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Best "Ave" record shoppe from back in the day

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,016 Founders Club
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Best "Ave" record shoppe from back in the day 14 votes

Tower Records
71%
DerekJohnsonSwayeMad_Sonalumni94chuckdfleaLebamDawgYellowSnowBleachedAnusDawgFishpo31 10 votes
Cellophane Square
14%
El_KJoey 2 votes
Disc Go Round
0%
2nd Time Around Music
7%
huskyhooligan 1 vote
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
7%
biak1 1 vote
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,689
    Tower Records
    Back in the day, Tower was epic for “small town boys” like me...
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,878
    Tower Records
    I would guess I bought the most from here, but there were some hole in the wall place that had some crazy stuff.
    I recall my friend's brother would just go through the $1 bin to find strange things.

    There was a band called "Fluff". Picture of the band with a green cloud around them. Classic.


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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,873 Swaye's Wigwam
    Tower Records
    This was a tough one. I bought my first nice stereo to move up there with. It was a Sony rack system with the big ass speakers and Dolby surround sound, damn near $1000 worth which was the most I had ever spent in anything aside from my car.

    So I had to build a cd collection and that was my focus. I ripped off Columbia House and the other mail order music company who's name I don't remember...BMG or something like that. That put me up to about 30. I bought about 100 more cds from Tower and 2nd Time Around in my first year living in the U District. Tower seemed to always have a three for $25 thing going so I bought more there.

    I remember Cellophane Square only vaguely. I could be mixing them up though. I seem to remember that I didn't like something about that store and didn't go in it very often.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,016 Founders Club
    Tower Records
    Fishpo31 said:

    Back in the day, Tower was epic for “small town boys” like me...

    I probably spent the most coin buying CD's at Tower. A lot of the stuff I was looking for wasn't in the used bins at the other stores. Plus back in them days, used CDs weren't even that good of a deal.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,573 Founders Club
    Olympia's non corporate place to buy vinyl.



    Had a friend who worked here

    Golden Oldies Records: 201 N.E. 45th St. (206-547-2260 or goldenoldies-records.com). Dean Silverstone has been selling cardboard bins of 45s — that’s right, Elvis, Everly Brothers, Crickets, Beatles — since 1973 and was around when the Sonics were playing the first time around. Vintage Billboard charts remind you what to look for.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 38,016 Founders Club
    Tower Records
    RaceBannon said:

    Olympia's non corporate place to buy vinyl.



    Had a friend who worked here

    Golden Oldies Records: 201 N.E. 45th St. (206-547-2260 or goldenoldies-records.com). Dean Silverstone has been selling cardboard bins of 45s — that’s right, Elvis, Everly Brothers, Crickets, Beatles — since 1973 and was around when the Sonics were playing the first time around. Vintage Billboard charts remind you what to look for.

    I bought a shit ton of used vinyl from Golden Olidies from about 2010 to my departure. Great little shop with fair prices.
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  • Purple_Pills
    Purple_Pills Member Posts: 2,110
    RaceBannon said:

    Olympia's non corporate place to buy vinyl.



    Had a friend who worked here


    I grew up across the street from the previous, long time owner. As a kid I had to bike past the mall with their multiple music stores to go to Rainy Day to buy anything with an explicit lyrics sticker. I remember biking there the week Ice Cube’s first solo album dropped.


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  • El_K
    El_K Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,561 Swaye's Wigwam
    Cellophane Square
    I said Cellophane because you could buy-sell-trade. And you could listen to the used records. It was more KCMU feel to it than Tower. Most of my music purchases were made at Tower Bellevue or Fred Meyer.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,475 Founders Club
    Tower Records
    El_K said:

    I said Cellophane because you could buy-sell-trade. And you could listen to the used records. It was more KCMU feel to it than Tower. Most of my music purchases were made at Tower Bellevue or Fred Meyer.

    I almost voted for Cellophane because they were a lot friendlier and cooler. Fond memories of both places.
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  • Joey
    Joey Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,636 Founders Club
    Cellophane Square
    They had a Cellophane in Bellingham. Blew a lot of hard earned money there
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