shops wherein i regularly find htf lps for very reasonable prices. i bought 5 lps for very reasonable prices at stereo jack's yesterday.

newbury comics carries the kind of music you'd hear on a college radio station. they also carry hip hop.

second coming is gone, there's a hip hop store there now. record hog and pipeline are gone as well, as is the other music that was around the corner from twisted village.

there's a store around the corner from the coolidge corner theater in brookline that has decent vinyl, but they bought some 3"cdrs i had made of musique concrete soundtracks for $6 each at twisted village, then re-sold them on ebay for $133. so i don't go in there any more.

in your ear is still open, there are two locations: the one in harvard on mt. auburn street, and the one in boston on comm. ave right by boston university, in boston. i haven't been to either in over two years but they do sell records, cds, record players, records, and the like.

there is a store called mojo between harvard and central that carries some used records and cds. there is a store on newbury street called something or other than carries some used records and cds. plus more in the suburbs. mystery train in gloucester and amherst are fantastic but neither gloucester or amherst are in boston.

there are more.

Easily the greatest recent loss to the Greater Boston community of "good" CD shoppes was the closing of Disc Diggers in Somerville. You could always find all sorts of great stuff there: some new, some pre-release, some rare -- all for less than 10 bucks. Usually for less than eight.

Twisted Village is a "good" source for otherwise hard-to-find [in Boston] electronic materials (as well as their primary focus noted above: noise, prog, psych, jazz, and noise. Seriously, tell me if they aren't playing a noise disc when you drop by).

Hands down the best all-around "good" shop in town has to be Newbury Comics. "Good" in the sense that they're fairly reliably stocked with most things on most folks' shopping lists. Harvard Sq. and Newbury Street locations are the best of the chain, with the Alewife location coming in a strong third.

If it weren't for its prices, Virgin Megastore stocks a very impressive collection of hard-to-find [in Boston] electronic/dance music -- but wow. Those prices hurt. A lot.

If you drink from somewhere other than the main stream, Boston shops will require a lot of visits: either they'll stock what you're looking for in such limited quantities that you and the other guy in town looking for the same thing (Cf. MF Gill and me and Twisted Village...) will battle it out for the selfsame solitary disc, or you'll have to special order it (in which case, you'd have been better off saving time and buying it online in the first place).

Honorable mentions (for Used & New): Planet (Harvard Square) & Nuggets (Kenmore Square).

Dishonorable mentions (for Used & New): In Your Ear (all locations, but the Comm. Ave. location is particularly bad), CD Spins (Newbury St. location arguably the worst of the franchise), Tower Records (how the 'mighty' have fallen).

this is crazy talk. i couldn't believe the amount of cheap vinyl i found on my one record-buying trip to beantown.

"there's a store around the corner from the coolidge corner theater in brookline that has decent vinyl, but they bought some 3"cdrs i had made of musique concrete soundtracks for $6 each at twisted village, then re-sold them on ebay for $133. so i don't go in there any more."

this never fails to crack me up for some reason: i made some bootlegs and someone bought them and then sold them again!! no offense to the poster. it just seems silly for some reason.

Going to Boston this weekend for the first time. I will probably have the ability to visit one record store while i'm there. I primarily want used vinyl. Where should I go?

Planet Records in Central Square

Weirdo between MIT and Harvard on Mass Ave.