Quote Originally Posted by DanJennings View Post
I go to the Diskery now and then, but a lot of their stock has been there for years and is a bit tatty, Music + Video Exchange is just up the road, and there are bargains to be had there, their pricing policy seem rather random! Hard To Find records is pretty close to there too, mostly dance music and they also specialise in DJ equipment etc.
If you're in the brum area, you have to try Polar Bear records in Kings Heath, they specialise in prog, death metal and krautrock, but they have bits and bobs of folk and ambient etc
I used to love the Diskery. I've so many great 2nd hand records bought from there and they were always happy to order records in for you. I bought my Linn hifi from Griffin Audio when it was just round the corner from there on Bristol Street so it was easy to in there and spend a lots of my money. first time I went in there I didn't realise they didn't take cards and the owner drove me round to Five Ways to use the cashpoint there

they thought it was amusing that I had just bought my first turntable when people were getting rid of their's at the time.

I've got a wonderful Shostakovich box set of later symphonies I got from there and I was once allowed upstairs where he kept all his Deccas and EMIs.

Great times to be a young vinylista Seems so long ago now

This must be about 15 years ago now. the only time I ever get in to the centre of Brum now is to watch the mighty Villa.