I always had a soft spot for Spiller's in Cardiff, which was (is?) the oldest record shop in the UK. Maybe anywhere, fuck knows.

Vinyl Exchange in Manchester, Selectadisc in Nottingham, Lotus Records in Stoke, a place in Reading that used to have a great trade in promos and bootlegs. A few in London I didn't know by name but always traipsed around - one was in Soho I think, and was just by an open air fruit and veg market. Another up some stairs on Tottenham Court Road.

Stockholm is just great for record stores, if you can get past the prices. Again, I don't know the places by name, I just do a circuit every once in a while. If I ever have the stability I'll do some Rhythm Roulette shennanigans amongst them someday.

I live in the Halifax area not too far from Leeds and Manchester. My favourites are Jumbo Records (good for new stuff and gig tickets), Relics records (second hand records) In Leeds, Vinyl Exchange in Manchester & Vinyl Tap in Huddersfield is very good and they have a good webstore with loads of stuff. Ill have to check out Venus Vinyl if I'm ever in Norwich.

empeevee wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:35 am After moving back to the UK and being on a search for good stores so far I have happened upon Crash Records and Jumbo Records in Leeds as being upper tier and Venus Vinyl in Norwich being the best record store I've been to in the UK so far.
I'm in York now and we have Earworm Records here but it's not the greatest... if anyone has some UK recommendations I would love them.

Goner Records in Memphis is wonderful

empeevee wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:35 am Wax Trax in Denver was really awesome.

You had me worried they were gone! That was the first true record store I ever patronized, that wasn't just a CD store in the mall/strip mall.