hey does anyone in NY-land feel like going down to the PRINCETON RECORD EXCHANGE one of these weekends?

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it's been a while.

also, anyone have a car?

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

i'm down! i grew up five minutes away from the record exchange and and i have to visit my folks pretty often these days because they've been sick/in hospital, so i'm in the area almost every week. a day of wild discount-record-shopping abandon would do me good, i think.

i do not have a car. let's rock the train.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

yes, tentatively. if i have cash money. i do not have a car, but i know record nerds with cars.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

speaking of NY-land, here's a picture of rose nyland:

http://www.lifetimetv.com/images/shows/ip/ip_index_bwhite.jpg

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

i'm never NOT down for a PRE trip. especially if there's a side excursion to hoagie haven. or if betty white will be there also.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

oh, i don't have a car though. and round trip tix from ny penn station = $18.25. oof.

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

that's why i'm asking about a car.

i guess if we have enough people willing to chip in we could rent one for the day.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

i wanna go record shopping with jody and geeta and ian :(

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

you dudes should rent a minivan or something.

but you can take the train to princeton junction then take the "princeton dinky train" (real name) to within a block or two of the rec-ex.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

i've done that! like i said, the car thing is to save money.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

skot wont even go record shopping at my store..good luck gettin to princeton tho,,they rool

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

next weekend?

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

i'd love to do this. right after paycheck...it'd be perfect!

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I want to go and have a car -- folks could hop on the PATH and meet me in JC. There's a chance I could do it next weekend too.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)

ok! getting to JC is no problem for me.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Sat'day 'd probably be best.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:32 (twenty years ago)

You guys have to get pancakes at PJ's afterwards.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

My only PJ's experience was disappointing, but maybe it was just a bad batch.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 4 March 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

i can't go next weekend cuz my mom is in town visiting. have fun if you guys go, though!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I was gonna say, I might go if pancakes were involved too.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

so does saturday work then? i'd be coming from philly, but i'm happy to meet up there.

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Saturday, 4 March 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

sounds good.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

is this place still worth a visit?

― toby, Thursday, 24 April 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

it was when i was there in the winter

― max, Thursday, 24 April 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

no. stay away.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:04 (seventeen years ago)

i need to make a pilgrimage soon to unload some stuff. i wonder when they'll stop paying decently for all my promos.

― fukasaku tollbooth, Thursday, 24 April 2008 11:20 (seventeen years ago)

five years ago.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 24 April 2008 12:47 (seventeen years ago)

i made out pretty well the 2-3 times I went there last July.

― will, Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

I'm thinking GOTT hid some stuff he's hoping to pick up on his next trip.

― David R., Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:21 (seventeen years ago)

ILX Lists The Best Record Shops In The USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/nyregion/10towns.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Recent NY Times article on the Princeton Exchange

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

I'm thinking GOTT hid some stuff he's hoping to pick up on his next trip.

nah, just don't want the damn new yorker tourists coming down here and screwing up our pristine NJ record stores.

bunch of calypso/soca/dancehall vinyl there at the moment, if anyone's into that.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:34 (seventeen years ago)

Prex is usually pretty good. Unfortunately the days of scoring rare psych for $4.99 seem to be over. Last time I went I just picked up a few cheap country records. This was maybe two years ago, though.

― ian, Thursday, 24 April 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

I have two massive sacks of CDs I need to unload somewhere. Maybe I should zipcar this weekend.

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

Princeton is nowhere near as good as it once was. Much less vinyl then they used to have. Still decent cheap stuff, lots of New Wave when I went. But I'll never forget the first time I went where you couldn't walk a foot without kicking over a stack of rough trade 7"s.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

To be fair I am staying about 300yds away from it at the moment, so it's pretty likely I will try to find the time to go in, I guess.

― toby, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

what the fuck else are you going to do in princeton

― max, Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

heckle ivy league hotties from the fire escape?

― ian, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

ian knows

― elan, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://ysfine.com/princeton/picas.jpg

― gabbneb, Thursday, 24 April 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

pretty much spent my entire grad school stipend there in the early 90's...

― henry s, Friday, 25 April 2008 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

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