--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@...> 
wrote:
>
> The annual (and, for the time being, final) trip to the Toronto 
> International Film Festival is almost upon us, and I've been 
compiling 
> a list lately of Canadian indie releases I'd like to lay hands on 
> while I'm in town.  However, I've been on a strict no-CD-binges 
policy 
> for the last couple of festivals; combined with the fact that with 
the 
> closing of the once-mighty Sam the Record Man, ALL of my old 
favorite 
> record stores in town are gone, this means that I have no idea 
where 
> to go.  Any help?  Is there anything at all left on the old Queen 
> Street crawl between Bathurst and Spadina?
> 
> In about a year and a month, I'll be posting a similar query about 
> Vancouver: the TIFF is getting both too expensive and too 
mainstream 
> to be as much fun as it used to be, so we're heading west for our 
> yearly Cancon fix.
> 
> S
>

My favorite in Toronto has always been Soundscapes on College Street
http://www.soundscapesmusic.com/