Help please, Wagner overtures 2 CD set

[Petrushka]

You couldn't go far in the West End without coming across a record shop. Special memories of Direction Dean Street and Music Discount Centre in Rathbone Place as well as those already mentioned. Anyone ever go into the chaotic jumble that was Cheapo Cheapo Records in Rupert Street, Soho, hidden amongst all the sex shops?

[Beef Oven!]

3/4 pints? Why restrict your consumption to 75% of your purchases?

Everything in moderation is my motto - little but often.

[Beef Oven!]

Anyone ever go into the chaotic jumble that was Cheapo Cheapo Records in Rupert Street, Soho, hidden amongst all the sex shops?

The things we used to put up with to buy our records - we deserve a medal.

[Bryn]

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... not quite sure. I have a Tennstedt twofer, which I wdn't say is "performed in the usual heavily upholstered, stately, vibrato laden fashion"
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Many thanks for the nostalgia-inducing piccie of the Regent Street Tower Records. Happy memories...

The second of those can be found in a double album with some guy's 3Rd in its first version.

[teamsaint]

The things we used to put up with to buy our records - we deserve a medal.

absolutely.
Going to my nearest half decent record shop entailed a trip to Trowbridge..........


anyway, back to London, there used to be one in the Oxford street area ( I think) that I recall being sort of in the basement in a small stone built arcade.
I went there in about 79,lots of punk stuff all over the walls. Beefy ?

[Beef Oven!]

absolutely.
Going to my nearest half decent record shop entailed a trip to Trowbridge..........


anyway, back to London, there used to be one in the Oxford street area ( I think) that I recall being sort of in the basement in a small stone built arcade.
I went there in about 79,lots of punk stuff all over the walls. Beefy ?

There were a few like that. One near Wardour Street I remember from ’78.

[teamsaint]

There were a few like that. One near Wardour Street I remember from ’78.

Now I think about it, it could have been more out Knightsbridge way......deffo not in Wardour street.

[visualnickmos]

You couldn't go far in the West End without coming across a record shop. Special memories of Direction Dean Street and Music Discount Centre in Rathbone Place as well as those already mentioned. Anyone ever go into the chaotic jumble that was Cheapo Cheapo Records in Rupert Street, Soho, hidden amongst all the sex shops?

Many a good purchase made there. Then a beer or two in The Yard, a few doors up....
Also in Soho, in (IIRC) Newport Court, Steve's Sounds with a great classical dept up some rickerty stairs, and a huge biker/rocker/goth-type guy who knew his classical music stuff.... he could reel off recordings and dates of many a recording.

Gone totally off-topic, but hey - it's fun...

[Beef Oven!]

Now I think about it, it could have been more out Knightsbridge way......deffo not in Wardour street.

Near Wardour Street, not in it. But I have no recollection of such a place in the Knightsbridge area. Long time ago now, so memory can’t be relied on.

[Bryn]

Many a good purchase made there. Then a beer or two in The Yard, a few doors up....
Also in Soho, in (IIRC) Newport Court, Steve's Sounds with a great classical dept up some rickerty stairs, and a huge biker/rocker/goth-type guy who knew his classical music stuff.... he could reel off recordings and dates of many a recording.

Gone totally off-topic, but hey - it's fun...

Steve's Sounds (originally just across the Court from the shop he later took over) was a favourite haunt of mine. Many a good find there. Another out of the way shop was Mr CD at 80 Berwick Street. It was mainly popular music but one could find some good classical stuff there with a bit of a rummage. I remember also finding a mint Zappa"Beat the Boots Volume 2" box there, replete with beret (since lost).