http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2013/01/30/flavorwires-10-most-beautiful-record-stores-in-the-world Comments On: Flavorwire's 10 Most Beautiful Record Stores in the World by Dave Segal en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Wicked Virgin]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:25:57 -0800 The Stranger
There's a very attractive store way down in an obscure corner of Tacoma, on Garfield Street near PLU, called Disc Connection that has an attractive small but classic old-school layout. Freakbeat in Sherman Oaks is nice, but the most pleasant place to just hang out lookin' at records in LA I found was a bookstore/record store called Counterpoint in Hollywood.

The ugliest record store around today is Rasputin in downtown San Francisco, which not coincidentally has the worst stock of any store I've been in in a long time. The creepiest record store of all time, though, was a gem called "Music Music Music" in Hayward, CA, which featured not only records but giant heaps of used -- HEAVILY used -- porno mags, many without covers, and a clientele mostly comprised of junkies, alkies, and homeless dudes. One time I was in there with a guy who spent 45 minutes trying to sell a bag of used batteries to the clerk. Like, double-As. Upstairs there were stacks and stacks of 78s and a room literally heaped with LPs, just tossed in until the room was waist-deep. In a far corner or a different room was a mountain of dirty clothes, fifteen feet across, piled to the ceiling.

All-time in Seattle I will vote for the old Cellophane Square, in punk rock days before CDs.
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