Post #136380 by DaneTiki on Wed, Jan 19, 2005 6:13 PM

Wow, it sure sounds like you coastal people should check out the Midwest for your record buying needs sometime. Here in sunny Minneapolis, we have dozens of really great independent record stores. For dance music, pop and old LPs in general there's Let It Be right downtown. Then there's Hymie's on Lake St. which is all-LP and pretty large. The Electric Fetus (with 3 locations around Minn.) has an excellent selection of blues, Jamaican music and a variety of pop and other genres. And Cheapo, which is our local 800 pound gorilla of independent stores (4 locations), has everything, with a huge local section and lots of other stuff. Plus, there's still half a dozen really great smaller shops, including Extreme Noise, which has one of the best punk and hardcore selections in the country from what I hear.

Thankfully, perhaps because Best Buy is headquartered here, we have no Tower or Virgin Megastore.

Hooray for independent record shops!