New York record shops

The Sentinel · Post by **The Sentinel** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:46 pm

A friend of mine goes to New York and was wondering if there are some worthwile recordshops over there with old school metal vinyls or cd's.

Thanks in advance

Black Axe · Post by **Black Axe** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:11 pm

New York is a maze, he'd be lucky to find one even with directions.

Glockose · Post by **Glockose** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:14 pm

Were in NY will your friend be?

MEXDefenderOfSteel · Post by **MEXDefenderOfSteel** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:05 pm

last time i went there (my brother lives in new jersey) i didnt find anything,just trendy stores as always, the only store i was hoping for was Sentinel Steel recs. but they move to another state,it had lots of good stuff

The Sentinel · Post by **The Sentinel** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:16 pm

glockose wrote:Were in NY will your friend be?

He goes mainly to Manhattan and Brooklyn

DMR · Post by **DMR** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:46 am

MEXDefenderOfSteel wrote:last time i went there (my brother lives in new jersey) i didnt find anything,just trendy stores as always, the only store i was hoping for was Sentinel Steel recs. but they move to another state,it had lots of good stuff

Sentinel Steel has always been mail-order only. But they do have tons of great stuff.

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:19 am

good luck finding anything in NY, I was there in April and only found some new releases non-metal, nothing old & rare. If you really want to find something in a shop you need to hit the road and go digging in the small towns around the Northeast, which of course can be a lot of work.

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:13 am

doomedplanet wrote:good luck finding anything in NY, I was there in April and only found some new releases non-metal, nothing old & rare. If you really want to find something in a shop you need to hit the road and go digging in the small towns around the Northeast, which of course can be a lot of work.

A whole 20 million city and no 80's metal stores.It seems hard to believe.

Black Axe · Post by **Black Axe** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:25 am

Fucking Åmål wrote:
doomedplanet wrote:good luck finding anything in NY, I was there in April and only found some new releases non-metal, nothing old & rare. If you really want to find something in a shop you need to hit the road and go digging in the small towns around the Northeast, which of course can be a lot of work.
A whole 20 million city and no 80's metal stores.It seems hard to believe.

They are there, they're just not easy to find for non-locals. It's just too damn big a place. And the stores that are there have probably been looted years ago by local 80s metal fans.

Abyss · Post by **Abyss** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:34 am

There was a good topic about it on the metal archives forums with comments from nyc locals but since its down I can't link it right now.

The Sentinel · Post by **The Sentinel** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:47 am

Black Axe wrote:
Fucking Åmål wrote:
doomedplanet wrote:good luck finding anything in NY, I was there in April and only found some new releases non-metal, nothing old & rare. If you really want to find something in a shop you need to hit the road and go digging in the small towns around the Northeast, which of course can be a lot of work.
A whole 20 million city and no 80's metal stores.It seems hard to believe.
They are there, they're just not easy to find for non-locals. It's just too damn big a place. And the stores that are there have probably been looted years ago by local 80s metal fans.

haha, that's the case everywhere. For non-locals it's indeed difficult to find those small shops. Finding a mega Virgin store is far easier but then the most "obscure" thing you get there is Maiden and Priest

Black Axe · Post by **Black Axe** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:14 am

The Sentinel wrote:haha, that's the case everywhere. For non-locals it's indeed difficult to find those small shops. Finding a mega Virgin store is far easier but then the most "obscure" thing you get there is Maiden and Priest

In New York it's just so much harder than most other cities. Probably because the metal stores are further away from the places where most tourists stay.

Glockose · Post by **Glockose** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:48 pm

OK Rob is correct you might do better hitting the road BUT I did great in NY early Nov.

I only know of 2 TRUE metal stores left there ZigZag Records & Slipped Disc

http://www.slippeddiscrecords.com/
http://www.zigzagrecords.com/

Zig Zag is on Ebay As Leghorn23 and they have another store in Brooklyn that is not listed on there site but if you call they can help you with it.

Slipped Disc doesn't have a lot of vinyl and is now starting to close done BUT I do great there every time I go(Once a year) Chinatown LP $10, Savatage "Par" $5, ........

If you really have some tiome and want to dig let me know and I can send you a PM with more info

The Sentinel · Post by **The Sentinel** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:27 pm

Thanks very much for the help

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:16 pm

Then how do you explain that a local that knows every record store that might have metal (Jeff Brown from Iron Rainbow took me and we spent most of 2 days going to a bunch of places) took me to a lot of shops and I found very little. Of course I spent some money but I found nothing I was really searching for. But of course that doesn't mean that records might not show up sometime at a shop every now and then of course.

Black Axe wrote:In New York it's just so much harder than most other cities. Probably because the metal stores are further away from the places where most tourists stay.