Comments on: Where can I buy vinyl online?

Question: Where can I buy vinyl online?

mgrimm — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:05:23 -0800

Where can I buy vinyl online? I've used Insound before, and although they are great, their selection is limited. The only place I usually have success finding anything is at my local music shop which isn't very local anymore. The other post I looked at regarding buying vinyl online was limited to club/deep/progressive house, but I'm looking more for indie rock records.

By: noloveforned

noloveforned — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:11:43 -0800

there isn't a whole lot of indie rock vinyl being released these days. insound is as good an online source for it as any i've found. if you want older/used indie vinyl, check gemm.com which compiles listings from all sorts of sellers.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:23:25 -0800

Anthem records in Portland has a good selection of vinyl, and does good internet business. They have lots of indie stuff. Their shipping is kind of high for a single LP, but you can add several more for the same price, so if you do a larger order it works well.

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:25:15 -0800

Elusive Disc

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:32:47 -0800

Aquarius Records.

By: god hates math

god hates math — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:38:40 -0800

I'm going to have to disagree with ned, I definitely have no problem finding vinyl releases these days. I just got the new Jason Molina and the new Early Day Miners on vinyl.

Do yourself a favor, and buy directly from the labels, if you can. A lot of labels (Kranky/Constellation, Merge, Jadetree, Undertow, Secretly Candian, etc) have webshops where you can buy with credit cards or paypal. And most of their releases are available on vinyl.

Not to be down on the web stores like insound, but I feel a little better about buying directly from the label, in hopes that more of my cash is going either towards the artist, or towards making more good records. A lot of artists sell directly from their websites, and some even sell directly from their myspace pages.

And of course, there's always shows. I've been known to hold out on buying a new album until the artist comes to town, just so I can but it directly from them.

If you're really dying for sites, there's Burnt Toast and BoomKat.

By: Paleoindian

Paleoindian — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:54:28 -0800

god hates math... does god even have a capacity for hate? well i suppose that would be a whole new topic of discussion.

I do agree that buying directly from the band or the label is the way to go. do searches on your favorites. you might be surprised at what you find.

like this

By: mike0221

mike0221 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:55:08 -0800

Acoustic Sounds

By: willmize

willmize — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:03:46 -0800

This place, Bananas records is evidently some sort of vinyl mecca down here in St Petersburg. It's written up constantly with famous DJ's and rappers and the sort coming down here and raiding the bins.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:07:18 -0800

Musicstack.com

By: noloveforned

noloveforned — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:20:41 -0800

my point was that fewer indie labels are producing vinyl and most of those that are can be purchased through insound. thus if he finds the selection limited at insound, it's more likely a result of fewer labels pressing vinyl.

other online indie retailers who sell vinyl: midheaven mailorder and forced exposure

By: Gungho

Gungho — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:34:05 -0800

Alternative Tentacles sells most of the stuff on vinyl. Because Jello says so.

By: corvine

corvine — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:32:08 -0800

you may find that Sister Ray can help - they're based in London but do mail-order vinyl of all flavours, specialising in rare indie/rock as well as new releases, and as the site has an option to change the currency to dollars I assume they ship internationally.

By: coach_mcguirk

coach_mcguirk — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:32:40 -0800

Parasol.

By: pullayup

pullayup — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:09:14 -0800

Probably not exactly what you're after, but Dusty Groove is awesome. It's less indie rock than jazz, soul and funk, but they have lots of both old and new stuff that I lust after.

By: cobra libre

cobra libre — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:48:52 -0800

You've indicated that you're interested mainly in buying indie records, but you may want to have a look at vinyl.com anyhow. They seem to specialize in reissues of popular music, so most of their stock isn't particularly obscure or even current, but it's a great place from which to build your record collection with must-haves by the likes of Ornette Coleman, Marvin Gaye, the Ramones, etc. The bulk of my beloved James Brown collection comes from vinyl.com.

A friend with a beautiful 180-gram vinyl LP of Big Star's #1 Record has told me that many high-quality reissues (possibly bootlegs?) can be ordered from sources in Italy, though I don't remember any details, unfortunately.

By: LuckySeven~

LuckySeven~ — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:56:20 -0800

Rasputin's.

By: softlord

softlord — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:17:27 -0800

The meta-index known as GEMM lists vinyl.