Record Shops in Seattle?
fishmongerfunk
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Hey I'm going to Seattle for the first time this weekend and i was wondering what the best places to go for original jazz, funk, soul records are. any reccomendations?
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Jive Time is the local collector-oriented store. There's one in Fremont with more soul and jazz and one on Capitol Hill with rock and 12"s. It's not cheap but they usually have good stock.
Bop Street in Ballard: insane owner, kind of picked over, and yet things pop up. I haven't been over there in a minute.
Two indie rock stores with used vinyl, you might get lucky:
Easy Street in lower Queen Anne (it's on Mercer)
Sonic Boom in Fremont has a 'vinyl basement'.
The antique mall in Fremont (underneath Starbucks / Thai restaurant) has a bunch of stalls with records.
There's a few others, but the law of diminishing returns sets in pretty quick... I also like Wall of Sound on Capitol Hill. It's split with an indie magazine store and although it's mostly CDs and reissues, I usually buy a Steve Reich record or something.
Sonic Boom vinyl basement is pretty much a waste of time
only dollar bin records at the antique mall.
Check out 45's room & basement at Bop Street
Georgetown Records is ok.
A few days ago I found good stuff at Zions Gate and Everyday Music on Broadway.
Jive Time...
Everyday music overprices their rock. But has more resonabley priced soul records. Nothing raer but I got:
Aretha- Young,Gifted & Black
JJ Cale- Trubador
Ramsey- Upendo whatever and Back to Roots
Instant Funk- V
Steve Miller- Macho City
Bloodrock- USA
Sopw/Camel- Miraculous Trip 2 moon
all for like 2 bucks each.
here's where someone chimes in & says I overpaid
lol
ps Im headed back to SF tomarow but Im going to stop by and try to meet LaserWolf @ JumpJump on my way. I'm excited as this will be my first real world encounter with a fellow stutter that I know of.
I thought I was the last person on earth that goes there. 3.99 new age and private folk burners that have been there for YEARS.
I thought I was the last person on earth that goes there. 3.99 new age and private folk burners that have been there for YEARS.
Haha, I ran into Supreme there a few months ago while I was getting my oil changed at the Jiffie Lube next door...
i know jimmy was goofy, but i pretty much went there everyday the month i was in seattle in 2003. first time i went in i found Odyssey and an armful of choice pepitas. all kinds of other things that month.
i slept right outside the fremont flea market, so i was the first one there for a month too. caught a couple things, but no stark reality
definitely a good record town if you put time in
whahappenin joe?
Nothin' man... just got back from Brazil, trying to get out to Hawaii to hang out with my girl. Went to a party last night where a couple dudes were dressed like Napoleon Dynamite wearing Hamas scarves. Uhh right.
I'll send you a PM...
your local burlington coat factory has records???
Shhhh!
NO records in Seattle and it rains all the time. You don't want to come here!
Theres one record shop all tourists should hit though, its in the Pike Place Market. hahaha
Holy Cow! That's the actual name of the store, not my response. It's hit and miss. I have found good shit in there but not in a long time.
I just wanted to follow up and say that Dan is cool and I had a lot of fun checking out his shop. I want to make it to the next Night Owl show if I can.