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Topic: Where did you buy your Vinyls ???
Posted By: Mins
Subject: Where did you buy your Vinyls ???
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 10:47

Time for a new Thread...

Little light topic here ??

Where did you buy your Vinyls ???

Who remembers heading into town with one mission and one destination in mind.....????

FREEBIRD of Grafton Street.

Who remembers heading up those narrow dark stairs, giving knowing nods and salutes to the heads of long hair trundling down like as if you were all members of a select tribe ??

Who remembers leafing through all the albums and reading the back and checking then for scratches ?? Do you remember being disgusted if the Album didnīt have one of those see through sleeves ??? On that note who remembers when they changed those nice dust covers for a real grotty clingfilm thing !!!! anyhow.......

You would head out into the sunlight and confidently stroll up Grafton Street ( maybe stopping by Golden Discs on the way ) to Stephens Green to sit down and take the purchase out and admire it.

You knew you would have looked like an "alright" carrying that plastic B/W bag with the giveaway FREEBIRD logo on it and why ????

Cos FREEBIRD was secondhand stuff and secondhand was choice and the heads that shopped there knew their stuff !!

Does anyone still have the odd Freebird Bag lying around now ???? Could be worth money.

Sadly to say we donīt anymore BUT for some reason we still have a lot of vinyls still in old Golden Disc Bags ( 1982-1990 ).

Are we the only ones.....????

Who shopped where and why ????

ME.



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Posted By: Taylor
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 13:44

Hello Grovers,

a Newbie here - used to buy my records from Tommy in Pat Egan's Sound Cellar in Nassau Street - is it still there? Freebird came much later.

All the best and enjoy your big night out on December 27th!

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Posted By: xgrovehead
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 13:53
Welcome Taylor - yes Tommy Tigue and Sound Cellar still going strong!  Enjoy the forum.


Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 17:09

Pat Egans

Dolphin Discs on North Earl Street

But mostly from Frantic Records mail order in UK. This was before the punt broke with sterling. They had a great service. Bought loads of records from them.

All bought a load of vinyl off an ex DJ.


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Posted By: Taylor
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 18:02

Thanks xgrovehead, Pat Egan’s Sound Cellar was one of my first stops on Saturday afternoon pre-Grove walkabouts which also included stops at Golden Discs on Mary Street, Alpha Bargains in Liffey Street, The East West Centre in Crow Street, Bygones in the South Great Georges Street Market Arcade, the Dandelion Market and Green Acres on South King Street (both long since demolished). Happy times!

 

All the best,

 

Taylor



Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 20:33

Welcome along,Taylor...

I remember the 2nd hand stall in Market Arcade-it's still there (not sure if it's in the same place or the same guys running it,but it's still there!) and there was a stall in the Abbey Mall in Abbey St. called Razor Cutz who mostly dealt with Grove type music. He was good at getting imports and rarities which were all the rage for a while in the 80's-coloured vinyls,picture discs etc. Got my first live Dark Side of the Moon there...and a 10" four track Syd Barrett EP.-must be worth something by now...

Also a stall at the entrance to Abbey Mall was a stall (run by a guy called Vincent who went on to run an antique shop on Bachelors Walk) where I bought my first (and still only) copy of Zep 1...



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Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 30-November-2006 at 21:05

Welcome aboard Taylor!

Nice topic Mins.  

I got my vinyl from Sound Cellar/Pat Egans, Freebird and Basement records/Base X from Bachelors Walk (another cellar second hand shop).  Actually, I tended to shop around a lot as you never knew when you could pick up a bargain from Dolphin Discs, Golden Discs etc.,  I *do* remember especially that Golden Discs on Mary Street stocked loads of singles, many grove ones in picture sleeves (some specially imported) - there was a guy working there, who was a regular Grover and I remember him telling me things like "wait'll ya see what we've just got in!"  - spent a hefty chunk of my wages there in the 80s (and I'm still buying 7" vinyl, mainly online nowadays though).

Mel.



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Posted By: myploscarfe
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 08:24

Another great topic Mins

Usto head into town Saturday morning to attend a maths grind in Leeson St but regularly didn't make it there as I had to pass The Dandelion Market on the way...major temptation! Cannot remember the names of any of the stalls but I bought a lot of vinyl in there.  After The Dandelion I would head down to Freebird and then onto Basement records.  This used to take a lot of time because every rack in each shop would be searched thoroughly and any prospective buys examined at lenght for scratchs and then each scratch would be examined until finally the decision was made whether it was worth the money or not.  I remember getting a good copy of Deep Purple Made in Japan in Basement Records for 99p and thinking that it had to be a mistake as a single album was going for about three quid back then never mind a double.  Still have the album..  think I have only ever sold 5 or 6 albums over the years as each album may offer something new at some different time or mood.  Stopped buying vinyl in the early nineties but when we moved to Brussels in 96 I started buying again. Belgium is a collectors paradise.  There are shops and markets selling everything from second hand vinyl to dinky cars to cigarette cards.  Bought a pile of vinyl over there and still do when we visit.  Last vinyl album purchase...Bob Dylan Modern Times, bought it in Freebird on Wicklow Street back of The Hidden Bookstore last week when we were up from the country for the day.  Tend to collect certain artists and bands on vinyl Dylan is one Lambchop is another.  Now where did I put my anorak......



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Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 09:16
Morning ...

That was a good read......

Might just have time to trawl through a good record store over Xmas if I get a second to myself away from maddening crowd....

About that anorak...I saw one once, about a year ago, hanging off the railing at Bridgets...

Could still be there....

I think it is its own self contained little ecosystem now....

a home for the little things...

ME


Dec 01 to-day.....HELP::::


Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 11:15

I used to go to pat Egan's freebird, goldendiscs, dandelion market. You never knew when you would pick up a bargain. Agree with comments with regard to Brussels every collector's taste catered for. When I lived there late eighties cds were just coming out, there was a music library where for about a euro (50 francs)  a disc you could borrow a cd for a week. (double cd was 100 francs.)

Remember the days when you got concert tickets in Pat Egans and Golden Discs (Duke Street) generally about the price of an LP and the were no addons- agents fee, credit card charge (not that we had ccs) because there was an r in the month!! AND the gig was in about a month not 8 - 10 months away!



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Posted By: Taylor
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 11:23

< name="AdsSignaller">if(document.body){document.body.off_complete = "yes"; window.status = "off_end"; window.status = ""} Thanks for jogging my memory - I had forgotten about the Abbey Mall - Razor Cuts was also great for Latin American singles - salsa, merengue etc. - before they came into fashion in the 90s. Seems that a lot of us were on our own 'Grove Dublin Trail' on Saturday afternoons - a bit of a change to Jimmy Joyce etc.

All the very best,

Taylor



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Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 11:54

Used to do Freebird every Saturday afternoon with a mate and we'd race up the stairs to the second hand section in blind panic, afraid that one of us would would find the bargain of the week before the other.

Used think one of the lads that ran the place , the one with the straight black hair, not the one with the glasses,looked like Eamon Carr from Horslips.

Have a whole stack of stuff at home that I got there in the teen years.

Invaraibly used get the new stuff from Advance Records in South King Street. Always queued for the U2 stuff on release day there.This was run by a fella called Fred. Don't know what happened to him after the street was redeveloped.



Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 12:41

The Dandelion Market was great for picking up oddities - like Steppenwolf oldies. Shame they had to pull it down for Dunnes boutique. Halcyon days spent mooching and then into the Toby Jug for a pint or three. South King St. was a veritable goldmine in those (pre Eircom offices) days.

Radio Dublin were great for giving albums (do people still say albums?) as prizes for phone-ins. Got stacks at home but no turntable. Anyone know where to but them?



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Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 13:02
I used to meet HD in town every Saturday and he would drag me around to Freebird and then Basement records.....he would spend around 3 hours in there just looking through rows and rows of LP's.....I must admit I used to get really bored after around an hour  but HD would come out with bags of stuff, some of the stuff he had never heard of !!! but it was a bargain so he would buy it......he's still the same if he spots a bargain he must buy it 

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Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 13:30
Originally posted by muller muller wrote:

. Got stacks at home but no turntable. Anyone know where to but them?



Rather than service our old turntable we got a new one from some hunk by the name of Fabian who was sorting my dish for me on the roof !!! hehe..."

Anyhow back to the subject....

Plugged into the Sony Surround and bobs yer uncle..

Of course the kids were " What is that " !!!!



Dreadful that type of reaction isnīt it to something that doesnīt operate with a remote control.

Shouldnīt be a problem getting a decent turntable now...as to the best deal in Dub/Irl. now some of the lads here will no doubt have all the answers.

Go for it.....you will enjoy reacquainting yourself with all the old discs.

Result for us anyhow: Puurfect

ME


Posted By: RoundaboutToo!
Date Posted: 01-December-2006 at 16:09
Hi Mins - remember all those places all right - don't have a Freebird bag though.
Anyone remember the posters on the stairs down to Pat Egans? I remember Fruupp posters - never heard them, or forgot the name!
Pat - passing Dolphin Disks was when I first heard ELP! a song called Hoedown, and was instantly a fan.
North King Street was great  - Advance records, Anyone remember King's, the pub? Big place where the entrance to the shopping centre is now.  Used to go in for a pint after a day in the Dandelion.
Was never in the Toby Jug, Muller but heard it was a great spot.

CP


Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 02-December-2006 at 10:16

Was Freebird and basement records for me...rarely ever bought brand new back in the day..mainly cos I couldn't afford it (I feel a Monty Python sketch coming on!!). Back then Freebird was downstairs in the Bus Stop newsagents and Basement Records was in Bachelors walk. Then Freebird moved southside to Grafton Street and I think what was left of Basement Records moved into the old Freebird shop..if memory serves. Is that second hand shop still down there? Must check tonight.

Used to get stuff in the Dandelion Market as well. Remember buying John Lennon's Sometime in New York City there. In fact I pretty much have everything I ever bought still. Never could bear to part with anything. So I still have a personal kinda of mini Freebird/Basement Records of my own hehehe!!


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