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TIM edited over 19 years ago

Create a thread (if hasn't already been made, please search so we don't have duplicates) for the city that you live in and all decent record stores in that area if they haven't been listed. If it has been listed and you want to add a store or comment feel free to do so. For the smaller countries if you would like to do just country that is fine too.
Whatever you all feel is best:)

Please don't just post links to websites, we can use google for that. Please make this forum more personable than a list on a website; if your experiences are used following and using some of these ideas we think it can be:

1. The Record store name if you would like can be linked to the online Map resource Multimap using the address details. This will also make it possible for a route plan to be made linking the different locations that are listed, or as a route planner from the shoppers home to the store they wish to visit.
If the shop has a website then please post that using the Url as the link, and also a telephone number if available so if a person does get lost they can always ring the shop for directions.
If the owners name is known for the smaller shops let us know, and also which days they are open and their usual operating hours. If there are any times that they might be closed due to local holidays or even daily siesta's etc.

2. A good general idea of a good way to get there i.e. "taxi 10 minutes from the airport is the most convienant way", restaurants to get a bite to eat, a place to perhaps get a beer, or even places of interest & attractions that are near by, also site seeing that the discogger could make more of a nice afternoon trip including the record store out of it that's in the general walking distance. you don't have to go overboard but if anything is cool share it with the discogger so they may have a more pleasant trip. So often when you do hard record digging your dehydrated, tired, don't know where to go or what's quick to eat etc etc. This could releave some of that stress for the trip:)

3. Give a description of genre's they cover, the years roughly, how many hours you would expect them to stay and search if they like the styles that the store offers and if it's their first time visiting. That could be helpful so they can make better use of their time and possibly hit another record store nearby more efficently. Any places of good searching in the store to look for special records/bins, how organized is the store,do they sell dj equipment/gear, how is the store help there, how are the PRICES, and any other information you would like to give about the store would be terrific!!

4.Try to include a date of your last visit to a store when adding information. This will be useful to people who read your information at a future date to know how current the information is. Also consider updating your posts at a later date when you visit these stores again. Even if the information remains the same, updating the last visit date reaffirms the currency of the information.

For a great example check pbl3's
Detroit, Michigan

(feel free to add some ideas if you want:)i will add some more things as i think of them but that's pretty much it)

if you already have posted and some of these things aren't in there and you want them to be, edit your post to make them more complete.
i am hoping this forum will always be editing to update things as the stores change. If you visit a store and thing's change or you find something cool to do around there, please come back and make a post or edit your post to reflect those changes.

FLAMES ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE PLEASE!!

This forum will be an eye sore for now somewhat. There are some well done posts here that look pleasing to the eye. If you can follow some of them as good ideas that would be great.However there will be different ideas from the poster on how to do it, there is no rule really but please try and do it with Bold font for the stores name and use paragraphing for other information. All the threads will be different as there is no uniform way of posting by all the posters and that is expected; the information collected is what's important. Hopefully as Discogs evolves we can put cities into folders for the countries so the threads can stay together more and aren't listed like a chat but we will just do with what we got.
Hopefully discoggers will use this forum when they are out and about travelling and want to know good record stores that will suit there wants.

Thank you for helping out:)