Spindizzy is in George’s Arcade. There was a second hand stall there as well that used to be staffed by Father Damo from Father Ted but that’s gone now.
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I have to say I was never a person for collecting vintage albums or singles or whatever. Not that I have any problem with it at all but I never got into it. I am content with mass produced CDs and cassettes before that.
Even now I will seek out a physical CD online and will source the digital file if I can’t find it or if the cost is exuberant.
I’d have very few rarities in my collection - its just that my preferred medium is vinyl, probably because that was my first medium. I’ve dabbled with cassettes and CDs over the years and while there was a convenience to them they weren’t the same for me.
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Don’t get me wrong I’d love to stick on a record and flick through the sleeve etc. I miss doing that with CDs as I tend to burn them straight onto the iPod and then toss them aside. You also tend to listen to albums that way other than the song focussed instant gratification which is the focus today.
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There was a commitment with a record or a CD or a tape. 15 quid was too much to waste and not like a record. If you did not like it at first go you’d stick at it until you did.
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I remember wanting to buy a few Can CDs back in the day. Regular check on them when in a record store. 19.99 all the time - digitally remastered blah blah blah. When they came to 12.99 it felt like you won the lotto - but you better listen to them!!
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Or when you’d get the 2 for 25 on two CDs and think it was a whopper deal.
I had a brief spell working in a HMV. It was actually staffed by a lot of real music lovers. It was the most fun I’ve had on a job
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You’d pick one out and then know that you had to pick another - it was almost as if it were free.
I remember getting Innervisions and Exodus on such a deal - maybe two for 15.
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Aye. I remember picking up Loveless in a three for £20 deal during my leaving cert year. Gamechanger.
Loved trying out the ‘High Fidelity Beta Band 3 EPs’ trick in there. Sold the last three Midlake CDs in the shop on a Thursday evening, including the one that was in the CD player, and managed to shift a few David Axelrod compilations doing the same one day.
The last few days we’ve gone back to firing on CDs after we realised that the little one can now reach and stop the turntable mid-play much to her delight. Many of our old CDs seem to be skipping so I’m starting to think that my trusty 18 year old Aiwa 3CD changer, double desk cassette hi fi is coming to an end after about 12 house moves 
Time to start putting a few quid away for some new separates 
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Loveless 
Midlake
Beta Band
David Axelrod
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What was the name of the place up near the top of Camden Street, tucked in almost in a corner near where Zaytoon’s is?
Also a place on Aston Quay I can’t remember the name of. It’s an XL convenience shop now. They used to sell bootleg cassettes of live performances of bands in Dublin.
Upstairs in Chapters in Abbey Street was excellent. And beside my bus stop, which was nice.
Any good “record” site where you could find out the value of old LPs? I could do with a few bob in these hard times.
I suppose eBay but they barred me recently and I’m out with them…
In fairness most of them aren’t worth what you originally paid for them. Even if you have an absolute rarity or oddity you won’t get more than a couple of hundred quid for it.
Discogs
I had to sell off a few bits in the past when times were hard. Regret letting most of them going. Bar a LP from The Bluetones that someone gifted me years ago for some bizarre reason
Where did you go,
When things went wrong for you?
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very good. I see what you did there.
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My hasty and tempting quip was ignored yesterday in the fast food thread, so I appreciate the encouragement 
True for you. Looks like it’s back to the drawing board.
I had a Boney M one was gifted me.
I’d say it’s worth a fortune now.