Richard Hawley

I spent most Saturdays 85- 90 in 'Pet Sounds' in Old Eldon Square, think it's still there, not sure. Got all my 'Smiths' and 'Prince' 12" from their. i remember the Virgin store, also 'Hitsville', 'Spin' and another one at the 'Haymarket' whose name escapes me but was run by a miserable mean old bastard. Oh and 'Windows' who would order anything you wanted.

St. Martins records in Leicester. Always took a crappy 16 year old me seriously, and ordered stuff without smirking

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Migrant Mouse in Chester, I loved looking through the records there. Most of the records I bought came from Woolies.

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Wah! - Migrant Mouse!

Remember Impact Records on the top row of Watergate [I think] - had a sign saying 'don't bring your dope into the shop' - which as a teen I thought was really cool man...

the original Virgin Records in manchester in the 70's was ace - it was done up like a cave i seem to remember and had bean bags around the place so you could go in and listen - which was ace aged 13. No wonder my fury 25 years later when a company called 4play started selling cds in dustbins - made me want to kill the bastards that thought selling Joy Division albums for £5 out of a dustbin was good.

There was an old warehouse down by the lawcourts in manc too which was full of import records and clearance stuff so you could spend all day there and find tons of obscure nonsense . wish i could remember names of shops - i remember a great underground (literally) shop in manc tat was the only place you could by punk 7 inchers - i bought slaughterand the dogs 'cranked up really high' there and johnny moped's first single as well as the damned first album on release day. you can always remember where you bought vinyl and dont have a clue where all the fucking cds came from.

stockport - revolver reccords (i think) was ace too.

And how could I forget - The record fair that came to Leicester YMCA every month.

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In the late 90s I used to live just up to the hill and could walk into Camden on a Sat and do the run - Rhythm, goth nostalgia in Resurrection, MVE the three pokey ones on Inverness street and on to Tower. Shame that by then all the good stalls that used to be there in the late 80s/early 90s had gone off the market

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Yeah....it was a little shop....top of Causewayhead..Penzance.
Real sophisticated guy called Roly used to own it...it was a miniscule place but nicely decked out.....always made helluva effort with the window front.
He was always happy for 'one' to just browse or buy....and ordering something in, was never a problem.............I mean, he always gave you the time of day.............not like some of the other stooge shopkeepers around,who were happy to take a 'youths' hard earned cash..but could hardly be bothered to say 'hello'......................
Actually...Roly used to save me all the promotional posters,I had loads of Smiths stuff. The shop closed down ages ago,its an old bric a brac joint now.....................

Can you remember a guy in the underground market just up from the Arndale who used to sell cassette bootlegs? You could usually pick up recordings of a show a couple of days after it'd happened. I used to frequent the International (1 and 2) quite a lot - and picked up loads of recordings from that time. I remember buying the Smiths Troy Tate demos off him too.

I remember the old warehouse - only went there a couple of times. I remember they had loads of obscure - and cheap - import stuff. I still have a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders workout album that I bought there for about 20p....

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yep remember the bootleg bloke - always cost a fortune - anything that ever played the free trade hall was there a week later - cant remember if i ever bought owt.
that warehouse was amazing - bought john lee hooker Queen Bee there and John Mayall and loads of kraut rock like Amon Duul - also a band who apeared to be from another planet and sang songs about other worlds called Rameses (i think).....turned out to be from stockport and sheffield - typical

black sedan the old store near the eighth day and george davenports when it was on the corner of oxford road where macdonalds is now. i used to buy old hippy records from black sedan, and old blues records from george. poor bloke went to jail for not paying his tax but he never made any money out of records anyway.

i used to have to buy blues and stuff from record fairs cos you couldn't get it back when me an erpisle started. i remember one in wigan casino just before it shut where i got a stones outtake album with tumbling dice which was top, and a boot of the sex pistols at the electric circus in 77 !

i think the virgin store cod refers to was on lever street and i remeber my hippy girlfriend at the time buying krautrock stuff in there

and was the warehouse shop called yanks ? there was another on blackfriars too i can't remember the name of.

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You're right Clive, the warehouse was called Yanks (later PowerCuts) and the Blackfriars one was Robinsons records. Many an afternoon was spent in there playing asteroids and eating those fantastic pies!

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yes i think lever street must have been it - always had it down as oldham st but i suspect youre right.
You on about the macdonalds by midland hotel area? was that the picture house originally ? I dont remember that shop
Do you remember one that was downstairs - maybe on deansgate or near there?
Yep Yanks i think you're right - presumably knocked down for some fabulous exciting manc architecture now.....there again, it was just a warehouse .what was eighth day and black sedan? too young....shucks