Located at 1524 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia Record Exchange is a crate-diggers dream and a great place for music lovers. I knew I was in the right place when I overheard the owner and a customer having a fun discussion about a rare Taco record.
My friend, Jessica, and I walked in and immediately saw this on the left…
…and this on the right.
Once you get back the initial barrage of sights upon entering the place, you see the back 2/3 of the store has so much vinyl that you could spend days digging through it and not see it all.
These boxes reminded me of being in a comic book store full of back issues. Those are full of 45s. See that white crate on top of the middle stack? This was the record at the front of it…
The place is a gold mine for stuff like this. Need more rarities? How about…?
That was on a wall in the back of the store, which looks like this…
Jessica and I spent close to an hour here and barely touched a handful of things when you consider how much they have. I mean, they even have cool Indian mediation music.
And boxes like this you can’t resist…
They also have two of the best clocks I’ve seen in a while.
I’m not sure if I need that one more in my life, or this one…
Then again, I might need this album in my life more than either of those clocks…
I didn’t walk out with that piece of vinyl, but I did score three cool CDs.
I don’t know how I haven’t owned physical copies of those debut albums by The Damned and The Psychedelic Furs before now, but that copy of the Sitting Target score was a great find and a steal at that price. There are many great bargains here, so bring your wallet.
Keep your mind open.
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[Thanks to Jessica for taking me there!]
