At 02:57 AM 1/9/2003, Scott Gregory wrote:
quoted 4 lines Hi list,>Hi list,
>I am currently in Japan-- anybody know of any IDM (or
>other-- someone mentioned YMO before) that I should
>pick up while I am here?
If you're near Tokyo, this may be helpful (bounced from another list) :
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Shops to get standard new CDs-
Tower Shibuya tends to have the most stuff of anywhere, there is a HMV
nearby thats okay but in case they are sold out, they got rid of their
special YMO & Friends section when they opened their new larger store though.
Tower Shinjuku tends to be put down but they tend to be well stocked.
HMV Shinjuku Times Square is worthwhile.
Akihabara has some okay places but isn't user friendly. Isemaru Denki
which has 3 different large stores with pretty much the same stuff laid
out different wins over anything above in sheer quantity though its hard
to find stuff. Theres a nice used shop a couple doors north of T-Zone
(no CDs there), but its hard to find. The last big place there with a
lot of CDs I think has a Y in the name and a lot of yellow plexiglass.
Because new CD prices are fixed many shops offer some kind of free club
card that you get stamped when you buy things, so if you intend to buy
like 20,000, or 30,000 yen then you get like 1000 or 2000 store credit
when you fill up the card at at any Tower if you have a Tower card (or
HMV at HMV obviously) so it is kind of worthwhile to stick to one and
only buy the out of stock one you can't find at the other. (Another
stunt is the store taking the wrapper off new CDs to sell them maybe 300
yen underpriced but its hard to take advantage of this, its just takes
place at more funky stores just on new releases)
There are a lot of used places but Recofan Shibuya is the only pretty
big one, there are more Recofans which are generally better than
average, the problem is everything is spread out and the ones in the big
record buying areas tend to get picked over in terms of finding used
CDs. A hint is to try college student areas because of course none of
this is really mainstream music. There is a Disk Union Techno Shop in
Shibuya but its kind of spotty, its more a techno vinyl place. In
general most hard core people want vinyl so its ironically perhaps much
easier to find if its out of print.
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