If I didn't I'd be an idiot as its a block away from my store. That said I found some great records at the thrift store basically across the street from Amoeba in SF so you never know.Don't even bother with the CD Game Exchange on 18th. Neville goes there 6 times a day.
Records I have bought in DC
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people tend to shit on orpheus, but i've had some good luck with crazy rick (or "toenails" as my boy Jo***n so affectionately calls him) in the past. i think he gets a bad rep just because he's crazy. admitedly it's sometimes hard to deal with him. he's got another guy working there a lot now who's a lot friendlier.
i mostly only go out there when i have to go to the mac store around the corner. i got my bohannon stop & go for a very reasonable price and he gets some great jazz shit in there a lot. plus some cheap 12"s (i got most of the studio records catalog sealed there).
Snap. They had a radio station which dumped all its vinyl in 2000, but an audio archive remained in the Media department with most of the interesting stuff. Is this what they gave away? Last I saw, it was all in the newish building at 21 and H. I managed to pick out some nice things from there over the years, but I knew there was much more to be found.
George Washington University Music Department. They gave away all their records (except ethnic stuff). Went to their office once a week when they put piles out. Then got to go through the card catalog and pull stuff that way and then finally through the records themselves. Why does my school have a copy of some mediocre Funkadelic record? Who cares I sold it to Crooked Beat
If this is what they gave away, I know to cease my occasional enquiries into the status of the stash.
Ah, DC. Now who went upstairs at New Wax on RI ave? Used to be serious up there.
I was all suped to go to Eastern Market for the 1st time in years, take my girl there and have a nice afternoon. Eastern Market is wack now. And not just because there aren't any records. I was really, really upset.
Eastern Market is a waste of time for anything but BBQ. Seriously.........the pulled pork inside is on some breathtaking psych trippage, and you get that combo with drink and side for cheap.
Snap. They had a radio station which dumped all its vinyl in 2000, but an audio archive remained in the Media department with most of the interesting stuff. Is this what they gave away? Last I saw, it was all in the newish building at 21 and H. I managed to pick out some nice things from there over the years, but I knew there was much more to be found.
George Washington University Music Department. They gave away all their records (except ethnic stuff). Went to their office once a week when they put piles out. Then got to go through the card catalog and pull stuff that way and then finally through the records themselves. Why does my school have a copy of some mediocre Funkadelic record? Who cares I sold it to Crooked Beat
If this is what they gave away, I know to cease my occasional enquiries into the status of the stash.
Ah, DC. Now who went upstairs at New Wax on RI ave? Used to be serious up there.
I was all suped to go to Eastern Market for the 1st time in years, take my girl there and have a nice afternoon. Eastern Market is wack now. And not just because there aren't any records. I was really, really upset.
Floyd stopped selling on Sunday afternoons at Eastern Market at least 3 years ago, and I haven't seen anything there in a looong time, but now I moved from the Hill to MD, so I don't get up there much.
And New Wax on RI, do you mean the old Wax Unlimited? If so, that has been gone even longer, the owner had a serious illness or stroke, and his family sold most all that stock over a couple of weekends at the Flea, $1 a piece. This was like 3 years or more ago too.
I love this shit. It's all soul covers.
Stereok, I guess you graduated from GW? All the LPs from the music department (housed in the basement of Phillips Hall on H Street) are gone now. There was a lot of really sick shit, some of which I saw go to a professor (Steve Reich - Drumming boxed set, Harry Partch opera box) but I came up pretty well. Definitely had to take the bus home once because I had an armful of fifty or so LPs
