Any good places to buy albums in Philadelphia?

It depends what you're looking for.
Try AKA Music by 2nd & Market for CDs and some vinyl,
and Booktraders (sort of) next to AKA has tons of classical vinyl for $1-$3

Phila. Record Exchange near (6th? 7th?) & South has tons of vinyl in many genres

However, I prefer Spaceboy over Repo.

Fellow music fans:

After about a decade of life on Philadelphia's South Street, Spaceboy Music has decided to retire and close its doors late-September. We will miss the excitement when bands like Notwist, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, Belle and Sebastian, Espers, RJD2, Sunn)), Jack Rose and Radiohead were new and we could bring them to you. We were always excited to share what we liked with you and were even more excited when you showed us something new.

The world is different. The music industry has changed, technology has changed, South Street has changed. For Spaceboy Music, its time for a change.

Prior to the doors closing, we will be selling the contents of the store with a huge sale starting Saturday 8/26. Everything is for sale. - except Max - although all offers will be considered.

Philadelphia has an amazing collection of independent record stores and we will miss being a part of that community and we will miss you. Please stop in and say goodbye.

As always, thanks for choosing an independent retailer.

Spaceboy Music
704 South Street
Philadelphia, PA

20% Off Everything in the Store!!

Letter should have read: 'People downloading all this shit now, and our store is crawling with dumb yuppies and shitheads from South Jersey'

Philly is veritable ghost town for records, in my opinion. But if I were to go shopping, Philadelphia Record Exchange and AKA have the most variety and bang for the buck. Most everywhere else sucks. Also check this thread out:
Philly Record Shops

http://www.recordcastle.com/

yeah, the philly shitheads are more than sufficient.

kind of sad spaceboy's closing but they had a shitty used section and never managed to have the cd i wanted. "we just sold our last copy yesterday" and all that. but i did stock up on ethiopiques there.

especially this!!!

yeah, that bryn mawr repo thing was like a punch in the gut, even though i stopped by about 6 months ago just to check and see what was there and they had nothing in the store. actually, it was one of the owner's friends stocking crap used vinyl while listening to dave matthews. loudly.

i remember buying a codeine cd there in like and my dad commenting "wow, that's positive." they had such great [read: annoying, shrill] commercials on 'DRE.

turns out that proximity to villanova/st. joe's will probably kill your boutique record store. ditto for proximity for whole foods, starbucks.

but yeah, lol otm to the "we just sold out of [insert shit hot indie cd of the week here]" and then never restocking anything [what separated spaceboy from aka was that at least they stocked (insert title) once.] but i thought that was part of their charm. the guys were always nice. obligatory spaceboy RIP.

spaceboy did a great job of stocking local releases -- highly likely that it was the only shop in town that made it a priority.