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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Boss-town vinyl |
| Date | Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:13:22 -0400 |
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At 12:51 PM 7/1/2004 -0400, hsomers@law.gwu.edu wrote:
>I'll be in Boston next week for a convention (not the Democratic one) and
I was
>wondering if a local would be kind enough to send me a short list of
record stores with a
>good selection of used vinyl and CDs? I'm especially interested in obscure
60s psych
>and jazz and 70s punk. I won't have a car, so they must be T accessible. I
know "In
>Your Ear" is still around, but what else is good? I just need a few names!
I know this
>has been asked before, but I inadvertently deleted the saved message.
As you say, In Your Ear on Comm Ave is still going strong, although it's
getting more and more annoying to shop in that store because it's just
getting slowly filled to the ceiling with crap. You can't even walk down
the aisles anymore due to the cardboard boxes of CDs in the middle of them.
You just have to inch along. They still have the best jazz vinyl
selection in town, though.
Aside from that, what you want is Twisted Village in Harvard Square (it's
on Eliot Street just down from Charlie's Kitchen), which is one-stop
shopping for obscure 60s psych, garage, prog and experimental jazz, as well
as the more obscure ends of 70s punk. Even more 70s punk can be found at
Second Coming, just a block or two outside of Harvard Square on Mass Ave
heading towards Central Square. It's in a building otherwise occupied by
restaurants, including the Dolphin, New Asia and Johnny's, a diner that I
recommend highly.
Nuggets in Kenmore Square is, I'm afraid, not what it used to be, but
you'll still find some surprises there.
The best general-purpose used CD store in town is Disc Diggers in Davis
Square, Somerville. The best general-purpose new CD store is, as always,
Newbury Comics.
S
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