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Can anyone give me any clues about second hand record shops in canberra????
evilchris
18-Dec-01, 05:39pm
Yes...as a hardcore cratedigger of second hand records, my faves are Revolution CD civic and belconnen...always the two stores with the highest turnover of electronic stuff...See you there, and tell Jeff and Dan in Rev Civic that evilchris sent you....
as a fellow cratedigger of the most seriously addicted variety, thanks!
so what are the addresses of these places?
if there are any others feel free to list them...
cheers
evilchris
22-Dec-01, 04:48am
Well, Revolution Civic is probably the store with the highest flow-through
of new music; it's located down in the Civic Bus Interchange just across
from the Civic Library; otherwise Belconnen (just down the road from the
front of the mall is also good (and also for some reason their pricing seems
slightly lower than the Civic store. If you go into the Civic store...Geoff
or Dan will be able to help you find what you're after...
Are you new to Canberra? If you want to know anything about other stores ,
I'd be more than happy to assist.
Take care,
evilchris
The Living Room
2XX FM Canberra 98.3
www.livingroomcanberra.com
cheers chris,
just moved down around a month ago... finally have a place to live (!) and starting to get back on track.
i'd appreciate tips - just finding my feet!
calico
... actually,
i was kinda after vinyl. not so keen on laying out my hard earned dosh for cds, much keener to find some second hand store selling old reckids.
any ideas?
landspeed records in civic?? if there are any other good places, i'd like to know!! (having only recently moved to Canberra myself)
Alistair
03-Jan-02, 10:37pm
As i told you all... i know where the good places are... but am going to wait till i can go on a serious crate digging excursion before i release their details...
Ill be back in canberra around the start of uni... can you wait till then??
Oh yeah... love the landspeed "old skool" section...
whatever...
team work folks!
anyone out there not holding out on the facts?
i'm dying here.
c
evilchris
04-Jan-02, 01:46pm
Amen to that! As a fellow vinyl fan a serious hole exists in terms of
Canberra's second hand vinyl market. At the moment, the only place that
sells / buys 2nd hand vinyl is Landspeed (they have a range of record bins
below the main vinyl section) I went in and offloaded a pile of my old stuff
recently, and they seem to be a bit more discriminating in terms of what
they'll take (they only grabbed the biggest toons I was getting rid off, and
refused to take any of my dnb (and this was good labels like Full Cycle /
Moving Shadow). I'm seriously considering seeing if anyone wants to take
them off my hands thru ITM forum....
Unfortunately apart from that, Revolution doesn';t touch vinyl (I've tried
to tell them on anumber of occaisions that they could do it as a specialist
collector thing...ie. only buy really good vinyl on the condition that it's
in good nick...
-Chris
Alistair
04-Jan-02, 01:58pm
I want your dnb evil chris...
Mr Mike
19-Jan-02, 03:45pm
I too have discovered the secret vinyl stores. I'm not a dj so it is of no use to me but alas for you unenlightened I am sworn to secrecy.
maan all this lame secrecy bizness is driving me mad!
pretty soon i am going to explode! and that won't be a pretty sight... intestines and blood and guts and all sorts of horrible stuff all over the place.
so someone better front up with some useful info soon or the cleaning bills will be forwarded to you!
evilchris
20-Jan-02, 09:56pm
Hey calico,
To be perfectly honest (and speaking from the point of view of someone who surfs the varied vinyl bins of the ACT constantly); there aren't very many places you can get good vinyl in Canberra apart from a few of the specialist stores and some other avenues (in fact, I'd be surprised if anyone could name more than 5 good places). If there's a secret Jedi vinyl stockade somewhere I Canberra, I'm yet to see it (and I've spent years doing the record trove. Your best bets are Landspeed and Impact...they can always order things in that you want, you might just have to get it a week or two after it hits Sydney. Otherwise, every few weeks, I like to do the Sydney trip (which makes me understand why when I'm in Canberra, I feel like my vinyl hoard kicks, but when I go see friends in Melbs / Sydney, I just go hrrr...) Sadly, we don't got that many stores, but stuff like inthemix at least gets us all the right place together so we can declare solidarity for the black plastic..
evilchris
www.livingroomcanberra.com
evilchris
20-Jan-02, 10:00pm
Oh yeah and one other thing (evilchris' head pops back up)
Having said all that, I would be lying if I said I didn't have one secret arcane Canberra vinyl source (I do). However.. this is mainly for samples and scratching tools, not so much home listening.
But (as they used to say at the end of those crappy seventies BBC kid's shows),
that's story for another time...
evilchris
www.livingroomcanberra.com
Most of the juicy vinyl I've gotten in Canberra is from op shops.
About 2 years ago I scored Grand Master Flash 'Greatest Messages' for $1 !!!!
dickson vinnies is a good 1.
also trash & treasure in belco/woden......oh @!#$ da boss!! gotta go!
cheers guys
now i've gotta find a spare weekend to go looking...
calico
evilchris
22-Jan-02, 08:10pm
I agree Sysex, op shops are definitely the source for obscure / hard -to -get vinyl; the other place really worth checking out (believe it or not) is the Lifeline book fair (which seems to pop up every 6 months or so). Last time I went there, I came out with 76 records for around $40, all just really tweaked stuff good for scratching and sampling. I managed to get Beat Street, the original Fat Albert Soundtrack, an entire series of European history vinyl (classic for scratching up), a give up smoking record, and my favourite "Do Not Bring Drugs Into Australia", which is credited to Superintendent "Pat" (their inverted commas, not mine) Collins of the Australian Customs Service.
evilchris
www.livingroomcanberra.com
Breakz Junkie
22-Jan-02, 11:01pm
lol!
has superintendent "pat" ever made the air on the living room? ;o)
yeah i've bought records from every imaginable type of retail outlet. you should ask my girlfriend, actually you prob shouldn't - we're doing pretty well at the moment, don't want to mess with that.
but having just come up to the nation's capital, and working my ass to the kerb for the maan i don't have any idea where the black gold is to be found... anyway i'll get my pschidt together pretty soon!
cal
Evilchris, if you are seriously thinking of getting rid of your dnb post up a list cause id be interested in getting some of it (if its good that is :P). Im from sydney but I'll be down in Canberra for Global Hype in march, i got a gig in the up and coming room playing hard house.
Chris
Anyone know where can i hack my psp slim in canberra??
dementruck
29-Jan-09, 01:31pm
:lol:
P_A_Sime
29-Jan-09, 01:41pm
Off topic.
Troy711
29-Jan-09, 04:01pm
Anyone know where can i hack my psp slim in canberra??
Hack or hock? Cos if you want to hock it I will give you 20 bucks for it.
I always wondered what happened to the first evilchris. Did he die in a freak science experiment?
mattyninethree
29-Jan-09, 04:45pm
I heard it was a cheese smelting accident ?
P_A_Sime
29-Jan-09, 04:49pm
Thats a keeper
M I N K Y
29-Jan-09, 05:51pm
There's a man at the Jamison Markets on Sundays, that's all you need to know.
Hack or hock? Cos if you want to hock it I will give you 20 bucks for it.
hack, sir!!! coz i want to play the games on memory card, save the money form the UMD disk
There's a man at the Jamison Markets on Sundays, that's all you need to know.
Dammit!!! Don't tell everyone...
hold up do people sill dig here? anyone double up??? remove labels from their records?
Gregama
30-Jan-09, 10:43am
Dammit!!! Don't tell everyone...
hold up do people sill dig here? anyone double up??? remove labels from their records?
I find he's pretty overpriced actually..
$30 for Monster Mash! Bah.
the_vinyl_addict
18-Jan-12, 03:49pm
I have over 2,000 records ranging from modern to classic rock. I am in Canberra PM me if you like or come to the Bus Depot Markets this Sunday
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