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Unfortunately there aren't many outlets around anymore. I do most of my shopping online nowadays.
I miss browsing through Footlight...
And the Colony is still there, but they're very overpriced. The Virgin is closing.
J & R is your best bet.
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Sep 18, 2008 - 1:38 PM
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Michael24
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In my experience, Best Buy and WalMart have the best prices for CDs. Unfortunately, WalMart isn't all that great when it comes to soundtracks, though occasionally you find a surprise. Best Buy is better with their soundtracks. Most CDs I get (soundtracks and otherwise) are from there.
I also shop at f.y.e. Their prices can be a little more expensive, but sometimes you can find something for a good price, and their soundtrack section is decent. I also like Rasputin Music, which has tons of great stuff, but the closet one is about two hours away. I usually only get there when I'm visiting friends who live in that area.
Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer buying CDs in stores. I like to just take my time and browse around, occasionally having those moments where you find something that you didn't even know you wanted until you stumble across it. I usually only buy online as a last resort (when I've looked everywhere and can't find something) or when it's something exclusive that isn't carried in stores.
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Footlight was such a great place to browse and shop. Does anyone else remember the old Sam Goody on 42nd Street --it had a huge selection of soundtrack LPs. If I'm not mistaken that's where I picked up the grey market LP of "What's the Matter with Helen" -- ah the days back when...and let's not forget a sister City: Rose Records in Chicago was, for me, a true pleasure palace for soundtrack LP shopping when I was in college. They had everything -- absolutely everything!
Online click and confirm is just damn boring!
I imagine that J&R might be the best one left in NYC.
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Colony Music is still there, on 50th and Broadway. I just was there two days ago. They primarily sell Broadway and Theatre albums (and their selection is incredibly extensive, and includes a lot of wonderful rarities). They also have some interesting film and TV curios available, some film scores, and thousands upon thousands of sheet music folios.
Fantastic store, but again, their album emphasis veers more towards theatre music.
EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed that Swashbuckler already pointed this out.
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WARNING: FOGY Alert!
Used to be, back in the early 70's, that 8th St. in the Village was the best place to go for used records. LP's of course. There were at least 4 different record stores on 8th, between 5th and 6th Aves. I used to work in one of them, Greenwich Village Disk, which wasn't the best. There were 3 others Up the street, towards 5th, there was this Classical-only store down steps on the basement level. Then there was Dayton's, which had a lot of b*****g lp's. They also had another branch over on Broadway, a block or so down from the Strand Bookstore, which actually had differnt b*****g lp's; so you had to be up to date on both of them. And then there was Happy Tunes, on the north side of 8th St., which sold only cheapo lp's, most for 99c. I found piles, literally piles, of soundtracks there, all for only 99c each, including, one day THE SAND PEBBLES!
Alas, all gone. Look for them only in storybooks. Their like is quite gone from the earth. The only thing you'll find on 8th St. today is shoe stores. I think even the 8th St. Bookshop may have closed, though I haven't been down there lately.
Academy on 18th is just about the only outlet for used soundtracks in NYC that I can think of nowadays. If you're there for several days, check it out the first day, then go back a few days later, since the soundtrack bin actually changes its contents fairly regularly.
The whole city got something of a facelift under the Giuliani regime as mayor. It is a lot cleaner, particularly the subways, which I enjoy. But it's also a lot more generic, big, but generic. Times Square today is a sort of Disney version of what the seedy Times Square I knew during the 15 years I lived in New York.
It may have been seedy, but it sure had character.
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... It may have been seedy, but it sure had character.
Completely off-topic, but there was a post in the City Room blog at the NYT titled "What Do You Miss Most About Old New York?" that just about says it all...
http://tinyurl.com/3fd6pj
I had no idea that Canal Jean was gone until I read this piece. At least Trash and Vaudeville is still there on 8th!
Man I miss the New York of my youth... 
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This topic came up a few years ago. Footlight and Dayton's were mentioned. Some of us who were regulars veered off topic and began to Reminiscence (the 70s when we visited these stores). Dennis came up. He is now at the Colony. There are several small stores in the city, where if you are lucky, you just may locate an item or two.
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I know this is probably a lost cause but I'm gonna be in NYC for a few days at the end of the month with some time to kill and I'd love to peruse a used physical media store if they still exist in NYC.
Any recommendations?
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